76/ CLOCKWISE:- R.K. LAXMAN; WORLD BANK LOGO;BENNETT, COLEMAN & CO LTD (PUBLISHER OF TIMES OF INDIA) LOGO.
THE WORLD BANK WAS THE SUBJECT OF LAXMAN’S 1ST CARTOON TO APPEAR ON THE FRONT PAGE OF TIMES OF INDIA.
77/ DAVIS CUP. THE GENTLEMAN IS DWIGHT DAVIS.
78/ GODZILLA. GORILLA (IN JAPANESE)+ WHALE (IN JAPANESE)= GOJIRA ( GODZILLA’S ORIZINAL NAME IN JAPANESE)
79/ CLOCKWISE:- GOPAL(KRISNA GOKHALE), LUCKY,(GODDESS LAKSHMI), MAHADEV (SHIVA).
CLUE:-HRISIKESH MUKHERJEE
GOPAL,LUCKY,MAHADEV&LAKSHMI- THESE ARE THE NAME OF THE FOUR PROTAGONIST FROM WHOM THE MOVIE DERIVES ITS NAME- GOLMAAL( OLD ONE BY HRISIKESH MUKHERJEE)
80/ THIS IS THE FIRST ISSUE OF PLAYBOY, IT DIDN’T CONTAIN ANY DATE COZ THE FOUNDER WAS NOT CONFIDENT WHETHER THERE WOULD BE A SECOND ISSUE AT ALL.
81/ DID NOT CAST ANY MAN IN IT.
82/ TOP: THE GATES OF PARADISE SCULPTED BY LORENZO GHIBERTI .
BOTTOM:- THE GATES OF HELL DESIGNED BY AUGUSTE RODIN.
HELL & PARADISE- TWO OPPOSITE FACTORS.
83/ LEFT: POSTER OF HIDDEN FORTRESS BY AKIRA KUROSAWA. RIGHT: R2D2 & C3PU OF STAR WARS.
THE BASIC PLOT OF STARWARS AND THE DUO R2D2 & C3PU WAS INSPIRED BY THE CHARACTERS IN HIDDEN FORTRESS.
84/ CLOCKWISE:- CARL SANDBERG, ERNEST HEMINGWAY, ALBERT EIENSTIEN.
CLUE:- L TO R RONALD REAGEN, NANCY REAGEN, STEVEN SPEILBERG.
E.T.-THE EXTRA TERRESTIAL.
THE EYES OF THE POET CARL SANDBERG, THE FOREHEAD OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY AND THE NOSE OF ALBERT EIENSTIEN WERE PASTED ON TO THE PHOTOGRAPH OF A BOY TO RESULT IN THE CREATION OF E.T. (BY SPIELBERG)
85/ PHOTO:- NICHOLAS FLAMEL.
FLAMEL’S PHILOSOPHER STONE IS THE BASIS FOR J.K. ROWLING’S FIRST HARRY POTTER BOOK ‘H.P AND THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE’. HE IS PROBABLY THE ONLY REAL PERSON TO FEATURE IN THE H.P. SERIES.
86/ CLOCKWISE:- E M FORSTER, INDIA FLAG, NIRAD C CHAUDHURI, MAP OF ENGLAND.
E M FORSTER IS THE AUTHOR OF ‘A PASSAGE TO INDIA’ & N.C.C IS THE AUTHOR OF ‘A PASSAGE TO ENGLAND’.
87/ TOP:- A PORTION OF A POSTER OF ‘SHOLAY’.
BOTTOM LEFT:- DEMIS ROUSSOS, BOTTOM RIGHT:- R.D. BURMAN
CONNECTION:- THE SONG ‘ MEHBOOBA O MEHBOOBA’. R.D. BURMAN’S SONG ‘MEHBOBA O MEHBOBA’ FROM ‘SHOLAY’ IS BASED ON A NUMBER ‘SAY YOU LOVE ME’ WHOSE ORIGINAL SINGER IS DEMIS ROUSSOS.
88/ THIS IS TINKERBELL FROM PETER PAN COMICS WHICH IS MODELLED ON MARILYN MONROE.
