What is this? Why is it significant?
The Spirit of St. Louis (Registration: N-X-211) is the custom-built single engine, single seat monoplane that was flown solo by Charles Lindbergh on May 20–21, 1927, on the first non-stop flight from New York to Paris for which Lindbergh won the $25,000 Orteig Prize.
Cracked only by Quaziluffy
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
Daily Question 91
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Daily Question 90
Friday, February 20, 2009
Daily Question 89
Basically, some junta got together, analysed hajaar spectra, and came up with 1 as the colour of X.
Sometime later, an error was revealed in their analysis, which led the new color of X to be accepted as 2.
What is X?
The universe
Cosmic Latte is a name assigned to the color of the universe
the previous one was comic turquoise
Cracked only by Mathew
Sometime later, an error was revealed in their analysis, which led the new color of X to be accepted as 2.
What is X?
The universe
Cosmic Latte is a name assigned to the color of the universe
the previous one was comic turquoise
Cracked only by Mathew
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Daily Question 88
Connect to both a person and a term. (Person more important)
Ellis "Puss" Achong a.k.a Chinaman (Left arm unorthodox spinner)
1. Walter Robins
2. Paul Adams
3. Chinamans hat island, Hawaii
The term is believed to relate to former West Indian spin bowler Ellis "Puss" Achong. In the 1933 Old Trafford Test match, Achong, a left-arm orthodox spinner and the first Test cricketer of Chinese ancestry, bowled an unexpected wrist-spin delivery turning from off to leg, and had the English batsman Walter Robins stumped by Ivan Barrow as a result. Legend has it that Robins, as he walked back to the pavilion, remarked "Fancy being done by a bloody Chinaman"
Paul Adams is the most famous fairly contemporary exponent of the chinaman
the third is self explanatory
Cracked by Arun, Sumeet, Chappli, Ramkumar, Vishal, Peregrine and a couple of anons.
Ellis "Puss" Achong a.k.a Chinaman (Left arm unorthodox spinner)
1. Walter Robins
2. Paul Adams
3. Chinamans hat island, Hawaii
The term is believed to relate to former West Indian spin bowler Ellis "Puss" Achong. In the 1933 Old Trafford Test match, Achong, a left-arm orthodox spinner and the first Test cricketer of Chinese ancestry, bowled an unexpected wrist-spin delivery turning from off to leg, and had the English batsman Walter Robins stumped by Ivan Barrow as a result. Legend has it that Robins, as he walked back to the pavilion, remarked "Fancy being done by a bloody Chinaman"
Paul Adams is the most famous fairly contemporary exponent of the chinaman
the third is self explanatory
Cracked by Arun, Sumeet, Chappli, Ramkumar, Vishal, Peregrine and a couple of anons.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Daily Question 87
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Daily Question 86
Connect to a term that has moved from political circles to common parlance.
October Surprise
During the Iran hostage crisis, the Republican challenger Ronald Reagan feared a last-minute deal to release the hostages, which might earn incumbent Jimmy Carter enough votes to win re-election in the 1980 presidential election. As it happened, in the days prior to the election, press coverage was consumed with the Iranian government's decision—and Carter's simultaneous announcement—that the hostages would not be released until after the election.
It was first written about in a Jack Anderson article in the Washington Post in the fall of 1980, in which he alleged that the Carter administration was preparing a major military operation in Iran for rescuing U.S. hostages in order to help him get reelected. Subsequent allegations surfaced against Reagan alleging that his team had impeded the hostage release to negate the potential boost to the Carter campaign.
The Global financial crisis of 2008–2009, which became prominently visible in September 2008 with the failure, merger, or conservatorship of several large United States-based financial firms, influenced the election in favor of the Democratic candidate, and became the "october Surprise" of that election.
Cracked only by Vishal. Nice
Also, the blog has been added onto the list at http://www.quizblogs.com/ .. YAY!!
