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Monthly Archive for March, 2011

Daily Question # 728

Knitted  version  of  ? Rennie  Mackintosh’s  ‘Stained  Glass  Window’ . Ajith P  and  Abhinav K Shukla  removed  the  stains  and  emerged  clean  on  this  one . Good  work  guys !

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Daily Question # 727

Identify  the  model . Which  famous  fictional  protagonist  is  modeled  after  him ? Desmond  Miles , the  main  protagonist  of  the  Assassin’s  Creed  video  game  series ( I’ll  accept  Altair Ibn-La’Ahad  and  Ezio Auditore da Firenze  as  well ) was modeled  after  Canadian  model  Francisco  Randez . Full  points  to  Devajyoti  Ghosh , Fifthape , [...]

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Daily Question # 726

Question  from  Arun AS . What  is  happening  here ? A  Rube  Goldberg  Machine  Design  contest . Very  impressive  designs  from  Nakul , NigelT , Rithwik , Devajyoti Ghosh , Siddharth Ravi , Yadhu , SM Muneerali , Fifthape  Siddharth Jain , Appu S , Abhijeet , Bobby , Gokul , Visitor and Amby007 .

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Daily Question # 725

What  are  these ? The  infamous  Jelly  Beans  of  the  Trent  Bridge  Jelly  Beans  Incident ( England Vs India , Trent Bridge , July 2007 ) . Cracked  by  Anand , NigelT , Bobby , Yadhu , Devajyoti Ghosh , Nakul , Fifthape , Siddharth Ravi , Rajith Ravi , Rithwik , SM Muneerali , [...]

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Daily Question # 724

Identify  the  lady / What  has  been  blanked  out ? Fiona  Walker a.k.a  ‘The  Tennis  Girl‘ . Ace  from  the  QM

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Daily Question # 723

The  character  standing  is  a  hat-tip  to  a  very  famous  famous  cartoon  character . Which  one ? The  character  of  Major  General  Clive  Candy ( played  by  Roger  Livesey ) from  The  Life  and  Death  of  Colonel  Blimp was  based  on  David  Low’s  Colonel  Blimp . Blown  apart  by  Devajyoti  Ghosh  and  Siddharth  Ravi .

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Daily Question # 722

Which  game ? Bossaball . Cracked  by  Fifthape , V Chandrashekar , NigelT , Amby007 , Rajith Ravi , Siddharth Ravi , Devajyoti Ghosh , Anand , Appu S , Nakul  and  Rithwik .

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Daily Question # 721

I’ll  update  all  the  scores  and  answers  by  Sunday  folks . Stills  from  3  Indian  movies . Identify  and  connect . Do  Bigha  Zameen ( A ) , Ashani  Sanket ( B )  and  Akaler  Sandhane ( C ) – all  based  on  the  Bengal  Famine  of  1943 . Cracked  only  by  Devajyoti  Ghosh  and [...]

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Daily Question # 720

Simple  one  for  the  day . What  does  this  painting  depict ? Ship  dismantling  at  Alang . Cracked  by  RaklodramA , Nakul , Appu S , NigelT , Siddarth Pai , Rithwik , Devajyoti Ghosh , Sudeep , Rajith Ravi , Sid Ravi , Visitor , Subin , Fifthape , Yadhu , Anoop V , [...]

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Daily Question # 719

Who  is  she ? What  is  she  doing ? Safdar  Hashmi , activist  and  founder  of  Jana  Natya  Manch ,  was  brutally  murdered  on  1  Jan  1989  by  political  hoodlums  of  the  Indian  National  Congress  while  performing  the  street  play  Halla  Bol  at  Jhandapur  Village  near  Delhi . Two  days  after  his  death, his  wife [...]

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