Road Trip Across India

Hey, wait... b4 u even think that this is my travelogue, let me say its not.

But this is one the best travelogue threads I have come across.
A guy and his family made this trip across India covering over 8K Km(that's right 8000 Km !!!) in 25 days.

This is an amazing account of developement or change sweeping across India right now. The photos and account of the travel is fantastic.

www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=341281

Hope u enjoy it as much as I did... and wish I would be able to do it myself someday...

Cheers,
Himanshu

Quiz - V

Here goes this Friday's Quiz:

1. Name the films with the following taglines:
   The film they didn't want you to see...Is now the film you have to see!
   The question of whether or not we are alone in the universe has been answered
2. Name the brands with the following straplines:
   Better sound through research
   God's own country! (Has two answers, either is acceptable, getting both is a bonus:)
3. Which well-known company, headquartered as Silicon Valley, was the first to build an IT product with "Made in India" tag as it was fully made by their development centre in India?
4. In net jargon, what do the letters DQM stand for?
5. Which sports event is watched physically by the largest number of people?
6. Name the only country which does not have its name on postal stamps? (Sitter)
7. Why was 26 January selected as the Republic Day of India?
8. Which organisation's tagline or motto is: "Where the people meet the people"?
9. Which other country shares India's Independence day, August 15th as its Independence/Liberation Day?
10. What is the term used to describe the object in the picture? Also what is so peculiar about it?
    

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Quiz - IV

So here's the Quiz for this week:

1. Expand NOIDA
2. Which company developed 'Blackberry' and owns the trademark?
3. “ Don’t Just Courier it, ______ it “. Identify the company
4. Name the Bank founded by Professor Mohammed Yunus
5. This dyslexic 16 yr old student dropped out of his school to found the British Magazine called ‘Student’. His headmaster remarked "I predict that you will either go to prison or become a millionaire." He did both. He was imprisoned for dodging the customs. Now a millionaire. Whom I am talking about?


6. Identify the advertiser.


7. Identify the advertiser.
8. Name the films with the following taglines:
   A Hero Will Rise
   There are 3.7 trillion fish in the ocean*, they're looking for one
9. What is the Snellen Chart used for?
10. Who is the well-known chairman of the board of Berkshire Hathway?

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Best shots through my lens

Brighton

Dhanaulti

Paradoxically Speaking

I find paradoxes interesting...
some thoughts...

The Universe is defined as "everything that exists".

It is said that universe is expanding?
Now where is it expanding into? If everything that exists is the universe? There would be nothing left, not even vacuum of space to expand, coz that wud as well be part of the universe.

Counterpoint:
Also if that is so what is present beyond the universe, I mean what after everything.

Need a break...

Quiz - III

1. Who has classified his style of singing as “Urdu Blues”?
2. Name the films with the following taglines:
   The greatest fairy tale never told.
   She brought a small town to its feet and a huge corporation to its knees.
3. Who, in the 2006 Football World Cup, were referred to by the acronym WAGS?
4. Which comic character uses a machine called the "transmogrifier"?
5. What was Mark Twain referring to when he said “this day on which are reminded of what we are on the other 364”?
6. Which is the only country to have its map on the National flag?
7. What is the Stockholm Syndrome?
8. Name the author of the book, "Who Moved My Cheese?"?
9. Who was the first space tourist?
10. Which company's tag-line is(was?): 'Natural Gas, Electricity. Endless possibilities'?

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Quiz - II

1. In Tennis, what is known as “Double Bagel”?
2. Name the only team to have participated in all the F1 races.(Sitter)
3. Which films had the following taglines:
   Collide with Destiny.
   The guy next door just became the man upstairs
4. Which Fevicol commercial won the Cannes Silver Lion in 2002?
5. Name the creator of the Calvin & Hobbes comic strip characters?(Another sitter)
6. Where is the headquarters of Bata Shoes?
7. After acquisition of Sahara, Jet will brand it as a separate airline as a value carrier. what is going to be the new brand name?
8. Where and in which year did India's first metro run?
9. What was CII(Confederation of Indian Industry) earlier known as?
10. What is the name of the dog in HMV logo?

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