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This is how the whole thing began.
And we felt, why not continue it on the forum? But what with Mahip's 2nd year, and my first job post MBA, I guess we forgot it all...
But then, here comes the PG Anniversary! PG turns 6!!
And how can we celebrate this event and not commemorate it with a quiz about the forum itself??
So, here goes.
I shall ask questions about the forum. Over the next few days, I will ask, and you will answer.
And after the celebrations end, or my questions run out, you can start the usual trivia set: Each of you asks a question - someone answers it. The person who is the first to answer correctly gets the right to ask the next question. Remember this: Trivia questions about PG and PG only, and nothing else.
Depending on my mood swings and the availability of questions in our database, you will get a set of questions daily. Answer them, and if PGHQ feels magnanimous, you shall stand to win a prize.
The first set of 15 questions comes in my next post. You have 48 hours to answer the questions.
Regards,
Grondmaster
First 15 Questions:
1. Which of our mods has been a finalist at the Tata Crucibles 2006 quiz?
2. One of our oldest members, his old ID (back when PG IDs could be changed) was Ghulam. He has over 2000 posts, but has never groaned at anyone. Who?
3. Had this domain name been available, we would not have had PaGaLGuY.com as our meeting point. What was the domain name that PG wanted?
4. Who were Bun, Mike, Tux, Voodoo, King, and Simcat, amongst others?
5. While registering on the forum, you have to enter your email address. This particular note is displayed there: "Please enter a valid email address for yourself except a ______ address. Due to technical difficulties, we are not accepting registrations with _______ addresses as of now." Which email address account has the technical difficulty? I'm not sure whether this particular glitch still remains or has been addressed.
6. PG became famous after the infamous CAT 2004 Results leak. Who started this notorious thread?
7. We calculate the fame of a person on PG through the number of thanks and groans he or she has got. Long before this was implemented, how were such brownie points calculated?
8. PG is now blocked by many corporate firewalls. One member, CATMANIAC, was the first to complain about this. Which company did CATMANIAC work for?
9. One of the earliest mods on PG, Barkha, has left the forum. Certain posts of hers still remain, though they don't have her ID. What ID do these posts have?
10. Which was the first Bschool fest that PG partnered?
11. Which two members of PG were the first 'PG Couple' to get married?
12. The fact that mods and admin are not above rules themselves has been proven twice. One moderator and one admin were once banned temporarily. Name these two, and the reasons for the same.
13. Once voted as the 'most irritating user' on the forum, he left to forum and aligned himself with a competitor, Management Paradise, rising there right upto Super Mod level. Who?
14. Set in the fictional Kingdom of Khanduras (located in the ______ series fantasy world of Sanctuary), ______ has the player take control of a lone hero as he or she battles to rid the world of the eponymous Lord of Terror. Beneath the town of Tristram, the player journeys through sixteen dungeon levels to ultimately come face to face with ______ and his demon minions. Which user gets his ID from the villian of this game?
15. Her father loves it, but she's not much of a fan. She has it as her id, but that is not the reason, and neither is the reason that there is this long philosophy about how life is ______ because you have some boxes filled which decide the fate of other boxes and what will go into them. What's her ID?
48 hours. Ok, lets make it nearly 50. Answer by Midnight, 28th August 2008. After that, the next set.
These questions are easy. Search correctly and you'll find the answers. You need search only the forum, and nothing else.
Regards,
Grondmaster
Taking guesses here 
1) Mahip
2) Aarav
3) maverick.com
4) Bun- Bugs Bunny
Mike- MvBACM09
vodoo- MavericK
simcat- Simba (?)
tux- Akshat (?)
5) gmail.com
6) Lemme take a wild guess.. was it pendyal?
7) For every new post a member received 5 Points and for every reply the member received 3 points
8 ) Progeon
9) I guess no id, as Barkha deleted herself
10) Confluence
11)
12) Mahip banned for spamming on SB and gnr banned for using expletives on sb
13) gaurav200x
14) Diablorulez
15) sudoku
Will edit this post and fill up the rest of the answers if I happen to get em.
Cheers..
my guesses:
3) maverick.com
5) yahoo and rediffmail
7) there was a point system followed
huges
11) buckwas and catclincher
12) mahip and GNR for shouting/foul lang on SB
14)diablorulez
15) sudoku
credits: most answers have been told to me by diablo over the various discussions we had had....
