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 28/6/2010

Q.Connect the following works of fiction.Connect is very much real.Or was.Probably still is.[1 pt]

[click to see the complete picture]

The good that men do is oft interred with their bones, but the evil lives on.
After all,by what right do we judge good and bad,fair and unfair?

ANS:  Aleister Crowley  ,English occultist, mystic and magician.

QOTD (87) 07/06/2010 [World Cup Countdown-7]

ID the World Cup legend in the centre of the composite image, responsible for one of the biggest upsets in World Cup History. ID the other 4 gentlemen and connect the 5 of them (6 Points)

[Click to enlarge image]

Ans. The central image is of Spain and Real Madrid legend Emilio 'The Vulture' Butragueno

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

He scored 4 times in a 5-1 drubbing of the much fancied Denmark (Laudrup and Elkjaer were members of this squad, remember) in a round of 16 match at the 1986 World Cup, in one of the shock results of the tournament

The other 4 players are Manolo Sanchis, Michel, Rafael Vazquez and Miguel Pardeza

CONNECT: Along with The Vultue ('El Buitre'), these 5 home grown players formed the 'Quinta del Buitre' or 'The Vulture's Cohort', the formidable front line of Real Madrid in the 1980s. This front line, along with the talents of a certain Bernd Schuster, won Real 2 UEFA Cups and 5 consecutive Spanish Championships in the late 1980s

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

Cracked by Khanu, Psi, Vindicated and Patriot

QOTD (86) 06/06/2010

ID the gentleman. What is his most famous creation/invention?

(2 Points)

Ans. Dennis Gabor, noted Electrical Engineer (1900-1979). He is most famous for the invention of holography

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

Also, it was his 110th birth anniversary yesterday, and was commemmorated by Google by a Google Doodle in his honour

Cracked by Vindicated, Joseph Praful, Useless, JT26, Ravikrishnan and Patriot

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 22/5/2010

Id the person in the picture. What unique feat did he achieve recently? (2 Points)

[Clue: Think Books] [Click to enlarge image]

Ans. James Gordon Farrell

He was awarded the 2010 Lost Man Booker for his book ' Troubles' (1970), by a public vote, 30 years after his death

The funda is that there was a rule change in 1970 which caused the book to be disqualified from competing for the Booker in that year. Books published in 1970 were not eligible for the Man Booker Prize due to a rules alteration: until 1970 the prize was awarded to books published in the previous year, while from 1971 onwards it was awarded to books published the same year as the award. Unlucky man!!

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

Correct answers from JT26, Psi, Useless, Joseph Praful ,Patriot and Preetish

QOTD 10/05/2010

Identify.Call it a sitter.

QOTD 5/5/10

Q.The trends of which new and upcoming religion are shown below....(1 point)

The Church Of Google

QOTD 4/5/2010

ID the Indian Biz tycoon (1 Point)

Hmm..nobody seems to have got this...

Another clue.....'Crompton Greaves'

Am leaving the question open for one more day

(Will publish the answer on 6th May 00 00 HRS....)

Gautam Thapar who heads the Avantha Group. Only the half the points were awarded to the right answers as a huge clue was give away .

May Day Special Quiz on Communism, Marxism and other related political philosophies

A Special Quiz on a not-so-popular topic. The Quiz will be open till 7th May 00 00 hrs. So rack your brains till then!!

1. ID the famous communist leader (1 Point)

Ans. Nikita Krushchev, the Russian premeir during the Cold War

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

2. Who is the person blanked out in the image? Which famous co-operative organisation did he help found?This is one of the most iconic images in Indian Political History-What is the funda behind this image ? (3 Points)

Ans. A.K Gopalan

He was instrumental in the setting up of the Indian Coffee House Co-operative Society

The photo is of the 'Navaratnas' or the first ever Politburo of the CPIM

The members were: P.Sundarayya (General Secretary), E.M.S Namboodaripad, A.K Gopalan, M.Basavapunniah, B.T Ranavide, Jyoti Basu, Harkishan Singh Surjeet, P.Ramamurthi and Pramode Dasgupta

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._K._Gopalan

3. Connect the images to a famous political personality. Explain the connection(s) (1 Point)

Ans. Brinda Karat (She was originally an Air Hostess with Air India, she is involved in a public war of words with Baba Ramdev, she acted in 'Amu' and Prannoy Roy of NDTV is her brother-in-law)

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

4. ID the personality? Which famous political manuscript did he co-author? (2 Points)

Ans. Freidrich Engels

He co-authored the Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx

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

5. Z is the name of a village and a region in the northern part of West Bengal. It comes under the jurisdiction of Darjeeling district with its sub-divisional headquarters at Siliguri. Something very famous happened here in the late 1960s that has lead the village's name to become synonymous with a term that is commonly in the news. What term (derived from the village name)?

