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Archive for March, 2009

Daily Question # 171

Find  the  Answers  and  Scores  for  The  4th  Monthly  Set  here .
A , B , C , D  and  E  constitute  a  group  F .
Solve  for  A – F .
G  may  be  taken  as  a  clue .
Stephen  Hawking ( A ) [ snap  from  his  younger  days ] , Nichelle  Nichols ( B ) [...]

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Daily Question # 170

Scores  have  been  updated . Congrats  to  Deepu  for  becoming  the  first  person  to  score  100  points  on  the  blog . Take  a  bow , buddy !
The  Monthly  Set – 4  closes  tomorrow . Find  it  here and  send  in  your  attempts  before  midnight  tomorrow.
What  world  record  is  held  by  this  gentleman ?

Ashrita  Furman , [...]

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Daily Question # 169

Identify the  people  in  A  and connect  with B .
Actress  Hedy  Lamarr  and  avant-garde  composer  George  Antheil  ( the  people  in  A ) are  credited  with  the  invention  of  an  early  form  of   the  Speed  Spectrum  Communications  Technology ( B ) and  was  one  of  the  most  celebrated  inventions  of  Frequency  Hopping .
Cracked  by  [...]

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Daily Question # 168

The  monthly  set  closes  in  2  days  time . Find  it  here and  send  in  your  attempts  asap .
Simply connect these 3 .
Quoting  Abhishek ,
“A -  Theodor Seuss Geisel , American writer and cartoonist, most widely known for his children’s books written under his pen name, Dr. Seuss.
B – 10 Turtles Tall Statue
C -  [...]

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Daily Question # 167

This time a sitter.
Connect the writer A  to  B  and  C .
Quoting  Navpreet ,
“A – Dorothy Parker
B – Martin Luther King, Jr.
C – Lillian Hellman
In her will, Parker bequeathed her estate to the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. foundation. Following King’s death, her estate was passed on to the NAACP. Her executrix, Lillian Hellman, bitterly [...]

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Daily Question # 166

A  was  B’s  alter-ego . B  went  on  to  name  C  after  A .
Solve  for  A-C .
A – Rrose  Selavy
B – Marcel  Duchamp
C – “ Why  not  sneeze , Rrose  Selavy? “
Cracked  by  Abhra  Das , Debasish , Dinesh , Painkiller , Anil  Raghavan , Deepu , Navpreet  Singh and  Ajay  Parasuraman . Half  credits  [...]

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Daily Question # 165

Toppers , all  of  them . What  do  they  top ?
Artemis  Fowl ( A ) , Holly ( B ) , Hulk ( C )  and  Jimmy  Neutron ( D ) – All  are  fictional  characters  with  the  highest  IQ  levels  in  various  media – Literature , TV , Comics  and  Movies  respectively  in  this  [...]

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Daily Question # 164

B  shows  a  modern  reconstruction  of  A . What  is  A ?
 
Quoting   Deepu ,
” A-The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient mechanical calculator ,also described as the first known mechanical computer, designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was discovered in the Antikythera wreck off the Greek island of Antikythera, between Kythera and Crete, in 1901.
B-Reconstruction of [...]

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Daily Question # 163

Still from ?

“Ghajini – The  Game” , which  is  India’s  first  ever  3D  PC  game .
Cracked  by Abhishek , Deepu , Sandeep , Johny  Walker , Shrey  Gupta , Rohit  Pisharoty  and  Jyothi .

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The Monthly Set

Presenting  The  Monthly  Set – 4 .
Find  it  here.

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