Vanilla trivia!
Id both

Was he a chemist by any chance? Id

Cracked by tonty phor quijjers!

Chemical Ali(Not at all related to Mohammed Ali )

Simpleone-Identify.

Needless to say everybody cracked this question

Put Funda

Cracked by Everybody who attempted!
The very intelligent Republican Vice Presidential candidate said that she would stop funding all fly research. She also went on to say that “public money[was] being wasted on frivolous projects, like the fruit-fly research”. And hence the cartoon!

Neerja Bhanot (September 7, 1963 – September 5, 1986 ), was a flight attendant for Pan Am airlines, based in Bombay, India, who died while fighting terrorism on board the hijacked Pan Am Flight 73 on September 5, 1986, she went on to become the youngest recipient of India’s highest civilian award for bravery, the Ashoka Chakra

To put this in perspective, around 50 Ashok Chakra’s have been awarded since independence, other winner’s include Hemant Karkare from 26/11,  inspector MC Sharma, who led Delhi’s Okhla area against alleged terrorists, havildar Bahadur Dohra, colonel Jojan Thomas, Orissa Special Operations Group assistant commandant Pramod Satpathy and Meghalaya’s DSP Raymond P Diengdoh.

Neerja Bhanot was the senior flight purser on  Pan Am Flight 73, hijacked as it headed out of Mumbai and landed at Karachi en route to Frankfurt and onward to New York City by four armed terrorists. Despite being tackled, she helped the three-member cockpit crew of pilot, co-pilot and the flight engineer escape. In the following 17-hour ordeal, she hid the passports of the passengers on the flight so that the hijackers could not differentiate between American and Non-American citizens. Eventually, she opened the emergency door, flung a chute and assisted a number of passengers escape from the flight, while she laid down her life shielding three children from the bullets fired by the terrorists.

Most of us are nervous when we’re on board an aircraft, imagine being on an aircraft with 4 lunatic gunmen firing guns at you, here’s what I believe most of us would look like when faced with a similar situation. 

……………..fuuuuuuuuuuckkk!!!

For her bravery the Government of India posthumously awarded her the Ashoka Chakra (India’s highest decoration for gallantry away from the battlefield, or not in the face of the enemy), being its youngest and only female recipient. In 2004 the Indian Postal Service released a stamp commemorating her.

Neerja’s brother Aneesh Bhanot went to Washington DC, in 2005 to receive the ‘Justice for Crimes Award’ awarded posthumously to Neerja as part of the ‘Annual Crime Rights Week’. In 2006, she and the other Pan Am Flight 73 flight attendants and Pan Am’s flight director for Pakistan were awarded the Special Courage award by the US Department of Justice.

As for her killers,

The hijackers said to be from the Abu Nihal Organisation were captured, tried, convicted and sentenced to death in 1988 but later commuted to life in prison due to the soft approach of Pakistan towards terrorism.

Pakistan's stance on Terrorism

In 2001, Zayd Hassan Abd Al-Latif Masud Al Safarini, the hijacker who shot the passengers was captured by FBI in Bangkok after being released by Pakistan. In the US, he is presently serving 160 years prison term in Colorado. Four others were freed from Pakistan’s Adiala Jail in January 2008. The FBI has announced a $5 million bounty on their head.

Pakistani intelligence officials announced that one of the hijackers, Jamal Saeed Abdul Rahim was killed in North Waziristan tribal region in a US missile attack on 9 January 2010.

We would like to believe that he had an expression like this when he saw the US drones about to blow him to pieces.

FUUUUUUUUUCCCCKKKKKKKKKK

- googboog.

Cracked by Malcaluffin, sai, rajesh m, manish, ismav and raghuvansh

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Cracked open in the skull by Mainak, Kaushik, Shrey, me, Sai, Ram and Raghuvansh.

Here are the answers & Scores for Monthly-XX

But before that, Today’s Question: Ask The Stars!

1. Christina’s World
2. Freud’s couch
3. terrace at st addresse, monet, impressionism
4. Narcissus
5. armpit sniffing, These people work as testers for deodorant manufacturing companie
6. The G Spot, Graffenberg
7. Mahindra & Mahindra(now): Mahindra & Mohammed(then)
8. Yezdi Roadking!
9. The Bird of Paradise, which many believe has survived since Noah steered his famous ark and hence all the blah blah blah
10. The Reliant Regal made famous in   the classic comedy “Only Fools & Horses”
11. Mandolin’s are shaped as almonds and the coonect to the head is a small(but very important) part in the brain known as Amygdala!
12. Richard Dawkins

Who?

Cracked by Varsha only! Great work!!!

Linda Goodman, the astrologer

What? Where?

Cracked by-Shabster,M S Srinivas, Scipio & Ismav! Great work!

Kaun hai?

Clue:

Thanks to incessant power cuts, I am unable to compile answers & scores for the Monthly, I shall do it A.S.A.P

Cracked by Mainak,Anil Raghavan,Flubber, M S Srinivas,Malcaluffin, Ismav, Kaushik, Raghuvansh & Kamal Rathi.

Quoting M S Srinivas “that’s Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein, one of the greatest 20th century philosophers and that clue is from his work “Philosophical Investigations””

Identify the movie

Monthly remains open for another day or two(thanks to extremely buji schedule)

Cracked by-Aj, Pinko,Nishanth,Fluber, Mainak,Malcaluffin, Ismav, Sai, RakoldramA, Raghuvansh & Chitananda

“Anatomy of  a Murder”

Sorry about the dealy folks!

Artist please!(very typical paintings)

And by the by way Monthly remains open for another day or two(thanks to extremely buji schedule)

Cracked by Raghuvansh, Ismav, RKK,Chitananda, RakoldramA,M S Srinivas & Malcaluffin!

Louis Wain,known for his paintings with anthropomorphic cats(as people)!

Put a technical connectu regarding failure(& Identify)

MONTHLY-XX still open!

Cracked perfectly by Kaushik Saha  wonly! great work!

Uncanny Valley

The Monthly is back!After the blockbuster last month a simple one this time around!10 12 questions , open for 3 days!Daily question shall be posted as usual from tomorrow

Question-1

Parody of

Question 2

Go to sleep! What is this?

Question 3

This painting was done much before the style got its name. Id painting, artist and style

Question 4

Kaun Hai

Question 5

What is happening & why?

Question 6

Kind of adult question! Who is this man? What is his biggest, rather famous,  discovery

Question 7

Old chestnut! First it was 1, 2 & 3; Now it is 1 & 2 what?

1

2

3

Question 8

Id this macho man!

Question 9

This bird is loved by Theologians why?

Question 10

What? and who made it famous?

Question 11

Connect to our heads

Question 12

Simple one to end with…The Gods don’t like him! Id

connect to a –supposed– ‘nut’

Raghuvansh & Kaushik Saha are the only nuts who cracked this!

The connect is the eccentric(or so called by his physicians) king Ludvig II. However,it is tough to say if he was a nut by looking at the beautiful castle(which he envisaged) and by listening to Wagner’s music(Which he patronized)