Quoting one of the correct answers yesterday, “Little Miss Muffet. Supposedly about Mary, Queen of Scots (1) being scared of John Knox (2). Another theory is that Thomas Muffett (entomologist and expander of the Theater of Insects in 3) wrote it for his daughters.” A note from Gopal Kidao about Sunday’s QFI meeting: “The Quiz…
Henry Ford on his first car, the Quadricycle. A yarn about a childhood staple. Explain.
The characters played by Clive Owen and Paul Giamatti in “Shoot ’em Up” are supposedly based on Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. Heath Ledger’s Joker in “The Dark Knight” resembles Bugs Bunny – the voice and the hospital scene where he appears in drag. Identify this very imaginatively named piece of equipment, its significance and…
Yesterday’s answer – the logo of Google’s Chrome browser. What’s up, Doc?
Books by Malcolm Gladwell – The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers. An amusing theory, on the origin of what?
Giuseppe Mercalli and Charles Richter who lend their names to scales for seismic activity – the Mercalli intensity scale and the Richter magnitude scale. Can you thin-slice your way out of this question?
Ralph Nelson Elliott and Nikolai Kondratiev who have lent their names to the Elliott wave and the Kondratiev wave – ways of looking at business and economic cycles. Intensity versus magnitude. Explain.
Yesterday’s answer: Mount Kosciuszko is a mountain located in the Snowy Mountains in Kosciuszko National Park. With a height of 2,228 metres (7,310 ft) above sea level, it is the highest mountain in Australia (not including its external territories). It was named by the Polish explorer Count Paul Edmund Strzelecki in 1840, in honour of…
Quoting one of the answers yesterday – Josh Lyman of “The West Wing” and Ari Gold of “Entourage”. The first character was inspired by Rahm Emmanuel, who has been designated as Obama’s Chief of Staff. The second character was inspired by Rahm’s brother Ari Emmanuel, the so-called “Hollywood super agent.” Identify the molehill and the…
Modest Mussorgsky’s piano suite “Pictures at an Exhibition” which was created in tribute to the works of Viktor Hartmann. Today’s question from Rey de Vaqueiros. Identify these two television characters and connect.
