Cigar chomper has said that, of late, people keep bringing up <second visual> to him. Why would that be? (Clue: This could stir up some memories.) Answer: Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream) recently made the film “The Wrestler”, about a professional wrestler, which received the Golden Lion for Best Film at the Venice…
Give me the thread connecting them all. Answer: The connection is legendary American novelist and artist John Dos Passos. Jean-Paul Sartre once observed, that Dos Passos was “the greatest writer of our time.” On his USA trilogy Norman Mailer commented – “The single greatest novel any of us have written, yes, in this country in…
What connects all these people? These are people of Indian origin who have won the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship. (Not an exhaustive list though.) 1. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala – Writer (Correction – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is of Polish – German parentage and acquired her surname by marriage to Indian architect Cyrus H. Jhabvala. I had been…
Very famous faces. How would you connect these two guys? Answer: The connect is Ça Ira. It is the name of an opera created by Roger Waters and is named after a song from the French Revolution. The title of that song was inspired by Benjamin Franklin, in France as a representative of the Continental…
Connect. Answer: All of them are the most expensive properties on various editions of Monopoly. Quoting zizzyphus, 1. Imperial Palace, Coruscant- Star wars edition 2. Graceland, Elvis edition 3. Kermit the Frog’s swamp, Muppet edition 4. Wayne Manor, Batman edition 5. Rue de la paix, French edition 6. Mayfair, London in British edition Cracked by…
What? Where? Answer: Kids playing the game of Poohsticks at a bridge located in Ashdown Forest, close to the village of Hartfield, East Sussex, England. This is considered to be the bridge on which A. A. Milne and his son Christopher Robin first played the game. (It is a game first mentioned as being played…
People think something is named after A, but the name comes from B. Explain. Answer: Salmonella, the genus of bacteria which cause typhoid and foodborne illness is named for Daniel Salmon, a veterinary scientist and not for salmon, the fish. Cracked by Priya, Sankhya and Zizzyphus. The QFI Chennai Super King for the week is…
Identify the cousins in the first picture and connect them with the second visual. Answer: Daniel (David) Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee wrote detective fiction under the name Ellery Queen. In a successful series of novels that covered forty-two years, Ellery Queen served as both author’s name and…
He delivered a stinging rebuke but it was interpreted as an expression of sunny positivism, repeated ad nauseam in several tourist guide type books. Identify this misquoted individual and explain. Donald Horne, who wrote the 1964 book “The Lucky Country”. Quoting Wikipedia – “The title comes from the opening words of the book’s last chapter:…
‘Man making a point’ was involved in a work which has gathered a fan following over the years. ‘Cartoon guy’ was inspired by this work to do something. For an additional clue, check out this mildly NSFW picture. Now, details please. Nicholas Ray, directed “Johnny Guitar”, in which the title character memorably observes “I am…
