The Empire Strikes Back

This is the flag of a country that existed for three years between 1967 and 1970. Which Country ?

Also, the country's independence was supported by a prominent author, who was also one of the ambassadors of the new nation. Who ?

Answer:

As guessed correctly by quite a few, this is Biafra, which broke off from Nigeria during 1967.

The country's ambassador was prominent author Chinua Achebe (Things Fall Apart, Anthills of the Savannah). This part went unanswered.

Freak.

Q. A highly controversial print ad. The brand/company being advertised ?

Connect

Hint: You get something from each picture. All those 3 things from left to right, in chronological order, are significant

Another one goes un-cracked!

Answer:

The connect is The Hundred Years' War

1. Winnie the Pooh - aka Edward Bear. The first phase of the war was the Edwardian War

2. Caroline Wozniacki. The second phase was the caroline war

3. Red Rose Badge of Lancaster: The third phase of the war was the Lancastrian War

Connect

Ans : Scylla. Arch and Gol got it right!

Connect.

Answer: Manisubramanium Iyenger Thyagaraja gets it. "Whiskey in the Jar covers' it is ! Top left is the Irish band The Dubliners who gave the Irish song its first wide exposure. This song was popularized to the wide variety of rock audiences by covers from Thin Lizzy (Top Right) and Metallica (bottom) respectively.

ID

She was named one of the most influential people in social media by forbes.
Who is this pretty blogger and what was her contribution to the english language?

Answer : Heather Armstrong,was fired for blogging about her workplace,on her personal blog dooce.com. "Dooced" can mean "getting fired for something you've written on your website," a sense supported by the Urban Dictionary

The Red House in the street.

Q. The significance of the place ?

Ans. Abbey Road, more iconically, the Zebra Crossing is the one The Beatles are walking on in the album cover of "Abbey Road".

Such A Magical Feeling!



Simply connect.


Ans: The image on the left is Orpheus with his lyre, leading to The Lyre of Orpheus by Nick Cave, which had the song O Children. The image on the right is the single cover for Boys Will Be Boys, by the Ordinary boys. These two songs are the only ones featured on the soundtrack of the Harry Potter series that were put in extraneously, and not made specially for the OST.

What's your work profile ?

Where do these guys work?

Ans: Cracked by Blue Bike and Dr.Manhattan.

The picture shows workers of an anonymous diamond cutting factory.

We're all Wasted!

The two pictures together lead to what?

Ans. Terry Riley and Meher Baba which gives "Baba o' Riley"(also called Teenage Wasteland) the iconic song by the band THE WHO.

The only person who knows...

Reference to which famous band? Screenshot from which movie?


ANSWER : Toy Story. The band shown is Megadork, a play on Megadeth.

Old man and the Sea

Q. Who is the guy in this 2011 stamp issued in the US ?

Ans. Mark Twain. The ship is in fact a give-away.

The Old Man

Q. The man gives his name to ?

Ans. The Lords Cricket Ground indeed. The man is Thomas Lord. Cracked by all.

'I'd like to take your daughter's hand, sir.'

A picture of X made by more than 20,000 people as a tribute to him. Who might he be?

Answer: Woodrow Wilson, whose image was made by 21,000 soldiers at Camp Sherman, Ohio in 1918.
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What did they inspire?

Went un-cracked!

Answer: The cartoon character Johnny Quest was inspired by the movie Dr. No, the comic strip Terry and the Pirates, and by movies of Frankie Darro and Jackie Cooper.

The Long Shadows

Q. Google Earth screenshot of what ? Enough hints given in the pic.

How You Doin ?

Connect

Answer: The connect is the french physicist, philosopher and mathematician - Sophie German, known for her famous works in Elastic theory and Fermat's Last Theorem. Unable to make a career out of mathematics due to the gender biased society and to escape the ridicule of being a female scientist , she submitted her works to mathematician Joesph Lagrange (Upper Pic) under the alias M. LeBlanc (Lower Pic) which ultimately led to Lagrange recognizing her talent and mentoring her.

This ain't gibberish!

 

What is the cat saying?

