Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 30th, 2009
Last day to attempt the Monthly . Find it here .
Question from the BFP .
Person in question is seen standing with his daughter-in-law and grandson. His epitaph reads “Greatest of Arabian Explorers”. His son’s infamy far eclipses his own. Id the dad-son pair.
St.John Philby and Kim Philby .
Cracked by Freestyler , Manjith , Anil Raghavan [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 29th, 2009
Find the Monthly Set – 10 here . Send in your attempts asap .
Connect .
The connect – George du Maurier’s Trilby .
Clara Kimball Young ( A ) was one of the first actresses to portray the role of Trilby ; the novel has a character who was inspired by James McNeill Whistler ( B ) [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 28th, 2009
Couple of days left before the Monthly set closes attempt . Find it here .
What’s happening here ?
Domino’s setting the record for the furthest food delivery . See Edward’s comment for details .
Cracked by Freestyler , Edward , Arun , Arun Hiregange , Siddharth Jain , CATD , Abhishek , Deepthi Mani and Rithwik .
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Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 27th, 2009
Find the Monthly set for September here .
Which Bollywood song connects these Englishmen ?
Quoting CATD ,
“My name is Anthony Gonzalves – The opening line, “sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity”, that is spoken by Anthony when he emerges from the easter egg, is an almost exact quotation from a speech in [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 26th, 2009
Find MS – 10 here .
Ok . Once again , ive got 2 questions for you guys .
No. 1 – Why is there a white line on the spacecraft in A ?
No. 2 – Connect the spacecraft / the chap entering the spacecraft to B .
A shows Gus Grissom , the 2nd American to fly [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 26th, 2009
Whose statue?
Leonidas of Sparta .
Uncracked .
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Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 24th, 2009
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Simple one . What is this ?
This is the Umemployment Benefit Form 40 issued by the UK Govt’s department of health and social security after which the very popular UB40 is named .
Cracked by Comfortably & technically Dumb , Manjith , Debasish , Freestyler , Anil Raghavan , [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 23rd, 2009
Find the Monthly Set – 10 here .
Connect !
The connect – Geronimo
‘Geronimo !’ is an exclamation used by anyone jumping from a great height . It is attributed to Private Aubrey Eberhardt , a US Army paratrooper . His platoon was the first to test the then recently adopted parachute . On the eve of [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 22nd, 2009
Connect .
The connect – Bhangmeter
Bhangmeters are photometers used on spy satellites to detect atmospheric nuclear detonations . The name is derived from Bhang ( which is in turn derived from Cannabis – A ) , which Fred Staines , a scientist working on the project , bestowed upon it assuming that someone must be [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 21st, 2009
This American stadium has a very apt name . It also has a very apt nickname . Gimme both .
This is the Mile High Stadium in Denver , named so cos Denver is exactly a mile above sea level . The nickname I was looking for is ‘The Diaphragm’ ( the female contraceptive ie ) [...]
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