(A few words from Sukrit and Manasa Nayak – who have been doing a fabulous job for IQL quizzes – THANKS GUYS)
Last week was fairly momentous for FuN Contest as it completed the fourth month of operation.
What was remarkable in its fourth month was the number of different winners of prizes were nearly 30.  This of course was due to our announcing a lucky prize winner every day which made sure that winning a prize was not for staying up at arbitrary hours of the day in order to be the first to answer.
In the course of last week, we upgraded our website to enable users to register on the website.  This has increased the response tremendously. For scores and updates – check http://marchahead.co.in/
We also have received extremely kind words from the national winner of the Tata Crucible, Tata Track and I quote below
“I definitely want to acknowledge the contribution of your site in helping us for the “preparations” – really speaking, the daily questions forced me to respond every day and sharpened the state of preparedness.”
The prizes for October would be more than that for September as our supporters increase in numbers.
We would like to invite you to reciprocate their support by participating in the quiz regularly after registration.  We will be posting such updates regularly to keep you apprised of what is happening with us.  For the effort of reading this, here are some questions.
  1. Kerala Tourism, They used this popular phrase, ‘God’s own country’ .This phrase was first used by an alumnus of IIT, Mumbai & Carnigie Mellon University, who used this phrase first time while creating the first-ever webpages on Kerala and Malayalam in 1993.Who is this person? Identify him?
  2. Akash Bhatia faced difficulty in getting tickets for a movie. This led to an idea of launching a movie ticketing website with his wife. Name the portal? Clue:-Prahlad Kakkar and Kiran Bedi are the brand endorser for this.
  3. While issuing tickets as a B.E.S.T. bus conductor, Badruddin Jamalludin Kazi used to entertain passengers aboard with some antics. These antics caught the attention of actor and script-writer Balraj Sahni in 1950 while he was once traveling in a B.E.S.T. bus on which Badruddin, was working as a conductor. Sahni was penning at that time the script for the movie, Baazi (1951), and introduced Badruddin to Guru Dutt as a candidate for a role. Badruddin’s screen test consisted of acting as a drunk, and he did it so well that Guru Dutt gave him the screen name, “X”, after the famous Scotch whisky brand. (Interestingly, he was always a teetotaler.)Identify X.
  4. X- The singer produced the movie with Y-the music director of the movie Z.The movie was a commercial flop, whereas the producers X and Y bagged national award for best playback singing and best music direction respectively.Intersting to note that the director – W of the movie who was also the lyricist received national award for best lyrics in 1991.Identify W, X, Y & Z?

Answers:-

  1. Dr.Vipin Gopal from calicut coined the phrase
  2. www.kyazoonga.com
  3. Johnny Walker
  4. W-Gulzar,X-Lata Mangeshkar Y-Hridayanath Mangeshkar, Z-Lekin
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Sukrit Vijayakar
http://fun-factsunknowncontest.blogspot.com
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