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.

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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.