QOTD 20/08/10

A very famous cult movie featured this song in its opening credits. The soundtrack of this movie became 21 on the Billboard 200 list, and went on to become platinum.Thats how we might have come across this catchy tune for the first time.

Later,William James (known by a completely different stage name) came across this tune by accident in a music store in Brazil.The version James came across was done by Dick Dale who also did the tune for the abve moive.He claims to have made a famous song of his,which incorporates this tune, while on a train in Brazil, and later on, on a flight to Tokyo. The song became a #3 on the UK singles chart,#1 in Belgian top 50. That should have technically been the second time we mite have come across the tune.

The tune was used a number of times in a number of ads,movies,tv shows.

Identify the movie, the band which James is a member of, the song which uses the tune, and the name of this famous tune.






Ans: The movie is 'Pulp Fiction' , the band 'Black Eyed Peas' (William James is will.i.am)  , th song which uses the tune is Pump It and the tune itself is Misirlou.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misirlou

QOTD 19/08/10

Something to be proud of...Identify the building, its location and relation to the Godman.

Ans: The building is the World Centre of Vedic Learning, still only in the planning stage, but once built will become the world's tallest building. The WCVL is planned to be constructed near Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh.

The Godman is Maharishi Mahesh Yogi( of the Beatles Fame) who announced the construction.

ps: Attempt the Special Quiz on Harvest Festivals.

QOTD 18/08/10

aiConnect these people...identify all of them....(7 points).

Ans: They are all whistleblowers, who have been portrayed on screen(ie. the movies)

1st pic is of Frank Serpico (portrayed in the movie 'Serpico' by Al Pacino)

2nd pic is of Jeffrey Wigand (in the movie 'The Insider' by Russel Crowe)

3rd pic is of Erin Brockovich (in the movie 'Erin Brockovich' by Julia Roberts)

4th pic is of Mark W. Felt "Deep Throat" (in the movie 'All The President's Men' by Hal Holbrook)

5th pic is Karen Silkwood (in the movie 'Silkwood' by Meryl Streep)

6th pic if of Mark Whitacre (in the movie 'The Informant' by Matt Damon)

ps: I thought Matt Damon should have been the greatest clue to the entire question. It should have been reasonably easy to work backwards from Matt Damon.

Attempt the special quiz: http://theilluminatiquiz.blogspot.com/p/harvest-festivals-special-quiz.html

QOTD (74) 25/5/2010

ID and connect the 3 images in the composite picture (4 Points)

[Click to enlarge image] [Clue: The connect is a 7-letter keyword]

Ans. 'PIONEER'

Pic 1 shows the Pioneer Effect, the observed deviation from predicted trajectories and velocities of various unmanned spacecraft visiting the outer Solar System, notably the Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 (blanked out in the image shown)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_effect

Pic 2 is Chandan Mitra (famous as BJP Spokesperson in CNN-IBN)

He is also Chief Editor and MD of 'The Pioneer', a medium sized English Newspaper in India

Pic 3 is Rudyard Kipling. He (in his early 20s) , had worked at 'The Pioneer's Allahabad Office as an Assistand Editor from November 1887 to March 1889

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pioneer_(daily)

Tough one i guess. Cracked only by Patriot. Chandan Mitra identified by both Useless and Lakshman

QOTD 05/04/10

Find the connect.......(2 points)

Ans:Douglas Fairbanks

Tyrone Power, Guy Williams, Anthony Hopkins all played Don De La Vega aka Zorro
Gene Kelly,Chris O' Donnell, Gabriel Byrne all played D'Artagnan (of the The Three Musketeers)
Errol Flynn, Kevin Costner, Cary Elwes all played Robin Hood, another really famous name not in the list was Russell Crowe.

Douglas Fairbanks has played all these great roles and also that of Alladin(or based on him).

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