Yello Fraands! Monthly quij is byak! It hyas 18 20koshions which includes a special round caantributed by Reghuvans Ramaswami!I will try to add a further 7 koshions tomaaaroe(but thyat is naat A praamise) have added 2 more questions..
It ijj a very lyarge posht so pleeeje be patientuu.
The post will remain open till the 20th, i shall be posting the usual question a day from the day after tomorrow! And one more thing, until further mentioned, the daily question shall be posted at around 20:00 hrs everyday 🙂 Get craaaaacking folkss..
The Engliss is veryy byaad faar no particular reejan! 🙂
Question 1
Gracious INnit? Who?
Question 2
The affair that he was involved(rather not involved in) in, led to the caricature … Who?
Question 3
Who?
Question 4
This lady is now a mum of three and lives with her hubby… but sad things had befallen upon her when she was 13 Who?
Question 5
Easiest of the quiz…Which place?
Question 6
Keep climbing this and you will reach?Explain please
Question 7
Which “act of brevity” connects the two?
Question 8
Who he?
Question 9
Please Connectu
Question 10
Identify the deity(prospective)
Questions 11-18 are contributed by Raghuvansh, he lhas titled the qound as “google earth – used, misused and abused to the fullest extent possible”
Question 11
What’s with the brown area in the center of the image ending so abruptly towards the right hand side of the image?
Question 12
The complex of buildings is the HQ of a corporation. The name of the road around the complex originates in jargon used by the kind of people who are likely to be working for said corporation. Name the road and the corporation whose HQ is in this picture.
Question 13
Simple. ID the landmark.
Question 14
ID the road/crossing.
Question 15
There is something special about the bridge in the picture. Only 2 or 3 other bridges around the world have this speciality. What is the speciality? Look closely at the picture and you should be able to figure it out.
Question 16
Which legendary structure is this?
Question 17
A certain evocative term was coined to describe 7.1; the same term was then used to describe many other similar structures, for example 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4. What is the two-word term?
Question 18
ID the landmark.
Question 19
A coined the term, B shares the name
A
B
Question 20
Easy one to end with.. What is strange about these stamps
1. Prince Rainier, Grace Kelly
2. Alfred Dreyfuss [Affair]
3. Annie Sprinkle
4. Samantha Geimer
5. Duckburg
6. Jacob’s Ladder
7. William Holden; Alfred Hitchcock – Shortest Oscar Speeches
8. Oswald
9. Curses – Superman Curse, Rosemary’s Baby Curse, Poltergeist Curse, Oscar Curse(?)
10. Kalki
I hate Google Earth 🙂
1.Grace Kelly,Prince Rainier III of Monaco
2.Captain Alfred Dreyfus
4.Samantha Geimer (then known as Samantha Gailey)
5.Richville
6.Jacob’s Ladder is a ladder to heaven, described in the Book of Genesis
This is in Bath Abbey
7.thirty nine steps
9. X-men
10.Aiyanaar Koayiladi
11.channel tunnel inlet
14.piccadily circus
15. single cantilever,retractable
16. grand canyon
17. flyover
1. Rainier and Grace.
2. Dreyfuss
3. (Dr.!) Annie Sprinkle
4. Samantha Geimer
5. Why is the phrase “mandatory Disney question” not present in the question? Duckburg, of course!
6. Jacob’s Ladder, Bath Abbey
7. William Holden and Hitchcock. Something to do with Hitchcock wanting Holden in Strangers On A Train and being refused?
8. Oswald
9. Superman, Rosemary’s Baby, Poltergeist, Die Another Day – cursed films/film franchises?
10. Kalki
11 – 18. Please refer answer key 😛
19. Avogadro and Loschmidt?
20. Luminous stamps.
when i submiited the first ans. set,the last two were not there-so here they are:
19)mole
20)Hong Kong, printed the glow-in-the-dark effect stamps of these jellyfishes
1. Princess Grace and Prince Rainier
2. The Dreyfus Affair.Anti-Semitic image of the treacherous Jew named Dreyfus in the form of a snake.
3. Annie Sprinkle
4. Samantha Geimer
5. Scrooge’s money bin, built on Killmotor Hill in the center of Duckburg
6. Jacob’s Ladder to Heaven
8. Oswald the Lucky rabbit
10. kalki
11. Some sort of Tunnel??
12. Apple Computer’s campus in Cupertino, CA – 1 Infinite Loop
13. watercube, National Aquatic center, beijing
14. Abbey Road Zebra Crossing..near the Abbey Road studios, where the Beatles shot an ablum cover
15. Suspension bridge?!
16. The Aswan Dam in Egypt
17. Flyover 😉
18. Majestic, bangalore
19. Avogadro and Jean Baptiste Perrin?
20. jellyfish stamps printed by hongkong, with a glow-in-the-dark effect.
1. Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier
2. Alfred Dreyfus
4.Samantha Geimer
5.Duckberg
6. Jacob’s Ladder
8. Oswald the rabbit.
9. All Curses.
10. Kalki
14.Abbey Road
19. Avogadro
20. some stamps feature jellyfish with glow-in-the-dark effect
1. Prince Rainier of Monaco after his wedding to Grace Kelly in 1956
2. Alfred Dreyfus (the Dreyfus Affair)
3. Annie Sprinkle as The Neo Sacred Prostitute
4. Nastassja Kinski
5. Duckburg
6. Heaven! this the Jacob’s Ladder
7. Shortest Oscar speech
8. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
9. the connect is jinx…tv serials and movies which are said to be cursed.
10. kalki
11. cape canaveral…that spot is used for space launches..so the road need not go further.
12. IBM
13. Water Cubic aquatic center, Beijing
14. Abbey Road
15. the Chunnel, the bridge is over the English Channel and underneath the Chunnel runs.
16. Aswan Dam
17. Spaghetti Junction
18. Connaught Place, New Delhi
19. A-Amedeo Avogadro, B-Wilhelm Ostwald
20. Jellyfish special stamps issued by Hongkong. The stamps are printed with a luminous effect to juxtapose the gorgeous jellyfish against a contrasting dark background.
1. Grace kelly weds prince rainier
2. The Dreyfus affair
4. Samantha Geimer, with whom Roman Polanski was charged of unlawful sexual intercourse. Guess he couldn’t wait till she grew up… 🙂
5. Duckburg
6. Angels climbing jacob’s ladder, towards heaven.
7. Henry Fonda and Alfred Hitchcock. The wrong man??
8. Oswald the lucky rabbit
9. Superman, rosemary’s baby, ring and Halle berry in Die another day. No idea about the connect
14. abbey road
15. Guess there is a railtrack and a roadway on the same bridge
16. Hoover dam
17. Jughandle interchange
18. Palm Jumeira
20. HongKong stamps with glow-in-the dark effect
1. Prince Rainier & Grace Kelly
4. Samantha Geimer.. Wanted & Desired.
5. Duckburg
6. ..the top? The top of Bath Abbey in UK? Heaven? 🙂
9. For lack of better answer: Halle Berry, who acted as Catwoman, recently gave birth to a girl child.
10. Kalki
12. 1, Inifinite Loop, Coupertino – Apple
13. Beijing National Aquatics Center – The Water Cube
14. Abbey Road – of Beatles crossing the road fame.
15. Hoover Dam
18. SubashNagar/Majestic bus stand.
19. Hong Kong’s Glow in the dark stamps
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2.Captain Alfred Dreyfus
5.Duckburg
6.Stairway to heaven
10.Vayu..?
12.Oracle Cooperation
13.Beijing National Aquatics Cente
14.Abbey Road Crossing,.. 😉
17.Sphagetti Junction.
18.Kempegowda Bus Stand.. 😛
20.Glow in the dark stamps(hong kong)
1.Grace Kelly
5.Duckburg
6.Jacob’s ladder
7.Shortest Oscar acceptance speech-“Thank You!”
10.Kalki
12.Apple HQ/infinite loop
14.Abbey road
19.A-Avagadro,so is the word molecule?
20.Do the stamps depict different stages of motion when tilted? 😀
1)
Prince Rainier of Monaco
Europe’s longest serving monarch, head of the
700-year-old Grimaldi dynasty and husband to the late
movie star Grace Kelly
2)Dreyfus affair
3)Dr. Annie Sprinkle’s
5)Duckburg
6)The angels climb Jacob’s Ladder on the west front of Bath Abbey.
8)Oswald
9) cursed Hollywood movies :Superman , rosemary baby, poltergeist, die another day
10)Kalki
13) Bejing Water cube
20)In June 2008, Hong Kong issued a set of special stamps featuring jellyfish. For the first time in Hong Kong philatelic history, the stamps are being printed with a glow-in-the-dark effect.
