Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Question Of The Day: 31st January, 2006

Hardcore cricket question. The following are the only five cricketers to have achieved which cricketing distinction.

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And The Correct Ans. Is

These are the only batsmen to have batted on all five days of a test match. For more deatils you can check out

This Link

Total No. Of Attempts: 18

No. Of Correct Answers: 11

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Rubin S
Bennet A
Megha G
Mandar D
Sumodh T
Vinitha N
Smitha P
Tarun M
Shyam P
Vijayragav R
Alekhya H
Non-Googlers Who Got It Right



Deepak Karamungikar
Bharat Jain
Neelakantan E
Prateek Vijayvargia

Monday, January 30, 2006

Question Of The Day: 30th January, 2006

Please connect the following movies.

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And The Correct Ans. Is

Bhanu Athaiya

She was the costume designer for the three movies (Gandhi, Lagaan and Swades) and also won the Oscar for Gandhi


Total No. Of Attempts: 23

No. Of Correct Answers: 17

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Supriya N
Sumodh T
Sujatha N
Rubin S
Shyam P
Vinitha N
Parul G
Nandini V
Tanushree B
Bennet A
Manjusha N
Tarun M
Sreejita D
Radhika R
Mandar D
Vikas S
Sathy J

Non-Googlers Who Got It Right


Mainak Mukherjee
Deepak Karamungikar
Bharat Jain
Piyush Singhania
Narayan Subramanian

Friday, January 27, 2006

Question Of The Day: 27th January, 2006

Logically connect the following pictures. [Hint: Think a little out of the box]

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And The Correct Ans. Is

Pi

The 16th Letter of The Greek Alphabet is Pi. Yann Martel wrote the book 'The Life of Pi'. Google in its secondary offering sold 14159265 shares, which is actually the value of pi 8 places after the decimal point.

Total No. Of Attempts: 11

No. Of Correct Answers: 8

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Arjun K
Vinitha N
Sharon A
Vijay R
Tarun M
Sumodh T
Sreejita D
Vikas S

Non-Googlers Who Got It Right


Mainak Mukherjee
Abhishek Paul
Neelakantan E
Deepak Karamungikar

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Question Of The Day: 25th January, 2006

What elite distinction connects the following four persons. [Hint: Its not an exclusive list] And I want to know about ALL of the individually.

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And The Correct Ans. Is

All these people have countries named after them

Starting from top left clockwise they are:
Amerigo Vespucci - America
Christopher Columbus - Colombia
Simon Bolivar - Bolivia
King Philip II Of Spain - Phillipines


Total No. Of Attempts: 13

No. Of Correct Answers: 4

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Sumodh T
Arjun K
Vinitha N
Radhika S

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Question Of The Day: 24th January, 2006

How will you connect the following two sportspersons and the food item?

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And The Correct Ans. Is
Hungary

The person in the picture is Ferenc Puskas, the legendary Hungarian Footballer. The female is Judith Polgar, the world no.1 womens chess player and finally the dish is Hungarian Goulash.


Total No. Of Attempts: 11

No. Of Correct Answers: 2

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Vikas S
Sumodh T

Monday, January 23, 2006

Question Of The Day: 23rd January, 2006

What connects the following three pictures?

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And The Correct Ans. Is

AK-47

The person in the picture is Mikhail Kalhnikov. The flag is that of Mozambique which has a AK-47 on it. And the weapon was majorly redesigned in 1974.

Total No. Of Attempts: 10

No. Of Correct Answers: 4

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Tarun M
Supriya N
Sumodh T
Shyam K

Non-Googlers Who Got It Right


Prateek Vijayvargia

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Question Of The Day will be back on the 22nd

Hello Quizzers,

I am going on a fiveday vacation starting today and so our Question Of The Day series will back onMonday,22nd January, 2006. As usual the question will be put up at 12:30 PM IST.In the meanwhileif you have any interesting questions, facts, trivia, pictures do send them over.

Quizzically Yours,
Suhel

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Question Of The Day: 17th January, 2006

I want a complete connection of all the three pictures here. A toughie, but good exercise for the grey cells!

