QOTD (89) 09/06/2010 [World Cup Countdown-8]

ID the legendary English player, who according to Alf Ramsey and Bobby Charlton, was the the most technically gifted player of his generation and would have surely spearheaded the English attack at the 1966 World Cup, had not fate intervened. Who and why did he not play ?

(2 Points)

[Click to enlarge image]

Ans. The player is Duncan Edwards, legendary Man-Utd player and most famous among the 'Busby Babes'. He was critically injured in the Munich Air Disaster in 1958 and died of kidney failure a few days later

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

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

Salute to legends like him, who never got to play at the World Cup, due to one reason or the other-To Di Stefano, Schuster, George Weah, Tessier, Kanchelskis, Kubola, Ryan Giggs, George Best, Cantona, Ian Rush, Mark Hughes, Ginola etc.

Cracked by Psi, Nightwing, Khanu, JT26, Vindicated and Joseph Praful

QOTD (88) 08/06/2010

ID the brand being endorsed. What is it's current relevance? (2 Points)

Ans. The brand is Longines, a watch brand owned by the Swatch Group

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

Aishwarya Rai is the Brand Ambassador of the company and she was in the news recently for skipping the IIFA Awards to attend the French Open at Rolland Garros, as Longines is the Official Timekeeper of the Tournament

Below is the full ad

Cracked by Vinu, Vindicated, Joseph Praful, Useless, Preetish AND JT26. Partially correct answers from Ravikrishnan and Psi

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 (76) 27/5/2010

ID the gentleman on the left (He is probably more known internationally than in his home country) [1 Point]

Ans. Sudarshan Patnaik, the famous Indian Sand Sculptor

Cracked by Patriot and Psi

Some of his works are shown below

http://www.travelindiaonline.org/2008/02/beautiful-sand-art-by-sudarshan-patnaik.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 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 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 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 27/4/2010

ID the monumnet, which because of its beauty is nicknamed 'The Second Taj Mahal of India' (1 Point)

Ans. Sher Shah Suri's Tomb in Sasaram, Bihar

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sher_Shah_Suri_Tomb