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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!

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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!

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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.

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.

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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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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.”

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

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This one is dedicated to my good friend Rohit Iyer.

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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!

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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?

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.

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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!

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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.

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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!

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!

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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!