Quoting one of the answers yesterday – Josh Lyman of “The West Wing” and Ari Gold of “Entourage”. The first character was inspired by Rahm Emmanuel, who has been designated as Obama’s Chief of Staff. The second character was inspired by Rahm’s brother Ari Emmanuel, the so-called “Hollywood super agent.” Identify the molehill and the…
Modest Mussorgsky’s piano suite “Pictures at an Exhibition” which was created in tribute to the works of Viktor Hartmann. Today’s question from Rey de Vaqueiros. Identify these two television characters and connect.
On the covers of Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin books. How are these six works immortalized in the world of the arts?
Tina Brown (former editor of the New Yorker, Vanity Fair) started the website the Daily Beast recently. The site takes its name from that of the fictional newspaper in Evelyn Waugh’s novel Scoop. This is Geoff Hunt, one of the world’s finest painters of 18th and 19th century ships. Through his research for paintings he…
The connection I was looking for was the hurdy gurdy. The song playing over the sequence from Zodiac was “Hurdy Gurdy Man” by Donovan and the Bosch painting – the Garden of Earthly Delights is said to have the first depiction of the modern day hurdy gurdy (in the right most panel.) Citibank(rupt) had an…
Wiliam Melville : the founder of the British Secret Service and the inspiration for the character of M, Duchess Loelia Ponsonby : recently revealed to the inspiration for the character of Moneypenny. A few sharp knives in the drawer identified the quantum of solace offered to Shiv’s clients. I say, well done! Buzz for a…
A note about the QFI meeting this Sunday – Gopal Kidao writes, “You are invited to the QFI meeting to be held this weekend. The Quizmaster will be Srini Rajagopal (Fing) who has been won numerous quizzes like the Landmark and Odyssey quizzes. Srini has done some wonderful quizzes for us in the past. Be…
Richard Reti, Alexander Alekhine, Alexander Petrov, Grunfeld and Nimzowitsch – chess openings are named after them. Question from Raghuvansh – connect these three pictures:
Fred Savage who played Kevin Arnold on the Wonder Years and Daniel Stern who was the voice of the narrator (the adult Kevin Arnold) on it. It’s not cricket. What sporting connection links all these openers? (Question from Shiv.)
NASA’s 4 “Great Observatories” are named after them – Hubble, Chandra, Compton and Spitzer. Identify these two and the role that they shared.
