Identify both and connect. The visuals showed Matthew Webb and Gertrude Ederle, who were the first man and woman, respectively, to swim across the English Channel. Cracked by 7 of you! In order – vijaysarathy, ixo, Thejaswi Udupa, Raghuvansh, Nidhi, zizzyphus, and Cranial rub.
Who is the guy on the right? Len Wein, creator of the ‘Swamp Thing’. Cracked by 10 of you! In order – zizzyphus, Sumant Srivathsan, Atul Mathew, Thejaswi Udupa, Priya, Ajay Parasuraman, anil raghavan, Crab urinal, Rohan, and sai.
Who? Where? When? Carla Bruni, at the Opening Ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics, in Turin, Italy. Cracked by 18 of you! In order – Srikanth, Shafeek, Thejaswi Udupa, Sankhya, li’l_boy-fat_man, Raghuvansh, zizzyphus, Mouli, Goutham, vijaysarathy, Chandrakant Nair, Venkatesh S (Venky), Janani, racerx, R.Sibi, Crab urinal, Ajay Parasuraman, and anil raghavan.
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 –…
Whoitis? Stephanie Kwolek, who invented Kevlar. Cracked by just 3 of you! In order – vijaysarathy, Thejaswi Udupa and sai. Well done!
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…
Whose statue is this? European-looking guy, Chinese lettering on the pedestal. Who else? Marco Polo. Cracked by 22 of you! In order – Thejaswi Udupa, TKB, ganesh, Ashwin, zizzyphus, Gaurav, anannyad, Rajagopal, Venkatesh S (Venky), Mouli, Suraj, philip, citybank(rupt), Aamaadmi, li’l_boy-fat_man, Mario, harsha, Rohan, Rajiv Rai, anil raghavan, Sharath, and BoFi.
Identify and connect. Visual 1 shows the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and Visual 2 shows Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason who wrote the 2004 novel ‘The Rule Of Four’ about Princeton University students trying to decode it. Cracked by 17 of you! In order – Apurva, ganesh, Srikanth, zizzyphus, Priya, philip, vijay, Sumo, Ashwin, Harrysh, Srinivasan Rajagopal,…
Apologies for the absence of activity on the blog yesterday. Some technical difficulties were to blame. This week will have only six questions! Connect the man with the place. The poet Matthew Arnold (Visual 1) coined the term ‘City Of Dreaming Spires’ to describe Oxford (Visual 2). Cracked by 9 of you! In order –…
Before we get to today’s question, first an announcement: It’s time for the next QFI meeting, and it will be held this coming Sunday at P.S.! This meeting will done by Venkatesh, affectionately known as Matti, and Arun Ramanathan, affectionately known as, well, Arun, I guess! 😀 This quiz won’t be an ordinary QFI Quiz….
