The Inglourious Quest

Results

2009-12-30T00:19:00.000-08:00

And the winners are:

1st Team Name - a007Name - Vivek Kumar College - IIT Bombay
2ndTeam Name - GlazeshadowName - Twishmay Shankar College - IIT Bombay
3rdTeam Name - ZorocastorName - Mustafa Saifee, Prateek Karkare, Satpreet Arora College - IIT Bombay
4thTeam Name - bdsmName - Chiraag Juvekar, Pranay Bhatia, Antariksh Bothale College - IIT Bombay
5thTeam Name - AakashName - Rushab Vora College - NMIMS
6thTeam Name - india4uName - Akshay JainAakash ShahAbhinav Jauhri Parashar Pandya College - NMIMS
7th Team Name - FieryVierName - Srikeit Tadepalli Noopur RavalRamya NageshShruti Rao College - Christ University

congratulations

Some more hints....

2009-12-15T23:22:00.000-08:00

Hunt 5 - With this question, we wanted people to be aware of their surroundings. Maybe you should actually get hold of some Indian currency, and analyse it...

Hunt 6 - Look at the photograph closely, and you can figure out what kind of cuisine this question refers to.

Hunt 7 - All most all of us have tried to reach the monster given in the picture, but only those of us with good reflexes and hand-eye coordination have been able to do so.

Hunt 8 - If the photo didn't give it away, you should probably focus on the fact that the person described is obviously a very rich man, and would thus want a fine dining experience.....

Also, for those of you done with Round 1 completely....

Question of the Day:

What is common to an extremely famous (Indian) director, two famous actors, an alleged rapist, an ex Mood Indigo OC and the world's smartest man?

No cash prizes this time though.....

Round 1 part1 hints

2009-12-14T10:02:00.000-08:00

1) This question was really a lame joke that the creator really liked. When he sent it to the college newspaper, they rejected it on the grounds that it was podiatrically (if that is a word) challenged. Hence when he got a chance, he jumped and put it in here. The joke relies on the different interpretations of who came first....

2) This is a WWII quest. Who do you think "I" is?

3) If you didn't figure out this was related to Sherlock Holmes, you should probably quit right now. To decode, read the partiular story this clue is related to....

4) What methods of death/death-like sleep have been listed in Snow White? Stoned to death by an angry mob? No. Eaten by flesh-eating elephants? Not that either. Figure it out, and you will solve the question instantly....

To everyone with double/triple digit IQs

2009-12-14T01:26:00.000-08:00

Everyone who finished the first 4 questions, and now have nothing to do - my apologies.

However bear with us as we are still waiting for registrations to finish, before we unleash the more "technical" clues.

For the time being, ponder over these:

1) Dude-nathan is a student of IIT Bombay. Through his myriad contacts in the world of quizzing, he has come to hold a piece of the map. When you ask if you can see it, he lauches into the following question:

" In the Feynman Lectures-Volume 2 (Lecture-Electrodynamics in Relativistic Notation), Professor Feynman talks about the Unwordliness equation, represented by U = 0. This equation famously incorporates all known laws of physics. Solve it."

2) This next girl is HOT! And she is from IIT! (And she doen't exist!) You ask her for her piece of the map. She tells you her CumulativePerformanceIndex and asks you " Which year am I in?" Is there any way in which you can figure it out?

3) The next dude is with an event mangement company. You reach him, where he is manging a school's Independence Day parade. "I wanted this carpet shaped like the map of India. I thought that since we have a population of 1000 million, and around 1000 people would be attending the party, a 1:1million scale map would suffice. However, this isn't even big enough for a single person to stand on!" How did the guy screw up?

4) Using a compass and straightedge only, construct a triangle, given the circumcircle, and a point on each side. (Yes it's possible)

The first person to crack all four gets a cash prize of 100$...

Technical difficulties

2009-12-13T10:20:00.000-08:00

Wazzup!

Unfortunately, there has been a power struggle of sorts at the IQuest HQ, which resulted in the deaths of 5 traitors and the noble General Nikolai. Needless to say, the attempted coup d’état was foiled and those who hatched this dastardly plan were promptly boiled in vat of acid. However we have been slightly delayed, and the quest will now start on 14 December, 0300 hrs.

Things to keep in mind while attempting The IQuest:

1) Only lower-case alphabets and numbers are used throughout (Answers with special characters/white spaces WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED)
2) Remember, Google is your friend. Some clues require extensive use of the search engine, while others are to be cracked using pure logic.
3) The answers, to many questions, depend on who is asking them. A (lame) example: "Where do babies come from?" A five year old with an appetite for cartoons might feel the answer is "storks".
4) If you need an audio editor, we recommend Audacity (to obtain Audacity, goto point 2)
5) If you need an image editor, we recommend GIMP.No, we aren't talking about:

Well I guess that is it for now. Oh and one more thing - Please tell your friends how awesome The IQuest is, because if I don't have a billion registered users by tomorrow, my sponsors can legally demand a pound of my flesh as compensation. Toodles.

2009-12-09T04:17:00.000-08:00

Ah! Finally, after years of backbreaking effort, and millions of iterations, we are proud to bring to you THE INGLOURIOUS QUEST (take a bow Tarantino).

Stay tuned into this space for hints, extra questions that were considered too "technical"(meaning they were too hard to be solved by brainless, uni-dimensional idiots such as yoursel...... maybe I've gone a bit too far) and a lot of skeletons (the ones from the closets).

When you are done with our quest, not only will you be rich, Rich, RICH!!!!!(30 K in kind. Sweetness.), you will also learn terrible Nazi secrets like:

i) Did Hitler die (his moustache)?
ii) Was Eva Braun really a man?
iii) Who won World War II - Coke or Pepsi?
iv) Was Hitler really a man?

So what are you waiting for? Get cracking on the quest. And if you ever get stuck on a level and start to feel real frustrated, don't kill your neighbor's kids just yet. Instead, log on to this space, where I will provide hints at regular intervals. Also any bouquets, brickbats, bribes and valuable suggestions are welcome. You can send them to me at yourthoughtsdonotmatter@gmail.com
Thats it for now, more when the quest bgins....