Comments on: A Quiz?

By: Nimish Batra

Nimish Batra — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:15:54 +0000

“look who is talking about lesser known colleges”

I don’t make idiot jokes about the anonymity of colleges. Remember, earth shattering work will come from where you least suspect. That fact alone makes you respect earth-shattering suddenness of the work.

The obvious NSITiite joke isn’t obvious to NSITiites. Obviously.

And you definitely mean BVPCO, not BVCOPE.

That’s B.V.P.C.O.

Learn it. Live it.

By: Tankman

Tankman — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:05:04 +0000

BVP

BVCOE

BVCOPE

By: Tankman

Tankman — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 15:34:07 +0000

PS: I won’t make the obvious joke about NSITiites… let’s let it pass, just this once.

Ok Nimish , sometimes Jokes go too far, look who is talking about lesser known colleges !!!!

By: Tankman

Tankman — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:04:05 +0000

VJTI is an extremely good college of Mumbai, one of the top for engineering there like NSIT in Delhi.

You should know Nimish !!

Everybody should know Nimish. It’s the law.
- Nimish.
PS: I won’t make the obvious joke about NSITiites… let’s let it pass, just this once.

By: Nimish Batra

Nimish Batra — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:46:04 +0000

I read your post on IMS Quotient.
that post seems to be pretty much all the coverage that IMS got in the ‘blogosphere’.

Even though we qualified for the city finals(we came 1st in the prelims..yay)
Well done.

I found that more than 75% of the questions were on old Hollywood and Bollywood movies,singers,pop stars,actors etc…with not a single question on geography,politics and current affairs.They should rename the quiz to IMS Cinema Quotient..
BTW..We (VJTI) came 3rd in the city finals.
Ha ha… they should, but they won’t.

Have you heard of VJTI?
Nope. I might hear more in the future though. At the job and all.

Try hitting the other questions at the end of some posts I leave.

I’ll mash together 60 more questions probably later.

By: Sri

Sri — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:37:37 +0000

My name’s Srikanth but I’m not him..
I read your post on IMS Quotient.
I went to IMS IQ Mumbai(where I stay)
Even though we qualified for the city finals(we came 1st in the prelims..yay),I found that more than 75% of the questions were on old Hollywood and Bollywood movies,singers,pop stars,actors etc…with not a single question on geography,politics and current affairs.They should rename the quiz to IMS Cinema Quotient..
BTW..We (VJTI) came 3rd in the city finals.Have you heard of VJTI?

By: Nimish Batra

Nimish Batra — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:45:19 +0000

Sri – are you Srikant from my school? head boy and all? I have a funny feeling you’re probably not… but still… you might be
4 Tycho Brahe. Correct.
5 Nope
8 Yup. Bad question, I know. But Apple™ !
11 Of course
13 Yeah… I originally intended Einsteinium 99. But I think I didn’t mention *naturally occuring*
19 What else:)

5/6 attempted. nice

The rest.

5 JJ Thomson. and his son. Go hit wikipedia for the name.
6 Tartaglia [stammerer slang in italian]
7 Lord Rutherford
14 How many Poles do we know? Copernicus, obviOusly.
15 Enrico Fermi
16 Sociopath. Psychopath. Allopath. And Homeopath anyone? Samuel Hahnemann
17 Richard Dawkins
18 It had to be ’scientitsts’
20 Patron saint of Science. Obviously.

No attempts on the fiction ones?

well…

1 Noel
2 Paul Atreides
3 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
4 Martin Freeman
5 Snow Crash
6 Douglas N Adams
7 The treaty: “stated that Asimov was required to insist that Clarke was the best science fiction writer in the world (reserving second best for himself), while Clarke was required to insist that Asimov was the best science writer in the world (reserving second best for himself.)”
8 Isaac Asimov
9 Speaker for the dead
10 Isaac Asimov
11 An insane DU type question. Answer? Brave New World
12 Neuromancer
13 Philip K Dick
14 a. Rakhi sawant = Bigg Boss = Big Brother ripoff = George Orwell = Big brother UK starred Rula Lenska from HHGG radio show
b. Rakhi sawant = Bigg Boss = Big Brother ripoff = George Orwell’s 1984 = 1984 mac ad = Apple macs = Douglas Adams was an Apple spokesman at one time (I heard this. don’t blame me if it’s wrong. He was definitely a fan)
15 42. Or 42. But probably 42.
16 Carl Sagan, Nuclear Winter
17 Mostly Harmless
18 Isaac Asimov’s famed SF detective in his Robots universe
19 Rama I. Clarke’s book?
20 Arthur C Clarke’s Childhood’s End

By: Sri

Sri — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:52:27 +0000

I’ll attempt some questions
leaving out those which Harish got right

4.Brache!!
5.Louis de broglie??
8.One Newton!!
11.Cold fusion..yay!!
13.Astatine 85
Dunno the others…i’ll try
19.thought experiments??

By: Nimish Batra

Nimish Batra — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:32:29 +0000

1 right
2 right
3 right
4 only one answer
5 what in the name of holy belgium? wrong track
6 wrong!
8 1 apple is not SI units, is it?
9 screw you, hippy
10 right
12 right
13 goddamnit no
14 Baron Abel Rosnovski? no
15 what? hell no

5/13 attempted, 5/20 section, 5/40 total

You shouldn’t quiz at night. Try early morning.

By: Harish is the Red-Devil Shirted Eye Stabber

Harish is the Red-Devil Shirted Eye Stabber — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:00:42 +0000

1. The Curies (Marie and her daughter, whose name I think starts with an R)
2. E(p)=h(v2-v1)
3. Sir Isaac
4. Johannes Kepler? or Tyro Brache?
5. there’s a x-ray diffraction thingie named after them… can’t remember it right now…
6. I’m bad at famous mathematicians…Fermat?
8. The weight of the apple.
9. shit, piss, fart, my shit, ankit sud’s fart
10. Einstein…General theory of Relativity, 1919.
12. He DID LSD, he just didn’t mention it in his memoirs. He was also a safe cracker, has the patent for the nuclear airplane, came up with the idea of quantum computing, shares my sun-sign and I was born exactly 70(mystical numer o.O) days after he died. Ofey.
13. 42??
14. Abel?
15. Oppenheimer?? htf did he do that???
I give up.