Er@thon Winners

First of all let me thank all the virtual runners who decided to make the virtual marathon – Er@thon a huge success. As a matter of fact, it was such a huge success that it took us over 2 days just to get the list of all the winners. We are overwhelmed at the response and don’t have words to appreciate the enthusiasm that you have shown.

We will also like to thank our sponsors CoinJoos & Inkfruit, without whom this would not have been possible. Their support to our venture, which is still in its early days, is vital for us to bring you more such games. Not only they have cool names but some amazing stuff to offer as well – do check out their websites.

Without further ado, we present to you the entire list of winners. It is also available on our Facebook Page – http://facebook.com/theiquest All individuals will get an email from us about details of the prizes and how to claim them within a week. Always feel free to support us or yell at us at support@mindtickle.com

Answers Explained for The IQuest – ‘The 2 Thousands’

Sports:

Who was the first Indian to win the PGA tour?
1. Jeev Milkha Singh 2. Arjun Atwal 3. Jyoti Randhawa 4. No Indian has won it yet.

Answer: 2. Arjun Atwal

Which South African cricketer does not wear the lead sponsors’ logo on his Shirt?
1. Jacques Kallis 2. Hashim Amla 3. Dale Steyn 4. Ashwell Prince

Answer: 2. Hashim Amla

What was the name of this logo used for a sporting event in 2008?
1. Singing China 2. Singing Beijing 3. Dancing Beijing 4. Dancing China

Answer: 3. Dancing Beijing

Identify the event which uses the logo and tagline mentioned in the picture.

Answer: World Cyber Games

What is the name of this dance which was popularized recently by the English cricketers?

Answer: Sprinkler

What is the name of this sport?

Answer: Speed badminton - also known as speedminton, is a badminton variant without a net. Speed badminton was invented by the Berliner Bill Brandes, who wanted to create an outdoor variant of badminton.

Connect the three

Answer: Commonwealth games - Michael Foley designed the Commonwealth Games Baton, Idiom is a company which designed the Commonwealth Delhi 2010 logo and A R Rahman composed the song for Commonwealth 2010.

Media

Which film in the Lord of The Rings trilogy has won the maximum number of Academy Awards?
1. The Fellowship of The Ring 2. The Twin Towers 3. The Return of The King 4. Both 1 and 3 won 11

Answer: 3. The Return of The King

Which film was based on the 1997 article “A Farewell to Arms” written for Wiredmagazine by John Carlin?
1. Die Hard 2. Die Hard 2: Die Harder 3. Die Hard 3 – Die Hard With a Vengeance 4. Die Hard 4 – Live Free or Die Hard

Answer: 4. Die Hard 4 – Live Free or Die Hard

What was the name of Anil Kapoor’s character in the TV series in which these actors play a role?
1. Omar Hassan 2. Abdul Hassan 3. Omar Ahmed 4. Ahmed Hassan

Answer: 1. Omar Hassan

This is the poster for which film based on the events of 9/11?

Answer: United93 - United 93 is a 2006 film written, co-produced, and directed by Paul Greengrass that chronicles events aboard United Airlines Flight 93,which was hijacked during the September 11 attacks.

This is the death certificate of which legend?

Answer: Michael jackson

What is the name of the dancing group seen performing in this song?

Answer: The Twilight Players - The Twilight Players is a group dedicated to the performing and interpretive arts.

Which leading performer of the current generation derives the stage name from this song?

Answer: Lady Gaga [ The song that was played was Radio Ga Ga by Queen]

Music producer Rob Fusari, who helped Lady Gaga write some of her earlier songs, compared some of her vocal harmonies to that of Freddie Mercury. Fusari helped create the moniker Gaga, after the Queen song “Radio Ga Ga”. Gaga was in the process of trying to come up with a stage name when she received a text message from Fusari that read “Lady Gaga.”

