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.

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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)

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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.

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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

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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

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