Re: [silk] quiz help

2012-10-12 Thread Bonobashi
.and how would i/we cope with mili-metternichs left with nothing to criticize? Sent from my iPad On Oct 12, 2012, at 9:53 AM, Naresh xxx...@yahoo.com wrote: BTW that's half-point kodi.Ahh! these long term Bangalorevaasis who don't know Kannada yet...and living in Malleswaram too!!

Re: [silk] Quiz help

2012-10-12 Thread Bonobashi
Allahabad - that's where the east-west midpoint was determined, and the time zone derived from that . Sent from my iPad On Oct 12, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Naresh xxx...@yahoo.com wrote: Thanks everyone for the quiz help (more audio -visual question banks welcome) and Mr Bonobashi for the

Re: [silk] quiz help

2012-10-12 Thread xxxrum
Here have a go at these..have added clues for impending dotage 1.In the hindi version of Tintin, Snowy is known as Nutkhat, and Tintin is known as Tintin, what are the Thomson twins known as? (Clue: Common Indian Joke) 2.Over the years 'Lux', the Unilever bathing soap has used beautiful women,

Re: [silk] quiz help

2012-10-12 Thread Ashwin Kumar
2. Paul Newman ? 5. Employees are the most valuable resource :) On 12 October 2012 16:03, Namitha Jagadeesh namith...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Santa-Banta? 2. Shah Rukh Khan (don't know the other) 3. BMW 4. Safari? (am usually content to lurk, but couldn't resist jumping in) Namitha On Fri,

Re: [silk] quiz help

2012-10-12 Thread Namitha Jagadeesh
Also seem to remember a Lux ad with Abhishek Bacchan and Aishwarya Rai (though he wasn't shown as using the soap) On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Ashwin Kumar ashwi...@gmail.com wrote: 2. Paul Newman ? 5. Employees are the most valuable resource :) On 12 October 2012 16:03, Namitha

[silk] autoresponse weirdness

2012-10-12 Thread Udhay Shankar N
One member of the list appears to be getting an autoresponse from the ID customersupp...@icicilombard.com for a posting made to silklist. Has anybody else had this experience? Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))

Re: [silk] autoresponse weirdness

2012-10-12 Thread Thejaswi Udupa
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: One member of the list appears to be getting an autoresponse from the ID customersupp...@icicilombard.com for a posting made to silklist. Has anybody else had this experience? Yes, I got one too. I just assumed it was

Re: [silk] autoresponse weirdness

2012-10-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Headers? --srs (htc one x) - Reply message - From: Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com To: Silk List Silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: [silk] autoresponse weirdness Date: Fri, Oct 12, 2012 4:40 PM One member of the list appears to be getting an autoresponse from the ID

Re: [silk] quiz help

2012-10-12 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote: I must thank this thread. You people just gifted me one of the quiz Tcchah, I meant, one round of the quiz.

Re: [silk] autoresponse weirdness

2012-10-12 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: One member of the list appears to be getting an autoresponse from the ID customersupp...@icicilombard.com for a posting made to silklist. Has anybody else had this experience? Yes, I didand being the tech-unsavvy

Re: [silk] Quiz help

2012-10-12 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Allahabad - that's where the east-west midpoint was determined, and the time zone derived from that . Vikram Doctor had written about this a long time ago. There was #outrage in Bombay over the use of Madras Time (the

Re: [silk] autoresponse weirdness

2012-10-12 Thread Ashwin Kumar
+1 and UnLike. On 12 October 2012 17:57, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: One member of the list appears to be getting an autoresponse from the ID customersupp...@icicilombard.com for a posting made to silklist.

Re: [silk] autoresponse weirdness

2012-10-12 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Ashwin Kumar ashwi...@gmail.com wrote: +1 and UnLike. One explanation is that somebody on this list has autoforwarded their email to the icicilombard customer support address - presumably by mistake. Unfortunately, we don't have any control over this. Anybody

Re: [silk] autoresponse weirdness

2012-10-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
not tge brightest of ideas. see how well you can complain based on spam headers quite probably leadgen spammers selling insirance, loans etc --srs (iPad) On 12-Oct-2012, at 20:22, Deepak Misra yahoogro...@deepakmisra.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Udhay Shankar N

Re: [silk] autoresponse weirdness

2012-10-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 08:33:39PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: not tge brightest of ideas. see how well you can complain based on spam headers quite probably leadgen spammers selling insirance, loans etc I've had a spree with quite interesting Indian spam since posting on this