LITERATURE

Who was awarded the Nobel Laureate with the citation – “who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression’s closed rooms” ?
1. Orhan Pamuk 2. Doris Lessing 3. Arthur Miller 4. Harold Pinter

Answer: 4. Harold Pinter

What was the name of the first book by Kiran Desai?
1. In Custody 2. The Inheritance of Loss 3. hullabaloo in the guava orchard 4.Fire on the mountain

Answer: 3. Hullabaloo in the guava orchard

Identify the book from its cover.
1. A Great Event 2. Six Suspects 3. Q & A  4. The Fresh Brew

Answer: 3. Q & A

Name the person behind these

Answer: Stan Lee [ Spiderman, Iron man, The Hulk and Docter Strange are all comic characters created by Stan Lee]

Who is credited as the lyricist to this song?

Answer: Salman Rushdie [ The song that was played was 'The Ground beneath her feet' by U2]

Connect the three people to the name of a book

Answer: Between the Assasinations - is the second book by Aravind Adiga. It was written before his first book The White Tiger. The title refers to the period between the assassinations of Indira Gandhi in 1984 and her son, Rajiv Gandhi, in 1991.

Which pseudonym was used by him while writing his more famous works?

Answer: Fake IPL Player -is a blog that started on April 18, 2009, the same time as the 2009 season Indian Premier League matches. Inspired by the popularity of a similar blog by Fake Steve Jobs, it’s written by Anupam Mukerji [person in the pic].

Business

What is the name of the affordable water purifier launched by Tata Chemicals?
1. Swach 2. Jal Dhara 3 Sarvajal 4 PureIT

Answer: 1. Swach
Which is the largest music company in India?
1. Saregama 2. Music Bharti 3. T-Series 4. Sony Music

Answer: Music Bharti
Name the fast food chain that uses him as their mascot?

1. Pizza Hut 2. McDonalds 3. KFC 4. Subway

Answer: 3. KFC

The mention of which brand in a song in her debut film angered the brand’s manufactures? It got settled by that song being used to promote the brand in television commercials.

Answer: Zandu Balm [film is Dabangg]

This tone acts as the background music in the commercials of which company?

Answer: Airtel - On 18 November 2010, Airtel rebranded itself in India in the first phase of a global rebranding strategy. For this purpose this the company used this piece by Ludovico Einaudi called I Giorni in their ad campaign.

Which product is associated with this grip?

Answer: iPhone
Connect these three pictures?

Answer: Canon

Sculpture of Bodhisattva Kwan’on [from where the name Canon is derived], Sachin Tendulkar and Maria Sharapova are the brand ambassadors for Canon.

the IQuest 2 – ‘the two thousands’ winners list

Here’s the list of winners for the IQuest 2 – ‘the two thousands’.

It was a very tough competition and we really wish we could put few more names here.
We are coming up with our next event on 26th Jan. We promise that it will be much more entertaining with much more prizes and achievements.
Thanks to all the players …for participation and CoinJoos for sponsoring the prizes. Please stay tuned to the IQuest and Happy Quizzing!

The 2 Thousands

First of all, TheIQuest team would like to wish all a very Happy New Year.

Our “New Year” resolution is to make TheIQuest a bigger and more importantly a better and more exciting event for you. We have some exciting quests lined up for you which we will reveal in due course.

To kick start the year with a bang, there are three exciting offerings for you in January:

1. After the hugely successful pilot edition, we are coming up with an enhanced edition of the The Incredible Quest titled – THE 2 THOUSANDs on 12^th Jan, 2011. It will focus on the events which have taken place in this millennia. The number of questions has been raised to 28 from 20. For the KBC addicts, we have also introduced some multiple choice questions. And based on the feedback received in the pilot – we have increased the time window to 5 hours (7 PM to 12 midnight). So get ready to click and unravel your way through the mind teasers that is The I Quset. You can pre-register for the event at www.theiquest.com starting Jan 8th
2. Next we have a special Republic Day event lined up for the 26^th of January.  Stay tuned and more details to follow soon… but rest assured – if you like to use your wits (and / or google J ) and crack exciting puzzles, you will not be disappointed
3. We will continue to give you your daily dose of trivia via our Facebook page. But now you will have the opportunity to win prizes as well on a daily basis. Two lucky winners will get 10 % discount vouchers from CoinJoos.

That’s all for now folks. And we do really appreciate your feedback – so don’t hesitate to comment.

