Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 11th, 2009
Who connects ? Quoting Deepu , ” Alfred Russel Wallace,who is best known for independently proposing a theory of natural selection which prompted Charles Darwin to publish his own theory. A-Wallacea Region named after Wallace B-Logo of Operation Wallacea , an international conservation agency that operates volunteer-led , scientific , wildlife conservation expeditions , once [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 11th, 2009
Just connect . Einstein on the Beach ( A ) , Satyagraha ( B ) and Akhnaten ( C ) constitute the Portrait opera trilogy by Philip Glass . Cracked by Jyothi , Navpreet Singh , Anil Raghavan , Deepu , Linu , Moid Siddiqui , Jubair , Sumo , Johny Walker and Omkar .
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 10th, 2009
Celebration time ! The blog has huffed and puffed its way to couple of landmarks today – 150 posts and 50,000 hits . Thanks and congratulations to everyone involved . Find today’s question here .
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 8th, 2009
Where would one find this painting ? The painting shows Tipu Sultan’s army fighting the British and achieving a famous victory thanks to the rocket brigades , which probably is the first ever example of rocket warfare . The painting hangs in the lobby of the Wallops Flight Facility of NASA . It was this [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 7th, 2009
A is the only male who qualifies as a true B . Solve for A – B . American singer Michael Maniaci ( A ) is considered to be the only real male Soprano . B shows the cast of the very famous TV show ‘ The Sopranos ‘ . Cracked by Debasish , [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 6th, 2009
A is a parody of a legendary artwork X by the characters of a famous TV show . B is a still from a chartbuster song and is , once again , inspired by X . Identify X . X – ” Daybreak “ by Maxfield Parrish A is a sesame street parody of the [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 5th, 2009
Just identify this waterfall in Uttarakhand . B is a German author in news and maybe taken as a clue to work out the name of the waterfall . The Kate Winslet Waterfall in Rishikesh ; named so because she took a bath in the fall during her trip to India in 1998 during [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 4th, 2009
Identify all and connect . Blaise Pascal ( A ) , Gustav Eiffel ( B ) , Monty Python ( C ) , Delphi ( D ) and famous mathematician Kurt Godel ( E ) – All of them have programming languages named after them . Cracked by Sumo , Dinesh , Varun Shenoy , [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 3rd, 2009
What dubious distinction connects these cricketers ? Also identify D ( not pictured ) who may or may not be considered part of this list . Mudassar Nazar ( A ) , Brendon Kuruppu ( B ) and Hanif Mohammad ( C ) have scored the slowest ever 100 , 200 and 300 respectively in [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 2nd, 2009
Connect ( Not an exhaustive list ) . All of them feature NBA players in a full / cameo role . Game of Death ( A ) — Kareem Abdul Jabbar Conan the Destroyer ( B ) — Wilt Chamberlain Double Team ( C ) — Dennis Rodman He Got Game ( D ) — [...]
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