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Monthly Archive for June, 2010

Daily Question # 575

Find  the  Monthly  Set – 13  here . With  this  question , we  windoup  our  World  Cup  Special . Viva  La Albiceleste !! Connect . Quoting  Appu , “The Battle of Nuremberg is the nickname (after the 1632 Siege of Nuremberg-B) of a football match played in the 2006 FIFA World Cup between Portugal and [...]

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Daily Question # 574

The  last  couple  of  questions  from  our  World  Cup  Special  coming  your way . Connect . A – Telly  Savalas , of  Kojak fame . B – The  2002  World  Cup  Final  between  Brazil  and  Germany . The  connect – Pierluigi  Collina . He  is  nicknamed  Kojak because  of  his  distinctive  look , and  officiated [...]

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The Monthly Set – 13

Finally , its  back ! Blame  worldly-pleasures-induced-laziness , work-induced-sleepiness  and  a host  of  other  reasons  for  the  monthly  being  on   hiatus  for  the  past couple of  months . The  rules  remain  the  same , only  that  its  bigger  and  better  this  time  out ! A  maximum  of  30  points  to  be  scored  from  2 [...]

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Daily Question # 573

Connect  the  chap  in  the  centre  in  A  to  the  movie  B . Quoting  Deepu , “Two quotes by German football legend Sepp Herberger(A) appears in Run Lola Run(B), “The ball is round, the game lasts 90 minutes, everything else is pure theory,” and, “After the game is before the game” Cracked  by  Appu , [...]

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Daily Question # 572

Id  this  legend . How  is  his  memory  kept  alive  today ? Quoting  Prasanth , “Ricardo Zamora, the legendary Spanish ‘Keeper. His memory is kept alive by The Ricardo Zamora Trophy, an award in the La Liga established by Spanish newspaper MARCA in 1958. The award goes to the goalkeeper who has the lowest “goals-to-games” [...]

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Daily Question # 571

Id  the  location . What’s  happening  here ? ( Pic  2  should  give  you  a  clue ) This  is  the  Soccer  City  in  Johannesburg , the  event  being  Nelson Mandela’s  first  speech  in  Johannesburg  after  his  release  from  prison . One  could  see  a  shaft  from a  gold  mine providing  the  backdrop  to  the  packed  crowd [...]

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Daily Question # 570

What ? Where ? Quoting  Rajith  Ravi , “A memory of The miracle of Berne . Stade  de  Suisse  Wankdorf  Bern, outside  view. In  the  center, the  backside of  the  restored  1954  FIFA  World  Cup  Final  match  clock  is  seen” Cracked  by  Deepu , Rajith  Ravi , Sreeram , Arun  and  Siddharth  Jain .

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Daily Question # 569

Who  is  this  manga  character  based  on ? The  attire  was  a  dead  giveaway . This  is  Ricardo  Espadas from  the  Japanese  Manga  Captain  Tsubasa based  on  Jorge  Campos . Cracked  by  Prasanth , Rithwik , Rajesh  Mohan , Rajith  Ravi  and  Arun .

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Daily Question # 568

The  blog  and  all  the  people  associated  with  it  were  in  suspended  animation  for  the  past  few  days  , all  thanx  to  the  fun  we  had  at  the  woodstock  of  quizzing . Apologies , we are  back  in  business  a  la  the  Spanish  football  team An  easy  one  to  resume  proceedings . Statue  of  someone [...]

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Daily Question # 567

What  is  being  referenced  here ? Quoting  a  man  who  mesmerized  us  at  the  woodstock  of  quizzing , “Graham  Poll sending  off  Croatia’s  Josip  Simunic  after  three  and  not  two  yellow  cards, in  the  2006  World  Cup. Here  he  is  being  heckled  by  Arsenal  supporters” Cracked  by  Jackandlagoon , Prasanth , Rajith Ravi , Bobby , [...]

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