The Daily Quiz Blog of Dreamz Quiz Clubs

All scores and answers will be updated in 2012

Simple. Who he ?

Kurt Wenner of 3D pavement art fame.

Cracked by Appu, Varun, Siddharth Ravi, Devajyoti Ghosh and Ram Sripathi.

Apologies Saars. I’m the lone crusader at my hospital right now and the work load is manifesting in the regularity of questions on the blog. I shall henceforth be regular.

What is happening here?

Quoting Sruthi,

“Paul Gascoigne ‘booking’ the referee Dougie Smith. On 30 December 1995, in a match against Hibernian F.C., Smith had dropped his yellow card and Gascoigne picked it up and showed it to the official before returning it”

Cracked by Ahana Anil, Siddharth Ravi, Swetha, Appu, Fifthape, Ahana Anil, Devajyoti Ghosh, Anil Raghavan and Sruthi.

Hello,

As it happened, we were two souls lost in the heights of joblessness… until around about an hour ago, that is.  Around about an hour ago, our man popped in and gently reminded us with an illustrative example of the word “ass-rape”, what we had been forgetting all along.

End of Daze is back.

To celebrate arbitness, alcohol, Liverpool FC bashing and some quizzing, be back here on 7th January, 2012 at 1800hrs. The quiz is open till midnight. To get some idea of what we intend to do to you, see last year’s edition here.

No prior registration is required.

Prizes for top two. No prizes for school quizzers.

Yes, that means you.

Yes, you.

- Kapitaine and BFP

What is happening here?

Certain failures during this experiment prompted an American aerospace engineer to say something. Who and what did he say?

Edward Murphy Jr and The Murphy’s Law. Read more here.

It went well for Appu, Sandeep, Fifthape, M Vinayakumar, Ahana Anil, Jyotishraj, Hari Parameswaran, Manjith, Anil Raghavan, Mridul, Rithwik, Siddharth Ravi and Devajyoti Ghosh.

Apologies on missing out for one whole week. Was away on fauji duty. We’ll make up for the delay with a monthly set in couple of days’ time

A is a still from a movie about a famous person X. The actress in the still portrays another famous person Y. B is a still from another (Russian) movie about a famous eponymous fictional character Z.

Id X,Y and Z. Also, tell me who connects Y and Z.

A

B

X – Jackson Pollock
Y – Peggy Guggenheim
Z – Oblomov

Connect – Samuel Beckett

A character named “Oblomov” in  Peggy Guggenheim’s memoir “Out of This Century” was identified to be Samuel Beckett, her one-time lover.

Cracked by Appu, Fifthape, Jyotishraj, Anil Raghavan, Siddharth Ravi and Joyce George.

What has been blanked out?

The letter M.

Cracked by Appu, Fifthape, Ram Sripathi, Devajyoti Ghosh, Jyotishraj, Ahana Anil Anil Raghavan, Jinz, Hari Parameswaran, Kamal Rathi, Akhil R Nair, Siddharth Ravi, V Chandrashekar, Akhil Thampi and Joyce George.

What? Where?

The Battle of Britain Memorial in Capel-le-Ferne, Kent.

Cracked by Appu, Devajyoti Ghosh, Ram Sripathi and Siddharth Ravi.

Pictured is the key witness in a high-profile murder trial. Connect her (in two steps) to the English Premier League.

Quoting Appu,

“Linda Kasabian (witness to Charles Manson murders) -> rock band Kasabian named after her -> their song Fire used to intro EPL matches in telecasts abroad”

Cracked by Anon, Ram Sripathi, Rithwik, Appu, Fifthape, Siddharth Ravi and Kamal Rathi.

The bobblehead in A is based on a very famous snap B. The subject X is a very controversial author who shot into limelight in the 1950s because of a work Y.

Gimme X and Y.

A

B

Grace Metalious (X) and Peyton Place (Y).

Cracked by Ram Sripathi, Fifthape, Jyotishraj, Deepu, Rithwik, Siddharth Ravi, M Vinayakumar and Joyce George.

Connect.

A

B

Mohanlal (A) sings Leonard Cohen‘s(B) “I’m your man” in Pranayam.

Cracked by Ram Sripathi, Nigel Thomas, Fifthape, Akhil R Nair, Appu, Deepu, Siddharth Ravi, Jyotishraj, Ahana Anil, Anil Raghavan, Malcaluffin, Clash and Rithwik.