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Answer: Howard L. Chace's version of little red riding hood known as Ladle Rat Rotten Hut

Quack Quack!

Connect the two images.

Answer :-
In the 1972 science fiction film Silent Running directed by Douglas Trumbull, the main character, Lowell, befriends three robot drones and renames them Huey, Dewey and Louie after Donald Duck’s nephews.

It was a Dark and Stormy Knight

Batman as drawn by whom?

Batarang-ed by Arnav alone.

Source: Bat-Blog

Answer: Peanuts creator Charles Schulz

I Wanna be a billionaire....

Ad for What ?

Ans: Forbes Magazine. The answer lies in the title itself, ".....I wanna be on the cover of Forbes Magazine....."

The guy with the tool

Q. What was being done here ? Id X (guy on left with tool in hand) for brownie points.

Ans. Quoting the only answer which happens to be correct :

During a debate over the shooting down of an American U-2 spy plane over Soviet territory on May 20th 1960, U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jnr. decided to go on the offensive.

He accused the Soviet Union of hiding a microphone inside a wood carving of the Great Seal of the United States, which had been presented to the U.S. embassy in Moscow by the Soviet-American Friendship Society.
He extracted a tiny microphone out of the eagle’s beak with a pair of tweezers, as Soviet Foreign Minister Andrey Gromyko smiles with amusement and mockery behind Lodge.
“It so happens that I have here today a concrete example of Soviet espionage so that you can see for yourself,” he announced triumphantly. The Soviet resolution condemning the U.S. spy flights was subsequently defeated.

Doc?

The chap to the left was part of the original short film, and refused to audition for the role when the concept was being used for the ad. The fellow on the right got the role. The ad became immensely popular at the turn of the century and has had numerous spin-offs and parodies since then.

Answer: This is the Budweiser Whassup? Ads that aired from 1999-2002

That's Kevin Lofton to the left and Scott Martin Brooks to the right. The auditioning was for the role of Dookie. Here is one of the original ads: http://www.youtube.com/wat​ch?v=ikkg4NobV_w

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Connect. Non-Exhaustive.

Answer : These are the various edibles referred to as the forbidden fruit in different religious texts.

Connect

Thresher (1963)

Scorpion (1968)

K-8 (1970)

K-27 (1982)

K-219 (1986)

K-278 Komsomolets (1989)

K-141 Kursk (2000)

K-159 (2003)

Exhaustive list of what?

Ans : These are the only eight nuclear submarines that have sunk as a consequence of either accident or extensive damage: two from the United States Navy, four from the Soviet Navy, and two from the Russian Navy.

See and Tell

Q. This iconic photograph, clicked by X, served as the cover for Y by Z when Y was re-published in 2006. Easy enough, just give X, Y, Z ?

Ans. X -Margaret Bourke-White

Y - Train to Pakistan

Z - Khushwant Singh

Uncle Sam's Headache !

What does this map depict ?

Ans.The keys represent various Mexican drug cartels and their areas of infuence over there.

The Myth Still Remains...

Identify this legend.


ANSWER : DB Cooper, correctly identified by most people.

He hijacked a Boeing 727 in 1971 and jumped out with $200,000 in ransom. His fate is yet unknown, and remains the only unsolved airline hijacking case in American history.

Connect

Answer: Friday Night Lights.

The album name of Scottish Band Attic Lights, Peter Berg - director of the movie and creator of the TV series of the same name. And the non-fiction book by H. G. Bissinger.

Cracked by all

Aisi jeeb lap lapai!

Give the entire funda.

Answer-

Everyone got something right but the complete answer was given by Chaitanya Sood.

In India, Oreo is marketed by Cadbury India Limited, which is a subsidiary of Cadbury plc, which itself was bought by Kraft Foods Inc. in 2010. Also, the Oreo biscuits are manufactured in India by Mrs. Bector’s Food Specialities Ltd., who are also the manufacturers of the Cremica biscuit brand.

Pretty Woman !

Identify the person, the movie and the name of the character that she plays in the movie.