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And The Correct Ans. Is
Bofors

The persons in the picture are the Hinduja Brothers, accused in the Bofors Scam (and later acquited). Those are the bofors guns. And the Nobel medallion was connected because of the fact that Alfred Nobel bought the Bofors Gun Company

Total No. Of Attempts: 13

No. Of Correct Answers:11

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Supriya N
Sumodh T
Bennet A
Shyam K
Arjun K
Rubin S
Radhika S
Alekhya H
Tarun M
Vinitha N
Ashok M

Non-Googlers Who Got It Right


Prateek Vijayvargia
Deepak Karamungikar

Neelankantan E
Piyush Singhania
Bharat Jain

Monday, January 16, 2006

Question Of The Day: 16th January, 2006

What is the unique distinction achieved by the following tennis players?

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And The Correct Ans. Is

Winners of Mens Grand Slam

The players in clockwise order are : Donald Budge, Fred Perry, Roy Emerson, Rod Laver and Andre Agassi. And these are the only players to have all the four Grand Slam tournaments. (NOTE: Not all of them won it in one calender year)


Total No. Of Attempts: 13

No. Of Correct Answers:10

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Supriya N
Bennet A
Vikas S
Radhika S
Shyam K
Vinitha N
Sumodh T
Tarun M
Tanushree B
Siddhartha T

Non-Googlers Who Got It Right


Prateek Vijayvargia
Deepak Karamungikar

Neelankantan E
Chanchal Pati

Friday, January 13, 2006

Question Of The Day: 13th January, 2006

Connect the following to the world of fiction.

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And The Correct Ans. Is
Tintin

The gentleman in the picture is Herge, the creator of Tintin. The map is that of Belgium, Herge's and Tintin's home country and finally the yellow flag is that of Syldavia, the country rules King Ottokar whom Tintin meets in one of adventures.


Total No. Of Attempts: 14

No. Of Correct Answers:9

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Sumodh T
Arjun K
Siddhartha T
Manjusha N
Tarun M
Alekhya H
Vinitha N
Vikash S
Radhika S

Non-Googlers Who Got It Right


Prateek Vijayvargia
Deepak Karamungikar

Mit Choudhury

Thursday, January 12, 2006

Question Of The Day: 12th January, 2006

Connect the following pictures and dates.

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And The Correct Ans. Is

The International Red Cross Society.

The person in the picture was Henri Dunant, a swiss businessman who founded Red Cross. The years mentioned were the ones in which Red Cross received the Nobel Peace Prize (In 1901 Henri Dunant had received it, but as an individual). And the flag is not the Red Cross flag, but the Swiss flag. Because of Switzerland's peaceful standpoint through history, as a mark of respect the red cross flag was an exact replica of the Swiss Flag but with the colors changed

Total No. Of Attempts: 18

No. Of Correct Answers:15

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Supriya N
Sumosh T
Arjun K
Vinitha N
Tarun M
Anand P
Bennet A
Manjusha N
Alekhya H
Rubin S
Siddhartha T
Shyam K
Darshana S
Vikas S
Ashok M

Non-Googlers Who Got It Right


Prateek Vijayvargia
Deepak Karamungikar

Piyush Singhania

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Question Of The Day: 11th January, 2006

A sitter. Connect the following to the world of music.


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And The Correct Ans. Is

The Song Scarborough Fair by Simon and Garfunkel. Or their album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme. Those are the herbs shown in the picture. These herbs were mentioned in the song.

Total No. Of Attempts: 16

No. Of Correct Answers:12

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Supriya N
Manjusha N
Arjun K
Sumodh T
Kavita G
Vinitha N
Sundar K
Mandar D
Rubin S
Tarun M
Dinesh J


Non-Googlers Who Got It Right


Deepak Karamungikar
Piyush Singhania

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Question Of The Day: 10th January, 2006

Connect the following three pictures with regard to the Oscar Awards.

Rubin Shah accepts the honor of framing the question.

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And The Correct Ans is
Stars associated with these movies refused to accept the Oscar Awards

George Scott refused to accept for Best Actor in 1970 for the movie Patton, Marlon Brando did the same for The Godfather in 1972 and Dudley Nichols refused to accept the Oscar for Best Screenplay for The Informer in 1935

Total No. Of Attempts: 14

No. Of Correct Answers:9

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Supriya N
Arjun K
Sumodh T
Manjusha N
Tanushree B
Mandar D
Alekhya H
Tarun M
Vinitha N


Non-Googlers Who Got It Right


Neelakantan E
Piyush Singhania

Monday, January 09, 2006

Question Of The Day: 9th January, 2006

What connects the three images you see on your screen? Please give the full logical explanation.

