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Ekal Seattle Bollywood Quiz 2019 - A Question A Day (AQAD) #5/6, October 17, 2019

2019-10-18T23:37:00.002+05:30

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And no thank you, there's no typo;)

AQADs Courtesy: Diptakirti Chaudhuri (Bollywood fan and author of 4 books on Hindi Cinema)

Ekal Seattle Bollywood Quiz 2019 - A Question A Day (AQAD) #5/6, October 17, 2019

2019-10-17T21:43:00.000+05:30

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Connect the 3 famous men (who have very little to nothing to do with movies) with Bollywood. Lateral thinking has been known to be useful for such questions.

AQADs Courtesy: Diptakirti Chaudhuri (Bollywood fan and author of 4 books on Hindi Cinema)

Ekal Seattle Bollywood Quiz 2019 - A Question A Day (AQAD) #4/6, October 16, 2019

2019-10-16T23:23:00.004+05:30

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Format for today's answer should be: A1, B3, C4 etc. 0.5 points for every correct pair.

AQADs Courtesy: Diptakirti Chaudhuri (Bollywood fan and author of 4 books on Hindi Cinema)

Ekal Seattle Bollywood Quiz 2019 - A Question A Day (AQAD) #3/6, October 15, 2019

2019-10-15T21:54:00.000+05:30

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AQADs Courtesy: Diptakirti Chaudhuri (Bollywood fan and author of 4 books on Hindi Cinema)

Ekal Seattle Bollywood Quiz 2019 - A Question A Day (AQAD) #2/6, October 14, 2019

2019-10-14T21:56:00.000+05:30

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AQADs Courtesy: Diptakirti Chaudhuri (Bollywood fan and author of 4 books on Hindi Cinema)

Ekal Seattle Bollywood Quiz 2019 - A Question A Day (AQAD) #1/6, October 13, 2019

2019-10-13T21:21:00.000+05:30

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Question Of The Day: 24th March, 2012

2012-03-25T05:13:00.001+05:30

Cricket again. These players share a unique, and not so enviable record. What?

Difficulty Level - Very Tough

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Question Of The Day: 23rd March, 2012

2012-03-23T12:35:00.003+05:30

And just like that we're back! But could well go back to hiding right after this:)

This is an exhaustive list. Connect them.
Difficulty Level - Medium

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Captains of under-19 World Cup Winning teams

Pictures in clockwise order (from top left): Cameron White (Australia), Khalid Latif (Pakistan), Mitchel Marsh (Australia), Md. Kaif (India), Owais Shah (England), Sarfraz Ahmed (Pakistan) & Virat Kohli (India)

Question Of The Day: 23rd August, 2010

2010-08-23T16:52:00.001+05:30

This is an exhaustive list. Connect them, hint: Hollywood.
Difficulty Level - Tough

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Marilyn Monroe

Pictures in clockwise order (from top left): James Dougherty, Joe Di Maggio & Arthur Miller (all husbands of Marilyn Monroe)

Question Of The Day: 20th August, 2010

2010-08-20T15:57:00.001+05:30

Connect these four desserts, besides the fact that they are desserts!

Difficulty Level - Medium

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Android OS versions
Pictures in clockwise order (from top left): Cupcake, Donut, Eclair & Froyo

Question Of The Day: 29th June, 2010 - World Cup Special

2010-06-29T11:14:00.002+05:30

Another Football question by Nirmalya Ganguly.

Difficulty Level - Very Easy

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Luis Figo
Pictures left to right: Loo, Ice, Fig, Go

Question Of The Day: 24th June, 2010 - World Cup Special

2010-06-24T16:32:00.002+05:30

While we are in the midst of the quadrennial sporting frenzy the next few questions will be on the beautiful game. So, if you are not that much into football you may want to visit the blog again after 11-July:)

The format will be slightly different, there will be a set of pictures provided and you need to answer which footballer is being referred to. Example question below.

The correct answer is Roberto Carlos.
Hints: Robber, Toe, Car - Loss

So, go ahead and start cracking these sitters:)

All questions courtesy Nirmalya Ganguly. A big thanks to him from Inquizzitive!

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Thiery Henry
Pictures left to right: Tea, Hairy (men), Hen, Reel (minus L)

Question Of The Day: 25th May, 2010

2010-05-25T11:56:00.001+05:30

Identify this object in the person's hand.

Difficulty Level - Easy

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The black box of the ill fated Air India Dubai-Mangalore flight

Question Of The Day: 3rd May, 2010

2010-05-03T11:10:00.001+05:30

Tried looking for an easier question, couldn't:) Connect

Difficulty Level - Very Easy

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1st Indians to score centuries in Test, ODI & T20 internationals

Pictures from top left (in clockwise order)

Lala Amarnath

Kapil Dev

Suresh Raina

Question Of The Day: 20th April, 2010

2010-04-20T12:27:00.001+05:30

Perhaps the easiest question till date on Inquizzitive. For once I will suggest you refrain from using Google for this:)

Difficulty Level - Very Easy

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Erin Brockovich

Pictures from top left (in clockwise order)

The real Erin Brockovich

Logo of the Pacific Gas & Electric Company (the co. she sued)

Steven Soderberg, the director of the movie Erin Brockovich

Question Of The Day: 7th April, 2010

2010-04-07T11:29:00.001+05:30

The clues are staring at you, go connect.

Picture courtesy - Soumyadip

Difficulty Level - Easy

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Foursquare

Dennis Crawley (Founder of Foursquare.com)

Dodgeball, the previous website created by Crawley and later sol to Google

An ad for Four Square cigarettes

Question Of The Day: 6th April, 2010

2010-04-06T11:57:00.001+05:30

I know we're still in the midst of the IPL season, but with the Football WC knocking on the door, time to start warming up! Sitter to begin the season, what feat connects the following.

