Friday, December 30, 2005

Question Of The Day: 30th December, 2005

Please connect the pictures and the hint is present in the picture itself!

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And The Correct Ans. Is

LAST

The poster is from the movie 'The LAST of The Mohicans', the book is Salman Rushdie's 'The Moor's LAST Sigh', the ruler was Bahadur Shah Zafar - The LAST Mughal emperor and finally the other person was C. Rajagopalachari - The LAST Governor-General of India.

Thursday, December 29, 2005

Question Of The Day: 29th December, 2005

Logically connect the three pictures provided.

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And The Correct ans is


John Denver's 'Annies Song' was used by Hutch in their Caller Tunes commercial. The first picture is that of the Hutch 'Wherever you go, our network follows' campaign, with the boy and the dog. The Dog's name (in real life ) if Cheekah. And Krishnamachari Srikanth's nickname is also Cheekah.

Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Question Of The Day: 28th December, 2005

Good old connection question after some time. Please connect the three pictures.

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And the Correct Answer is

France or French

The movie poster is that of French Kiss, FCUK , the fashion brand stands for French Connection United Kingdom and finally Asterix is a French (erstwhile Gaul) hero.

Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Question Of The Day: 27th December, 2005

Simple enough and self explanatory. The map is that of Palermo ofcourse.

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And The Correct Ans. Is

Mafia or La Cosa Nostra (Italian term for Mafia)

Friday, December 23, 2005

Question Of The Day: 23rd December, 2005

The toughest connection question so far. Give a logical explanation connecting the three pictures.

Today's question has been framed by Tanushree Baruah.


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And The Correct Ans. is
The person on the top left is luis brunel who directed un chien andalou, the picture is a frame from the film and the painting is Salvadore Dali'sdali's who visualized the film.

Thursday, December 22, 2005

Question Of The Day: 22nd December, 2005

All of them grew up to become Hollywood stars and two of them actually got married and then divorced. Question is which two became a couple, Names of the couple wanted, just letters won't be accepted as correct answers.

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And The Correct Ans. Is
Bruce Willis (B) and Demi Moore(G).

The others were: A - Drew Barrymore, C - Meg Ryan, D - Claude Van Damme, E - Britney Spears, F - Tom Cruise, H - Keanu Reeves

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Question Of The Day: 21st December, 2005

The question is in the code. Crack the code and then answer the question. Just cracking the code will not lead to points!


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And The Correct Ans. Is

Pig Latin.

The Code in Normal English meant "Five percent of your job is over. For the remaining just give the two-word term for this language or code". For more about Pig Latin you can check out

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_Latin

Or the Pig Latin Translator: http://www.snowcrest.net/donnelly/piglatin.html

Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Question Of The Day: 20th December, 2005

Another Connection Question. Please connect the four pictures.

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And The Correct Ans. is

Aviation Industry or Aviator

The two men in the top left picture are the Wright brothers, inventors of the aeroplane. Clockwise next was Charles Lindbergh, the first person to complete the solo trans-atlantic flight. Bottom Right was the original Howard Hughes (not Leonardo De Caprio), the aviation industry Mogul. And finally the small color picture was that of Martin Scorsese, the director of the movie Aviator.

Monday, December 19, 2005

Question Of The Day: 19th December, 2005

The obvious question: Connect the three pictures.

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And The Correct Ans. is

Cambodia

The lady in the picture is obviously Angelina Jolie. She has an adopted son from Cambodia called Maddox, and her movie Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and the cradle of Life was shot in Cambodia. Most importantly she has been awarded Cambodian citizenship and passport. The temple in the picture is Angkor Vat, which is again in Cambodia. The old person is the Khmer Rogue leader, Pol Pot, perhaps the most famous Cambodian.

Friday, December 16, 2005

Question Of The Day: 16th December, 2005

What is common to the following Harry Potter characters?