P.S : My score should be 157 bfr this
1.grace kelly and Rainier III
2.Alfred Dreyfus
3.Annie Sprinkle
4.Samantha Geimer
5.Duckburg.
6.The angels climb Jacob’s Ladder on the west front of Bath Abbey.
7.thank you and thanks 🙂 shortest speech on recieving ward
8.Oswald
10.Kalki
1.Prince Rainier of Monaco after his wedding to Grace Kelly in 1956
2.Alfred Dreyfus,Dreyfus affair
3.Annie Sprinkle
4.Samantha Geimer, who was raped by Roman Polanski three decades ago when she was 13,
5.Duckburg
6.The heavenly ladder inspired by the Bishop’s dream carved on Bath Abbey, Somerset.
7.William Holden and Alfred Hitchcock.Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a
Leading Role. His acceptance speech was the shortest on record (“Thank you”), until
Alfred Hitchcock said “Thanks”
8.Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
9.Superman, Rosemary’s Baby, Poltergeist,
10.Kalki
11.The New Runway at Mumbai?
12.
13.Bangalore airport
14.Abbey Road
15.
16.Hoover Dam
17.
18.
19.Molecule. Amedeo Avogadro and Jean Perrin
20.These are 3D stamps.
5. Duckberg
6. Jacob’s Ladder
7. Shortest Oscar acceptance speeches
9. Ring video
10. Kalki
12. One Infinite Loop
13. Beijing Olympics Swimming Pool
14. Abbey Road
16. Panama Canal?
20. Glows in the dark
1)Grace Kelly
2)Alfred Dreyfus
3)Annie Sprinkles
4)Samantha geimer/Gailey
5)DuckBurg
6)The angels climb Jacob’s Ladder to heaven, on the west front of Bath Abbey.
7)Cameo appreances
8)Oswald
9)The cast of the movies superman, rosemary’s baby and poltergeist have suffered a twists in fate, thus making the movies Jinxed(halle in die another day)
10)Kalki
12)Apple headquarters, infinite loop street
20)Glow in the dark stamps from hong kong.
1) Princess Grace Kelly & Rainier III prince of Monaco
2) Alfred Dryfus or the Dryfus Affair – a political scandal in France in early 1900’s.
5) Duckberg
6) Church tower in Bath Abbey.
7) Alfred Hitchcock &
12) GooglePlex & Google
14) Abbey Road Zebra Crossing
The famous zebra crossing outside the Abbey Road studios, where the Beatles shot an ablum cover.
13) The Cube Swimming Pool in Beijing
20) Hong Kong issued six stamps featuring jellyfish in June 2008. These stamps are being printed with a glow-in-the-dark effect.
1.Prince Rainier and Grace Kelly
5. Duckberg
8. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
10. Kalki
13. Water Cube, Beijing
14. Abbey Road
16. Aswan Dam
1. Prince Rainier III of Monaco and Grace Kelly
2. Alfred Dreyfus
4. Samantha Geimer (or Samantha Gailey)
5. Duckburg
8. Oswald the lucky rabbit
9. List of roller coasters – Superman, Poltergeist, Jinx ?
11. Start of the Eurotunnel at Folkestone, UK
13. Beijing National Aquatics Center
16. Aswan Dam
17. Three-way interchange ?
20. Glow in the dark stamps
1.Grace Kelly???
2.Captain Dreyfus
3.Dr.Dr. Annie Sprinkle’s.. 😉
4.
5.Duckburg…(zindagi hai yeahn par hawai jahaz yeh hai ” Duckburg”)
6.
7.
8.Oswald
9.Cursed Movies..
10.Kalki
13.National Aquatics Center,Bejing
14.Abbey Road..??
16.Aswan Dam
17.Sphagetti Junction
19.Molecule
20.Glowing stamps in the dark
1. grace kelly’s marriage to price rainier
2. alfred dreyfus
4. Samantha Geimer –
5. duckburg
6. heaven
8. Oswald the lucky rabbit
10. Kalki (10th avatar of Vishnu)
12 infinite loop – (apple campus)
13. water cube
14. abbey road
16. Aswan dam
17 basically these are highway interchanges – I am guessing that trumpet is the evocative term you are looking for
19. Avogadro and Ostwald
20. holographic stamps
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