Today’s question comes from Gaurav Sundararaman… Connect. Visual 1 shows Tom Cruise on the sets of ‘Tropic Thunder’, shooting for his much-hyped role as a fat, bald studio chief. The title of the movie is a play on ‘Tropic Lightning’, the nickname of the 25th Infantry Division which saw action during the Vietnam War, and…
Today’s question comes all the way from London, from Anjali Ramachandran, who used to be a QFI regular a few years ago, and is now married to another former QFI regular – Vikram Vasu. The two of them could in fact be the first couple ever formed at QFI. ‘Sujiv’, or ‘Rajumo’, didn’t happen until…
Easy one. Connect. Food preparations named after the Australian Opera singer Dame Nellie Melba, the Peach Melba (Visual 1) and the Melba Toast (Visual 2). 16 of you gobbled up the question! In order – TKB, Sankhya, anil raghavan, Thejaswi Udupa, Sumo, Nitish, Arjun Rangarajan, shafeek, bobo, priyambad, Srini, giantrun, Aditya, Raghuvansh, li’l_boy-fat_man, and Crab…
Who? Where? When? Carla Bruni, at the Opening Ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics, in Turin, Italy. Cracked by 18 of you! In order – Srikanth, Shafeek, Thejaswi Udupa, Sankhya, li’l_boy-fat_man, Raghuvansh, zizzyphus, Mouli, Goutham, vijaysarathy, Chandrakant Nair, Venkatesh S (Venky), Janani, racerx, R.Sibi, Crab urinal, Ajay Parasuraman, and anil raghavan.
Who is depicted in this painting? Seve Ballesteros, the Spanish golfer. Cracked by seven of you! In order – Atul Mathew, shafeek, Anil, Prashanth Kumar, Ashwin Kelkar, Mouli, and rajagopal! No one got all seven answers right this week. And surprisingly, no one got even six. But one person managed to get five right –…
Before we get to today’s question, first an announcement: Yesterday saw the 15th edition of the annual Landmark Quiz conducted at the Music Academy in Chennai. Hosted by Dr. Navin Jayakumar, the quiz provided an evening of exhilarating quizzing, with QFI teams doing very well. The Chennai regional round was won by QED (Samanth Subramanian,…
Happy Independence Day, everyone! And good luck at the Landmark Quiz, to whoever is taking part! Here’s today’s question… Identify the location. The Sabarmati Ashram, in Ahmedabad. Cracked by 25 of you! In order – Sharath, Dinesh, Gokul, Anirudh, Atul Mathew, Arun R, zizzyphus, Priya, Chandrakant Nair, Navin Ragade, Myth, Rohan, Ajay Parasuraman, Sumo, Apurva,…
Whoitis? Stephanie Kwolek, who invented Kevlar. Cracked by just 3 of you! In order – vijaysarathy, Thejaswi Udupa and sai. Well done!
Connect. The connect is the film ’10 Things I Hate About You’. It was based on William Shakespeare’s ‘The Taming Of The Shrew’ and the film’s tagline was ”How do I loathe thee, let me count the ways.”, based on the most famous sonnet written by the poetess Elizabeth Barrett Browning, which began, “How do…
Before we get to today’s question, just a reminder: The quiz at SWIM 2008, organised by the Great Lakes Institute fof Management happens today in Chennai. Teams of upto 3 members each, with at least one lady mandatory. It will be a general quiz with a tilt towards women. Interested teams, please land up at…
