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.
What does this sculpture commemorate? Also identify its sculptor. ‘Nuclear Energy’ by Henry Moore, inside the University of Chicago campus at the site of world’s first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1. The location commemorates the exact location where the Manhattan Project team devised the first nuclear reactor to produce the first self-sustaining controlled nuclear reaction. Cracked…
What are they carrying in the wagon, and to whom did they finally deliver it? The Budweiser Clydesdales have been a symbol for the Anheuser-Busch company since 1933, when company president August Busch sent a case of Budweiser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a carriage drawn by a team of Clydesdales. The horses are…
What had just happened? U.S. President James Garfield had just been shot by Charles Guiteau. He would go on to die 80 days later because of complications arising from the shooting. 21 of you had the right answer! In order – Sankhya, zizzyphus, Thomas Masun, BoFi, The Clueless Anon, anannyad, DP, vijaysarathy, Manish Mani, anon-on-narkotix,…
What is happening? And where is it happening? Lyndon B. Johnson being sworn in aboard Air Force One, around two hours after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. 35 people attempted it, 34 of them got it right, and citibank(rupt) gave us some additional business trivia!
Today’s question comes to you from Gopal Kidao, one of the founding members of the QFI, Chennai. To celebrate which annual occasion was this map published? The event was Bloomsday, observed annually on 16th June in Dublin and elsewhere to celebrate the life of James Joyce and relive the events in his novel ‘Ulysses’, all…
