Welcome: For those who are arriving just now, this post is for announcing the correct answers and winners of my recent contest - aam aadmi's Great minds contest 6!
The Idea behind Contest as mentioned in the earlier post was a few verses from the bible, which goes like this -
In the beginning was the Word: the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things came into being, not one thing came into being except through him. What has come into being in him was life, life that was the light of men; and light shines in darkness, and darkness could not overpower it.
Recently our home minister commented “Dark Forces (or forces of darkness, dark deeds, reference to pakistani terror groups) are planning evil, but they wont succeed”. Similarly desi forces of darkness like shiv sena are also planning to divide the country on many lines, but they won’t succeed, bcos Darkness will never overcome Light, permanently! This explains spiritual/metaphorical usage of the words; similarly you can check the words against clues to see if they fit.
Correct Answers:
a) Words – Light, Darkness
Entries– most people got the words ‘Light & Darkness’, other answers included ‘Force-Weakness , speed-slowness, aadmi-steering!
b) Picture – is close-up of a LED emergency light. This is like a bulb and can be fitted to a bulb holder. The light itself comes from 19 LEDs under the glass. The device has a rechargeable battery in it & turns on it own, when ower goes off. It gives Light when our govt gives Darkness!! ;-) . This is said to be a Chinese make & is sold at traffic signals, footpath etc for 75-100Rs. Many aam aadmis buy it!
Entries – here there was variety. People saw many things such as Lights on operation table, Rakhi, Angel, roof/ceiling of church with fans, fan, part of a belt/torch/lamp, bulbs, camera lens, something which has lot of bulbs may be thing used in operation theatre, rear light of a vehicle, top view of camera click button etc.
Winners – Usually there is a complaint that aam contests are tough. But this contest has proved otherwise! The majority of the participants were able to crack the words and made good guesses at the pic.
Participants– thanks to these participants for sparing their time & thinking abilities on this contest. Thank you - ajeet, hemani, karan, sangeetha, paul, menon, rajesh, pragya, fenil, nishant, umesh
great minds – Those who got at least one answer right (most got the words, also includes people who saw some kind of light/bulb for the pic), the great minds are - karan, paul, menon, rajesh, pragya, fenil, nishant, ajeet – Congratulations to all of you.
But as we know, ‘all great minds are equal, but some Great minds are more equal”. So one person who got both words correct and got as close to the photo as possible, is declared the Greatest among the great minds. She is a Great Mind with an upper case G! ;-)
Greatest among great minds is Hemani for her answers (light & Darkness , LED source, some LED light, LED bulb ) . It really required some guessing/attention to detail to identify the small circular heads as LEDs!! Kudos and congratulations to Hemani for topping this contest.
Prizes – a total of 1000MSP was announced as prizes. But I checked now to realize I have only 711 points. So I will be taking cue from our bankrupt govt gives away its lottery prizes. Most of the prizes are given in form of Indira vikas patra, deposits and can only be claimed in future. Similarly I will be disbursing 700MSP now as prize, and rest in future, as and when it arrives! ;-)
Thanks everyone for your time on this contest!
P.s: MS ka swamiji RSD has agreed to help me with points for Prizes. I thankfully accept that, so dont be surprised if some prizes come from the holy hands of the resident swami ;-)
PS2!! - Nishant gets to be the sponsor next time ..when the points required are higher :P
