Showing posts with label Gen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gen. Show all posts

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Question #47

No, this isn’t Photoshop. What is it? Give funda.
image image
Answered correctly by Vish
Answer: Quoting Vish.
Philippine's Flag. The one at the bottom is the usual flag. If the red is displayed at top it means the country is at war.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Question #40

She became famous after winning a famous lawsuit against the inheritance legislation of her community in the Supreme Court. Who is she?image

Cracked correctly by Mridul, Rahul and RIJO P.

Answer: Mary Roy, mother of Arundhati Roy

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Question #34

Identify. Why is it so special?


Correct answers by iamayush and aviral

Answer: This is the post office at Dakshin Gangotri in Antartica. It is the first Indian post office located outside India. 

Friday, February 26, 2010

Question #32

What?

Cracked by aviralshrivastava
Ans: Dextrocardia, a congenital defect in which the heart is situated on the right side of the body, is a very rare disorder and is believed to occur to 1 in 12000 people.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Question #28

Simple one.
X was first built by American Bantam in Butler, Pennsylvania for US Army Quartermaster Corps.

There are many explanations of the origin of the word X
It has been said that it carried the designation "GP", which phonetically became the word X

Many, suggest that soldiers at the time were so impressed with it that they informally named it after "Y the X", a character in the Popeye cartoons.

Identify X and Y.

Correctly answered by everyone. Highlight to view answer.
Answer: X = Jeep Y = Eugene

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Question #26

What is so special about them? It is for that very specialty that you will find them together somewhere else too. Where?




Complete Answer by Kaushik although Anish and Sourav Ray's answers were partly correct.

Answer: The Emu and the Kangaroo can be found on the Australian coat of arms (and hence on Baggy green too!). The reason they are there is because they can't walk backwards (signifying progress).

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Question #25

Identify

Answer: Mr. Zip introduced by the US post office department to encourage general public to include ZIP code in all mailings.

Friday, February 19, 2010

Question #24

What?

Answer: Auroville City

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Question #23

Sitter.
Barber, berry, curry, liar, grandfather.
What are these?

Answer: These are some famous paradoxes

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

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.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

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".

Monday, February 8, 2010

Question #14

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

Answer: Popeye's Muscle

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Question #10

Answer: Babel Fish
The first picture is of a band named "Babel fish", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel_Fish_(band).
Second is "The hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" where babel fish is mentioned as the "universal translator"
Yahoo's translate tool is called babel fish. http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Question #9

Simple one, I guess.


Cracked correctly by Harsh, V.Chandrashekhar and Kaushik
Answer: Non-Alignment Movement 


Nehru of India, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Nassar of Egypt, Sukharno of Indonesia and Tito of Yugoslavia - the co-founders of Non-Alignment Movement in the first picture.


The member nations of NAM in the second picture.


The logo of NAM in the third picture.

Friday, January 29, 2010

Question #4

Connect. No Hints!

Went Uncracked!!
Answer: Kinds of Hairstyles
(Clockwise from Top Left): Mushroom, Caesar, Bun, Beehive, Crew

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Question #2

Connect.
Hint: Can you arrange them in a sequence?

Highlight to view answer.
Answer: Red Hat Linux
(Clockwise from Top Left): Guiness, Hedwig, Cartman, Manhattan, Apollo
All versions of Red Hat Linux.