October Surprise
During the Iran hostage crisis, the Republican challenger Ronald Reagan feared a last-minute deal to release the hostages, which might earn incumbent Jimmy Carter enough votes to win re-election in the 1980 presidential election. As it happened, in the days prior to the election, press coverage was consumed with the Iranian government's decision—and Carter's simultaneous announcement—that the hostages would not be released until after the election.
It was first written about in a Jack Anderson article in the Washington Post in the fall of 1980, in which he alleged that the Carter administration was preparing a major military operation in Iran for rescuing U.S. hostages in order to help him get reelected. Subsequent allegations surfaced against Reagan alleging that his team had impeded the hostage release to negate the potential boost to the Carter campaign.
The Global financial crisis of 2008–2009, which became prominently visible in September 2008 with the failure, merger, or conservatorship of several large United States-based financial firms, influenced the election in favor of the Democratic candidate, and became the "october Surprise" of that election.
Cracked only by Vishal. Nice
Also, the blog has been added onto the list at http://www.quizblogs.com/ .. YAY!!
Monday, February 16, 2009
Daily Question 85
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Daily Question 84
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Daily Question 83
Connect
Saint Valentine's Day massacre
The massacre is featured prominently in a scene from the original Scarface
50 Cent's second major label album "The Massacre" was initially titled "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre".
Cracked by Arun, Peregrine and anon.
(It seems we have a tentative ID on anon. He is accused of being RFs alter ego. See comment on Question 81 for details)
Saint Valentine's Day massacre
The massacre is featured prominently in a scene from the original Scarface
50 Cent's second major label album "The Massacre" was initially titled "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre".
Cracked by Arun, Peregrine and anon.
(It seems we have a tentative ID on anon. He is accused of being RFs alter ego. See comment on Question 81 for details)
Friday, February 13, 2009
Daily Question 82
Connect legends originating from 1 and 2 to 3.
The curse of Cain has been used as an explanation for the dark skin shades of people in various parts of Africa, and as a justification for racism and slavery, and a ban in interracial marriage.[citation needed] These racial implications are closely linked to the related implications derived from the curse of Ham doctrine, which has a much longer history, and has often been combined (or some would say conflated) with the curse of Cain doctrine, as well as the "curse of Esau" doctrine.
Cracked by Arun and Peregrine
The curse of Cain has been used as an explanation for the dark skin shades of people in various parts of Africa, and as a justification for racism and slavery, and a ban in interracial marriage.[citation needed] These racial implications are closely linked to the related implications derived from the curse of Ham doctrine, which has a much longer history, and has often been combined (or some would say conflated) with the curse of Cain doctrine, as well as the "curse of Esau" doctrine.
Cracked by Arun and Peregrine
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Daily Question 81
Connect to current events.
The 2009 satellite collision was the first major collision between two artificial satellites in Earth orbit. The collision occurred at 16:56 UT[1] on February 10, 2009,[2] at 776 kilometres (482 mi) above the Taymyr Peninsula[1] in Siberia.[2][3]
The collision destroyed both the Iridium 33 and Kosmos-2251 satellites, owned by Iridium Satellite LLC and the Russian Space Forces respectively. While the Iridium satellite had been operational up until the collision, the Russian satellite had been out of service for several years
Cracked by Shreesh, sriram, Mathew, anon, Vishal and Arun
The 2009 satellite collision was the first major collision between two artificial satellites in Earth orbit. The collision occurred at 16:56 UT[1] on February 10, 2009,[2] at 776 kilometres (482 mi) above the Taymyr Peninsula[1] in Siberia.[2][3]
The collision destroyed both the Iridium 33 and Kosmos-2251 satellites, owned by Iridium Satellite LLC and the Russian Space Forces respectively. While the Iridium satellite had been operational up until the collision, the Russian satellite had been out of service for several years
Cracked by Shreesh, sriram, Mathew, anon, Vishal and Arun
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Daily Question 80
What unique event connects? Question by Shreesh.