(1 Point)

Ans. Naxalpuri, from which 'Naxalism' and 'Naxalite' was derived

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

QOTD 3/5/2010

Connect the books shown in the composite image below (1 Point)

Ans. All are books with stories that are set within one single day

QOTD 2/5/2010

The T20 World Cup has begun.....Lets all cheer for Team India

A T20 Question then for todays QOTD...

Connect the following players (Clue: Think of an International T20 Record) (1 Point)

Ans. A twisted one...the victims of the only two International T20 Hattricks

Brett Lee (Aus) vs Bangladesh, Cape Town, 2007 (Shakib Al Hasan, Mashrafe Mortaza and Alok Kapali)

Jacob Oram (Nzl) vs Sri Lanka, Colombo, 2009 (Angelo Mathews, Malinga Bandara and Nuwan Kulasekara)

Incidentally, the Australian innings in the ongoing Pak vs Aus T20 Game saw 4 dismissals in 4 balls(2 run outs included,so it is not a hattrick) in the last over by Mohd Aaamer (the over had a total of 5 wickets...in short, the last over was a 5 wicket maiden!!)

QOTD 29/4/2010

ID and connect the 4 personalities (5 Points)

Ans. Connect: All are Alumni of IIM Calcutta

(From Top)

Swami Shree Mukundanand, spiritual teacher and senior desciple of Shree Kripaluji Maharaj

Ajit Balakrishnan, Founder and CEO of Rediff.com

Ramachandra Guha, Noted Historian and Author

Indra Nooyi, Chairman and CEO, PepsicCo. Inc.

QOTD 28/4/2010

ID the company from the logo (Hint: Current Affairs) (1 Point)

Ans. Rendezvous Sports, owners of the Kochi IPL Franchise

QOTD 26/4/2010 (IPL Finale Special)

CSK wins the IPL!!!! Yaaaaaayyyyy!!!!

Ahem....we are totally neutral by the way [;)]

So todays question is obviously on the IPL

Q)

ID and Connect the 5 personalities (5 Points-no points for identifying Yuvraj!!)

Ans. All are sons of former Indian cricketers and are now involved with the IPL

(From Top)

Mohammed Ayazuddin, son of Mohammed Azharuddin and Shartunjay Gaekwad, son of Anshuman Gaekwad (both are contracted with KKR);

Anirudha Srikanth, son of Kris Srikkanth (CSK), Yuvi, son of Yograj Singh and Angad Bedi, son of Bishen Singh Bedi and who is now a presenter with Set Max

QOTD 25/4/2010

All the best for the Synergy Sports Quiz prelims participants!!

Todays QOTD is a sports question

Connect the 3 Sportspersons shown (1 Point)

Ans. All are nicknamed 'El Nino' meaning 'The Child' in Spanish

(From Top) Spanish Golfer Sergio Garcia, Soccer superstar Fernando Torres (Spain and Liverpool) and Baseball player Hanley Ramirez of the Florida Marlins

QOTD 24/4/2010

Q...Which sItE[1 point]?

Ans. Uncyclopedia, a popular site that mocks Wikipedia

QOTD 23/4/2010

ID and Connect the 4 personalities (non-exhaustive list) (5 Points)

   



Ans: Virginia Woolf,John Maynard Keynes,Giles Lytton strachey and Vanessa Bell.
Connect: The Bloomsbury group.

QOTD 20/10/2010

Identify and Connect the four women in the picture above[5 points].

Ans:[clockwise from top left]Aline Brosh McKenna,Meryl Streep,Lauren Weisberger,Anna Wintour.The movie Devil wears prada starring Meryl Streep is a screen adaptation of the novel by the same name,authored by Lauren Weisberger.The screenplay of the movie was written by Aline Brosh McKenna,and Meryl Streep's character in the movie,Miranda Priestly,is loosely based on Anna Wintour,Editor-in-chief, U.S. Vogue for whom Lauren Weisberger had worked.

Devil Wears Prada

QOTD 19/4/2010

Connect......(3 points)

   

Ans: Odyssey,P-2 Neptune,Nashville,Cairo.

Odyssey,Neptune,Nashville and Cairo were codenames of windows versions abandoned during development.