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Monthly Archive for October, 2008

Daily Question # 8

The advertisement A led to the formation of X . X had a 106 year old history of not doing something. However , this history was altered in 2006 by B . Identify X and B . This  1899  ad  inviting  players  to  form  a  football  club  led  to the  birth  of  FC Barcelona . [...]

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Daily Question # 7

Today’s question comes from the very charismatic Hrishikesh Varma. C and D made news on the same day as A and B for the same issue , but never got the same limelight . Identify all . The controversial Norma McCorvey aka ‘Jane Roe’ (A) vs US attorney Henry Wade (B) case resulted in the [...]

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Daily Question # 6

Today’s question comes from Anto Samson . Identify and put funda . Google, on the occasion of their 10th anniversary ,have come out with the oldest available archive of the company’s search index (from 2001) .This is what Google looked like circa 2001. Check out what results Google yielded back then here . Cracked (partially) [...]

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Daily Question # 5

Bird’s Eye View of What? India’s first and only submarine museum (formerly INS Kursura) at Vizag . Cracked by Immigrant Kitchen , Aravind, Anirudh and Dr Naveen .

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Daily Question # 4

A resulted in a landmark event in 1902 . B shows a clearer version of the subject of A . This event resulted in the present coat of arms and motto of a nation . The coat of arms underwent minor variations but has remained the same ever since 1946 . C shows the coat [...]

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Daily Question # 3

On Feb 7 , 1910 , the ‘Prince of Abyssinia and his delegation’ visited the British naval vessel HMS Dreadnought . The following image was clicked while on board . Just identify the bearded figure on the extreme left . The  bearded  figure  is  VIRGINIA  WOOLF . This  was  a  hoax  which  was  pulled  off  [...]

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Daily Question # 2

Today’s question comes from Arun AS . Connect : Avira (A) utilises the scan engine known as “Luke Filewalker” for its antivirus applications . This name was borrowed from the Star Wars character Luke Skywalker . Mark Hamill (B) played the role of Luke Skywalker in Star Wars episodes IV – VI . Cracked by [...]

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Daily Question # 1

A is a 1955 film by B and was originally titled as Kvinnodrom . 35 years later , another movie was made with the same name . In this movie , C was famously portrayed on screen by D . Identify A , B , C and D . Dreams (A)  by  Ingmar  Bergman (B)  [...]

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