Connect. ‘The Thirty-nine Steps’ is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, who is the person in Visual 1. The novel formed the basis for a number of film adaptations, notably Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 adaptation ‘The 39 Steps’, a still from which forms Visual 2. Cracked by 19 of you!…
Connect. Visual 1 shows the Apollo XI Lunar Module Eagle, whose landing on the moon was conveyed by the message ‘The Eagle Has Landed’, a phrase that also formed the title of a best-selling Nazi spy novel by Harry Patterson a.k.a Jack Higgins, who is the man in Visual 2. Cracked by 11 of you!…
Identify both women. How are they connected? Country singer Loretta Lynn and Sissy Spacek, who won the Best Actress Oscar in 1980 for her role as Lynn in the movie ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’. Only four people were able to get this right! In order – vijaysarathy, Thomas Masun, TKB and CR. Well done!
Identify both of them. What achievement connects them? Ernst Happel (Visual 1) and Ottmar Hitzfeld (Visual 2) are the only two managers to have won the European Cup (now UEFA Champions League) with two different clubs. Cracked by 12 of you! In order – harish, Diwakar Pingle, Thomas Masun, vijaysarathy, The Clueless Anon, Anil, Atul…
The entity in the second visual was intentionally ‘not named’ for the entity in the first. Name both and connect. The Hoa Lo Prison (Visual 1), later known to American prisoners of war as the ‘Hanoi Hilton’, was a prison used by the French colonists in Vietnam for political prisoners and later by North Vietnam…
Today’s question comes from Gaurav Sundararaman, who is, in his own words, “a sports buff whose love for sports range from T20 cricket all the way to 9-Ball pool. He is also (rather unusually) a very big fan of the Australian cricket team. His big dream is to win an open sports quiz if there…
Connect the four paintings providing necessary names. The subjects of the four paintings were Ganymede, Europa, Io and Callisto, all lovers of Zeus (Jupiter). They lend their names to the four largest moons of Jupiter, called the ‘Galilean Moons’ as they were discovered by Galileo Galilei. Cracked by 15 of you! In order – Thomas Masun,…
The last question of the first weekly championship on the QFI Chennai blog. The results will be announced along with the answer to this question tomorrow. Connect. Explain the alleged multi-lingual pun. Gallium (Visual 3) was discovered by Lecoq de Boisbaudran (Visual 1) in 1875. He named the element “gallia” after his native land of…
Before we get to today’s question, first an announcement: It’s time for the next QFI meeting, and it will be held this coming Sunday at P.S.! This meeting will have the questions from the ‘Ace Quiz’ conducted by Asha in Hyderabad on the 14th of June. Special thanks to the quizmasters JK, Bhargava, Srini and…
Identify all three people and connect with a story. The blog will be taking a break this weekend and business will resume as usual starting Monday. The story is ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’. F. Scott Fitzgerald (Visual 2) wrote the short story inspired by a quote from Mark Twain (Visual 1). The story…