89/ ASSASINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN BY JOHN WILKES BOOTH. THE PICTURE SHOWS BOOTH’S ESCAPE ROUTE.
90/ A twelfth-century Byzantine manuscript of the Hippocratus Oath, rendered in the form of a cross.
91/ CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (C.I.A)
92/ INORDER TO PREPARE A BUST OF CHARLES I.
THE VIEW FROM 3 ANGLES WAS THE CLUE.
93/ BARRACK OBAMA….HUH, A SITTER!
94/ CLOCKWISE:- MILKHA SINGH, P.T. USHA, GURBACHAN SINGH RANDHWA, HENRY REBELLO.
A SILLY ANSWER: ALL OF THEM REACHED THE FINALS OF THE OLYMPICS. BUT NONE WON A MEDAL.
95/ CENTRE:- TOOTHBRUSH.
CLOCKWISE (NEGLECT THE TOOTHBRUSH FOR COUNTING):- WALRUS, ANTHONY VAN DYKE, THE PAINTING ‘PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY’ BY SALVADOR DALI, GIUSEPPE VERDI, FRANK ZAPPA.
CONNECXON:- WALRUS, VAN DYKE, DALI, VERDI, ZAPPA & TOOTHBRUSH ARE ALL TYPES OF MOUSTACHES.
96/ 1ST TOP: GLEN GREGORY OF THE BAND HEAVEN 17
1ST BOTTOM: STANLEY KUBRICK.
2ND IMAGE:- ANTHONY BURGESS
3RD IMAGE:- MARTYN WARE OF HEAVEN 17
CONNECXON:- HEAVEN 17 TOOK THEIR NAME FROM A GROUP MENTIONED IN THE NOVEL ‘A CLOCKWORK ORANGE’ BY ANTHONY BURGESS THAT WAS MADE INTO A FILM BY STANLEY KUBRICK.
97/ TOP LEFT: PALM TREE; TOP RIGHT; CANNES FILM FESTIVEL; BOTTOM: CONCH
THE INDIAN DOCUMENTRY AND SHORT FILM FESTIVEL.
GOLDEN PALM IS AWARDED AT CANNES FILM FESTIVEL AND THE GOLDEN CONCH IS AWARDED AT THE INDIAN DOCUMENTRY AND SHORT FILM FESTIVEL.
98/ CLOCKWISE:- BOLIVIA FLAG; PERU FLAG; GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ’S NOVEL ‘THE GENERAL IN HIS LABRYNITH’; REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA FLAG.
CONNEXON:- SIMON BOLIVAR. GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ’S NOVEL ‘THE GENERAL IN HIS LABRYNITH’ IS BASED ON THE LIFE OF SIMON BOLIVAR, ONCE PRESIDENT OF BOLIVIA, PERU AND GRAN COLOMBIA (NOT THE ONE INDICATED BY THE FLAG IN THE QUESTION).
99/ WESTMINISTER ABBEY.
100/ CLOCKWISE:- AMERIGO VESPUCCI, JEAN NICOT, ELBRIDGE THOMAS GERRY, AMBROSE BURNSIDE.
THEY ALL HAVE WORDS NAMED AFTER THEM. THEY ARE AMERICA, NICOTINE, GERYMANDER AND SIDE BURNS.
Monday, March 23, 2009
A#51-75
75/ MCDONALDS. IT’S THE SPEEDEE.
74/ SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX.
73/ A HUGE CONDOM WAS COVERED ON IT AS AN AWARENESS OF WORLD AIDS DAY.
72/ PROSTITUTION.
71/ THE JOKER (BATMAN)
70/ HE IS JERRY SIEGEL, ONE OF THE CREATOR OF SUPERMAN
69/ HE IS THOMAS HARRIS, CREATOR OF HANNIBEL LACTER.
68/ THE BOOKER PRIZE, HE IS P.H. NEWBY.
67/ BMW MOTORCYCLE.
66/ WILD OSCAR. PICTURE SHOWS HARPARD LAMPOON BUILDING (H.L. GIVES THIS PRIZE FOR THE YEAR’S WORST PICTURE) AND OSCAR WILDE (WILD(e)OSCAR).
