Tuesday 24 January 2012

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This is my tribute to all engineers who have struggled with Electronics in their first year. By the way, the original is not mine, and neither do I claim copyright to it. And that leaves me vulnerable to SOPA and Sibal, I guess. (I know the discrepancies, but just trying to increase some awareness here.)

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Simple. Tell me what to words are blocked out from this webcomic. The drawings are a hint as to what they are.

PS: Given below are the questions for Mind Your Business Quiz, edition 10, by yours truly. It is published every Friday in The Financial World, New Delhi edition.

MYB - 10

Send in the answers to all questions via SMS to 09999777553 before noon today, and you could win a book!

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

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Should have been too easy, as the two answers show. This is Transformers, the boring version!

Sunday 15 January 2012

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A part-easy part-difficult question.

QR 351 by arkadev

Simple part: Identify the work of fiction this music belongs to. Difficult: Identify the performers of this piece.

Oh, and also, given below are the questions for Mind Your Business Quiz, edition 9, by yours truly. It is published every Friday in The Financial World, New Delhi edition.

MYB---9---Cropped_thumb2

Send in the answers to all questions via SMS to 09999777553 before 12 noon, January 17, and you could win a book!

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

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Not answered here, but on FB, where I had posted the link. The music, obviously, is from the Super Mario Brothers, but the performers are an eclectic bunch – the London Philharmonic Orchestra!

Saturday 14 January 2012

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A slightly cryptic one for today.

The developers of an immensely famous multimedia software attributed a very unusual development with their product to four reasons.

  1. X 5 combines the best aspects of X 2 and X 3 into one player. Hence X 2 + X 3 =
    X 5!
  2. [Y]
  3. We think that a Fibonacci sequence for versioning might be pretty damn cool.
  4. We improved so much in X 5 that we figured it warranted Z.

X is the name of the software. The third reason, Y, contains a somewhat NSFW pun, and Z is the unusual development. Give me all three.

Oh, and also, given below are the questions for Mind Your Business Quiz, edition 9, by yours truly. It is published every Friday in The Financial World, New Delhi edition.

MYB - 9 - Cropped

Send in the answers to all questions via SMS to 09999777553 before 12 noon, January 17, and you could win a book!

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

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No answers again! X was Winamp, Y was ‘Because who would want to see ‘Winamp 4 skin’?’ Z was skipping a version. There was no Winamp 4 after Winamp 3. It went straight to Winamp 5.

Friday 13 January 2012

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This time, it’s a straight one.

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This was the first in a series of many more to come. What?

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

PS: Look out for my questions in The Financial World today. Will post them here tomorrow. Answer them all, and you could win a book!

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Strange! Over 400 visits, and no reply! This was the first Harley Davidson, folks!

Thursday 12 January 2012

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An absolute sitter after yesterday’s question.

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Simple. Identify the screen personae. Image courtesy 9GAG.

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

PS: Visit my opinion blog too!

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Two answers here, but 200 more hits than the day before! The four hairstyles/heads/silhouettes are indeed in the likeness of the lead cast of The Big Bang Theory.

Wednesday 11 January 2012

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Ok folks, I am back.

Shifted to Delhi about three months ago, and have been working for The Financial World, a relatively new newspaper from the Tehelka stable.

Managed to start a business quiz column here, so will upload those questions here too. Answer all of them correctly via SMS, and you could win a good book!

Meanwhile, here’s today’s question of the day.

Yeti-Crabs

This is a very specific kind of yeti crab. It got it nickname from a certain feature it has in common with the star of an erstwhile famous television show in the USA. What is the nickname?

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

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Just one answer? Expected better, folks! ‘Rage’ is correct. This is indeed The Hoff, named after the very hairy David Hasselhoff, of Baywatch and Knight Rider fame.