Daily Question 70

Connect





The Beverly Hilton Hotel has hosted the Golden Globe Awards since 1961

Anon got it right, and yes, it was an arbit question

Daily Question 69

All text. Sent in by Aravind

The Knights Hospitaller was a Christian organization that began as an Amalfitan hospital founded in Jerusalem in 1080 to provide care for poor, sick or injured pilgrims to the Holy Land.

Charles V of Spain, as King of Sicily, gave them ___ , Gozo and the North African port of Tripoli in perpetual fiefdom in exchange for an annual fee of a single ________ , which they were to send on All Souls Day to the King's representative, the Viceroy of Sicily. This fact was used Dashiell Hammett as a narrative hook in his hit novel.
Fill in __

Malta and Maltese Falcon

Cracked by Peregrine, Mathew, Vijay Shankar, Chander, Abstract randomness

Daily Question 68

What it is?



Special Haj notes which were issued by RBI for the use in Saudi Arabia

cracked by Priyananda

Daily Question 67

Game released as an ad for?



Burger King

Cracked by Vignesh, Ajay Parasuraman and Peregrine

Daily Question 66

And we're back folks.... after a great Saarang

Connect these two people




Nicholas "Nick" Leeson whose unsupervised and unauthorized speculative trading on Singapore's Singapore International Monetary Exchange (SIMEX) caused the spectacular collapse of Barings Bank, the United Kingdom's oldest investment bank.

Jérôme Kerviel is a French trader who has been charged in the January 2008 Société Générale trading loss incident, resulting in losses valued at approximately €4.9 billion.

Cracked by Vijay Shankar and Kaballah

Announcement

Dear Quizzers,

Due to a combination of an insanely slow internet connection, and Saarang 2009, this blog will be down until the 25th of january.

We will resume the daily question series on Monday, January 26th.

Have a great week.

-Srivats

Daily Question 65

What is this natural phenomenon called? What causes it?



A sun dog or sundog (scientific name parhelion, plural parhelia, for "beside the sun") is a common bright circular spot on a solar halo. It is an atmospheric optical phenomenon primarily associated with the reflection or refraction of sunlight by small ice crystals making up cirrus or cirrostratus clouds. Often, two sun dogs can be seen (one on each side of the sun) simultaneously.

Cracked by Mathew

Daily Question 64

What it is?



View from the Bridge of Sighs

The enclosed bridge is made of white limestone and has windows with stone bars. It passes over the Rio di Palazzo and connects the old prisons to the interrogation rooms in the Doge's Palace. It was designed by Antoni Contino (whose uncle Antonio da Ponte had designed the Rialto Bridge), and built between 1600 and 1603.

The view from the Bridge of Sighs was the last view of Venice that convicts saw before their imprisonment. The bridge name, given by Lord Byron in the 19th century, comes from the suggestion that prisoners would sigh at their final view of beautiful Venice out the window before being taken down to their cells. In reality, the days of inquisitions and summary executions were over by the time the bridge was built, and the cells under the palace roof were occupied mostly by small-time criminals.

Cracked by JJ, Ajay parasuraman and Haroon Siyech

Daily Question 63

What eet ees?



Seat layout on the bus where Rosa Parks sat, December 1, 1955.

Cracked by Peregrine and Vishal

Daily Question 62

Identify and connect

not exhaustive




Language isolates

regions where spoken

Basque
Korean
Coahuilteco

Went uncracked

Daily Question 61

Why is this picture so significant in american history?



The only confirmed photo of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg (seated), taken about noon, just after Lincoln arrived and some three hours before he spoke. To Lincoln's right is his bodyguard, Ward Hill Lamon.

Cracked by Peregrine and Ajay Parasuraman

Daily Question 60

What does this painting depict?



"How Mordred was Slain by Arthur, and How by Him Arthur was Hurt to the Death", by Arthur Rackham

Peregrine figured out an usage of the pic, an albuum cover by the black metal band sammath, but not the original

Daily Question 59

Connect




DEBIAN

1 is the logo for GNOME, debians default desktop environment

2 is toy story, after whose characters debian eleases are code named

Cracked by JJ

Daily Question 58

Connect a response to the most famous manifestation of 1 to 2




Woody Guthrie

His best known song is probably "This Land Is Your Land"in response to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America", which Guthrie considered unrealistic and complacent.

