The Monthly is back!
Before going into specifics, I would like to congratulate Dibyo for reaching the 200 points mark on the blog. He is the first to do so and hopefully he will remain on top for a long time(Sid Jain, though, is close behind!)Congrats Dibyo!!
The Monthly round has a set of questions, it shall remain open for three days. The daily question shall be put up on all days other than the first day of the Monthly.Each question carries a point… If you want your questions to appear on the blog send me a mail along with your question.Get cracking!!
QUESTION–1
Identify this
QUESTION 2
Simple, Put funda
QUESTION 3
JUst a band that I like, identify
QUESTION 4
The poor kid shown was a victim of?
QUESTION 5
Screen shot from?
QUESTION 6
This question comes from Adithya Pandanda, the person shown is often credited for starting something. What?Who?
QUESTION 7
Long time since I posted such a question, Just connect the three images
QUESTION 8
I can’t resist the temptation, just identify the work of art and the artist
QUESTION 9
Simple,Who is the advertiser?
QUESTION 10
A cracker to end with
1 is a cryptic clue
2 gives you a panoramic view
Something from 3 has got to do with the whole connection too,
Now I think I can be a poet yooohoo! 🙂
Thanks! Been slacking a lot lately. I need to watch that Jain dude.
Yeps!
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2. Burned Book Monument at Berlin, Germany.
3. The Mamas & the Papas
4. Bhopal Gas Tragedy
5. Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
6.Parkour, started by David Belle
7. Manna Dey , Pradeep Sarkar, Veil (only hands are shown in the painting, face is covered). Leads to Laga Chunri Main Daag. Manna Dey sung the song Laga Chunri Main Daag and Pradeep Sarkar made a movie of the same name.
8. Olympia by Édouard Manet in the Realism style
9. Hershey’s
10.
1. Crookes Radiometer aka Light mill, whose vanes rotate when exposed to light
2. Walk of Ideas, Berlin – more specifically, “Der moderne Buchdruck” – meant to commemorate German writing/printing.
3. Random stab – Old ABBA pic? I know neither of the guys in the photo has a beard but still.
4. Bhopal Gas Tragedy
5. Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe
6. David Belle, Parkour. Banlieue-13 capture, that picture?
7. Chap 1 looks a bit like Manna Dey but I couldn’t be sure.
8. Edouard Manet’s Olympia
9. Hershey’s Chocolate Kisses
10. Image two shows one of the pods on the London Eye = Eye Pod. So lame-joke-guess. iPod?
2) Modern Printing sculpture put up to celebrate WC 06
4)Bhopal gas tragedy
8) Olympia by edouard manet
9) Hersheys milk chocolate
2.This Berlin sculpture of books by German writers is one of six created as part of an initiative for the football World Cup.
4. Bhopal Gas Tragedy
5. Batman Gotham Knight
Trying the rest…
2. One of six sculptures of the Walk of Ideas built at Berlin for the 2006 FIFA World Cup
3. ABBA
4. Bhopal Gas Tragedy
8. Manet’s Olympia
9. Hershey’s Kisses
10. Thames – 3rd image is the marker stone at the official source of the River Thames
1. A light mill/Crooke’s radiometer
2. Sculpture “The Modern Book Printing” at Berlin
3. Abba?
4.
5. Mortal Kombat v/s DC Universe game
6. David Belle (credited along with Sebastian Foucan) for Parkour
7. Laaga chunari mein daag? (Manna Dey and Pradeep Sarkar in pics,dunno the painting)
8. Olympia by Manet
9. Hershey’s chocolates
10. The Science Museum At London? (Connected Newcomen engine at The musuem with view from London eye)
1.Seismograph part
2.First modern book printing+walk of ideas(Germany)
3.ABBA
4.Bhopal Gas tragedy
5.Batman+mortal combat
7.Laga chunari me daag(sung by 1 and remade by 2)
8.Manet’s Olympia
9.Hershey’s sweet milk chocolate kisses
Ninth is Hershey
2) 40ft stack of books sculpture at the Berlin Walk of Ideas.
3) The Mamas & The Papas.
4) Bhopal Gas Tragedy
5) Mortal Kombat and DC Universe.
6) Parkour, David Belle.
8) Olympia TMby Édouard Manet
9) Hersheys
1. Sails which run on cosmic radiation
2.
3. The mamas and the papas
4. Bhopal tragedy
5.
6. Parcour
7. manna dey / ? / ?
8. Olympia, Edouard Manet
9. Hershey’s Kisses
10.
1)Crooke’s radiometer
2)Walk of ideas,Berlin, 2006 FIFA world cup of football.
The artwork is named as “Der moderne Buchdruck”.
4)Bhopal gas tragedy
5)Batman superman Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe from MIDWAY GAMES Inc.,
9)Hershey’s “milk chocolate kiss”
1) Crookes radiometer
5) Mortal kombat v/s DC Universe crossover fighting game
7)Laaga chunari mein daag
i)song by manna dey
ii)movie by pradip sarkar
iii)shady reference to chunari 😀
1. the electroscope??
2. walk of ideas 2006 fifa wc, nice question!
3. the mamas and papas
4. bhopal gas tragedy
6. david belle and parkour
8. olympia by manet
7. hersheys kisses, where can you find them in bangalore??
3)Abba
4)Bhopal Gas Tragedy
9)Hershey’s
10)James Watt??
