Brains of Amdocs Quiz 2006

The BOA 2006 Quiz happened last Friday. It was conducted by phenoMenon a.k.a VijayAnand Menon, the winner of the last year's edition.

The quiz had a teaser section (A flash attachement) which had 8 connected questions and the theme had to be identified. The written prelims had a total of 29 questions. The topper of the prelims had a score of 34 out of a maximum 44 and the sixth team to qualify made 30. We made 28.5, close ..We missed out on all the visual questions, where we had to identify six personalities.

Below is a sample from the prelims.The answers can be found out by hovering the mouse over the "Ans" at the end.

• Named after the Hawaiian word for 'quick', it is a type of website which allows users to easily add and edit content. Name this technology. Ans
• It was designed by Howard Garns, a retired architect and first published in 1979. The name by which it is now popular, a Japanese abbreviation of a longer phrase, "suji wa dokushin ni kagiru," meaning "the digits must remain single", is a trademark of Nikoli Co. Ltd in Japan . Name this now very popular pastime.Ans
• "America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow" by Eugene Cernan were the last words. What were the first and who spoke them? Ans
• What was the mission entrusted to Captain John Miller, Company Commander of 2nd Ranger Battalion, Company C of the US army on June 9th, 1944 in Normandy? Ans
• What is aibohphobia the fear of? Ans
• Why did the book "Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower" by William Blum shoot into the limelight very recently? Ans