1.Mahip
2.Rahul SHarma
3.maverick.com
4.Bun: Bugs bunny
Mike: MvBACM09
Tux:
voodoo: Maverick
King: Maverick123
simcat:
5.gmail.com
6. theUnforgiven
7. Karma points
8. Hughes
9. Anonymous
10. Confluence
11.buck_Was & catclincher
12.MOd: Mahip Admin: estranged_gnrs
13.gaurav200x
14.diablorulez
15. sudoku
dil mein mere dard-e-disco
p.s. copy karne waale tera muh kala 
1) Mahip
2) Rahul Sharma.. but this guy has only 690 posts :confused:
3) maverick.com
4) voodoo - Mave
tux - crazy4music ??
bun - adiieu ??
king - Spiderman
Mike - MVBACMNo9
simcat - 
??:
5) gmail.. n yup.. it has now been rectified
6) I found 2 threads.. 1 by zarine (started at 1:23 PM) n 1 by capreal26 started at 1:56 PM on the same day)
7) karma points
8 ) Hughes
9) Anonymous ( 809 posts during that time :crazyeye: )
10) IIM-A's Confluence
11) no idea 
12) Mahip - use of expletives, and once for smiley spamming on SB 
:reverie: but, didn't this (the second instance) happen a day before he officially became a mod ?? :tellme:
estranged_gnrs - foul lang on VGSOM thread
13) gaurav200x
14) diablorulez
15) Sudoku
sorry for spamming..
but people are bherry fast, here 
:clap:
gayi meri searching skills aur 3 ghante ki mehenat paani mein :|
anyways.. I'll be back 
:thumbsup: to everyone who answered n kudos to Grondie
Oldies Den :D
2. Aarav- aka Ghulam aka RFederer aka Rahul Sharma
6. lomi
11. capreal26 (Amit) and Deepti : THey got married way back in 2005-06
What!! over 16 hours since I post this and only 4 entries? Bahut naainsaafi hai...
I remember times when such threads would end up having tons of replies in hours... let alone days...
Just to give you people a heads up... of the answers given, not one of you entrants has yet reached double digit scores. Such easy questions... so few correct answers...
C'mon people... where's your competitive spirit???
Regards,
Grondmaster
Though not a old one on the PG but still Office hours ka kuch to use kiya hain
Lets c kitne sahi hote hain .....
My take::
1) Mahip
2) No Idea
3) maverick.com
4) No Idea
5) Gmail
6) No Idea
7) No Idea Hughes
9) Anonymous
10) IIM-A's Confluence
11) No Idea
12) Mahip and estranged_gnrs I guess
13) No Idea
14) diablorulez
15) Sudoku
ye galat hain ye question sab oldies ke liye hain kuch naye bando ko bhi chance do yaaro ..
Any way great search man
Almost all questions were asked in AIPGM.
Hence, I'll abstain from answering them here
Diablo 
Answers:
1. Which of our mods has been a finalist at the Tata Crucibles 2006 quiz?
Govi. Real name Sachin.
2. One of our oldest members, his old ID (back when PG IDs could be changed) was Ghulam. He has over 2000 posts, but has never groaned at anyone. Who?
Aarav. Real name Rahul Sharma
3. Had this domain name been available, we would not have had PaGaLGuY.com as our meeting point. What was the domain name that PG wanted?
maverick.com
4. Who were Bun, Mike, Tux, Voodoo, King, and Simcat, amongst others?
PG Pets. This was during the karma points seasons, when you could buy pets and keep the on the forum.
5. While registering on the forum, you have to enter your email address. This particular note is displayed there: "Please enter a valid email address for yourself except a ______ address. Due to technical difficulties, we are not accepting registrations with _______ addresses as of now." Which email address account has the technical difficulty? I'm not sure whether this particular glitch still remains or has been addressed.
yahoo.com
6. PG became famous after the infamous CAT 2004 Results leak. Who started this notorious thread?
lomi
7. We calculate the fame of a person on PG through the number of thanks and groans he or she has got. Long before this was implemented, how were such brownie points calculated?
Karma points. 5 for starting, 3 for posting, you could donate etc.
8. PG is now blocked by many corporate firewalls. One member, CATMANIAC, was the first to complain about this. Which company did CATMANIAC work for?
Progeon, the Infosys BPO co.
9. One of the earliest mods on PG, Barkha, has left the forum. Certain posts of hers still remain, though they don't have her ID. What ID do these posts have?
