FIND AND CONNECT!!!

All these films are highly popular ones.So thought it'd be better if the names of these movies are not displayed.Else it becomes jus a bit too easy to google it out.So go ahead

A bit too easy once again:)

Inspirations from Shakespeare's plays...

Lion king-Hamlet

Omkara-Othello

Theatre of Blood-A Host of Shakespeare's plays

Angoor-A comedy of errors

Congrats Viswesh,Raji,Peter,Sylvian and not to forget Nakki...

SIMPLE ONE!!

Connect this famous place in Germany to the pics below

The last pic is not really a big clue to the connect.Can be called added info!!

Well the connect is Rammstein.Very easy for Harshitha,Nakki,Venkat and the Red Baron

FOR A CHANGE...TRY GOOGLING THIS OUT!!!

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The last man in the picture connects the first three pics!!!

This according to me was a reallly tough question to crack.But nakki has done it.Kudos to you.Thanks a lot for your suggestion.I'll definitely consider it.

As for the answer here goes.The man in the last picture is Norman Pritchard.

Pritchard was the first Indian athlete to participate in the Olympic Games. He was also the first Indian and first Asian to win an Olympic medal.That was in the 1900 paris olympics.However In the historical records section Pritchard was listed as having competed for Great Britain in 1900.

He served as Secretary of the Indian Football Association from 1900 to 1902.

He later moved to the United States where he became a silent movie actor under the screen name Norman Trevor. He acted alongside Hollywood legends like Ronald Colman in movies like Beau Geste (1926), Clara Bow's father in Dancing Mothers(1926) and Tonight at Twelve (1929).

TRY NOT TO GOOGLE THIS OUT!!

Connect...

This was a pretty easy connect.The answer obviously being Ayn Rand-one of the most inspirational writers of all time!!

Angelina Jolie has been confirmed to play the role of the leading lady in the film adaptation of the book-The Atlas Shrugged.

A quote from Rand is featured in the American Adventure exhibit in the Epcot Centre, Walt Disney World.

BioShock, an award-winning video game released in the summer of 2007, is built around a story influenced by Rand's philosophy and Atlas Shrugged.

That's a statue of Atlas.

Ayn Rand was first introduced to the world as an extra in the movie-King of Kings.

Hats off to you Raji and Harshitha for getting this one right

A TOUGH NUT TO CRACK!!

CONNECT

1.The circled place is called Concorde.This is the map of Paris.

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Here goes the connect: Its Bernie Ecclestone

Bernie Ecclestone representing the group called FOCA ,it was who met with the rival FISA at Place de la Concorde in Paris to sign the first Concorde agreement which dictates the terms by which the teams compete in races and take their share of the television revenues and prize money.

Bernie started his F1 career by acquiring The F1 Connaught Team in 1958.

In early 2004 he sold one of his London residences (Kensington Palace Gardens), never having lived in it, to steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal for £57.1 million, making it the most expensive house ever sold.

Bernie currently owns 80% of the Queen's Park Rangers' shares.

Awesome work by Vaishu and Harshitha

ETYMO ALL THE WAY....

This is for all you lovers of the english language....



1)This phrase comes from a practice that was common in the British military.
•When an officer was court-martialed for some offence, the charges against him were read out for all to hear. The officer was then made to stand in front of the military band and while the charges were being read out, drummers used to tap their drums. Since the officer was facing the band and the drums were being played, this phrase came into being

Ans: To face the music/Drummed up charges
see http://www.hindu.com/edu/2004/08/30/stories/2004083000241500.htm

2) One of the popular stories running around is that this expression was introduced by the American sailors who had been to the Japanese city of yokohoma. The term may have been a sailors’ slang for a street in Yokohama that catered for what one might describe as the special needs of sailors. Thus the sailors were highly satisfied after visiting this japanese street of earthly delights.
•What term arose out of this???

ans: Hunky Dory

www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/hunky-dory.html

3)What common phrase arose out of this picture??

ans: Writing on the wall

4) When a person went to the market to buy a valuable piglet, the stall keeper played a sneaky trick on him. He handed over a carton that supposedly contained only a useless cat. Which expression came into being as a result of the person finding out this fraud…

ans: To let the cat out of the bag/Pig in a poke

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/let-the-cat-out-of-the-bag.html

5) This phrase comes from the sailors’ lingo.When the wind is blowing from behind a ship's direction of travel then it is said to be ‘Y'. Sailors have used this term for centuries.
•When the wind is in that favourable Y direction the largest square sails may be set and the ship is able to travel in whatever downwind direction the captain sees fit.
•‘X' In simplified terms means 'in the general direction of'. Sailors would say ‘to X’ is to face into the wind or within six compass points of it.
•To sail X and Y required the ability to sail not only as earlier square-rigged ships could do, i.e. downwind, but also against the wind.

