What connects the following?
Answer: JD Sallinger, Morarji Desai, Bear Grylls
All have subjected themselves to urine therapy.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Question 1367: Nice try
Answer: JD Sallinger, Morarji Desai, Bear Grylls
All have subjected themselves to urine therapy.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Question 1366: Numero Uno
Persons 'A' & 'B' have held a particular office during their lifetime.
'A' was preceded by (1) and succeeded by (2).
'B' was preceded by (2) and succeeded by (3).
(1)
(2)
(3)
Persons 'A', 'B' along with another 'C' also share something distinctly common.
A? B? C?
Distinction shared by A, B, C?
A? B? C?
Distinction shared by A, B, C?
Answer:
A: C. Rajgopalachari
B: S. Radhakrishnan
C: Dr C V Raman
A and B were Governer General/President of India
A,B and C were the first recipients of the Bharat Ratna in 1951
1:Mountbatten
2:Rajendra Prasad
3:Zakir Hussain
28th Feb is celebrated in India as Science Day in memory of C.V. Raman's discovery of 'The Raman Effect'.
Questioin 1365: The name of the rose
The denier was a Franksih coin created by Charlemagne. This system and the denier itself served as the model for many of Europe's currencies, including the pund, lira, peseta and dinheiro. The name denier was derived from the name of the Roman coin denarius.
This following is a denarius/denier issued by Louis the Pious, during his reign:
What is its current day significance ?
This following is a denarius/denier issued by Louis the Pious, during his reign:
What is its current day significance ?
Answer: The new Indian two-rupee coin issued by RBI in 2006 resembles the denarius leading to an outrage amongst Hindu Nationalists.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Question 1364: Signs of time......
Question dedicated to Quizlexic founder and an eminent quizzer, Rohan Danait, who celebrated his B'day yesterday. Cheers!
TIME magazine cover commemorating what? Funda?
Answer: The 1993 WTC bombings which was the first attempt to bring down the twin towers.
Well it happened on 26th Feb 1993.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Question 1363: Child's play
What fits in? Funda?
Answer: Justice League of America
The Marvel Comics movie 'The Avengers' releases in 2012 in attempt to emulate the success of DC comics Justice League.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Question 1362: Big egos
In a certain film franchise, 1 has played the character X in all the films of the franchise. In the first film of this franchise, 2 played the character Y. The character Y doesn't appear in any of the following sequels until he makes an appearance in the last film of the franchise. However, in the last film, Y is instead played by 1. (1 plays both X and Y only in the last film)
Identify X and Y. (Pseudo bonus for the actors)
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Identify X and Y. (Pseudo bonus for the actors)
Answer:
1: Warwick Davis
2: Verne Troyer
X:Prof Flitwick
Y:Griphook
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Question 1361: War & Peace
Following list shows various code-names adopted for certain war-time activity 'X'.
1. British Army: 'Boniface' (X as Forecaster of good future; benefactor)
2. U.S. Army against Japan: 'Magic' (mysterious and powerful nature of X)
3. British Military against Germany: Y (referring to X's 'most secret' nature)
'Y' eventually became the standard designation among western allies in WWII. As is evident the name 'Y' arose because it was considered most important than that designated as highest by British services.
Winston Churchill famously remarked "It was thanks to Y that we won the war."
X? Y? Funda?
Answer: X: Enigma code decrypting
Y: Ultra
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Question 1360: Salvation lies within
Put funda/connect.
Answer: Wayne Mclaren or the Marlboro Man. After developing lung cancer due to smoking, became an anti-smoking activist till the time of his death.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Question 1359: Double flip
This is a 1486 Botticelli painting which depicts the goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as a fully grown woman, arriving at the sea-shore. It is currently displayed at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. What fictional character was inspired by this painting and conveyed both a sense of raw mechanical power and femininity?
Answer: GLaDOS, short for Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System, a fictional artificially intelligent computer system used in Valve Software's Half-Life video game series and the main antagonist in the video games Portal and Portal 2.
Monday, February 20, 2012
Question 1358: Draco's mom will hear about this
Identify this super dude and what's so special about this tattoo.
Answer: Stephen Gilchrist Glover
The tattoo is his own picture
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