Knock knock, Con Hai!

Fun question. Long Connect - five questions connecting to a common theme. Exhaustive list (probably with a couple of other things).

1. An English rock band formed in 1990 influenced by shoegazing and space rock.

 2. A 1977 Hindi film.

3. A film by Shyam Benegal.

4. A 1933 Czechoslovakian film starring a multifaceted personality who invented a precursor to CDMA technology.

5. It is a regional airline which is a wholly owned subsidiary of All Nippon Airways. With Tokyo International Airport as its main base, it flies out to isolated islands and covers other short routes. What is it?

Send your answers by mail to quizinc.nitdgp@gmail.com

Connect

Ans. Micromax

Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna for Micromax

Pic 2 - Micromax character from DC comics

Mid Week Bonus Q

Found this question recently somewhere. Pic 1 will replace Pic 2. Identify / Connect

Ans. Pic1 - James Webb
Pic2 - Edwin Hubble


James Webb space telescope will soon replace the Hubble Telescope


v Chandrasekhar, vish and Nihar got it right

Connect

Connect these pics

Ans. Quoting Zish...


"Connect - Name of Linkin Park's albums 

1) Minutes to midnight (the graph is dooms day clock graph, the lower the graph goes the higher the probability of catastrophe is deemed to be)
2) Meteora - named after meteora monastery in Greece
3) Hybrid Theory - (Darwin's caricature showing his hybrid)"

vish, Zish, blogbyp, Bijeet and Santosh have it right.

Connect / Identify

There is a connect between these pictures. Identify it.


Ans. The connect is Pakistan


Pic 1 - Chukar (type of partridge) - national bird of Pakistan
Pic 2 - Markhor - national animal


Some more info from blogbyp... "Both animals are endangered. Bird almost extinct"


Bijeet and Blogbyp got it right.

Mid Week Bonus Q

Identify the kid using the pic (inset) as a reference


2points at stake!


Ans. Elian Gonzalves.


The main picture shows Elián González, a 11-yr old Cuban boy who was the centre of controversy between govt. of Cuba and USA in year 2000.(Also, can be seen in the picture is Fidel Castro, though out of focus). Elián's mother tried to immigrate to USA illegally with him and her boyfriend. When she drowned, Elián was initially kept with his paternal relatives in Miami, who sought to keep him in the United States against his father's demands that González be returned to Cuba. After a district court's rulling that only Elián's father could petition for the asylum on the boy's behalf and not his extended relatives was upheld and when US Supreme court declined to hear the case, the boy was returned to his father in Cuba. Elián considered Fidel Castro as "not only as a friend but as a father".
The South Park Romania Episode has a scene in it where US forces enter Kenny's house to take him to his father alive, but accidently kill him.


Only Blogbyp and Dolphin have the connect

Connect

Ans. Pic 1: Ayman Abu Aita

Pic 2: Insignia of Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade

Pic 3: King Julien XIII, the Lemur from Madagascar the movie.

Connect: Sasha Baron Cohen/Bruno

Ayman Abu Aita was a part of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade (Pic 2) a Palestinian terrorist organization under Hamas.

He was interviewed by Bruno (played by Baron Cohen) in the movie "Bruno".

He is threatening to sue Sasha Baron Cohen right now for using misrepresentation to obtain his interview.

The last pic is of the character King Julien XIII, a Lemur from Madagascar the movie, his voice overs were done by Sasha Baron Cohen.

Bijeet, Blogbyp and Dolphin with the crack. Great one!

QOTW #10

Connect


Ans. Luminous (brought to you by SAR group) has decided to enter the telecom market. Their venture will be called Wynncom (logo) whose brand ambassador will be Saif Ali Khan.


Correct answers by Ameya, Blogbyp, Bijeet and Vikrant

Mid Week Bonus Q

4 Pics, 2 Points, 2 Word Answer, Connect

Ans. The connect is the Death Star

Quoting Santosh Bhople

Picture shows Saturnine moon Mimas and logos of American Idol, Enron and AT&T

1.There are 2 photographs of Saturnine moon Mimas captured by NASA Cassini spacecraft, first showing surface of Mimas and 2nd showing temperature map showing video game character Pacman eating dot. Surface of Mimas looks like Death Star.
2. In the US, networks that compete with Fox refer to American Idol as the 'Death Star' due to its destructive effects on their schedules and ratings.
3. Enron labeled one of the false companies used in its fraudulent manipulation of the California power grid as 'Death Star'.
4. The logo of AT&T has been compared to the 'Death Star'.

Santosh, Goutamjay,sunny,buckingfastard, blogbyp, Anon (who i believe is dolphin), Bijeet, Avinash and Tania know their Star Wars.

Connect

Question by one of our avid followers... this comes from Avishek Ray (aka Stuntman Mike)

Connect the following pics -

and in a way...

Ans. No one got this right. Great question by Avishek Ray...i mean Stuntman Mike


So here is what...


