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Monthly Archive for August, 2009

Daily Question # 319

Find  the  Monthly  Set – 9  here .
Which  ‘record-breaking’  event  connects ?

P.S . – The  question  may  not  be  suitable  for  minors
Porno  actress  Annabel  Chong ( A )  is  famous  for  her   251  sex  acts  with  about  70  men  over  a  ten-hour  period, setting  world  record  in  the  process  in  1995  and  the  [...]

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Daily Question # 318

Find  the  Monthly  Set – 9  here .
What  precedent  was  set  during  the  incident  depicted  below ?

The  painting  depicts  the  wreck  of  the  British  Naval  ship  HMS  Birkenhead  in  1852 . There  weren’t  enough  lifeboats  and  the  soldiers  on-board  stood  firm , allowing  the  women  and  children  to  board  the  boats  first . This  gave  [...]

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Daily Question # 317

Artist  A’s   famous  painting  B  inspired  the  writer  C  to  publish  his  masterpiece  D .
Solve  for  A-D .
Nicolas  Poussin’s  ( A )  ‘A  Dance  to  the  Music  of  Time’ ( B ) inspired  Anthony  Powell’s ( C )  series  of  books  of  the  same  name ( D ) .
Rithwik , Arun  Hiregange , Ob [...]

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Daily Question # 316

His contribution to cricket?

Vinoo  Mankad , of  the  ‘Mankading‘ (in)fame , among  many  other  things .
Cracked  by  Manjith , Anil  Raghavan , Arun  Hiregange , Rithwik , Kaustuba , Kamal  Rathi , Abhijeet  and  Kutti  Mash .

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Daily Question # 315

Find  the  Monthly  Set – 9  here .
Connect .

Lackadaisical  attitude  of  the  BSNL  chaps  here  in  NE  keeps  my  internet  connection  in  suspended  animation  every  second  day . Apologies  to  everyone  for  the  delay .
Pic  A  shows  Victor  Hasselblad , the  man  behind  the  Swedish  company  Hasselblad  Cameras . In  1966 , Michael  Collins , [...]

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Daily Question # 314

Find  the  Monthly  Set-9  here .
All  of  them  were  targets / intended  targets . What  was  their  ‘devilish’  crime ?

All  of  them  translated/published  Salman Rushdie’s  ‘Satanic  Verses’  into  various  languages .
Hitoshi  Igarashi ( A ) , the  Japanese  translator  was  stabbed  to  death , William  Nygaard ( B ) , the  Norwegian  publisher  survived  an  [...]

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The Monthly Set – 9

We  are  back  with  the  monthly  set  for  the  month  of  August .
The  set  is  open  till  the  5th  of  September .
As  usual , we  have  2  sections  with  10  questions  each  and  each  question  scoring  one  point .
Section  A  is  a  simple  visual  round  and  section  B  is  a  theme/connect  round . The  links  [...]

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Daily Question # 313

Issues  in  the  north  east  have  been  sorted  out
Who  were  their  male  counterparts ?

Richard  Gere , George  Clooney  and  LeBron  James  are  the  only  men  to  have  featured  on  the  cover  of  Vogue . Gere  appeared  alongside  Cindy  Crawford ( A )  while  George  Clooney  and  LeBron  James  both  had  Gisele  Bundchen ( [...]

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Daily Question #312

Connect.

The two people featured above are Emil Jannings and Neil Diamond. Jannings won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in the year 1929. Neil Diamond was also the first actor to win something: the first ever Razzie for the Worst Actor, in 1980.
Goes uncracked.

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Daily Question #311

By what honorific title is this man referred to at Google Inc.?

This is Google employee Matt Cutts, who, quoting Appu, “earned the nickname “porn cookie guy” for giving his wife’s homemade cookies to any Googler who provided an example of unwanted pornography in the search results.”
So the answer would be Porn Cookie Guy.
Appu and Comfortably [...]

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