Its been a long time since something fresh and new has happened, The Question Of The week is long dead, so this is a trial run for a Monthly round which will have a bunch of questions,it shall remain open for 3 days and a separate scoring will be done!Hope you like it:)In the mean time the daily question shall be put up on all days other than the first day of the Monthly… Here we go
QUESTION 1: Strange Dreams
A sleeper to start with, a man dreamt of this image,what in the scientific world did this inspire?
QUESTION 2: RICH MAN
Stamp Commemorating whom?
Question 3: A question sent by Anubhav, long time back, Identify these bunch of dangerous people
QUESTION 4: Which famous comic character was supposedly inspired from this
QUESTION 5: Who connects these 2 songs
QUESTION 6: Simple connect the images to a movie(sent by srikar)
QUESTION 7: In these advertisements which ruler is blanked (sent by Nikhil)the last one is a give away
QUESTION 8: Who is this questionable lady?
QUESTION 9: Easy, Identify the painting and its significance in art history
QUESTION 10: To end, identify the painting and the artist( my favourite)
End note: Please send all the answers in a single reply:)
1. The benzene structure by kekule
2. Purandaradasa
3. Founders of the Khmer Rouge
4. Sabu of chahcha chaudry comic
5. Biddu appiah
6. 5th element
7. Air India maharajah
8 Man Ray
9 Impressions: sunrise, gave its name to the “impressionist”style
10 Rene magirette
1)Ouroborous(snake biting its own tail giving rise to the structure of Benzene)
2)Madhavacharya?
3)Ganf of five?
4)Aladdin?
5)
6)
7)Queen Elizabeth
8)Mata Hari?
9)
10)Picasso?
1.This is the Ouroboros. August Kekule attributes the discovery of the structure of Benzene by him to Ouroboros. He claims that he saw the thing in his dreams and discovered Benzene.
2.Purandardasa
3.Al Capone’s gang
4.Alladin – Abu the monkey
5.Biddu was the music director for this song Aap Jaisa Koi from Qurbani (although Kalyanji Anandji did rest of the songs, he did this one as Disco was catching up at that time and Feroze Khan wanted a song like this in the movie). Biddu did some tracks of his albums Aap Ka Abhijeet Sawant and Junoon.
6.Water.The movie by Deepa Mehta. It was sent as a Canadian entry for the Oscars in the category of Best Foreign Language Film of the Year.
7.R.K.Laxman’s Common Man
8. Charlie Chaplin
9. Impressionism.This is the Impression of Sunrise, which started the Impressionism movement. This painting is by Claude Monet
10. I can only relate it to a movie in which the hero steals a Monet and wears a hat like this. Towards the climax there r lots of ppl in the museum wearing same type of hats and stuff, but i dont know about this painting, this is just blabbering
I’m pretty much a newcomer, and just 15 yrs too. This is my best try.
1. Obviously the discovery of Benzene – Freidrich Kekule
2. Tulsidas ?
3. Black September ?
4. Alibaba and the forty thieves? If the question is right, its a cartoon and my guess is wrong. Hulk?
5. ???No Clue???
6. Rain by Deepa Mehta
7.Rasputin?
8,9,10 – no idea.
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1. Benzene structure and allied products
2.
3. Khmer Rouge
4. Alladin / Prince of Persia
5.
6.
7. Maharaja – Indian Airlines
8. Mata Hari
9.
10.
1.August Kekule and the benzene ring
2.Purandara Dasa
3.The Japs who attacked Pearl Harbour?
4.The Genie from Aladdin
5.Amit Sana? the runner up of the first Indian Idol.. cos he has covered both songs
6.
7.Napoleon Bonaparte
8.Charlie Chaplin dresses as a woman?
9.Claude Monet, The Impression of sunrise, the word Impressionist was coined because of this painting
10.The Mysteries of the horizon, Rene Magritte
1. this picture leads to the solution for benzene structure (the funda is the scientist is unable to form a structure for benzene satisfying c6h6 bond so he dreamt of this pic n decided the benzene stc as a cyclic one)..
2.swami haridas
3.osama
4.alladin
5. the video is not playable
6.golden-eye
7.alexander
8.
1. Benzene ring (Kekule)
2. Adi Sankaracharya
4. Prince of Persia
6. Water
1.Benzene (the Kekule-Snake funda)
2.saint thyagaraja
3.something to do with “long march”?
