QUESTION:-
"A" had interest in drawing and paintings. Thus after high school applied to JJ School of Arts, Bombay, but the dean of the school denied showing his lack of talent to enroll for such a reputed institution and his drawings were not up to the mark.Bala Saheb Thackeray was "A"'s colleague during his first job at Free Press Journal. "A" has never worn a wrist watch in his entire life. "A"'s creations were used in a movie by the male protagonist of a bollywood movie namely Mr.& Mrs.'55. "A" did distinctive illustrations for his elder brother "B"'s book namely "C" which got his brother name, fame & glory as a writer and made popular among children."C" is a collection of short stories about a popular fictitious town.Even this was serialised by Doordarshan."B" is having a Filmfare Best Story award to his credit.The film for which he recieved the best story award is "D",the same movie which won Best Film,Best Director,Best Actor,Best Actress,Best Cinematographer & Best Dialogue in the Filmfare award this year.It was also nominated for Best Music Direction and Best Playback Singer,female category.Actually this movie is based on one of his critically acclaimed novel. "B" was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times but never won. "A" is also credited for creating a popular mascot named "E". 'A''s wife "F" ,also is a popular writer, whose book namely "G" were serialized by Doordarshan. "F" also had written a book "H"on a series of stories about a baby elephant and his mother and their adventurous journey in the jungle.Mangu the monkey,wise bird Gumchikki are some of the popular characters from it.Even the illustration of this book is done by her sweet husband, "A".Identify A,B,C,D,E,F,G& H?
The deadline for the answers would be upto 8pm.
The question carries 8 points.Kindly be careful about the serial order of your answers as eight things are asked.
You can mail it to manasanayak@gmail.com or SMS it to 09337222518.
Regards,
Mr.Bay Leaf
Manas Nayak
http://kwizpakodah.blogspot.com/
manasanayak@gmail.com
Dear All,
Happy to inform you that there are 100 people on the scoreboard.When I started of a fortnight before,I never expected such a great response.It was made possible by your participation.Thank you very much.All your suggestions and remarks acted as an impetus for this knowledge revolution initiative.
SCOREBOARD:-
Name Score
Deepak Harsha 7.33
Ashish Bhatt 2
Abhishek Kumar 1
Krishna Bhargav 1
Biswajit Pattanayak 6
Prateek Vijayvargia 37.5
Prateek Rath 15
Kalikivayi Suresh 14
Sricharan Iyer 1
Varun Krishna 1
Rahul Singhal 40
Bharath 18
Subhomay 1
Debashish Mishra 1
Aravindan Vijayakumar 1
Aashish Kumar 25.66
Aparna Ganesh 6
M Suresh Kumar 7
Ninad 26.33
Sylvian Patrick 18
Sunny Manchanda 4
Aravind-Tiruchi 0.66
Nambirajan 2.66
Sharat 3
Kamal Rathi 12
Shubhendu Saha 22
Abhishek Chandak 28.66
Tanuj Sethi 1.66
Navneet Bal 0.75
Wasi Manazir 36.16
Anindya B 1
Prabal Chaudhri 1
Gaurav Dasgupta 37.66
Shreyas Joshi 1
Sriram A 2
Asish Agrawal 1
Archana Venugopal 4
Ankesh Agarwal 7.75
Ashish Lath 3
Nrupal Choudhari 1
Vishnu Mohan Menon 36
Deepjyoti Deka 13
Sunil Singh 1
Dhanvanthari Manjunath 16.66
P George 1
Prashant Mannur 8.66
Anubhav Rastogi 1
S Debadutta kar 3
Bhuwan Mahajan 32
Srivatsan Mehta 10
Varun Ramamurthy 9
GS.Sudhakar Rao 1
Sidharth Gongala 2.75
Bhavin Kamdar 2
Pradeep Rao 1.5
Deepanshu 18.33
Harish 1
Ramarathnam 1
Jay chajjer 27
Shaaaaam 7
Uma Murthy 8
Vinod Valecha 7
Tathagat Mukherjee 8
Rupinder R Singh 7
Anuradha Sridhar 12
Mehar Sridhar 7
Siddharth Bose 8
Pradeep Nayak 7
Meena Venkat 1
Debasis Patro 2
Saurabh 4
Naimisha 5
Vardarajan Raghunathan 4
Manoj 1
Syamal Mishra 1
Ajay Parasuram 1
Souvik Mandal 10
Saianjan Ram 1
Sureshkumar 5
Mahesh P 4
Rahul Jadhav 5
Ais Dev 1
Vikas Mishra 1
Mayank Mikhail Mukherjee 13
Bhrumics S 1
coolgal_mishu 1
Abhishek Das 4
Kshira Sagar 1
Vivek M N 1
Preshant Sampath 3
Sudheer Moro 3
Jayant Mukherjee 4
Narayanan Thigarajan 2
Rahul Deshpande 8
Udai bhan Singh 13
Siddharth Gongola 8
Mahesh Kadam 5
Anindya Bhattacharjee 5
Kartikeya Tripathy 5
QUESTION:-
LOG ON TO http://kwizpakodah.blogspot.com/2008/06/fun-facts-unknown-contest-16th-edition.html
ANSWER:-
•Yatra.com is the connect.
