Sooooppper easy one for today.
“I’ve never dared to break the glass of his house while playing cricket as I used to be extremely scared of him.”
Whose statements, regarding who? Please answer on the blog.
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Yep, that was indeed Virender Sehwag on champion wrestler Susheel Kumar, who grew up in the same locality as him!
Nothing to convoluted about this one.
The picture above shows the remnants of an 18th century ship being unearthed somewhere. My question is: At what unusual place?
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14 answers, and all correct! These were indeed found on Ground Zero, under the WTC buildings after they collapsed due to the 9/11 attack!
This one is for a certain section of the patrons of this website.
I received a message yesterday from someone who told me that he visits this website regularly, although he rarely knows the answers to the questions. This one’s for you, boss.
X’s first two stints on television saw him playing a character surrounded by a very specific type of performance artists, and an employee of the armed forces. X also made a few appearances in other television serials at that time. His film debut was in a Hema Malini production. One of X’s flicks went on to become the first Indian film to be featured in the UK Top 10 in 1998. A few years later, X joined the ranks of the likes of KL Saigal and Dilip Kumar when he played a certain role. Another few years later, Abhay Deol joined the ranks too! Simply identify X.
Easy, I know. answer away! The more, the merrier!
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Fifteen answers here, and all pointing towards SRK, which is correct. However, someone on FB tried to say that it was Bimal Roy! No matter, folks, accidents happen! Meanwhile, from the replies, I gather that none of you are big fans of SRK. So here are some more jokes bashing him.
Straight one. Connect…
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Looks like this one was a toughie! Just two answers, both of which are correct, though! The connect is indeed Steven Guttenberg, the actor. He starred in the first three films of the Police Academy franchise, and also in It Takes Two and Three Men And A Baby, of which Heyy Babyy was a remake.
Riddle me this, and you will have a very rewarding graphic for it tomorrow!
The Forbes Fictional 15 is a list released periodically by Forbes magazine, and lists the 15 richest fictional characters. In the 2010 list, Richie Rich is #3 and Scrooge McDuck is #2. Which 370-year-old resident of Washington, USA, with earnings chiefly from long-term investments and compund interests, is #1?
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Sorry, Santa Claus has been taken off the ‘fictional’ list because many children complained that he is real. And Batman figures waaaaaaaaaaaaay down the list. Currently on top is a certain Carlisle Cullen from the Twilight series of stories. Oh, and Omkar, if Edward Cullen is becoming such a bother, show your lady friends the following cartoon. Hope you like it.
And we reach Double Nelson having just crossed the 30,000-pageviews mark!
Here’s today’s question. It’s name is derived from the fact that it was given to India by Canada, and one of the things it uses the most is supplied by the USA. India got it in 1954, and it started working in 1960. After about eight years of refurbishments, it was restarted in 2005. However, after half a century of service, it will be shut down as this decade ends, because of a treaty signed between Manmohan Singh and George W Bush.
What am I talking about here?
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Six answers, but can’t give it to the ones who said it was the CANDU reactor. I was looking for the CIRUS reactor, CIRUS being an acronym for Canada India Research US. US provides us the heavy water to produce plutonium. However, because this reactor helped us produce plutonium for the Pokhran blasts, according to the treaty, it has to be shut down.
Easy Peasy!
The photo above is from an Ultimate Warrior comic, and the gentleman on the left is Ultimate warrior. Who’s the gentleman on the right?
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Sorry for ruining Christmas, but four of the six replies here are actually correct. The gentleman on the right is indeed Santa Claus! Don’t ask me how he got that way. Ask the creators of the comic.
Here’s a relatively easier question.
A ‘remake’ of this film was premiered in the Fiji Islands on December 22, which was yesterday. I say ‘remake’ because the makers of the second film claim that they have brought the rights of the film whose poster is shown above, but have made sweeping changes in the ‘remake’.
All I need is the name of the ‘remake’.
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Yes, 11 answers, and all correct, simply because I have chosen to deem Omkar’s answer correct too! The remake is indeed Tees Maar Khan!
Easy one.
What was the name of the aircraft-carrying vessel that Indira Gandhi had stationed in the Bay of Bengal to carry out attacks on merchant vessels in Chittagong during the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971, which led to the freedom of Bangladesh in 1972? Hint: Since then, the name of this vessel has been bestowed upon ships of its class made in India at the Cochin Shipyard Limited.
Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!
PS: Many of you will be flummoxed by how we had crossed the 20,000 mark yesterday, but are positioned at nearly 28,000 now! Well, there’s an explanation. The previous counter was added when this blog was already 100 questions old. It was a third party counter. Only recently did I come to know that Blogspot has started its own counter, and kept track of all my stats since the first day! That’s where the missing 8,000 comes from! so now that I am using Blogspot’s own counter, hope there will be less hassles, and less of a problem for you people!
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Looks like this wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be. Just five answers, all of which are correct in some way. The vessel was the INS Vikrant and the class is the Vikrant-class, equivalent of Majestic-class vessels.
Shouldn’t be all that difficult…
Simply identify the two gentleman, other than Asterix and Obelix, in these two panels from Asterix in Spain.
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Ah yes! Nine replies and all correct! These are indeed Don Quixote and Sancho Panza!
Shouldn’t be too difficult.
What is being analysed here? And I want a very specific answer.
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Several answers on facebook, and nine here, out of which six are correct, and I have included the response in which this is said to be Sachin Tendulkar’s handwriting. Actual, this is an analysis of Sachin Tendulkar’s autograph!
Oh, and here’s the original photo, just as Handa requested.
Sooper easy one for the day.
This baby grew up to become the Time Magazine’s Person of the year. Who is this?
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Eleven answers here, and ten correct! This, obviously, is Mark Zuckerburg, the CEO of Facebook!
This one should be quite easy.
These are the rough initial sketches of a character from which upcoming film?
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Just four answers here, and KVT, aka gyaniz, and Srikanth got this correct. This is indeed the animated policeman from Ajay Devgn’s Toonpur ka Superrhero, and yes, that’s with a double ‘r’!
X initially auditioned for a role that eventually went to someone else. However, the producer and director were so tickled by X’s funny accent, and how his words and his gestures and gesticulations had no co-ordination, that they decided to write an entirely new role for X, despite the fact that X could not even speak the language that the film was being made in, and even though he memorised his lines, X spoke them with a thick accent, and often confused the genders.
Identify X, and the character he played in the film.
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Five answers here. Many more on facebook too. But only Movin and Anup Manchalwar got it correct here, and nobody got it on facebook. This is indeed Omi Vaidya, aka Chatur, in 3 Idiots! As easy as that! And we’ve had answers like Inspector Jacques Clouseau, Charlie Chaplin, Mr Bean and what not!
This isn’t all that difficult. Look at the picture.
The skull below belongs to a homo sapien, that is, us. The skull above belongs to a homo floresiensis, named so because they were found on the island of Flores in Indonesia. The name of which fictional character has officially been given to specimens of the homo floresiensis?
Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!
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Fourteen answers, and all correct! It’s indeed the hobbit!
Here’s an interesting bit of trivia that should get your danders up.
Which card game is supposed to be an Indian invention during the times of the British Raj, and is apparently a protest against the manner in which India and other colonies were exploited? That is probably why the Jacks, generally considered the lowest in the face cards, have the highest points, and the Kings and Queens have no points at all!
I just want the name of the game.
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I leave this unmoderated for a day, and a couple of more answers trickle in, and both are correct! So, we have six correct answers, including the two partially correct ones from jagdish and anonymous. This is indeed 29, the game!
Came across this letter on the net, and gave in to the temptation to use it in a question.
Simply identify both ARs. Lots of hints in there…
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Most of you got part of it correct, but I am even more heartened by the number of answers! All 14 of them!
This is indeed a letter of appreciation written by Aron Rolston to AR Rahman, for the latter’s music in 127 Hours, the film.
I understand that this is quite cryptic, but here are the clues.
1. Someone once copied him and landed a role in films! He went on to play some of the most (in)famous negative characters in Indian cinema!
2. Who invented this shot?
3. The cab-driver in season 1, episode 1.
What single name connects these three photographs? Answer the three questions, and you will automatically have the connect!
Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!
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Eleven answers, despite it being a Sunday! It is indeed Ranjit or Ranjeet, as all of you have answered! The first answer is Ranjeet, the villain from yesteryears, who was a big fan of Dev Anand, and used to mimic his idol to quite an extent! The second, obviously is Ranjitsinghji. The third, obvious by now, is Ranjeet.
Easy one, actually. But lets end this week on a high.
