Saturday, April 30, 2011

Question 1102: God Save The Meme




In the very first episode, _______ addresses X as "X Foreman", as this is the surname X's granddaughter Susan goes by, and the junkyard in which they find him bears the sign "I.M. Foreman". When addressed by Ian with this name in the next episode, X responds, "Eh? Y ? What's he talking about?" Later, when he realises that "Foreman" is not X's name, Ian asks Barbara, "Who is he? Y?" (In an ultimately-unused idea from documents written at the series' inception, Barbara and Ian would have subsequently referred to X as 'Y', given their not knowing his name.)

ID Y, the blanked out face. Right Click -->Open Link in new tab to expand the picture.Answer: Doctor Who.

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Question 1101: Tetrapacked!

X is a theorem which is yet to be proved, although it is one of the major theorems to have a computer-assisted proof (not counted as a REAL proof). It was first put forward by Francis Guthrie, whose brother then took it to De Morgan.

Illustrations of the theorem:




Answer: Four Coloured Theorem. It states that any planar graph/map can be filled with a minimum four colours such that no two adjacent spaces are filled with the same colour. In short, see the pics.



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Friday, April 29, 2011

Question 1100: Walking on a thin red line

And we reach 1100 questions! HURRAY!


What does the thin red line signify?




P.S. Lots of unanswered questions below. They will remain open for another day or so.


Answer: Royal Wedding route London 2011

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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Question 1099: I AM THE SWOORD MASTER!

This kid's in the news and on memes right now. ID the blanks.



Answer: World Of Warcraft.

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Question 1098: Cry me a river

Identify the trio and put funda.


Answer: Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, and Michael C. Williams of The Blair Witch Project fame.

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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Question 1097: Ji Haan


What is the link between all these companies?



Answer: Companies involved in 2G scam - Videocon, Unitech, DB Realty, Kalaignar TV, Reliance and Swan Telecom.

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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Question 1096: Whichaka!

X is named after Johann Baptist von ____, a German naturalist who discovered the species. The species is critically endangered, and extinct in the wild. There are only 85 Xs in captivity now.



X has now starred in a recent film. Id X and the film.

Answer: X- Spix's macaw. The title is how the mating call of the bird apparently sounds. The film is Rio! I have to see the movie, darn it.

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Question 1095: Pickled greens?

You will see such images making the rounds of the internet a lot these days, here's a funny one.

What have I blanked out? (Its given in Devanagri, but you could give the English phonetic alternative :P)



My apologies to those who can't understand Hindi, you will have to pass on this one. OR you can always give a shot using TinEye...


Answer: BHRASHT it is! BHRASHT-ACHAR or in English "CORRUPTION"

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Monday, April 25, 2011

Question 1094

Combine the three images to the name of a company and do elaborate.




Answer: 1) Mosaic Art 2) Iron Maiden's album Killers 3) Godzilla. The name was created as a portmanteau of the words "Mosaic killer", hinting that Netscape Navigator would be the end to the (then only) competitor browser, Mosaic. The logo was a reference to the name of the fictional monster Godzilla. Hence Mozilla is MOsaic-killer godZILLA

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Question 1093: Hard on

Plain and simple for today, identify.



Answer: Ed Wood in Glen and Glenda. Dont bother to see the movie, but do check out his Wiki article.

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