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A straight and simple one…

Identify the film.

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Ten answers, and all correct! This is indeed shirish Kunder’s upcoming film Joker!

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Connect…

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An easy one, actually. What connects these organisations or products?

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Six answers, all correct, but probably the clearest is from pritfloyd. Asus derives its name from Pegasus, the mythical creature that is a winged horse, and the others have Pegasus as part of their logo.

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Keeping it easy…

Simply identify.

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Too easy, people say, and so, 18 answers! This is indeed UN General Secretary Ban-Ki Moon.

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Let’s make this an easy one.

A recent development in the filming of director Sanjoy Nag’s Memories in March, which stars Deepti Naval and director-turned-actor Rituparno Ghosh, has caused the film to be touted as probably the first film to have done something. In what respect is this film a first?

Can be easily googled, but try answering without it first….

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Five answers, but only pritfloyd and Subhajyoti have what I was looking for. This is probably the first movie ever to change its language because of the leading lady. It was supposed to have been shot in Bengali, but Deepti Naval was so uncomfortable with it that the film-makers decided to shoot it in Hindi!

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Here’s an easy identify….

1. He was in the Vietnam war, helping the US army find and defuse hidden mines.
2. He was a qualified civil engineer, and joked that this fact lost him the lead role in Apocalypse Now, because Francis Ford Coppolla asked him to build pagodas instead!
3. After his first wife was killed in an accident, he gave up his children to a childless American couple.
4. He was ‘encouraged’ to come to India after seeing Parveen Babi’s face on a magazine cover. He later ended up living as Babi’s neighbour.

Identify him.

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14 answers, and barring the one that said Osama Bin Laden, all else are correct. This is Bob Christo!

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A straight and simple one.

Which ad campaign holds the Guinness World Record for being the longest-running ad campaign in the world, and has continued despite political pressure on some of the topics it has spoken out against?

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12 answers, and all correct! This is indeed Amul’s ad campaign featuring the girl in the polka-dot dress!

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Try this.

This gentleman is currently on a 10-city tour of India. Identify him.

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Ten answers, and all correct! This is indeed Chris Pfeiffer.

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Simple one for the day.

What is the claim to fame of this pooch?

Meanwhile, RIP Liz Taylor.

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Just four answers! I thought this was an easy one! This is Hong Dong, a 10-month old Tibetan Mastiff sold for $1.5 million, making it the world’s most expensive dog!

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Should be an easy one.

Identify the famous Indian cartoonist. PS: Id just came across this cartoon in another blog, and have taken it from there. Will reveal the blog tomorrow.

Meanwhile, visit www.theiquest.com and play Google The Googlies!

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Six answers, and almost all of them are correct. The cartoonist is Mario Miranda! Forgotten to mention. Got this one from http://8ate.blogspot.com.

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Here’s a trip to the past.

Since ancient times, what in India has been divided into four categories: Hanumanti, Jambuvanti, Jarasandhi and Bhimseni?

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Eight answers, and all almost there, or entirely there. These are indeed the different styles of wrestling practised in India.

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Happy Holi to all of you!

Here's an easy one.

X's father was beheaded at the behest of the king because he was asking for better governance. X received his higher education under Katyayan in Takshashila, and went on to become a great amoral political theorist and kingmaker, dethroning the royal who killed his father and replacing him with a person of his choice. Identify X.

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Sorry for answering this so late. 17 answers, and all correct! It is indeed Chanakya aka Vishnugupta aka Kautilya!

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A relatively easy one.

This was one of the first conversations that took place here. Where? And while you are at it, also identify the person with the handle ‘me’.

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11 answers, and only 3 off the mark! This is the first twitter port, and 'me' is Jack Dorsey!

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This blog is now officially into it’s second year of existence, and I thought of celebrating with a series of questions, open for only a day.

Five subjects, five questions, and 24 hours to answer them all!

1. General. What is the national aquatic animal of India?
2. Entertainment. The goodie bag included the latest Nokia mobile phone, Tag Hauer watches, t-shirts and a letter written personally by Farah Khan, among other things. Who were the recipients, and why were they given this?
3. Technology. The new versions of which operating system, released invariably after every six months, are named after animals?
4. Business. Which soft drink of today derives its name from whiskey that was illegally produced during the prohibition era in the USA?
5. Sports. Who was the sports coach of Sylvester Stallone when he played a footballer in Escape to Victory?

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Five answers, and no all-correct ones, though Mahendra and pritfloyd did come close. Here are the answers.

1. Gangetic dolphin. According to the website of the Indian Government, it is just the River dolphin, which most have mentioned. However, look at the scientific name, which specifically mentions the Ganges. Hence, Gangetic dolphin.
2. These were the goodie bags given by Shah Rukh to all those 30-31 stars and veterans who appeared in the Deewangi song from Om Shanti Om because they would not accept any money.
3. Only pritfloyd got it correct. It’s Ubuntu Linux. Mac OSes do not release new versions exactly after six months.
4. Mountain Dew, which was what moonshine whiskey, a bootleg product, was once called.
5. Gordon Banks.

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In one of his stories, X mentions that one Iqbal Singh once wrote to him, claiming that X was his long-lost brother, separated from their family during the Partition of India and Pakistan. Apparently, X had revealed his real name in an interview, and it was the same as Iqbal’s younger brother. Iqbal had lost his younger brother and sister, the two youngest persons in his family, while travelling from Pakistan to India during the Partition.

Years later, when Iqbal had gone to the funeral of family-friend Afzal Chacha, they had found the little girl now grown and married into a Muslim family, bearing the name Dilshad. It had convinced Iqbal Singh that he would find his youngest brother, nicknamed Punni. He did not even pay attention to X’s letter, which said that X was already 11 years old and living in Delhi when the partition took place.

