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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.

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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.

Reverse Image Search Engine - A Technological Wonder

2010-03-16T19:10:00.001+05:30

Hello Quizzards,

First I would like to take this rare opportunity to thank each and every one of you for the constant support and encouragement that keeps infusing a fresh lease of life into Inquizzitive, time and again!

When I started this blog, in December of 2005, I knew my biggest challenge was my employer. Yes Google. No, they didn't have a problem with my maintaining a little known trivia blog. It's just that Google had killed the joy of online quizzing as any 'dry' text question would just be copied, pasted into the Google search bar and voila you had the answer staring at you in the snippet of search results 1, 2 or at most 3. A big win for Google, a big blow to online quizzing.

That's what prompted me to start the pictorial connection of quizzing in Inquizzitive. However, I always knew that this format too would be 'cracked' one day, and the tool that would help in doing so would be a RISE (reverse image search engine). Yes, a search engine where you can somehow upload an image and it magically tells you what the image is. I knew it was a few years away, how many I didn't know. Today I do.

A friend and fellow quizzer, KingM (he prefers to be a little anonymous online) answered today's 'very tough' question by first looking for a RISE and then by using it smartly to get the clues. When I learnt about this, I was quite shell shocked and wanted to get into denial by moderating his comment where he has mentioned the product. Then I realised what a brilliant technological advancement this is and instead of trying to suppress information and innovation (in vain) let me introduce you to TinEye.

Let's say we take this picture of Mahatma Gandhi from this Wikipedia article.

Now let's assume you

1) know the url from where I took this image and
2) You just have the image but not the url

All you need to do is go to www.tineye.com and in case of

1) Just paste the url or 2) just upload the picture in the search field and the reverse search engine will throw up a result as shown below

Yes, it's that simple!

As of now it has some teething problems, and doesn't recognise all images as smoothly as it should but I am sure in the coming days this will become a technology as solid and reliable as search is today. As a technology enthusiast I applaud this achievement! As the owner of Inquizzitive, I take this up as a challenge to continue giving you questions that will keep you engaged in spite of the new tools at hand!

With that I introduce TinEye to you!

Question Of The Day: 16th March, 2010

2010-03-16T11:39:00.001+05:30

The two gentlemen shown in the picture (top right and top left) have a very unique distinction. You need to tell me what is it. The gentleman in the bottom left should act as a hint because he also almost falls in that category, but not quite. And for very different reasons.

Difficulty Level - Very Tough

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People who have rejected the Nobel prize.

Pictures in clockwise order (from top left):

Jean Paul Satre

Le Duc Tho

The hint was Boris Pastern who was asked by the soviet union to decline the prize.

Question Of The Day: 15th March, 2010

2010-03-15T12:05:00.001+05:30

This could have been a tough question, but I decided to make it a medium one by giving hints in the pictures. Connect the people shown in images below.

Difficulty Level - Medium

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Kite Runner

Pictures in clockwise order (from top left):

Khalid Abdalla (actor who played the protagonist in the movie)

Khaled Hosseini (author of the book)

Marc Foster (director of the movie)

Question Of The Day: 12th March, 2010

2010-03-12T12:27:00.001+05:30

A slight deviation from the usual connect format. What does this heat map of the world depict? The more details you can provide, the better.

Today's QOTD has been framed by Aniruddha Biswas.

Difficulty Level - Medium

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Heat map of participation in the Kyoto Protocol

Green:Countries that have signed and ratified the treaty

Grey:Countries that are not yet decided

Red:Countries with no intention to ratify the treaty

Question Of The Day: 11th March, 2010

2010-03-11T11:14:00.001+05:30

A tough one to follow the 'try balls'. Hard core cricketing trivia. Exclusive bunch of gentlemen from the world of cricket. Connect.

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All pictures courtesy Cricinfo.

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All of them scored double centuries on Test cricket debut.

Pictures in clockwise order (from top left):

Tip Foster (England)

Lawrence Rowe (West Indies)

Brendon Kuruppu (Sri Lanka)

Jacques Rudolph (South Africa)

Matthew Sinclair (New Zealand)

Question Of The Day: 10th March, 2010

2010-03-10T12:22:00.001+05:30

Stunning response to the previous question! Another sitter as a follow up, obviously can't give any clues this time. Connect.

Difficulty Level - Very Easy

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Twitter

They are the co-founders of the microblogging site Twitter.

Pictures in clockwise order (from top left):

Biz Stone

Evan Williams

Jack Dorsey

Question Of The Day: 8th March, 2010

2010-03-08T11:03:00.001+05:30

Wanted to cash in on the Oscar buzz before it dies! Who should come in place of the question mark?

Difficulty Level - Easy

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Paris Hilton (2008)

These are the actresses who won the Razzie for Worst Actress between 2005-09.

Pictures in clockwise order (from top left):

Jenny McCarthy

Sharon Stone

Lindsay Lohan

Sandra Bullock

Question Of The Day: 7th December, 2009

2009-12-07T12:10:00.001+05:30

World of internet. As easy as they come.

Difficulty Level - Very Easy

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Amazon

All of these are brands owned by Amazon.com and the gentleman is Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.

Pictures in clockwise order (from top left):

alexa.com

dpreview.com

Jeff Bezos

imdb.com