Monday, December 07, 2009

Question Of The Day: 7th December, 2009

World of internet. As easy as they come.

Difficulty Level - Very Easy


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And the correct answer is:
Amazon

All of these are brands owned by Amazon.com and the gentleman is Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.

Pictures in clockwise order (from top left):

alexa.com



dpreview.com


Jeff Bezos


imdb.com 

Friday, December 04, 2009

Question Of The Day: 4th December, 2009

Looks much more difficult than it actually is:) Who should come in place of X.

Difficulty Level - Tough

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And the correct answer is:

Barack Obama



Winners of the Grammy for the Best Spoken Word (2006 & 2008)

Pictures in clockwise order (from top left):

Bill Clinton (2005)



Jimmy Carter, Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee (2007)


Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon, Blair Underwood (2009)

Thursday, December 03, 2009

Question Of The Day: 3rd December, 2009

Apologies for the long absence, has been a month of hectic traveling! Anyway, to use the cliche, better late than never:) Go ahead and connect.


Difficulty Level - Medium

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And the correct answer is:

Bhopal Gas Tragedy


Pictures in clockwise order (from top left):

Arjun Singh, the Chief Minister of MP in during in December 1984

George Orwell, the writer of 1984. The tragedy took place in December 1984.

Warren Anderson, the CEO of Union Carbide at that time. He has been absconding ever since.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Question Of The Day: 11th November, 2009

Connect and feel good if you get it. 
Difficulty Level - Very Tough

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And the correct answer is:

Roman Polanski


Pictures in clockwise order (from top left):

Samantha Geimer, in 1970s and 2005 (the girl he is accused of having raped)

Sharon Tate (his wife, who was murdered)

Poster from the movie, The Pianist, which he directed.

Monday, November 09, 2009

Question Of The Day: 9th November, 2009

Not an exhaustive list, and has nothing to do with stamps. What is common to three gentlemen?

Difficulty Level - Very Easy

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And the correct answer is:

All of them have been deputy Prime Ministers of India
 
Pictures in clockwise order (from top left):

Charan Singh

Devi Lal

Sardar Valbbhai Patel

Friday, October 30, 2009

Question Of The Day: 30th October, 2009

Not an exhaustive list, but something unique connects these cricketers. Will be tough without a hint, and I won't give a hint:) Go ahead, connect and pat yourself on the back!

Difficulty Level - Tough

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And the correct answer is:

All of them were involved in the last over of the two tied tests in 1960 and 1986
 
Pictures in clockwise order (from top left):

Maninder Singh

Greg Mathews

Ravi Shastri


Wes Hall

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Question Of The Day: 29th October, 2009

Moving to a single image question format for today. What is going on here? Precise answers please.

Difficulty Level - Medium

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And the correct answer is:

J F Kennedy's 'alleged' assassin,  Lee Harvey Oswald, being shot at by Jack Ruby.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Question Of The Day: 28th October, 2009

Had been very caught up all day and thus the late post. Recognise any one of the gentlemen and it's a breeze. Connect.

Difficulty Level - Very Easy

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And the correct answer is:

All involved in the Naxal movement.
 
Pictures in clockwise order (from top left):

Charu Mazumdar (founder of the movement)

Kanu Sanyal (co-founder)


Kobad Ghandy (recently arrested Naxalite)

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Question Of The Day: 27th October, 2009

No hints. Connect.

Difficulty Level - Easy

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And the correct answer is:

All of them have been models for Lux soap.
 
Pictures in clockwise order (from top left):

Abhishek Bachchan

Shah Rukh Khan

Paul Newman

(Ali Zafar from Pakistan has been the only other male model)

Monday, October 26, 2009

Question Of The Day: 26th October, 2009

Quite a common quiz question. Connect.

Difficulty Level - Very easy

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And the correct answer is:

All of them died in air crashes
 
Pictures in clockwise order (from top left):

John Denver

Zia Ul Haq

Ramon Magasasay

G M C Balayogi

Friday, October 23, 2009

Question Of The Day: 23rd October, 2009

The question mark will complete a current exhaustive list. Who will come in place of the ?

