QUESTION 263

Seal of which famous composer?
Observe closely, and these (apparently) vague designs will reveal all!

QUESTION 262

Identify this aircraft. What record created by what did it break?
You need to name both. Both use the same engine though.
Very current, gettable!

WEEKLY SCOREBOARD

For the last week,
Scoring for next week starts from 258

Athith-5
Pranav-2
Ayush-2
V. Chandrashekhar-2
Gaurav-2
Deepak-2
Raghav-1
Jaydev-1

QUESTION 261

CURRENT affairs.

Who, from the world of football?

Hint: Must be quite a happy man.

QUESTION 260

Football fever. Yay.
A new governing body for a sport, FIFA, was founded on 21st May, 1904. First president was Robert Guerin.
For the inaugural WC in 1930, Uruguay was chosen as the host nation owing to the fact that they had won the 1928 Olympic Gold and also, the year coincided with the 100th year of  Uruguay's independence.
Explain the following pictures with regard to the finals of the tournament..

Googling's a moral crime!

QUESTION 259

Easy.
Which team?

QUESTION 258

A

B

A shows the statue of a chieftain, who united the Gaulic tribes in a revolt( which was unsuccessful) against Caesar, in the last phase of his Gallic wars.

B shows the same chieftain in an Asterix comic who laid his arms at Caesar's feet( literally laid his arms, as you can see! :D)

Identify this person.

QUESTION 257

World of movies.

Who is he? Inspired which movie/book?

QUESTION 256

History. War. But not totally unconnected to the current happenings in this world.

Identify him.

QUESTION 255

Identify the aircraft.

Due to the peculiar shape of its wings, it is often called X, a musical instrument with a similar shape.

Id the plane and the instrument.

.

.

0.5 points for each..

QUESTION 254

Depicts what?

WEEKLY SCOREBOARD

Note- Scoring for next week starts from QUESTION 252
The scoreboard for the last week is as follows.
Well done Athith!
p.s- @ Suraj Nair- Good cracks, but you're forgetting the exact composition of Authors on this blog.
                             so, no points for you ;)


Athith-7
Gaurav-3
V. Chandrashekhar-3
Ameen-3
Gokul-3
Jait-2
Pranav-1
Sharan-1
Rohan-1
Piku-1
Ayush-1
Anonymous-1

QUESTION 253

Identify this father-son duo, very famous in the automobile circle.
Jr. here, was very often mistaken for Sr., who was already a very prominent person in the automobile field. Poor him.
Sr. started his company in the early 1930s. It still remains very popular.
Sr. is well known for designing another very popular car for another very famous company.


Argghh, this is sidetracking from the main topic.

Anyway, Id Both.

QUESTION 252

Who is she?

Was in the news recently, though not really for the right reasons.

QUESTION 251

Identify him.
CEO of?

QUESTION 250

Easy one. Current affairs.

Who?

QUESTION 249

Now, who could this be? Certainly looks like a star.
Even today, she manages to make a headline or two on a fairly regular basis.
Identify.

QUESTION 248

Identify the person from the picture.

Pretty workable, plenty of clues in the pic.

QUESTION 247

X was a businessman who was into the shipping. His company's first ship sailed from Liverpool to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The company grew.
One particular ship Y, owned by his company was sunk by the Germans in the early 20th century, which caused a major power(country) to join the war, shifting the balance of the war, which was, till then, dominated by Germany.

X

Id X and Y.

WEEKLY SCOREBOARD

The scoreboard for the last week is as follows.

Athith-5
Gaurav-3
Pranav-2.5
Chithananda-2
Anonymous-2
Jait-1
Brainbird-1
Ajay-1
Govind Paliath-1
Gokul-1
Prakaash-1
Rohan-1
V. Chandrashekar-1

Scoring for the next week starts from QUESTION 245

QUESTION 246

Id the compose and this famous piece
No points for identifying just the composer

QUESTION 245

Consider this a delayed post.. sorry I couldn't post yesterday. I'll try to post two today,
Now, for the first of the 2.
The movie A was based on the life of B
The monument C is dedicated to the struggles of B.

A

B

C

Id A,B,C.

QUESTION 244

This should be easy.
You needn't praise yourself for identifying just the painting ;)
Identify the person on the extreme right in this painting.

QUESTION 243

Fine, a technology question now..
The concept of Y was known to have been applied in Ancient Rome, where aqueduct water was circulated through the walls of certain houses.
In 1902 , X invented the modern Y in Buffalo, NY.
X found a job at the Buffalo Forge Company.
X began experimenting with Y to solve a problem for the Sackett- Wilhelm Lithographic and Publishing Company, and invented the Y...

X

Id X and Y.

QUESTION 242

What is the instrument B?
Connect it to person A


A

B

QUESTION 241

A and B are two portraits that depict a certain mythical group of beings who supposedly decided battles.
Norse mythology.
The third pic C, shows a composer who had an opera with the same name(as A and B)
Identify the composer and the theme/connect.
If you can, identify the composer's opera in question here..

A

B

C

WEEKLY SCOREBOARD

The scoreboard for the last week is as follows,


Athith-7
Pranav-4.5
Gaurav -4
Chithananda -3
Prem Kumar-2
jait- 1
Ayush- 1
Marm -1
Niranjan -1
Akash -1
Gokul-1
The Trooper -1
V. Chandrashekar-1

1 for correct. 0.5 for partially correct answers

NOTE- scoreboard for the next week starts from question 238

QUESTION 240

Straight from the newspaper.
Very,very current.
Identify this newly discovered species.
Where have they been spotted?

QUESTION 239

The man you see in the picture was served in British India and also in Africa in the Second Boer War.
He started something in Brownsea Islands in England.

Identify the man and the movement.

QUESTION 238

Know your explorers!
Needless to say,
He was an explorer,

He followed this route....

He claimed the South Sea!

And he also has the currency of  a Central American country named after him.
Who could this chap be?

QUESTION 237

Id both and Connect

What do we credit the people in the first picture with?
(click to expand)



The 2nd pic's a rather big hint...

QUESTION 236

X described himself to have once been a "careless, thoughtless, godless, swearing young fellow". But he did change his ways and become very religious.
He went to London and worked in a draper's shop. He was appalled at the working condition of the young men there. So, he gathered together his fellow drapers in a bid to create a place and atmosphere where people wouldn't sin.
So, he founded the ____
He was later knighted by Queen Victoria.

X

Id X and the organization.

QUESTION 235

Think, Who are the two people on this cover of TIME?

QUESTION 234

Modern X was first proposed by the New Zealand entomologist George Vernon Hudson, whose shift work job gave him leisure time to collect insects, and made him aware of the value of sunlight. In 1895 he presented a paper to the Wellington Philosophical Society proposing a two-hour X, and after considerable interest was expressed in Christchurch,he followed up in an 1898 paper. Many publications incorrectly credit X's invention to the prominent English builder and outdoorsman William Willet, who independently conceived X in 1905 during a pre-breakfast ride, when he observed with dismay how many Londoners slept through a large part of a summer day.




Blue:Countries that follow X
Orange: Countries that no longer follow X
Red: Countries that have never used X

                                                                         

What is X that is being talked about here?

WEEKLY SCOREBOARD

• Okay, now starting from Friday, 7th May, 2010, I will introduce a weekly scoreboard.

• The scoreboard will be refreshed every week..

• For every correct answer, you get 10 and if it's partly correct, you get 5.

• The scoreboard starts from question 231.

• So, get cracking! :D