Daily Question # 349 September 30, 2009
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Last day to attempt the Monthly . Find it here .
Question from the BFP .
Person in question is seen standing with his daughter-in-law and grandson. His epitaph reads “Greatest of Arabian Explorers”. His son’s infamy far eclipses his own. Id the dad-son pair.
St.John Philby and Kim Philby .
Cracked by Freestyler , Manjith , Anil Raghavan , Arun Hiregange , Deepthi Mani , Nishanth Raman , Bobby , Comfortably & Technically Dumb , Arun , Nitish , Anish , Subin , Rithwik , Edward , Anon and Sachin Iyer .
Daily Question # 348 September 29, 2009
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Find the Monthly Set – 10 here . Send in your attempts asap .
Connect .
The connect – George du Maurier’s Trilby .
Clara Kimball Young ( A ) was one of the first actresses to portray the role of Trilby ; the novel has a character who was inspired by James McNeill Whistler ( B ) and the book was the inspiration for Gaston LeRoux’s ( C ) ‘Phantom of the opera’
Uncracked .
Daily Question # 347 September 28, 2009
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Couple of days left before the Monthly set closes attempt . Find it here .
What’s happening here ?
Domino’s setting the record for the furthest food delivery . See Edward’s comment for details .
Cracked by Freestyler , Edward , Arun , Arun Hiregange , Siddharth Jain , CATD , Abhishek , Deepthi Mani and Rithwik .
Daily Question # 346 September 27, 2009
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Which Bollywood song connects these Englishmen ?
Quoting CATD ,
“My name is Anthony Gonzalves – The opening line, “sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity”, that is spoken by Anthony when he emerges from the easter egg, is an almost exact quotation from a speech in the Parliament of the United Kingdom given by British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in 1878. Disraeli (who was referring to W.E. Gladstone) used the word “inebriated” rather than “intoxicated””
Cracked by CATD , Debasish , Arun Hiregange , Shibin Azad and Arun .
Daily Question # 345 September 26, 2009
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Ok . Once again , ive got 2 questions for you guys .
No. 1 – Why is there a white line on the spacecraft in A ?
No. 2 – Connect the spacecraft / the chap entering the spacecraft to B .
A shows Gus Grissom , the 2nd American to fly in space , climbing into the Mercury 4 spacecraft . Grissom nicknamed the spacecraft ‘Liberty Bell 7‘ after the original Liberty Bell as he thought it would be an appropriate call-sign for a bell-shaped spacecraft . The Bell has a crack and as a tribute , a ‘crack’ was painted on the side of the spacecraft ( which is the white line in question ) . The spacecraft during its return to earth , splashed into water off the coast of Florida and sank , nearly drowning Grissom . This incident prompted Grissom to nickname his next mission ( Gemini 3 ) spacecraft ‘Molly Brown‘ after Margaret Brown ( B ) who was nicknamed The Unsinkable Molly Brown because she was one of the more famous to survive the Titanic mishap .
Cracked fully by Freestyler , Anil Raghavan & Rithwik and in part by Arun Hiregange & Gautam Jayasurya . Good job by all who attempted !
Daily Question # 344 September 26, 2009
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Whose statue?
Uncracked .
Daily Question # 343 September 24, 2009
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Find the Monthly Set – 10 here .
Simple one . What is this ?
This is the Umemployment Benefit Form 40 issued by the UK Govt’s department of health and social security after which the very popular UB40 is named .
Cracked by Comfortably & technically Dumb , Manjith , Debasish , Freestyler , Anil Raghavan , Arun Hiregange , Kamal Rathi , RaklodramA and Vasu .
Daily Question # 342 September 23, 2009
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Find the Monthly Set – 10 here .
Connect !
The connect – Geronimo
‘Geronimo !’ is an exclamation used by anyone jumping from a great height . It is attributed to Private Aubrey Eberhardt , a US Army paratrooper . His platoon was the first to test the then recently adopted parachute . On the eve of an unprecedented “mass jump” in 1940 , the platoon decided to calm their nerves by spending the day before taking in a film at the Main Post Theatre and a night at the local beer garden . The movie they watched was Geronimo ( the 1939 version ) , about the legendary Apache leader of the same name . Eberhardt’s comrades tried to intimidate him by saying that he’ll be too scared to even remember his name during the jump . Eberhardt replied that he’ll yell Geronimo while jumping out just to prove that he was not scared . He did and the exclamation caught on and is now used widely all over the world .
A is Wes Studi , who played Geronimo in the 1993 version ( am surprised that nobody identified him ) and B of course shows paratroopers jumping from a plane .
Goes uncracked !!
( P.S . I guess nobody noticed the exclamation mark after the Connect at the top . Geronimo is the first result which pops up if one runs a Google search on Exclamation + Paratroopers 🙂 )
Daily Question # 341 September 22, 2009
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Connect .
The connect – Bhangmeter
Bhangmeters are photometers used on spy satellites to detect atmospheric nuclear detonations . The name is derived from Bhang ( which is in turn derived from Cannabis – A ) , which Fred Staines , a scientist working on the project , bestowed upon it assuming that someone must be under the influence of Bhang to believe the bhangmeter detectors would work properly 😉 . The American Vela Satellites ( B ) were the first ones to use a Bhangmeter .
Cracked only by Freestyler . Hats off !
Daily Question # 340 September 21, 2009
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This American stadium has a very apt name . It also has a very apt nickname . Gimme both .
This is the Mile High Stadium in Denver , named so cos Denver is exactly a mile above sea level . The nickname I was looking for is ‘The Diaphragm’ ( the female contraceptive ie ) , as the shape of the stadium resembles one 🙂
Fully cracked by Debasish , Rithwik and Anil Raghavan . Many got the name correct – Freestyler , Siddharth Jain , Harit Modi , Abhijeet , Arun Hiregange , Kamal Rathi , Arun and Comfortably & Technically Dumb .
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