Difficulty Level - Tough

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And the correct answer is:

Claire Taylor

They are the 5 Wisden Cricketers of the year for 2009. Claire is also the first woman cricketer to be included in the list.
 
Pictures in clockwise order (from top left):

Dale Benkenstein


James Anderson


Neil Mckenzie


Mark Boucher

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Question Of The Day: 22nd October, 2009

Not an exhaustive list, but what connects them?

Difficulty Level - Medium

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And the correct answer is:

Celebrity Big Brother 2007

These were some of the participants of the celebrity Big Brother show of 2007 which Shilpa Shetty won.
 
Pictures in clockwise order (from top left):

Danielle Boyd


Jermaine Jackson


Jack Tweed

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Question Of The Day: 21st October, 2009

Today's question is slightly generic in nature and that's why the 5 hints. Which theme am I referring to here?

Difficulty Level - Easy

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And the correct answer is:

Scams/Internet security/Viruses etc
 
Pictures in clockwise order (from top left):

Ketan Parekh - famous scamster

Still from movie P.S I Love You - I love you was a malicious internet virus/worm

edited logo of Verisign - internet security company

Picture of Kanu - footballer from Nigeria, and the 419 was a hint for the famous Nigerian 419 scams.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Question Of The Day: 20th October, 2009

Give yourself a pat on the back if you get it. They are all sportsmen from different sports, yet something connects them. Lateral thinking hats and some sports knowledge and a lot of Googling suggested.

Difficulty Level - Very Tough

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And the correct answer is:

Sportspersons who have terms named after them in various sports

Pictures in clockwise order (from top left):

Alexander Alekhine - Alekhine Gambit in Chess

Dick Fosbury - Fosbury Flip in High Jump

Vinoo Mankad - Mankaded in Cricket

Monday, October 19, 2009

Question For The Day: 19th October, 2009

Another Google Trends question. Which relatively common Indian woman's name generated the graph shown below. If you read the question carefully it's a sitter.

Difficulty Level - Easy

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And the correct answer is:

Savita (of savita bhabhi dot com fame)

Here's the link to the trends chart (no not the site:) )

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Question Of The Day: 15th October, 2009

Diwali gift:) Connect.

Difficulty Level - Very Easy

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And the correct answer is:

Wake Up Sid/Iktara

Pictures from top left (clockwise)

Amit Trivedi (music composer of Ikatara, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy composed the rest of the songs)

Ayan Mukherjee (Director of the movie)

A picture of Ektara, the musical instrument.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Question Of The Day: 14th October, 2009

The easiest question of the season. Tell me what does the heat map of the world produced below depict? The break up is a hint.

Difficulty Level - Very Easy

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And the correct answer is:

It is the heat map of all Nobel winners till date.

The break up was of Males, Females and organisations

Special thanks to Amit Agarwal (better know as Labnol) who allowed us to use the pictures from his blog.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Question Of The Day: 13th October, 2009

I have been proved to be a bad judge of difficulty level of these questions, so take it with a pinch of salt. Once again, lateral thinking. Broad domain - tech.

Difficulty Level - Medium

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And the correct answer is:

Code Names of MS Windows versions

Pictures from top left (clockwise):

Daytona - Windows NT 3.5

Memphis (Elvis Presley at Graceland) - Windows 2000

Longhorn (Texas Longhorn) - Windows Vista

Blackcomb - Windows 7

Monday, October 12, 2009

Question Of The Day: 12th October, 2009

Slightly esoteric. From the world of entertainment. Lateral thinking to be applied. Connect.

Difficulty Level - Tough

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And the correct answer is:

How I Met Your Mother (TV series)

These are all names of the primary characters from the series.

Pictures from top left (clockwise):

Marshall (that's an F1 Marshall)

Lilly (that's Lilly Allen)

Robin (that's Robin from Batman)

Ted (that's Ted Turner)

Barney [in the center] (that's Barney & Friends image)

Friday, October 09, 2009

Question Of The Day: 9th October, 2009

Steer clear of obvious traps and the answer is staring at you. Connect.

