The last question of the first weekly championship on the QFI Chennai blog. The results will be announced along with the answer to this question tomorrow. Connect. Explain the alleged multi-lingual pun. Gallium (Visual 3) was discovered by Lecoq de Boisbaudran (Visual 1) in 1875. He named the element “gallia” after his native land of…
Today’s question comes from Jayakanthan, a seemingly unstoppable cyborg answering machine that has been sent back in time from the year 2149 by earth-controlling alien powers to exterminate the quizzing race. Some say that it doesn’t sleep, and prowls the web at night, e-arresting online quiz enthusiasts and looking for obscure Ukrainian movies to download…
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 the questions from the ‘Ace Quiz’ conducted by Asha in Hyderabad on the 14th of June. Special thanks to the quizmasters JK, Bhargava, Srini and…
A version of a famous work, supposedly displayed as its creator had originally intended. The more familiar original is displayed in a slightly different manner. Identify the work and its creator. ‘Les Bourgeois De Calais’ or ‘The Burghers Of Calais’ by Auguste Rodin. This replica at Stanford University is displayed so because Rodin supposedly wanted…
What had just happened? U.S. President James Garfield had just been shot by Charles Guiteau. He would go on to die 80 days later because of complications arising from the shooting. 21 of you had the right answer! In order – Sankhya, zizzyphus, Thomas Masun, BoFi, The Clueless Anon, anannyad, DP, vijaysarathy, Manish Mani, anon-on-narkotix,…
Released in the year of their deaths, which movie was dedicated to the memory of these two people? The 1997 movie ‘Good Will Hunting’ was dedicated to the memory of the poet Allen Ginsberg (Visual 1) and the writer William S. Burroughs (Visual 2), both of whom had died earlier that year. Cracked by 17…
Starting today, we’re going to experiment with a weekly championship format which will run from Monday to Sunday. People answering all seven questions qualify to be the champion. If no one gets all seven, then the highest number of correct answers will be considered. In case of more than one winner, the person submitting the…
Identify all three people and connect with a story. The blog will be taking a break this weekend and business will resume as usual starting Monday. The story is ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’. F. Scott Fitzgerald (Visual 2) wrote the short story inspired by a quote from Mark Twain (Visual 1). The story…
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…
