Question # 308

Unairbrush

Question by D.N. Ramakrishnan (Ramky)

Question # 307

“____ _____ _____ ______ :
Once when you're born
And once when you look death in the face.”

Not a haiku in the true sense, but unblank.

Question # 306

Before this term, words like 'bite' or 'hit' were used. The term most probably owes its origin to the 'Punch and Judy' puppet shows, which feature a guy called Punch and his wife Judy alongwith some recurring minor characters.
Punch would exhibit outrageous behaviour and say unexpected and shocking lines of dialogue that would throw the audience out of the window with laughter.

Question # 305

The Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers are situated at the intersection of M, Samachar Marg and Hammam Street in Mumbai. In 1930, a building was built at the site of Jeejeebhoy Towers, and N was shifted out the Town Hall into this building. Around 1980, the current building was built, and was named so because Sir Phiroze Jeejeebhoy was the then Chairman of N.
Claim to fame?

Question # 304

Connect the following:

-retired football midfielder, who played for Brazil, and manager of A.C. Milan.

-a famous early Renaissance Italian artist and sculptor from Florence. He is, in part, known for his work in basso rilievo.

-an American heavy metal guitarist, considered one of the "20 Greatest Shredders of All Time" by Total Guitar Magazine famous for the ‘quad guitar’.

-an absolutely hot israeli cover model for 2009s sports illustrated.


Anyways, celebrating 300 questions.

Question # 303

Id the bus, and it's not the first yellow bus.

Question # 302

Logo of a famous airline. Id.

Question # 301

Dysfunctional family

Pseudo-documentary format

Ron Howard

Newport Beach and Balboa Island, California

6 Emmy awards, 1 Golden Globe

Listed in Time magazine’s 100 best TV shows of all time

Connect

Question # 300

According to the Matangalila, _______ was born when Brahma sang sacred hymns over the halves of the egg shell from which Garuda hatched, followed by seven more male and eight female elephants. Prithu made ________ king of all elephants. One of his names means "the one who knits or binds the clouds" since myth has it that these elephants are capable of producing clouds. Id

Question # 299

Put Funda:

o “How I wish I could recollect pi easily today!”
o “How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics!”
o “Sir, I send a rhyme excelling,
In sacred truth and rigid spelling,
Numerical sprites elucidate,
For me the lexicon's dull weight,
If nature gain, not you complain
Tho' Dr Johnson fulminate.”

Question # 298

Put Funda:

Cary Granite
Stony Curtis
Ed Sulleyrock/Sulleystone
Rock Pile/Quarry/Hudstone
Ann-Margrock
Jimmy Darrock
Alvin Brickrock
Perry Masonary/Masonite
Eppy Brianstone
The Beau Brummelstones

Question # 297

· Wedding dress: $8,000

· Specially constructed coffin: $8,000

· Renting a symphony orchestra: $25,000

· Specially constructed chapel: $150,000

· Total cost of event: $1,500,000+

Wat is me talkin abt ????


Question by Ejaz.

Question # 296

According to the Global Language Monitor, if Obama and H1N1 are No. 2 and No. 3, what's No. 1?

Question # 295

'W' originally declined to be in the movie, saying it would be like cheating the audience. He, however, allowed his likeness to be used. His computer generated face, complete with the 80's style hairdo, was superimposed on the body of actor Roland Kickinger.

W? Movie?

Question # 294

Who said (brilliant statement): “The Academy Awards are the greatest promotion scheme that any industry ever devised for itself”?
(Hints: The French Connection
The Exorcist
Rules of Engagement)

Question # 293

For making vaccines for viral diseases, viruses need to be cultured. And viruses, being the douches that they are, can only grow inside living cells. For culturing polioviruses, mainly cells from monkeys are used. So after growing the viruses in these cells, these cultures are chemically treated so that the cells are removed, only the viruses inside them remain.
Now, suppose a virus was present inside the monkey cell from before, it would mix with the cultured polioviruses, and therefore be propagated with the vaccine. This was probably the case with the X virus.
This is one of the theories of origin of what/ ID X.

Question # 292

How are ‘The Poor Fellow-soldiers of Christ and of The Temple of Solomon’ better known?


Questions starting today are from the Verve Quiz (an interbatch event of KMC) which we hosted.

Question # 291

When AK was listening to the scratch version of a song from his new film, during a line 'ib ke hovega agge yaar', he misheard 'agge yaar' as 'Q'. He then added the word 'P' before it, and asked his composers to make it into a song, creating pop culture history. According to AK, 'That's the entire film in those two words.'

What on earth is PQ then?

Question # 290

The image below is open to your interpretation:

Question # 289

Connect:

Question # 288

August Horch used to manufacture $%^*s under his family name. In 1909 he was forced out of this business, so he set up a new company under the SAME name, totally pissing his former partners off, who thereby rained copyright infringement on his sorry derriere. He had to call in a meeting at his friend Franz Fikentscher's (say that five times) house to decide on a new name. Franz's son suggested 'Yo, lets call it Y. Why Y? Because "Horch" in German means "listen", which is "Y" in Latin!'. And the name stuck.

Enlightenez moi with the ID of Y.

Question # 287

An early version of what? I'm sure this is a very popular question. All you quizzers, don't start shouting "Peter, peter".

Question # 286

This is one of the most famous scenes in cinema history. It was shot from December 17 to December 23, 1959, and features between 71 and 78 angles (the exact number is unknown). The scene "runs 3 minutes and includes 50 cuts." Most of the shots are extreme close-ups, except for medium shots directly before and directly after the incident depicted. The combination of the close shots with the short duration between cuts makes the sequence feel longer, more subjective, more uncontrolled, and more violent than would the images if they presented alone or in a wider angle.

Question # 285

Founded in 1889, X’s first product was handmade hanfuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company, a love hotel, a TV network and a food company. Eventually, it entered its current business becoming one of the most influential in the industry and third biggest company in its home country, Japan with a market value of more than $85b.


According to X's Touch! Generations website, the name “X" translated to English means "Leave luck to Heaven“


ID X

Question # 284

He is the only person to have won two undivided Nobel Prizes.
In addition to the general recognition as one of the two greatest scientists of the 20th century, he was usually acknowledged by his colleagues as the most influential chemist since Lavoisier, the 18th-century founder of the modern science of chemistry.
His introductory textbook General Chemistry, revised three times since its first printing in 1947 and translated into 13 languages, has been used by generations of undergraduates. ID him (5 points)

There is only one other person who has won the Nobel Prize in two unrelated categories (Peace and Literature, for example). That person is ______ _______. ( 5 points)


Basically, give me both answers; points are unrelated.