A Quizzical Treasure House

The participation has gone up significantly and hence the competition to stay ahead. Keep up the enthusiasm. Check out who’s ahead and who’s lagging behind in the latest updated scoreboard

Answer to yesterday’s treasure quiz is ‘Sabatini’ (Full Name- Gabriela Sabatini) Details Clue1> Saba is one of the smallest island in Netherlands. Alternatively, Saba Karim was an Indian wicket keeper. Clue2> TINI platform is a microcontroller-based development platform that executes code for embedded web servers

Treasure Quiz of the day I am finding it difficult to frame fancy sentences as we usually have in a treasure hunt clue. But I do definitely believe, finding the treasure answer itself might be a good experience for you people. Here it is Clue1> His second name is Bhonsle and the founder of one of the most famous empires of India. Now what’s his first name? Clue2> In the land of greyhawk, flans worship him for peace, reason and serenity. Who is he? Clue3> Say it Guicowar or something else Combine clues 1,2 & 3 to get the name of this popular Indian actor.

Posted by Karthick Viswanathan at 4/28/2006 02:37:00 PM | Permalink | Comments

To make things more interesting, I’ve introduced a scoring process, which will list the people who got the Treasure Quiz right. Check out the Scoreboard

Answer to yesterday’s Treasure Quiz

Napoleon Bonaparte

Details

Clue1 > All the four football player played for a club called Napoli

Clue2 > The logo belonged to the family of Bonaparte.

Treasure Quiz of the day

Details

Clue1> Water surrounds this piece of earth, the smallest in the land of Gullit and Van Basten. Alternatively, this piece of earth is also a PART-wicket keeper in the land of Tendulkars and Gavaskars.

Clue2> Small – literally, embedded web servers have this for their development environment.

Combine clue1 and clue2 to get the name of this former women’s tennis player.

Posted by Karthick Viswanathan at 4/27/2006 03:30:00 PM | Permalink | Comments

Name	Total
Deepa Vijayakumar	20
Kishore Maramraj	16
Anupam Hyanki	16
Binod Garg	15
Rajaditya Kolluru	13
Lalit Agarwala	13
Praneeth	12
Pankaj Rawal	11
Mukta Seth	10
Uday Kumar. V	10
Ravikanth Pokuri	8
Vikas Raidhan	8
Krishna Chaitanya M	6
Akshay Saad	6
Shilpa Naidu	6
Sakshi Sobti	6
Shankar Krishnamurthy	6
Abhishek Mudgil	5
Viswanadh Mulukuri	5
Jithender Malladi	5
Subhashini Sukumar	4
Akash Mohapatra, Peeush Harsh, Syed Irfan	3
Bhavya Amaravadhi	3
Vinay Reddy Kadiam	3
Bhuvaneshwari Hariharan	3
Murali Kakarla	2
Sukant Gujar	2
Murali Krishna Kondapally	2
Vaibhav Sharma	1
Pradeep	1
Satish Rajkumar	1
Jisha Philip	1
Ashok Reddy Annaram	1
Rekha Rani	1
Keshava Reddy	1
Vikrant Chaudhary	1
Siddartha Chatterjee	1
Mrinalini	1

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Posted by Karthick Viswanathan at 4/26/2006 08:32:00 PM | Permalink | Comments

Treasure quiz has some new rules and regulations on how to answer your questions. Please take a look at it.

Answer for ‘Treasure Quiz – April 25’

Penelope Cruz

Details

Clue1 – ‘Penelope’ is the lead lady of Homer’s Greek epic Odyssey. Penelope is also an asteroid of type-M. Kleopatra and Bamberga are also asteroids.

Clue2 – ‘Cruz’ in Spanish means ‘Cross’.

Treasure Question of the day

Todays question is probably more or less straight quizzical questions, but they do lead to the final answer.

Clue1 > Diego Maradona, Dino Zoff, Gianfranco zola, Laurent Blanc – These are world famous foot ball players. These guys have a common trait. What is it?

Clue2 > Get the name of this most powerful family in Europe during the 18^th and 19^th centuries and has this funky family logo. (see the picture above)

Connect clue1, clue2 to get the name of this famous European king.

Posted by Karthick Viswanathan at 4/26/2006 02:43:00 PM | Permalink | Comments

What is the Q & A process?

1. The week’s question will be posted on a Wednesday 2 PM.
2. Enter your answers as comments. All comments will not be opened up until the next question is posted.
3. You have to answer the question by the next day (Thursday) 2 PM.
   
4. The answers to the week’s question will be posted along with the next question (the next Wednesday).

Who can participate and who can contest?

Everyone is welcome to answer the questions. The quiz contest is open only to Pega employees.

How are points awarded?

Every correct answer will get 1 point. The first & second correct answer will get 3 & 2 points respectively

Thanks,
Karthick

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Posted by Karthick Viswanathan at 4/25/2006 09:39:00 PM | Permalink | Comments

Blogger.com did not allow me to logon yesterday and hence was not able to post a question yesterday.

Since I am currently sitting in the UK and adapted to the GMT, for the next 10 days the questions will be posted at 3.30 PM IST.

The answer for 'Treasure quiz - April 21' is Bendakaaluru (also know as Bangalore)

Answers explained:
Clue 1 - 'Bendak' Starkiller is a fictional character in the computer game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Connection - 'aaaa'
Clue2 - luru is a language spoken in Indonesia, and also called Lara.

Question of the day

Clue1 - The lady of the Greek epic is of type M and is left to wander in the skies. She has Kleopatra and Bamberga for her company.

Clue2 - Easy one - It literally means ‘cross’ in this European language.

Combine clue1 and clue2 to get the name of a stunning actress.

Posted by Karthick Viswanathan at 4/24/2006 03:33:00 PM | Permalink | Comments

Hi all,

This is a small attempt to launch a quizzing blog of my own. I did not want to post the quiz questions directly like a typical quiz event, and wanted to do something different. Around the same time, I had the oppurtunity to conduct a treasure hunt event in my company along with a group of enthusisatic people. The event had a lot of good response from my fellow colleagues. That gave me an idea to present these quiz trivia questions in a format that clues are presented in a treasure hunt event. Also I got inspired by some quizzing blogs, specially inquizzitivegoogle.blogspot.com in the way things can get organized in presenting a quiz. And after all this, here I am with this blog.

Please read the rules and regulations page to find out how to post your answers.

And of course, if you have any suggestions to make this a better place, let me know.

Thanks,
Karthick

Posted by Karthick Viswanathan at 4/21/2006 04:11:00 PM | Permalink | Comments

Inspired by a few quiz web sites, and the success of the treasure hunt event in my company, I decided to post a question for daily (I would try to). It’s like a treasure hunt clue, but the individual parts of the clues can become typical quiz trivia questions. But combined you get the answer…May not be that straight forward ..

Treasure Question

Dear duelist knight from the old republic, please don’t fight in the stars… (question 1)

……aaaa…..

Someone speaks in Lara… (question 2)

…...Gives me the name of this great city…. Name it!

Note: I’ve added question-1 and question-2 for today for a start, will not have them from tomorrow.

Posted by Karthick Viswanathan at 4/21/2006 04:01:00 PM | Permalink | Comments