 

Prizes on Facebook

We have been “promising” to give away prizes on our Facebook page for quite some time now. And well.. the time has come for that promise to become a reality.

So here is the plan -

• We will post two contest questions on our Facebook page at 5 PM and 10 PM.
• We will post these from Monday to Saturday starting from 20th December, 2010.
• The first three people to answer the questions correctly will be given 10, 8 & 6 points respectively.
• All those who answer correctly after the first three will be given 2 points.
• On Sunday, we will publish the leader-board on our Facebook Page as well as the blog announcing the winners of that particular week. The scores would be the sum total of points a user has got during the week.
• The top 3 winners every week will be provided with 10% off coupons via FlipGraph. We know that it is not much and we are trying to get more sponsors. We also believe that most of you guys participate for the love of the game and not because of the prizes.
• We are open to changing these rules if any better suggestions come up and we hope for some feedback regarding the same.

We also request you to contribute questions to the group. Don’t worry we will continue posting non-contest questions & trivia.  Hope you enjoy it.

Answers Explained for 8 Dec,2010

Media -

1. The film is Nadia Ke Paar is a 1982 Hindi film directed by Govind Moonis and starring Sachin, Sadhana Singh. It was remade in 1994 as Hum Aapke Hain Kaun.

2. The visual is of Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks. The song is by the band Green Day. Nighthawks was adapted by Gottfried Helnwein for his Pop Art work Boulevard of Broken Dreams, which is also a popular song by the band Green Day.

3. The visual is of the band Lynyrd Skynyrd & album cover of Blue Oyster Cult’s Secret Treaties. The song is Turn the page by Bob Seger. Tuesday’s Gone(by Lynyrd Skynyrd), Astronomy (from Secret Treaties) and Turn the Page were all covered in the Metallica album Garage Inc. HP was started in a Garage and has a programme called Garage to support entrepreneurs.

4. This is a song from the avant garde film by Kamal Swaroop called Om Dar Badar. Dev D’s Emosional Atyachaar was inspired from this song. Make my trip had a marketing campaign called Official Atyachar and UTV Bindaas has a show with the same name.

5. Bhisham Sahani (Top left) wrote Tamas. Om Puri (Top Right) starred in a very important role when it was made as a teleseries / film. Govind Nihalani (Bottom Left) produced & directed it. Vanraj Bhatia (Bottom Right) gave the music for it.

Sports

1. English Cricket

2. Andy Ganteaume. He has higher batting average than Bradman. He played only one test match.

3. New Zealand All Blacks (Haka is the traditional folk music / dance sequence which is used)

4. Lutz Long, Emil Zatopek and Eugenio Monti. Winners of Pierre de Coubertin medal for demonstrating the spirit of sportsmanship.

5. Rocky Marciano starred in combat and his right cross was nicknamed Suzie Q, also a song by Credence Clearwater Revival.

Humanities

1. Merlion. Portmanteau of Mermaid & Lion situated in Singapore

2. Picture of Kubali Khan & statue of Anicent Mariner. Both are major works by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

3. These are Labors Of Hercules. Detailed info:
Slay the Nemean Lion.
Slay the nine-headed Lernaean Hydra.
Capture the Golden Hind of Artemis.
Capture the Erymanthian Boar.
Clean the Augean stables in a single day.
Slay the Stymphalian Birds.
Capture the Cretan Bull.
Steal the Mares of Diomedes.
Obtain the girdle of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons.
Obtain the cattle of the monster Geryon.
Steal the apples of the Hesperides.
Capture and bring back Cerberus.

4. Discovery of India / Bharat Ek Khoj was written when Jawaharlal Nehru was imprisoned in Ahmednagar Fort (Pic on right). When made for television Roshan Seth played Nehru. The video is of Pather Panchali by Satyajit Ray who had designed the cover for the book.

5. Aramaic , the language spoken by Jesus has been used in the song Kandisa by Indian Ocean. It was also used in The Passion of the Christ, a work by Mel Gibson. Sunil Sivanand (Pic on left) of Acette Tecnologies is credited to have developed the World’s first Aramaic language word processing software back in 1986–87.