Rakesh Sharma was the first Indian to go into space. There is a legend which says that when his craft was passing over India, Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister, asked him how the country looked from space. What four-word reply did Sharma give?
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Nice! Thirteen answers! And all correct! Sharma had said, “Saare jahan se achchha!”
The word itself is a portmanteau of two different words. The kind of people this word describes actually took down a website, its ISP and DNS provider, just because the website was providing a security tool that would cause spammers to delete email addresses of those who joined a community for anti-spamming, and didn’t want to receive any more spam mails!
These people have assumed new ‘significance’ after MasterCard, PayPal and Amazon refused services to WikiLeaks. What one word describes these people?
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Sorry Krishnan and Karthike Ramesh. I was not looking for Anonymous or Phreakers. The other six got it right. these are all Hacktivists!
A relatively easy connect for today.
As usual, most of the filenames have been retained.
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Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!
PS: Thanks, Karthike Ramesh, for that feedback on Snopes on my article blog.
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Just one answer, but illiteratepoet NAILED IT! the answer is indeed the Devil’s Horns: the \m/ gesture we do with our hands! Ronnie James Dio popularised it in rock culture, the gesture was a part of Rajini’s Baba, and even features on the cover, and it was also a gesture often used by Bret The Hitman Hart!
This is a slightly difficult one, and more so if you don’t google it.
In what way is this film a first in India? There are enough hints in the poster.
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Six replies, but I can give it to only three for the full answer. Pritfloyd mentions the film and its ensemble cast. The film is correct, so half points there. Vishnu Prasad mentions the ‘guerrilla film’ thing, but doesn’t mention that this was the first. And someone anonymous thought that this was a Bengali film! Anyways, this is indeed Onan, India’s first full length feature film shot with guerrilla tactics. Dhobi Ghaat has used guerrilla tactics too, and that’s how I got to know about this one.
An easy one, and as in generally my norm in connects, I have not changed the filenames.
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2. It’s the gentleman on the right.
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TEN answers! Thanks for the replies, folks! The connect is indeed Danny Boyle!
And I quote Karthike Ramesh here:
“All of them are the authors of books that were made into films by Danny Boyle.
Alex Garland : The Beach
Irvine Welsh : Trainspotting
Arol Ralston : Between A Rock And A Hard Place. Made into 127 Hours.
Vikas Swarup : Q&A. Made into Slumdog Millionaire.”
Great answer there! This was exactly what I was looking for!
This one is dedicated to my good friend Rohit Iyer.
Connect:
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Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!
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Five answers, and all correct again! Cupcake, donut, eclair, froyo and gingerbread are the names of the different versions of the Android Operating System launched till date. The next two have been tentatively named Honeycomb and Ice Cream!
I have already asked this question on quizzes, and answered a question regarding this recently on a social networking website. Nevertheless, here goes.
This is the first paragraph of a short story. Who is the author, and what did this short story inspire?
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Six answers, and all of them correct! This is the first paragraph of the short story Without You, written by Del James. It inspired the song November Rain by Guns N Roses.
People of the country, where this book was written and initially published, needed to know it by heart in order to obtain a driver’s license! It was considered to be a holy book, and still is, by many people of this country. Apparently, any person who read it thrice would automatically go to heaven!. (Big hint follows:) The purported author of this book, also the ‘President for life’ of this country, ordered that a copy of the book be sent to space, and the order was complied with!
Name the book, the author and the country.
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Just two answers! All off for the weekend, kya? Babbar and Karthike are obviously correct. This is indeed Ruhnama, ‘written’ by Saparmurat Niyazov, President for Life of Turkmenistan. Btw, that’s just a euphemism for ‘Dictator’. PS: The ‘written’ part is in quotes because he was functionally illiterate!
We have breached the barrier of 16,000 visits, folks!
This is a kind of a heritage structure in Bangladesh. This is the place where someone was hanged. It has been preserved this way since 1934. Easy as pie. Identify the person who was hanged, and what his ‘sins’ were.
I don’t think you guys will need a hint for this one.
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ELEVEN answers, and all correct! It’s indeed Masterda aka Surjya Sen, currently in news for Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey.
YAY! We reach 200 posts, and I couldn’t have done it without your regular responses! So this one’s dedicated to all those who have tested their patience with this blog, waiting for the next day to get the answer and the next question!
Here’s today’s question:
Who was this letter written to? Lotsa hints in there. so this should be an easy one, I guess!
