Quiz of the Day - 16 June 2012

We delve in to famous quotation from politics for today's daily quiz.

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He was one of the most controversial political and national leaders of the 20th Century and had once (in)famously remarked, 

"I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how."

Identify him.

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You can leave your responses as comments to the post. The comments will be moderated for a period of 24 hours. Alternatively, you can also mail your answer to shovon76[at]gmail[dot]com. The answer, along with the names of the persons with the right answer, will be published tomorrow.

Cheers!

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Answer: Its none other than Joseph Stalin, the most controversial Soviet President ever. His eccentricity, doubting nature, inability to trust others, knack for conspiracy theories, overall dictatorial attitude and a lust for absolute power resulted in a disproportionately high number of deaths among the population of USSR.

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Unfortunately, no one came up with the right answer.

Quiz of the Day - 15 June 2012

The "famous quotation" theme continues for the daily quiz.

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This famous quotation was mentioned by Oriana Fallaci in The New York Review of Books, while describing the profile of a political leader. The quotation goes,

"My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not."

Identify the famous leader.

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You can leave your responses as comments to the post. The comments will be moderated for a period of 24 hours. Alternatively, you can also mail your answer to shovon76[at]gmail[dot]com. The answer, along with the names of the persons with the right answer, will be published tomorrow.

Cheers!

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Answer: Its none other than our "Iron Lady" Mrs. Indira Gandhi.

Congratulations to Anshuman and Prithviraj Sarkar for getting the answer right.

Quiz of the Day - 14 June 2012

In today's daily quiz, we continue with the famous quotations.

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Identify the cult classic film, which spawned various rip-offs in different languages, from the quotation below -

"Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted. They're just an interpretation, they're not a record, and they're irrelevant if you have the facts."

You can leave your responses as comments to the post. The comments will be moderated for a period of 24 hours. Alternatively, you can also mail your answer to shovon76[at]gmail[dot]com. The answer, along with the names of the persons with the right answer, will be published tomorrow.

Cheers!

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Answer: And, its the time for the answer to the question. The answer is Memento. Amir Khan's Ghajini was a terrible terrible remake of this cult classic.

Congratulations to Anindya Mozumdar and Anshuman for getting the answer right.

Quiz of the Day - 13 June 2012

We continue with famous quotations for the daily quiz.

You'll have to identify the cult classic film and the character, who uttered the following -

"I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid. You're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world … without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries; a world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you."

You can leave your responses as comments to the post. The comments will be moderated for a period of 24 hours. Alternatively, you can also mail your answer to shovon76[at]gmail[dot]com. The answer, along with the names of the persons with the right answer, will be published tomorrow.

Cheers!
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Answer: Its time for the answers. And, the film is The Matrix, the first part of the sci-fi trilogy starring Keanu Reeves. The character is that of the protagonist Neo, played by Reeves.
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Anindya Mozumdar and Jaskaran Singh got it right. Cheers!

Quiz of the Day - 12 June 2012

"Famous quotations" will be the theme of the daily quiz for this week.

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A genius and one of the few popular stars in his chosen field, the pictured gentleman had once famously remarked,

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."

Identify him.

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You can leave your responses as comments to the post. The comments will be moderated for a period of 24 hours. Alternatively, you can also mail your answer to shovon76[at]gmail[dot]com. The answer, along with the names of the persons with the right answer, will be published tomorrow.

Cheers!
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Answer: The answer to the question is Richard Feynman. Feynman had, on another occasion, famously said, "There are only a couple of persons that I know of, who understand Quantum Mechanics. Albert Einstein is one of them. The other is yours truly." His semi-autobiographical books include Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! and What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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Congratulations to Anindya Mozumdar and Shibojyoti Chowdhury for getting the answer right.