Daily Question # 141 February 28, 2009
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The Monthly Set closes tomorrow . Find it here and send in your attempts asap .
Connect .

A

B

C
Babur ( A ) , Akbar ( B ) and Ahmed Shah Abdali ( C ) – the victors in the Three Battles of Panipat in 1526 , 1556 and 1761 respectively .
Cracked by Rithwik , Deepu , Ajay Joy , Incognito , Rohit Pisharoty and Anil Raghavan .
Daily Question # 140 February 27, 2009
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The Monthly Set closes on the 1st of March . Find it here .
What happened as a result of this ?
The pic depicts the BULLDOZER REVOLUTION of 2000 which resulted in the downfall of Slobodan Milosevic’s regime in Serbia . It was given this nickname after the most memorable event of the protest in which a bulldozer ( the one in the pic ) was used to charge the Radio and Television Building of Serbia , a landmark which had come to represent Milosevic’s authoritarian regime .
Cracked by Varun Shenoy , Deepu and Anil Raghavan .
Daily Question # 139 February 26, 2009
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Which mythical creature connects ?

A

B
A – Madame Blavatsky
B – August Kekule
The connect – OUROBOROS , the serpent devouring its own tail and thereby forming a circle .
Madame Blavatsy founded the Theosophical Society in 1875 and the logo of the organisation features an Ouroboros . August Kekule attributed his discovery of the structure of Benzene to a dream of his featuring an Ouroboros .
Cracked by Malcaluffin , Varun Shenoy and Anil Raghavan .
Daily Question # 138 February 25, 2009
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Find The Monthly Set – 3 here .
What was their mission ?
The Tangaroa expedition attempted to duplicate Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki expedition and successfully completed the voyage in mid 2006 . The dude on the extreme left is Olav Heyerdahl , Thor Heyerdahl’s grandson .
Cracked by Deepu , Incognito , Raouf , Varun Shenoy , Sandeep , Anil Raghavan and Rohit Pisharoty .
Daily Question # 137 February 24, 2009
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Find The Monthly Set – 3 here .
A provided music for a movie based on B which was directed by C . The name of the movie is the same as D ‘s nickname . D was the top-scorer at an event held in the last decade of the last century in city E . F is one of the prime attractions at G , a structure located in city E . To complete the connect , G was inaugurated in the 1970s and opened to a work H by A which was based on a work by I .
Solve for A – I .

A

B

C

D

F

I
A – Sergei Prokofiev
B – Ivan the Terrible
C – Sergei Eisenstein
D – Ivan Zamorano
E – Sydney ( the event being the 2000 Sydney Olympic games )
F – The Grand Organ , the world’s largest mechanical tracker – action pipe organ
G – The Sydney Opera House
H – War and Peace
I – Leo Tolstoy
Cracked in full by Incognito , Varun Shenoy , Nishanth Raman , Vikas , Anoop Koshy , Sandeep , Deepu , Shijil and Anil Raghavan . Vishnu , Shrey Goyal , Alok , Alan John , Sana , Abhishek , Rithwik , Ranjana Ninan and Manjith were almost there .
Daily Question # 136 February 23, 2009
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A and X ( not shown here ) constitute an exclusive list .
Who is X ?

A
Peter Finch ( A ) for the movie The Network and Heath Ledger ( X ) for The Dark Knight are the only two actors to have won an Oscar posthumously for an acting performance .
Cracked by Anil Raghavan , Sreeram , Varun Shenoy , Ranjana Ninan , Raziman TV and Nishanth Raman .
Daily Question # 135 February 22, 2009
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Where in the human body would you find the following ?

A

B

C
The Ear Ossicles are named so because they resemble a Hammer ( Malleus ) , Anvil ( Incus ) and Stirrup ( Stapes ) .
Cracked by Rithwik , Shijil , Sreeram , Debasish , Shrey Goyal , Abhi , Karthik , Incognito , Manjith , Alok , Malcaluffin , Anoop Koshy , Rohit Pisharoty , Ajay Joy , Aditya , Johny Walker , Deepthi Mani , Arun Warrier , Varun Shenoy , Sandeep , Nishanth Raman , Anil Raghavan , Jyothi , Dr Naveen , Aravind and Anand .
Daily Question # 134 February 21, 2009
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Which Indian region connects ?

A

B

C

D

E

F

G
Quoting Abhi ,
“A: Esso (a brand of Exxon)
B: Gulf Oil
C: Texaco
D: BP
E: Shell
F: The Pegasus logo of Mobil
G: Chevron
Following the break up of Rockefeller’s Standard Oil in 1911, these companies were together referred to as the Seven Sisters.
The Indian region in connection must be the Seven Sister states of the North East, consisting of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Tripura ”
Cracked by Abhi , Sreeram , Incognito , Shrey Goyal , Shijil and Anil Raghavan .
The Monthly Set – 3 February 20, 2009
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Presenting the third Monthly Set .
We have tried to make it as interesting [ and confusing 😉 ] as possible .
All the best !
Daily Question # 133 February 20, 2009
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Connect .

A

B

C
A – The Earth as seen from the Moon
B – The inauguration of the Grand Canyon Skywalk ( visible in the background ) . The skywalk is owned by the Hualapai Indian Tribe and the pic shows the tribal chief dedicating it to the nation .
C – MTV
The connect – Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin
He was the 2nd man on moon – he inaugurated the Skywalk by taking the first steps on the structure – the MTV music video award statuette depicts an astronaut with an MTV flag ( known as the ‘moonman’ ) and is modelled on Aldrin .
Full marks to all who mentioned Edwin Aldrin in their answer – Anon who actually is Anil Raghavan , Incognito and Nishanth Raman . Brilliant job guys !!