131 – Kamasutra / Vatsyayana Cipher Gopal Kidao writes, “You are invited to the QFI meeting to be held this weekend. This will be a farewell quiz by CK (Karthik Chandrasekhar) who is relocating on work. CK has done some wonderful quizzes for us in the past. Be there in large numbers to give him…
130 : Munshi Premchand, on whose works Oka Oori Katha and Shatranj Ke Khilari are based. One of the earliest descriptions of encryption by substitution appears in a text written in the 4th century AD (itself based on manuscripts dating back to the 4th century BC.) The text recommends that women should be well versed…
Answer to 129 – Krishnadevaraya and his queens – Chinna Devi and Tirumala Devi at the Tirupati temple. What connects these two films?
Answer to 128: The aerial walkway between the Petronas Towers. Who / Where?
Yesterday’s answer: Lithuanian National basketball team for the 1992 Olympics, sponsored by the Grateful Dead. Where would you be if you were here?
Who are these people? Who sponsored their colourful outfits?
Question from Shiv – identify the poet, the author, the album cover and connect. Walt Whitman, Ray Bradbury and ‘I Sing the Body Electric’ by the Weather Report. The connection is the phrase ‘I sing the Body Electric’ – the opening line of an 1855 poem by Whitman, and the title of a short story…
Today’s question is from Meera. Identify and come up with a literary connection. Answer: Meera writes, “Visual 1 is Sir Pelham Warner, known affectionately as Plum Warner and the Grand Old Man of English cricket. Visual 2 is Percy Jeeves British first-class cricketer from England, playing 50 matches for Warwickshire County Cricket Club from 1912…
Today’s question is from Shiv. Samuel Maverick was one of the signatories of the Texas Declaration of Independence and famous for not branding his cattle – an act which is said to be the origin of the word ‘maverick’ as it is used today. His grandson Maury Maverick was a 2 term Democratic Member of the…
Today’s question is from Venkatesh. Give the fascinating story behind this picture and the relation to the book. Quoting Dinesh, the first visual is the Ulam spiral discovered by mathematician Stanislaw Ulam that reveals surprising and as yet not completely understood patterns in prime number spirals. A couple of years before the discovery of the…
