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Monthly Archive for September, 2009

Daily Question # 349

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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Daily Question # 348

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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Daily Question # 347

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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Daily Question # 346

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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Daily Question # 345

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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Daily Question # 344

Whose statue?
Leonidas  of  Sparta .
Uncracked .

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Daily Question # 343

Find  the  Monthly  Set – 10  here .
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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Daily Question # 342

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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Daily Question # 341

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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Daily Question # 340

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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