Daily Question – 142
Ranthambhore. How are they remembered?
Ranthambhore. How are they remembered?
The Ryugyong Hotel Tower in Pyongyang, North Korea. Identify this almost 1000 year old fort which also lends its name to a national park.
The Dream Captcha. This ambitious building was never completed because of economic situations. Where would you find this structure?
The connection is the star cluster Pleiades – the Subaru logo depicts the six stars of the Pleiades cluster that are usually visible from earth with the unaided eye. Lord Murugan is connected to the Pleiades through various origin stories in Hindu mythology and he is supposed to derive his name Karthikeya from the name…
The Bich pen and the Puck Man video game were both renamed in order to avoid possible mispronunciation / misspelling. Connect.
Snooker. What connects the naming of these two things?
Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi. This is Sir Neville Francis Fitzgerald Chamberlain, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has the following about a famous claim that he had. “While serving at Jubbulpore in 1875 Chamberlain developed a new variation of black pool by introducing coloured balls into the game. It was dubbed ______ a derogatory nickname…
The Brain Fever Bird, also the name of a book by I. Allan Sealy. This man was the only cricketer to represent both England and India in Test cricket. He was also supposedly part of the Indian hockey team for the 1928 Olympics. Name him.
“Officers and Sepoys”, a board game, a variation on Fox & Geese introduced in the 1860s to play on the hype of the 1857 war. This is the common hawk cuckoo, also known as the papeeha, which was given a very evocative nickname. What name? The writer pictured here wrote a book with the same…
132: The picture is of the stretch of Michigan Avenue in front of the Art Institute in downtown Chicago that also has the honorary name “Swami Vivekananda Way” to commemorate his famous speech to the Parliament of the World’s Religions there. This is a game dating back to the 1850s/60s. What is it about? Who…