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Friday, August 1, 2008
FUN-FACTS UNKNOWN CONTEST-1ST EDITION-AUGUST-QUESTION
QUESTION:-
Identify him.A famous satirist,writer,lecturer.He is the 6th of seven children.Very popular in the American society.An asteroid is named after him even.Only three of his siblings survived their childhood.What his actual name is though he is more popular among us by his pen name.Give me his original name and his popular pen name also?The question carries 2 points.
mail your answers at manasanayak@gmail.com by 8pm today or SMS at 9337222518.
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Mr.Bay Leaf
Manas Nayak
http://kwizpakodah.blogspot.com/
manasanayak@gmail.com
FUN-FACTS UNKNOWN CONTEST-JULY-RESULTS-31ST EDITION-ANSWER
Question:-
A term "W' was coined by a brand "X"of company "Y"."Z" is a director of this company who is an Indian.(Clue:-The first picture-"V" is associated with a new term which redefined the product category in total and helped it to differentiate.X-The company is created by the merger of "T" and "U".Connect V,W,X,Y & Z properly and explain the connection.)Identify "T" and "U" also.The question carries 7 points.The second picture is another clue.)
ANSWER:-
V : Logo of Philadelphia Phillies, baseball team based in Philadelphia.
W : "B.O.", short for "body odor"
X : Lifebuoy soap
Y : Unilever
Z : N. R. Narayana Murthy
T : Lever Brothers
U : Margarine Unie
Connection : When the Philadelphia Phillies played at the Baker Bowl during the 1920s, an outfield wall advertisement for Lifebuoy stated, "The Phillies use Lifebuoy". One night a graffiti artist sneaked in and added to the ad, "And they still stink".
There were only 3 all correct answers.
Name Time score
Dipankar Ghosh 3.56pm 7
Swagata Mukherjee 1.18pm 7
Siddhartha Biswas 3.14am 7
WINNER:-SWAGATA MUKHERJEE
FINAL SCOREBOARD AT THE END OF JULY MONTH:-
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Name TOTAL
Wasi Manazir 87
Rahul Singhal 76
Bhuwan Mahajan 10
Gaurav Dasgupta 16
Vishnumohan Menon 12
Kathakoli Dasgupta 7
Kamal Rathi 27
Souvik Mandal 51
Naimisha 18
Udaibhan Singh 31
Sangram Banerjee 77
Ankesh Agarwal 38
Jayanthan 6
Munna Kumar 11
Jay Chajjer 84
Sylvian Patrick 59
Siddharth Gongala 44
Krishna Kumar 7
Ashish Sharma 61
Subhendu Saha 39
Bhrumics S 14
Preshant Sampath 8
Ninad 57
Jayant Mukherjee 11
Amit Pandeya 7
Ankit Kothari 7
Abhishek Kumar 9
Kshira Saagar 21
Bharath 10
Karthik GB 35
Ramchandran V 6
Karthikeya Tripathy 22
Siddharth Gaurav 7
Ashish Kumar 63
Aravind Ghosh 1
Sunil Singh Rana 1
Kashturi 1
Abhishek Das 18
Balaji Sarathy 28
Aparna Ganesh 18
Tathagata Mukherjee 82
Rahul Tirukallam 6
M Suresh Kumar 26
Akshay Anantharaman 5
P Deepak 1
Dipankar Ghosh 86
Parambrahma Mohapatra 5
Debasish Mishra 10
Avijit Khan 7
Aashish Agrawal 2
Vikas Mishra 10
Abhishek Das 4
Sonjita 4
C Ganesh 7
Prateek Vijayvargia 13
Sandeep Manoharan 8
Antony Pidiath 1
Sridharan Doraivelu 9
Deepanshu Berry 9
Anirudh Patil 2
Jacob dijo 1
Swagata Mukherjee 33
Bhavin Kamdar 1
Ravi Arya 38
Senthil Kumar 1
Akshay Bhagotra 1
Siddhartha Biswas 65
Deepjyoti Deka 17
Nikhil Motlag 31
Ashish Lath 3
Biswajit Pattanayak 3
K Ravi Chand 1
Abhishek Sahoo 4
Sandeep Kumar 4
Mehar Sridhar 1
Sumant Srivatsan 1
Pradeep Nayak 1
Prithviraj Vasanth 4
Shrinidhi Ray 1
Harish 4
Shaaam 4
Siddharth Mukund Srivastava 43
Chiranjit Mandhata 20
Ghanm Malviya 18
Prithviraj Vasanth 7
Murali Ramaswamy 3
Husain Poonawala 3
Sujit Patnaik 2
Millan Patnaik 4
Ranadurjay Talukdar 1
The monthly highest scorer is Wasi Manazir(87 points).You get Rs.500/- prize money for that.
July monthly winner is WASI MANAZIR.
However,it was tight,nail biting finish as Dipankar Ghosh just missed it by a point only.He scored 86 points.
Regards,
Mr.Bay Leaf
Manas Nayak
http://kwizpakodah.blogspot.com/
manasanayak@gmail.com
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