Thursday 30 December 2010

QR – Cure – Quizzing Realms – 227

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.

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

PS: Check out the small post on my opinion blog. I think you’ll like it.

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Yep, that was indeed Virender Sehwag on champion wrestler Susheel Kumar, who grew up in the same locality as him!

Wednesday 29 December 2010

QR – Cure – Quizzing Realms – 226

Nothing to convoluted about this one.

ship 2 

The picture above shows the remnants of an 18th century ship being unearthed somewhere. My question is: At what unusual place?

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

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Well…

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!

Tuesday 28 December 2010

QR – Cure – Quizzing Realms – 225

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!

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

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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.

  • Given the manner in which SRK (at least in some roles) stammers at the letter ‘k’, the most sadistic punishment one can give him is to get him to name all the Ekta Kapoor serials one after the other!
  • Why is his name Shah Rukh? Kyun ki, woh ;ruk ruk’ ke bolta hai! [Lame, I know, but still makes me smile.]

Monday 27 December 2010

QR – Cure – Quizzing Realms – 224

Straight one. Connect…

1.

heyy_babyy019

2.

it takes two

3.

police-academy

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

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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.

Sunday 26 December 2010

QR – Cure – Quizzing Realms – 223

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?

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

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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.

twilight fail

Saturday 25 December 2010

QR – Cure – Quizzing Realms – 222

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?

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

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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.

Friday 24 December 2010

QR – Cure – Quizzing Realms – 221

Easy Peasy!

who

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?

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks! Oh, and Merry Christmas too!

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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.

Thursday 23 December 2010

QR – Cure – Quizzing Realms – 220

Here’s a relatively easier question.

After The Fox

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’.

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

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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!

Wednesday 22 December 2010

QR – Cure – Quizzing Realms – 219

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.

Tuesday 21 December 2010

QR – Cure – Quizzing Realms – 218

Shouldn’t be all that difficult…

 who

Simply identify the two gentleman, other than Asterix and Obelix, in these two panels from Asterix in Spain.

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

PS: in case you guys haven’t noticed, the blog has crossed the 20,000 visitors mark! Yay for us!! Going great guns, eh??

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Ah yes! Nine replies and all correct! These are indeed Don Quixote and Sancho Panza!

Monday 20 December 2010

QR – Cure – Quizzing Realms – 217

Shouldn’t be too difficult.

what

What is being analysed here? And I want a very specific answer.

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

PS: There’s a new post on my opinion blog about life and death. Tell me what you think of it.

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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.

sign

Sunday 19 December 2010

QR – Cure – Quizzing Realms – 216

Sooper easy one for the day.

who

This baby grew up to become the Time Magazine’s Person of the year. Who is this?

PS: Tell me what you think of the latest post on my opinion blog.

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Eleven answers here, and ten correct! This, obviously, is Mark Zuckerburg, the CEO of Facebook!

Saturday 18 December 2010

QR – Cure – Quizzing Realms – 215

This one should be quite easy.

who

These are the rough initial sketches of a character from which upcoming film?

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

PS: we have crossed the 19,000 mark! Yay us!

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’!

Friday 17 December 2010

QR – Cure – Quizzing Realms – 214

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.

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

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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!

Thursday 16 December 2010

QR – Cure – Quizzing Realms – 213

This isn’t all that difficult. Look at the picture.

Homo floresiensis

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!

Tuesday 14 December 2010

QR – Cure – Quizzing Realms – 212

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.

PS: We crossed 18,000 blog visits with the last post. Thanks for your support, people!

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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!

Monday 13 December 2010

QR – Cure – Quizzing Realms – 211

Came across this letter on the net, and gave in to the temptation to use it in a question.

who

Simply identify both ARs. Lots of hints in there…

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

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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.

Sunday 12 December 2010

QR – Cure – Quizzing Realms – 210

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!

 dev anand

2. Who invented this shot?

 Leg Glance

3. The cab-driver in season 1, episode 1.

season 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.

Saturday 11 December 2010

QR – Cure – Quizzing Realms – 209

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?

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

PS: Seen the latest post on my opinion blog?

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Nice! Thirteen answers! And all correct! Sharma had said, “Saare jahan se achchha!

Friday 10 December 2010

QR – Cure – Quizzing Realms – 208

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!

Thursday 9 December 2010

QR – Cure – Quizzing Realms – 207

A relatively easy connect for today.

As usual, most of the filenames have been retained.

1.

Ronnie James Dio

2.

film

3.

hitman

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!

Wednesday 8 December 2010

QR – Cure – Quizzing Realms – 206

This is a slightly difficult one, and more so if you don’t google it.

what

In what way is this film a first in India? There are enough hints in the poster.

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

PS: More of my articles are up on the article blog. And a new one up on the opinion blog. Check them out and leave some feedback, please!

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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.

Tuesday 7 December 2010

QR – Cure – Quizzing Realms – 205

An easy one, and as in generally my norm in connects, I have not changed the filenames.

1.

alex garland

2. It’s the gentleman on the right.

arol ralston

3.

Irvine Welsh

4.

vikas swarup

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

PS: More posts are up on my article blog. Tell me what you think of them!

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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
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Great answer there! This was exactly what I was looking for!

Monday 6 December 2010

QR – Cure – Quizzing Realms – 204

This one is dedicated to my good friend Rohit Iyer.

Connect:

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2

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3

4.

5.

5

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

PS: More articles are up at my article blog. Your comments ‘pliss’!

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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!

Sunday 5 December 2010

QR – Cure – Quizzing Realms – 203

I have already asked this question on quizzes, and answered a question regarding this recently on a social networking website. Nevertheless, here goes.

what

This is the first paragraph of a short story. Who is the author, and what did this short story inspire?

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

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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.

Saturday 4 December 2010

QR – Cure – Quizzing Realms – 202

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.

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

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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!

Friday 3 December 2010

QR – Cure – Quizzing Realms – 201

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.

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

PS: Check out the small post on my opinion blog.

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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.

Thursday 2 December 2010

QR – Cure – Quizzing Realms – 200

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:

whom

Who was this letter written to? Lotsa hints in there. so this should be an easy one, I guess!

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

PS: My opinion blog post on quizzing has received 37 hits in a single day! However, very few comments! Please visit and judge for yourself if it’s really that bad.

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SIXTEEN answers, and all correct! The person this has been addressed to is indeed Albert Einstein!

Wednesday 1 December 2010

QR – Cure – Quizzing Realms – 199

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?

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

PS: Check out the post on quizzing on my opinion blog. I’ve just put it up!

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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!