The ARMS Charity Concert (or concerts) was a rock concert given at the Royal Albert Hall in September 1983 in support of Action into Research for Multiple Sclerosis. The idea for hosting the concert was envisaged by Ronnie Lane, ex-bassist for The Small Faces and The Faces, himself a casualty of multiple sclerosis. The concert featured a star-studded line-up of British musicians, including Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Steve Winwood, Andy Fairweather-Low, Bill Wyman, Kenney Jones and Charlie Watts. The concert was particularly notable in the fact that it was the first occasion on which Clapton, Beck and Page, each a former lead guitarist for The Yardbirds, had performed together on stage.
Uncracked. Strange
The ARMS Charity Concert (or concerts) was a rock concert given at the Royal Albert Hall in September 1983 in support of Action into Research for Multiple Sclerosis. The idea for hosting the concert was envisaged by Ronnie Lane, ex-bassist for The Small Faces and The Faces, himself a casualty of multiple sclerosis. The concert featured a star-studded line-up of British musicians, including Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Steve Winwood, Andy Fairweather-Low, Bill Wyman, Kenney Jones and Charlie Watts. The concert was particularly notable in the fact that it was the first occasion on which Clapton, Beck and Page, each a former lead guitarist for The Yardbirds, had performed together on stage.
Uncracked. Strange
Monday, February 9, 2009
Daily Question 79
Connect. by Arun
Days of our lives - Sami has twins who are of different fathers.
Hercules - He has a twin who's father is not his own.
One Life to Live in 2001, longtime heroine Victoria Lord Davidson discovers her twin daughters have different fathers.
Leda, who bears four children from 2 different fathers, Zeus and Tyndareus.
Maury Tovich, who has a talk show which had this segment called "Who's your daddy" (:P) where jigglypuff of the above kind happened.
Ans : Superfecundation
Went uncracked.
Days of our lives - Sami has twins who are of different fathers.
Hercules - He has a twin who's father is not his own.
One Life to Live in 2001, longtime heroine Victoria Lord Davidson discovers her twin daughters have different fathers.
Leda, who bears four children from 2 different fathers, Zeus and Tyndareus.
Maury Tovich, who has a talk show which had this segment called "Who's your daddy" (:P) where jigglypuff of the above kind happened.
Ans : Superfecundation
Went uncracked.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Daily Question 78
Connect the two movies. More specifically, the inspirations for both of them. (P.S : me wants storeeee... )
Twinkie Defense
The movie Milk was inpired by the Moscone-Milk assassinations, the killings of San Francisco mayor George Moscone and openly gay Supervisor Harvey Milk, who were shot and killed in San Francisco City Hall by former Supervisor Dan White on November 27, 1978.
White was tried for first degree murder with special circumstance, a crime which potentially carried the death penalty in California. White's defense team claimed that he was depressed, evidenced by, among other things, his eating of unhealthy foods (inaccurate media reports that White's defense had presented junk food consumption as the cause of his mental state, rather than a symptom of it, would give rise to the legal term "Twinkie defense"). The defense argued that White's depression led to a state of mental diminished capacity, leaving him unable to have formed the premeditation necessary to commit first-degree murder.
The plot of the 1985 movie Bloody Wednesday was based on events of the San Ysidro McDonald's massacre, an incident of mass murder that occurred on July 18, 1984, in a McDonald's restaurant in the San Ysidro section of San Diego, California, United States. The shooting spree resulted in 22 deaths (including the perpetrator's) and the injuries of 19 others.
James Oliver Huberty, the perpetrator was killer by a SWAT sniper.
In 1986, Etna Huberty, James Huberty's widow, unsuccessfully sued McDonald's and Babcock and Wilcox, his longtime former employer, in an Ohio state court for $5 million, claiming that the massacre was triggered by the combined mixture of McDonald's food and work around poisonous metals. She alleged that monosodium glutamate in the food, combined with the high levels of lead and cadmium in Huberty's body, induced delusions and uncontrollable rage.
