#166 - I thought France hated the English speaking world

Question from Service.

Connect.


Cracked by Nakki, Achyuth aka Tempo, Debashish, Kanmani and Sundeep.

To quote Nakul, "Wilm Hosenfeld(2nd pic) helped Władysław Szpilman(1st pic) during the Holocaustof WW2, most poignantly retold in The Pianist"

#165 - New one next month

Only five people have done this specific task 1 and 2 being two of them. What is different about 1 when compared to other four?
1.
2.

R.I.P Nikhil D Kamath

It is indeed with a heavy heart that I am writing this. We were shocked to hear the sudden demise of our senior Nikhil D Kamath, an avid quizzer and lit-god due to complications arising from viral fever. He will remain in our hearts forever, young. May his soul rest in peace.

I was able to dig out this photo from the archives of quiz club. This was taken last year at the finals of LitSoc Main Quiz.

Nikhil D Kamath(in green) after winning the LitSoc Main Quiz.

# 164 - PPM ? M!

Tribute to whom?















Cracked by 14.

Answer: Mary Travers

# 163 - Jumbo in Road Rage

Consonants of which language?















Edit: As Vats rightly points out, consonants of which script?

Cracked by Vats, i man, Tempo, karthik, shark nu, alva, vishal, suvinay, vinay hegde and abstract randomness

Answer(highlight to view):
I was looking for the Tengwar script though I'll give points to Quenya/Sindarin/Elvish script.

Hear ye!

As many of you know, Shaastra, IIT Madras' annual technological festival will be held from 30th of September to the 4th of October 2009. As part of Shaastra, two of the biggest Sci-Tech quizzes in India, How Things Work (HTW) and the Shaastra Main Quiz (SMQ) will be conducted. The mundane details:

Shaastra Main Quiz:
Prelims: 9:30 A.M., 2nd October, 2009
Semifinals 1 and 2: 8:00 P.M. and 11:P.M., 2nd October, 2009
Finals: 10:30 P.M., 3rd October 2009

How Things Work:
Prelims: 1P.M. to 3 P.M., 3rd October, 2009
Finals: 9:30 A.M. to 12:30 P.M., 4th October 2009

Please do attend. For further details:
http://www.shaastra.org/2009/site/events/quizzes/HTW
http://www.shaastra.org/2009/site/events/quizzes/SMQ

#162 - Big brother may be watching

Hi

The usual moderator, Mr. Arjun N. Bharadwaj a.k.a "He who must mug" is unfortunately a little unwell now, so I will be taking over the blog for a few days.

Cheers,
Jojo

Perhaps the first LVC on the blog! Connect. Take the picture just before the little girl twice. Exhaustive list.

Went uncracked.
Answer(highlight to view):
The named (viz. non simple) Gmail themes. In the order they appeared :
Random, Desk, Terminal, Turf, High score,Orcas island, ninja, tea house, candy, bus stop, Zoozimps (supposedly based on Kilroy), Planets, Graffiti, Summer ocean (and phantasea), Pebbles, Mountains, Tree and Beach.

Edit: I forgot to put up two links in the connect. Here they are.
printf("%d", srand(1000));

#161 - KKK

Simple one. This is mocking a movie. What's blanked out?


Cracked by 13 of you.

#160 - Who is there?

Identify the place.




Answer - Fort Knox.

Cracked only by abhishek chakraborty.

#159 - Main yahaa, Tu kahan?

Connect








Cracked by Immanuel, Chaitanya, Vinay Hegde, service, Achyuth, Nakki, Abhishek Chakraborty, Srivats, duck and jj.

Answer - Actors portraying Bob Dylan in the movie "I'm not there"

#158 - An army was created.

What event connects them? Bonus points for those, who can explain the title. So 2 questions for today. Entries will be open for 48 hours.




Refer to Achyuth's answer.

The title is a reference to the band "Jodie Foster's Army"

#157 - You got to hate the first five and love the last two

Simple one. Question from Service.

Normal frequency from today!! Err...hopefully :)

Connect









Answer - Days of the week

#155 #156

#155

Parodying a photo, recently in news?


#156

She was the first. Who is the second?



#155 - The now-famous Crasher Squirrel pic. Cracked by Aey Cee Dee Cee, Achyuth, Rikki, jj and Advaith.


#156 - Kim Clijsters. Super Mommies.

Cracked by Anerudh Balaji, Achyuth, Immanuel, nikhil, Vijay, Rikky, Vinay Hegde, jj, aloysius, Rohan, Advaith, abhishek chakraborty and Gautam DN

@Gautam and Achyuth

Okay, I agree. Wrong Question. Thanks for pointing out. :)

Announcement *Ahem*

I have been running on Tokyo time for the past couple of days and hence I haven't had time to put up the questions. I will put up 3 questions tomorrow, to make it up :)

Regards

Arjun N Bharadwaj

PS: Questions as always are welcome. Please mail it to

#154 - A typical Clint Eastwood movie

Connect -








4 of you have been touched by "His Noodly Appendage"
Nakki, Achyuth and Advaith get full points. Half point to NKOB.

Answer- The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Refer to Advaith's Answer for full fundaes.

The title was a reference to spaghetti westerns :)

#153 - The Horn calls me-pom, pom, pom.

Connect very famous brothers to the following pics. The pics are very generic. Those who know their Bollywood, should get it right.






Connect is the Ganguly Brothers, Ashok, Anoop and Kishore Kumar.

The pics are references to "Chalti ka naam Gaadi", "Badthi ka naam Daadi" and "Chalti Ka Naam Zindagi" in which all the three of them starred.

Achyuth, Debasish, abhishek chakraborty, nakki and v.chandrashekar know their Bollywood very well :).