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And The Connect was

Those flowers are Lilacs. The persons in the pictures are Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln respectively. Walt Whitman wrote one of his most famous poems, 'When Lilacs last in the Dooryard bloomed' as a tribute to Abraham Lincoln after he passed away

Total No. Of Attempts: 15

No. Of Correct Answers:11

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Sumodh T
Arjun K
Vinitha N
Supriya N
Mandar
Manjusha N
Sriranjini L
Tarun M
Sushmita M
Rubin S
Shyam P

Friday, January 06, 2006

Question Of The Day: 6th January, 2006

Another connection question. The arrows will tell you what to connect with what. And yes, there is NO one answer to connect all four pictures, but a common underlying concept.

Today's 'inspired' question has been framed by Arjun Kolady

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And The Correct Ans Is.
John Hinckley Jr., who attempted an assassination of Ronald Reagan (the Man on the Time Magazine cover) was inspired by Robert De Niro's character in the movie Taxi Driver and that explains the first connect. Secondly John Lennon (of Beatles) was shot by Mark David Chapman who was reading the book Catcher In the Rye by J D Salinger and the black and white picture is that of J D Salinger


Total No. Of Attempts: 10

No. Of Correct Answers:8

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Rubin S
Tarun M
Vinitha N
Manjusha N
Kavita G
Shyam K
Mandar D
Anand P

TIMING CHANGE

This is to notify all you quizzlers that from now on, the Question Of The Day, will be put up at 12:15 PM IST instead of the usual 9:30 AM. Thanks for your co-operation.

Quizzically Yours,
Suhel

Thursday, January 05, 2006

Question Of The Day: 5th January, 2006

A cricket Question after a long time. I think the question is self explanatory and yes its a lollipop for cricket lovers and others alike.

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And The Correct Ans. Is

Shahid Afridi

They are the ones with the fastest one day centuries. From Bootom Left Anti-clockwise, the bastmen were:

Fastest Centuries in One-Day

Player Name Balls Against Venue Year


Brian Lara (West Indies) 45 Bangladesh Dhaka 1999
Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka) 48 Pakistan Singapore 1996
Mohammad Azharuddin (India) 62 New Zealand Baroda 1998
John Davison (Canade) 67 West Indies Centurion 2003

Afridi scored his century in 37 balls against Sri Lanka against Sri Lanka in Nairobi, Kenya, 1996.


Total No. Of Attempts: 15

No. Of Correct Answers:12

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Shyam K
Ravi Y
Mandar D
Vinitha N
Aditya D
Rubin S
Dinesh J
Tarun M
Aswathi J
Siddhartha T
Shyam P
Sundar K

Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Question Of The Day: 4th January, 2006

A Connection Question one more time. Just randomly think about things related to the pictures and its a sitter!

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And The Correct Ans. Is
Vanilla

Those beans are vanilla beans. Penelope Cruz acted in the movie Vanilla Sky and finally Madagascar (the country) is the largest producer of vanilla in the world.


Total No. Of Attempts: 20

No. Of Correct Answers:10

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Manjusha N
Tarun M
Mandar D
Shyam P
Siddhartha T
Alekhya H
Arjun K
Shyam K
Vinitha N
Dinesh J

Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Question Of The Day: 3rd January, 2006

Question slightly on the difficult side. What connects the inventors/creators/first time users of the following.

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And The Correct Ans Is
All the inventors/creators/first users were somehow killed by/due to their inventions/creations etc.

Quizzing Lore has it that Orvile Wright died of a heart attack after a flight (not in the air), but Shyam K provides us this link, which claims otherwise:

http://goofy313g.free.fr/calisota_online/exist/wright.html



Total No. Of Attempts: 19

No. Of Correct Answers:14

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Tarun M
Vinitha N
Shyam P
Sumodh T
Mandar D
Arjun K
Tanushree B
Anand P
Ashok M
Sasidhar A
Rubin S
Sundar K
Shyam K
Dinesh J

Monday, January 02, 2006

Question Of The Day: 2nd January, 2006

Wishing you a very Happy New Year and starting off the year with a sitter! What is special about the following paragraph?

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And The Correct Ans Is
It is the longest known example of Rhopalic sentences. That is every word in the sentence is as long as its position, Nth word is N letters long. You can check it out now.

Total No. Of Attempts: 23

No. Of Correct Answers:19

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Mandar D

Tarun M
Aditya D
Parul G
Nagalakshmi V
Ashok M
Alekhya H
Sharona A
Arjun K
Shyam K
Sasidhar A
Sundar K
Siddhartha T
Vikas S
Manan M
Shyam P
Ravi Y
Vinitha N
Sriranjini L