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Friday, 8 February 2008

General Quiz 6

1. Lets start off with an easy one! The artist?(very much in the news!)












Carla Bruni.(The albums-Quelqu'un m'a dit & No Promises)

2. Id the ship & put funda on the material used for its construction.(Both pics show the same ship)










The USS New York. It was built with scrap steel from the rubble from the World Trade Center (post 9/11).

3. Id the novel and its connection to the CS Lewis books.












Bridge To Terabithia by Katherine Paterson. The name Terabithia is derived from Terebinthia, a Narnian island, created by C. S. Lewis.

4. Put funda..












On April 1, 1996, the fast food restaurant chain Taco Bell took out a full-page advertisement in The New York Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer announcing that they had purchased the bell to "reduce the country's debt" and renamed it to "the Taco Liberty Bell". It was a Fools' Day hoax. (Was it a repeat??Sorry..if it was)

5. Id. (Identifying even one of them will get you a point)











Michael Chabon, Jonathan Franzen, Tom Wolfe and Gore Vidalin. (TRK got Tom Wolfe right)

Scores:
Varun KR-3
Nishansolo-2
Anon-2
Rahul-1
Rishabh-1
Shreya-1
TRK-1

8 Comments:

  • At February 08, 2008 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

    1)
    2)Clemenceau?
    3)
    4)
    5)Is Bill Gates 1 of them?

     
  • At February 08, 2008 , Blogger Varun said...

    1)Carla Bruni Sarkozy:)
    2)Dunno but a wild guess-it has the structures which are a memoir of american war of independence!
    3)Bridge to terabithia,there is a place called Terabithia in Narnia.The connect therfore is Terabithia
    4)Taco bell buys liberty bell april fools day prank
    5)a spoof of yahoo microsoft takeover(Super wild guess!)

     
  • At February 08, 2008 , Blogger Rishabh Kaul said...

    4. This is a hoax which said that Taco Bell had bought Lincoln Bell

     
  • At February 08, 2008 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

    3.Terabithia
    4.Taco Liberty Bell..Fools Day hoax

     
  • At February 08, 2008 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

    4th 1-April fools day hoax-Taco Bell..thanx to Google n wiki
    others no idea..

     
  • At February 08, 2008 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

    3. Bridge to terabithia..terabithia from..Narnia island..terabinthia..
    5. the band Weezer??

     
  • At February 09, 2008 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

    1. Carla Bruni
    2. Funda is the first US navy ship to use Carbon Composite Materials.
    3. Novel is James and the Giant Peach.
    4. The famous Taco Bell April Fool ad, where they claimed to have bought the Liberty Bell, and renamed it Taco Liberty Bell.

     
  • At February 09, 2008 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

    3-Narnia
    5-the 3rd guy-Tom Wolfe??

     

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