Posted in Uncategorized on August 31, 2009 | 7 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on August 30, 2009 | 7 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on August 30, 2009 | 6 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on August 29, 2009 | 9 Comments »
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 .
Posted in Uncategorized on August 27, 2009 | 8 Comments »
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 , [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on August 26, 2009 | 9 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on August 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on August 25, 2009 | 8 Comments »
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 ( [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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.
Posted in Uncategorized on August 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
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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