Difficulty Level - Very Easy

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Only four players to have scored 3 goals in the finals of FIFA World Cups.

Pictures in clockwise order (from top left):

Vava (1958 - 2, 1962 - 1)

Pele (1958 - 2, 1970 - 1)

Geoff Hurst (1966 - 3)

Zinedine Zidane (1998 - 2, 2006 - 1)

Question Of The Day: 5th April, 2010

2010-04-05T11:51:00.001+05:30

Old wine in new bottle:) Who/what should come in place of the '?' Pure cricketing question. Hint: Nothing to do IPL.

Difficulty Level - Medium

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Shoaib Malik, he was the first batsman to be given out LBW by a third umpire and this was the set up.

Pictures

Chaminda Vaas - Bowler

Daryl Harper - On field umpire

Rudy Koertzen - 3rd umpire

Question Of The Day: 1st April, 2010

2010-04-01T18:07:00.001+05:30

Ha ha ha! Playing this little prank on the 1st of April gave me immense pleasure:) No Question Of The Day today. Thanks to Abhishek Sheopory for the link to the song.

Interestingly no one has answered the previous question correctly yet, so you still have some time to attempt it. It was labelled an 'Easy' question by the way!

I leave you with a list of April Fools' pranks played by Google this year. If you know of some really funny ones do share them with me.

Will be back with a question soon.

Question OF The Day: 31st March, 2010

2010-03-31T16:26:00.001+05:30

Another very simple connect. Need to explain the significance of all 4 pictures.

Difficulty Level - Easy

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Dilbert Comics, these are all references to characters from the comics.

Pictures in clockwise order (from top left)

Johnny Depp from Alice in Wonderland. Character reference = Alice.

Ashok Kumar. Character reference = Asok

The Elbonians.

Wally Hammond. Character reference = Wally

Special mention - Chocochan, the only person to give the correct answer.

Question Of The Day: 30th March, 2010

2010-03-30T12:25:00.001+05:30

Sorry for the week long delay. A lollipop as a warm up gift:) Courtesy: Boiledbeans

Difficulty Level - Very Easy

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Android

Pictures in clockwise order (from top left)

Philip Dick, author of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

Harrison Ford, acted in the movie 'Blade Runner' which was based on the book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

A Nexus One phone, which runs on the Google Android Operating System.

[In the book, a bounty hunter named Rick Deckard is charged with a mission to eliminate rogue “Nexus-6″ model androids.]

Question OF The Day: 22nd March, 2010

2010-03-22T13:04:00.001+05:30

Almost a direct 'identify' question. Connect the gentlemen in the 4 B & W pictures. The one in colour is your hint and has no direct connection to do with the 4 or the answer.

Difficulty Level - Very Tough

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Warner Brothers

Pictures in clockwise order (from top left)

Albert Warner (this is actually Albert Warner Overhauser of the Nuclear Overhauser Effect Spectroscopy (NOESY) fame., had to include his picture as I didn't get one of the the relevant Albert Warner)

Harry Warner

Jack Warner

Sam Warner

The hint was Andrew Llyod Webber as it was his birthday on 22nd March (the day this question was put up) and the rights to the 'Happy Birthday' song are with the Warner Brothers Corp.

Question Of The Day: 19th March, 2010

2010-03-19T13:26:00.001+05:30

Congrats to those who cracked y'day's answer!

A breather to end the week. It's a connection question again and the answer is one person.

Difficulty Level - Easy

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Lalit Modi

Pictures in clockwise order (from top left)

Logo of the BCCI - Lalit Modi is the existing VP of the BCCI

Logo of DLF - prime sponsors of the IPL, where Lalit Modi is the Chairman

Logos of Four Square & I-Gen brand of cigarettes, owned by Godfrey Philips India. Lalit Modi is the Executive Director of GPI, which is owned by his family's Modi Enterprise.

Question Of The Day: 18th March, 2010

2010-03-18T15:11:00.001+05:30

One of my most favourite questions of Inquizzitive till date, had immense pleasure framing it, hope to get a lot of answers! Connect.

Difficulty Level - Medium

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The 10 present non-permanent members of the UN Security Council. All the flags and people shown in the picture belong to those countries.

Pictures in clockwise order (from top left) [A1-A2-A3-A4, B1-B2-B3, C1-C2-C3]

Wolfgang Mozart - Austria

Flag of Bosnia & Herzegovina

Kaka - Brazil

Flag of Gabon

Idi Amin - Uganda

Salma Hayek - Mexico

SRK from a scene in RNBDJ, involved in Sumo Wrestling - Japan

Flag of Lebanon

Kanu - Nigeria

Flag of Turkey.

Question Of The Day: 17th March, 2010

2010-03-17T10:54:00.001+05:30

After stumbling upon the RISE y'day, I am a little paranoid and have set a 2nd level of connect question. Also, if you're using any RISE do let me know how it changed the experience. Feedback will be important to tailor future Inquizzitive questions. As of now, connect!

Difficulty Level - Tough

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Garuda (the Bird like creature from the Mahabharata)

Pictures in clockwise order (from top left):

Cover of the book of fables, Panchatantra. It was written by Vishnu Sharma. Garuda is the vahana (mount) of Lord Vishnu.

The members of the music band - The Eagles, Garuda is said to have an Eagle's face.

Sukarno, the first President of Indonesia. Garuda is the national symbol and national airlines of Indonesia.