Question Of The Day: 24th June, 2010 - World Cup Special

While we are in the midst of the quadrennial sporting frenzy the next few questions will be on the beautiful game. So, if you are not that much into football you may want to visit the blog again after 11-July:)

The format will be slightly different, there will be a set of pictures provided and you need to answer which footballer is being referred to. Example question below.

The correct answer is Roberto Carlos.
Hints: Robber, Toe, Car - Loss

So, go ahead and start cracking these sitters:)

All questions courtesy Nirmalya Ganguly. A big thanks to him from Inquizzitive!

And the correct answer is:

Thiery Henry

Pictures left to right: Tea, Hairy (men), Hen, Reel (minus L)

Question Of The Day: 25th May, 2010

Identify this object in the person's hand.

Difficulty Level - Easy

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And the correct answer is:

The black box of the ill fated Air India Dubai-Mangalore flight

Question Of The Day: 7th April, 2010

The clues are staring at you, go connect.


Picture courtesy - Soumyadip

Difficulty Level - Easy

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And the correct answer is:

Foursquare

Dennis Crawley (Founder of Foursquare.com)

Dodgeball, the previous website created by Crawley and later sol to Google

An ad for Four Square cigarettes

Question OF The Day: 31st March, 2010

Another very simple connect. Need to explain the significance of all 4 pictures.

Difficulty Level - Easy

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And the correct answer is:

Dilbert Comics, these are all references to characters from the comics.

Pictures in clockwise order (from top left)

Johnny Depp from Alice in Wonderland. Character reference = Alice.

Ashok Kumar. Character reference = Asok

The Elbonians.

Wally Hammond. Character reference = Wally

Special mention - Chocochan, the only person to give the correct answer. 

Question Of The Day: 19th March, 2010

Congrats to those who cracked y'day's answer!


A breather to end the week. It's a connection question again and the answer is one person.

Difficulty Level - Easy

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And the correct answer is:

Lalit Modi

Pictures in clockwise order (from top left)

Logo of the BCCI - Lalit Modi is the existing VP of the BCCI

Logo of DLF - prime sponsors of the IPL, where Lalit Modi is the Chairman

Logos of Four Square & I-Gen brand of cigarettes, owned by Godfrey Philips India. Lalit Modi is the Executive Director of GPI, which is owned by his family's Modi Enterprise.

Question Of The Day: 8th March, 2010

Wanted to cash in on the Oscar buzz before it dies! Who should come in place of the question mark?

Difficulty Level - Easy

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And the correct answer is:
Paris Hilton (2008)

These are the actresses who won the Razzie for Worst Actress between 2005-09.

Pictures in clockwise order (from top left):

Jenny McCarthy

Sharon Stone

Lindsay Lohan

Sandra Bullock

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)

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.

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:) )

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)

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

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

Question Of The Day: 22nd June, 2008

Connect.



And the correct answer is:

Scotland

Clockwise from top left: Prince Philip, who is the Duke Of Edinburg, which is the capital of Scotland. Thistle, national flower of Scotland. And Idi Amin on whose life the movie 'Last King Of Scotland' was based.

Question Of The Day: 13th June, 2008

Very straightforward. Who should come in place of the question mark?



And the correct answer is:

Didier Deschamps

They are the last 4 captains to have lifted the Euro.
Lars Olsen (Denmark, 1992), Jurgen Klinsmann (Germany, 1996) Then Didier Deschamps in place of ? (France, 2000) and finally Theodore Zagorakis (Greece, 2004)

Question Of The Day: 1st September, 2006

End of yet another week, and this time I am resorting to a purely cryptic (yet quizzing) question after a long time. All you need to tell me is what are these and what's special about them? Happy weekend:)

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And The Correct Ans. Is

These words (read them backwards) have all the five vowels in the order a,e,i,o and u. The words are

Facetious, Abstemious and Arsenious

Inside Google

Total No. Of Attempts: 18

No. Of Correct Answers: 12

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Sumant S ( 2 points, 0 hours :03 minutes)
Vikas S
Shyam K
Nagalakshmi V
Supriya N
Arjun K
Sasidhar A
Smitha P
Ranjana B
Jeena J
Vandana M
Vishal Vignesh


Non Googlers


Total No. Of Attempts: 43

No. Of Correct Answers: 36

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Aneesh Jain ( 2 points, 0 hours :08 minutes)
Bee Gee
Arun Warrier
Ankit Jain
Anal Ghosh
Venkateswaran Viswanathan
Gautham Ravichander
Vikram Hiray
Sanjay Gianchandani
Rahul Paul
Shashank Rath
Rajat Hazra
Vivek Karthikeyan
Prateek Vijayavargia
Vinesh Kumar
Devender Gupta
Deepak Karamungikar
Naveen Venkataraman
Amitangshu
Niranjan
Ravi Ramakanth
Shobhit Jain
Kunal Singh
Ashish Agarwal
Shyamal Mishra
Anusha Rao
Archana Satpathy
Megha Jain
Sobhanjeet Rath
Naseer Ahmed
Kapil Kant Kaul
Ingit Tibrewal
Naveen Nathani
Ishani Chakraborty
Gautham Krishnamurthy
Shreyas Joshi

Question Of The Day: 25th August, 2006

Ending the week on a slightly tough note. Well I guess! So please connect the following pictures with a person. Hint as usual is provided in the picture itself. Happy quizzing weekend.

