The Weekly strikes back!

Hello again to all the members. To cater to continuous quizzing needs seems impossible at times. So here's a weekly to keep you busy! Enjoy.


Question 1:

Something that these four conceptualised in 1988 has recently made a comeback and has been subject to serious criticism and comparisons. Put the fundas.















Question 2:

(Alva question)What often used English phrase arose from this?











Question 3:

Connect( try thinking out of the box for this one)











Question 4 :

What's this pun all about? [And yes the face has been err.. photoshop'ed deliberately]
( clue: recent events)













Question 5:

What do they call these guys?














Question 6 :

Again, a little abstract one :). Connect


















Clue for this one:(actually not a clue but was inspired by this!)











Seemed to have been a bit too arbit, anyway

Answers
1. The late Suresh Mullick, Piyush Pandey, Kailash Surendranath and Louis Banks put together our un-official national song "Mile Sur mera tumahara" which was recomposed again this year as "Phir Mile sur mera tumhara". Too much Bollywood in the 2nd one as opposed to real artistes.

2.Doubting Thomas

3. Nina (Little Girl), Pinta(the painted) and Santa Maria were the three ships Columbus used to set sail when discovering America.

4. The release of the iPad by Steve Jobs. Quoting the Wall Street journal " Last time there was a mention of a tablet, the only thing that struck our minds was the Ten Commandments"

5. Baristas

6. Spaghetti - meaning ball of yarn, Lasagna - cooking pot, Penne - quill pen, Farfalle- A butterfly, Fusili -rifle. Different varieties of pasta. And the clue attached was the first Pizza Hut branch. Check out their new pasta menu which gives you insights into these Italian delights!


And only 5 was cracked by two people. Ankan and Vinay.

Daily 52- They got it all wrong!

(Question courtesy: ASAP SpEnt quiz conducted in Chennai on Oct 2nd 2009)
This arena was the world's first major indoor sports stadium with a retractable roof. Identify it, its nickname and why the home team's name is logically incorrect.
(This arena is going to be soon demolished and a new arena is going to prop up for the home team for the 2010-11 season)








Brilliant job by anand, Vinay and Kd.
Quoting one answer:

Mellon Arena (formerly the Civic Auditorium and Civic Arena, nicknamed The Igloo) is an arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It primarily serves as the home to the Pittsburgh Penguins, the city's National Hockey League (NHL) franchise

Igloos are found in the Arctic and the Penguins in the Antarctic !! They are poles apart :)

Daily 51 - Spin a yarn

Ok, since I'm returning tomorrow to a daily routine 8 hour pain-in-the-neck(read college) here's a new post that will be open for at least three days. I'm looking for very specific answers on this cyclic connect.
Study the image carefully(gosh..blog beginning to sound like a question paper now) and carve out a story from the guy encircled in A, the guy in B, the woman being portrayed in C, a detail D from a famous mural, the big guy in E.

Additional inputs/hints:

• You can guess "A" quite easily from another biggie seated next to him
• "B" served under A and belonged to an American industrial, banking, and political family of German American origin that made one of the world's largest private fortunes in the oil business during the late 19th and early 20th century
• B actually commissioned C's husband to do something but eventually was pissed off

That "something" was destroyed but a detail D from it inspired E to create something else.


And finally for the icing in the cake, connect the last answer with January 17, 2010.

In the meantime I'll figure out how to distribute the points for this.















Ok. So we're back in business. Great answering by Vinay and KD(welcome back !). Read the comments for the comlpete answer. I've eventually decided to give 5 points for this one. KD gets 4 cos she missed out on the Jyoti Basu part.

Daily 50 - Got guts?

The logo shown is of a special forces regiment which was the first to use a particular motto. To make it even simpler, this man made that motto even more famous. Identify both along with the motto.

( P.S. Thanks to all the wonderful quizzards for making this blog happen. Its a half century of the dailies now!)














Answer: Special Air Services(SAS) and Mike Whitney : Who Dares Wins
Answered by "Where Eagles Dare" Sanjay :) and NKOB.

Daily 49 - What's in a name?

Connect( identify all for bonus points)
























Techniques named after the sports-persons

1. Dick Fosbury - The Fosbury flop
2. Alexander Karelin - The Karelin lift
3. Johan Cryuff - The Cryuff turn
4. Parry O'Brien - The O'Brien throw in shotput

Anand got it right( minor flaw in the answer)

Daily 48 - The lion sleeeps toniiight..

Coin commemorating whom? The map shows something he established.












Paul Kruger, who established Kruger National Park.
Answered by Anand.

Daily 47 - Shaken and stirred

This is just one of the versions. But hey, its definitely the most famous one.
Connect.











Answer: The Margarita cocktail was named in honour of Rita Hayworth whose original first name was Margarita. Great answering by Vinay. I thought her picture was simple enough, cos it appears in The Shawshank Redemption.

Daily 46 - I thought they blew it up!

This is the original one











which is actually located here















but was the filming location was done here














What ?


Bridge on the river Kwai. Answered by Ankan, Anand and Vinay.

Daily 45- Marble wonder

Identify this monument. Legend goes to say that the King who built this promised his builders gold equal to the weight of the marble shavings. The temple columns and carvings are almost translucent, so you can guess the amount they got!















Cracked by our sms regular Ankan :) , Vinay and Muthu. Dilwara temples

Daily 44- Mmmmm...

Ok, to make a long story short, "A" had taken a sip of "M" on a visit to B's estate, X near Nashville on October 21, 1907 and that when served M he had proclaimed it to be _________________. His words remain as the official slogan of M till today.

So its a whopping 5 pointer to get everything!














********A *****************B**********










*********** X *****************M*********


Answer: Theodore " Teddy" roosevelt took a sip of 'M'- Maxwell House coffee on a visit to 'B' -Former POTUS Andrew Jackson's estate - The Hermitage (X). There he said the coffee was "Good to the last drop", still the coffee's tagline.
Full credits to Anand Vinay and Debasish

Daily 43 - A little dab will do

Connect with the full fundas












Super crack by Vinay. Dhoni and Kishore Kumar were brand ambassadors of brylcreem whose catchy tagline "A little dab'll do ya!" inspired the yabba dabba doo for Fred Flintstone.

Daily 42- Don't Panic!

Connect



















Well it was a tribute question to one of our favourite numbers!
Quoting one of our regular's answers which was obviously a doosy for him :

All references to Doug Adams (HHGG)

-Dont Panic
-song '42' in Coldpay's Vivalavidaloca
-Dawkins quotes DA
-Towel day - we know the importance of towels in HHGG :)
-Kumars at No. 42

Ankan(via sms), Vinay and Debasish got it. Credits to them.

Daily 41- Bad move!

The person on the left was the victim, the other person was the assassin. The blood stained shirt is the victim's obviously and the map shows where the bombing attempt on his car took place (yellow star) and the skull and cross bones show the place of the shooting. Identify the victim, the assassin and what it triggered off for full points(I'll give 3 points totally)






















Spot on by Vinay,Ankan and Kamal Rathi! Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip which triggered WWI.

Daily 40 - Jingle along!

If you had bought X in 1978 when it was invented, Signatech sold this trendy vest to carry it along. What are we talking about? A clue is attached(identify him for extra points)














Good crack by Vinay, Sanjay and Chandrasekhar. Its the Sony Walkman. And the guy on the right is none other than Akio Morita the co founder of Sony.