One For The Day

OFTD # 252 - Artist impression of?

noreply@blogger.com (Ameya) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:41:41 PST

OFTD # 251 - Funda please

noreply@blogger.com (Ameya) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:48:19 PST

OFTD # 250 -

noreply@blogger.com (Ameya) — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 08:29:48 PST

These are 7 selected albums of The Doors. There is something distinctly different about one of the above albums, Which album and what is distinctly different (specific answer required)?

OFTD # 249 -

noreply@blogger.com (Ameya) — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 08:26:14 PST

This contemporary British rock band has won many music awards and derives its name from a connection with Greek mythology, literature and poetry and the goddesses Clio, Thalia, Erato, Euterpe, Polyhymnia, Calliope, Terpsichore, Urania and Melpomene.

Name the Band?

OFTD # 248 -

noreply@blogger.com (Ameya) — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:58:15 PST

Band Song

Rolling Stones            Dead flowers
Red Hot Chilli Peppers   Under the bridge
Gun N' Roses                 Mr. Brownstone
Velvet Underground      I'm waiting for the man

What is the common subject of the above rock songs (very specific answer required)?

OFTD # 247 -

noreply@blogger.com (Ameya) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:39:07 PST

Q: This is a board game based on a character familiar from a different medium. Who?

OFTD # 246 -

noreply@blogger.com (Ameya) — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:58:35 PST

Q: This is an artist called Andre Woolery, who employs an unusually sticky 'medium' to create his portraits, such as the one of Jay-Z whose close-up is also attached. What 'medium' or technique?

OFTD # 245 -

noreply@blogger.com (Ameya) — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:58:52 PST

Q: Easy one, I think. Her name is Lourdes Leon. What's her mother's name?

OFTD # 244 -

noreply@blogger.com (Ameya) — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:05:53 PST

"Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding, Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind"

This line is from the lyrics of a song which was based on "Dawn's Highway" a poem in which the songwriter and poet describes an event that occurred when he was young which he claimed influenced him throughout his life.

1. Name the songwriter?

2. Name the song?

OFTD # 243 -

noreply@blogger.com (Ameya) — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:01:33 PST

Who sang "With a little help from my friends" on the original Sgt. Pepper album?

OFTD # 242 -

noreply@blogger.com (Ameya) — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:11:46 PST

Q: Identify this person, who really goes the whole hog with her Halloween costumes.

OFTD # 241 -

noreply@blogger.com (Ameya) — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:56:56 PST

Connect for the name of a Rock musician?

OFTD # 240 -

noreply@blogger.com (Ameya) — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:55:01 PST

Suze Rotolo who died in February this year at the age of 67 was an American artist, but was perhaps best known as the girlfriend of a musician in the 1960's who strongly influenced his music. She also was the woman walking with him on the cover of one of his albums. In her book, A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties, Rotolo described her time with the musician and the music scene in Greenwich Village, New York.

Which musician?
Which album?

The BiG Q Questionnaire

noreply@blogger.com (Ameya) — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:00:07 PST

The question paper for the BiG Q 2011 has been uploaded to Google Docs. Click here to access the question paper. Click here to access the question papers with the answers included.

OFTD # 239

noreply@blogger.com (Ameya) — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:52:02 PST

The self titled debut album (above) of this Band was released in the USA as No Answer when a record company executive on making a telephone call to the band asking about the album name failed to reach the Band's contact and scribbled "no answer" in his notes, which was misconstrued to be the album name. The Band was known to fuse rock music with classical overtones and used such exotic instruments as the cello, clarinet, bassoon, oboe, recorder, French horn, hunting horn and violin in their compositions.

Name the Band?

OFTD # 238 -

noreply@blogger.com (Ameya) — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:57:32 PST

Q: On November 15, this yellow diamond broke the record for auction sales figures in its category, fetching $10.9 million. Its name, evocative of its shape and colour, is also a brand name common to many Indian kitchens. What is it called?

OFTD # 237 -

noreply@blogger.com (Ameya) — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:58:10 PST

Who is the subject of the stamp?

