Q. Connect the 4 pictures and identify the connection & theme. Ans.: The connect is Music bands named after food items. L-R: Jalebee Cartel, Avial, Black Eyed Peas and The Cranberries. Rightly answered by Mojojo and Priya.
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Q. Identify the musician in the picture and his contribution to the world of music? Ans.: Lester William Polfuss known as Les Paul — was an American jazz and country guitarist, songwriter and inventor. He was a pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar which "made the sound of rock and roll possible".… Continue reading Marquee Collection#24
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Q. Identify the mathematician and his contribution to the world of mathematics. (Hint: We all have used them in school) Ans.: John Venn and the Venn Diagrams. Venn's main area of interest was logic and he published three texts on the subject. He wrote The Logic of Chance which introduced the frequency interpretation or frequency… Continue reading Marquee Collection#23
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Q. Identify the cricketer and in what connection do we know him today? Ans.: K.S. Ranjitsinghji after whom India's domestic cricket tournament Ranji Trophy is named. Right answers by Sujay, Subin, Aman, Vijaynnidhi, Priyadarshan, Srinath, Muneer, Raja, Dinkar, Subhayan, Chandrashekar, Arpan, Deepak, Guessthelogo team, Anubhav, Devendra and Kaushik.
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Q. Identify the nobel laureate from from this pic. Ans.: Rabindranath Tagore Rightly answered by Kaushik, Priya, Gokul, Dinkar, Shubhendu, Debashish, Saswata, Sudip and Anjana.
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Q. Identify the fictional place from the map and why is it famous? Ans.: Skull Island of King Kong Fame. Rightly answered by Saswata, Kaushik, Anubhav and Gantavya.
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Q. Identify the young girl from the picture. Ans.: Indira Gandhi Congratulations, everyone cracked.
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Q. Connect the below images to a sporting event and explain the connection. Ans.: Davis cup logo, trophy and Dwight Filley Davis, founder of Davis Cup International Tennis Competition. Correctly answered by Anup, Kaushik, Saswata, Mohit, Prashant, Quizzerix, Dinakar and Kartheegeyan.
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Q. Identify the logo is of which recently held international event? Ans.: COP 15 United Nations climate change conference Copenhagen 2009 Dec 7 to Dec 18, 2009. Cop 15 Logo of United Nations Conference on Climate Change at Copenhagen, was designed by Troels Faber and Jakob Wildschiødtz from the studio NR2154 (it was chosen from… Continue reading Marquee Collection#17
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Q. Explain what is happening here ? (The phenomena..) Ans.: Sonic Boom, Breaking the sound barrier, cloud ball effect, Vapour cone, P.G. singularity ( Prandtl–Glauert singularity) are all the right answers. The white halo formed by condensed water droplets is thought to result from a drop in air pressure around the aircraft at transonic speeds.… Continue reading Marquee Collection#16
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