Identify

Hint - Mentioned once in a while on imdb.

Answer - Cracked by everyone. This is Rajan Zed.

Blockhead

Who is being referred to here?



Sharat, Navin Pai, eter, Nakki, Shuleo, Abhimanyu and yossarian caulfield singhania remembered the rectangular-headed simpleton.

Answer: Suppandi

Whose grave ? And whats the funda ?

I know I have disfigured a monument, but still enough hints !

Answer : The Raven is a giveaway.

This is Edgar Allen Poe's Grave. The mysterious 'Poe toaster' leaves a bottle of champagne and 3 roses every year

Cracked gleefully by Shrey Goyal, dernhelm and Udit. Hapi was just gleeful.

Its Just Too Easy

If:

W is to

X is to


Y is to

Z is to


Then give me W, X, Y, Z and what are W, X, Y, Z know as collectively.

ANSWERS
w is Rafael
X is Michaelangelo
Y is Leonardo
Z is Donnatello

and collectively the Ninja Turtles

Get Even

Name the publication. Workable.


Was attempted only by Sharat who got the funda right but the synonym wrong and narrowly missed out on joining the usual gang of idiots.

Answer: Deewana

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Random One Shot

This is totally arbit. This is the album cover of an album by a guy whose dad is famous in the world of business. Identify.

Answer :

This is Imaginary Kingdom, a 2008 album by Peter Buffett, son of legendary investor Warren Buffett. And he is a fairly well known musician and composer.

Click here for more.

Cracked by Vaibhav. Good Job !

Not that there's anything wrong with that

For what odd reason did this make the news apart from winning numerous Game of the Year awards and generally being a big hit. Google-able. So don't :)



Though some of you picked up the Seinfeld reference, Blackshadow alone stomped the Goombas.

Source: Joystiq
Answer: There are stars/shiny sparkles below only certain letters on the box image and they spell out U R MR GAY. Obviously a coincidence.

One Shot

What's this all about ?

Answer:

This is Nazitubbies, a parody of Teletubbies , hosted on the Danish late night show den 11. The Sun is replaced by Hitler and the 4 cute figures by Nazi generals. Do watch this video.

Oneiros was on the right line.

Connect

Simple for those who have seen these images. But even others can work out the answer ( specially from the middle pic )

Airbrushing apologies as always.

Answer:

Pandora Aunty ka dabba , Hari K get it right.

These are reworkings/interpretations of the Mahabharata. The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor, The Mahabharata : A Modern Rendering by Ramesh Menon ( and possibly the spiciest one ) and Irawati Karve's Yuganta.

One Shot

What unique achievement does this device have?

Answer: This is the Eiger Labs MPMan F10, the first portable solid state digital audio player.

Cracked by Navin Pai and Qwerty.

Identify

Really simple. The name of one her most famous characters is inspired by her own.

Gadi kaunsi?

Just tell me the car brand that's being advertised.

Answer: The Acura MDX. Acura is the luxury arm of Honda Motor Company.

Cracked by Sanchit, MitC, Navin Pai, Aman, avneeth, anonymous and Rohit.

Dry Heat

1. The theatre version of this movie enacted in many London Productions featured around 14 song sequences and 2 weddings. Which movie am I talking about?

2. A song called "Jonny Q" became extremely popular in Night Clubs, bars and restaraunts around Australia and especially so in the Sydney Region in early 2000. How do we better know the song in India?

3. Scientists at the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago found that when people engage in a certain activity - 'X', chemicals know as Catecholamines are released, causing symptoms like flushing of the skin, itching or sweating and tissue inside the nose to swell. They used special imaging cameras that show blood flow in the body to show that intentional 'X' causes an increase in blood presure. This technology / method is known as the '__________________'. Give me 'X' and the blank. (Think of a Literary Reference!)

ANSWERS

1. Hum Apke Hain Kaun

2. Jaane Kyun (Dil Chahta Hai)

3. X=Lying, Pinnochio Effect/Syndrome

One Shot

Wishing a happy birthday. To whom?

Answer: Apple's App Store turns 1 today.

Cracked by: Navin Pai, Debasish, anonymous, Ankush, White Shirt Wacker. varun was nearly there.

One Shot

Zimble questun. Just identify the author.

Answer : The similarity was too big to miss. Cracked by Pandora aunty ka dabba, shrey, jollyrover, Gaurav Jindal, ashwini_nit, Abhimanyu and Chithananda.

