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Monthly Archive for August, 2009

Daily Question #310

Identify who is being ravished by this amorous lady. The fortunate man in the picture is Daniel Craig as James Bond in Casino Royale. Nishanth Raman, Abhi, abhijeet and a female with an eye on Mr. Bond for “a looooooong time” (Jyothi ) got it right. Appu went after another fictional hunk.

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Daily Question # 309

Today’s  question , once  again , comes  from  Hrishi . Arbitrary  album  by  arbitrary  musician. Therefore, merely  name  the  musician’s  father. The  album  is  ‘Imaginary  Kingdom’  by  Peter  Buffet , son  of  Warren  Buffet . Cracked  by  a  host  of  NSITians – Debasish , Udit , Sharat  and  non-NSITians  as  well – V  Chandrasekhar , [...]

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Daily Question # 308

Hrishi  is  back  with  this  lovely  question . Why  would  it  be  ironic  if  statue-man  read  the  most  famous  book  of  baldy  and  dismiss  it  as  pure  fiction? Quoting  Arun  Hiregange , “Morgan Robertson  wrote  the  prescient  novel  Futility, about  an  enormous  British  passenger  liner  called  the  Titan, which  was  deemed  to  be  unsinkable . [...]

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Daily Question # 307

Connect . The  connect – CALICO Calico  takes  its  name  from  Calicut ( B ) , and  the  US  Secret  Service  Codename  of  The  Pentagon  ( A ) is  Calico . Goes  uncracked !

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Daily Question # 306

Simple . Who  as  who ? Quoting  Comfortably  and  Technically  Dumb , “Ariel  Sharon  as  Saturn (eating  palestinian  kids- cartoon, parodying  Fransisco  Goya’s  painting  Saturn  devouring  his  son, by  Dave  Brown)” Cracked  by  Debasish , Arun  Hiregange , Manjith , Anil  Raghavan , raklodramA , Kadamatthathu  Kattanar , Comfortably  and  Technically  Dumb , Abhijeet , [...]

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Daily Question # 305

Who  is  he ? What  is  he  doing ? Jean  Michael  Jarre  playing  the  Laser  Harp . Cracked  by  Debasish , Kaustuba , Sachin  Iyer , Abhishek , Anil  Raghavan , Deepthi  Mani , Arun  Hiregange , Abhijeet , Kamal  Rathi , Abhi , Hrishikesh  Varma  and  Rithwik .

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Daily Question # 304

Today’s  question  comes  from  Kaustuba . Find  the  new  set  on  his  blog  here . Identify  both  and  establish  a  connection . [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHzyD2h9lso] The video shows Yannick Noah singing Saga Africa. He is the last French male player to have won the French Open. Post retirement he made a career in music. The photograph is [...]

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Daily Question # 303

What  is  this  contraption ? The  first  ever  ECG  machine . Cracked  by  Kutti  Mash , Hrishikesh  Varma , Debasish , Abhijeet , Deepthi  Mani , Anil  Raghavan , Aditya  Venkataraman , Rihwik , Subin , Kaustuba , Chaitra , Arun  Hiregange , Kamal  Rathi  and  Bobby .

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Daily Question # 302

What’s  happening  here ? The  Troll  A  offshore  natural  gas  platform  in  the  North  Sea  is  the  tallest  man-made  structure  that  has  ever  been  moved  to  another  position , relative  to  the  surface  of  the   earth . The  Troll  platform  was  towed  over  200  km  from  Vats , in  the  northern  part  of   the  [...]

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Daily Question # 301

The  common  belief  is  that  IT  takes  its  origin  from  a  town  in  the  province  shown  in  A . But , actually , IT  is  derived  from  the  person  on  whom  the  lead  role  of   the  very  famous  opera  B  is  based . What  is  IT ? Quoting  a  joint  presentation , “Although  citizens  of  [...]

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