Anonymous
10. Which was the first Bschool fest that PG partnered?
IIMA Confluence 2004
11. Which two members of PG were the first 'PG Couple' to get married?
capreal26 & D e e p t i
12. The fact that mods and admin are not above rules themselves has been proven twice. One moderator and one admin were once banned temporarily. Name these two, and the reasons for the same.
Mahip - spamming on ShoutBox earned a permaban on SB. Revoked when he became a mod.
estranged_gnrs - banned for a week for profanity.
13. Once voted as the 'most irritating user' on the forum, he left to forum and aligned himself with a competitor, Management Paradise, rising there right upto Super Mod level. Who?
gaurav200x
14. Set in the fictional Kingdom of Khanduras (located in the ______ series fantasy world of Sanctuary), ______ has the player take control of a lone hero as he or she battles to rid the world of the eponymous Lord of Terror. Beneath the town of Tristram, the player journeys through sixteen dungeon levels to ultimately come face to face with ______ and his demon minions. Which user gets his ID from the villian of this game?
diablorulez
15. Her father loves it, but she's not much of a fan. She has it as her id, but that is not the reason, and neither is the reason that there is this long philosophy about how life is ______ because you have some boxes filled which decide the fate of other boxes and what will go into them. What's her ID?
sudoku
Scores:
murty001: 8.5 (Confluence date not given)
sarvshwet: 6
diablorulez: 8.5 (ditto Murty)
utsav_s1986: 7.5 (ditto above)
anandv: 3 (all correct at that ;))
shivam_01: 5.5 (ditto the other three) - good try for a n00b :D
The winner is murty001. Diablorulez loses the tiebreaker because this is the second time he is hearing these questions.
I apologise for the delay as a surprise visit to the Idea MSC in Ambala took up the whole of yesterday and today my IT team decided to block PG in office...
Ok...
Next post, some more questions. Will try to keep them easier...
Regards,
Grondmaster
Set no. 2...
Easier set of questions. 10 only. Hope to get more replies.
1. In the old system what was the nomenclature of Newbie, Trainee, Expert, Hardcore, Addicted and Certified Pagal? Add the number of posts to get to the required level. And I mean the old system before the present came into place.
2. Who was the first puy to win the Aditya Birla scholarship?
3. Who won the first Coolest Avatar award?
4. Although there have been PG meets before that, the first official PG meet to have been planned, executed and then spoken about on the forum was when? Where was it held? Half points for each correct answer.
5. This Jokaites most famous statement is IITs & IIMs are national wastes. Name his less famous similar-named clone.
6. Amongst the parties formed for the Coolest Avatar Awards, the most famous has notably been the CPI. Expand this acronym.
7. SB, apart from being a simple chatbox, has been the perpetrator of good deeds as well. What good deed took place on the SB on 29th August 2007?
8. Fill in the blanks:
if u want to be with the _______, apply to the dream team
if u want to be with the _______, apply to the underdogs
9. He took the GMAT at the age of 46, scored 730. He also started the original PG Dream Team thread. Who?
10. He writes, I was following PG since early 2005, but never really cared to create a nick till CAT '05. And anyone who has taken CAT '05, will never forget a certain Jacques _______. So Enter _______? Who?
Deadline:
Within the month of August 2008. By 11:59:59 PM, August 31, 2008.
Regards,
Grondmaster
1) 2 - Cat Newbie
20 - Cat Expert
50 - Cat Guru
75 - CATAHOLIC
125 - Cat Maharaja
200 - Cat Adddict
the other (and prolly the one being asked) system I found was :-
Junior , Member , Senior Member
taking a chance with the number of posts.. upto 29 (Jr.), 30-99 (member), 100+ (Sr.)
2) convolutedsignal
3) Simba
4) peheli meet hi 2 cities mein.. (25/1/04)
answer :- Ispahani centre (Chennai)
IES Dadar (Mumbai) (although, no one divulged its details)
btw, there was a meet in Hydrabad (before these 2 meets) which even though was not planned on the forum, but, was made known..
5) KoolGuru
6) Is it the Chowkidaar Pagals of India
7) BBLT
8 ) intellects
dark horses
9) Arun Agarwal
10) Derrida
Set no. 2...
