Daily Question – 113

Connect and explain. Answer: The recent xkcd comic strip mocks Neal Stephenson’s Anathem, which was inspired by the Clock Of The Long Now project, a proposed mechanical clock designed to keep time for 10,000 years. Answered by Thejaswi Udupa, Krish Raghav, Bobo, Raghuvansh, Vijay Sarathy, Zizzyphus and Ananth. The QFI Chennai Super King for the…

Daily Question – 112

Cigar chomper has said that, of late, people keep bringing up <second visual> to him. Why would that be? (Clue: This could stir up some memories.) Answer: Darren Aronofsky  (Pi, Requiem for a Dream) recently made the film “The Wrestler”, about a professional wrestler, which received the Golden Lion for Best Film at the Venice…

Daily Question – 111

Give me the thread connecting them all. Answer: The connection is legendary American novelist and artist John Dos Passos. Jean-Paul Sartre once observed, that Dos Passos was “the greatest writer of our time.”  On his USA trilogy Norman Mailer commented – “The single greatest novel any of us have written, yes, in this country in…

Daily Question – 110

What connects all these people? These are people of Indian origin who have won the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship. (Not an exhaustive list though.) 1. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala – Writer (Correction – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is of Polish – German parentage and acquired her surname by marriage to Indian architect Cyrus H. Jhabvala. I had been…

Daily Question – 108

Connect. Answer: All of them are the most expensive properties on various editions of Monopoly. Quoting zizzyphus, 1. Imperial Palace, Coruscant- Star wars edition 2. Graceland, Elvis edition 3. Kermit the Frog’s swamp, Muppet edition 4. Wayne Manor, Batman edition 5. Rue de la paix, French edition 6. Mayfair, London in British edition Cracked by…

Daily Question – 105

Details of tomorrow’s QFI meeting: Quizmasters – TK “the Baron” Balaji (aka TKB) & Raghuvansh Date – 28th September, 2008 Venue – PS Senior Secondary School, # 33, Alarmelmangapuram, Mylapore, Chennai 600004 Time – 10 AM The question today is from Meera. Connect. Answer: Visuals are Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard, Eugène Delacroix and…