Answers - Quizarre quiz 7

Our winners for the Etymology quiz are:

1. Radhika N (wins a voucher worth Rs.200 from LeBooks)

2. Shruti AV (wins a voucher worth Rs.100 from LeBooks)

And the answers are:
1. Hooligan - from Hooly's gang

2. Syllabus

3. Electron - from the Greek word for amber
4. Saving face
5. Genuine
6. Cabs - from the Spanish word for goat
7. Fermium - after Enrico Fermi
8. Catamaran - from the Tamil 'Kattu Maram'
9. Hogwarts headache
10. Rhodesia - after Cecil Rhodes

Do keep checking our site for more quizzes and crosswords. Wish you a happy new year!!

Winners - Qrossie 6

Congratulations to all of you who cracked it! The lucky two to win vouchers from LeBooks are:

1. Vidhitha Kanakamedala

2. Anurupa D

The etymology quiz will remain open for a few more days while Snooty enjoys his siestas back home. Do rush in your entries to quizarre@gmail.com if you haven't already!

The answers to Qrossie 6 can be found here 

Happy holidays and quizzing! 

We'll be back...

Thanks all for the response so far! Quizarre will be taking some time off now, so Snooty and Snotty can get back to their jobs for a change! We will be back next week with the usual and the unusual, so keep watching this space!

Meanwhile, the most recent quiz and crossword will remain open for another week. So keep sending in your entries. Happy quizarring, and see you all soon!

Quizarre: Quiz 7

This time we have an 'Etymology' quiz for you. Hope you have fun solving it!!

Mail in your answers to quizarre[at]gmail[dot]com with the subject 'Quizarre quiz 7 answers'. And yes, we have fun prizes to be won.

1.  During the late 1800s there existed a gang in London controlled by a person called X. The records of this gang in the London police reports were corrupted, and that is how we know them today. What word am I talking about?

2. In Cicero's letters to Atticus, he refers to X, which means a label identifying the contents of a manuscript. In a 1470 edition, this was misprinted, and the incorrect form has come down to us and is used till date. What is X?

3. Which modern word gets its name from what you see in the picture?

4. Noble ladies and gentlemen of the 1700s used a lot of makeup to impress each other. Since they rarely bathed, the makeup would get thicker and thicker. If they sat too close to the fireplace, the makeup would melt. If this happened, a servant was to move a screen in front of the fireplace to prevent this. What phrase originates from this scenario?

5. This word originally meant 'placed on the knees'. A father legally claimed his newborn child by sitting in front of his family and placing his child on his knee. What word?

6. The first few of these bounced so much that they made people think of goats romping along a hillside. Hence the name. What am I talking about?

7. Which chemical element is named after this gentleman?

8. It literally means 'tied up wood'. It consists of two 'vakas' joined by some structure. Though it has been used since time immemorial in South India and Oceania, it has only recently been introduced to the mainstream, and is now popular among users of such structures. What am I talking about?

9. X is described as a mild condition, which includes headache, possibly with neck and wrist pains, caused by excessively long sessions of doing ________________. The symptoms vanish once the activity is completed. Patients who were advised to take breaks in their sessions refused this advice. What is the term X?

10. Which country was named after this gentleman?

Answers - Quizarre quiz 6

Thanks for the awesome response to the 'Mythology and Folklore' quiz. Our winners (the first two all-correct entries we received) are:

1. Gaurav Kumar Kalal (wins a voucher worth Rs.200 from LeBooks)

2. Pushpendra Pal (wins a voucher worth Rs.100 from LeBooks)

And the answers are:

1. Kailash

2. Baba Yaga

3. Achilles

4. Quetzalcoatl

5. Gordian Knot

6. Gondor

7. Ceres

8. The killing of Raktabeeja

9. Fenrir

10. Lochness

Tomorrow we will have an 'Etymology' quiz. Do check it out and win cool prizes!!

Qrossie 6 - Mythology

Continuing with the mythology theme this week, here's the next Qrossie. Each answer is either a mythological character or creature. The clues lie in the pictures.So rush in your entries to quizarre@gmail.com. The first two all-correct entries win prizes as usual!
Happy solving!

Across

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Down

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Winners - Qrossie 5

Thank you for sending in the answers, which, by the way, are put up here! We received several all-correct entries, and the two that reached us first were by:

1. Anirudh Shastry (wins a voucher worth Rs.200 from LeBooks)
2. Nishadh Amonkar (wins a voucher worth Rs.100 from LeBooks)

Congrats to the winners! And those who missed out, there's another chance coming up - a mythology crossword. Do keep checking in!