Two track quizzing

Starting this week, I am going to start a new concept in blog quizzing (oh yeah, a “new concept”). From now on, we’ll have two parallel tracks of questions – one for regular quizzers and one for non-regulars but who take interest in trivia.

Basically, the idea is to get maximum participation from all the readers of this blog. Yes, all four of you. “Regular quizzers” are ones who scour through all the other numerous quiz blogs, attend all major quiz competitions and quiz club meetings in and around their cities and win thousands of rupees, thousands worth Landmark/Odyssey coupons, scores of t-shirts and a few iPods each year. To challenge them, one needs to come up with tough arbit questions from not so popular domains. But such questions tend to to discourage the “non-regular quizzers” from participating i.e. peope who have the knack for trivia but do not pursue it as a hobby and may not have all the “old chestnuts” at the tips of their fingers. For them, good but old quiz questions are ideal as while they are challenging for them and encourages more participation, the quiz master also gets to enjoy all the “oohs” and “aahs” that come out when the answers are revealed.

So the rules are simple here – each quiz post would carry two questions and one can attempt any number of those. The questions, per sé, would not have any tag saying “for regulars” or “for non-regulars” but one of them might be slightly difficult/arbit while the other much easier. No points involved anywhere. It’s just the quizzing. But people with maximum answers would certainly get special mentions. So anyway, without further yaking, let’s get on to the questions:-

1. Connect

2. Connect (think fiction)