Question - 359

Identify the legendary artist.

TGIF! Have a great weekend.



Answer: Alberto Vargas. He might have done more for the morale of WWII troops than anybody :)

Answered by: Corina, Iam, Jaggi and P

Question - 358

Return of what or whom?

Answer: Return of the hostages from Entebbe. The plane was auctioned/sold earlier this year.

Answered by:P, Iam, Dinky and Corina

Question - 357

What were the most famous words uttered by this man?

Answer: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume"

Answered by:
Iam, P, Karthik, Hari, nicetry, hotmanoj, Raghu, Dinky, Corina, Prachi, Manix, and v.chandrashekar

Question - 356

Flag of which disputed place?
Answer: Gibraltar

Answered by:hotmanoj, Iam, Renuka, K, Corina, Amru, Dinky, Rahul, Hari, Ramji, Vetti, Karthik, Jaggi and Ashwin

Question-355

A term is associated with this specific group of people. While this is a general term it has an Ann Arbor connection. What?

My sincere apologies for the parochial nature of the question. Extra credit if you crack this w/o the Ann Arbor hint.

Answer: Gandy Dancers. Arising from the way people look while working on the railroad. The Ann Arbor restaurant that is located in the old train station takes its name from this term.

Answered by: Raghu, Rajeev, Manix, Jaggi, K, Anand and Karthik. Extra credit to Anand who I know has no AA connection.

Question - 354

To end the weekend.

Painting shows succumbing to the temptations of what?

Answer: Absinthe, also known as the Green Fairy.

Answered by: Hari, Srivats, Dinky, Iam, K, Amru, Ashwin

Question - 353

This pet belongs to which children?

Answer: Sasha and Malia Obama

Answered by: Ramji (walk over to Mountain View and complain), hotManoj, Schmetterling, Manix, nicetry, Shweta, Anonymous, raklodrama, Amru, Meenakshi, Iam, Rajesh K, K, Mekie, Debashish, Karthik and Jaggi.

Question-352

This was the favorite toy of ---------- ?

Answer: Tipu Sultan's mechanical toy at display at the National Museum in London.

Answered by: 20+ people. See comments.

Question-351

Mathematical treatise shown on left by _________ ( on right)

Answer:The poet, philosopher and mathematician - Omar Khayyam.

Answered by: Dinky, Iam, Amru, Rajesh, Jaggi, Rajesh K, NJ, Adi, Rahul Trivedi, Shweta, Rajeev, Amru and Karthik

Question-350

Logo for?

Answer:One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)

Answered by: 20+ people. (too many to type).

Question - 348 (Theme)

The theme for this week is - Yours to discover! Answers to all questions this week (Q-343 to Q-347) are connected to a theme which will become easier to guess as the week goes along (opposite of last week!) The theme itself being the question for Saturday.

Please post answers or guesses to the week's theme here and not under the comments for the regular question of the day. Please provide explanations for your connects to the theme.

Clues so far:
Q-343: Abraham Lincoln
Q-344: William Wallace
Q-345: Aldous Huxley
Q-346: Westminster Abbey
Q-347: The Galapagos

Answer: Charles Darwin.
Darwin was born on the same day, same year as Abe Lincoln.
Competing work published by Russel Wallace (claimed to be a descent of the famous Scot)
Aldous Huxley's grandfather Thomas Huxley was called Darwin's bulldog, Westminster Abbey is the burial place of Darwin. And the Galapagos need no explanation.

Cracked by (chronologically): Raghu, Mekie and Dinky (great). Others had good connects.

Question - 347

The images show a dramatic effect of a natural phenomenon over what?

Answer: The Galapagos Islands. I was looking for the location.

Answered by: Hari, Anand, Raghu, Karthik, Jaggi, and Dinky.

Question - 346

 Famous facade of which building?

Answer: Westminster Abbey

Answered by: Rahul Trivedi, Harsh, Karthik, Mekie, Anand, Iam, Jaggi, Chithananda, K, Dinky and Amru and Raghu (comment hidden for obvious reasons)

Also see: Rajesh K's comment on Abe Lincoln and George Washington on patents.

Question - 345

Identify the author. The first edition book cover for his most famous work is shown second. The title was inspired by the play in the third pic.

Any hits on the theme?

Answer: Aldous Huxley. A Brave New World is a phrase taken from The Tempest uttered by Miranda when she discovers a young man!

Answered by:
Rithwik, Rajeev, Iam, Raghu, Rajesh K, Dinky, Jaggi, Rajesh, Hari, Chithananda

Question - 344

Who is this?

Answer: William 'Braveheart' Wallace.

Answered by: Jaggi, Raghu, Iam, Anonymous, Dinky, Ashwin, Ramji, Divya, Rahul Trivedi, Manix, Hari, Anonymous, Rajesh, Vetti, Rajeev, Karthik, Anand (finds the source!) and Rajesh K.

Question - 343

The man patented the invention shown above. As is usually the case, he is very well-known for doing other things. Who?