65/ CHE GUEVARA.
64/) THE TALES OF BEEDLE THE BARD (J.K. ROWLING’S LATEST)
63/ BOSTON TEA PARTY.
62/
61/ PAPARAZZI
60/ 15 august events.
59/ MAJOR SOMNATH SHARMA, FIRST RECIPIENT OF THE PARAM VIR CHAKRA.
58/ PANDA AWARD, THE CHESS OSCAR.
57/ SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE.
56/
55/ THE SEWING MACHINE.
54/WARNER BROTHERS-SEVEN ART, A JOINT VENTURE IN 1967.
53/ THE DRESS WORN BY INDIRA GANDHI DURING THE TIME OF HER ASSASSINATION.
52/ SPACE SHIP 1
51/
74/ SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX.
73/ A HUGE CONDOM WAS COVERED ON IT AS AN AWARENESS OF WORLD AIDS DAY.
72/ PROSTITUTION.
71/ THE JOKER (BATMAN)
70/ HE IS JERRY SIEGEL, ONE OF THE CREATOR OF SUPERMAN
69/ HE IS THOMAS HARRIS, CREATOR OF HANNIBEL LACTER.
68/ THE BOOKER PRIZE, HE IS P.H. NEWBY.
67/ BMW MOTORCYCLE.
66/ WILD OSCAR. PICTURE SHOWS HARPARD LAMPOON BUILDING (H.L. GIVES THIS PRIZE FOR THE YEAR’S WORST PICTURE) AND OSCAR WILDE (WILD(e)OSCAR).
65/ CHE GUEVARA.
64/) THE TALES OF BEEDLE THE BARD (J.K. ROWLING’S LATEST)
63/ BOSTON TEA PARTY.
62/
61/ PAPARAZZI
60/ 15 august events.
59/ MAJOR SOMNATH SHARMA, FIRST RECIPIENT OF THE PARAM VIR CHAKRA.
58/ PANDA AWARD, THE CHESS OSCAR.
57/ SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE.
56/
55/ THE SEWING MACHINE.
54/WARNER BROTHERS-SEVEN ART, A JOINT VENTURE IN 1967.
53/ THE DRESS WORN BY INDIRA GANDHI DURING THE TIME OF HER ASSASSINATION.
52/ SPACE SHIP 1
51/
Friday, March 6, 2009
A#1-50
ANSWERS (1-50)
1/ The person is Vikash Swarup. Slumdog Millionaire is based on his book ‘Q&A’.
2/ CLOCKWISE: BASKIN ROBIN’S LOGO, AUGUSTUS CEASER, clip from OM SHANTI OM.CONEXON is 31. Baskin Robins started with 31 flavours, also the number is displayed in the logo. OSO featured 31 stars for the first time. July and August having 31 days are named after Julius Ceaser and Emperor Augustus.
3/ Images: Laden and Issac Ashimov. Laden’s Al-quaida means ‘The foundation’ which is also the name of a famous book by Issac Ashimov.
4/ A tough one: Images clockwise:- Abbas Ali Baig, Surinder Amarnath,Hanumant Singh and Lala Amarnath. They along with PRAVEEN AMRE and DEEPAK SODHAN are the only Indian cricketers who scored centuries on debut, but never scored a century again.
5/ Sony’s AKIO MORITA.
6/ Ramon Magsaysay Award
7/ Opening ceremony of Winter Olympics 2006.
8/ Death of Tulsi Virani, in an episode of “Kyonki saas bhi kabhi bahu thi”.
9/ Another toughy: She is LINDA HUNT, first and only person to win an Oscar for potraying a person of the opposite gender in the film “The year of living dangerously”. She performed as Billy Kwan, a male photographer.
10/ MANDRAKE. It’s the mandrake plant.
11/ PATTON.
12/ WEBBY. The award is presented by the International Academy of digital arts and sciences for achievement in technology and creativity. It is considered to be technology’s equivalent of the Oscars.
13/ Quality-Factor (Q-FACTOR). Trivia is that it shares its name with this blog. Q here is…… QUIZ ofcourse!!! SO did you like quiz factor?
