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Monthly Archive for October, 2010

Daily Question # 640

Which  movie  connects ? Quoting  Appu  again , ” The  connect –  Windtalkers A – Statue commemorating the Navajo code talkers who were the basis for the movie B – Mick McCarthy / Roy Keane bust-up occurred at Saipan where much of the movie is set” Appu , Rajith  Ravi , Arun , Manjith  and [...]

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Daily Question # 639

Three  questions . a. Identify  the  contraption . b. Identify  the  second  guy  from  left . What  eponymous  invention  is  he  famous  for ? c. The  same  chap  has  his  hands  around  something . What ? Quoting  Appu , “a. Ampex VTR (first video tape recorder) b. Ray Dolby, inventor of Dolby Noise Reduction c. [...]

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Daily Question # 638

What  is  the  structure  visible  through  the  window  on  the  extreme  left ? This  is  The  First  Supper by  Susan  Dorothea  White , a  parody  of  Leonardo  da  Vinci’s  The  Last  Supper . The  structure  in  question  is  the  Uluru/Ayers  Rock . Cracked  by  Konvict , Bbobby , Rithwik , Rahul  Varma , Yadhu , [...]

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Daily Question # 637

Connect . Quoting  Appu , “Entertainer / clown Dan Rice ( A ) who campaigned for Zachary Taylor as president, inviting him to campaign on his circus bandwagon ( B ) , whence the expression “to jump on the bandwagon” Cracked  by  Rajith  Ravi , V  Chandrashekar , Appu , Anil  Raghavan , Yadhu , [...]

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Daily Question # 636

This  is  a  location  in  Spain . Where  have  you  seen  it  in  a  totally  different  avatar ? This  is  the  Sad  Hill  cemetery , the  burial  grounds  where  the  Mexican  standoff  takes  place  during  the  finale  of  The  Good, The  Bad  And  The  Ugly . View  the  scene HERE . Only  Buddhifree , Ajith [...]

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Daily Question # 635

B  is  named  after  A . C  and  D  are  in  turn  named  after  B . Identify  all . The  Bonneville  Salt  Flats ( B ) in  Utah , known  for  its  various  land  speed  records  is  named  after  US  Army  officer  Benjamin  Bonneville ( A ) . The  Triumph  Bonneville ( C )  and [...]

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Daily Question # 634

Lemme  take  this  occasion  to  wish  a  Happy  2nd  Birthday  to  all  of  us  !! What  started  off  as  a  modest  venture  2  years  back  is  now  634  questions , 13  monthly  sets , 5  online  quizzes  and  approximately  5  lakh  visitors  old . We  are  grateful  to  everyone  for  being  there  and  helping  us [...]

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Daily Question # 633

Whose  legs ? ‘The  Legs  of  Man‘ , the  triskelion  which  is  the  symbol  of  the  Isle  of  Man . Cracked  by  Deepthi  Mani , Anoop  V , Arun , Siddharth  Jain , Ajith , Sachin  R  Das , Appu , Rithwik  , Bbobby , Wasi  Manazir ( yes you’re  right  on  the  other  count [...]

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Daily Question # 632

What  is  the  thingy  seen  within  the  glass  house ? Granma , the  yacht  in  which  Fidel  Castro  and  his  revolutionary  expedition  sailed  to  Cuba  in  1956  to  overthrow  the  regime  of  Fulgencio  Batista . Pictured  is  the  yacht  now  on  permanent  display  in  a  glass  enclosure  at  the  Granma  Memorial  adjacent  to  the  Museum [...]

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Daily Question # 631

What’s  happening  here ? The  signing  of  the  Japanese  surrender  aboard  the  USS  Missouri  on  02  Sep  1945 . Cracked  by  Rajith  Ravi , FlightlessOne , Arun , Bobby , Appu , V  Chandrashekar , Yadhu , Nakul , Ajith , Aditya  Venkataraman , Rithwik , Anil  Raghavan , Anoop  V , Malcaluffin , Manu [...]

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