Some people have all the ideas. Explain. (Clue.) Answer: Kramer, in the TV show Seinfeld, had the idea of a coffeetable book which itself is a coffeetable. Not much unlike Helmut Newton’s Sumo, supposedly the most expensive book production of the 20th century, each copy weighing 30 kg with a table built in to it….
Identify and connect these nobodies. Quoting Meera, (who also had the most comprehensive answer) “Billy Wilder, Anthony Lane and Marlee Matlin Billy Wilder’s biography is called Nobody’s Perfect, by Charlotte Chandler Anthony Lane has written a book called Nobody’s Perfect as has Marlee Matlin (with Doug Cooney) Of course Nobody’s perfect is the memorable ending…
Identify and connect these vicious individuals. Answer: TH Huxley and Richard Dawkins, took/take pride in calling themselves “Darwin’s Bulldog” and “Darwin’s Rottweiler” for their tenacious support of evolution. Answered by Apurva, Nayantara and Udupa.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Very famous faces. How would you connect these two guys? Answer: The connect is Ça Ira. It is the name of an opera created by Roger Waters and is named after a song from the French Revolution. The title of that song was inspired by Benjamin Franklin, in France as a representative of the Continental…
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…
What? Where? Answer: Kids playing the game of Poohsticks at a bridge located in Ashdown Forest, close to the village of Hartfield, East Sussex, England. This is considered to be the bridge on which A. A. Milne and his son Christopher Robin first played the game. (It is a game first mentioned as being played…
