Question #50

Something about what is written on the right is very special to the fellow on the left (You might see him wearing that on his arm which I have blanked out). This is also used on some cellular telephones to gain access to hidden menus etc. What is it that connects all three?

Answered correctly by aviralshrivastava.
Answer: 786

Question #44

Movie buffs, this one is for you.

0.5 point for getting the right connect and 0.5 point for cracking the second part.

1/2 points to Utsav and vish
Answer: The answer I was looking for was "Women who have won Academy Award for Best Actress as well as Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress. The 4th being Sandra Bullock who won both these awards in the same year.Even Nicole Kidman has won Oscar as well as Razzies but she didn't win razzies for the Worst Actress"

Question #38

What is this strange looking device? What can it do?

HINT: It violates one of the very fundamental laws of physics - conservation of energy and hence cannot exist in reality (though a device which much less powerful than this one does exist and was probably the inspiration for this one)

Answered correctly by Vish and Aviral

Answer: Pinch from Ocean’s 11 where it is used to blow off the electricity of a whole city for 30 seconds. It has been inspired by the Z-Pinch though its capabilities/power are far more than the real life device

Question #37

Identify the logo. This logo has also inspired a well known bicoloured logo. Which logo?

Answer: This is the Square and Compass logo of a Master Mason. It has inspired the famous Superman logo.

Question #36

This isn’t about eating bananas. But it is about something else. What? Give funda.
HINT: If you were to think of the American counterpart to this award, you might want to think of a red coloured fruit atop a film reel.


Cracked correctly by the novice, Harsh and sattepesatta
Answer: The Golden Kela Awards. Awarding the worst in Bollywood. The American counterpart: The Golden Raspberry Award also known as "The Razzies".

Question #27

He won 5 olympic medals for swimming. But he is better known for another reason. Who is he and what is his other claim to fame.

Cracked by Kaushik and SLG.
Answer: As quoted by SLG "Johnny Weissmuller.
He was a terrific actor and was famous for his role of 'Tarzan' in films,probably he played it best."

Question # 22

The two pictures on the left should be enough.
Click image to enlarge.

Went uncracked, though Kaushik came close.
Answer: Battle of the sexes.
Top Left is a picture of a game "Battle of the Sexes" used in the game theory.
Bottom Left is Billy Jean King winning the "Battle of the sexes" game.
Third is of a pop singer Ludacris whose album "Battle of the sexes" will release soon.

Question #20

Elementary. Identify.

Went uncracked!
Answer: Sidney Paget
He is best known for the illustrations that accompanied Sherlock Holmes in The Strand magazine. Although it is widely rumored that he based Holmes' appearance on that of his brother, Walter - his brother Henry Marriott has categorically denied it.

Question #19

Id the two kids. What is their claim to fame

Cracked by Gokul. Partially cracked by Arun Mallya and Kaushik.
Answer: Charlie (left) and Harry (right) in the Youtube's most viewed video "Charlie bit my finger .. again".

Question #17

Too Simple
"Hey, if you get to be on my cover, can I be on the dollar bill?"
Who says whom?

P.S: Googling is crime

Correctly answered by Mridul and Kaushik
Ans: Quoting Kaushik " Spider Man to Obama
Image from Amazing Spider-Man #583 featuring President-Elect Barack Obama. "

Question #14

Yet another connect.

I didn't try to doctor the photos much. All you have to tell me is - Who can be heard in the first as well as the second pictures?

Highlight to view Hint.
BIG HINT: You don't have to look for the answer!

Answer: Humphrey Bogart

His voice in Casablanca can be heard in "Yet Another Movie" which is from the album "In a Momentary Lapse of Reason".

Question #14

The symptom shown below is more commonly known as..
Hint: Its not "old age" :P

Answer: Popeye's Muscle

Question #13

How would you connect the two? Give full funda.

Highlight to view answer
Answer: Characters of The Magic Mountain

The man in the first picture is Fredric Tuten who published Tintin in the New World. This book re-employs the characters from the book The Magic Mountain which was written by the man in the second picture - Thomas Mann.

Question #11

Ample clues in the pictures. Should be a cake-walk!

Answer: Ba ba Black Sheep
(Clockwise from top left): Notes of Nursery rhyme Ba Ba Black Sheep, Marine attack squadron 214 also known as Black Sheep (Their exploits inspired the television series Ba Ba Black Sheep), Three Bags Full(From the nursery rhyme), Black Sheep (Hip hop group).

Question #8

Identify these infamous men. Also connect them.


Cracked correctly by Kaushik and Arun Mallya.
Anwer: Quoting Kaushik - "Muntadar al-Zaidi and Jarnail Singh, who threw shoes at George Bush and P. Chidambaram respectively".

Question #7

Connect


Answered correctly by Kaushik
Answer: (clockwise from top left) Kirk Alyn, George Reeves, Christopher Reeve, Brandon Routh and Dean Cain . All Have played Superman in movies or TV series

Question #6

X is a fourth world country that has recently abandoned Communism. Nevertheless, X's government is a dictatorship, run by a military strongman. Y briefly deposed the President and made himself dictator. He then began to increase tourism in X and made gambling legal. X's attempts to launch its own satellites have resulted in nothing but failures. For many years X has been involved in a bloodless civil war. Despite being in such a poor state, X has threatened its neighbours with nuclear weapons.

Can you identify X and Y?

Cracked correctly by Kaushik.
Answer: X - Elbonia (a fictional country from Dilbert); Y - Dogbert, the megalomaniac dog from Dilbert

(The End :P) Question No 1

I start off this blog with a very easy one

Identify him.

Answered correctly by Aman. Highlight to view the answer.

Answer : Our very own "Batman". He's Christian Bale from "Empire of the Sun". He was 13 then.