Answer : Movie - Erin Brockovich ; Erin Brockovich's cameo in the movie Erin Brockovich as waitress Julia R. (a tribute to Julia Roberts as she plays Erin Brockovich in the movie)

Indian and Shubham gave complete correct answers.

Connect. Exhaustive.

Answer : Liverpool FC Boot Room. The above six liverpool managers all incorporated the Boot Room,a room for sitting,drinking whisky,discussing team strategy and tactics.Now converted into The Boot Room Sports Cafe.

Q. Just fill in the blanks for this album cover.

Ans. George Harrison and friends - Concert For Bangladesh.

Warning: Explicit Content!

Connect the two images.

Answer-

Uncracked.

The novel Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk was inspired by Annabel Chong, who set the record for engaging in 251 sex acts with around 70 men in 10 hours.

All thats cute ain't a pet.

Q. The animal above gives its name to ?

Ans. Fennec. This is a small fox named Fennec - which is the name given to Mozilla's mobile browser. Mozilla Firefox is not the correct Answer.

Two Conditions

Connect in two ways.

This shady question is in honor of a totally non-shady person with a more than passing genius for quizzing among other, more * brilliant *, things.

Answer: The euphoniously named Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (above) was the advisor of Ludwig Hess. The Jacobian matrix is the vector of the first derivatives of a scalar function of many variables. Hessian is the square matrix of the *second* derivatives.

Sources: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Hessian.html

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Jacobian.html

Connect.

 Good crack by Kapinjal. These organisms are named after the legendary Frank Zappa. Top Zappa Confluentus (a type of goby), middle left Pachygnatha Zappa(Spider), Middle right Phialella Zappa(jellyfish) and bottom Amaurotoma Zappa(mollusc).  

Let there be light!

Identify the logo.

Answer-

Tushar gets it.

Diamond Light Source- It is is a synchrotron facility located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. Its purpose is to produce intense beams of light whose special characteristics are useful in many areas of scientific research.

Sources-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Light_Source

http://www.diamond.ac.uk/

Connect

Answer: Myspace it is. Lone Crack by indian.

2 on the left in the top row are Chris Dewolfe and Tom Anderson, the founders of Myspace.

Top left: Rupert Murdoch, owner of News Corp. who bought Myspace for $580 million

Bottom row: The vanderhook brothers, co-founders of Specific Media, who bought Myspace from News Corp.

Second Ad

Ad for?

A new question, daily!

Answer-

Elizabeth Daily

Voices Buttercup in the Powerpuff Girls

Voices Tommy Pickles in Rugrats

Voiced Waffle from Catscratch in the second season

Her songs “Shake it Up” and “I’m Hot Tonight” were included in the soundtrack to the film Scarface.

Those same songs were later included in the lineup of fictional radio station Flashback 95.6 in the Grand Theft Auto III video game

That hairy feeling.

Q. Identify the guy and the character he more famously portrayed.

Answer - Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca in the Star Wars franchise.

Connect

Answer: : Virginia Woolf wrote 'A Room of One's Own'. Pic 2 is of Morrissey ; the Smiths had a song called 'Shakespeare's Sister' which is a phrase taken from the essay.

Maggie McGill is certainly not related.

This is the precursor to which modern device?

Ans- This is the first patented stapler by George McGill.

Instrument

Just identify the instrument.

Hint: I.

Connect the two images

Ans-Meteora

The Meteora is one of the largest and most important complexes of Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Greece.

It is also the name of the Linkin Park’s second studio album.

Cracked by Tushar and Nazna.

Textie

Here's a rare text question. Try not Googling.

- English kings between 1154 and 1189 had 1 .

- Richard I from 1189 to 1198 had 2 .

- Richard I in 1198 changed it to 3 and it has been the same since then.

What am I talking about?

Ans: The number of lions on the British Coat of Arms.

Beautiful, Beautiful!

An Ibanez signature guitar by which surrealist artist?

Ans- H. R. Giger. Rahul and Tushar got it right.

First Ad

Ad for?

Answer: It is the ad that Craig Schwartz(John Cusack) and Maxine (Catherine Keener) put out to make profit from the magic tunnel they find in the movie Being John Malkovich.