14/ He is Douglas Fairbanks senior. Seigal and Schuster modeled the face of Superman after him.
15/ CLOCKWISE:- Eureka forbes’ logo, flag of California and Archimedes principle.Connection is ‘EUREKA’. Motto of California, Archimedes reacted as ‘eureka eureka, I have found it’.
16/ BONSAI
17/ Images:- Chesterfield cigarettes and Margaret Mitchell.Margaret wrote ‘Gone with the wind’. Chesterfield cigarettes were launched by the movie ‘GONE WITH THE WIND’.
18/ He designed the FIFA trophy.
19/ Arch de Triumph, Paris. INDIA GATE was modeled on this.
20/RUNNER’S POINT
21/ FISHERMAN’S RING.
22/ IMAGES: Somerset Maugham, A painting by Paul Gauguin.CLUE:-Moon, SixPaul was the inspiration for the character of Charles Strickland in Maugham’s novel THE MOON AND SIXPENCE.
23/ PAVITRA PRABHAKAR, Indian spiderman.
24/ IMAGES:- John LENON and J.D. Salinger’s THE CATCHER IN THE RYE.MARK DAVID CHAPMAN was carrying this famous literary classic when he killed Lenon.
25/ ORDER OF MERIT AWARD.(BRITISH)
26/ HAMZANAMA.
27/ IMAGES:- DYLAN THOMAS and logos of VICTORIA’S SECRET. BOB DYLAN appeared in an ad campaign for VICTORIA’S STREET. Dylan’s song LOVESICK from his Grammy-winning 1997 album ‘TIME OUT OF MIND’ produced the musical backdrop for the commercial.
28/ In the flag of CAMBODIA
29/ CLOCKWISE: L.K. ADVANI, HALF MOON,MADAM CAMA, RISING SUN and ALBUM COVER OF A.R. RAHMAN’S VANDEMATARAM.eight LOTUSES, ‘VANDE MATARAM’ in hindi, a HALF MOON and a RISING SUN are illustrated on the first national flag of India unfurled by MADAM CAMA.
30/ CLOCKWISE: INDIA, YAGA VENUGOPAL REDDY(focus on background), PAKISTAN and MYANMAR.REDDY – governor of R.B.I. and R.B.I. has served as the central bank of INDIA,PAKISTAN and MYANMAR.So, conexon is R.B.I.
31/ Earlier COKE bottles in the 30s, before the curved bottles came.
32/ CONNECTION IS ‘CHANDNI CHOWK TO CHINA’CLOCKWISE- ENGLISH VERSION OF “CHANDU KE CHACHA NE ,CHANDU KE CHACHI KO ,CHANDNI CHOWK MEIN,CHANDNI RAAT MEIN, CHUTNEY CHATAI”(CHANDU,CHANDNI CHOWK AND CHUTNEY were hidden); JAHAN ARA; BANGLORE TORPEDO; BUILDING AT C.C and MAP OF CHINA.JAHANARA BEGUM designed C.C.;DEEPIKA PADUKONE daughter of ‘BANGLORE TORPEDO’-prakash padukone acted in the movie C.C.MOST INTERESTING ONE…REMAIN UNCRACKED!
33/ All these are pictures of RICHARD NIXON that appeared in the cover page of TIME magazine. A total of 55 times.
34/ CLOCKWISE: INDIAN IDOL, JUNOON BAND member, PIEGION, RUSKIN BOND.CONNECTION is JUNOON. Album by Abhijeet Sawant (Indian Idol 1), Shyam Benegal’s JUNOON is based on BOND’S A flight of piegion.
35/ CHARLIE CHAPLIN.
36/ SARASWATI. ( the picture is of MINERVA, Roman godess of wisdom)
37/ ADRASEER CHURETSJEE, first Indian fellow of Royal Society.
38/ pictures: SIBELIUS’S LEMMINKAINEN’S RETURN and THE LORD OF THE RINGS. Both were inspired by the Finnish myth THE KALEVALA.
39/ PENROSE STAIRWAY.
40/ IMAGES: ASSAM ENGINEERING COLLEGE and NDA logo. Motto of both: SERVICE BEFORE SELF.This question is dedicated to my college. AEC ROCKS!!!!
