A note about the QFI meeting this Sunday – Gopal Kidao writes, “You are invited to the QFI meeting to be held this weekend. The Quizmaster will be Srini Rajagopal (Fing) who has been won numerous quizzes like the Landmark and Odyssey quizzes. Srini has done some wonderful quizzes for us in the past. Be…
Richard Reti, Alexander Alekhine, Alexander Petrov, Grunfeld and Nimzowitsch – chess openings are named after them. Question from Raghuvansh – connect these three pictures:
Fred Savage who played Kevin Arnold on the Wonder Years and Daniel Stern who was the voice of the narrator (the adult Kevin Arnold) on it. It’s not cricket. What sporting connection links all these openers? (Question from Shiv.)
NASA’s 4 “Great Observatories” are named after them – Hubble, Chandra, Compton and Spitzer. Identify these two and the role that they shared.
Ranthambhore. How are they remembered?
The Ryugyong Hotel Tower in Pyongyang, North Korea. Identify this almost 1000 year old fort which also lends its name to a national park.
The Dream Captcha. This ambitious building was never completed because of economic situations. Where would you find this structure?
The connection is the star cluster Pleiades – the Subaru logo depicts the six stars of the Pleiades cluster that are usually visible from earth with the unaided eye. Lord Murugan is connected to the Pleiades through various origin stories in Hindu mythology and he is supposed to derive his name Karthikeya from the name…
The Bich pen and the Puck Man video game were both renamed in order to avoid possible mispronunciation / misspelling. Connect.
Snooker. What connects the naming of these two things?