OFTD # 236 -

noreply@blogger.com (Ameya) — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 02:31:54 PDT

Fush Yu Mang is an album by the rock band Smash Mouth. The title of the album was taken from the line "f**k you, man!" slurred by Al Pacino in a movie, incidentally a song on the album "Padrino" contains the line "I'll take any flick with Al Pacino".

Name the movie from which the slurred line is taken?

OFTD # 235 -

noreply@blogger.com (Ameya) — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 02:38:24 PDT

"It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no senator's son
It ain't me, it ain't me; I ain't no fortunate one"

These are part of the lyrics from the anti Vietnam war song Fortunate Son which is listed by Rolling stone as the 99th greatest songs of all time. It is about a man who is being drafted but who is not fortunate enough to be the son of a senator or a millionaire (in fact it was inspired by the marriage of the grandson of Dwight Eisenhower to Julie the daughter of Richard Nixon in 1968).

The song appears amongst other notable films in the film "Forrest Gump", when Forrest is sent to fight in the Vietnam war, it has also appeared in a commercial for "Wrangler" jeans.

It was originally released as a single, together with "Down on the Corner" and then incorporated in the album "Willy and the poor boys" by a band, which was often popularly identified by the abbreviated form of its name and fronted by two brothers whose music was referred to as country rock, swamp rock and southern rock.

1. The Band?

2. Name the brothers (even surname will do) for bonus points

OFTD # 234 -

noreply@blogger.com (Ameya) — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 02:27:12 PDT

This is an excerpt from "THE POCKET HISTORY OF a (Rock Band)" by Steve Upton.

"15 December, 1985
Played in Goa, a place we had wanted to visit but till now had not. An old Portuguese colony on the west coast, it is a haven for travelers of the world who, once they arrive, never want to leave. Audience was made up of both Indians and Europeans."

The twin lead guitarists of the group Ted Turner and Andy Powell were a treat to watch live, they have also been considered as the most interesting two guitar team since Jeff Beff and Jimmy page played for the Yardbirds.

Name the Band?

OFTD # 233 -

noreply@blogger.com (Ameya) — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 02:26:47 PDT

These 3 popular albums which have the maximum sales of all time. Name the fourth band and album?

Hints:
1. Recipe: Ground beef & seasoned bread crumbs are important ingredients. You can also use lamb, veal, poultry etc. Sometimes tomato sauce or ketchup is in the meat and baked along with the meat. The others ingredient are eggs, milk, oatmeal, onions, green peppers, bacon, cheese, vegetables, herbs, mushrooms etc. Barbecue sauce, tomato ketchup, or a mixture of both tomato ketchup and mustard may also be used.

OFTD # 232 -

noreply@blogger.com (Ameya) — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 02:21:02 PDT

Gerald Bostock an 8 year old boy is the fictional author of a poem used as the lyrics of an concept album by a famous band. The album cover is designed to look like a small village newspaper.The front-page story describes how eight-year-old Gerald, nicknamed "Little Milton", received an award for his poem, but the award was revoked after he used the word "g__r" during a television broadcast (the full word being "gutter".)
Both Gerald Bostock and the poem were purely the inventions of and the band.

Name the concept album and the Band?

OFTD # 231 -

noreply@blogger.com (Ameya) — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 02:21:20 PDT

A commercially little known Band fronted by the late Mark Sandman combined blues and jazz with traditional rock which gave them a minimalist sound which was known as "low rock", their album "Good" is a classic in rock minimalism with amazing saxophone and bass combinations. The Band was named after a substance discovered by Friedrich Serturner and commercially marketed by the pharmaceutical company Merck.

Simple, name the band?

OFTD # 230 -

noreply@blogger.com (Ameya) — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 02:16:42 PDT

This is the cover of of the 7th international album of a well known Rock Band.The name of the album was inspired by a book in which a gladiators' final words to the emperor were "Ave Caesar morituri te salutant". Incidentally this was the only album of the band which topped the US charts.

Name the album?

OFTD # 229 -

noreply@blogger.com (Ameya) — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 02:12:30 PDT

Since Mettallica are in town though not rocking as planned here's one for the band:

In 1999 Metallica filed a suit for injunctive relief and damages against a famous women's fashion brand on the grounds that the the Band's name was being used without authorization to sell brand products.

Which Brand?
What product?