41/ SISYPHUS.
42/ KARL MARX.(not Swami Vivekananda).
43/ CLOCKWISE:- DEMOLITION OF BERLIN WALL, ‘THE ROCK’ POSTER and FALAKNUMA PALACE.CONNECTION:- SCORPION. DEMOLITION OF BERLIN WALL is shown in the video of SCORPION’S ‘WIND OF CHANGE’. THE ROCK( WWE) acted in THE SCORPION KING and FALAKNUMA PALACE is designed in the shape of SCORPION.
44/ MOPTOP, hair style popularized by THE BEATLES.
45/ YEHUDI MENUHIN
46/ RAJA RAVI VERMA. It’s the KILIMANOOR PALACE.
47/ IMAGES: AMRITA SHERGILL’S MOTHER INDIA and still from MOTHER INDIA. Common name.
48/ AMRITA SHERGILL
49/ 86+293 (steps of LEANING TOWER OF PISA) =379(steps of QUTUB MINAR).
50/ Outside the building in Braunauam Inn, Austria where Adolf Hitler was born. This is a memorial stone warning of the horror of WWII.
1/ The person is Vikash Swarup. Slumdog Millionaire is based on his book ‘Q&A’.
2/ CLOCKWISE: BASKIN ROBIN’S LOGO, AUGUSTUS CEASER, clip from OM SHANTI OM.CONEXON is 31. Baskin Robins started with 31 flavours, also the number is displayed in the logo. OSO featured 31 stars for the first time. July and August having 31 days are named after Julius Ceaser and Emperor Augustus.
3/ Images: Laden and Issac Ashimov. Laden’s Al-quaida means ‘The foundation’ which is also the name of a famous book by Issac Ashimov.
4/ A tough one: Images clockwise:- Abbas Ali Baig, Surinder Amarnath,Hanumant Singh and Lala Amarnath. They along with PRAVEEN AMRE and DEEPAK SODHAN are the only Indian cricketers who scored centuries on debut, but never scored a century again.
5/ Sony’s AKIO MORITA.
6/ Ramon Magsaysay Award
7/ Opening ceremony of Winter Olympics 2006.
8/ Death of Tulsi Virani, in an episode of “Kyonki saas bhi kabhi bahu thi”.
9/ Another toughy: She is LINDA HUNT, first and only person to win an Oscar for potraying a person of the opposite gender in the film “The year of living dangerously”. She performed as Billy Kwan, a male photographer.
10/ MANDRAKE. It’s the mandrake plant.
11/ PATTON.
12/ WEBBY. The award is presented by the International Academy of digital arts and sciences for achievement in technology and creativity. It is considered to be technology’s equivalent of the Oscars.
13/ Quality-Factor (Q-FACTOR). Trivia is that it shares its name with this blog. Q here is…… QUIZ ofcourse!!! SO did you like quiz factor?
14/ He is Douglas Fairbanks senior. Seigal and Schuster modeled the face of Superman after him.
15/ CLOCKWISE:- Eureka forbes’ logo, flag of California and Archimedes principle.Connection is ‘EUREKA’. Motto of California, Archimedes reacted as ‘eureka eureka, I have found it’.
16/ BONSAI
17/ Images:- Chesterfield cigarettes and Margaret Mitchell.Margaret wrote ‘Gone with the wind’. Chesterfield cigarettes were launched by the movie ‘GONE WITH THE WIND’.
18/ He designed the FIFA trophy.
19/ Arch de Triumph, Paris. INDIA GATE was modeled on this.
20/RUNNER’S POINT
21/ FISHERMAN’S RING.
22/ IMAGES: Somerset Maugham, A painting by Paul Gauguin.CLUE:-Moon, SixPaul was the inspiration for the character of Charles Strickland in Maugham’s novel THE MOON AND SIXPENCE.
23/ PAVITRA PRABHAKAR, Indian spiderman.
24/ IMAGES:- John LENON and J.D. Salinger’s THE CATCHER IN THE RYE.MARK DAVID CHAPMAN was carrying this famous literary classic when he killed Lenon.
