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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 [...]

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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  [...]

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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  [...]

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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 , [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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