Let me identify the pics for you...


Pic 1 - A type of interceptor aircraft
Pic 2 - Pele - nickname Black Pearl
Pic 3 - Ford Endeavour
Pic 4 - Queen / Empress Victoria
Pic 5 - Princess Diana
Pic 6 - The Dauntless dive bomber
Pic 7 - Dennis Bergkamp - (wat a playa!) - nickname Non Flying Dutchman as he had fear of flying.


So there you have it...


the connect was - Names of ships mentioned on the Pirates of the Caribbean series.


Went uncracked!!

QOTW #9

Connect the following and give me just one word


Ans. Diesel. 


Shaq 'O Neill - nickname 'Diesel'


Dark Fury - Chronicles of Riddick game. Voice given by Vin Diesel (starred as Riidik in both Pitch Black and Chronicles...)


The weird looking guy is Glen Jacobs popularly known as Kane (Undertaker's bro kayfabe in WWE). He had a small gimmick as the Fake Diesel when Kevin Nash and co left WWE for WCW.


Kevin Nash (Diesel), Scott Hall (Razor Ramon) and Hulk Hogan were the founding members of the NWO (New World Order) considered as one of the best acts in professional wrestling.


Final Pic - Wilbert Das - Dutch Fashion designer and creative director of Diesel - the brand.


Long wordy answer.


Only Bijeet got this correct. Way to go mate!

Connect

Connect reveals recent development

Ans. Cipla sold its iPill manufacturing rights to Nicholas Piramal Pharma. 

The 1st pic has the Piramal Pharma Logo and the 2nd shows Yusuf Khwaja Hameid, Chairman, Cipla group. There is also a refrence to the iPill. The pill seen in the pic is the Philipps iPill.

Bijeet, Anon, Soubhagya  and Blogbyp got this correct

Connect

Ans. Aston Martin. 

Quoting Santosh Bhople - "Company Name 'Aston Martin' is taken from the "Aston Hill" races (near Aston Clinton) where the company was founded, and the surname of Lionel Martin, the company's founder."

Vikrant, Zish, Santosh Bhople, Arjun, Pranav, Buckingfastard, blogbyp, Sudipto Basu, Screwloose and JW got it right

Connect

What do you get if you connect all these three pics

Ans. The World's fastest Indian. 


Pic1 - Burt Munroe (Pic1) - character is played by Anthony Hopkins (Pic 2) in the movie. Pic 3 is one of the very first Indian Bikes.


Avishek Ray, Buckingfastard, Santosh Bhople, blogbyp, Sudipto Basu and JW

Connect

Connect the following pics

Connect the blacked out content....

with the logo here...

and something that this dude invented (as most people believe)

Should be straightforward..this one...

Ans. Good question by Avik. Many seemed to have cracked it. The connect is Lalit Modi (Exec Director of Godfrey Phillips - Pic1, studied in Duke's university - Pic2 and Pic 3 is stuart Robertson - 'Inventor' of T20, and you dont want me to get started on Modi's connection to that)

Connect

The guy (architect) was inspired after he saw that formation on the hill top. So he 'erected' this landmark in this country. Standout feature are those LED lights.

Which famous landmark

Ans. Torre Agbar or the Agbar Tower in Barcelona. The architect is Jean Nouvel who was inspired after seing a natural rock formation at Montserrat.

Torre Agbar (daytime)

Torre Agbar (night)

Connect

This was a question which i had thought of long ago, but never put it up anywhere. So here goes...

How would you connect Pic 1 and Pic 2 to Pic 3

Ans. Pic 1- Them Clones
Pic 2 - Godsmack
Pic 3 - Alice in Chains


Them Clones take their name from the single 'Them Bones' while Godsmack take theirs from 'God Smack', both of which are Alice in Chains Singles.


Blogbyp, Anon and Buckingfastard got this perfect.

Connect

Ans. The connect is of course Padma Lakshmi (Host of Top Chef) .  From wiki - On October 1, 2009, after years of struggling with endometriosis, a condition which causes irregularities in the uterus and has been known to cause infertility, it was publicly confirmed that Lakshmi is pregnant with her first child. Lakshmi has always been coy about the identity of her unborn child's father with reports speculating surrounding Teddy Forstmann (founding partners of Forstmann Little & Company) and friend Adam Dell (brother of Michael Dell). On February 20, 2010, Lakshmi gave birth to a baby girl named Krishna Thea Lakshmi, however she initially refused to publicly name the father of her daughter. Later, on March 18, 2010, Lakshmi confirmed that her daughter's father is Adam Dell.

Connect

Answer - AntiVirus Companies' founders. Kaushik and 'the novice' getting the connects. From top - Peter norton, Eugene and Natalya Kaspersky and John McAfee

Connect

 

Answer - Everyone tried. Tuf one probably. This is 165, University Avenue on Palo Alto (the last pic). Home to all those companies (whose logos ahave been put up) and many more.