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And The Correct Ans Is
They are all unregistered Animagi. For the Harry Potter uninitiated, Animagi are wizards and witches who can take the form of a particular animal. And going clockwise those characters were as follows:
As revealed in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban:
James Potter was a stag-animagus,
Peter Pettigrew a rat-animagus
and Sirius Black was a dog-animagus;
In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, it is revealed that Rita Skeeter, was a beetle animagus.

Thursday, December 15, 2005

Question Of The Day: 15th December, 2005

Simple Enough. Give me the Specific Connection.

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The Connection is
The Lady in the picture is 'The Lady With The Lamp' or Florence Nightingale. She was involved with the nursing of the wounded soldiers in the Crimean War. The The medal shown there is the Victoria Cross, The highest military award given by the British Crown. And the canons in the picture are the remains of the Russian canons from the Crimean War. The bronze knobs of these canons were melted and till date the Victoria Crosses contain that metal in them.

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Question Of The Day: 14th December, 2005

Whats the Connection between the three pictures?

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And The Correct Answer Is

Six Sigma.

Motorola (the brand of the cell phone shown) was the first company to implement six sigma methodology. Bill Galvin (the man in the black and white picture) was the chairman of Motorola at that time. And the third clue the Dabbawalla's of Mumbai, who have been accredited six sigma status for their perfection in working methods. (Richard Branson's picture was just to lead you away from the answer!)

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Question Of The Day: 13th December, 2005

The following are the only actors/actresses to have achieved a specific feat at the Oscars. What is it?

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And the correct ans is

They won the best actor/actress Oscar awards in consecutive years. In Clockwise order they were

Katharine Hepburn Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) and The Lion in Winter (1968)
Spencer Tracy for Captain Courageous (1937) and Boys Town (1938)
Tom Hanks for Philadelphia (1993) and Forrest Gump (1994) and
Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth (1937)

Jason Robard also won the consecutive awards in 1976 for "All the President's Men" (1976) and 1977 for "Julia" (1977) but as Best Supporting Actor

Monday, December 12, 2005

Question Of The Day: 12th December, 2005

There's one common thread between the three pictures. Who or what is it?

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And the correct ans is

The lady is Yoko Ono, the wife of John Lennon. The man in the picture is Mark David Chapman, the assassin of Lennon. And the logo is that of the Liverpool football, and the lennon and the other Beatles members were all from Liverpool.

Friday, December 09, 2005

Question Of The Day: 9th December, 2005

Todays question is pretty obvious. Identify the missing person and tell me why so? [Hint: It is a sequence and not an exhaustive list]

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The correct ans is:
Ricky Ponting. Connection was that they were the man of the match award winners in World Cup Finals.
David Boon (1987), Wasim Akram (1992), Aravinda Da Silva (1996), Shane Warne (1999) and Ricky Ponting(2003)

Thursday, December 08, 2005

Question Of The Day: 8th December, 2005

A sitter: Whats the connection between the three pictures?

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The Connection was as follows:

The Building in the picture is IIM Ahmedabad. The person in the picture was Vindi Banga the ex-Chairman and present Head of Foods of Hindustan Lever Limited. He is an IIM A pass out and now among the board of directors of IIM. And finally Lux is a brand of HLL.

Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Question Of The Day: 7th December, 2005

Welcome to the brand new Inquizzitive blog.

We start with a visual clue. Identify the person in the picture. The setting is a give away though!

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The Correct Answer is: Timmothy McVeigh (famous for the Oklahoma Bombings of 1995)

Tuesday, December 06, 2005

A Brief Introduction

Hello,

Let me start by thanking you for visiting this blog. Now for a little bit about 'What it is all about?'

It all started during the end of 2005 when I had a new quiz questions as my status message on Gtalk every day. Quizzlers (Quizzers + Googlers) started answering and one day I wanted to have a picture clue of Timmothy McVeigh and so the blog was started to host the photo! It was very well received and I continued uploading picture clues and then the 'Connection' format of questions.


This was followed by keeping proper scores and tabulating them, and sending out mails to the Google internal quizzing group at the end of the day, with the question and the answer and the list of all correct answer providers.