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And The Correct Ans. Is

Rupert Murdoch

Picture 1: Myspace.com(He bought Intermix Media that owns Myspace)
Picture 2: Peter Mukherjea, CEO of Star TV India.(Rupert Murdoch owns Star TV)
Picture 3: Los Angeles Dodgers.(Rupert Murdoch is the owner of the LA baseball club)
Hint Picture: Fox(Fox Network, owned by Rupert Murdoch)


Inside Google

Total No. Of Attempts: 7

No. Of Correct Answers: 7

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Sathy J ( 2 points, 8 hours :17 minutes)
Supriya N
Shyam K
Rubin S
Vikas S
Arjun K
Vandana M

Non Googlers


Total No. Of Attempts: 16

No. Of Correct Answers: 16

List Of Correct Answer Givers



Aneesh Jain ( 2 points, 0hours: 21 minutes)
Vivekanand
Kaushik Saha
Rajat Hazra
Ravi Ramakanth
Vikram Rai
Rahul Paul
Bee Gee
Shreyas Joshi
Provost Zakharov
Shobhit Jain
Arun Warrier
Abhishek Borah
Ingit Tibrewal
Archana Sathpathy
Ashish Agarwal

Question Of The Day: 21st August, 2006

Hello Quizzers,

Welcome back to QOTD. From now on the question will be up every weekday at midnight IST. The scores have all been reset and the rules remian the same, 2 points for the fastest answer and 1 point for the rest. If on a day only one person answers s/he will get 3 points.

Let's start on a puzzle-like note. The question is quite self-explanatory. What 'number' will logically come in place of the question mark?

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And The Correct Ans. Is

1014

The first picture was that of Tintin and Flight 714.
The second of the Kandahar hijack of the plane IC 814
And the third picture was of the first commercial photocopier produced by Xerox, Xerox 914


Inside Google

Total No. Of Attempts: 10

No. Of Correct Answers: 6

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Sasidhar A ( 2 points, 9hours :32minutes)
Sundar K
Arjun K
Rubin S
Shyam K
Ranjana B

Non Googlers


Total No. Of Attempts: 36

No. Of Correct Answers: 26

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Aneesh Jain (2 points, 0 hours:08 minutes)
Tarun Madan
Naveen Venkataraman
Shashwat Sehgal
Vikram Rai
Bee Gee
Prasan S
Ravi Ramakanth
Rahul Paul
Supriya Agarwal
Vivek karthikeyan
Sanyukta Jaiswal
Vinesh Kumar
Niranjan
Sanjay Gianchandani
Ashish Agarwal
Tushar Srivastava
Jitaditya Narzary
Rajat Hazra
Shreyas Joshi
Pratyush Prasanna
Navneet Visistha
Naseer Ahmed
Abhimanyu Sanghi
Arun Warrier
Srimoyee Chakaraborty

Question Of The Day: 7th July, 2006

Ending the week on a slightly random note. Please connect the following, and I have already given the usual hint, think out of the box! Happy quizzing over the weekend:)

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And The Correct Ans. Is

Ivory

Clockwise from top-left:

James Ivory (of Ivory merchant fame), the flag of Ivory Coast and Ebony and Ivory album cover.


Total No. Of Attempts: 3

No. Of Correct Answers: 2

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Daud C 23:44
Tarun M

Non Googlers


Total No. Of Attempts: 27

No. Of Correct Answers: 12

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Bee Gee 0:41
Srimoyee Chakraborty
Ameya Mardolkar
Vivek karthikeyan
Vinesh Kumar
Jitaditya Narzary
Deepak Karamungikar
Ravi Ramakanth
Praveen Kumar
Dipankar Sarkar
Ashish Agarwal

Question Of The Day: 6th July, 2006

Another easy one I should say. The same routine. Logically connect the three pictures provided below.

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And The Correct Answer Is

Maruti Suzuki

Sanjay Gandhi introduced the car to India, Jagdish Khattar is the present Managing Director of Maruti India and Michio Suzuki was the founder of Suzuki Company, Japan.


Total No. Of Attempts: 15

No. Of Correct Answers: 6

List Of Correct Answer Givers

Arjun K 11:42
Tarun M
Vrushali D
Rubin S
Vikas S
Daud C

Non Googlers


Total No. Of Attempts: 30

No. Of Correct Answers: 21

List Of Correct Answer Givers


Bee Gee 0:04
Dhiraj Ramakrishnan
Mitesh vasa
Ameya Mardolkar
Rahul Paul
Oranje Oranje
Vivek karthikeyan
Supriya Agarwal
Arun Warrier
Abhimanyu Sanghi
Pallavi Roy
Narayanan Venkataraman
Manish Achuta
raghu Gopalan
Ashish Agarwal
Deepak Karamungikar
Jitaditya Narzary
Dipankar Goswami
Venkatesh S
Ravi Ramakanth
Dipankar Sarkar

Question Of The Day: 12th June, 2006

Anyway let's kick off this new season with what else, but a soccer question:) What unqiue distinction do these three players have in the history of the World Cup Tournament?

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And The Correct Ans. Is

They are the only footballers to have scored a penalty goal in a world cup final