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Monthly Archive for June, 2009

Daily Question # 248

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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Daily Question # 247

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 features an image [...]

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Daily Question # 246

Another  easy  one .
Connect .
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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  episode  ”Descent , Part  [...]

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Daily Question # 245

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  Indian  connection [...]

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Daily Question # 244

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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Daily Question # 243

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 , Deepthi  Mani , Incognito , Arun  Hiregange  [...]

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Daily Question # 242

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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Daily Question # 241

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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Daily Question # 240

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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Daily Question # 239

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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