PRAHELIKAA Results

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Navadeep Boruah with the RAILGUN....

Our Identity.....


The Event Poster...........

The Greats.....

Anurag Gogoi quizzing the whos who of Asom quizzing....

The Winners

Shakya in action..............

PRAHELIKAA was successfully hosted on 25th July 2010 at India Club Digboi. 29 teams took part. The results were:

GOLD: Dr Vinay Upadhyay & Dilip Kumar Sarmah (Team: Magiqal Mafiosi), Rs 5000

SILVER: Deepjyoti Deka & Kapinjal Sharma ( Team: Ravishing Raqoons), Rs 3000

BRONZE: Abhra Das & Biswajyoti Saikia ( Team: Qurious Qrusaders) , Rs 2000

Full Classification: Awarded Rs 1000/-

FOURTH: Pankaj Phukan & Kaustubh Bora (Team: Artiqulate Assasins)

FIFTH: Wonkyo Weingken & Kamal Medhi (Team: Brainderful Bazooqas)

SIXTH: Debraj Bhattacharjee & Aditya Pran Borah ( Team: Distinguished Daqoits)

Others:

SEVENTH: Bijoy Bakal & Bhaskar Jyoti Gogoi (Dibrugarh)

EIGHTH: Tribun Jyoti Sarmah & Abhijit Baruah (Nagaon)

NINTH: Hrishikesh Mali & Asif Iqbal Haque (Jorhat)

TENTH: Abhijit Debnath & Alok Chakraborty (Digboi)

BEST AUDIENCE: Hrishikesh Mali (Jorhat)


Our humble acknowledgements to all quiz lovers of Digboi who put in their own pocket money for the Prize money in this quiz. Special thanks to Manimugdha Sharma for the team names. Thanks to our publicity partners V&S, Uttam Agencies, The Assam Computers, Sreema Printers. Also thanks to IOCL (AOD) for their kind support. And lastly to our associates India Club Digboi.

Prahelikaa will continue. Next year it will be held in the third Sunday of April with enhanced prize money and more surprises.

Regards

Shakya S.K. Khound
Digboi Quiz Forum
31st July 2010

Online Prahelikaa July Winner

DR VINAY UPADHYAY

A doctor by Profession and quizzer by passion is one of the most recognisable faces on the Asom circuit, having participated in many quizzes and won many among those. He is currently staying in Jagun and working in the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). Daktarji or Dr Dang as he is better known to all quizzers of the state, is a bibliophile and runs quriozzity.com, one of the most happening quiz sites in cyberspace.

JULY Online Prahelikaa Results

WINNER: Dr Vinay Upadhyay: 15 points

OTHER ATTEMPTS CAME FROM:

2. Deepjyoti Deka: 14 points

3. Kapinjal Sharma: 8 points

4. Partha Pratim Buragohain: 7 points

5. Debraj Bhattacharjee: 7 points

6. Mit Chowdhury: 5 Points

7. Subham Kashyap: 5 points

8. Aditya Pran Borah: 3 points

9. Manjil Saikia: 2 points

10. Devraj Dutta: 2 points

Ten inquizzitives took part in Online Prahelikaa July Edition. Dr Vinay Upadhyay topped the charts with 15 points. Daktarji wins Rs 200. Deepjyoti Deka of Cotton College came a whisker short at 14 points. great to see people like Mit da, one of the best quizzers Asom has ever produced, and a former winner of COPQUEST in 2008, participating all the way from Delhi.

Any querries about the scores can be reported to Shakya@ +919435534757. I did this in a hurry, so the scope of a mishap in counting the scores is there. Kindly check and report if any errors are found.

Thanks to all participants. Looking forward to all of you in our quizzical journey. Please do come for PRAHELIKAA 2010 @ India Club Digboi on 25th July at 11 AM. Prizes worth Rs 15000 up for grabs.

Regards

Shakya Shamik
Secretary, DQF

July Set 4

JUST NAME THIS ISLAND.

Answer: Island of Iwo Jima


HOW HAS THIS PRIEST BEEN IMMORTALISED IN INDIA?
Answer: St Stephen

Answer to the following is KISMET.

Elvis Presley song.

A musical adapted into a Marlene Dietrich Film.

DC Comics Character

MIT robot that simulates human emotion

Answer to the following connection is Zubeen Garg. All are albums of Zubeen Garg. Jantra, Xixu, Mukha, Brishti, Mukti, Xobdo , Maya and Mukti. DRY:

1 The literal meaning of this word is Giving knowledge of the Hadith to the new joiners of the Islamic faith. What?

Answer: AKHBAAR. The Hindi and Urdu term for newspaper.

2. According to some sources, the namem of which place derives its name from a Bodo Kachari word meaning "A kind of thin grass"?

Answer: Dhubri from Dubori (Durba grass).

