Printer cartridges are one of the fastest-finishing (what with people like we have in CW who send 200 pages for printing ‘by mistake’ ) that you’d have lurking around your PC, and it makes sense to make some good deals on them. Original printer cartridge costs are quite exorbitant, which can burn a hole in your pocket in the long run.

It’s places like Inkers which come to your rescue at these times. These guys make high quality compatible ink and toner cartridges for a variety of printers, copiers, multifunction devices (MFDs) and fax machines, and it’s quite a huge list which you can check out on their site.

Inkers also offers free shipping to US locations; and in case you were worried about anything going wrong, also offers one year guarantee on their products. So do start saving, now…

There’s a whole quiz archive on the Jack Kilby Science Quiz, thanks to Prateek Vijayavargia; unfortunately I haven’t edited it yet. So for all those people going tomorrow for this year’s edition, here are some sample questions which might help you. These are from the organisers’ themselves (I think).

1. Although we associate Vatican with religion, it also owns a couple of fine observatories. There is one observatory in the papal summer residence. It was built to aid the development of what? The Gregorian Calendar
2. Before calculating machines became popular, in large engineering activities, women were employed to manually do the calculations. What were these ladies called? Computers
3. Mho is the unit of measurement of reciprocal of what? Ohm (resistance or impedance)
4. The word describes the whorl of petals in a flower. It comes from the Latin word for crown and is now well known because of a very popular model of car. What word? Corolla
5. This is the thin, transparent tissue that covers the outer surface of the eye. More known because of the itching ailment that affects it. What is the tissue called? Conjunctiva

Archive coming soon!

Derek O’ Brien’s Times of India Fun-da-Mental Quiz 2007 was held today (30th October 2007) at Siri Forst Auditorium. I hadn’t gone for the event (I had to go for a Code Warriors’ event - as president, I thought it was my duty) - Varun, Rach, and Ankit did - but from what I hear it was shitty. Our school, DPS RKP, Mother’s International, New Era (they were the champions last year) - none of them qualified even for the stage rounds, which I heard were worse too. It seems Derek’s decided to become an MC than a quizmaster.

Anyway, it’s coming late, but here’s the Times Of India Fun-da-mental Quiz 2005 Archive for download. Again, thanks to Prateek Vijayavargia. I wonder how this guy remembers all the stuff! He’s sent in LOADS more questions, will be putting them up one-by-one soon.

Derek O’ Brien’s Times of India NIE Fun-da-Mental Quiz 2007 is coming to town soon, on 30th October 2007. Too sad I’ve a Code Warriors event on that day and won’t be going. I feel it’s my duty as the Code Warriors President to be with my team, even if the DPS VK QC needs me more for some other event.

Anyway, here are two quiz papers, from NIE 2006 Quiz, hope it comes useful for all those going for it this year. Download them here.

• Times of India Fun-da-mental Quiz 2006 Prelims: Relatively easy paper, which means the cut-offs shot sky-high. The difference between teams qualifying and not qualifying was just 0.5 points, and there were multiple teams on the same score.
• Times Of India Fun-da-Mental 2006 Selection Intra: An online selection intra held at DPS VK QC to select last year’s team.

Thanks to Prateek Vijayavargia for contributing these papers. He was the NIE Quiz 2006 champion, BTW. Best of luck Prateek, and all the others, for Times of India NIE Fun-da-Mental Quiz 2007!