Friday, June 15, 2007

    Pic Quiz #5


    It is neither the Mohan Veena nor the Tanpura...it is actuallya Persian instrument called the 'Setar'...not to be confused with Sitar

    Pic Quiz #4


    He is Trevor Bayliss...the new SriLankan coach...

    Connect #3




    Hahahaha...this is fun...no one guessed the second pic at least...I m keeping the answer to myself for some more days...try figuring out the second pic...u all know him or at least have heard of him...

    Pic Quiz #3


    G - mo nailed it...It is Slayer...

    Connect #2

















    Excellent work by Tania and Avishek...answer is Hank Azaria...explanations in the comment box

    Pic Quiz #2


    Well this was a tuf one...
    It is the Sanrio Entertainment Island Project...Sanrio is the Japanese company which comes out with those 'Hello Kitty' dolls

    Pic Quiz #1


    The person is Suresh Kalmadi...chief of Indian Olympic Association...Ecclestone just wrote him a letter about the new F1 race in India

    Quickie

    Which company was originally called Qingdao Refrigerator Co.

    Yes Avik..it is Haier

    Question of the Day!!

    Retired physician and self-appointed literary critic, he took it upon himself to tidy up the works of Shakespeare by removing those lines, "which cannot with propriety be read in a family." In his 1818 volume, 'The Family Shakespeare', he severely cut some speeches, omitted certain bawdy characters entirely and in the case of expletives, included the word 'God'. Name this person and the word.

    Sudarshan gets it rite...Thomas Bowdler is the person and 'bowdlerise' is the word

    Connect #1











    The connect is Daredevil...
    Sudarshan almost got it rite there...Had it been Frank Miller i wudnt have given his pic...
    Pic 1 - Daredevil's First TV appearance
    Pic 2 - Frank Miller
    Pic 3 - Kingpin - daredevils archnemesis
    Pic 4 - Daredevils first appearnce in a comic bk designed by Frank
    Other explanations by Sudarshan in the comment box

    Answers to May 30th questions!!!

    Here they are!!!

    1)AXA

    2)Google

    3)Get 'lucky' on an airplane with a girl...if u knw wat i mean

    4)IKEA

    5)Hinduja Group

    6)New Number plates on Singaporen roads

    7)MI5

    8)A Gud Question i believe...above - Kevin Moran, Below - Jose Antonio Reyes...only two people to get red careded in an FA cup final

    9)X- Robert Adler
    Y - Remote Control
    Z - Television

    10)The guy being awarded is Robert Cade of the Gatorade fame

    Scores

    Anil - 7points
    Sudarshan - 5points
    Avishek - 4points

    Keep up the good wrk!!!

    Friday, June 8, 2007

    Question of the day!

    Allegedly a member of this band came up with the name as an anagram of the beer he was drinking at the time : Cully's Stout Beer. It has also been said that it was based on a recipe that their manager found and their obsession with occult. Which Band???

    The Answers...

    Fresh@ is the retail chain of Heritage Foods owned by Chandrababu Naidu...Anil and Marut get it

    Deepak Mahoni coined the word Sensex...Anil and Marut yet again

    Abi and Marut get Ranbaxy rite...formerly known as Fortis..now Religare

    Urdu???If life was that simple...well Santosh gives me the connection...i could take that as well...Gulzar's fixation with Galib...well another connection which i was looking for was Bali Maran...the place where Galib was born, same as Gulzar...even the song has a stanza where the place is mentioned...chk it out!!!Good try folks

    The Female...jus coz one person says Brande...evryone else goes with the same...It is Courtney Love..Boy i didnt know Out of Control was supposed to be taken so seriously...Sorry people my mistake...i should control my 'play with words' the next time round...:)

    Sudarshan and Debleena got The Green Lantern rite

    Just one hint and Marut got it...Camaro it is...

    Connect #2 - AC Milan...Avik getting it rite and Santosh cgiving the finishing touches...good one...

    Marut, Vj, Sudarshan , Tania...all scoring..Miss Universe it is...By the way!!! Miss Japan wasnt all dat good lookin rite??i didnt quite like her...

    Well the map...way to go Anil...you broke away from the rest and cracked it rite...Awesome one... it is the Kyoto Protocol...USA and Australia are yet to ratify it...

    Connect#3 - well i purposely gave all the pics in B/W...but Sudarshan can you name all the people there...the connect is rite though...It is Superman...people who have played the action hero...And i deliberately didnt give Christopher Reeves and Brandon Routh as hints...

    And Lastly...Avik and Nadu get Bob Houghton rite - the Indian Football Coach

    Great Going people...sorry for all the delays...



    Delay yet again!!!

    Ah yes...the procrastination...I am in India dudes...so there is gonna be a lot of delays...But we must move on!!!