X finally met Iqbal’s family in 1985, and eight years later, when Iqbal informed him that his (Iqbal’s) father, whom his children called Darji, had died, X wrote that he felt as if his own Darji had passed away.

Identify X. Hint: X has an active interest in astronomy, and even wrote a whole poem when Pluto was ‘demoted’ from planet-status.

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Four answers, and all correct! This is indeed Gulzar, aka Sampooran Singh Kalra.

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From current affairs.

This is one of the first pages of a book of poetry published around two decades ago. It’s now a major draw for an online auction because of the notoriety it’s author has achieved. Who’s the author?

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11 answers, and all correct! This is indeed Charlie Sheen!

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I expect this to be a high-response question.

Simple. Identify who is depicted here, and the artist of this painting. It’s pretty famous.

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Eight responses, including an incomplete one. But all correct, nevertheless. The person depicted is indeed Bharat Mata / Mother India. The artist is Abanindranath Thakur/Tagore, nephew of Rabindranath Tagore, and a famous author in his own right.

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One for my friends down south. And a very easy one at that!

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Identify the lyricist.

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Hey, I thought this would be super-easy! Instead, there are two answers, and only one correct! This was Suttum Vizhi from Kandukondain Kandukondain, and the lyricist, as obviously mentioned in an earlier question, was Bharathiyar, aka Subramanya Bharathi!

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An easier one.

http://soundcloud.com/arkadev/04-1

Identify the television series of which this was the opening music.

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PS: Spare a thought and a prayer for the Japanese who have been affected by the earthquake and the tsunami.

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Four answers, and I’d give it to all four! The piece belongs to The Real Adventures of Johnny Quest.

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This should a slightly difficult.

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Identify the raag in which this piece is composed.

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Looks like this was a toughie, although didn’t expect it to be. This is Raag Darbari. And the piece is Acid Darbari, from the Danny Boyle film 127 Hours. Music, of course, is by AR Rahman.

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A very easier question.

Identify the lyricist.

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Five answers, and this was a bit of a googly, so only one correct! Handa is probably right, if one is to consider that his reply is a nod to Sanjay Leela Bhansali.

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A slightly difficult one.

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This has a very Beatles-like sound to it. I want you to give me the name of the performers, and the occasion when this single was released. Listen carefully, and you’ll find several hints in the piece itself!

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Just one answer, and it has got the performer correct. This is the song Superhero by Parikrama, available free for download on their official website. It was created for Microsoft, to mark the release of Visual Studio 2005 in India. Nobody got that part.

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Here’s an audio-visual question.

On what concept or idea, propagated by a Hungarian author in the early 20th Century, is this music video based? Hint, there has also been a film in 1993 with the same name as the concept or the idea.

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Five answers, and four correct. The concept or the idea I am looking for is Six Degrees of Separation! Look it up, folks, if you don’t know it already. It’s pretty interesting!

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Sometime last night, or early yesterday, this blog, started less than a year ago, crossed the ‘50,000 hits’ mark. In celebration that befits quizzing, there will be a whole week of audio questions on this blog. Hope you enjoy them.

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This is obviously an ABBA song, but the voices are not as obvious. Identify the male voice for me, please!

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Six answers, and five correct.This is indeed Pierce Brosnan, the former James Bond, singing SOS of ABBA in the film Mamma Mia.

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Easy if you know it, or have observed it.

 

In which recent film is this book seen as being read by the central character?

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A measly four answers, and only one correct among them. Priyanka Chopra is shown reading this book in Saath Khoon Maaf!

SPOLER ALERT: For those of you who missed it, look for the scene where Vivaan Shah, after receiving a medical degree, goes back to Priyanka, a 50-year-old. She’s reading this book, The Seven Wives of Bluebeard, before she asks Vivaan to have her body by getting naked in front of him. Additional funda: the woman whose back is shown in the film is actually a 50-year-old woman, and not our PC. She personally chose this old lady for that scene.

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An easy one.

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Connect. Filenames are unchanged, for your convenience.

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Eleven answers, and all correct! Joel Garner and the Great Eagle chain are both nicknamed the Big Bird, and the yellow Sesame Street character is named Big Bird.

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Shouldn’t be too difficult.

These are 10 comics, after which the ‘real’ series began. What am I talking about?

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Seven replies, but only four are on the right track. PS: I had already asked a similar question earlier, albeit with a different visual. The first 10 Amar Chitra Katha (ACK) comics were based on foreign fairy tales, and those are shown here in different Indian languages they were translated to. The 11th, based on the life of Lord Krishna, was the first truly Indian ACK, and hence often regarded thus.

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A super-easy one for the day.

Identify.

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PS: Airtel 3G launched in Rajasthan yesterday. Wait around, guys. The speed is great, but wait around for the unlimited tariffs. there are none on offer so far.

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Seven answers, and all identified Wael Ghonim correctly. Does he even need an introduction in this cyber-age?

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Continuing with the Oscar fever, though it’s over.

Which real life incident, related to the Oscars and a multiple Oscar-winner, reportedly led to the gay comedy In and Out, starring the likes of Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack and Tom Selleck?

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Five wonderful answers! During his acceptance speech for the Best Actor Oscar in Philadelphia, Tom Hanks actually mentioned the names of his drama teacher and one of his classmates, saying that he drew inspiration from them for being gay for the role. However, these two people were still ‘in the closet’ at that time, and Hanks, in effect, actually ‘out’-ed them to the whole world!