Saturday, October 2, 2010

THEME ROUND 1 CLOSES

Okay. Here are our scores.

For 350-a

Darren-5
Churrot-5
Nerrad-5
Deepthi-5
Pranav-5
Prasanna-5
Anonymous-5

For 350-b
 Cupidcobra1- 5
Prasanna- 5
Varun-5
Churott-5
Pai -5( But he's a darned author!)


350-c
Varun-5
Prasanna-5
Shravan-5
Nagaratna-5
Kricks-5
Nerrad-5

350-d
Nagaratna-5
Varun-5(cracks theme +20)
Nanda-5
Churott-5
Prasanna-5
Kricks-5
Nerrad-5
Aviral-5
Srikrishnan-5
Jait-5


350 e
Varun-5
Prasanna-5
Shravan-5
Nagaratna-5
Nerrad-5

350-f
Nagaratna-5
Nerrad-5
Jait-5
Churott-5(+10)
Shravan goes for theme and gets 10

So, top scores are
Varun 40
Churot-30
Prasanna, Nerrad,Shravan-25
We've got a few of you on 20!! :)
Well done!

Now answer the regular questions till the next theme week, which is very soon! :)

QUESTION 352 : That should have been Led away from there!

Most of us have watched this famous cartoon created by Matt Groening. No, I do not want you to tell me what the cartoon is.
This a still from The Simpsons. Parody on which (in)famous incident?

Thursday, September 30, 2010

QUESTION 351 : Sound, OK, Horn!

Right ho!
End of our first theme week!
Back to regular questions till Monday! :)
Btw, You can still go for the theme ( questions 350 a to f)


This one deals with a slightly different issue!

We see in this picture, a chappy who has a lot to do with a mango! :D (X)
When X came to India, he exchanged gifts with an Indian king. The gift he received from India was an animal.
He sent the animal back to Portugal to King Manuel I. Manuel sent it to the Pope. Sadly, it perished in a shipwreck off the coast of Italy.

Somebody described this never-seen-before animal to a certain German artist (Y). (Y) used the description given to him and produced one of his most famous works (Z, no picture here :P ) without even having seen the animal!

(X)


(Y)


Id X, Y and Z

The thme....

All questions have been posted from our first set of theme based questions. If you are going for the overall theme now, you get a +10. All the answers are before you now. Go for it!

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Question 350 f: Abbey Road




(the person in this pic, famous0

Connect the following


and to the grand theme

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

QUESTION 350 e : Order, Order!!

American. Politician. Under Lincoln. Free Soil Party. Enough said.
Simple.
Identify the man.





Going for the theme.....?

Monday, September 27, 2010

QUESTION 350 d : Lightning never strikes the same place twice!

Fine, I'm going to post 4 pictures here.
I have, quite intentionally, decided to skip the pic which would be a giveaway.
But it's quite crackable :/
 Here goes,

Okay.
Connect to a personality!!

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Question 350.c: Tribute to Family Guy


X was a prominent person, being only the person to achieve this in US presidential History ( 3 actually)

was known as the Beast of Buffalo

The picture is attributed to him

Just name the person

part points may be given for naming the 3 firsts, and the connection to the picture

Ps: He answered the phone personally as well

Saturday, September 25, 2010

QUESTION 350 b: Should've been tennis!! :)

For those of you slightly confused, refer to the previous post! Cheers!

Yeah. Okay. Back to the point.. X was a prominent personality. A strategist and a leader.
He even received a peace prize for his efforts in the early 20th century. A pic of one of his speeches is visible in (2)
More importantly, a very famous organization was established on X's guidelines! It's logo, visible in (1)


I want you to identify X :)

(1)





(2)



The THEME SCHEME: How it works (Just in case it isn't clear, yet)

In case you still haven't understood, let me clarify before I get to the actual question.
This is like an actual quiz.
In this theme week, we'll have 6 questions. Each question will give you a basic 5 points. These questions carry no negatives. Don't worry. Attempt them without fear ;)
In addition, we have the THEME SCHEME.
Question 350 has an answer. 351 will, quite obviously, have an answer. After 2 days, we will reveal these two answers.
At this point, you can go for the theme(connect) of the week. You can go for it even now, but it would be risky.
After 2 answers, a correct guess at the theme gives you + 30! But a wrong on gives you a -5! :)
You are free to go for the theme as many times(But only once per question), but keep the negatives in mind.
After questions 3 and 4, a correct guess gives you +20, wrong guess = -5
After 6 questions, +10, -5.
Hope it's clear.