QFI 561-Whose Brrr…ust?
Whose bust is this? Manish and Raji did not get cold feet while answering Richard Byrd.
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QFI 560 – It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s…
Well, who is it? — Answer: Looks like many of you are following the election campaign in Columbia. It is Aurelijus Rutenis Antanas Mockus Šivickas . During Mockus’ two terms as the mayor of Bogata, he donned a spandex suit and became Super Citizen to lecture residents about civics. Columbia goes to the polls on…
QFI 559 – Meet the Beetles
To whom is this display at the Oxford U Museum of Natural History dedicated to and why? — Answer: Only Kapatchoco and Raji weren’t bugged by the question and got it right – John Burdon Sanderson Haldane FRS the British-born geneticist and evolutionary biologist and one of the founders (along with Ronald Fisher and Sewall…
QFI 558 – Animal Farm
What’s with all these animals in the workplace? — Answer: No one here plays Farmville? In the picture, you can see animals depicted in the FarmVille game shown with Brad Feld, managing director, Foundry Group; Mark Pincus, founder and CEO, Zynga; Reid Hoffman, founder, LinkedIn, and partner, Greylock Partners; Bing Gordon, partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield…
QFI 557- Location is everything!
Where was this song filmed ? ( probably the only song to be picturised there.) The director makes a cameo as well! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNQljqrbxko&rel=0] Everybody got it right-its the Qutub Minar
QFI 556 – Know your Neighborhood – 2
Two parts. 1) The building and how it got its commonly used name? 2) One of the most popular slang / fad expressions to appear in the U.S during the Roaring 20s derived its name from the area around the building. What was that phrase? — Answer: idlichutney, kaptchoco, chotavakil, raji, thats and dandilsa all…
QFI 555 – I’m proud of you cowboy
Connect this unlikely duo: — Answer: Only kapatchoco gets it right – they were the inspiration for the character / names Woody and Buzz from Toy Story. The cowboy on the left is an actor called Woody Strobe and the gent on the right is Col Buzz Aldrin.
QFI 554 – You can’t really ask this in a quiz…
…but can probably get away w/ it on a blog like this. Connect — Answer: Sumant, Raghuvansh, Siddarth and Kaptchoo score a touchdown each for pointing out that the Speed Limit at OleMiss was set to 18mph to honor Archie Manning!
QFI 553 – “Non, je ne regrette rien”
Ok, not quite the Edith Piaf version. Who wrote this very popular song, rendered here by the divine M.S. Kurai Ondrum Illai — Answer: I cannot find any faults with those who answered Rajaji and got it right. Here is a special article in The Hindu by Gopal Gandhi that explains Rajaji’s unknown collaborator on…
QFI 552 – Know your Neighborhood – 1
Identify the area highlighted in this map… — Answer: Many of you zoned in on the right answer Green Zone or International Zone – the commonly used term to denote the center of international presence in Baghdad. In the news because of the Matt Damon movie, inspired by Rajeev Chandrashekaran’s Imperial Life in the Emerald…