Showing posts with label connect. Show all posts
Showing posts with label connect. Show all posts

Sunday, July 29, 2012

Question 1439 : What's in a name ..




Why have the above venues been renamed for the London 2012 Olympics?
Answer: As a benefit to the sponsors,naming rights for Olympic venues is another big opportunity for sponsor marketers. 3 London Olympic 2012 venues will be temporarily renamed for the duration of the Games – The O2 Arena (North Greenwich Arena), Sports Direct Arena (St James’ Park) and the Ricoh Arena (City of Coventry Stadium).

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Friday, July 27, 2012

Question 1438: "ZION"


Book covers of biographical books based on the lives of the two respective persons. More recently to commemorate their pioneering work, certain entities have been named after their individual endeavors which are supposedly firsts in their categories.

What am I talking about?
Funda.

(Hint: The two adopted names are right there on the covers somewhere)
Answer: 1.Dr. William Penny Brookes, Olympic revivalist-London 2012 Olympics Mascot is named Wenlock after Much Wenlock(Shropshire)in England where Dr. Brookes conducted the Games which inspired Baron Pierre De Coubertin to set up the International Olympics Committee(IOC). 2.Sir Ludwig Guttmann, founder of the Paralympics-The 2012 London Paralympics Mascot is named Mandeville after Stoke Mandeville Hospital for Spinal Injuries in Buckinghamshire(England) setup by Sir Guttman.He conducted the Stoke Mandeville Games for the disabled which led to the Paralympics.

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Monday, July 23, 2012

Question 1434: Triomphe



What's missing in the list?
Which list?

Answer: Tour de France

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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Question 1429

 Name the elements identify the blank face & CONNECT :-




Answer: An uncracked question after many days!
All of them are the only 4 female music directors in Bollywood. Jaddanbai, Saraswati Devi, Usha Khanna and the last being the recent Sneha Khanwalkar.

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Thursday, July 12, 2012

Question 1423

Connect the following to a song.




Answer: Connect: The Spirit of Radio by Rush.
1. The song's name was inspired by Toronto radio station CFNY's slogan.
2. The final lines of the song ("For the words of the profits were written on the studio wall.../Concert hall/And echoes with the sounds of salesmen") are an allusion to the famous final lyrics from the Simon and Garfunkel classic "The Sound of Silence": "...the words of the prophets/Are written on the subway walls/And tenement halls/And whispered in the sounds of silence."
3. The song is on the album "Permanent Waves", the cover art for which comes from a photo, taken by Flip Schulke, of the Galveston Seawall in Texas during Hurricane Carla on September 11, 1961.
4. Marconi, inventor of the radio.

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Friday, June 22, 2012

Question 1409: Everything in Pieces ...

What is common to all these organisations? Understandably the list is dominated by UN subsidiaries.


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Answer: Only organisations which have won the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Question 1408: Connect







Answer: Intel Xolo 900
Smartphone developed by Gigabyte and Intel also marketed as 'San Diego' by Orange in Europe.
The Mexican hairless dog (Xoloitzcuintli)is called Xolo popularly.

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Friday, April 20, 2012

Question 1399: The Vampires



Funda?
Answer:
pic 1-Dr William Lorenzo Moss
pic 2-Jan Jansky
pic 3-Karl Landsteiner

All of them were serologists who devised various methods to classify blood into various types.

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Monday, April 16, 2012

Question 1397: Mash up

Quite some time since we have had a multiple element long connect, here's one:


The song A was written by B in 1975 and released as a part of the album of the same name. The song is about B's relationship with C ten years before, although C is not specifically named in the song.  B in fact told C that the song was about her ex-husband, which was obviously not true.

 In her memoir, B records a conversation with C:
"You gonna sing that song about robin's eggs and diamonds?" C had asked me on the first day of rehearsals.
"Which one?"
"You know, that one about blue eyes and ________..."
"Oh", I said, "you must mean 'A', the song I wrote for my husband, ______. I wrote it while he was in prison."
"For your husband?" C said.
"Yeah. Who did you think it was about?" I stonewalled.C
"Oh, hey, what the f*** do I know?"
"Never mind. Yeah, I'll sing it, if you like."