Re: [silk] autoresponse weirdness

2012-10-12 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Deepak Misra yahoogro...@deepakmisra.com wrote: I might be the guilty one. I got sick of icici lombard sending me spam and and had an autoforward that forwarded any mail from them back to their customer support. But something went wierd today which I cant

Re: [silk] autoresponse weirdness

2012-10-12 Thread Deepak Misra
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: When did you delete the rule? I got another autoresponse just now. Udhay -- I deleted it but it did not sem to be saved. Done it again now and hopefully this will disappear. As I said before this filter has ben for

Re: [silk] quiz help

2012-10-12 Thread Thaths
Speaking of abstruse trivia 1. How are the Indian Railways and the San Francisco-Bay Area BART linked? 2. In 1903 the British government offered to home 5,000 square miles of land to the World Zionist Organization to set up a homeland for the Jews. The offer was declined in 1905. Where was

Re: [silk] quiz help

2012-10-12 Thread Jude Britto
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: Speaking of abstruse trivia 1. Broad Gauge?

Re: [silk] quiz help

2012-10-12 Thread Thaths
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Jude Britto jude.bri...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: Speaking of abstruse trivia 1. Broad Gauge? You, sir, are on the right track. Thaths -- Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? Carl: Nuthin'.

Re: [silk] quiz help

2012-10-12 Thread Nikhil Mehra
Mau plateau, Kenya Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Thaths tha...@gmail.com Sender: silklist-bounces+nikhil.mehra773=gmail@lists.hserus.net Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:36:59 To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Reply-To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk]

Re: [silk] quiz help

2012-10-12 Thread Thaths
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Nikhil Mehra nikhil.mehra...@gmail.comwrote: ** Mau plateau, Kenya Did you use web search in coming up with the answer? Which bring me to the reason I have moved away from quizzing circles. Web search, Wikipedia and Google book search have not only made it

Re: [silk] quiz help

2012-10-12 Thread Nikhil Mehra
I did not. But I can understand why you might think so given the specificity of the answer. So at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Delhi all participants are required to deposit their phones at the start of the quiz. Only allowed to receive incoming phone calls. I don't mind obscure

Re: [silk] quiz help

2012-10-12 Thread Heather Madrone
On 10/12/12 11:16 AM October 12, 2012, Thaths wrote: Which bring me to the reason I have moved away from quizzing circles. Web search, Wikipedia and Google book search have not only made it unnecessary to remember obscure trivia but also made the lives of quiz masters easier. Quiz masters can

Re: [silk] quiz help

2012-10-12 Thread Bonobashi
Not fair to Noddy. This is a chestnut, which, considering its vintage, may be considered fresh maal once again. It dates back to the Anglo-Indian era in quizzing, when one could ask the QM to hang on until one explained to a skeptical bearer exactly what was going wrong with the gin-and-lime.

Re: [silk] quiz help

2012-10-12 Thread Thaths
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Not fair to Noddy. This is a chestnut, which, considering its vintage, may be considered fresh maal once again. It dates back to the Anglo-Indian era in quizzing, when one could ask the QM to hang on until one explained to

Re: [silk] quiz help

2012-10-12 Thread Bonobashi
Sent from my iPad On Oct 13, 2012, at 4:22 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Not fair to Noddy. This is a chestnut, which, considering its vintage, may be considered fresh maal once again. It dates back to the

Re: [silk] quiz help

2012-10-12 Thread Dibyo
On 13 October 2012 06:52, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Not fair to Noddy. This is a chestnut, which, considering its vintage, may be considered fresh maal once again. It dates back to the Anglo-Indian era in quizzing,

Re: [silk] quiz help

2012-10-12 Thread Thaths
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote: And I suppose it would only inflame passions to point out that it should be a chukkah, played for 7 1/2 minutes, on old regimental polo grounds, and other polo grounds alike. I write in my alter ego of 'Joe Shearer', of

Re: [silk] quiz help

2012-10-12 Thread Bonobashi
Sent from my iPad On Oct 13, 2012, at 6:37 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote: And I suppose it would only inflame passions to point out that it should be a chukkah, played for 7 1/2 minutes, on old regimental polo

Re: [silk] quiz help

2012-10-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
bonobashis should know all about foresters --srs (iPad) On 13-Oct-2012, at 7:10, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Sent from my iPad On Oct 13, 2012, at 6:37 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote: And I suppose

Re: [silk] quiz help

2012-10-12 Thread xxxrum
And the answer to Q 1 ..the railways one is? Sent from Samsung MobileNikhil Mehra nikhil.mehra...@gmail.com wrote:Mau plateau, Kenya Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel From: Thaths tha...@gmail.com Sender: silklist-bounces+nikhil.mehra773=gmail@lists.hserus.net Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:36:59