Hint: To paraphrase James Joyce - It's a Portrait of Artist as a Young Man.

Answer: Abraham Lincoln as a young man patented an invention for lifting boats. Lots of presidents with Nobel prizes, only one to have any sort of patent. Thought it appropriate to show Honest Abe as the young inventor, rather than the bearded figure of the Gettysburg Address.

Answered by: Iam, Dinky and Jaggi. Awesome!

Question - 342

As promised for crossword-style theme week - this is the monster weekend quiz puzzle at the Wed-level of difficulty (Yes! Dinky I shall go gentle!).

The puzzle theme is a popular children's game. Fill the 4 bubbles with a Name, Place, Animal and Thing/Action and connect the images. The arrows indicate the connections between the images. Like Lennon said, "It's easy if you try".

Feedback and suggestions are welcome!

Hint: From top to bottom - Thing/Action, Name, Animal and Place.

Answer:
Thing/Action is the "Moonwalk" (obvious connections)

Person is "Michael Jackson" Liz Taylor is his best friend and he married Elvis Presley's daughter - Lisa Marie

Animal is "Cat". Halle Berry played Catwoman, Tennessee Williams wrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which was played by Elizabeth Taylor

Place is "Memphis", where MLK was shot, Elvis made his first records and the location of Graceland, also capital of Tennessee is Memphis. Tennessee Williams took his first name from the state. The connection to Cat is lateral(and bit tenuous). Memphis gets its name from the Egyptian city known for its pyramids and other Egyptian structures.

Answered by: Dinky, Iam and Manix

Most cracks this crossword week: Iam and Dinky. Awesome!

Question - 341

A) A very famous:
A1 b A2 / a b A1 / a b A2 / a b A1 / a b A2 / a b A1 A2


B)  ________________: Who or what is missing that connects A to C?

C)

Answer: Welsh poet - Dylan Thomas. A) is the rhyming scheme for a villanelle. Dylan's Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night is a textbook example of this beautiful form. Bob Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmermann, was so inspired by Dylan Thomas that he took up his first name as his last.

Answered by: Iam + KungFuPanda, Rajesh, Dinky and Jaggi.

Question - 340

This practice of cooking gives rise to what term? familiar in a totally different context.

Update: I am going to let this question slow cook for another day.

Hint #1: The Caribbean
Hint #2/3: Term for a certain bunch (of people)

Answer: Buccaneer. Coming from the French boucanier, which referred to pirates of Caribbean who cooked meat on a wooden grille or boucan.

Answered by: Me-Be, Mekie and Rahul Trivedi.

Question - 339

This man being felicitated for inventing ________ that is shown in part in the second picture.

Who? and What?

Answer: Ray Dolby of the Dolby Laboratories. The company icon is part of the middle track.

Answered by: Ajit, Achyuth aka Tempo, White Jack and Lagoon and Iam (who is 3/3 this week!)

Question - 338

What is this and where is it located? Iconic locale from an iconic city.

Answer: Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio De Janeiro.

Answered by: Rajesh, Rahul Trivedi, Dinky, Iam,Karthik,Jaggi, Mekie,Achyuth aka Tempo, harsh, Mohan Phadnis, Anonymous and Hari

Note: Questions will be increasing in difficulty as we move along the week. Cracks by 12+ on the Monday question. Keep it going folks till the end of the week!

Question - 337

Good morning! I am experimenting with the crossword-style of question difficulty. Questions will get harder from Monday to Saturday. If I get to it, Sunday will have a 'larger' set of visual clues for Wed-level of difficulty.

What was the result of this cartoon? (some words blanked out)
Answer: Teddy Roosevelt refused to shoot a captive bear on a hunting trip that prompted the cartoon above. The blanked out lines read "Drawing the line in Mississippi". An entrepreneur inspired by the cartoon came up with the idea of a "teddy" bear.

Answered by:
Anerudh Balaji, Kamal Rathi,techie, mekie, Riskit,swapnaa,rajesh, dinky, Ramji, Iam, keshav, Jaggi,Anonymous, nice try, Raghu, Anonymous and Karthik

Question - 336

What are the Fab Four doing?

Note: See feedback request on Q 335. Thx! See you folks on Monday with a slightly different progression of questions.

Answer: Playing the Aboriginal wind instrument - the didgeridoo.

Answered by: Mekie, Raghu, Iam, Karthik and Anirudh Patil

Question - 335

Connect the two pictures.

Answer: The game of Rock-Paper-Scissors was played between Christie's and Sotheby's to obtain the rights to auction of a collection of Impressionist paintings including the one shown about by Cezanne.

Answered by:
Mihir, Rajesh K, Iam, Ravi Handa, Anon, Rajesh, Raghu, Dinesh, Jaggi, Ramji, Anand and Srivats

Note:
Feedback on the question is appreciated. I am trying to find out if such a mildly-easy-to-Google question from one of the clues is interesting. Or do people prefer visuals with less workable clues.