After a couple of years, the band D covered the song A with changed lyrics. This cover is a heavier version of the original song which had primarily folk roots. It often features on the live setlists of the D. In recent years, D have been performing a mostly-acoustic version of the song that is more similar to the original than the heavier version.

The band D is one of the oldest, most influential bands of their genre. The band takes its name from a song E by C. Another Swedish punk band is also named after the song E.


Identify A,B,C,D,E.

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Sunday, April 15, 2012

Question 1396: For Guy Fawkes

Connect the actor/director in 1 to the Nobel laureates in 2:

1

2


Answer:
Pic 1-Sheldon Leonard
Pic 2-Robert Hofstadter/Leon Cooper

Their names served as the names of the main characters of "The Big Bang Theory" i.e Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter.

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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Question 1393: False advertising

Connect all these groups:

A) Aldrin, Chlordane, Dieldrin, Endrin, Heptachlor, Hexachlorobenzene, Mirex, Toxaphene, Polychlorinated biphenyls, DDT, polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans.

B) Saddam Hussein, Qusay Hussein, Uday Hussein, Taha Yassin Ramadan, Tariq Aziz, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Sabawi Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Watban Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Ali Hassan al-Majid, Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri, Aziz Saleh Nuhmah and Mohammed Amza Zubeidi.

C) VR Franko, M Vladek, RT Jefferson, VL Pinkley, S Gilpin, S Posey, T Wladislaw, SK Sawyer, R Lever, TR Bravos, JP Jiminez, AJ MAggott.

D) Bob Breunig, Pat Donovan, Thomas Henderson, Mitch Hoopes, Percy Howard, Randy Hughes, Scott Laidlaw, Burton Lawless, Herbert Scott, Randy White, Mike Hegman, Roland Woolsey.

Also, if you've been watching new Bollywood releases, this might piss you off.


Answer: All are called The Dirty Dozen.

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Saturday, April 7, 2012

Question 1390: Donnie DARKO

Give me a two-word phrase that connects 'A' to 'B'.

A



B


Answer: "Hello Andheron!"
The theme song for the Avengers movie in India. Composed by Agnee featuring Aditi Singh Sharma & written by Abbas Tyrewala.

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Friday, April 6, 2012

Question 1389: Vmen....




Connect the four images!

Answer: Viva!
The Indian pop group formed by channel V.
A:Seema Ramchandani
B:Pratichee Mohapatra
C:Neha Bhasin
D:Anushka Manchanda

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Monday, April 2, 2012

Question 1385: Not the end of the world

What connects the following entities?


Answer: Picture1 shows mathematician Edouard Lucas who invented the 'Tower of Hanoi' puzzle which is also known as tower of Bramha, who is shown in the second picture, while the third picture depicts 'Emblem of Hanoi'.

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Friday, March 30, 2012

Question 1382: Mad is in!



Id the three characters. Connect.


Answer: All are characters portrayed by Sasha Baron Cohen: Borat, Ali G and Bruno. He has a new movie 'The Dictator' slated for a release in summer 2012.

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Sunday, March 18, 2012

Question 1377: Cheeky!

Connect:



Answer: Parody awards:

The Golden Raspberry awards, The Ignobel, The Darwin Awards, The Pigasus Awards, The Golden Fleece awards.

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Thursday, March 15, 2012

Question 1376: If some Trivia could help!

Which person do all these songs relate to?

  1. Bullah ki Jaana - Rabbi
  2. Chaiyya Chaiyya- Dil Se..
  3. Bandeya Ho - Khuda ke Liye
  4. Ranjha Ranjha - Raavan
  5. O Yaar Mere - Wednesday

Answer: Songs that have used verses from the kafis of Baba Bulleh Shah.

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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Question 1374: Drown and dunk!

The following pics show various brands associated with sets A, B & C in different categories. Funda?











Answer: Grouping done on the basis of flavour.
SET A: Brands produced by Parle in the past and the present.(many of which were acquired by Coca Cola in 1993: Thumps up, Limca, Mazaa, Gold Spot ....)

SET B: Brands owned by Coca Cola

SET C: Brands of Pepsico in the same domains

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Friday, March 9, 2012

Question 1373: Funda?


Answer: Ben Affleck, Clint Eastwood and Martin Scorcesse directed those three movies respectively, which are all based on books of the same names written by Dennis Lehane.

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Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Question 1372: Funda?


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