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2 Berlin sculpture of books by German writers is one of six created as part of an initiative for the football World Cup
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6 David Belle, Parkour
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9 Hersheys
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1. The Crookes radiometer, also known as the light mill, consists of an airtight glass bulb, containing a partial vacuum. Inside are a set of vanes which are mounted on a spindle. The vanes rotate when exposed to light, with faster rotation for more intense light, providing a quantitative measurement of electromagnetic radiation intensity
2. Dedication to Gutenberg
3.
4. Bhopal Gas Tragedy
5. MORTAL KOMBAT vs The DC UNIVERSE
6. David Belle – Parkour
7. Indian painters?
8. No clue :-s
9. Hershey’s Chocolate
10. Engine – London Eye – Someone’s grave! Can’t make out anything
2:the German writers in the order of their existense….i.e the century of their existence.grass lived before arendt
3:the mamas and papas
4:bhopal …union carbide
5:mortal kombat
6:parkour,david belle
7:1 of the fims pradeep sarkar directed…..parineeta or laaga chunari mein daag
8:Olympia,Édouard Manet
9:hershey’s
10:it’s london and somthing about the 1st locomotive??????George Stephenson
2. Berlin’s Book Sculpture
4. Bhopal Gas Tragedy
5. Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe
9. Hershey’s Kisses
1. May be the first filament bulb
2. metaphysics
3. mamas and papas
4. bhopal gas tragedy
5 mortal combat
6. dont know the exact name but its got to do with jumping across wall, one floore to another. some david guy strtd it if not mistaken
7. cant think of at the moment :O
8. olympia
9 hersheys chocs
10 first pic is a steam loco(dnt know what to infer) second is london eye ,third is …has it got something to do with newton???
2. Bebel Platz’s memorial to the Nazi book burning in Berlin
5. Mortal Kombat
6. David Belle – Parkour
9. Hershey Kisses
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2. Tribute to all the innovators from Germany. All are books – reference to Gutenberg, who is the only guy whose name is missing.
3.
4.
5. Mortal Kombat?
6. Free Running. David Belle.
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8.
9. Hershey.
4. Bhopal Gas Tragedy
9. Hershey’s Kisses
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2. Memorial to book burning from Berlin, Germany
3. ABBA
4. Bhopal Gas tragedy.
5. batman returns
6.
7.
8.
9. Hershey Milk chocolates
10.
My Answers:
1.a bulb, with….dunno…memory loss!!
2.walk of ideas;2006 FIFA WC; Berlin
3.the mamas and the papas
4.bhopal gas tragedy
5.mortal kombat vs dc universe
6.parkour; david belle?
7.laaga chunari mein daag
8.olympia; edouard manet
9.hershey’s (hershey’s kisses)
10.smoke on the water…gah!!
🙂 the degree is eclectivity is getting better each time..good stuff.
1. Crooke’s radiometer
2. Germany’s Walk of Ideas campaign made for the promotion of the ’06 WC
3. The papas and the mamas
4. Bhopal gas tragedy
5. New Mortal Kombat game (Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe) which will pit DC Comics characters against the ones from Mortal Kombat – this one has got Batman fighting Scorpion
6. David Belle – Parkour
7.
8. Manet’s Olympia
9. Hershey’s kisses
10. Thames river – a view from the London Eye, and monument at the source of the river
2. part of the “walk of ideas, der moderne buchdruck”, for the fifa wc germany 2006
6.guessing as mad jumping..where guys just keep running..jumping sliding over all obstacles like wall, buildings etc..without any predetermined destination 😐
8. edouard manet’s olympia
9. hersche’s kisses
10.2 london eye
1)
2)The Walk of Ideas is a set of six sculptures made for the 2006 FIFA World Cup football event at Berlin in Germany
3)
4) Landslide
5) Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe – a crossover comics
6) David Belle – he’s credited for the sport called “Parkour”.
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9) Hersey’s Kisses Milk Chocolate.
10) frictionless railway – runs by magnetic forces between rails.
2. part of the walk of ideas, “der moderne buchdruck”(modern book printing), built for the germany fifa wc 2k6 on the Bebelplatz, commemorating johannes gutenberg.
8. edouard manet’s olympia
9. hersche’s kisses
1.Crookes Radiometer
2.Book Burning Monument in Berlin
3.Mamas and Papas
4.Bhopal Gas tragedy – Unknown child buried
5.Mortal Kombat vs DC universe
6.David Belle of parkour fame
7.Mona Lisa
8.Edouard Manet’s Olympia
9.Hershey’s Kisses
10.
2) a part of 6 monuments made for german world cup 2006
3) ABBA
4) bhopal gas tragedy
5) batmans new game
6)dana white -ultimate fighting championship
7) parineetha
8)
(9) hersheys
10)
1. Crookes Radiometer
2. Printing press Johannes Gutenberg
3.
5. Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
6. Free Running
9. Hersheys
Ans.
3.band is mamas n’papas.
4.a victim of bhopal gas tragedy.
5.mortal kombat
7.Laga chunari mein daag(pics being that of Manna Dey and Pradeep Sarkar)
8.”olympia” by Edourd Manet.
9.An ad of Hershey-a kiss.
2.Modern Book Printing” one of six sculptures that are forming the “Walk of Ideas.”
6)Parkour
2) Gutenberg’s Modern Book Printing
3) The mamas and the papas
5) Batman in Mortal Kombat 🙂
6) Parkour dude David Belle – the scene’s from the movie Banlieue 13
9) Hershey’s