25/ ORDER OF MERIT AWARD.(BRITISH)
26/ HAMZANAMA.
27/ IMAGES:- DYLAN THOMAS and logos of VICTORIA’S SECRET. BOB DYLAN appeared in an ad campaign for VICTORIA’S STREET. Dylan’s song LOVESICK from his Grammy-winning 1997 album ‘TIME OUT OF MIND’ produced the musical backdrop for the commercial.
28/ In the flag of CAMBODIA
29/ CLOCKWISE: L.K. ADVANI, HALF MOON,MADAM CAMA, RISING SUN and ALBUM COVER OF A.R. RAHMAN’S VANDEMATARAM.eight LOTUSES, ‘VANDE MATARAM’ in hindi, a HALF MOON and a RISING SUN are illustrated on the first national flag of India unfurled by MADAM CAMA.
30/ CLOCKWISE: INDIA, YAGA VENUGOPAL REDDY(focus on background), PAKISTAN and MYANMAR.REDDY – governor of R.B.I. and R.B.I. has served as the central bank of INDIA,PAKISTAN and MYANMAR.So, conexon is R.B.I.
31/ Earlier COKE bottles in the 30s, before the curved bottles came.
32/ CONNECTION IS ‘CHANDNI CHOWK TO CHINA’CLOCKWISE- ENGLISH VERSION OF “CHANDU KE CHACHA NE ,CHANDU KE CHACHI KO ,CHANDNI CHOWK MEIN,CHANDNI RAAT MEIN, CHUTNEY CHATAI”(CHANDU,CHANDNI CHOWK AND CHUTNEY were hidden); JAHAN ARA; BANGLORE TORPEDO; BUILDING AT C.C and MAP OF CHINA.JAHANARA BEGUM designed C.C.;DEEPIKA PADUKONE daughter of ‘BANGLORE TORPEDO’-prakash padukone acted in the movie C.C.MOST INTERESTING ONE…REMAIN UNCRACKED!
33/ All these are pictures of RICHARD NIXON that appeared in the cover page of TIME magazine. A total of 55 times.
34/ CLOCKWISE: INDIAN IDOL, JUNOON BAND member, PIEGION, RUSKIN BOND.CONNECTION is JUNOON. Album by Abhijeet Sawant (Indian Idol 1), Shyam Benegal’s JUNOON is based on BOND’S A flight of piegion.
35/ CHARLIE CHAPLIN.
36/ SARASWATI. ( the picture is of MINERVA, Roman godess of wisdom)
37/ ADRASEER CHURETSJEE, first Indian fellow of Royal Society.
38/ pictures: SIBELIUS’S LEMMINKAINEN’S RETURN and THE LORD OF THE RINGS. Both were inspired by the Finnish myth THE KALEVALA.
39/ PENROSE STAIRWAY.
40/ IMAGES: ASSAM ENGINEERING COLLEGE and NDA logo. Motto of both: SERVICE BEFORE SELF.This question is dedicated to my college. AEC ROCKS!!!!
41/ SISYPHUS.
42/ KARL MARX.(not Swami Vivekananda).
43/ CLOCKWISE:- DEMOLITION OF BERLIN WALL, ‘THE ROCK’ POSTER and FALAKNUMA PALACE.CONNECTION:- SCORPION. DEMOLITION OF BERLIN WALL is shown in the video of SCORPION’S ‘WIND OF CHANGE’. THE ROCK( WWE) acted in THE SCORPION KING and FALAKNUMA PALACE is designed in the shape of SCORPION.
44/ MOPTOP, hair style popularized by THE BEATLES.
45/ YEHUDI MENUHIN
46/ RAJA RAVI VERMA. It’s the KILIMANOOR PALACE.
47/ IMAGES: AMRITA SHERGILL’S MOTHER INDIA and still from MOTHER INDIA. Common name.
48/ AMRITA SHERGILL
49/ 86+293 (steps of LEANING TOWER OF PISA) =379(steps of QUTUB MINAR).
50/ Outside the building in Braunauam Inn, Austria where Adolf Hitler was born. This is a memorial stone warning of the horror of WWII.
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