Saturday, February 28, 2009

Daily Question 95

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

Friday, February 27, 2009

Daily Question 94

To? From?



Fidel Castro to Franklin Roosevelt

Cracked by 12 of you...

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Daily Question 93

Connect. Question by JoJo






The 4 flagship images of Google Life Photo Archive



Went uncracked

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Daily Question 92

What?



Rambo Bodycount

Cracked by so many people, its embarassing

Monday, February 23, 2009

Daily Question 91

Poster for?



Sweeney Todd musical

Cracked by Anon, Arun, Shreesh, Ramkumar, Samaadhi, Quaziluffy and RF

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Daily Question 90

The name of this molecule derives from a combination of three factors. Its structure, the scale of its architecture, and a widely known fictional race of people.

What is this molecule called?



Nanoputian.

Cracked by Arun, Anon, Ajay Parasuraman and r123...

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

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.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Daily Question 87

Simple one, just identify.



The Stargate Commands Dialing Computer compiling the address of the planet Abydos.

To those who aren't familiar with the StarGate franchise, my apologies.

Cracked by Ramkumar, Arun and anonym

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!!

Monday, February 16, 2009

Daily Question 85

Id both. Question by Ramkumar



Jane Fonda and John Kerry. Hoax pic.

Cracked by Arun, Peregrine, Vishal and anon.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Daily Question 84

Easy. What?



Hannibal crossing the Alps. The second Punic war, and the most celebrated achievement by any military force

Cracked by Arun, Peregrine and 2 anons

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)

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Daily Question 75

Current affairs. What?



Iran launches Omid, the nation's first domestically constructed and launched satellite.

The launch of Omid at an undisclosed location in Iran.

Cracked in part by Arbit

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Daily Question 74

Connect, exhaustive list barring one





Plutoids

Haumea
Makemake
Eris

Went uncracked

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

Monday, February 2, 2009

Daily Question 72

What iconic piece of pop culture did this painting inspire in 2003?



Girl with a Pearl Earring

Painting by Veneer



Cracked by Peregrine and Ajsy Parasuraman