Quz 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 January 2001 Quiz: Kapil Dhruv submitted the following answers for the January Competition, and was drawn to be the luckiest one amongst 54 correct submissions.

97% of the world's water is in the oceans, another 2% is locked up in the ice caps of Greenland and Antarctica, which leaves 1% only on the surface of Earth, under the ground and in the air. The importance of this 1% is, however, inestimable: most life forms could not exist without it, and yet many are threatened by it, in the form of flood and storm. Water from a number of sources - from overland flow, soil seepage and springs draining aquifers - produces the flow in rivers.

Below is a list of some of the well known rivers in the world. Select the country through which these rivers flow from the three options given. Good luck! Hope you would do a bit of research to find some of those.

River	Country
Nile River	Egypt
Amazon River	Brazil
Ganges River	India
Danube River	Austria
Murray River	Australia
Mississippi River	USA
Yellow River	China
Colorado River	Mexico
Pechora River	Russia
Negro River	Brazil

Congratulations Kapil!

 

Winner of the February 2001 Quiz: Dakshika Gunarathne submitted the following answers for the February Competition, and was drawn to be the luckiest one amongst 98 correct submissions.

February 2001 Quiz Winners Reply

An anagram is a word or phrase formed by the transposition of the letters of another word or phrase. For example: "Best in prayer" is an anagram of "Presbyterian." Anagrams may be formed from larger word groups. Thus "He saw the ragged Continentals row" is an anagram of "Washington crossing the Delaware."

Sort out the following anagrams. Write the anagram using the clues written after the word in bold. Good luck!

Write your answer, fill in your details and submit using the "Submit Form" button.

Sentence	Anagram
Change thorn into a direction.	North
Change admirer into the opposite of single.	Married
Change alloy into what good friends should be.	Loyal
Change aloft into the opposite of sink	Float
Change backward into another word for disadvantage.	Drawback
Change blame into a way of walking.	Amble
Change bristle into something you sometimes get when you have new shoes.	Blister
Change danger into something most houses have.	Garden
Change disk into what might happen to a car when the roads are icy.	Skid
Change each into a word to do with pain.	Ache
Change fade into a word that means you can't hear.	Deaf

Congratulations Dakshika!

Sunny Singh submitted the following reply, and was selected as the lucky one amongst 134 correct submissions.

Sir Donald Bradman was the greatest Australian cricketer of all time. He played more than 50 Test matches for Australia between 1928 and 1948, scoring 6996 runs and made several world records. Some of the world records have not been broken yet. He was also a highly successful captain.

Search more information about Sir Donald Bradman and answer the following questions. Write your answer, fill in your details and submit using the "Submit Form" button at the bottom of this page.

April 2001 Quiz and winners reply.

Akash Lagad reply was selected as the lucky one amongst 167 correct submissions (click the link for more details).

Well-developed vocabulary is at the heart of all learning. There's always room for more in your vocabulary.

Find the word or phrase you believe is nearest in meaning to the word in the second column. 

May Quiz   

Jesse Gooroovadoo's reply was selected as the lucky one amongst 230 correct submissions.

When people first began to measure lengths they used parts of their bodies as units.  For land distance, length of a pace or the length of a foot was used.  In medieval times a yard of cloth was the length that a merchant could measure when he held up the cloth from his outstretched fingers to his nose.  Would you rather buy from a short person? 

Well, this puzzle is about “area”.  Two squares, each of side length 30cm, are placed so that the corner of one square is at the center of the other square (see the diagram).  What is the area of the quadrilateral ABCD?

Congratulations Arndt!  

September 2001 Quiz winner and winner's reply.

September Quiz

Icebergs are large fragments of fresh-water ice broken, or calved, from glaciers   that descend to sea..  The principal sources of icebergs are the fiord glaciers of Greenland and the shelf ice of Antarctica.  Antarctic icebergs are sometimes 80km long.  Iceberg floats partly above the surface of the water with four fifth of its volume below the surface of the water in which it is floating.  Therefore, its direction of drift depends chiefly on ocean currents. 

Because of their brilliance icebergs are seen from afar in clear weather.  In fogs they are hardly visible at more than 100 meters, and before the development of the radar could be detected only by the echo from ship's horn.  The loss of the luxury liner Titanic in 1912 was the result of incaution, and it struck 40 seconds after sighting the iceberg.  It sank in 2 hour, 40 minutes, with a loss of 1513 lives. 

Below is a magnificent picture of an iceberg.  It is estimated that the weight of this iceberg is 300,000,000 tons.  Could you please tell why it is floating in the water?

