Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 19th, 2009
Connect . James Stewart ( A ) , Kirk Douglas ( B ) , Gene Autry ( C ) and Gregory Peck ( D ) are the only people whose Hollywood Walk of Fame stars have been stolen . Cracked by Nishanth Raman , Varun , Anil Raghavan , Kamal Rathi and Rithwik .
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 18th, 2009
It features an A and has become a symbol of B’s style . What ? Quoting Rithwik , “The famous “Gonzo fist”, originally used by Hunter S. Thompson (B) in his 1970 campaign for sheriff of Aspen, Colorado. The fist has become a symbol of Thompson and Gonzo journalism as a whole and it also [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 17th, 2009
Another easy one . Connect . [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoDmX8EdVBQ] Cameos by Stephen Hawking . The Pink Floyd song “Keep Talking” from Division Bell features his actual synthesiser voice in the beginning and the end . Hawking is also the only person to play himself in a Star Trek episode . The visual is from the Star Trek [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 16th, 2009
Easy one for the day . Connect ( Not exhaustive ) . A – LG Black Label series , B – Nantie Hayward , C – Sandpiper , D – Cobra and E – Kingfisher . Black Label ( Kalyani ) , Hayward’s , Sandpiper , Cobra and Kingfisher are all beer brands with an [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 15th, 2009
How has she been immortalised in the world of medicine ? The lady in the pic is L’Inconnue de la Seine ( french for ‘the unknown woman of the Seine’ ) , who was an unidentified young woman who drowned in the Seine in the late 1880s . The face of Resusci Anne / [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 15th, 2009
Today’s question comes from Rithwik . A and B served as inspirations for X . Solve for A , B and X . Quoting Abhi , “A: Donald E. Westlake B: Bachman-Turner Overdrive, or BTO. Stephen king took his pseudonym, Richard Bachman, from Donald’s pseudonym (Richard Stark) and the band name” Cracked by Abhi , [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 14th, 2009
Connect and Explain. The connect – Abraham Lincoln’s assassination . A – Mary Todd Lincoln , B – Ford’s theatre where Lincoln was assassinated and C – John T Ford , the theatre manager after whom the theatre in the question was named . Full credits to Rithwik and Johny Walker .
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 12th, 2009
Whose statue ? Roy O Disney . Cracked by Rithwik , The Editor , Siddharth Jain , Anderson Council , Johny Walker , Deepthi Mani , Shijil , Ajay Parasuraman , Hadi , Kamal Rathi , Incognito and Sandipan Chakravarty .
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 11th, 2009
Claim to fame of this sports person? Ilie Nastase , the first ever ATP no. 1 . Cracked by Arun Hiregange , Hrishikesh Varma , Anil Raghavan , Rithwik and Puzzleshooter .
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 10th, 2009
The longer one ended with A and the shorter one ended with B . What ? The ‘Think Different’ ads by Apple . Cracked by Shrey Goyal , Arun AS , Ajay Parasuraman and Rithwik .
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