Question - 696

What English word is derived from this object? (question courtesy: Divya Shankar)

Question - 694

What got its name from this sketch?

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 - 245

Today's question is courtesy Rajesh K. Identify all the images and connect the two rows.

Answer: The people are Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Ustad Vilayat Khan and Romila Thapar. The awards shown in the bottom are Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan and Padma Bhushan. These people (in that order and among others) have turned down these awards for various reasons. Vetti, Iam and Rajesh got it while Adi came close. Well done.

Question - 243

Considering the lateness of this post, I decided to go with this howler of a question. Connect the two visuals. Here is hoping that the questions don't get any worse than this one.

Answer: The visuals are the Brahma temple at Pushkar and a butte named Brahma temple at the Grand canyon. Ashwin, Mekie, Swapnaa, Iam and nice try got it. Everyone was nice enough to mutter expletives under their breath and refrain from posting them as comments. Well done.

Question - 157

The statue in the first visual depicts the etymology behind the name of this empire whose extent at its peak is shown in the second visual. Identify the empire.

Answer: The empire is the Hoysala empire that takes its name from Sala, the warrior killing ("hoy" in old Kannada) a tiger. Read the comments for more information. Vijay, Divya, Arvind, Swapnaa, Manix, Rajesh, Raghu, Ashwin and Rajeev got it. Well done.