Daily Question # 400

And  we’ve  done  a  Brian  Lara  here !!

Who’s  missing ?

A

B

C

Daily Question # 399

What/who  connects  A  to  B , C  and  D ?

A

B

C

D

 

The  names  of  the  characters  in  Matthew  Reilly’s ( A )  ’Scarecrow‘ ( who , in fact ,  is  Capt  Shane  Schofield ) are  inspired  by  St. Aloysius – B ( the character  of  Aloysius  Knight ) , L’Oreal  heiress  Liliane  Bettencourt – C           ( character  being  Lillian  Mattencourt ) and  Star  Wars  character  IG-88 – D  ( the  bounty  hunter  team  IG-88  in  the  novel ) .

Cracked  by  Ajay  Parasuraman ( welcome  back ! ) and  Anil  Raghavan . Super  job  guys !

Daily Question # 398

Who is  she ? What’s  she  pointing  at ?

 

Lena  Soderberg  pointing  at  ’Lenna‘ , a  cropped  image  of  her  playboy  centerfold ,  the  most  widely  used  test  image  for  all   image  processing  algorithms .

Cracked  by  Nishanth  Raman , Rithwik , Debasish , Shrey  Goyal , Manjith , Arun , Arun  Hiregange , Comfortably and Technically Dumb , Freestyler  and  Anil  Raghavan .

Daily Question # 397

Clue ( a  PJ , to  be  frank ) added  for  Q  No. 396 . Give  it  another  shot , all  of  you .

What’s  the  good  connect ?

A

B

Quoting  Appu ,

“Among numerous musicians who have, in full or in part, borrowed or sampled from Ennio Morricone’s ( A ) ‘Good,  Bad and Ugly‘ Theme are Gorillaz (Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn – B , who composed for Monkey: Journey to the West), whose 2001 debut single, “Clint Eastwood”, was so named because it reminded the group of Morricone’s theme and its melodic structure”

Long winded , but  definitely  the  rite  answer

Full  points  to  The Good , The  Bad  and  the  Queen connection  as  well  even  though  thats  not  what  I  was  looking  for .

Cracked  by  Rithwik , Freestyler , Nitish  Khadiya , Nishanth  Raman , Appu ,  Comfortably  and  Technically  Dumb , Arun  and  Subin .

Daily Question # 396

Connect . ( You  may  need  to  do  a  lil  bit  of  lateral  thinking )

A

B

C

D

E

Clue :

a

 

The  connect – Fighter  jets  manufactured  by  Saab

Saab  29  Tunnan , means  ’Flying  Barrel’  -  A

Saab 32  Lansen , meaning  ’Lance’ – B

Saab 35  Draken , meaning  ’Dragon’ – C

Saab 37  Viggen , meaning  ’Thunderbolt’ – D

Saab JAS 39 Gripen , meaning  ’Griffin’ – E

Cracked  by  Appu , Nishanth  Raman , Varuns88  and  I’ll  give  it  to  Freestyler  as  well .

 

Daily Question #395

With apologies for the late posting, what’s the joke daa?

Copy-pasting from Appu who copy-pasted from a reliable source:

“The award Latraviata is receiving parodies the César Award given by the French Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema. The first César Award for Best Actress was given to Romy Schneider (who resembles Latraviata) in 1976.”

Appu, Rithwik, Shrey Goyal, Anagh, Comfortably and Technically dumb, Puzzleshooter and the young man who used to be a regular at Thrissur’s most famous theatre before it was renovated, Anil Raghavan, gets it right.

Daily Question #394

If she was the first, who’s the latest?

Marilynne Robinson is the 2009 winner of the Orange Prize for fiction. Surprisingly uncracked.

Daily Question # 393

Sorry  folks,  Am  travelling , hence  the  delay . The  blog  will  be  back  to  normalcy  in  couple  of  days . And  this  question ( and  the  previous  one  as  well ) stays  open  till  tomorrow .

Looney  Tunes  parody  of  ?

The  answer  I  was  looking  for  was  Dick  Tracy . This  is  Daffy  Duck  in  his  ’Duck  Twacy’  avtar .

Brilliant  crack  by  Freestyler . And  yeah , full  credits  to  everyone  who  saw  Munch’s  ’The  Scream’  here  as  well .

Daily Question # 392

It  is  represented  as  a  combination  of  A  and  B . What ?

A

B

‘The  Sign‘  in  Ace  of  Base’s  eponymous  song  is  represented  as  a  combination  of  the  Egyptian  symbols  Ankh ( A )  and  Djed ( B ) .

Am  giving  full  credits  to  folks  who’ve  identified  both  the  characters – Mrinalini , Arun and Anil  Raghavan .

Daily Question # 391

Anil  Raghavan  has  done  an  Andy  Sandham  here . All  rise  and  applaud ! Congrats  to  Rithwik  and  Kamal  Rathi  as  well ,  for  hitting  the  200  mark .

If  he  is  the  5th  one , who  are  the  other  4 ?

Magnus  Carlsen  is  the  5th  player  and  the  youngest  to  achieve  an  Elo  rating  of  more  than  2800 . The  other  4  are  Gary  Kasparov , Vladimir  Kramnik , Vishwanathan  Anand  and  Veselin  Topalov .

Cracked  by  Freestyler , Anil  Raghavan , Arun , Subin , Chaitra , Mann  and  Rithwik .