Quiz Winners 

Winner of the November 1999 Quiz: Mathematical Quiz Competition
Winner of the December 1999 Quiz: Writing Skill Competition
Winner of the January/February 2000 Quiz: Artistic and Creative Skills Competition
Winner of the March 2000 Quiz: Writing Skill Competition
Winner of the April 2000 Quiz: Visual Reasoning Skill Competition
Winner of the May 2000 Quiz: Researching Skills Competition
Winner of the June 2000 Quiz: Logical Reasoning Skills Competition
Winner of the July 2000 Quiz: Spelling Skills Competition
Winner of the August 2000 Quiz: Researching Skills Competition
Winner of the September 2000 Quiz: Vocabulary Skills Competition
Winner of the October 2000 Quiz: Researching Skills Competition
Winner of the November 2000 Quiz: Researching Skills Competition
Winner of the December 2000 Quiz: Mathematial Skills Competition
Winner of the January 2001 Quiz: Researching Skills Competition
Winner of the February 2001 Quiz: Researching Skills Competition
Winner of the March 2001 Quiz: Researching Skills Competition
Winner of the April 2001 Quiz: Vocabulary and dictionary skills Competition
Winner of the May 2001 Quiz: Mathematical skills Competition
Winner of the June 2001 Quiz: Mathematical skills Competition
Winner of the July 2001 Quiz: Researching Skills Competition
Winner of the August 2001 Quiz: vocabulary & dictionary skills Competition
Winner of the September 2001 Quiz: Science skills Competition
Winner of the October 2001 Quiz: Mathematical skills Competition
Winner of the November 2001 Quiz: Logical reasoning skills Competition
Winner of the December 2001 Quiz: Logical reasoning skills Competition 

2002 winners

Winner of the May Quiz: Ravi Somanchi submitted the following answers for the May Competition, and was drawn to be the luckiest one amongst 931 submissions. The capital cities of the countries required by the May Quiz are listed bellow.

Congratulations Ravi!

Winner of the June Quiz:

Alexandra McRobert submitted the following answer for the June Competition, and was drawn to be the luckiest one amongst 836 submissions.

 People from A and B look alike, thus when the person from A has run to halfway (just as the guard is waking from his 10 minute sleep), must turn around and look like they had come from island B. Then when the guard catches them he will think they came from island B and send him back.

Congratulations Alexandra !

June Quiz:

A riddle is a verbal puzzle or test, often which requires deep thinking. The purpose of a riddle is to make the person think hard about the question and weigh out all the possibilities, and then answer the question. A riddle often contains a trick or funny answer, so think about this riddle carefully before answering it.

Winner of the July Quiz

Tabitha Ganda submitted the following answer for the July Competition, and was drawn to be the luckiest one amongst 751 submissions.

 Once upon a time, when a lion was asleep, a little mouse began runing running up and down upon him; this soon wakend wakened the lion, who placed his big paw on the mouse and opened his vaast vast jaws, ready to swalow swallow him. "Parddon pardon me, my great King," cried the tiny mouse. "Fogive forgive me this time and I shall never forgget forget it, who knows but I might be able to do you a great favour one of these days". The lion was so tickled at the idea of such a tiny creeture creature, being able to do a favour for such a large beest beast, that he liffted lifted up his paw and let him go.

 A few days later this lion was caught in a trap, and the huntters hunters, who desired to cary carry him alive, tied him to a tree, while they went in search of a wagon to carry him on. Just then the little mouse hapened happened to pass by, and seeing the sad plight in which the lion was, went up to him and nonshalantly nonchalantly gnawwed gnawed away at the ropes that bound the King of the Beasts. "Was I not right?" said the little mouse; "little friends may prove great friends!"

Winner of the August Quiz: Ayan Dutta submitted the following answers for the August Competition, and was drawn to be the luckiest one amongst 38 submissions.

Thomas Edison - Light Bulb, Phonograph for Motion Pictures\
Louis Braille - Braille alphabet for blind people
Wright brothers - Airplane
Alexander Bell - Telephone
Thomas Crapper - Toilet Appliances, most important ‘silent valveless water waste preventer.’
Christopher Cockerell - Hovercraft
Benjamin Franklin - Lightning rod, Franklin stove, bifocals, odometer
Galelio - Telescope
Alexander Fleming - Penicillin
Henry Ford - Assembly line for car Industry
Percy Spencer - Microwave oven
Samuel Morse - Morse code

Winner of the September Quiz: David Quin submitted the following answers for the September Competition, and was drawn to be the luckiest one amongst 231 submissions.

Winner of the October Quiz: Jeevan Harriharan submitted the following answers for the October Competition, and was drawn to be the luckiest one amongst 270 submissions.

Winner of the Noember Quiz: Pratima Herle submitted the following answers for the November Competition, and was drawn to be the luckiest one amongst 259 submissions.

Winner of the December Quiz: Jessica Ouyang submitted the following answers for the December Competition, and was drawn to be the luckiest one amongst 12 correct submissions.

Mathematical Skill Competition

The top diagram is made by tightly assembling four shapes. When the same four shapes are tightly reassembled as shown in the bottom diagram, one square hole is left out. How could that be if both top and the bottom diagrams are drawn in the same square grid paper?

Yes! It is true. They both look like right angled triangle diagrams. In fact they are not. On the top diagram, the two right angle triangle shapes are not similar triangles as the ratio of the sides is different. Their longest sides do not have the same inclination. So, these two sides do not fall on a same straight line. Therefore the four shapes can not form a right angle triangle. It is a quadrilateral. And the bottom diagram is an irregular octagon. In other words, these are two different irregular diagrams that have the same area. They almost look like the same right angle triangle. That is why it seems that there is a hole on the bottom diagram after re-assembling the shapes.

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