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Monthly Archive for August, 2009

Daily Question # 300

In  which  job  would  one  possibly  find  a  use  for  the  following ?

The  Italian  Job . The  getaway  sequence  in  the  movie , to  be  more  precise .
In  the  1969  version , after  stealing  the  gold , the  minis  race  through  the  Museo  Egizio ( A ) , Via  Roma ( B ) [...]

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Daily Question # 299

Today’s  question  comes  from  Vikas . His  blog  is  back  after  a  hiatus . Find  it  here .
What  achievement  connects  these  masters ?

Sam  Snead ( A ) , Jack  Burke  Jr. ( B )  and  Zach  Johnson ( C ) hold  the  record  for  the  highest  winning  score  of  289 ( +1 )  at  the  [...]

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Daily Question # 298

Which  ‘festival’  that  began  in  the  1940s  could  one  possibly  connect  this  person  to ?

The  town  of  Karlovy  Vary  in  Czech  Republic  gets  its  name  from  Holy  Roman  Emperor  Charles  IV ( the  guy  in  the  pic ) . The  town  is  known the  world  over  for  a  variety  of  reasons , the  most  important  [...]

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“I know what you’re thinking. “Did he fire six shots or only five?” Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to [...]

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End of the WWkW

“All good things  must come to an end”
So must all the whacky things. Hope you’ve enjoyed the quiz and sent it in your answers. We’ll be putting out the answers later today, and we’ll try to add up the answers as well, but no guarantees on the latter.
Till then, have a  go at our daily question.
Regards,
Capitaine and The Big Fat Panda

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Daily Question # 297

Identify both the visuals and ‘establish’ a connection.

Quoting  Kaustuba ,
“Second Picture is a poster of the movie Lolita (1962 version).
In the story, the protagonist Humber Humbert hires a former tennis legend to coach Lolita knowing the fact that since he is a homosexual he wouldn’t bother her.
Vladimir Nabokov, writer of the novel, apparently based this [...]

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The Wiki-Whacki-kWiz

Hello.
Here you have it, the Wiki Whacki kWiz right where we said it would be.
No general rules besides:
1. The Quizmasters are always right.
2. When in doubt, read Rule No.1
That’s all, folks!
And as the MTV voice, enjoy…
PS: You might want to leave the answers as comments, or mail them to captain.chandrakant@gmail.com or swordthatwasbroken@gmail.com
Hello.
Here you [...]

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Daily Question # 296

Today’s  question  comes  from  Kaustuba  Venugopal .
Connect  the  two  photographs  to  an  iconic  scene  from  a  movie .
A  is  Francis  Bacon’s  “Three  Studies  for  Figures  at  the  Base  of  a  Crucifixion” and  B  is  H R  Giger , the  man  behind  the  art/look  of  the  Aliens  in  the  Alien  movie  franchise . The  Chestburster  Scene [...]

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Daily Question # 295

What  is  the  Indian  connection ?
Quoting  Arun  Hiregange ,
“The  winning  directors  when  Indian  movies  were  nominated  for  Best  Foreign  Picture  Oscar: Federico  Fellini’s( A )  The Nights of  Cabiria (Italy), Bille  August’s ( B ) Pelle  the  Conqueror (Denmark) and  Danis Tanovic’s  ( C ) No Man’s Land (Bosnia-Herzegovina)”
Cracked  by  Arun  Hiregange , Kamal  Rathi [...]

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The Wiki-Whacki-kWiz

“Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.”
-Margo Channing (Bette Davis), All About Eve (1950)

You’re right, suckers. It’s another announcement alright, but no, not a harbinger of doom. Yet.

However, since the blog has been going on smoothly for some time now and since we are fast approaching 300 posts, we feel its [...]

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