Douglas Hofstadter pretending to be Egbert B.Gebstadter in his book Godel,Escher,Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.

little things...

What, how, where, when?

Answer: This is Carla Bruni's debut album, Quelqu'un m'a dit (English: Someone told me), released in 2003 and produced by ex-lover Louis Bertignac.
Cracked by MitC, jollyrover, Gaurav Jindal, saurabh, ashwini_nit and White Shirt Wacker.

D**y H**l? :-)

Try not to google. Where would you see this?

Answer: This is one of the several highly interesting 404 errors on live journal, a parody of the aybabtu conversation in zero wing.

Cracked completely by Pandora aunty ka dabba and White Shirt Wacker.

Partly cracked by sumant, chithananda, Sanchit and Harish aka THF aka Boi

Is that a rhetoric question?

Absolute Sitter. But couldn't resist. What is being parodied here?



varun, me, MitC, raklodramA, Chitananda, Rohit and Saurabh separated the melons from the lemons.
Aviral fell for the red herring.

Source: Raj Comics
Answer: Hum Aapke Hain Kaun...!

One Shot

He was nicknamed "Unconditional Surrender" due to his bold military tactics and stand during the Civil War as he laid before the confederates the hard conditions of "no terms except unconditional and immediate surrender". Identify Him.

ANSWER

General Ulysses S. Grant

Tribute.

This lady deserved a lot of fame, fortune and accolades. However, death came in the form of cancer before her work got its due and she remains more or less forogtten. X admitted to a friend that it was her data that they had used, which had earned them Y. Give me the name of the lady and whatever else you can give.

Answer: Rosalind Franklin. X=Francis Crick Y= 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Cracked by sharat, Debasish, Aviral, Naavin Pai, Gaurav Jindal, Chithananda, jj, ashwini_nit, SKG, apraman, krishnan, samdrisht singh.

Simple

Give the funda. Or the story.Or the fiction. Or whatever you want to call it.

Connect

Identify and connect

Ans - Philippe Chatrier

Suzanne Lenglen

connect - French Open (It's Courts have been named after them).

Cracked by Pandora aunti ka dabba

Hear Hear..

Whats been depicted here? It does have significant pop culture references, and I believe this hint may have given this question away. :-)
Answer: Quoting wikipedia, "Seventeenth century print of the execution, by hanging, drawing, and quartering of the members of the Gunpowder Plot"


Cracked by Gaurav Jindal, incognito, yossarian caulfield singhania, Shrey, Qwerty, ashwini_nit, Johny Walker

Pardon me for the obscure wording...

The insect sort of thing in the first pic derives its name from a certain greek word. From the same greek word, these two gentlemen formed a certain group aimed at "breaking the system". They succeeded, but a certain accident occurred and they decided to disband. ID them if you can, but more importantly, what were they trying to crack, even if it was for a science experiment?
Hint: Movies on similar lines have followed...

Answer: Eudaemonia brachyura (Urotini) of pic 1 is a moth whose name comes from Eudaimonia, Greek for 'happiness'. J. Doyne Farmer (pic 3) and Norman Packard (pic 2) headed the group Eudeamons, who found a way to beat the casinos at roulette.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudaemons
Cracked by Gaurav Jindal, ashwini_nit and yossarian caulfield singhania.

Connect

Connect the pictures and explain your answer!

ANSWER
The Thomas Crown Affair (connect).
Pic1 - The son of man features many times in the movie
Pic2 - San Giorgio Maggiore at dusk was stolen by Pierce Brosnan in the movie
Pic3 - Pierce Brosnan (protagonist)
Pic4 - Sting sung 'Windmills of your Mind' for the movie (cover of the song featured in the original 1968 movie)
Pic5 - Nina Simone sung 'Sinnerman' which also featured in the soundtrack!

I'm back.

Enlarge for a better view. Do whats asked. :-)









Answer: The funda is that Eddie Van Halen (pic 3) in collaboration with Fender (Leo Fender in pic 2) is coming out with a new line of guitars, called the EVH Wolfgang Guitars. Considering Eddie has himself supervised every stage of the design process, and gone on record to say that "The only thing that's the same with the new Wolfgang is the body shape, and that too has changed.", its causing a lot of buzz in music circles. ya, pic 1 is the new line of guitars.
yossarian caulfield singhania was the closest.
Source:http://www.guitarworld.com/article/eddie_van_halen_talks_about_his_new_evh_wolfgang_guitar