•Reliance Capital, Network 18 & Norwest Venture Partners are the investors in travel portal www.yatra.com and ANIL AMBANI(PIC-3),RAGHAV BAHL(PIC-2) & PRAMOD HAQUE(PIC-1) are heading them respectively.
There were only 7 all correct entries.
The winner is Rahul Singhal.
Due to heavy rains here and Raja festival holidays for three days,couldn't send the money orders for last 4 editions.Will be dispatching it tomorrow positively.
16th Edition Hall of Fame:-
Name Time score
Rahul Singhal 00.12am 4
Abhishek Chandak 04.06pm 4
Sidhartha Gongola 11.56am 4
M Suresh Kumar 10.48am 4
Udai Bhan Singh 02.27am 4
Rahul Deshpande 08.28am 4
Souvik Mandal 11.57am 4
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Mr.Bay Leaf
Manas Nayak
http://kwizpakodah.blogspot.com/
manasanayak@gmail.com
QUESTION:-
Log on to http://kwizpakodah.blogspot.com/2008/06/fun-facts-unknown-contest-15th-edition.html
ANSWER:-
A-Allahabad (Prayag)
B-Haridwar
C-Ujjain
D-Nashik
(In fact,no problem with the order of A,B,C & D)
E- Kumbhmela
Each twelve-year cycle includes one Maha Kumbh Mela (Great Kumbh Mela) at Prayag.
Every six years there is an Ardh or Half Mela at Prayag.
There were 16 correct answer entries.However I was expecting more answers as the question was a sitter.
Name Time score
Wasi Manazir 04.32am 5
Rahul Singhal 00.44am 5
Abhishek Chandak 01.59am 5
Bhuwan Mahajan 00.39am 5
Ninad 2.51pm 5
Gaurav Dasgupta 8.49am 5
Jay Chajjer 00.44am 5
Vishnumohan Menon 00.35am 5
Prateek Vijayvargia 11.24am 5
Aashish Kumar 2.49pm 5
Deepanshu 8.44am 5
Mahesh Kadam 9.42am 5
Udaibhan Singh 12.00pm 5
Deepak Harsha 12.05pm 5
Prateek Rath 12.22pm 5
Biswajit Pattanayak 4.41pm 5
WINNER:-
Vishnumohan Menon wins again.
SCOREBOARD:-
Score
Deepak Harsha 7.33
Ashish Bhatt 2
Abhishek Kumar 1
Krishna Bhargav 1
Biswajit Pattanayak 6
Prateek Vijayvargia 34.5
Prateek Rath 15
Kalikivayi Suresh 14
Sricharan Iyer 1
Varun Krishna 1
Rahul Singhal 36
Bharath 18
Subhomay 1
Debashish Mishra 1
Aravindan Vijayakumar 1
Aashish Kumar 25.66
Aparna Ganesh 6
M Suresh Kumar 3
Ninad 26.33
Sylvian Patrick 18
Sunny Manchanda 4
Aravind-Tiruchi 0.66
Nambirajan 2.66
Sharat 3
Kamal Rathi 12
Shubhendu Saha 13
Abhishek Chandak 24.66
Tanuj Sethi 1.66
Navneet Bal 0.75
Wasi Manazir 32.16
Anindya B 1
Prabal Chaudhri 1
Gaurav Dasgupta 37.66
Shreyas Joshi 1
Sriram A 2
Asish Agrawal 1
Archana Venugopal 4
Ankesh Agarwal 7.75
Ashish Lath 3
Nrupal Choudhari 1
Vishnu Mohan Menon 36
Deepjyoti Deka 12
Sunil Singh 1
Dhanvanthari Manjunath 11.66
P George 1
Prashant Mannur 8.66
Anubhav Rastogi 1
S Debadutta kar 3
Bhuwan Mahajan 32
Srivatsan Mehta 10
Varun Ramamurthy 9
GS.Sudhakar Rao 1
Sidharth Gongala 2.75
Bhavin Kamdar 2
Pradeep Rao 1.5
Deepanshu 18.33
Harish 1
Ramarathnam 1
Jay chajjer 27
Shaaaaam 7
Uma Murthy 8
Vinod Valecha 7
Tathagat Mukherjee 8
Rupinder R Singh 7
Anuradha Sridhar 12
Mehar Sridhar 7
Siddharth Bose 8
Pradeep Nayak 7
Meena Venkat 1
Debasis Patro 2
Saurabh 4
Naimisha 5
Vardarajan Raghunathan 4
Manoj 1
Syamal Mishra 1
Ajay Parasuram 1
Souvik Mandal 6
Saianjan Ram 1
Sureshkumar 5
Mahesh P 4
Rahul Jadhav 5
Ais Dev 1
Vikas Mishra 1
Mayank Mikhail Mukherjee 8
Bhrumics S 1
coolgal_mishu 1
Abhishek Das 4
Kshira Sagar 1
Vivek M N 1
Preshant Sampath 3
Sudheer Moro 3
Jayant Mukherjee 4
Narayanan Thigarajan 2
Rahul Deshpande 4
Udaibhan Singh 9
Siddharth Gongola 4
Mahesh Kadam 5
Mr.Bay Leaf
09337222518
http://kwizpakodah.blogspot.com/
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