Today’s question comes from Gaurav Sundararaman… Connect. Visual 1 shows Tom Cruise on the sets of ‘Tropic Thunder’, shooting for his much-hyped role as a fat, bald studio chief. The title of the movie is a play on ‘Tropic Lightning’, the nickname of the 25th Infantry Division which saw action during the Vietnam War, and…
Today’s question comes all the way from London, from Anjali Ramachandran, who used to be a QFI regular a few years ago, and is now married to another former QFI regular – Vikram Vasu. The two of them could in fact be the first couple ever formed at QFI. ‘Sujiv’, or ‘Rajumo’, didn’t happen until…
Easy one. Connect. Food preparations named after the Australian Opera singer Dame Nellie Melba, the Peach Melba (Visual 1) and the Melba Toast (Visual 2). 16 of you gobbled up the question! In order – TKB, Sankhya, anil raghavan, Thejaswi Udupa, Sumo, Nitish, Arjun Rangarajan, shafeek, bobo, priyambad, Srini, giantrun, Aditya, Raghuvansh, li’l_boy-fat_man, and Crab…
Connect. The connect is the film ’10 Things I Hate About You’. It was based on William Shakespeare’s ‘The Taming Of The Shrew’ and the film’s tagline was ”How do I loathe thee, let me count the ways.”, based on the most famous sonnet written by the poetess Elizabeth Barrett Browning, which began, “How do…
Identify both and connect. Visual 1 shows the Scottish band Belle And Sebastian, which takes its name from the French book ‘Belle Et Sebastien’ (Visual 2) by Cecile Aubry. Cracked by 17 of you! In order – zizzyphus, vijaysarathy, Thejaswi Udupa, anil raghavan, Thomas Masun, shabhar, ganesh, RacerX (Anoop), Mouli, citybank(rupt), li’l_boy-fat_man, bobo, Rohan, CR,…
Connect. Visual 2 shows Hamid and Halil Altintop, twin brothers who represent Turkey and Visual 1 shows a young David Beckham. ‘Altintop’ translates to ‘Golden Ball’ and as there are two of them, it could be taken to mean ‘Golden Balls’, which is also David Beckham’s nickname. Cracked by only two of you! Great work,…
Before we get to today’s question, first an announcement: The Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai is hosting the second edition of ‘Successful Women in Management (SWIM)’, an initiative to create awareness among women about essential traits required to assume leadership roles in different walks of life. The event strives to empower women by providing…
Today’s question comes from Harish Swaminathan, one of Chennai’s leading college quizzers, and most recently winner of the KQA ASKQANCE College Quiz. Identify all of them. Who would best complete this list, and why? Charles Bannerman (Visual 1), Billy Murdoch (Visual 2) and Andy Sandham (Visual 3) scored the first single, double and triple centuries…
Connect. Visual 1 shows a very scruffy Gregory Peck (*evil grin*) and Visual 2 shows the band ‘Blink-182’. Band members Tom DeLonge and Mark Hoppus founded a clothing brand in 2001 called ‘Atticus Clothing’, named after the lead character in Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’, Atticus Finch, most famously played by Peck in the…
Connect. The connection is the Typhoon Kalmaegi (Visual 2) which was earlier named Helen (Visual 1) by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and later assigned the name ‘Kalmaegi’, which was submitted by North Korea and is the Korean word for ‘seagull’ (Visual 3). Cracked by 8 of you! In order – CR, Guneet, Akila, Thejaswi…
