This was the poster for a musical based on whose life? Tony Blair. This was the poster for ‘TONY! The Blair Musical’ – a satirical comedy on his ten years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. It was written and staged in in the U.K. in 2007. I thought the suit+red-tie along with the…
Today’s question comes from Harish Swaminathan, one of Chennai’s leading college quizzers, and most recently winner of the KQA ASKQANCE College Quiz. Identify all of them. Who would best complete this list, and why? Charles Bannerman (Visual 1), Billy Murdoch (Visual 2) and Andy Sandham (Visual 3) scored the first single, double and triple centuries…
Whose statue is this? Which famous structure is in the background? This is a statue of the legendary Norse explorer Leif Eriksson in front of The Hallgrímskirkja in Reykjavík, Iceland. 7 attempts, and 7 correct answers! In order – Thomas Masun, vijaysarathy, Thejaswi Udupa, Arjun Rangarajan, Sumant Srivathsan, Ranjana Ninan, and ganesh. Well done!
Connect. Visual 1 shows a very scruffy Gregory Peck (*evil grin*) and Visual 2 shows the band ‘Blink-182’. Band members Tom DeLonge and Mark Hoppus founded a clothing brand in 2001 called ‘Atticus Clothing’, named after the lead character in Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’, Atticus Finch, most famously played by Peck in the…
Connect. Visual 1 was the cover showing “This Is the House That Jack Built”, a popular British nursery rhyme, first popularized by Randolph Caldecott. Visual 2 showed Yankee Stadium, also known as ‘The House That Ruth Built’, after Babe Ruth. 15 of you managed to crack it! In order – bobo, Thomas Masun, citybank(rupt), Dinesh,…
What does this sculpture commemorate? Also identify its sculptor. ‘Nuclear Energy’ by Henry Moore, inside the University of Chicago campus at the site of world’s first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1. The location commemorates the exact location where the Manhattan Project team devised the first nuclear reactor to produce the first self-sustaining controlled nuclear reaction. Cracked…
Portrait of whom, by whom? Portrait of Claude Monet, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Cracked by 19 people! In order – Thejaswi Udupa, Ram Kumar, Diwakar Pingle, Vivek Cheriyan, ganesh, Giantrun, Thomas Masun, Ashwin, Akila, Vikram788, Mc Neill Ivan S, Rajiv Rai, anil raghavan, citybank(rupt), Apurva, Rohan, BoFi, malcaluffin, and CR.
Where, specifically, would you find this shop? What is its claim to fame? The Travel Bookshop in Notting Hill, London. Featured famously in the movie ‘Notting Hill. Cracked by 12 of you! In order – Vivek Cheriyan, Thejaswi Udupa, Thomas Masun, Anannya Deb, TKB, ganesh, Akila, Ashwin, Guneet, Giantrun, Ram Kumar, and Vivek.
Connect. The connection is the Typhoon Kalmaegi (Visual 2) which was earlier named Helen (Visual 1) by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and later assigned the name ‘Kalmaegi’, which was submitted by North Korea and is the Korean word for ‘seagull’ (Visual 3). Cracked by 8 of you! In order – CR, Guneet, Akila, Thejaswi…
A famous showdown between these two men was described in a recent best-seller. Identify both of them and name the book. The men were Chris Ferguson and T.J.Cloutier, and their final showdown in the 2000 World Series Of Poker was recently described by Tim Harford in his book ‘The Logic Of Life’ in a chapter…
