The Outlook Year-End Quiz Results

Ten weeks may seem a bit longer than five seconds, but of course there was no time-limit to our New Year Quiz(Your Five Seconds BeginNow, Outlook, January 9) and you, dear reader, kept plying us with responses. The results are here finally. Although there were 18 questions in all, we marked it for 17 because of a typo in question no. 13—the place should have been Washim, not Wasim. Many of you did get it right despite the mistake but, for reasons of fairness, the question was eliminated from the evaluation process.

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1. Paul Volcker, whose report on the Iraq Oil for Food scam cost Natwar Singh his Foreign Ministry.
2. Sudoku
3. Khushboo
4. The Hilton Hotel, Paris
5. Illayaraja, Thiruvasakam
6. Blink
7. Shalimar The Clown
8. Angela Merkel (Chancellor of Germany)
9. W. Mark Felt (Deep Throat)
10. The Reliance split
11. Rosa Parks, an Afro-American (The black US civil activist who once refused to vacate a bus seat for a white. She died in 2005.)
12. Prasad Bidappa
13. Ghulam Nabi Azad
14. Prince Harry; he was said to have his girlfriend’s name tattoed on his backside.
15. Aniruddha Bahal
16. H5N1 (Bird Flu virus)
17. Ivory Coast national football team
18. Operation Dove (Shimon Peres [the Dove] who had allied with Ariel Sharon[The Bulldozer])

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Consolation Prizes (T-Shirts)
1 Pinaki Kar
2 Ramanna Mukunda
3 Ravi Vyas
4 Achal Prabhala
5 Ravi Shekar S
6 Mohan Kumar T N
7 B Revathi
8 Sravan Marur
9 Shashi Shankar
10 Bhushan Wagle
11 Brigadier (Retd) S R Mohite
12 Sumana Mukherjee
13 Nagaraj
14 Nisha Narayanan
15 Rajat Gulati
16 Rahul Lath
17 Subhransu Roy
18 Surajit Patro
19 Vibhendu Tewari
20 Divya V
21 Eric Samuel
22 Sangeeta J
23 Jai Saxena
24 Jaidev Karunakaran
25 Siddharth
26 Deepak Jadhav
27 Krishna Nagaraj
28 Kirthana Muthyala
29 Kiran Vijayakumar
30 Ashfaque Anees
31 Sandeep John
32 Shweta Roy
33 Bhaskar Roy
34 Manoj Menon
35 Nisha Kurup
36 Priya Ramkumar
37 Prasad Menon
38 Rajendra Kristam
39 Ranjit Singh
40 Sachin Gupta
41 Jayaditya Gupta
42 Sandhya S Prabhune
43 Sriharsha Booravalli
44 Sharmita (Dhar) Banerjee
45 Shivendra Singh
46 Siddharth Bansal
47 Anindya Putatunda
48 Yogesh Bhale
49 Biji Thomas George
50 Suneeth
51 Toneesh Thomas
52 Uday Kamal
53 Mandar Joglekar
54 Nachiket Huilgol
55 SS Veeraraghavan.

56 Reghu Ram T
57 Venkateswaran Narayanan
58 Vijay Ganesh V
59 Viraat Kohtare
60 Ramkumar Shankar
61 Rohan Nathaniel
62 Rohit Gupta
63 Deepak Sapra
64 Devendra Mehta
65 Diviya Jain
66 Gaurav Phogat
67 Gauri Shahapurkar
68 Neha Mehta
69 Gaurav Makker
70 K S Shriram
71 Amit Khanna
72 Khirod Bishwal
73 Lovely M (duplicate)
74 Abhishek Nag
75 Sajan Venniyoor
76 Sambit
77 Sahil Sandhu
78 Sayantan Banerjee
79 Syed Saheb Hayat
80 Qamar Ahmad
81 P S Priti
82 Aashish
83 Sharique Alam
84 Andaleeb Rahman
85 Anil K Gaynar
86 Bal Patil
87 Suman Narayan
88 Uday Kumar Mishra
89 Malar Rohith Shetty
90 Nakul Shivani
91 V Ashok Raj
92 S Karthikkumar
93 Sunny
94 A K Siva
95 Aleesha Susan Jacob
96 Deepti Chhawsaria
97 Niharika D Prabhune
98 B Sivakumar
99 Arindam Jana
100 D Bhargav
101 Caroline Jacob
102 Vikram Jain
103 Divya Mahadevan
104 Mohit Bhatt
105 Susan Deepa Abraham
106 Mahip Vyas
107 S P Singh
108 Neha Mehta
109 Prakash Punnekat
110 Amarendra Kumar
111 Rajesh Singhania
112 Amitabha Ghosh
113 Susangata Ghosh
114 P Selvakumar
115 Nirad
116 Vinay Ramachandra
117 Vinia Jain
118 Ratnakar Sadasya
119 P P Ravi Kumar
120 Richa Ghansiyal
121 Rohit Agarwal
122 Parminder Singh Gulati
123 Ejaz Ahmad
124 Anu Jacob Elias
125 Rajat Ghai
126 Ipsita Sapra
127 Imran Vora
128 Madhu Dorairaj
129 K L Sapra
130 Jesal Kapadia
131 Sandeep N
132 Anurag Parihar
133 Shalini Chowdhary
134 Saswati Chetia
135 Sriram Ranganathan
136 S B Dorairaj
137 Mayank Mukherjee
138 Akashdeep Ray
139 Roopesh Mathur
140 Sachin Razdan
141 V Sasimohan
142 S Chowdhary
143 Sridhar M
144 Anup Manchalwar
145 Anish Nair
146 A Aroy
147 D M David Mathews
148 Sunil Srinivasan Kowlgi
149 D Vedini
150 Aditi Shanbhag
151 Ajay Gadkary
152 Amrita Sabat
153 Deepthy G
154 Prateek Arya
155 Hari M P
156 Keshava Prasad K H
157 V Siddharth Dudheria
158 Prathapachandran
159 Pritam Panja
160 Vishwas Bunyan
161 Yogesh Madhukar Bhale
162 Kinshuk Rastogi
163 Shalom Mary Thomas
164 Soumi Biswas
165 Parag H Sanghvi
166 Prabha Shahi
167 Amit Dutta Gupta
168 Anang Rawat
169 Shyamal Misra
170 Chinmoy Chetan Prusty
171 Suman Tarafdar
172 Gopal Sarkar
173 Mervin Vas
174 Jai Yadav
175 Mohd Khalid Sayeed
176 Rameshwar T
177 Lijo George
178 Bhaskar Chaudhry
179 C R V Subramaniam
180 Rajah Amaresh
181 Aniket Behera
182 Sabyasachi Mukherjee
183 Amlan Chakraborty
184 George Paul
185 Hiten Bhaya
186 Aditya Jhaveri
187 Naveen Mam
188 R A Nagarathna
189 Manish Maini
190 Prabhu Palanisamy
191 Pradeep Baliga
192 Ravi Kanth
193 Manoj M Mundas
194 Aditya Raj Shahi
195 Srinivasan
196 Aniruddha M S
197 Venkat Sathya Kanesh Goli
198 Vallikanth Comaleshwarampet
199 Tulika Singh
200 Aravind Kumar