So, the connect is weird food-related criminal defenses, or the Twinkie Defense
Cracked by Arun, Shreesh, Kaballah and Anon
Twinkie Defense
The movie Milk was inpired by the Moscone-Milk assassinations, the killings of San Francisco mayor George Moscone and openly gay Supervisor Harvey Milk, who were shot and killed in San Francisco City Hall by former Supervisor Dan White on November 27, 1978.
White was tried for first degree murder with special circumstance, a crime which potentially carried the death penalty in California. White's defense team claimed that he was depressed, evidenced by, among other things, his eating of unhealthy foods (inaccurate media reports that White's defense had presented junk food consumption as the cause of his mental state, rather than a symptom of it, would give rise to the legal term "Twinkie defense"). The defense argued that White's depression led to a state of mental diminished capacity, leaving him unable to have formed the premeditation necessary to commit first-degree murder.
The plot of the 1985 movie Bloody Wednesday was based on events of the San Ysidro McDonald's massacre, an incident of mass murder that occurred on July 18, 1984, in a McDonald's restaurant in the San Ysidro section of San Diego, California, United States. The shooting spree resulted in 22 deaths (including the perpetrator's) and the injuries of 19 others.
James Oliver Huberty, the perpetrator was killer by a SWAT sniper.
In 1986, Etna Huberty, James Huberty's widow, unsuccessfully sued McDonald's and Babcock and Wilcox, his longtime former employer, in an Ohio state court for $5 million, claiming that the massacre was triggered by the combined mixture of McDonald's food and work around poisonous metals. She alleged that monosodium glutamate in the food, combined with the high levels of lead and cadmium in Huberty's body, induced delusions and uncontrollable rage.
So, the connect is weird food-related criminal defenses, or the Twinkie Defense
Cracked by Arun, Shreesh, Kaballah and Anon
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Daily Question 77
Todays Question comes in from Ramkumar (you may know him by his given name which is either a tribute to/ corruption of the name of the director of The Godfather, or a mysterious sect of Judaism, whichever you believe)
Who doing what?
Hercules capturing the erymanthian boar, his 4th labour.
Cracked by Shreesh and Arun, anon was halfway there.
Who doing what?
Hercules capturing the erymanthian boar, his 4th labour.
Cracked by Shreesh and Arun, anon was halfway there.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Daily Question 76
Scene from Old Trafford. What occasion?
On 10 February 2008, at the derby match between Manchester United and Manchester City at Old Trafford,the tribute to the Munich Air Disaster.
Fans in attendance were given commemorative scarves – in red and white for the United fans, and blue and white for the City fans – which were held up during the silence
Commemorative scarves laid out on the back of every seat prior to the game
Cracked by Kaballah and Shreesh
On 10 February 2008, at the derby match between Manchester United and Manchester City at Old Trafford,the tribute to the Munich Air Disaster.
Fans in attendance were given commemorative scarves – in red and white for the United fans, and blue and white for the City fans – which were held up during the silence
Commemorative scarves laid out on the back of every seat prior to the game
Cracked by Kaballah and Shreesh
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Daily Question 75
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Daily Question 73
Qestion by JoJo.
2 was heavily influenced by 1. 1's ideas implemented by 2 eventually resulted
in 3 getting majaared big time. 1,2,3?
Milton Friedman, David Oddsson and the Icelandic Kronur. Friedman's free
market ideas inspired Oddsson to make Iceland one of the freest economies in
the world. In the wake of the current recession, all 3 major banks collapsed,
left with a debt roughly 8 times its GDP.
cracked by Peregrine and Ajay Parasuraman
2 was heavily influenced by 1. 1's ideas implemented by 2 eventually resulted
in 3 getting majaared big time. 1,2,3?
Milton Friedman, David Oddsson and the Icelandic Kronur. Friedman's free
market ideas inspired Oddsson to make Iceland one of the freest economies in
the world. In the wake of the current recession, all 3 major banks collapsed,
left with a debt roughly 8 times its GDP.
cracked by Peregrine and Ajay Parasuraman
Monday, February 2, 2009
Daily Question 72
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