Connect (non-exhaustive).
Monday, January 31, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Question - 601
Identify this famous building.
Answer: The United States Bullion Depository, commonly called Fort Knox -- Google Maps link. Dinesh, Ameya, matti tapaninen, Divya Shankar, and Rajesh K got it. Nicely done.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Question - 600
What began this way?
Answer: DC comics. Manasi, Saket, Riskit got it. Dinky cracked the meta connect (DC=600). matti tapaninen and Ameya came close by identifying the protagonist of the first DC comic, Jack Woods.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Question - 599
Connect.
Answer: The US State of Ohio has special days named after the three people in the picture (clockwise): Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, and (oddly enough) the singer Shreya Ghoshal. Ameya, mekie (wrong singer), Dinesh, Kaushik, and Manasi got it. Nicely done - especially give the obscurity of this piece of trivia.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Question - 597
A map from the 1650's perpetuating what cartographic error (and its associated mythical nomenclature)?
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Question - 589
Before and after pictures of the first recipient of what? (This week's questions are courtesy KQA)
Answer: Leonard Thompson was the first recipient of an insulin injection. Only Dinesh and Divya Shankar got it. Nicely done.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Question - 588
What are they doing?
Answe: NORAD tracking Santa. Rajesh K, Dinesh, Iam, Manix, Hari, and mekie got it. Well done.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Question - 587
What is this interesting object?
Answer: The Rosetta stone. Divya Shanker, Anand, Manix, ReedArmOwl,v.chandrashekar, Anirudh Patil, Hari, and matti tapaninen got it.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Question - 586
What does this map depict? (courtesy: Manix)
Answer: The map depicts areas of high-levels of Chromium in tap water. Vetti alone got it right. Bravo!
Question - 585
What is the claim to fame of this piece of glacial erratic?
NOTE: Sorry about the erratic posting over the last week. I will be out of town from this weekend, so if anyone wants to take over during the Christmas break, please let Dinky or me know.
Answer: Plymouth rock, site of the arrival of the Mayflower Pilgrims in 1620.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
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