Friday, December 31, 2010

It is physically impossible to own all three !

Here are 3 works of art.











Identify the artist . Quite easy

No, Janet wasn't one of the sisters !

The Genain quadruplets (born in 1930) are a set of identical quadruplet sisters notable for all having x , suggesting a large genetic component to the cause of the disease. The fictitious name Genain, used to protect the identity of the family, comes from the Greek, meaning dire birth. The (equally fictitious) names of the sisters, by order of birth, are Nora, Iris, Myra and Hester. Three of the sisters (all but Myra) were hospitalized for x at least once.
What is x ?
There was a particular reason behind choosing these names . What?

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Mind It

X was played by Russel Crowe in a movie Y. X was a US  mathematician, began showing signs of paranoid schizophrenia during his college years. Despite having stopped taking his prescribed medication, X continued his studies and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1994. 

Give me X and Y.

No Ponting Fingers

What has died and where?

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Betty Bought Some Bitter Butter

James Naismith, invented a new indoor game, which could be played during the cold winter. He started work on it in December 1891. He wrote that he took some idea from other sports: when he was young, he played with his friends a game called "Duck on a Rock." In this game, one boy guarded his “duck” from the stones of the others; and the fun began as the boys gathered their stray shots. It was this game that was later to play such an important part in the origin of X.

Give me X.

Ceep It A Secret


Where would this be found or what exactly is this?
Enough clues in the picture.

And That's The End Of The Saga




Connect these pictures to a person.

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Never Mind

This style was started by x , who became well known among fans for his "hanky on the head", and his permanent perm. It quickly caught on and became a symbol of a sub-culture. x was the founding member of the group y. Identify x and y.

Monday, December 27, 2010

Oops I Did It Again

The first noted use of this word was by Horace Walpole. In a letter to Mann (dated January 28th) he said he formed it from the Persian fairy tale, whose heroes "were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of". The name is said to stem from Sanskrit Simhaladvipa which literally translates to "Dwelling-Place-of-Lions Island.The word has been voted as one of the ten English words that were hardest to translate in June 2004 by a British translation company. However, due to its sociological use, the word has been imported into many other languages.

Diamond In The Rough


Connect.

Stock Up For The Winter

What is the plaque commemorating?

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Friday, December 24, 2010

Best Wishes From The Dal Man

I would like to thank everyone for their support until now.

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas

Please Don't Get Relegated

X is the phenomenon of melting under pressure and freezing again when the pressure is reduced. Many textbooks and reference books as well as websites often claim that X can be demonstrated by looping a fine wire around a block of ice , with a heavy weight attached to it. The pressure exerted on the ice slowly melts it locally, permitting the wire to pass through the entire block. The wire's track will refill as soon as pressure is relieved, so the ice block will remain solid even after wire passes completely through.

X was discovered by Y and occurs only for substances 
that have the property of expanding upon freezing, for the melting points of those substances decrease with increasing external pressure.

Root Canal Treatment

What does this cartoon portray?

Worth A Gasp


Given above is a picture of Gaspar Llamarez, a Spanish politician, a member of the Communist Party of Spain. On January 15, 2010 a certain incident occurred after which he criticized USA for the act and he publicly mentioned that he doesn't feel like travelling to the USA anymore. What exactly did the USA do?   

You Got To Be Kidding Me

X said this on her divorce with Y.

"Now I can wear heels."

Give me X and Y.

Thursday, December 23, 2010

I Believe I Can Fall?

Inspired by the Vanatu ritual called land diving and the Oxford University Dangerous Sports Club experimental jumps in the 1970s, AJ Hackett developed a super-stretchy elastic cord in the mid 1980s and demonstrated its use by throwing himself off the Eiffel Tower in Paris in 1987.

What use of the cord did he demonstrate?

Don't Tell Him That

The policy was introduced as a compromise measure in 1993 by President Bill Clinton who campaigned on the promise to allow all citizens to serve in the military regardless of sexual orientation. At the time, per the December 21, 1993 Department of Defense Directive 1332.14, it was legal policy that homosexuality is incompatible with military service and persons who engaged in homosexual acts or stated that they are homosexual or bisexual were discharged. The Uniform Code of Military Justice, passed by Congress in 1950 and signed by President Harry S Truman, established the policies and procedures for discharging homosexual service members.

What policy are we talking about?


 

Mind Freak

Identify this company and also tell me who designed the logo. The answers are not too vague and both parts are quite workable. Use the title as clue.

I Was Born Intelligent But Education Ruined Me

Connect the following people:

Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Azim Premji, Mukesh Ambani, Eike Batista, Vinod Goenka.....

Non-exhaustive list... Please don't state the obvious, but the answer is not very far away from the obvious.

Sitter.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent

Identify this man and what is special about the throne he is sitting on?

Pink Panther

Identify .

Built Brick By Brick

Identify the place and its specialty.

Would You Mind If I Caught A Ride With You?

"There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to X. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. [...] Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties."

Where would I find this quote?

Swiss Beauties

This mountain's shape is said to have inspired the shape of something else. For full points give me the mountain's name and what is inspired.

Leave Me Alone

What is so special about this house and what did it give rise to?

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Sunday, December 19, 2010

The Goose That Laid The ____ Eggs

During the first three weeks of Big Brother Series 7, Channel 4 conducted a promotion in conjunction with Nestle to distribute 100 "X" randomly throughout Kit Kats, in a style reminiscent of the story Y. Members of the public finding these X were permitted to use them to give themselves a chance to become a Big Brother housemate and bypass the standard auditions process.

Give me X and Y. (X and Y need not be single words)

Whats That?

Put funda.

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Fly Away To Wonderland

This is a minimalist version of a famous album art. The image has been flipped by 180 degrees as well. Give me me the name of the artist and the album. Use the title as clue.

I Have Found New Land!!

What have i blacked out?

Goes The Weasel

X was first discovered by Native Americans over thousands of years ago. Evidence of X from 3600 BC was found in New Mexico. The English who came to America in the 16th and 17th centuries learned about X from the Native Americans. During the Great Depression, X was comparatively cheap at 5-10 cents a bag and became popular. Thus, while other businesses failed, the X business thrived and became a source of income for some struggling farmers. During World War 2, sugar rations diminished candy production, causing Americans to eat three times more X than they had before. X also became the first food item to be deliberately cooked in a microwave oven. What is X? 

Friday, December 17, 2010

Paul the Elephant?

Give me the common name of this octopus. Quite workable. Use the name title as a clue and see if the image reminds u of something or someone u have seen before.

Another Google Doodle?

Put funda.

A New Frontier

Given above is a picture of SpaceX Dragon, developed by SpaceX, which in December 2010 became a first to achieve something. What?

Shocking...(My Apologies To Sej)

Given above is a screenshot from a pokemon episode titled 'Electric Pokemon Porygon', which is considered the most infamous pokemon episode. It was banned worldwide after it was aired in Japan and the pokemon series itself went into hiatus for 4 months as a result of this. In efforts to put the event out of the publics mind, porygon's second generation evolutionary form has never appeared on TV and is the only second generation pokemon to have never appeared on the series. What exactly did the episode do or contain?