The Monthly is back!
The usual:
- 12 questions
- Post will remain open for2 days
- Daily questions will be posted, as usual, from tomorrow!
- All answers in one reply please
Extra:
questions this time are not too difficult thanks to a certain feline obsession of mine. But Please mark your calendars from December 25th to 30th we shall be posting the grand daddy of all monthlies(we are hoping for ,at least,about 60 questions, and this number will only increase!)
The December Monthly, rather Yearly, will serve as a small warm up for the baap of all online quizzes which will pan out on the new year day here. For our previous edition of the year end quiz Please Click here:Monthly VII
For now, Get cracking!!!
Extra Extra:
The questions are distributed over 3 pages and hence the zize of the post isn’t too large. So all you guys with limited bandwidth need not worry:). Just click on the page numbers (1 2 etc) to scroll between pages
And now you can really get cracking!
Question 1
Connect
Question 2
Simple… Identify
Question 3
What starts from here?
Question 4
1. Browsers. Bah.
2. UN General Assembly
3.
4. Gonzo journalism
5. Krishna and an orchestra layout. Knowing your penchant for Beatles questions, I’m guessing George Harrison and some Hare Krishna song he did. Other than that one you asked earlier
6. Looks like Salim-Sulaiman
7. That Mae be Ms. West.
8. Disney created spoof characters of both – Indiana Jones was parodied as Arizona Goof while Magnum PI was parodied as Cro-Magnum PI
9. Kiska hai? Laika hai.
10. The Girl with the Pearl Earring
11. ITT gifted it to that Batista fellow, whatsisname, Fulgencio?
12. Shankar Nag – offered a role by Karnad in a Kurosawa movie and of course, directed Malgudi Days. Once I saw the MG picture I knew it had to be him
1. Firefox, Safari, Opera – Browsers
9. Laika
10. Girl with the pearl earring
1) Names of web browsers..mosaic, opera, safari, firefox.
2) UN General Assembly
3) The Olympic Torch is lit here? So, it should be the Summer Olympics
4) The famous “Gonzo fist”, originally used by Hunter S. Thompson in his 1970 campaign for sheriff of Aspen, Colorado. The fist has become a symbol of Thompson and Gonzo journalism as a whole.
5) Bhagavad Gita
6) The music directors Vishal-Shekar?
7) Mae West
8) Minnie Mouse
9) Laika
10) The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Vermeer
11) Gandhi’s phone
12) Ondanondu Kaaldalli, which was loosely based on Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece, Seven Samurai and directed by Girish Karnad; where Shankar Nag played the role of a mercenary and bagged a national award. Shankar Nag then went on to direct Malgudi Days.
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1.
2.The UN general assembly
3.Rock of Cashel
4.The Gonzo fist
5.
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7.Mae West
8.Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade
9. Laika-the first mammal in space.
10.The lego brick
11.
12. Malgudi days.
2.diet
5.MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA
9.lyka
10.girl with the pearl ring
12.Shankar Nag directed Malgudi
days.He was offered a role of a
mercenary by Girish Karnad in the
epic movie, Ondanondu Kaaldalli,
which was loosely based on Akira
Kurosawa’s masterpiece, Seven Samurai
2.general assembly
4.The famous “Gonzo fist”, originally used by Hunter S. Thompson in his 1970 campaign for sheriff of Aspen, Colorado
7.Mea west.
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1A.Red Panda – Firefox
1B.Tata Safari – Safari
1C.Sydney Opera House – Opera
1D.Mosaic
Connect – Web Browsers
2. United Nations
3.
4.The famous “Gonzo fist”, originally used by Hunter S. Thompson in his 1970 campaign for sheriff of Aspen, Colorado. The fist has become a symbol of Thompson and Gonzo journalism as a whole.
5A.Dashavtara
5B.Orchestra
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7.Mae West
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9. Laika hai!!
10.Girl with a Pearl Earring
11.
12A.Akira Kurosawa
12B.Girish Karnad
12C.Malgudi
Connect – Shankar Nag.
Shankar Nag’s debut movie Ondanondu Kaaladalli, which literally means Once Upon a Time, was a Kannada adaptation of Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, and was directed by Girish Karnad. One of the finest movies ever made, the movie has some fascinating stunt scenes, involving Kalaripayattu.
1.
2.United Nations Organisation
3.Stonehenge
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5.Japanese Fan
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7.
8.
9.Laika
10.Vermeer’s classic Girl with a Pearl Earring
11.
1. Firefox, Safari, Opera and Mosaic – different web browsers
2. UN General Assembly Hall in NYC with the UN GA in session
4. Gonzo fist (from Gonzo journalism – Hunter S Thompson)
5. Mahavishnu Orchestra
6.
7. Mae West
8.a) Indiana Jones
b) Magnum P.I.
Disney character – Cro-magnum P.I.
9. Laika
10. Vermeer’s Girl with a pearl earring
12. Kurosawa, Girish Karnad, Malgudi – Shankar Nag
Nag worked in Karnad’s film – Ondanondu Kaaldalli, which was based on Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai. He directed Malgudi days later on.
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