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SIXTEEN answers, and all correct! The person this has been addressed to is indeed Albert Einstein!
I guess the perverts among you will love this question!
Why can any non-platonic relationship between Barbie, the doll, and her partner Ken, be termed incestuous?
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Six answers, and all correct! Barbie and Ken were named after the two children of Ruth Handler, who created Barbie, the doll! Hence, they are siblings, and any non-platonic relationship between them would be incestuous!
An easy one for the day.
Identify these two gentlemen whose names commemorate whenever rain threatens to wash away the game.
I made it super easy, didn’t i?
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SEVENTEEN answers! You guys just gave me a HUUUGE boost! And yes, folks! These are indeed Messrs Duckworth and Lewis, whose system we use to determine how many runs the team batting second has to score in a certain number of overs, and some such calculations, in order to win!
Look at these posters.
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What unique quality connects these films? To make it easier, what makes these films stand out from their predecessors?
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Looks like kevin and vishesh were almost there, but not quite. Thing is, a different actor had played the karate kid in every film of the franchise, although ‘Miyagi’ remained the same. The other four got this one correct. These films are indeed reboots! And I am waiting to see how James Bond gets Moneypenny and Q!
Sorry for the grainy image.
Identify this gentleman who had a blast, or two to be exact, during his lifetime, and lived till a ripe age to tell his tale.
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Eight answers, and even though a couple of them do not contain the name of this gentleman, I think the funda is correct. This is indeed Tsutomu Yamaguchi, reportedly the only person to have survived the Hiroshima and Nagasaki blasts!
Look carefully.
This image was the first of its kind to appear on a website that set off an internet meme. What is the blackened out text? And what is the internet meme I am talking about?
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Eleven answers, but some of you have not given me the answers I was looking for. The meme is obviously Lolcats, and the text is I can has cheezburger. Go to www.icanhascheezburger.com, and look at the first cartoon. This is not exactly the ‘happycat’, folks….
Easy one.
Why is this photograph ‘notorious’ on cyberspace for the past few days?
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Five answers, but better luck next time, Kapinjal and krishnan! The three others are correct! This image, of a women giving birth on the roadside, was apparently captured by the car that goes around clicking pictures for Goolge Street View. It turned out to be a hoax, and the photo has been pulled off its sites by Google.
A dry one here. Try not to google this.
Looney Tunes cartoons often seemed to feature outrageously funny, strange and improbable products made by the ACME corporation. Just tell me what ACME stands for!
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Four answers, and only the oncologist got it correct. Look up his answer. However, www.abbreviations.com lists another answer that I would have accepted. ACME can indeed mean American Company Makes Everything! There have been similar answers, but this was exactly what I was looking for.
Simply connect the following films, and think beyond the Hindi film industry.
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4. Sorry for the low resolution on this one.
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10 answers! And all correct! All four films are based on or inspired by stories/novels written by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. As a Bengali, I can proudly say that I have read these and more of his stories, which have a special quality that can’t be translated onto the screen. Often in his narrative, Sarat babu stops telling the story ad delves into the characters’ psyche. Thus we have Devdas feeling like a part of his body has suddenly acquired a brain of his own and is now acting on its own, when Paru refuses to marry him. Thus we have a beautiful description of how Shekhar is effectively handing over the keys to his entire life to Lolita when he is just handing over the keys to his cupboard, and how she is returning more than the keys towards the end of the story. PS: Parinita is a tragedy in the original Bengali version. Dunno if the translated versions have been faithful to his style.
A dry one for the day.
In the world of literature, why do the following 50 words hold a special place?
a am and anywhere are be boat box car could dark do eat eggs fox goat good green ham here house I if in let like may me mouse not on or rain Sam say see so thank that the them there they train tree try will with would you
I want a very specific answer.
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Just three answers, and they are correct too! These are the 50 words that children’s fiction author Dr Seuss used to write an entire book! The book was called Green Eggs and Ham. He did it on a dare with his publisher, and later collected a certain amount of money for winning the bet!
Connect these three films.
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Hint: Think beyond this country.
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10 responses, and one incorrect, while a few incomplete. All three films are remakes of / inspired by English films in which Robin Williams starred. Munnabhai MBBS was inspired somewhat by Patch Adams, Mohabbatein by Dead Poets Society, and Chachi 420 by Mrs Doubtfire.
