31 March 2013

Question Of The Day #22: Indian Maestros

Theme for this week: Music.

Connect the exhaustive list.


Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Pandit Ravi Shankar, Zakir hussian, Vikku vinayagam, Pandit Vishwamohan Bhatt, A R Rehman - Indians to have won the Grammys.

30 March 2013

Question Of The Day #21: Two too many!

And there we go with the final question of the week on Cricket.

Connect the exhaustive list.



Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Warwick Armstrong and Alex Moir - Only bowlers to have bowled two consecutive overs in a test innings.

29 March 2013

Question Of The Day #20: Cricket Politics

Weekly Theme: Cricket

Connect to a politician, and how is he related to cricket?



Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

The person in the left is Harish Salve and in the right picture Allan border (Australia) is with the 1987 Reliance World Cup trophy.
Connect is: Father of Harish Salve i.e Narendra Kumar Salve who was president of BCCI when India won the world cup in 1983 and also due to his efforts India got the hosting of world cup jointly with pakistan. To recognize his services BCCI also started the NKP Salve challenger trophy.

28 March 2013

Question Of The Day #19: The Old Man


Weekly Theme : Cricket

Identify the person.


He played first-class cricket both before the First World War and after the Second World War. A stamp was published in the year 1996 to honour him, A trophy was also named after him.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

D. B. Deodhar affectionately called the Grand Old Man of Indian cricket, after whom the Deodhar Trophy, Indian Domestic List A Cricket Competition held at Zonal Level is named.

27 March 2013

Question Of The Day #18: Memorabilia

Weekly Theme: Cricket


How is this person connected to Cricket?

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

The person in the picture is Kotha Raghuramaiah, a former Central Minister from Andhra Pradesh. The Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha compete in a cricket match for the K Raghuramaiah trophy every year.

26 March 2013

Question Of The Day #17: Connect.

Weekly Theme: Cricket

Connect to a person.


1. He is a Civil Engineer from the state of Kerala in India.
2. He has passed his umpiring test in 1986-87.
3. 

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

The creator of VJD method, V Jayadevan.

25 March 2013

Question Of The Day #16: Complete the List

Weekly Theme: Cricket

Who is the fifth player in the list and what is this list about?


Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Muthiah Muralidaran, the most expensive spells in ODI history.

24 March 2013

Question Of The Day #15: Mobster

Theme for this week: Cricket

This occurs when a crowd of people who are watching a sports game run onto the playing area to celebrate or protest about an incident. This concept is the name of a business venture started by a person who became famous after IPL. Id the person.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Anupam Mukherji a.k.a Fake IPL Player. The name of his business venture is 'Pitch Invasion'.

23 March 2013

Question Of The Day #14: The Executioner

And, there we go for the week's final question on Football.

After whom was the shared home ground of these two football clubs originally named?


Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

The UPC-Arena (formerly Arnold Schwarzenegger-Stadium) in GrazStyriaAustria, is the home of the football clubs SK Sturm Graz and Grazer AK. It was built in 2000-01 and was named after bodybuilder, actor and governor of the U.S. state of CaliforniaArnold Schwarzenegger, who was born near Graz.
In December 2005, when Schwarzenegger did not stop the execution of Stanley Tookie Williams, an intense discussion in his hometown began about what to do with the stadium that bore his name. After some days, Schwarzenegger revoked the city of Graz's right to the use of his name, ending the debate.

22 March 2013

Question Of The Day #13: Legendary!

Identify the Legendary Footballer in the video tribute.




Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Lev Yashin

21 March 2013

Question Of The Day #12: Identify.

Weekly Theme: Football.

X is a retired footballer and current manager of a premier league club. During his playing career, he won league titles in three different countries. He won four straight league titles at one club before moving to their arch rivals and winning a fifth league title in a row destroying his old team 5-0 on the way. He then joined a Japanese second division club and helped them in promotion before returning to Europe and winning another league title. He made his debut for the national football team on his 18th birthday.He captained the national team for a total of 28 matches, including the victorious  Confederations Cup tournament. He was officially named the best player of all time from his country by the nation’s FA.  His younger brother also a footballer was part of a club side that won 9 consecutive league titles. X has never received a red card. He was twice Manager of the Year in his home country.

Identify X.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Michael Laudrup

20 March 2013

Question Of The Day #11: Glory Days!

Weekly Theme: Football.

Connect. (Be Specific, Exhaustive List)



Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

First clubs from their respective countries to win the European Cup Winners' Cup

19 March 2013

Question Of The Day #10: Identify.