For those of you attempted to find the answer but didn't, let me know where you got stuck.

Question - 334

Famous picture that lead to the origin of a term. What?

Answer: Stockholm Syndrome. These folks were imprisoned in the bank vault and developed sympathetic feelings for their abductors

Answered by:Srivats, Dinky, Keshav, Mekie, Kamal Rathi, and Ramki

Question - 333

What are these collectively? Or what is this collection used for? (Question by: Swapnaa)

Answer: Psychotropic drugs to get H-I-G-H! Ecstasy pill, mushrooms, marijuana, etc.
(PS: Contact Swapnaa for details)

High five! Rajesh K, Rajesh, Srivats, Paddy and Jaggi.
Valiant attempt by Iam who lives in an alternative universe at times.

Question - 332

Connect the man and the logo

Answer: John Muir and the Sierra Club. He also was instrumental in the founding of the National Parks. See the currently running Ken Burn's 12-hr TV series on National Parks: America's Best Idea.

Answered by: Mekie, Srivats, Ramji, Dinesh, Swapnaa, Raghu, Iam, NiceTry

Question - 331

Q: Who are the parents of these beautiful girls?

Answer: Myla Rose and Charlene Riva. The Federer twins.

Answered by: Anand, Anonymous, Mihir, Karthik, Iam, Anonymous - II, Ramji and Dinesh.




And who doesn't like babies? See you folks on Monday.  Feel free to write in with questions.

Update:
We shall have a quiz at 3pm on Sunday in EECS 1311.

Question - 330

First few bars of which piece of music? and composed by?

Answer: Jana Gana Mana composed by Rabindranath Tagore.

Answered: Iam and Rajeev. Good guesses by the rest; Beethoven's 5th is in C minor.

Question - 329

Identify the author and his book (Question by Manix)

Answer: Carl Jung's Red Book that is being published years later with beautifully hand-drawn illustrations by Jung.

Answered by: Srivats, Dinesh, Trevor and Anonymous. Extra credit to Trevor for finding the source!

Question - 328

Two soccer captains celebrating what?
Oblique hint: A striped lion

Answer: Puma and Adidas buried their differences in friendly soccer match with the CEOs participating. You can see the two logos on the sleeves. The companies were founded by two brothers who were at loggerheads since World War II.

Answered by the trio: Karthik, Raghu and Major Shankar

Question - 327

What or who is/are shown in these pictures (Question: by Ramji)

Answer: I was looking for 'Dervish'. The top shows the famous Whirling Dervishes of Turkey.

Answered by: Karthik, Mohan, Vetti, Raghu, Mekie, niceTry, Ramanand, Keshav, Paddy, Manix, Sinndhuja, Trevor, Srivats, Iam and Jaggi.

Question - 326

Identify the duo.

Answer: The philosophers - John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes. A pictorial pun on the famous Calvin and Hobbes cover by Nina Matsumoto. (Question courtesy: ShafeekM)

Answered by: Karthik, Iam, Adi,nicetry, Rajesh, Raghu, Dinesh, Jaggi,Major Shankar, Anirudh, Hasan, Ashwin, and Raklodrama, and Ramji (if we trust him!)

Question - 325

Addressed to Dear  ______ by _______?
Fill in the blanks.

Hints: Hints??? No hints. This is easy-peasy Japanesey.

Hint: I take it back. Try to read the letter.

See you folks Monday bright and early (~3AM). Feedback on questions welcome.


Answer: To Dear Kitty by Anne Frank.

Answered by: Manix, Anonymous, Ramji, Raghu and Adi.

Question - 324

Views of what famous building?

Answer: Antonio Gaudi's La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.

Yeah! The question was a repeat from Q 275. I going to go with Raghu's Defense of the Repeat: Those who are regular will be rewarded with repeats.

 

Re-answered by: Mohan, Karthik, RaklodramA, Vetti, Anonymous,  Iam, Raghu, Dinesh, niceTry, Ramji, Adi(smart ass!), Hasan, Rajesh, Jaggi and Keshav.

Question - 323

Connect the four pictures (Looking for a very specific answer)

Update hint: People are on the right track, but this is a specific set.

Answer: French Laundry (Bay Area), Per Se (NYC) and Joel Robouchon (NYC) are the only Michelin 3-star restaurants in the US. The Michelin man is mascot for the company which also publishes the famous Michelin food guide.
Visit  www.perseny.com to reserve a nice-course meal for $275 (tax/tip/not included) and forget about eating for the rest of the month. Their cheap lunch is $175.


Answered by: Rajesh was only one to get the answer perfectly correct. Others were pretty close.
Asides: Raghu has a rather high opinion of Michigan cooking. Also see Keshav's 'A Desi's guide to Michelin Ratings'.

Question - 322

What is the man helping his son do? Why?

Answer: Kissing the Blarney Stone. It is supposed to confer upon the kisser the gift of gab (also see Mohan's conclusion).

Answered by: Dinesh, Raghu, Mohan and Keshav.