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Monthly Archive for March, 2010

Daily Question # 509

Connect .
Quoting  Appu ,
” The  Connect – Places  named  after  Saint  Ursula  and  the  11,000  virgins .
A – Cabo Virgenes, named by Ferdinand Magellen because he reached it on 21st Oct, the feast day of Saint Ursula and the 11,000 virgins.
B – Virgin Islands, named by Christopher Columbus as Santa Ursula y las Once Mil [...]

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Daily Question # 508

Today’s  question  comes  from  Prasanth  John .
Just  connect .

Quoting  Frank  Anthony ( via  Facebook ) ,
“Gerard Butler ( A ) acted in Ps. I love you – a film adaption of the novel by the same name written by Cecilia Ahern daughter of  Bertie Ahern ( B ) (Former Irish Government Head) . His other [...]

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Daily Question # 507

Today’s  question , once  again , comes  from  Mr.AAS . If  you  have  a  question  you  would  like  to  feature  on  this  blog , mail  it  to  captain.chandrakant@gmail.com .
All  legitimate  claimants  for  what ?

Quoting  Appu ,
“The three players with legitimate claims to be the first African American basketball player in the NBA. Each satisfied a [...]

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Daily Question # 506

Today’s  question  comes  from  Arun  AS , known  by  the  moniker  AAS  in  quizzing  circles
Connect .
Mark  Shuttleworth ( A ) , Guido  van  Rossum ( B ) , Patrick  Volkerding ( C ) , Larry  Wall ( D )  and  Adrian  Holovaty ( E )  have  all  been  referred  to  as  Benevolent  Dictator  [...]

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Daily Question # 505

Colourful ?  Or  an  eerie  monster ? You  decide .

This  is  Bessie , the  bronze  statuette  awarded  to  the  winner  of  the  Orange Prize  for  fiction . [ The  eerie  monster  clue  being a  reference  to Bessie , the Lake  Erie  monster ] .
Uncracked , yet  again .

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Daily Question # 504

Connect ( or  contrast ) .

Screeching  Weasel’s ( B ) album  title   ‘How  to  make  enemies  and  irritate  people’ was  a  parody  of  Dale  Carnegie’s  ’How  to  win  friends  and  Influence  People’ ( A ) .
Uncracked . Everyone  went  for  the  wrong  parody .

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Answers and Scores – 500

THE  SCORES
1. Arun  Hiregange – 6
2. Jyothi – 5
3. Ayush  Jain – 5
4. Yadhu – 4
5. Dr  Vijaynath – 4
6. Rithwik – 4
7. Venkataramana – 4
8. Prasanth – 4
9. Sophie – 3
10. Monu – 3
11. Rajith  Ravi – 3
12. Manjith – 2
13. Nishanth  Raman – 2
14. Nihar – 2
Find  the  answers  here .

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Daily Question # 503

May  peace  be  upon  him . What  is  he  holding ?

Quoting  Nishanth  Raman ,
“Peace for our time – Neville Chamberlain showing the piece of paper upon which the Munich agreement of 1938 b/w UK and Nazi Germany was agreed upon”
Cracked  by  Rajith Ravi , Ayush  Jain , Appu , Nishanth  Raman , V  Chandrasekhar , [...]

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Daily Question # 502

What  are  those  structures  you  see  in  the  sea  and  on  the  beach ?

Mulberry  Harbours used  during  Operation  Overlord .
Manjith  was  the  only  one  who  had  a  safe  landing . I  shall  give  to  Appu  and  Compulsive  Dabbler  as  well .

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Daily Question # 501

Which  event ?

Quoting  Abhijeet ,
“Michael Johnson vs Donovan Bailey at Toronto’s SkyDome in 1997.
Though Bailey was the 100m champion,Johnson was considered to be the world’s fastest man.Earlier in the spring of 1997, Johnson began performing television promotions in which he billed himself as “the world’s fastest man” as a result of his 200 meters world [...]

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