Daily Question # 463 January 30, 2010
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Last day to attempt the Monthly . Find it here .
Who connects ?

A

B
J.D. Salinger ( R.I.P good man ) .
Holden and Banky (characters in Chasing Amy { A } , played by Ben and Jason) are named after Holden Caufield and Ed Banky, both from the J. D. Salinger novel “The Catcher in the Rye” . B is the cover of the album J.D. Salinger by The Wynona Riders .
Most of you got the Wynona Riders part wrong . However , full points to anyone mentioning Salinger . Cracked by Abhijeet , Dr Vijaynath V ( thanx for the extra info ! ) , Rajith Ravi , Kashyap , Balakrishnan , Rithwik , Yadhu , Manu Sathian , K.R.R , Nitish , Max , Arun , Arjun , Sai Ganesh and Anil Raghavan .
Daily Question # 462 January 30, 2010
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What happened to his eyes ?
Quoting Kaushik Saha ,
“He is Argus, the giant with a hundred eyes. According to Ovid, to commemorate her faithful watchman, Hera had the hundred eyes of Argus preserved forever, in a peacock’s tail” . Check other comments for interesting details .
Cracked by Kashyap , Ajay Parasuraman , Anil Raghavan , Anjay , Kaushik Saha , Balakrishnan , Rajith Ravi , Dr Vijaynath V , Rithwik , Deepthi Mani , Yadhu , Manu Sathian , Subin and Max .
Daily Question # 461 January 28, 2010
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Id the chap in A . Also name the work of art featured in the card he’s holding . Connect the work of art to B .

A

B
Quoting Anjay ,
“A – Sir Nicholas Serota, Director of the Tate gallery
Painting – “Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision” by Charles Thompson
B – Tracy Emin, artist who is known to exhibit her used bed, underwear etc as works of art. The above painting satirises this, especially since Nicholas Serota was a judge on the panel which reviewed Emin’s paintings”
Cracked by Balakrishnan , Rithwik , Bobby , Rajith Ravi , Anon , Dr Vijaynath V , Anjay , Anil Raghavan , Vinayak007 , Kashyap and Fresstyler . Half credits to Kaushik Saha and Abhi .
Daily Question # 460 January 27, 2010
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Who was her most famous pupil ?
This is Anne Sullivan , and her most famous pupil , of course , was Helen Keller .
Cracked by Rajith Ravi , Abhijeet , Deepu , Manjith , Manu Sathian , Dr Vijaynath V , Kaushik Saha , Yadhu , Rithwik , Vetti , Balakrishnan , Shakya , V Chandrashekar , Ajith Prabhakar , Kamal Rathi , Anil Raghavan , Nishanth Raman , Bobby , Deepthi Mani , Gokul , Anon , Dinesh , Chithananda , Abhi and Shibu Sasidharan .
Daily Question # 459 January 26, 2010
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The colourful bird is the proud owner of a record . What ?
The Argentine Blue Bill Duck , among vertebrates , has the longest penis in relation to its body length .
Cracked by Rajith Ravi , Freestyler , Vinayak007 , Kaushik Saha , Subin , Abhijeet , Siddharth Jain , Rithwik , Balakrishnan , Shibu Sasidharan and Frank Anthony .
Daily Question # 458 January 25, 2010
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The Monthly will be open till the 31st . Find it here .
A very famous tradition associated with this location came to an end this year . What ?
Quoting Manu Sathian ,
“Every year since 1949, a stranger – known locally as the Poe Toaster – has left three roses and a half-bottle of cognac on Edgar Allan Poe’s grave in Baltimore on his birthday. The roses are believed to represent the three bodies buried beneath the monument – Poe, his mother-in-law and his wife Virginia; the significance of the cognac is not known.
This year he failed to show up this tradition as 2009 marked the bicentennial of Poe’s birth”
Cracked by Rithwik , Siddharth Jain , Dinesh , Yadhu , Dr Vijaynath , Manu Sathian , Bobby , Varun , Sai Ganesh , Rajith Ravi , Mayug , Freestyler , Nooney and Kaushik Saha .
Daily Question # 457 January 24, 2010
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Find the Monthly Set – 12 here .
Connect ( Not exhaustive ) .

A

B

C

D

E

F
Wilma Rudolph ( A ) nicknamed The Black Pearl , Anthony Fokker ( B ) nicknamed The Flying Dutchman , The Interceptor ( C ) used by Mad Max in the eponymous movie franchise , Vijay Mallya’s Indian Empress ( D ) , Space Shuttle Endeavour ( E ) and a Flying Dragon ( F ) which would translate to Hai Peng in Chinese .
Black Pearl , The Flying Dutchman , HMS Interceptor , Empress , Endeavour and Hai Peng are Ships in The Pirates of the Carribean trilogy .
Uncracked .
Daily Question # 456 January 23, 2010
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Find the Monthly Set – 12 here.
What inspired the title of this TV show ?
The name ‘The Kumars at No. 42’ is inspired by the number 42 from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . See Kaushik’s comment for more details .
Cracked by my dearest partner Vasu , Kaushik Saha , Nishanth Raman , Nitish Khadiya , Siddharth Jain , Rachit Agarwal and Freestyler.
@ Nishanth – My bad 😦
Daily Question # 455 January 22, 2010
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A sports entity takes its name from Roman equivalent of the goddess featured below . However , the most famous nickname of this entity is opposite of what the name of the Roman goddess means .
Just name the entity.
This is Hebe , the Roman Goddess of Youth . Her Roman counterpart is Juventas ( which , again , means youth ). The name Juventus F.C. derives from Juventas . The most famous nickname of the club is ‘The Old Lady’ , which , in fact , is a pun on the meaning of Juventas .
Uncracked.
Daily Question # 454 January 21, 2010
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3 parts . 3 points .
i.) The location in A was the subject of two famous paintings X and Y by Z . Solve for all . ( 1 point )
ii.) Where did the lady ( in B ) go to at the chap’s ( in B ) urging when their marriage was publicly disclosed ? ( 1 point )
iii.) The general area the lady in part ii went to was the subject of couple of paintings by C . Connect one of these paintings by C to one of the paintings asked in part i . ( 1 point )

A

B

C
Part i – This is the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore ( A ) in Venice . The paintings I was looking for were ‘San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk’ ( X ) and ‘San Giorgio Maggiore by Twilight’ ( Y ) by Claude Monet ( Z ) .
Part ii – Abelard urged Heloise to go to the convent of Argenteuil in Paris when their marriage was publicly disclosed .
Part iii – The man in the pic is Edouard Manet . He painted ‘Argenteuil‘ and ‘Banks of the Seine at Argenteuil‘ with the location as the setting.
The connect – San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk and Banks of the Seine at Argenteuil are the two paintings stolen by Thomas Crown in the movie ‘The Thomas Crown Affair’ .
Nobody got the connect . The rest were cracked in bits and pieces by Manu Sathian , Dr Vijaynath V , Rajith Ravi , Kaushik Saha , Subin , Rithwik and Anjay MA .