Where would you find these, now or later? An explanation would be nice. Yinka Shonibare’s ‘Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle’ (Visual 3) and Antony Gormley’s ‘One and Other’ (Visual 2) are the next two works that will occupy the Fourth Plinth on Trafalgar Square in London. Currently, the work displayed on the plinth is Thomas…
Today’s question comes from Deviprasad Viswanathan, who wants you to buy shares of Wanbury Limited right now. What’s the story? Visual 1 shows Philadelphia City Hall atop which stands a statue of William Penn. Under a gentlemen’s agreement, no building in the city was to rise above this statue. This ended in March 1987, when…
Today’s question comes to you from Samanth Subramanian, South India’s answer to Salman Khan. Who are they? What connects them? In the words of Dr. Gregory House M.D., “I finally have a case of Lupus.” Seal, Michael Jackson, Louisa May Alcott and Ferdinand Marcos all suffered from the condition Lupus, which is often discussed…
What lies behind? This is a reconstructed bookcase covering the entrance to Anne Frank’s hiding place, in the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. Cracked by 23 of you, including young Thomas Masun, who has obviously been smoking whatever Kamal Haasan did when he wrote ‘Dasavatharam’.
Today’s question comes partly from me and partly from Harish Narayanan, an ex-QFI regular and a card-carrying member of the Church Of Tarantino. His faith is so strong that he once set a full-length QFI quiz where almost every answer was ‘Kill Bill’ (one was ‘Kill Bill: Vol. 2’). He is now based in the…
The first three visuals show the last three holders of a certain record in the European Football Championships. The person in the fourth visual holds the same record in the FIFA World Cup. Identify all the players and which record are we talking about? The fourth visual showed Alessandro Del Piero, who holds the record…
Which movie’s poster is this? And what has it (the poster) been inspired by? The movie was ‘De Taali’, which was released just yesterday. The poster is a direct inspiration from the poster for the 2004 movie ‘Closer’. Take a ‘closer’ look: Not as high scoring as the last few questions, maybe because no one…
Before we get to today’s question, first an announcement: It’s time for the next QFI meeting, and it will be held this coming Sunday at P.S.! This meeting will have two quizzes, one by Srinivasan Rajagopal a.k.a Fing, who is one of the small handful of people to have won both the Landmark and the…
What is happening? And where is it happening? Lyndon B. Johnson being sworn in aboard Air Force One, around two hours after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. 35 people attempted it, 34 of them got it right, and citibank(rupt) gave us some additional business trivia!
Some people say that before he hit puberty, India occupied 23rd place in the world population rankings. All we know is, his name is Samanth Subramanian and he wants to ask you this question: Which immensely enjoyable work of art includes, among other ‘components’, quotes such as: “There once was a little girl who never…