4.aladdin
5.biddu
6.
7.air india maharaja
8.mata hari
9.
10.mysteries of the horizon, rene magritte
1. Kekule’s benzene ring
2. Thyagaraja
9. Monet, Impression Sunshine, Impressionism
1. Benzene Rings.
2.
3.
4. Alladin’s Genie?
5.
6.
7. The Air India Maharaja?
8.
9.
10. Mysteries of the Horizon, by Rene Magritte.
1) structure of benzene.. kekule’s dream
9) impressions sunrise.. monet… impressionism
10) rene magritte mysteries of the horizon
1) Structure of Benzene by kekule
4)Aladin
1)structure of Benzene
2)Purandara Dasa
4)Alladin
), the movie is GURU. the funda being maryiam toller, the canadian singer sang mayya mayya (meaning water in arabic)
5)Biddu composed aap jaisa koi and is a part of AAp jk abhijeet album
6)i consider this one among my finest crack (if it its right
7) Air india maharajah?
8)Marcel duchamp dressed as Rrose Sélavy in Man ray’s pic
10)Mysteries of the Horizon (1955) is an oil on canvas painting by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte.
1.The organic chemist August Kekulé claimed that a ring in the
shape of Ouroboros that he saw in a dream inspired him in his
discovery of the structure of benzene.
2.Stamp Commemorating Sri Purandara Dasa
3.
4.Sabu??
1. Kekule’s dream on benzen formula
2.
3.
4. Chacha Chowdhry/Sabu
5. Biddu
6.
7. Air India Maharaja
8. Stan laurel
9.
10. Mystries of the horizon by Rene Magritte
1. Benzene molecule structure, by Kekule
2. Purandaradasa
3. Sugarhill Gang
4. Abu the monkey
5.
6. Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
7. Air India Maharaja
8. Charlie Chaplin
9. Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant) by Claude Monet – first Impressionist painting
10. The Mysteries of the Horizon by Rene Magritte
1.benzene ring
2.purandaradasa?
4.iron-man
1. Kekule’s Benzene structure
2. Tansen
3. Marx Brothers – a wild guess
4. Sabu (from Chacha Chaudhary)
8. Marcel Duchamp – as Rose Selavy
9. Claude Monet’s Impression, Sunrise
Significance – Impressionism derives its name from this
10. The Mysteries of the Horizon – Rene Magritte
1.Benzene
2.Purandara dasaru
5.Disco bidu
1) Milky way Galaxy
2)kanaka das
3)Pol Pot & his crew
4)Sabu From Jupiter who is Chacha Chawdary’s sidekick
5)
6)
7) Maharaja from Air India
8)Rrose Sélavy, ALter ego of Marcel Duchamp
9) Soliel Levant by Claude Monet-It was the start of the Impressionist Movement in painting
10) Rene Magritte – Le Chef Deouvre
1. The structure of benzene.
2. Purandaradasa?
3. Pol Pot and co.?
4. Abu in Alladin
5. Biddu. He was the music director of “aap jaisa koi” and he has worked with Abhijeet Sawant on an album.
6. Water by Deepa Mehta?
8. Marcel Duchamp dressed up as Rrose Sélavy, one of his pseudonyms.
Benzene ring
Purandaradasar
Aluddin
Biddu
Rrose Selavy , Marcel duchamp
Impression Sunrise after which impressionist movement was named
1. The structure of Benzene – as dreamt by Kekule
2. Purandaradas
3.
4. Some of the characters from the Disney movie Alladin including the evil Vizier and Abu the monkey. Other than that, the genie does look like Sabu of the Chacha Chaudhari comic series.
5.
6.
7. Maharaja – the Air India mascot
8. Marcel Duchamp as Rrose Selavy
9. the painting Impression, Sunrise by Monet, which supposedly kicked off the Impressionist movement.
10. Le Chef d’Oeuvre by Rene Magritte
1)the discovery of the benzene ring structure
2)
3)
4)sabu in chacha chaudhry
5)These guys were villains in \tintin comics as far as i remember..Al Capones people..??
6)Water..Canadas entry to the Oscars
7)The Air India Maharaja
8)Photographed by Man Ray..the dude duchamp has been photographed as Rrose selavy
9)Claude Monet..Impresseion Sunrise..
10) Mysteries of the horizon..no clue about the artist..saw this painting in a journal once..