Difficulty Level - Medium

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And the correct answer is:

Mont Blanc (Pens)

Pictures from top left (clockwise):

Sonam Kapoor (girl in the centre, Mont Blanc's brand ambassador along with Dad, Anil Kapoor)

241 (number of Gandhiji edition Mont Blanc pens launched, because there were 241 people with Gandhiji in the Dandi March) Correction: Actually 241 is the number of the miles they walked in the Dandi March and hence 241 Pens. Thanks Prateek.

Tushar Gandhi (Gandhiji's great grandson, also one of the first recipients of the 11 lakh INR pen)

Thursday, October 08, 2009

Question Of The Day: 8th October, 2009

As someone's mom said "Life is a box of chocolates". Today you get a lollipop. Connect the three gentlemen.

Difficulty Level - Very Easy

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And the correct answer is:

Apollo 11 (the three men were the first to go to the moon)


Pictures from top left (clockwise):

Neil Armstrong

Edwin Aldrin

Michael Collins

Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Question Of The Day: 7th October, 2009

A little surprised to see everyone stumped with y'day's question. Today's could go either way, and with my hint I think it should be a sitter. All I will ask you to do is go back to your Indian childhood. That's it, connect

Difficulty Level - Easy


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And the correct answer is:

Chacha Chaudhry (Indian comicbook hero)


Pictures from top left (clockwise):

Pran (creator of the series)

Rocket (name of Chacha Chaudhry's dog)

Diamond Comics logo (publishers of the series)

Tuesday, October 06, 2009

How To Be A Part Of Inquizzitive?

Hello Quizzer,

Thanks for your interest to be a part of Inquizzitive.

As you would have read in the brief introduction, this is a Quiz blog where one question is mostly uploaded every weekday (usually of a 'connect' nature) and topics vary from politics, sports, movies, language, space to anything and everything. Presently there is no scoring system, but you can leave your answers as comments. These are moderated and published along with the answer when the next question is put up.

First, you maybe interested in our Quizzer's Corner section where we have a database of many Indian Quizzers - their Blogs, email IDs and Orkut/Facebook/Twitter links. You can add yourself to the list by emailing your details (mentioned above) to suhel dot banerjee at gmail dot com




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There are many active quizzing groups in Yahoo! & Google, and you may want to join any of the following. You will get an email whenever a new Question Of The Day (QOTD) is updated. Besides this you can also get a lot of well researched questions and other series. Presently Inquizzitive partners with the following Groups:


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Question Of The Day: 6th October, 2009

Today's question is what they call 'domain specific'. If you aren't interested in soccer/non-American football, then maybe it's not for you. Yes, please let me know who should come in place of the question mark.

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Difficulty Level - Tough




And the correct answer is:

Pierluigi Colina (Italian soccer referee)

These were the referees of the World Cup Finals from 1994-2006


Pictures from top left (clockwise):

Sandor Puhl (USA, 1994)

Said Belqola (France, 1998)

Pierluigi Colina (?) (Japan/Korea, 2002)

Horacio Elizondo (Germany, 2006)

Monday, October 05, 2009

Question Of The Day: 5th October, 2009

The only hint for today's question is that it has very little to nothing to do with Geography. Go ahead and connect.

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And the correct answer is:

Tintin (these are all places mentioned in the titles of Tintin comics)

Pictures from top left (clockwise):

America (Tintin In America)

Congo (Tintin In The Congo)

Soviet Union (Tintin in the Land Of Soviet)

Tibet (Tintin in Tibet)

and the picture in the centre was obviously the moon ( Destination Moon)

Thursday, October 01, 2009

Question Of The Day: 1st October, 2009

A much asked for change has come about - the background colour is the more pleasing white! With that please connect the three pictures below, enough hints there. Also, the next QOTD will be on 5th October, as 2nd October (Mahatma Gandhi's birthday is a national holiday in India).

