Nihar and Pai have left the building, but not the premises

This is what we chose to call

A Transfer of Charge & The Faypril Shift

(You can guess who came up with which part, in fact, +5 for correctly guessing - Pai)

Dear one and all,

Firstly, we are absolutely delighted to announce that   Pranav Pai, Sebin Cheerotha and Nagaratna Patil have joined The Quizzard as authors for a period of roughly two months. Given their quality, we are undoubtedly lucky, and privileged, to have them posting on the blog.

Needless to say, their credentials are top notch, having countless quizzing honours against their names. 

This page doesn't contain the space necessary to list out all of those, so we'll just stick to the brief description(Sorry fellas, hope you don't mind!)

Plenty to look forward to, during their little vigil. The variety and quality of questions, we're forced to admit, will very likely exceed what you see everyday.

But, be patient. Give them a little time to get completely acclimatized with the state of affairs. It'll be very, very soon, mind you! :)

Secondly,

Both Siddarth and I happen to be in our 12th standards, with those evil, gloom spreading trials, commonly known as exams, just around the corner.

And we must really admit that we aren't toppers in class(Proof that quizzers need not be nerds (ok, he's not, but im bloody close, from the bottom up,lol- Pai) ), and must really get down to crunching through books! 

So, we'll post rather sporadically, as and when we get time.

Hey! Don't go celebrating just yet. We aren't totally gone. You will see the odd question from us.

But we'll be back with a bang, better equipped to torture all of you!!

This was a hard decision, but undoubtedly, a necessary one.

Luckily, we have the luxury of knowing that the blog is in expert hands, setting new standards to surpass, which will, again, be a major task for us when we come back!

[btw, Faypril= Feb+ April]

Thanks!

So once again, a Big Thank You to Pranav, Sebin and Nagaratna!

*Applause*

So guys, the Stage is yours!

*Applause*

Nihar and Pai [Exuent]

*Boooooo*

To return for the next Act!

Regards

Nihar and Pai

Well, Nihar has hogged it all, so i haven't much to say, except this small piece of advice to hold the dear authors in good stead.

The three little sentences that will get you throughthe blog 

Number 1: Cover for me ____

Number 2: Oh, good idea,man 

Number 3: It was like that when I got here.

Use them well.

That is all

Regards

Nihar and Pai.

Question 513: I have here a Pair, yes.

I'm trying to be as vague as possible.

Here is a cartoon,

showing some political leader. One of these two depicted in the cartoon, __X__, has something common with another statesman,__Y__, who openly criticized the U.S Government, and then later covered up for it by saying that the criticism was from a friend and admirer.

__Y___ had been prominent for nearly a decade. A staunch humanitarian.

During his time, _Y__ received a report against Ruud Lubbers, accusing him of sexual harassment, brought by the woman who felt threatened by the top official.

__Y___ did nothing about it, claiming that there wasn't enough legal evidence to prosecute Lubbers.

Lubbers was later tried and found guilty.

This decreased _Y's influence.

Between X and Y, there is something common.

In fact, the only two to have ever achieved this feat in the history of their office.

Id X and Y.

One of these two is X :)

Id X and Y.

What's common to X and Y?

What connects?

And how's the title?? B)

Or

Id X and the other guy with him in the pic.

Score-cese

Ok that was bad even my my non existent pun standards.
lol
But the scores are all done
We've moved onto the concept of a monthly scoreboard, do check it out at the scoreboard
or the link given below.

February Scoresheet

There'll be a special message from Nihar & I tonight, so wait a bit.

Theme Round Answers: Wonder how the Times will change

THEME CONNECT:

All the monuments are listed as 'The 7 wonders of India by Times of India" in a poll conducted by them.

Times of India's list of seven Wonders of India

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Various lists of the Wonders of the World have been compiled over the ages to catalogue the most spectacular man-made constructions and natural things in the world. But, for the first time the Times of India (TOI) News paper carried out a SMS poll, from 21 July to 31 July 2007, to vote for the seven greatest wonders of India, out of a list of 20 identified ancient or mediaeval sites for the purpose. The Seven Wonders of India (four of them are UNESCO World Heritage Sites) have now been chosen by the readers of Times of India (TOI) only. The winners range from a majestic monolith to places of worship, a mausoleum and a university.^[1]

Except for the Golden Temple and the Taj Mahal, the Seven Wonders are all located in small towns or in the countryside. However, four of the twenty monuments listed for voting are located in three metros viz., Delhi's Lotus Temple and Qutab Minar, the Victoria Terminus at Bombay and the Howrah Bridge at Kolkatta.

The seven wonders of India, in the order of their voting are the following.

1. Gomateshwara - a place called Shravanabelagola in the Hassan district of Karnataka state

2. Harmandir Sahib (Golden temple) - located in the city of Amritsar in Punjab

3. Taj Mahal - located in Agra, Uttar Pradesh

4. Hampi located in a village in northern Karnataka

5. Konark Sun Temple - located a small town in the state of Orissa

6. Nalanda - an ancient university near Patna in Bihar

7. Khajuraho - a village in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh

Brief details are provided below, while individually more details are provided in linked wiki pages.

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Theme Cracked by:

1. Nagaratna - at Question 3: +60
2. Appuchin: at Question 3: +60
3. Arvind V: at Question 4: +50
4. Archimonde: at Question 5: +40
5. Diabolos: at Question 5: +40
6. Manish Hn: at Question 5: +40
7. Rohan Dhanait: at Question 7: +20

Wrong Guesses:

1. Rohan Dhanait: at Question 4: - 25
2. MadeAfterKnowledge: at Question 4: -25
3. Deepti: at Question 5: -20
4. Suraj: at Question 5: -20

Red Herring Guesses: (+20)

1. Nagaratna
2. Archimonde
3. Manish Hn

If there are any discrepancies with the scoring, please comment under this.
Also, next time, please post your theme guesses only once.

Regards

Pai

Themed Out

The Theme round has ended
Last entries will be admitted by only 3:59 pm IST
We'll be publishing all answers at around 4
Followed by a special announcement from Nihar and I
so stay tooned