QFI Chennai – 521
Sitter – Thought the visual was interesting. The question is an old chestnut. Fill in the Blanks. Answer: Albert Einstein being offered the post of President in the newly formed state of Israel. 11 of you got it right.
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QFI Chennai – 520
Just Connect the 9 movies… ID them if possible Woenvu got it right. The connect was Movies Filmed by Women Directors (As simple as that). Honorable Mention: Kaushik Saha (For identifying 8/9 movies) . Hurt Locker, You’ve Got Mail, Piano or Deep Impact would have made it much simpler Movies & Their directors (Clockwise from…
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Just connect the 6 images and give us a 2 word answer. Meki,Dinesh, Ashwin, AamAadmi & Woenvu got it right The answer is Seven Sisters The breakdown is (Clockwise from Left Top: What we know as Gillette Castle was called Seven Sisters by William Gillette The 7 studios were collectively called Seven Sisters The Seven…
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As we were saying before we decided to “take an extended mid-season break” : Put Funda – Just give us the name of the one man who connects them all Raghuvansh & Bheema V got it right. The Answer was Charles Saatchi The connect is as follows: The place is Saatchi Gallery. The armless artist…
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517: Question from G. Sreekanth. Constructing A required demolishing significant portions of a capital city’s historic central district. A is also referred to as the House of _________ (B’s surname). Identify A and B. Answer: A – Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest; also called the House of Ceausescu B – Nicolae Ceausescu 516: Igor…
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516: The colour photographs are from a film about two famous people. They can also be spotted in the (real life) black and white photograph. Who? 515: Dakshin Gangotri, India’s first base station in Antarctica.
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515: Which abandoned site? 514: Palash flowers, lend their name to the place Plassey (anglicized from Palashi), remembered mainly for the battle fought there.
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514: Connect. 513: Charbagh, a garden layout – a quadrilateral garden, divided by walkways or flowing water into four smaller parts. In Persian, “Chār” means ‘four’ and “bāgh” means ‘garden’.
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513: What distinctive kind of garden associated with the Mughals is depicted in these pictures? (Not “paradise garden”, though that is another name.) This description from an account of Sir John Mandeville’s travels into the East, c. 1370 could act as an excellent clue: “And this Paradise is enclosed all about with a wall…and in…
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512: Connect the religious iconography to the scientific apparatus. 511: Robert Burns. “Of Mice and Men”, “The Catcher in the Rye” and Cutty Sark – all owe their names to his works.