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And the correct answer is:

Microsoft
 
Pictures from top left (clockwise):

Matthew Perry, who played the role of Chandler Bing in FRIENDS (Bing is MS' Search Engine)

Jerry Seinfield (acted with Bill Gates in MS ads last year)

Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect of MS (also the creator of Lotus Notes, and thus the BJP flag)

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Question Of The Day: 30th September, 2009

Good to see lot's of answers (mostly correct) to the previous question. I am expecting a similar performance today as well. Go ahead and connect.

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And the correct answer is:

Frost/Nixon or Watergate

Pictures from top left (clockwise):

Ron Howard (director of Frost/Nixon)

Sir David Frost

Mark Felt (known as Deep Throat in the Watergate episode)

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Question Of The Day: 29th September, 2009

Gauging from the responses over the last few days I shall not term this as easy, difficult or anything in between. Please go ahead and tell me what should come in place of the question mark? [Hint: America]

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And the correct answer is:

Texas. These are the 4 home states of the last 4 US presidents.

(Some of you answered Missouri based on the geographical position of these states (in a general North East direction), had this been a quiz with scores maybe I would have given you half the points.)

Pictures from top left (clockwise):

Texas - George Bush Sr.

Arkansas - Bill Clinton

Texas - George Bush Jr.

Illinois - Barack Obama

Monday, September 28, 2009

Question Of The Day: 28th September, 2009

The last 2 questions having turned out to be slightly difficult, please consider this sitter as my Pujo gift! Simple, just let me know what am I referring to? 

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Wishing everyone a very Happy Dusherra and Shubho Bijoya.



And the correct answer is:

The movie - Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Pictures from top left (clockwise):

Tiffany Brissette (played V.I.C.I in the TV series Small Wonder)

Christina Aguilera (with her son, Max)

Cobi, the mascot of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics

Friday, September 25, 2009

Question Of The Day: 25th September, 2009

When I said I expected less than 10 answers to y'day's QOTD I didn't mean 0!  And since Sujasha mentioned the correct answer, I mention her name here:)

Today's question is a much simpler one. The hint I will give is that it's contextual and it's very easy to get into wrong tracks, please do not! Go ahead and connect.

Added hint! This is a pure 'lateral thinking' question. Please think way out of the box!

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And the correct answer is:

They are all vahanas/mounts/vehicles of Goddess Durga & her children

Pictures were as follows:

Top left - Owl (Hedwig from Harry Potter) - Goddess Lakshmi

Top right - Swan (from the movie The Swan Princess) - Goddess Saraswati

Bottom right - Peacock (NBC's peacock logo) - Lord Kartik

Bottom left - Rat/Mouse (Mickey Mouse) - Lord Ganesha

Centre - Lion (Simba from Lion King) - Goddess Durga

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Question Of The Day: 24th September, 2009

With 10 correct answers yesterday, my terming the question as 'slightly on the tougher side' seemed a little off. Today I am almost certain the complete correct answers with explanation will be below 10. There I threw you a challenge:)


Connect. 


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And the correct answer is:

Dr. Manmohan Singh

All of the above were succeeded by Dr. Singh in different capacities

Pictures in clockwise order (from top left)

A B Vajpayee (PM of India, 1999-2004)



Wednesday, September 23, 2009

We've Moved! + Question Of The Day: 23rd September, 2009

After close to 4 years of contemplating and procrastinating about moving to our own custom domain, we finally took the step yesterday - www.inquizzitivegoogle.blogspot.com is now available at www.inquizzitive.in !

But that's all that has changed, everything else including the format, layout, host (Blogger) and even the links remain the same - so you need not worry! Any links anywhere in the world wide web pointing to Inquizzitive or any of it's specific posts will be auto redirected to the same one in www.inquizzitive.in If you want to subscribe to our feeds you can do so from here.

Special thanks to Sasidhar for helping us with the move.

