Daily Question # 319 August 31, 2009
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Which ‘record-breaking’ event connects ?
P.S . – The question may not be suitable for minors 🙂
Porno actress Annabel Chong ( A ) is famous for her 251 sex acts with about 70 men over a ten-hour period, setting world record in the process in 1995 and the footage being packaged as The World’s Biggest Gang Bang . Chuck Palahniuk’s ( B ) novel ‘Snuff‘ was inspired by Chong’s feat and features the female lead trying to set a world record by engaging in sexual acts with 600 men .
Cracked by Debasish , Rithwik , Anil Raghavan , Arun Hiregange , Comfortably and Technically Dumb , Anon and my dearest friend Vasu ( Welcome bac Vasu da ..Such a pleasure to see you here 🙂 )
Daily Question # 318 August 30, 2009
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What precedent was set during the incident depicted below ?
The painting depicts the wreck of the British Naval ship HMS Birkenhead in 1852 . There weren’t enough lifeboats and the soldiers on-board stood firm , allowing the women and children to board the boats first . This gave rise to the “women and children first” protocol in the event of a mishap .
Cracked by Manjith , Arun Hiregange , Anil Raghavan and Ijaz Aslam .
Daily Question # 317 August 30, 2009
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Artist A’s famous painting B inspired the writer C to publish his masterpiece D .
Solve for A-D .

A

B

C

D
Nicolas Poussin’s ( A ) ‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ ( B ) inspired Anthony Powell’s ( C ) series of books of the same name ( D ) .
Rithwik , Arun Hiregange , Ob , Hrishi , Sharat and Anil Raghavan danced perfectly to the tunes of this question .
Daily Question # 316 August 29, 2009
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His contribution to cricket?
Vinoo Mankad , of the ‘Mankading‘ (in)fame , among many other things .
Cracked by Manjith , Anil Raghavan , Arun Hiregange , Rithwik , Kaustuba , Kamal Rathi , Abhijeet and Kutti Mash .
Daily Question # 315 August 27, 2009
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Find the Monthly Set – 9 here .
Connect .
Lackadaisical attitude of the BSNL chaps here in NE keeps my internet connection in suspended animation every second day . Apologies to everyone for the delay .
Pic A shows Victor Hasselblad , the man behind the Swedish company Hasselblad Cameras . In 1966 , Michael Collins , during a spacewalk , dropped his Hasselblad SWC and this was widely publicised as ”Sweden’s first ever satellite” 🙂 . Pic B shows Viking , the first ever Swedish satellite launched in 1986 . And therein lies the connect .
Goes uncracked !
Daily Question # 314 August 26, 2009
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All of them were targets / intended targets . What was their ‘devilish’ crime ?
All of them translated/published Salman Rushdie’s ‘Satanic Verses’ into various languages .
Hitoshi Igarashi ( A ) , the Japanese translator was stabbed to death , William Nygaard ( B ) , the Norwegian publisher survived an assassination attempt and so did celebrated Turkish author Aziz Nesin ( C ) , who was the intended target of the Sivas Massacre of 1993 .
Cracked by Jyothi , Manjith , Arun Hiregange , Anubhav Bhattacharjee , Kamal Rathi , Shrey Goyal , Rithwik , Anil Raghavan and Compfortably & Technically Dumb .
The Monthly Set – 9 August 26, 2009
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We are back with the monthly set for the month of August .
The set is open till the 5th of September .
As usual , we have 2 sections with 10 questions each and each question scoring one point .
Section A is a simple visual round and section B is a theme/connect round . The links to the theme maybe in the question or the answer .
All the best !
Daily Question # 313 August 25, 2009
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Issues in the north east have been sorted out 🙂
Who were their male counterparts ?
Richard Gere , George Clooney and LeBron James are the only men to have featured on the cover of Vogue . Gere appeared alongside Cindy Crawford ( A ) while George Clooney and LeBron James both had Gisele Bundchen ( B & C 🙂 ) to give them company .
Cracked by somebody who doesnt do justice to his name . Take a bow , Comfortably and Technically Dumb a.k.a Kaustuba !
{P.S. – Abhishek , ive given you full credits , but then i guess your attempt came in late}
Daily Question #312 August 25, 2009
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Connect.
The two people featured above are Emil Jannings and Neil Diamond. Jannings won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in the year 1929. Neil Diamond was also the first actor to win something: the first ever Razzie for the Worst Actor, in 1980.
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Daily Question #311 August 23, 2009
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By what honorific title is this man referred to at Google Inc.?
This is Google employee Matt Cutts, who, quoting Appu, “earned the nickname “porn cookie guy” for giving his wife’s homemade cookies to any Googler who provided an example of unwanted pornography in the search results.”
So the answer would be Porn Cookie Guy.
Appu and Comfortably and technically dumb got it right. Salut!