1. In the old system what was the nomenclature of Newbie, Trainee, Expert, Hardcore, Addicted and Certified Pagal? Add the number of posts to get to the required level. And I mean the old system before the present came into place.
ans:CAT Newbie - 2
CAT Expert - 20
CAT GURU - 50
CAT MAHARAJA - 75
2. Who was the first puy to win the Aditya Birla scholarship?
ans:
3. Who won the first Coolest Avatar award?
ans: Simba
4. Although there have been PG meets before that, the first official PG meet to have been planned, executed and then spoken about on the forum was when? Where was it held? Half points for each correct answer.
ans: Bangalore- 11jan 2004
5. This Jokaite's most famous statement is "IITs & IIMs are national wastes". Name his less famous similar-named clone.
ans: ViDesiGuru
6. Amongst the parties formed for the Coolest Avatar Awards, the most famous has notably been the CPI. Expand this acronym.
Chowkidar Pagals of India= CI
7. SB, apart from being a simple chatbox, has been the perpetrator of good deeds as well. What good deed took place on the SB on 29th August 2007?
:|
8. Fill in the blanks:
if u want to be with the __intellects_____, apply to the dream team
if u want to be with the _dark horses______, apply to the underdogs
9. He took the GMAT at the age of 46, scored 730. He also started the original PG Dream Team thread. Who?
arun agarwal
10. He writes, "I was following PG since early 2005, but never really cared to create a nick till CAT '05. And anyone who has taken CAT '05, will never forget a certain Jacques __Derrida_____. So Enter __Derrida_____"
2. Mufasa š a guess or is it somname :eh:
7. BBLT
9. arun_agarwal š
after many searches the outcome lets c how many correct
1.CAT Newbie - 5+
CAT Expert - 20+
CAT GURU - 55+
CAT MAHARAJA - 80+
2. CATASTROPHE1
3. Simba
4. In Bangalore on 15 Feb 2004
5. NO IDEA
6. Chowkidar Pagals of India
7.BBLT Team formation
(Bol Bachan team)
8.this was really easy
if u want to be with the intellects apply to the dream team
if u want to be with the dark horses apply to the underdogs
9. arun agarwal
10. Derrida
Answers:
The winner is murty001.
All right.. answers for next set
1) CAT Newbie - 2 posts
CAT Expert - 20 posts
CAT GURU - 50 posts
CAT MAHARAJA - 75 posts
2) Vivek a.k.a. convolutedsignal
3) Simba
4) IES Dadar- 25/01/2004
5) DG
6) Chowkidaar Pagals of India
7)
intellects, dark horses 9) arun_agarwal
10) Derrida
Cheers..
Answers:
1. In the old system what was the nomenclature of Newbie, Trainee, Expert, Hardcore, Addicted and Certified Pagal? Add the number of posts to get to the required level. And I mean the old system before the present came into place.
Post - Level
2 - Cat Newbie
15 - Cat Expert
50 - Cat Guru
75 - CATAHOLIC
125 - Cat Maharaja
200 - Cat Adddict
2. Who was the first puy to win the Aditya Birla scholarship?
Convolutedsignal aka Vivek Mohan
3. Who won the first Coolest Avatar award?
Simba
4. Although there have been PG meets before that, the first official PG meet to have been planned, executed and then spoken about on the forum was when? Where was it held? Half points for each correct answer.
May 2003, Bangalore. Incidentally, it also was the first AIPGM.
5. This Jokaite's most famous statement is "IITs & IIMs are national wastes". Name his less famous similar-named clone.
Videsiguru. Koolguru is the wrong answer. This is because the person's ID is Desiguru.
6. Amongst the parties formed for the Coolest Avatar Awards, the most famous has notably been the CPI. Expand this acronym.
Chowkidar Pagals Of India
7. SB, apart from being a simple chatbox, has been the perpetrator of good deeds as well. What good deed took place on the SB on 29th August 2007?
The formation of BBLT, or Bol Bachan Losers' Team
8. Fill in the blanks:
if u want to be with the _______, apply to the dream team
if u want to be with the _______, apply to the underdogs
Intellects
Dark Horses
9. He took the GMAT at the age of 46, scored 730. He also started the original PG Dream Team thread. Who?
arun agarwal
10. He writes, "I was following PG since early 2005, but never really cared to create a nick till CAT '05. And anyone who has taken CAT '05, will never forget a certain Jacques _______. So Enter _______"? Who?
Derrida
Scores:
utsav_s1986: 8
diablorulez: 7.5
krsh.vik: 2
shivam_01: 7.5
murty001: 7
The winner of this set of questions is utsav_s1986...
Cumulative scores:
krsh.vik: 2
anandv: 3
sarvshwet: 6
shivam_01: 13
murty001: 15.5
utsav_s1986: 15.5
diablorulez: 16
The next set of questions follows in the next post.
Regards,
Grondmaster