Would be great if you could spread the word and a link here and there is most welcome:)

Anyway, coming to today's QOTD. It's good old connect. My guess is slightly on the tougher side, but please feel free to go ahead and prove me wrong!



And the correct answer is:

Michael Jackson

Pictures in clockwise order (from top left)

Debbie Rowe (his wife)

Justin Timberlake (from the infamous 'warddrobe malfunction' event at Superbowl with Janet Kackson - his sister)

Bubbles (his pet chimpanzee)

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Question Of The Day: 22nd September, 2009

The first cricket question of the season, and an easy one to start off things. Who/what will come in place of the question mark?



And the correct answer is:

Saeed Anwar (these are the highest run scorers in a single innings of an ODI)


Pictures in clockwise order (from top left)

Sanath Jayasuriya (189)

Vivian Richards (189*)

Charles Coventry (194*)

Saeed Anwar has a highest score of 194.

Monday, September 21, 2009

Question Of The Day: 21st September, 2009

After the previous sitter, a slightly harder nut to crack! Connect.



And the correct answer is:

The Shashi Tharoor Tweet controversy.


Pictures in clockwise order (from top left)

Flag of Liberia (the country Shashi Tharoor was going to while sending the Tweet, and where he was when the controversy erupted)

The cover of the novel 'Holy Cow' by Sarah Macdonald (Shashi said that in his tweet)

Logo of The Pioneer newspaper. Kanchan Gupta, the journalist who had asked Tharoor the question over Twitter, to which he sent that now infamous tweet, is from The Pioneer.

Friday, September 18, 2009

Question Of The Day: 18th September, 2009

Thanks for the warm & encouraging welcome to Inquizzitive once again!

Today's question is a little different from the usual format. You need to explain which object of daily use was the keyword whose search trend is shown in the graph. The picture in the right hand bottom corner should serve as a hint. If you are unacquainted with Google Trends, then you may want to refer to this post from 2006.

I have selected 'All Regions' as the geographic setting to generate this chart, which means search data from all countries of the world.



And the correct answer is:



Shoe





The spike in searches was because of the famous shoe-throwing at George Bush incident in Iraq in December 2008. And the picture below is that of Muntezar Al Zaidi, the shoe thrower after he was released last week.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Question Of The Day: 17th September, 2009

Hello there,

If you all are still there, that is:) I checked the previous posts to find out that this will be what can be termed as the 4th comeback for Inquizzitive, since it started back in December 2005. And yes, the blog has been dormant for the better part of the last four years.

The last week has been as good as any to make a comeback, after watching Kim Clisjters' lifting her  daughter and the US Open, I knew it was time to restart Inquizzitive. And two 36 year old men scoring their 44th ODI century and winning the US Open Men's Doubles only added to the motivation.

If you still have some hopes in my commitment to QOTD, then I would urge you to read this post from last year, not much has changed. Yes, with the advancement in technology we have one more way of getting new questions notifications - Twitter! If you want the latest question, you can follow me @suhel.

Starting off the new season (!) with a teaser, doesn't perhaps qualify as a question! I have been somewhat out of touch, but plan to come back to form soon!

Looking forward to some good participation again!

What am I referring to?




And the correct answer is:

The Kanye West interrupting Taylor Swift controversy.

Pictures (in clockwise order from top left)

1) Mark Taylor (Hint: taylor)
2) Poster of the movie 'Girl, Interrupted' (Hint: interrupted)
3) Poster of the movie 'Wild, Wild, West' (Hint: west)

Thursday, August 06, 2009

Who Am I?

Cross posting from my other blog.

Nowadays quizzing is all about hi-tech rounds and roundabout connections. So, I have decided to go retro and bring back the quintessential '90s round of 'Who Am I?' where the question has clues about the answer (usually a person) and the sooner you get the answer the more points you get. Simple? Okay, one more rule, you cannot click on the clues. Once you do the game is over. You start from 0 points and every clue you miss you get a negative 10 points.

Let's get going!











What's your score at the end of the quiz? His was 166.