Business

1. Mozart’s 25th Symphony was used by A. R. Rehman to create the signature tune for Titan

2. Essar derived from initials of Shashi Ruia & Ravi Ruia (S & R)

3. Pegasus. Mobil uses a red Pegasus as a logo. ASUS gets its name from Pegasus (First three letters are removed. Pegasus was sired by Poseidon (statue on left)

4. Indian Rupee Notes / Indian Currency Notes. Dandi March (pic on left) is featured on back of 500 Rs. note. The pic in the middle depicts the formation of the Himalayan Mountains, which are visible on the back of 100 Rs. notes. Edwin Lutyens(pic on right) designed the Parliament of India, which can be seen on the back of 50 Rs. notes.

5. Microsoft Windows. The song is Walking in Memphis by Cher. Top left is a pic of Cairo, the city of 1000 minarets. Bottom left is a statue of Ilanaaq, mascot of the 2010 Olympics, located on Whistler Mountain, in Whistler, British Columbia. The pic on the right is a poster for the musical Chicago
Chicago was the codename for Windows 95
Memphis was the codename for Windows 97
Cairo was the codename for Windows NT 4
Whistler was the codename for Windows XP

Video Tutorials – What & How

TheIQuest is a simple game. Well, atleast we would say that right away. But you may not. Hence, we have prepared two videos that would explain What theIQuest is ? and How it is played?

P.S. – You can also read the Rules here http://theiquest.com/rules.html

Rules

Given below are the rules for the event scheduled for 8th December from 8 PM to 12 PM. We would appreciate your feedback about the same. Please suggest, keeping in mind that we will use these in the future editions of the event. For your feedback you can use the comments section below or contact us on our twitter or facebook page.

• There are 5 questions on each particular topic – Media, Business, Sport & Humanities.
• Each topic has 5 levels of difficulty, 1 being the least difficult and 5 being the most difficult level.
• Each questions will have variable marking. The max points reward (R) that can be earned are 500, 600, 700, 800, & 1000 resp.
• Each attempts will have 3 kinds of penalties. They are as follows;
  1. SKIP – 1 time penalty — 10% of reward for that particular ques
  2. HINT – 1 time penalty — 20% of reward for that particular ques
  3. INCORRECT – penalty multiply times — 5% of reward per incorrect attempt
• Points gained per question = R – 0.1R (for SKIP if applicable) – 0.2R (for HINT if applicable) – 0.05n R (for INCORRECT attempts if applicable, where n = no. of incorrect attempts)
• Total points will be computed by adding/subtracting the points gained or points lost on every question. The person who ends with the highest points in his a/c is the WINNER.
• In case of a TIE in the above calculated score, time taken will come into the picture in deciding the winner. Total time taken for only the correct entries will be calculated. The person with the lower total is adjudged the winner.
• Seven winners will be declared after the quiz.
  1. Overall highest scorer (adding the score of all the 4 topics)
  2. Overall 2nd highest scorer (adding the score of all the 4 topics)
  3. Overall 3rd highest scorer (adding the score of all the 4 topics)
  4. High scorer in Media
  5. High scorer in Humanities
  6. High scorer in Business
  7. High scorer in Sports

Welcome to theIQuest

So you decided to check out the blog eh.. nice. real nice. You are interested in knowing more about The I Quest and we can’t stop talking about The I Quest. It is like a baby to us who has just learnt to speak “Ma” & “Pa” and we are EXCITED.

First of all – WHAT IS THE I QUEST? (I know.. I know.. Who is John Galt is a better question but no one in our team is close to Ayn Rand’s literary skills. We are monkeys who just learnt to type)

Is it a quiz? Is it a game? Noooooooo..

We aim to develop a kewl FB-app which would mix quizzing and trivia with the social gaming experience.
We have created this blog / the facebook page / the twitter account to learn from you “what works” and more importantly “what sucks”! During the developmental stages we would have daily bits of trivia thrown in on our FB & Twitter accounts and few online quiz contests.

The first of such contests is on 8th December 2010 between 12 PM to 4 PM. The rules are given here. Feel free to ask us any doubts that you have and we will try and sort them out for you.