Tuesday, November 30, 2010

87.


One man in this picture did something that shocked an entire nation(even the world). Identify him and what did he do.

Monday, November 29, 2010

86.H2O

Trying a theme question. Hope its good. First crack the questions and connect all the answers

1.Shantanu was a king who ruled Hastinapura once. He fell in love with X. X said that she will marry him on condition that he must not question any of her activities. They both married and had a child. But X took the child to a river and drowned him. Though A became downhearted, he did not question her due to his word. X kept doing this to the subsequent six children. The last child was saved because Shantanu interrupted. X left him because he breached his oath and left the child with him. The child later went on to take the "Bhishana Prtignya" and become one of the most important characters in an epic in India. Identify X.
2.What was represented by the following symbol?

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3.What is the basic plot of this movie?


4.Identify this species.







Friday, November 26, 2010

84.

1. Beloit College professor and paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews
2.Italian archeologist and circus man Giovanni Batista Belzoni
3.Yale University professor and historian Hiram Bingham III, who rediscovered Machu Pichu
4.The University of Chicago archeologists Robert Braidwood and James Henry Breasted
5.British archeologist Percy Fawcett
6.British soldier T.E.Lawrence
7.William Montgomery Mcgovern
8.Fredrick Albert Mitchell-Hedges
9.German archeologist Otto Rahn

Pretty direct. All these people are considered to be the inspirators of which famous "personality"?

83.ITS NOT STIRRED THOUGH..

Connect. Well, a sitter!!




Sunday, November 21, 2010

81.BROTHER MOUNTAIN.

Once, when Lord Brahma and Lord Vishnu quarreled between themselves as to who is the greatest, they came to conclusion that whoever finds the extremities of Lord Shiva is the greatest. Vishnu tried to find the foot of the Vishvarupa of Lord Shiva and Brahma tried to find his head by flowing above. Eventhough both of them tried very hard, they were not able to find it. Vishnu accepted that he was not able to reach the feet of Shiva. Bur Brahma refusing to accept defeat, cheated by lying that he had seen Lord Shiva's head. He used a flower which was floated away in air from Lord Shiva's head as proof that he had seen his head. Lord Shiva, angered by this, cursed that Brahma must have no more temples in Earth. After this incident, Lord Shiva in his Vishvarupa, took up the form of a mountain and the mountain is being worshipped till date.

Identify the place in which this mountain is located and why am I posting this question today?

Saturday, November 20, 2010

80.THIS BLOG BELONGS TO ME...

X is a broken phrase that became a meme in 2002. This is taken from the Europian translated version of the Japanese video game Zero Wing. On April Fool's Day in 2003, cards containing the phrase X were placed all over the city of Michigan as a April Fool's day joke. But people were upset as it came during the time U.S-Iraq war. In 2006, when Youtube was out of action temporarily for maintenance, they displayed this phrase X in their homepage. When people thought Youtube was hacked, there was an explanatory message later and asked people to be humorous. This phrase X is also used as a cheat code in the game"Empire Earth". Identify this famous phrase X.

Friday, November 19, 2010

79.COUNT ....

Vlad X also known as Vlad the Impaler, was the ruler of Wallachia, a small region in Romania. When he was young, his father and elder brother were killed before his eyes by Ottoman Turks. Then he grew older ascended the throne and had his revenge on the Ottomans and the boyars by raiding Transylvania and wiping out the boyars. His favourite method of killing was impalement and was hence known as the Impaler. When he died, he was buried in Wallachia. But when his grave was unburied in 1900 for research, the researchers found nothing. This gave birth to a famous legend with his surname X. A picture of his bust can be found below. Identify X and the legend(both are same).

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

78.TO BE OR NOT TO BE..

Romeo, a young man with a remarkable patience. Juliet, a likewise young woman of remarkable grace. Ophelia, a remarkable woman much in dispute with Hamlet. Hamlet, the flatterer of Andersen Insulting A/S.

Act I: Hamlet's insults and flattery.
Scene I: The insulting of Romeo.
[Enter Hamlet and Romeo]
Hamlet: You lying stupid fatherless big smelly half-witted coward! You are as stupid as the difference between a handsome rich brave hero and thyself! Speak your mind!
You are as brave as the sum of your fat little stuffed misused dusty old rotten codpiece and a beautiful fair warm peaceful sunny summer's day. You are as healthy as the difference between the sum of the sweetest reddest rose and my father and yourself! Speak your mind!
You are as cowardly as the sum of yourself and the difference between a big mighty proud kingdom and a horse. Speak your mind.
Speak your mind!
[Exit Romeo]
Scene II: The praising of Juliet.
[Enter Juliet]
Hamlet: Thou art as sweet as the sum of the sum of Romeo and his horse and his black cat! Speak thy mind!
[Exit Juliet]
Scene III: The praising of Ophelia.
[Enter Ophelia]
Hamlet: Thou art as lovely as the product of a large rural town and my amazing bottomless embroidered purse. Speak thy mind!
Thou art as loving as the product of the bluest clearest sweetest sky and the sum of a squirrel and a white horse. Thou art as beautiful as the difference between Juliet and thyself. Speak thy mind!
[Exeunt Ophelia and Hamlet]

Act II: Behind Hamlet's back.
Scene I: Romeo and Juliet's conversation.
[Enter Romeo and Juliet]
Romeo: Speak your mind. You are as worried as the sum of yourself and the difference between my small smooth hamster and my nose. Speak your mind!
Juliet: Speak YOUR mind! You are as bad as Hamlet! You are as small as the difference between the square of the difference between my little pony and your big hairy hound and the cube of your sorry little codpiece. Speak your mind!
[Exit Romeo]
Scene II: Juliet and Ophelia's conversation.
[Enter Ophelia]
Juliet: Thou art as good as the quotient between Romeo and the sum of a small furry animal and a leech. Speak your mind!
Ophelia: Thou art as disgusting as the quotient between Romeo and twice the difference between a mistletoe and an oozing infected blister! Speak your mind!
[Exeunt]

What is this? Got it straight from Wiki...

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Friday, November 12, 2010

Thursday, November 11, 2010

75.MEH,MEH...

Canton is a famous city in China. During the Zhou Dynasty (1045 B.C. – 256 B.C.) the Cantonese peoples suffered from famine for many years. Legend has it that one day five immortals riding five goats with rice ears each of a different color descended from heaven and blessed the area with favorable weather that produced rich harvests. Thus, Canton is also known as the "Five-Goat City (Wuyangcheng)" and the "City of Spike (Suicheng)." To express their gratitude to the celestial beings, the locals erected the "Five Immortals Temple" and a statue representing their steeds. This particular statue has now become famous in a different context. What is it?

Thursday, November 4, 2010

72.ROCKETRIX

Abdul Kalam, the former President of India, recollects in his autobiography, his experiences of work at Langley research center, NASA, in Virginia, USA. At this research laboratory, he remembers to have seen a painting displayed prominently at the lobby. The painting depicted a battle scene with rockets flying on the background. Here, he says what caught his attention was that those who were firing the rockets were not white men but brownish people whose facial features were like that of Asians. What battle is he talking about?

Wednesday, November 3, 2010