Who? Where? When? Carla Bruni, at the Opening Ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics, in Turin, Italy. Cracked by 18 of you! In order – Srikanth, Shafeek, Thejaswi Udupa, Sankhya, li’l_boy-fat_man, Raghuvansh, zizzyphus, Mouli, Goutham, vijaysarathy, Chandrakant Nair, Venkatesh S (Venky), Janani, racerx, R.Sibi, Crab urinal, Ajay Parasuraman, and anil raghavan.
Who is depicted in this painting? Seve Ballesteros, the Spanish golfer. Cracked by seven of you! In order – Atul Mathew, shafeek, Anil, Prashanth Kumar, Ashwin Kelkar, Mouli, and rajagopal! No one got all seven answers right this week. And surprisingly, no one got even six. But one person managed to get five right –…
Before we get to today’s question, first an announcement: Yesterday saw the 15th edition of the annual Landmark Quiz conducted at the Music Academy in Chennai. Hosted by Dr. Navin Jayakumar, the quiz provided an evening of exhilarating quizzing, with QFI teams doing very well. The Chennai regional round was won by QED (Samanth Subramanian,…
Happy Independence Day, everyone! And good luck at the Landmark Quiz, to whoever is taking part! Here’s today’s question… Identify the location. The Sabarmati Ashram, in Ahmedabad. Cracked by 25 of you! In order – Sharath, Dinesh, Gokul, Anirudh, Atul Mathew, Arun R, zizzyphus, Priya, Chandrakant Nair, Navin Ragade, Myth, Rohan, Ajay Parasuraman, Sumo, Apurva,…
Whoitis? Stephanie Kwolek, who invented Kevlar. Cracked by just 3 of you! In order – vijaysarathy, Thejaswi Udupa and sai. Well done!
Connect. The connect is the film ’10 Things I Hate About You’. It was based on William Shakespeare’s ‘The Taming Of The Shrew’ and the film’s tagline was ”How do I loathe thee, let me count the ways.”, based on the most famous sonnet written by the poetess Elizabeth Barrett Browning, which began, “How do…
Before we get to today’s question, just a reminder: The quiz at SWIM 2008, organised by the Great Lakes Institute fof Management happens today in Chennai. Teams of upto 3 members each, with at least one lady mandatory. It will be a general quiz with a tilt towards women. Interested teams, please land up at…
Identify both and connect. Visual 1 shows the Scottish band Belle And Sebastian, which takes its name from the French book ‘Belle Et Sebastien’ (Visual 2) by Cecile Aubry. Cracked by 17 of you! In order – zizzyphus, vijaysarathy, Thejaswi Udupa, anil raghavan, Thomas Masun, shabhar, ganesh, RacerX (Anoop), Mouli, citybank(rupt), li’l_boy-fat_man, bobo, Rohan, CR,…
On what is this comic book/graphic novel based? ‘The Fountain’, by Darren Aronofsky. Cracked by 20 of you! In order – ganesh, zizzyphus, bobo, harsha, Sharath, vijaysarathy, CR, li’l_boy-fat_man, Sumo, Thejaswi Udupa, Priya, sai, Venkatesh S (Venky), Philip, Ram Kumar, Apurva, Rohan, ixo, malcaluffin, and Rajiv Rai. Two people got all six this week –…
Connect. Visual 2 shows Hamid and Halil Altintop, twin brothers who represent Turkey and Visual 1 shows a young David Beckham. ‘Altintop’ translates to ‘Golden Ball’ and as there are two of them, it could be taken to mean ‘Golden Balls’, which is also David Beckham’s nickname. Cracked by only two of you! Great work,…
