Today’s question comes from Deviprasad Viswanathan, who wants you to buy shares of Wanbury Limited right now. What’s the story? Visual 1 shows Philadelphia City Hall atop which stands a statue of William Penn. Under a gentlemen’s agreement, no building in the city was to rise above this statue. This ended in March 1987, when…
Today’s question comes to you from Samanth Subramanian, South India’s answer to Salman Khan. Who are they? What connects them? In the words of Dr. Gregory House M.D., “I finally have a case of Lupus.” Seal, Michael Jackson, Louisa May Alcott and Ferdinand Marcos all suffered from the condition Lupus, which is often discussed…
Today’s question comes partly from me and partly from Harish Narayanan, an ex-QFI regular and a card-carrying member of the Church Of Tarantino. His faith is so strong that he once set a full-length QFI quiz where almost every answer was ‘Kill Bill’ (one was ‘Kill Bill: Vol. 2’). He is now based in the…
What deliberate act of planning, intended to add dramatic effect, connects these three entities? And before any of you ask, this may not be an exhaustive list. Black Sabbath’s self-titled first album, ‘The End’ – Book 13 of Lemony Snicket’s ‘A Series Of Unfortunate Events’ and Manoj Night Shyamalan’s latest work – ‘The Happening’ were…