The question we ask from you is why iceberg floats in the water? Nimashi’s reply was;

 “The reason that the iceberg is floating is because the iceberg's weight is lighter than 1, and since water weighs 1 the iceberg will float.” 

The exact answer is that the density of ice is less than that of water and therefore one fifth of the volume remains above the water surface.  Because it is in deep sea, it can float in the water.

Congratulations Nimashi!  

October 2001 Quiz winner and winner's reply.

October Quiz

 The concept "number" has changed its meaning repeatedly throughout history, as new demands on mathematics have required a broader view of the nature of numbers.  Mankind was early led to the concept of a real number by the need for symbols to represent such geometric quantities as length, area, and volume and such physical quantities as weight and (more recently) electric charge.

Numbers can be classified in many ways.  The simplest number system comprises the natural numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, 4 . . . . . ), and is used for counting.  Zero was not widely used until the 13th century.   The use of the negatives of these numbers (-1, -2, -3 etc.) was not widely accepted until the 17th century.  The natural numbers and their negative equivalents constitute the integers.  Rational numbers (fractions) date back to the earliest number systems; they can be defined as numbers which can be expressed as ratios of integers, or equivalently, as terminating, or repeating, decimals (4 = 4/1; 3 1/7 = 22/7 = 3.142857 . . . ; 2 1/2 = 2.5; 1/3 = .333 . . . ).

 With that brief introduction of numbers, let us check how good you are in manipulation of numbers.  Select whether the statement given in the first column of the following Table is “True” or “False”. 

The answer given by Bhavya is shown below.

Congratulations Bhavya!  

November 2001 Quiz winner and winner's reply.

November Quiz

Once upon a time there was a wise man who advised the king when making important decisions.  This wise man had a team of intelligent people who can logically reason things out.  One day he decided to check the logical reasoning ability of three of his teammates. 

He brought 2 red caps and 3 green caps.

He called his three intelligent men (‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’) and asked them to stand one behind the other.  First he showed them the 5 caps and then hid.  Then he selected 3 caps and put them on their heads, and asked them to logically reason out the colour of the cap on their head.  ‘A’ could see only the colour of caps worn by ‘B’ & ‘C’.   ‘B’ could see only the colour of cap worn by ‘C’.  ‘C’ could not see any caps.

The colour of the caps worn by them is shown in the picture below.

 The wise man told ‘A’, ‘B’ & ‘C’ that if they couldn’t logically explain their answer, not to guess the colour of their caps.  Hence they had two options.  One is tell the colour of the cap.  Second is to say, “I don’t know” because there is not enough information to give the answer.   Each of them could hear the answers given by the other two as well.  The wise man, always asked the answer firstly from ‘A’, then ‘B’ and then ‘C’.  The wise man immediately responded to each answer as to say, whether it was right or wrong.

 In the first round all three gave the correct answers.  Let us see the reasons behind their answers! 

• ‘A’ said that colour of his cap was green, because he could see other two red caps of ‘B’ and ‘C’.  The wise man accepted the reply.
• ‘B’ knew that ‘A’ could answer only if ‘C’ and himself were wearing red caps.  Therefore he said that his cap was red.  The wise man accepted the reply.
• After listening to ‘A’ and ‘B’, ‘C’ knew his cap should be red, otherwise both ‘A’ and ‘B’ would not have answered.  The wise man accepted the reply.

As you can see, answers given by others were also taken into consideration for their logical reasoning (for example, ‘C’ always knew the answers of ‘A’ & ‘B’ ahead).

  They were tested two more times with different colour caps put on their heads.  Some of the replies given in the three rounds are shown below. 

Well, now you think carefully and tell us what were the answers given ‘B’ and ‘C’ in the second round, and ‘C’ in the third round.  Click the colour of the cap in the following Table and submit using the “Submit Form” button.  

Answer given by Monica Induri is as follows,

Congratulations Monica!  

December 2001 Quiz Winner and winners reply.

The quiz for the month of December was about anagrams.  Anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.  Some anagrams are really true.  Look at the one below.

eleven plus two = twelve plus one

There are some fun facts about anagrams too.   

• Louis XIII, the King of France during early seventeenth century, appointed a Royal Anagrammist for a salary of £1,200 a year.

• Japan is the only country whose former capital city (Kyoto, A.D. 794-1868) and present capital city (Tokyo) names are anagrams of each other. 

Here is your chance to discover the skills in anagrams.  Sort the anagrams using the clues written after the word in bold.  The first letter of the anagram is given to make your task easier.  Good luck!  Enjoy your x-mas holidays too!

Answer given by Monica Anna Goodwin is as follows,

Congratulations Anna!

 

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