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Monthly Archive for September, 2010

Daily Question # 630

He ( or  his  most  famous  creation  rather ) is  in  news  in  India  for  all  the  wrong  reasons . Who he ? Quoting  Bbobby , “Donald Bailey  who invented the  Bailey Bridge. A Bailey bridge outside the main Commonwealth Games venue Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Delhi was constructed by the Indian Army to replace [...]

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Daily Question # 629

The  model  on  the  left  in  A  is  the  actual  model . The  one  on  the  right  is  the  one  which  became  famous . B  is  a  view  of  whatever  is  inscribed  underneath  the  model  on  the  right . Just  tell  me  what  has  been  blanked  out  in  B . Christine  Keeler of  the  Profumo [...]

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Daily Question # 628

This  is  a  coin  from  an  ancient  North  African  state  depicting  something . Just  connect  the  subject  of  this  coin  to  yesterday . This  is  a  coin  from  the  North  African  state  of  Cyrene  depicting  the  stalk  of  the  Silphium plant . The  seedpod  of  the  plant  was  heart-shaped  and  is  suggested  as  the  source [...]

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Daily Question # 627

What  brought  about  this  change  in  tradition ? The  tradition  of  the  Union  Jack  at  half-mast  replacing  the  Royal  standard  at  the  Buckingham  Palace  to  observe times  of  mourning  started  following  Princess  Diana’s  death  in  1997 . Read  comments  for  details . Cracked  by  Appu , Rajith Ravi , Nakul , Yadhu , Bobby , [...]

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Daily Question # 626

What  does  the  arrow  indicate ? Quoting  Appu , “One arrow is pointing to the sixth floor window of the Texas School Book Depository (now the Dallas County Administration Building) from which Lee Harvey Oswald is said to have shot President Kennedy. The other arrow shows where President Kennedy’s car was at the time of [...]

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Daily Question # 625

Just  connect . A shows Rembrandt’s “Nightwatch” rolled around a cylinder to be stored during WW II to avoid damage to the painting . “Nightwatch” inspired the second Nachtmusik movement of Gustav Mahler’s ( B ) Seventh Symphony. The opening notes of the second Nachtmusik movement were used as the signature theme of Castrol TV commercials [...]

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Daily Question # 624

A  and  B  are  different  views  of  a  particular  location  X . Just  connect  this  location  X  with  C . Quoting  Appu , “Walden Pond (X), after which Walden Media is named (the production company which is most famous for the Narnia movies, including The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (C))” Only  Appu  and  Praveen [...]

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Daily Question # 623

This  Lego  tribute  won’t  go  down  well  with  the  World  Health  Organisation . Why ? Quting  Nakul “Lucky Luke’s lego  sculpture . Lucky Luke was the creation of Maurice De Bevere(Morris). A cigarette used to be the part of character’s profile before Morris won an award from WHO and cigarette was replaced with a wisp [...]

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Daily Question # 622

Think  laterally  for  a  connect ( Not  an  exhaustive  list ) . A  Blue  Barnacle  paper-weight ( A ) , The  ( Eurofighter ) Typhoon  ( B ) , Pithecanthropus ( C ) , Troglodytes  from Dungeons & Dragons ( D ) and  Pneumothorax ( E ) – as  Appu  said , when  in  doubt [...]

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Daily Question # 621

Finally , after  two  years of  persistence , he’s  done  it . All  welcome  Appu , this  time  as  the  new  leader  on  the  blog . This  goal  from  the  1970s  made  him  a  household  name . His  technique  resulted  in  the  technique  itself  coming  to  be  named  after  him . Who ? Antonin  Panenka [...]

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