Aug 14th, 2010 by Chandrakant
Answers
1. Iron Maiden’s “Brave New World” ( X ) is a direct reference to Aldous Huxley’s eponymous work which takes its names from Miranda’s ( A ) speech in The Tempest . The first track of the album , “The Wicker Man” shares its name with the 1973 film ( B ) of the same name .
2. Marvel’s Strange Tales .
3. The 1969 film More ( A ) dealing with Heroin addiction in Ibiza . B is the Columbus Egg sculpture in Ibiza .
4. Giotto’s Stefaneschi Triptych now in the Vatican Museum.
5. Andy Warhol’s Cow Wallpaper .
6. Storm Thorgerson.
7. Theme – Pink Floyd Albums ( Non-exhaustive) , which becomes Exhaustive when you modify your answer into ‘The first 6 Pink Floyd Albums’
- The song ‘Wicker Man’ contains the phrase ‘Piper at the gates of dawn’
- The same image in Q. No. 2 was used for the cover of ‘A saucerful of secrets’
- More was Floyd’d first movie project
- The image is an example of the Droste Effect , and so is the ‘Ummagumma’ cover
- The cow wallpaper inspired the Atom Heart Mother cover
- Storm Thorgerson’s mom let him shoot her ear underwater and this became the cover for ‘Meddle’
Jinson was the only guy who didnt need no education with regards to the theme . Take a bow !!
Scores
1. Jinson – 6
2. Arun – 5
3. Arun Hiregange – 4
4. Deepthi Mani – 3
5. Subin – 2
6. Rajith Ravi – 2
7. Manjith – 1
8. Sophie – 1
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Aug 12th, 2010 by Chandrakant
He is overlooking something named after him.
What ?

This is the statue of St.Lawrence overlooking the St.Lawrence River .
Uncracked.
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Aug 10th, 2010 by Chandrakant
Question No. 600 is open for yet another day . Do send in your answers by tonight .
What is his lasting contribution ?
( Clue : Jennifer Lopez
)

Jean Buridan and Buridan’s Ass . The J-Lo connection is pretty obvious
Cracked by Ameya , Appu , Rithwik , Yadhu , Deepthi Mani , Arun , Bobby and Anil Raghavan . Half credits to Rajith Ravi and Manu Sathian .
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Aug 7th, 2010 by Chandrakant
Its that time again .
Time to thank everyone following this blog for helping us come this far . We hope to entertain you for another 600 questions
Find the special 600th question here .
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Aug 5th, 2010 by Chandrakant
Even Newton would be proud of this North American water body’s rise to world fame in 2010 .
Identify .


This is the Pyramid Lake , Nevada . An image of the lake was used as the Apple iPad default background .
Cracked by Bobby , Arun , Subin and Rithwik .
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Aug 3rd, 2010 by Chandrakant
Just identify the location .

Quoting Appu ,
“The bicycle Merckx used during his hour speed record attempt on display at the Eddy Merckx metro station on the Brussels Metro”
Cracked by Appu , Arun , Ajith , Rajasekhar , Nishanth Raman and Rithwik .
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Aug 2nd, 2010 by Chandrakant
A very famous demonstration which highlighted the necessity and importance of a particular technique .
Which demonstration ? Also name the technique .

Demonstration of the Kuleshov Effect highlighting the importance of Montage . Read comments for details .
Cracked by Rajith Ravi , Ameya , Appu , Deepthi Mani , Rithwik and Arun .
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Aug 1st, 2010 by Chandrakant
HQ of a very famous organization . Which one ?

This is the Kermit the Frog sculpture at the Jim Henson company HQ in Los Angeles .
Cracked only by Rajasekhar and Arun . Bravo !
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Jul 31st, 2010 by Chandrakant
Where ?

This is the Lone Pine Memorial at Gallipoli .
Arun was the Lone Wolf who survived this ambush .
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Jul 29th, 2010 by Chandrakant
A very simple one for the day .
Just connect .

A

B
Quoting Rajith Ravi & Rajasekhar who’ve posted identical comments ,
“The date of the fictional Judgment Day – 29 August 1997 – is the anniversary of the Soviet Union’s first detonation of an atomic bomb in 1949″
Bombed to smithereens by the duo mentioned above .
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