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Monthly Archive for March, 2009

Daily Question # 162

Whose  statue ? Where ?

The  statue  of  John  Wayne  at  the  John  Wayne  Airport  in  Orange  County , California .
Cracked  by  Incognito , Johny  Walker , Deepu , Alok , Nishanth  Raman , Vishnu , Navpreet  Singh , Painkiller , Jyothi  and  Rohit  Pisharoty .

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Daily Question # 161

If  the  process  of   creating  of  a  particular  group  of  chemicals ( an  example  of  which  is  illustrated  in  A )  is  2nd   and  B  is  3rd , then  what  is  1st ?
A  shows  the  Bayer’s  process  of  manufacturing  Alumina , which  chemically  is  a  Sesquioxide . The  process  of  creating  a  Sesquioxide , [...]

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Daily Question # 160

Thanks  to  A , the  lady  in  B  became  the  first  to  do  something . What  ?
Quoting  Shrey  Goyal ,
” Rohini Hattangadi (B) is the first woman to act in the Karnataka dance drama form of ‘Yakshagana’, typically reserved for males, in a folk play titled ‘Bhisma Vijay’, directed by Dr. K. Shivaram Karanth (A) [...]

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Daily Question # 159

What  connects ?
A – Snap  of  US  Airways  flight  1549  which  landed  in  the  Hudson  River  in  NYC  earlier  this  year  due  to  technical  snags  as  a  result  of  bird  strikes
B – Snap  sent  by  the  Phoenix  Mars  Lander  to  NASA  which  established  the  presence  of   water  on  Mars ( lower  left  corner  shows  ice  [...]

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Daily Question # 158

What  is  unique  about  the  geographical  feature  indicated  by  the  arrow ?

The  answer  that  I  was  looking  for  -  Lake  Manitou  on  the  Manitou  Island  in  Lake  Huron  is  the  “Largest  Lake  in  a  Lake”  in  the  world . However , it  also  happens  to  be  largest  lake  in  the  world  on  a  freshwater  island [...]

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Daily Question # 157

A  was  the  first  sitting  member  of  the  US  senate  to  do  it  and  B  was  the  second . Who  was  3rd ?
Senators  Jake  Garn ( A )  and  Bill  Nelson ( B )  were  the  first  and  second  sitting  members  of  the  US  Congress  in  space . The  third  one , therefore , was  [...]

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Daily Question # 156

Connect .
Quoting  Navpreet  Singh ,
“Connection – Skylon
A – Skylon Tower, London UK
B – Skylon Tower, Ontario
A – The Skylon was a futuristic-looking, slender, vertical, cigar-shaped steel tensegrity structure located by the Thames in London, that apparently floated above the ground, built in 1951 for the Festival of Britain. Skylon was scrapped in 1952 on the [...]

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Daily Question # 155

Today’s  question  is  framed  on  an  idea  sent  by  the  Big  Fat  Panda , whose  lesser  known  name  happens  to  be  Hrishikesh  Varma .
What’s  the  connect ?
Clue – Carly  Simon  and  Shapiro  gone  MAD would  surely  like  the  connection
A – Henry  Morton  Stanley
B – Homer  Simpson
C – David  Hicks
D – Michael  Johnson
E – [...]

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Daily Question # 154

It  was  initially  A . It  became  X  after  a  concert  by  B .
Solve  for  A , B  and  X .
Quoting  Navpreet  Singh ,
“A – Mookie Blaylock
B – Neil Young
X – Pearl Jam
The band ‘Mookie Blaylock’ named after the former NBA All-Star player, had to change their name due to trademark issues, and they had [...]

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Daily Question # 153

Identify  this  award  from  the  field  of  movies .

The  Goya  Award , the  national  film  award  of  Spain ,which  actually  is  a  bust  of  Fransisco  Goya .
Cracked  by  Navpreet  Singh , Jyothi , Moid  Siddiqui , Arun  Hiregange , Rohit  Pisharoty , Anil  Raghavan  and  Jubair .

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