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Monthly Archive for November, 2009

Daily Question # 406

Ad  for ?
Star  Wars  Episode  III ( as  indicated  by  the  3  lightsabers )
Cracked  by  Freestyler , Rachit  Agarwal , Arun  Hiregange , Rithwik , Subin , Ameen , Anil  Raghavan , Malcaluffin , Arun , Abhijeet , Bobby , Yadhu , Comfortably and Technically Dumb , Hadi  and  Chithananda.

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Daily Question # 405

2  questions  for  the  day .
No. 1 – Connect  the  2  ladies .
No. 2 – Lady  B  is  the  first  Indian  to  ’achieve’  something. What ?
A  is  Margaret  Nolan  who  performed  in  the  title  sequence  of Goldfinger. B  is  Katy  Mirza  who  performed  in  the  title  sequence  of  Shaan which  was  inspired  by  Goldfinger. Katy [...]

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Daily Question # 404

Name  the  author  of  the  book(s)  displayed  by  the  astronauts  of  this appropriately  named  mission .

 
Original  Jules  Verne  manuscripts  delivered  by  the  crew  of   Automated Transfer Vehicle 001  called , you  guessed  it , Jules  Verne .
Cracked  by  Manjith , Arun  Hiregange , Subin , Rithwik , Ajay C Anto ,    Anagh , [...]

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Daily Question # 403

What  was  the  occasion ? And  the  inspiration for  this  look ?

The  Angela  Merkel  series  of    dolls  released  to  celebrate  Barbie  turning  50.
Cracked  by  Freestyler , Arun  Hiregange , Nishanth  Raman , Subin ,Rithwik , Hadi , Arun , Debasish , Comfortably and Technically Dumb , Sai Ganesh , Q Factor ( minus  Rithwik [...]

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Daily Question # 402

X  connects  A  and  B . X  was  also  the  reason  why  A  and  B  got disconnected .
Solve  for  A , B  and  X .
 
Quoting  Appu ,
“James McNeill Whistler’s (A) lover and model for The White Girl , Joanna Hiffernan (X), also posed for Gustave Courbet (B). Historians speculate that Courbet’s erotic painting of her [...]

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Daily Question # 401

Which  iconic  image  replaced  the  one  featured  below ?

This  painting  by  The  Fool was  the  original  cover  design  for Sgt.Pepper’s  Lonely  Hearts  Club  Band . The  idea  was  later  rejected  and British  pop  ( culture ) artist  Peter  Blake  in  collaboration  with  his  wife created  the present  cover  collage .
Cracked  by  Freestyler , Arun , [...]

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Daily Question # 400

And  we’ve  done  a  Brian  Lara  here !!
Who’s  missing ?
Victor  Trumper ( A ) , Charles  McCartney ( B ) , Majid  Khan ( C ) and Don  Bradman ( missing  one )  are  the  only  players  to  have  scored  a  century  in  the  opening  session  of  a  Test  Match .
Uncracked .

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Daily Question # 399

What/who  connects  A  to  B , C  and  D ?
 
The  names  of  the  characters  in  Matthew  Reilly’s ( A )  ’Scarecrow‘ ( who , in fact ,  is  Capt  Shane  Schofield ) are  inspired  by  St. Aloysius – B ( the character  of  Aloysius  Knight ) , L’Oreal  heiress  Liliane  Bettencourt – C     [...]

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Daily Question # 398

Who is  she ? What’s  she  pointing  at ?

 
Lena  Soderberg  pointing  at  ’Lenna‘ , a  cropped  image  of  her  playboy  centerfold ,  the  most  widely  used  test  image  for  all   image  processing  algorithms .
Cracked  by  Nishanth  Raman , Rithwik , Debasish , Shrey  Goyal , Manjith , Arun , Arun  Hiregange , Comfortably and [...]

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Daily Question # 397

Clue ( a  PJ , to  be  frank ) added  for  Q  No. 396 . Give  it  another  shot , all  of  you .
What’s  the  good  connect ?
Quoting  Appu ,
“Among numerous musicians who have, in full or in part, borrowed or sampled from Ennio Morricone’s ( A ) ‘Good,  Bad and Ugly‘ Theme [...]

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