Quoting Srini, “The inspiration for the straight to DVD titles of Futurama – Beast with a Billion Backs from ‘Beast with two backs’ – a quote from Othello – Benders Game from Enders Game – Into the Wild green yonder from the Wild Blue Yonder – Bender’s Big Score from Shaft’s Big Score” Cryptic references…
As answered by Fing, “Tartini Robert Johnson Paganini Connect: Legend has it that they sold their soul to the devil in exchange for becoming great musicians / rich & famous All of them also composed one piece which came out as a result of this deal… Tartini’s devil’s trill sonata Robert Johnson’s Crossroad blues (…
Quoting one of the correct answers yesterday, “Little Miss Muffet. Supposedly about Mary, Queen of Scots (1) being scared of John Knox (2). Another theory is that Thomas Muffett (entomologist and expander of the Theater of Insects in 3) wrote it for his daughters.” A note from Gopal Kidao about Sunday’s QFI meeting: “The Quiz…
Henry Ford on his first car, the Quadricycle. A yarn about a childhood staple. Explain.
The characters played by Clive Owen and Paul Giamatti in “Shoot ’em Up” are supposedly based on Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. Heath Ledger’s Joker in “The Dark Knight” resembles Bugs Bunny – the voice and the hospital scene where he appears in drag. Identify this very imaginatively named piece of equipment, its significance and…
Yesterday’s answer – the logo of Google’s Chrome browser. What’s up, Doc?
Books by Malcolm Gladwell – The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers. An amusing theory, on the origin of what?
Giuseppe Mercalli and Charles Richter who lend their names to scales for seismic activity – the Mercalli intensity scale and the Richter magnitude scale. Can you thin-slice your way out of this question?
Ralph Nelson Elliott and Nikolai Kondratiev who have lent their names to the Elliott wave and the Kondratiev wave – ways of looking at business and economic cycles. Intensity versus magnitude. Explain.
Yesterday’s answer: Mount Kosciuszko is a mountain located in the Snowy Mountains in Kosciuszko National Park. With a height of 2,228 metres (7,310 ft) above sea level, it is the highest mountain in Australia (not including its external territories). It was named by the Polish explorer Count Paul Edmund Strzelecki in 1840, in honour of…