NOTE: The connections are courtesy Manjil Saikia, Summer Researcher at Chennai. Thanks Manjil.

JULY SET 3 (Sorry for the delay)

PICTURE QUESTION: Identify this former cricketer.
ANSWER: LEE GERMON (Former Kiwi Captain. He was the team captain on his debut)

PICTURE QUESTION: Headquarters of what?

ANSWER: VODAFONE HEADQUARTERS, UK.

CONNECTTION: Connect The three pics

ANSWER: TAJ HOTELS. Sabina Saigal Saikia died in the 26/11 attack in Taj Hotel Mumbai. Taj Hotels are owned by the TATA Group, led by Ratan Tata. TATA is opening VIVANTA in Guwahati, Assam's 1st Five Star Hotel.

DRY 1.

According to Congress's decision, no one, including the President of India could enter into Kashmir without the permission of Kashmir Prime Minister. In opposition to this decision, he once said "Ek desh mein do Vidhan, do Pradhan and Do Nishan nahi challenge". He was jailed and he later died in custody. Who?

ANSWER: Dr Shyama Prasad Mookerjee

DRY 2.


Which famous place in India gets its name from ' A pedestrian's resting place carved out of heavy boulders' in the Prakrit language?

ANSWER: Lonavala. Lon means Resting Place. Avala means Stones (Boulders)

JULY SET 2

Question 1: CONNECT THE ABOVE TWO PICTURES

ANSWER: INDIAN EXPRESS. Lee and HEsh were called The Indian Express and Ramnath Goenka, who launched the Indian Express.

Question 2: Flag of What?

ANSWER: AL QAEDA

Question 3: An easy one to start!!! Identify the person on top of this question.

ANSWER: SRIMANTA SHANKARDEVA. This sketch of the 16th century was found in Bheladunga Satra of Cooch Behar.

Question 4:

This animal has two subspecies. One of them is named after an ancient Persian province near Turkmenia and the other is named after the old Greek word that means “to run”. Which animal?

ANSWER: CAMEL. The two species are Dromedary (meaning to run) and Bactrian (from Bactria)

Question 5:

Ramayana has been translated into many languages. Into Assamese it was translated by Madhab Kandali. Assamese was the second language into which The Great Epic was translated. Just tell us the first language into which it was translated.

ANSWER: Tamil.

JULY Set 1 (Dry)

Question 1:

During the Bihu celebrations, two kinds of gogona (a variant of the Jews harp) are used, by males and females respectively. One is the Lahori gogona . Which is the other ?

ANSWER: RAMDHAN GOGONA

Question 2:

This is from the Ramayana. A God sat on Hanuman's shoulder to trouble him. Hanuman enlarged his body and brought the God's body between his shoulder and the roof of the sky. In return for his release, the God made a promise that he would never trouble his devotees . Just identify the God in question.

ANSWER: SHANI DEV

JULY SET 1 (Picture 1)

Which word in the English lexicon traces its origin to this structure?

ANSWER:

FORUM. That is the ancient Roman Forum.

JULY Set 1 (Picture)

Question 4:


Identify this legendary sporting icon.

Answer:

DR TALIMERON AO

JULY Set 1 (Connection)

Question 5:

CONNECT THE ABOVE PICTURES.

ANSWER:

THE CONNECTION IS DOCTOR!

APPLE: An Apple a day keeps the doctor away.

DR BIDHAN CHANDRA ROY: His Birthday , 1st July is celebrated as National Doctors' Day in India.

HERMES: His Wand gives the doctor's symbol.

HIPPOCRATES: No need his connection to Doctors, i guess

DQF has been strict with the answer. Only the connection DOCTOR has been accepted.

From July, we shall move on to a new format.

NEW FORMAT:

From 1st to 5th of Every month: Question Set 1

From 6th to 10th of every month: Question Set 2

From 11th to 15th of every month: Question Set 3

From 16th to 20th of every month: Question Set 4

22nd of every month: RESULT DECLARATION

25th to Last day: Questions from Guest Quizmaster

Each Question Set shall consist of 2 dry questions, 2 picture questions and 1 connection.

This shall make the number of contest questions posted every month go up to

25.

Dry Question fetches you 1 point

Picture Question fetches you 2 points

Connection Question fetches you 3 points.

There shall be 5 questions from the Guest Quizmaster. This is not for contest, but shall just be a means to promote new quizzers and bring in the veterans in the same wing. If anyone wishes to be the Guest Quizmaster for the month you can mail us expressing your desire at quizislife@gmail.com

Other rules shall remain same. you have to write the answers in the comments. The comments are moderated. Or in the good old style you can also mail the answers to quizislife@gmail.com

There shall be one prize every month of Rs 200. So keep the answers pouring in and may the viewership increase!

OM GYAANAM NAMAH