ans:By and Large

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bya1.htm

6)maybe the only good thing that this guy has done is to donate a word to the english language

ans: Quisling

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quisling

7) In olden days, the most common forms of travel and commerce were through the use of rivers and lakes. These bodies of water were the lifeblood for communities of all sizes. During the winter, they would freeze over in colder climates, making them impassable. Once spring arrived, these bodies of water would warm allowing boats to pass. This marked the beginning of the season’s activity after the winter freeze.
•Thus arose which common phrase??

ans:To break the ice

http://www.fun-with-words.com/etym_phrases.html

8)) Centuries ago, Maol was the silver which was paid in rent in Scotland. People who stole Sheep and cattle would take away the cattle and then try to legitimize the theft by threatening to keep the animals unless the owner paid them rent for the grazing, the animals had in their farms while they were stolen.
•This has hence become a very common term in English language

ans:Blackmail

http://www.trivia-library.com/b/origins-of-common-words-blackmail.htm

9) According to one of the many stories regarding the origin of this expression is this..
•Dred Scott was a slave in one of the slave states of the U.S, presumably towards the end of the slavery years in the 19th century. He had somehow managed to escape from the slave state and escaped into the free state.
•Thus arose this common phrase…

ans:To go scot free

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott

10)The Californian Gold Rush of the mid 19th century is instrumental in bringing this phrase into the english language.
• Prospectors who panned for gold supposedly became excited when they saw something sparkle in the pan, only to have their hopes dashed when it proved not to be gold but a mere stone.

ans:Flash in the pan

The Results:

Sharmi-7

Sukrit-2

Sidharth-6

Deepak-2

Shubhendru-6

Harish-8

Arun-2

Sonjita-9

Rajiv-3

Murali-8

Leonine-6

Ankit-7

Harshitha-7

Harini-3

Sohali-4

well done nakki,Karthik

Thanks

CONNECT !!

1)This by the way is a scene from a legendary movie which can actually be called the first Hollywood Blockbuster..
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3) 4)

5)This should make it easy??

The first pic is a scene from the movie 'THE BIRTH OF A NATION' which actually glorifies the Ku Klux Klan.

Harry S Truman had been a member of the KKK. That he came out of it is a different story altogether

'The Five Orange Pips' of the Sherlock Holmes Adventures deals with the KKK.

The fourth pic is the Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain, site of the founding of the second Klan; work was begun in 1923 and was completed in 1970.

The final pic is the 'CROSS BURNING' ritual of the KKK

The connect obviously is the KKK

As usual twas too easy for sylvian and peter

LETS HAVE IT SIMPLE!!! A COMMON THREAD???...

GIVEN BELOW IS A SET OF FOUR QUESTIONS...I'D SAY THEY ARE PRETTY SIMPLE IN THE LIGHT OF THE STANDARD SET BY THE QUIZZERS...THE ADDITIONAL CATCH THIS TIME IS TO IDENTIFY THE UNDERLYIN THEME....



1 FILL IN THE BLANK...
This was suppsed to be one of the most famous cartoons published...

THE ANSWER IS RUPERT MURDOCH.

2)
•X is a British professional rugby club currently sponsored by one of Britain's biggest shopping centres, The Trafford Centre.
•Their current home ground is known as The Willows.The club is set to move to a new purpose-built 20,000 capacity stadium in the Barton-upon-Irwell area of Eccles in 2009.
•During an early tour to France, the French press labeled them as playing like devils and hence gave them a nickname that became highly famous in sporting circles.
•Id X and the nickname

THE SALFORD CITY REDS AND THE NICKNAME IS THE 'RED DEVILS'


3)
•This company X takes its name from one of its founder's first inventions, a mechanical pencil, which was invented by Tokuji Hayakawa in 1915. Since then it has developed into one of the leading electronics companies in the world
•The company’s notable achievements include the world's first all-transistor desktop calculator in 1964 and the first LCD calculator in 1973.
•Very simple.. Find X

SHARP ELECTRONICS



4) Identify this guy???you've pretty much wrapped up the theme

MALCOLM GLAZER

THE THEME IS THE MANCHESTER UNITED FOOTBALL CLUB

THE NICKNAME 'THE RED DEVILS' HAD BEEN ADOPTED FROM THE SALFORD CITY REDS RUGBY TEAM

SHARP ELECTRONICS HAD SPONSORED THE CLUB FOR THE LONGEST PERIOD OF TIME FROM 1982 TILL 2000

RUPERT MURDOCH MADE A FAILED ATTEMPT TO TAKEOVER THE MAN UTD TEAM IN 1998

MALCOLM GLAZER CURRENTLY OWNS THE MAN UTD CLUB

THIS QUESTION WAS A TRIBUTE TO ALL MAN UTD FANS REJOICING THEIR CLUB'S VICTORY.KUDOS TO PETER AND SYLVIAN.

