Food For Thought

#678

Varun — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:29:58 +0000

Simple one for the day.. Map of?

#677-Look carefully,is it safe?

Varun — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:26:24 +0000

Paaap culture koschan again! Simple, Id and put funda

#676-The Look

Varun — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:55:03 +0000

Connect to a medical condition.(One very obvious pic is missing)

Cracked by Malcaluffin, Ismav, Varsha & Ratan Sebastian!

Bogart-Bacall Syndrome

#675

Varun — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:12:56 +0000

Identify the babe(which role is she trying to enact?)

Cracked by-Vinay,Nishant, Chandrashekar,Sai Ganesh, Subrata & Anagh!

Jane Fonda as Barbarella

#674-Seen the ticker?

Varun — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:18:01 +0000

What is 1+2

Cracked by Malcaluffin, Bipin, Raghuvansh,Anurag & ismav

Thomson+Reuters

#673-Happy King! Happy

Varun — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:10:44 +0000

Desi trivia…Kaun hai?

Cracked by 7 of you

Anand Raj Anand

#672-A Wild Question!

Varun — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:56:40 +0000

Id this recent movie

Cracked by a dozen of you!

Dorian Gray

#671-Space+Air, Fire+Water, Water+Earth

Varun — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:12:51 +0000

Fresh from the newspapers….Lego’s recent series

Three defects eh?Who is this Indian?

Cracked by-Ismav, Raghuvansh,Hemant, Karthik,Ameya, Malcaluffin & Anurag!

Charaka, founder of Ayurveda.

My Heart goes out to Shrey &Anand Shankar, who resorted to guessing(as opposed to googling) and gave a fantastic, unfortunately incorrect, answer. The Lego does look like Angulimala more than Charaka.

#670-DAMAAAR!

myqa — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:41:04 +0000

Put Connect!(Kind of current affairs)

Cracked by ismav, Sammy,Vrashabh, Senthil,Nishant, Sharat & Rajesh!

Raghuvansh by the way gave me a nice business idea!

2012… The movie is directed by Roland Emmerich(director of Independence day) and the year 2012 is Alan Turing year

Answers & Scores for Monthly XVIII

Varun — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:49:09 +0000

Here are the scores for the Monthly XVIII, as usual, Raghuvansh topped the quiz!However, the response was not that great. I just hope The Year end quiz will have a better, bigger, response!

Today’s question is Some Like It Hot

The Scores are

Name	Score
Raghuvansh	10
Sid Jain	9
Malcaluffin	7
Kamal Rathi	7
Ismav	5
Sangram Banerjee	4
Ob	3
DJD	3
Phoenixreturns	3

The Answers!

WebBrowsers
The UN general assembly
The Forest of Dartmoor(read the wiki entry for more gian!)
The Gomzo Fist
The Mahavishnu Orchestra
Salim Sulaiman
Mae West
Quoting Raghuvansh-àDisney created spoof characters of both – Indiana Jones was parodied as Arizona Goof while Magnum PI was parodied as Cro-Magnum PI. However, I had Chip and Dale in my mind. In the series Chip and Dale The Rescue Rangers their costume resembles Indy and Magnum PI
Laika
Girl with a pearl earring
ITT gifted it to that Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista
Ondanondu Kaladalli, a classic Kannada movie directed by Girish Karnad was inspired by the Seven Samurai. Ondanondu Kaladalli marked the debut of Shankar Nag(P.B.U.H)

#669-Some like it Hot!

Varun — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:31:26 +0000

Guest Question Time! Vrashabh asks you if its too hot in here?…. Kindly connect

Cracked by Rithwik wonly! Great work!!!

Connect – Scoville Scale used for “hotness”, of various chile peppers.

A – Former Parke-Davis Research Laboratory on the Detroit River (now in use by Omni Hotels as a hotel)

B – Scoville Scale named after its creator, American chemist Wilbur Scoville, who developed a test for rating the pungency of chili peppers.

#668-Rudiments

Varun — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:29:17 +0000

Simple one for the day… Just identify the book

Check out teh Monthly XVIII, closes today!

And yesterday’s question stays open till 1800 hrs

Cracked by Malcaluffin, Raghuvansh, Djd,Mankutimma, Mustafa & Ismav

Illusion of Life about Disney by Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas

#667-Connection

Varun — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:21:13 +0000

Connection exists between 1 & 2 with the place where 3 resides on this planet. What?

HINT-You need not identify the ladies

PS-Do check out the Monthly XVIII, closes tomorrow

Nobody cracked this one perfectly! I take all tha blame for it, should’ve framed it better

Bharatanatyam and Odissi and the two Indian classical dance which are directly from Natya Shastra, all other forms are sort of derivatives…. The Venkatakrishnan answer was really ingenious and I think points can be given

Monthly XVIII

Varun — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:30:04 +0000

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

#666-Garment care

Varun — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:06:38 +0000

Sitter for the day… Why was this piece of garment in the news?

and for all fans of a guy called satan \m/

Cracked by, ardent laan-zhu-ree lovers,- Ananth, Raghuvansh,Malcaluffin, Anand Shankar & Biswagyaan & Venkatakrishnan

Quoting Biswagyaan’s detailed answer!

“won Ig Nobel Award….. Bra can be used as protective face mask concepted by Elene Bodnar… also get a U.S. Patent No. 7255627 for her invention dubbed as ” GARMENT DEVICE CONVERTIBLE TO ONE OR MORE FACEMASKS”