From X to Y. On the occasion of Z. Who / What are X,Y & Z? 6 People got it right; X=George Lucas; Y=James Cameron; Z=Titanic dethroning Star Wars as #1 Box office movie of all time. This was taken out as a full page ad in Variety. More interesting info here
Just connect the 6 images and give us a 2 word answer. Meki,Dinesh, Ashwin, AamAadmi & Woenvu got it right The answer is Seven Sisters The breakdown is (Clockwise from Left Top: What we know as Gillette Castle was called Seven Sisters by William Gillette The 7 studios were collectively called Seven Sisters The Seven…
Portrait of whom, by whom? Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson, by John Singer Sargent. Cracked by 9 of you! In order – zizzyphus, Soda, Ajay Parasuraman, Raghuvansh, Nidhi, Crab urinal, anon-on-narkotix, CR, and Thejaswi Udupa. Two people got all seven answers right this week – Thejaswi Udupa and Crab urinal, whoever that is. Well done,…
Identify the three paintings, recreated using Lego bricks. The three paintings were (1) ‘Las Meninas’ by Diego Velazquez, (2) ‘The Raft Of The Medusa’ by Theodore Gericault and (3) ‘The Third Of May, 1808’ by Francisco Goya. Cracked by 18 of you! In order – Sankhya, Sumant, Dinesh, Thejaswi Udupa, zizzyphus, Raghuvansh, Priyambad, bobo, vijaysarathy,…
Who is depicted in this painting? Seve Ballesteros, the Spanish golfer. Cracked by seven of you! In order – Atul Mathew, shafeek, Anil, Prashanth Kumar, Ashwin Kelkar, Mouli, and rajagopal! No one got all seven answers right this week. And surprisingly, no one got even six. But one person managed to get five right –…
Portrait of whom, by whom? Portrait of Claude Monet, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Cracked by 19 people! In order – Thejaswi Udupa, Ram Kumar, Diwakar Pingle, Vivek Cheriyan, ganesh, Giantrun, Thomas Masun, Ashwin, Akila, Vikram788, Mc Neill Ivan S, Rajiv Rai, anil raghavan, citybank(rupt), Apurva, Rohan, BoFi, malcaluffin, and CR.
Connect the four paintings providing necessary names. The subjects of the four paintings were Ganymede, Europa, Io and Callisto, all lovers of Zeus (Jupiter). They lend their names to the four largest moons of Jupiter, called the ‘Galilean Moons’ as they were discovered by Galileo Galilei. Cracked by 15 of you! In order – Thomas Masun,…
Today’s question comes partly from me and partly from Harish Narayanan, an ex-QFI regular and a card-carrying member of the Church Of Tarantino. His faith is so strong that he once set a full-length QFI quiz where almost every answer was ‘Kill Bill’ (one was ‘Kill Bill: Vol. 2’). He is now based in the…