Guthrie died from complications of the genetic neurologic disorder known as Huntington's disease. Thirteen, played by Olivia Wilde in House MD also suffers from HD.

Went uncracked.

Daily Question 57

Connect




Salem Witch Trials

Title page of A Modest Enquiry Into the Nature of Witchcraft by John Hale (Boston, 1702), a guiding principle for the trials

The band SALEM

Cracked by Mathew. Ajay parasuraman got to witchcraft, but didnt get Salem. Shendu came up with a brilliant piece of logic which fell unbeleivably far short.

Daily Question 56

Simple one. Subject for the painting and where would you find it?



Joshua Reynolds' Puck (1789), painted for Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery, is modelled after Parmigianino's Madonna with St. Zachary, the Magdalen, and St. John

Uncracked, anon got halfway there, though

Daily Question 55

Two paintings, of what is pretty much the same thing. Identify the artist and gimme the reason for the difference




Monet’s troubles with eyesight due do cataracts in his old age also influenced his different use of color and increasingly blurry brush strokes. In 1916, Monet’s eyes were operated on to remove the cataracts. He was able to read, yet other aspects of his vision were compromised. Colors were darker and often altered (Sagner). Monet experienced xanthopsia where hues were seen with too much of a yellow hue. The purplish blue tint of Blue Water Lilies (1916-19) can be attributed to a similar condition called cyanopsia (Dunbar).

Cracked by Samaadhi, anon, Peregrine, Kaushik and JJ

Daily Question 54

Connect




Moongate

Moongate: Suppressed Findings of the U.S. Space Program The NASA-Military Cover-Up by William L. Brian II.

In this book William L Brian alleges a cover-up by NASA, the United States military and the Russian space program over what was really found during the US and Soviet Moon landings and space programs in general.

Mr Brian, a nuclear Engineer, states in his book that he believes that the Moon landings actually did take place, unlike many other Apollo Moon Landing hoax theorists, but that information acquired during them has been covered up and or suppressed.

The first pic is Watergate complex, home to the scandal giving the inspiration for the name

2nd is a suppossed moon hoax image

3rd is a moongate, a traditional architectural element in chinese gardens

Daily Question 53

Who? Where? What?



At a limestone outcropping near Gubbio, Italy, physicist Luis Alvarez and his geologist son Walter, examined the clay layer that launched their theory of 'The Great Dying.' Surprisingly high concentrations of iridium in the clay at Gubbio and many other sites indicated that the mass extinction was the result of a collision between Earth and a huge extraterrestrial object.

Cracked by Peregrine and Samaadhi

Daily Question 52

Connect the man to the graph




The Rwandan Genocide

Theoneste Bagosora, the mastermind behind the genocide

the graph shows the drastic population drop due to the genocide

Cracked by Peregrine and Mathew

Daily Question 51

Easy one. What is this mans most famous contibution to the modern globe?



James Monroe was the fifth President of the United States.

Liberia, founded as a colony in 1822 by freed slaves from the United States, the area was already inhabited by various indigenous ethnic groups who had occupied the region for centuries. The freed slaves were so thankful to American president, James Monroe, they named their capital city, Monrovia.

Cracked by Vishal, Peregrine, anon and Arun

Daily Question 50

Yay!! We hit 50 on the blog!!

Connect






The Baker Street Irregulars

The Special Operations Executive (SOE), (sometimes referred to as "the Baker Street Irregulars" after Sherlock Holmes' fictional group of helpers) was a British World War II organisation. It was initiated by Winston Churchill and Hugh Dalton in July 1940

The original irregulars were a group of fictional characters featured in the Sherlock Holmes stories. They were a group of street urchins who helped Holmes out from time to time. The head of the group was called Wiggins. Holmes paid them a shilling a day (plus expenses), with a guinea prize (worth one pound and one shilling) for a vital clue.

Uncracked again

Daily Question 49

Todays question sent in by Vishal

In the good old days of mechanical clocks on ships, the sailors needed to have a very accurate timekeeper to be able to determine their longitude when at sea. When the ship was about to leave the shore, the guys on land would do something so that the guys on the ship could set their clock to be accurate as they leave the shore. With the advent of more sophisticated clocks, this tradition understandably went obsolete. However, this is still practiced as a ritual though for a different reason.

What would the guys on shore do to help the sailors set their clock accurately? And how is this tradition famous today?

Went uncracked

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_ball

times square ball dropping on new year... and, a Happy New Year to all of you!