Weekly Theme: Football

X started his career at Leeds United. X was sold to a northeast club in England, even though he made the first team squad at Leeds. He impressed at the club but he also suffered a number of injury problems. His performances in Europe for them led to a European giant club signing X. Injuries blighted his time there, as he failed to make a single appearance during the entire season. He endured an awful debut as he scored an own goal and was later sent off for two bookable offences.  He went on to play 14 times for them before re-joining his hometown club on loan and eventually on a permanent transfer. He then joined a London club for whom he scored in a cup final. He later signed on a pay-as-you-play deal with Stoke City and later returned to his hometown club when his contract expired.

Identify X.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Jonathan Woodgate.

18 March 2013

Question Of The Day #9: Fair & Handsome

Weekly Theme: Football

Connect.



Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Billy Wright, Gary Lineker, Stanley Matthew, John Charles - They were never booked throughout their career.

17 March 2013

Question Of The Day #8: Are you ready to die for Football?

Theme for this week's Questions: Football.

Connect.


Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

These football teams lost many of their members in three different air disasters. Torino FC-1949, Man United-1958, and Zambia National Football Team-1993. Ref: http://www.totalprosports.com/2011/09/08/13-tragic-cases-of-athletes-killed-in-plane-crashes/

16 March 2013

Question Of The Day #7: Connect The Dots

And that beings us to the Final Question for this week on Movies.

Connect.


Thanks for the Question: Arun Venu

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Megan Ellison, the daughter of Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison owns Annapurna Pictures, and its works are movies 'The Master' and 'Zero Dark Thirty' which were in the news during this year's Academy Awards.

15 March 2013

Question Of The Day #6: One-Off err...no, Two-Off!

Weekly Theme: Movies.

Connect the two pictures to an exhaustive list.



Answer: (Please Highlight the text below)

Midnight Cowboy and A Clockwork orange - Only X rated films to be nominated for the Academy Awards. Midnight Cowboy even won it in three categories.

14 March 2013

Question Of The Day #5: The Best, Or Are They?

Weekly Theme: Movies

Connect to an exhaustive list



Answer: (Please highlight the text given below)

People who have won both an Academy Award and The Golden Raspberry Award.
(Clockwise from top) Laurence Olivier - Academy Award in 1948 & Razzie in 1980; Liza Minnelli - Academy Award in 1981 & Razzie in 1987; Kevin Costner, a three-time Razzie Winner who won an Academy Award in 1990; Sandra Bullock - the ONLY person to win both in the same year (2010); Halle Berry - Academy Award in 2002 & Razzie in 2004, Roberto Benigni - Academy Award in 1999 & Razzie in 2002.

13 March 2013

Question Of The Day #4: Hollywood Heart-Throb

Who is the person being launched here in a grand manner in his debut movie in 1937? Identify the movie as well.

(Hint: The person is an extremely well-known personality in a very, very different field)



Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States, who was an erstwhile radio, film and television actor. The name of the movie is Love is On The Air. See the original video @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCABHblTi80.

12 March 2013

Question Of The Day #3: One's Loss is Another's Gain

What is being talked about here? Put Funda. (Weekly Theme: Movies)





Answer: (Please highlight the text given below)

The song 'Jai Ho' written and composed by Gulzar and ARR; was actually composed for Yuvraaj, but Subhash Ghai declined to use it; and gave the rights to Danny Boyle to use it in Slumdog Millionaire. And, the rest is History!

11 March 2013

Question Of The Day #2: From God To Dog

Connect. (Be Specific to the Week's Theme i.e. Movies)


Hint- A character in the book inspired the creation of a very famous fictional movie character. The pet dog (same breed as in the pic) of the creator lent its name to that character.

Answer: (Please highlight the text given below)

The adventure hero of King Solomon's Mines Allan Quatermain, was a template for the film character Indiana Jones. The character was originally named Indiana Smith, after an Alaskan Malamute George Lucas owned in the 1970s (Indiana). Spielberg disliked the name Smith, and then Lucas casually suggested Indiana Jones as an alternative.

10 March 2013

Question Of The Day #1: Significance of God

Let's get going with our 'Question of the Day' Series!! The Central Theme of all the questions which shall be posted this week would be related to MOVIES.

An easy one to start with.

How is this epic scene connected to the field of Sports? Put Funda. (Hint: Cricket)




Answer: (Please highlight the text given below)

The holy figure who peeks from the clouds is actually an animated photograph of the legendary 19th century English cricketer WG Grace, who played first-class cricket for a record-equalling 44 seasons, from 1865 to 1908.
See him @ http://p.imgci.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/14200/14265.player.jpg. And Needless to say, the movie is Monty Python and The Holy Grail.