CRACK THIS!!!!

CONNECT...AND I BET THERE'S SOME WORKING OUT TO BE DONE HERE....

THE CONNECT OF COURSE IS PAPARAZZI.

THE WORD PAPARAZZI WAS FIRST INTRODUCED IN THE MOVIE-LA DOLCE VITE.

THE ETYMO OF THE WORD COMES FROM THE ITALIAN WORD PAPARAZZO MEANING A BUZZING MOSQUITO

PRINCESS DIANA WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN KILLED IN THE CAR ACCIDENT TRYING TO EVADE THE PAPARAZZI

IT WAS TOO EASY FOR THE LIKES OF RAMA, AVI, PETER AND KARTHIK

THE GOING GETS TOUGH!! CONNECT>>>>

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4..... Put "''fundaez'''!!The last picture is a big clue to the connect....

ANSWER...

THE FIRST PIC IS OF THE CHARACTER TIA DALMA THAT COMES IN THE POC MOVIES-DEAD MAN'S CHEST AND AT WORLD'S END.BEFORE THE BRETHREN COURT CONFINED HER TO A HUMAN BODY SHE WAS THE NYMPH GODDESS CALYPSO...

THE SECOND PIC IS A PLATE OF IDLIS WITH CHUTNEY..WELL CHUTNEY IS A FORM OF CALYPSO MUSIC WHICH DERIVES ELEMENTS FROM INDIAN FILMI SONGS..

THE THIRD IS OBVIOUSLY GODDESS CALYPSO WITH ODYSSEUS

THE FOURTH IS A PIS OF THE COVER OF THE ALBUM CALYPSO BY HARRY BELAFONTE..

SO...THE CONNECT IS CALYPSO..CRACKED BY SYLVIAN,LAKSHMAN,VAISHU,AVI AND PETER..GOOD TRY BY VISHWESH AND SANTANU..

HERE COMES THE NEXT ONE!!!

Very much guessable....read the question carefully and try answering....

•A ____________ fracture is the colloquial name given to a fracture of the pedicles or pars of the axis (C2 vertebra).
•The mechanism of the injury is forcible hyperextension of the head
•When the subject was dropped, the head would be forced into hyperextension by the full weight of the body, a sufficient force to cause the fracture.

Fill In

THIS IS ONE OF MY PERSONAL FAVOURITES...COURTESY ''READER'S DIGEST''

ITS CALLED THE HANGMAN'S FRACTURE.

IF YOU LOOK AT THE WORDS

''When the subject was dropped, the head would be forced into hyperextension '',

YOU CAN VISUALISE THE HANGING TAKING PLACE....SO THERE YOU GO..ITS CALLED THA HANGMAN'S FRACTURE .IT IS PRECISELY DUE TO THIS FRACTURE THAT PEOPLE DIE WHEN HANGED!!!

TOUGH ONE TO CRACK. HAPPY TO SEE RAM AND HARINI CRACKING THIS ONE..

SPORTS!!!

and obviously my favourite is cricket!!so here goes...

CONNECT...(A Unique Distiction in One Dayers!!!)

1. Brian Luckhurst
2. Grant Flower
3. Peter Kirsten

cracked only by sylvian

the answer is...these are the only three players to have been mankaded..check out mankading at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_out

THE HEAT IS ON!!!

The very first question of this blog..pl give your answers in the comments page.

•Many have associated the poem with the Great Plague of London in 1665, or with earlier outbreaks of bubonic plague in England.
•Origin finders have been given the opportunity to say that the poem dates back to the Great Plague where people had heavy cold and could not stand on their feet due to the plague. A rosy rash, they allege, was a symptom of the plague
•What poem is talked about here???

ITS ANSWER TIME...

THE ANSWER OF COURSE IS ''RING-A-RING-A ROSES''

if you read the question carefully....

rosy rash corresponds to ring a ring a roses

heavy cold corresponds to hasha busha

not able to stand on their feet corresponds to all fall down.....

great work raji,santanu,piku...

what exactly is this blog about???

well guys...had been thinking for a long time about starting a new blog..finally set rolling now..for now this blog will deal with my primary interest thats quizzing and of course planning to expand l8r..there'll be questions on different areas drawn mainly from my experiences in attending a host of quizzes..the answers ll be given the next day..so keep guessin...i hope you find the questions interesting..
happy quizzing fellas!!!!