Then we progressed to the blog format of the 'Question Of The Day' series. It turned out to be much more successful than what I had expected. We also started getting Non-Googler's checking the question and attempting them.

Thanks a lot for showing interest in the blog and personally I take this opportunity to thank all of you who appreciated the efforts. Hope to keep coming up with interesting questions and receiving such tremendous response as we have received so far.

Quizzically Yours,
Suhel

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Sunday, December 04, 2005

Scorecard - Internal Track

START DATE: 21st August, 2006

Scores updated till 18th September, 2006.


1 point for every correct answer.
2 points for the fastest answer every day.
3 points if you are the only person to answer on a given day.


Shyam K 19
Arjun K 12
Rubin S 8
Sumant S 8
Vandana M 8
Jeena J 5
Sasidhar A 4
Smitha P 4
Vikas S 4
Shyam P 3
Ranjana B 2
Supriya N 2
Zubin N 2
Amrita K 1
NagalakshmiV 1
Sathy J 1
Sundar K 1
Vishal V 1

Scorecard - External Track

Start Date: 21st August, 2006

Scores updated till 18th September, 2006.


1 point for every correct answer.
2 points for the fastest answer every day.
3 points if you are the only person to answer on a given day.


Bee Gee 22
Vinesh Kumar 17
Ravi Ramakanth 14
Arun Warrier 13
Rahul Paul 13
Vivek Karthikeyan 11
Aneesh Jain 10
Ashish Agarwal 10
Archana Satpathy 8
Shobhit Jain 7
Prasan S 6
Rajat Hazra 6
Shreyas Joshi 6
Shyamal Mishra 6
Abhimanyu Sanghi 5
Kunal Singh 5
Naveen Venkataraman 5
Abhishek Borah 4
Ameya Mardolkar 4
Amitangshu 4
Gautham Ravichander 4
Supriya Agarwal 4
Vikram Rai 4
Vivekanand 4
Anusha Rao 3
Jitaditya Narzary 3
Kapil Kant Kaul 3
Megha Jain 3
Provost Zakharov 3
Sanjay Gianchandani 3
Shashank Rath 3
Shyam Naren 3
Sobhanjeet Rath 3
Vikram Hiray 3
Deepak Karamungikar 2
Devender Gupta 2
Ingit Tibrewal 2
Kaushik Saha 2
Mitesh Vasa 2
Naseer Ahmed 2
Niranjan 2
Oranje Oranje 2
Pallavi Roy 2
Prateek Vijayavargia 2
Srimoyee Chakaraborty 2
Tarun Madan 2
Venkateswaran Vishwanathan 2
Viswas Nair 2
Amit Singh 1
Anal Ghosh 1
Ankit Jain 1
Apurva Dubey 1
Bhavin Vora 1
Chirag Mutgi 1
Dhiraj Ramakrishnan 1
Gautham Krishnamurthy 1
Goutham Lakshminarayan 1
Harikrishnan Vijayan 1
Ishani Chakraborty 1
Kartik Desikan 1
Kumar Vatsal 1
Latish Venugopal 1
Mayur Narasimhan 1
Nambirajan 1
Naveen Nathani 1
Navneet Visistha 1
Neha Malhotra 1
Pradeep K R 1
Prakash Nair 1
Pratyush Prasanna 1
Praveen Kumar 1
Priyadarshan Shirodkar 1
Rajesh Mohan 1
Rajiv Sharma 1
Samrat Mukherjee 1
Sanjeev Jayakumar 1
Sanyukta Jaiswal 1
Saroj Nayak 1
Shashwat Sehgal 1
Shiv 1
Siddharth Mishra 1
Sudarshan Narayanan 1
Tushar Srivastava 1
Varun Raina 1
Vikram B 1

Quizzers Of The Week

For The Week 4-Sep-2006 To 10-Sep-2006

Internal

Shyam K 5
Arjun K 3
Jeena J 3
Rubin S 3


External

Bee Gee 7
Arun Warrier 3
Ravi Ramakanth 3
Vinesh Kumar 3