Question of the day #6/125

Identify this cool building.

Question of The Day#105: Man of Controversy

Weekly theme: Leaders

This famous leader once said that the his style of holding the state is at times referred to as authoritarian. His started of his career by working for the main security agency of his country. His interests include judo & swimming in ice cold water. Identify.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Vladimir Putin

Question Of The Day#104: Identify

Weekly Theme: Leaders

Identify.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Jack Ma- the owner of Alibaba group, which is the worlds largest online retailer.

Question Of The Day #103: Controversial Demise

Weekly Theme: Leaders

After the death of one of the two founders of a large private bank of India, a court case is going on over a seat on the board of the company. Identify the company and the also name the cause of the persons death.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Yes Bank; Non-executive chairman Ashok Kapur was killed by terrorists in the Trident-Oberoi hotel complex in Mumbai 26/11 attacks.

Question Of The Day #102: The Hero of the Thames

Weekly Theme: Leaders

Connect battle of Morvian town & William Henry Harrison. Give another interesting facet of this person.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

William Henry Harrison led US in battle of morvian town. He holds the record for shortest term for a US president (only 32 days) before he died of pneumonia.

Question Of The Day #101: The Guruji

Weekly Theme: Leaders

Connect. Also the person was referred to as a guru by a famous CEO. 

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Vivek Ranadive, who was referred to as Guru by Steve Jobs.

Question Of The Day #100: Great Father!

Weekly Theme: Leaders

Identify this famous dictator who is hardly seen in public appearances. He happens to be the reason for the house arrest of a famous peace leader for over a decade.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Than Shwe, Dictator of myanmar. Leader under house arrest : Aung San Suu Kyi.

Question The Day #99: Survivor

Weekly Theme: Leaders

The actual number of assassination attempts against him is unknown. Not a single assassination plan is known to have come close to succeeding.CIA has made multiple assasination attempts among this to kill this leader. Some of these methods are depicted in a documentary tiltled "______ways to kill _____".Name the leader.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Leader - Fidel Castro; Documentary: 638 Ways to kill Castro.

Question Of The Day #56: Astronomical Significance

And that brings us to the week's last question on Print Media.

The person X in the picture has a celestial body Y named after him. His invention Z was picked as the most important invention of the previous millenium, by Time-Life magazine. Identify X, Y and Z.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

X : Johannes Gutenberg
Y : Asteroid 777 Gutemberga
Z : Mechanical Movable Type Printing

Question Of The Day #55: Ex-Classified Information!

Weekly Theme: Print Media

X was a detailed account of the US DoD's involvement in Vietnam. When it was published as series by Y, it drew a lot of resistance from the then US president Z. It was later declassified in June 2011, and then released for public access. Identify X, Y and Z.


Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

X : Pentagon Papers
Y : The New York Times
Z: Richard Nixon

Question Of The Day #54: The Parody!

Weekly Theme: Print Media

The work X (pertaining to the magazine Y) given below in the picture is perhaps the most famous work of the person Z. Identify X, Y and Z, and put fundas about X.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

X - TIME...FORTUNE...LOVE...LUCE - Profile of TIME editor Henry Luce
Y - TIME Magazine
Z - Wolcott Gibbs

Funda: X was written in a parody of TIME's style of confusing, backward running sentences. 

Question Of The Day #53: Pen is Mightier than the Sword, Indeed!

Weekly Theme: Print Media

The film X won Academy awards in 1976. The lead actors were portraying the characters of the journalists from Y. The issue shown in the movie had led to the resignation of the then U.S. president. Identify X & Y.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

X – All the president’s men Y- Washington Post.
 All the President's Men is a 1976 Academy Award-winning political thriller based on the 1974 non-fiction book of the same name by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two journalists investigating the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post. The film starred Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as Woodward and Bernstein, respectively

Question Of The Day #52: Felicitation

Weekly Theme: Print Media

Identify the event related to the picture.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

The Times of India completes 150 years. Special stamp released by Government of India to commemorate the occasion.

Question Of The Day #51: Vested Interests

Weekly Theme: Print Media

The person X in the picture was the first to achieve something very significant in pre-independent India. To support this cause, the person Y along with four lawyers founded Z which is a kind of a trendsetter these days. Identify X, Y, and Z.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

X - Sir T Muthuswamy Iyer, Y - G. Subramania Iyer, Z - The Hindu. 
Subramania Iyer founded The Hindu along with four Law students, to support the campaign of Sir T. Muthuswamy Iyer for a judgeship at the Madras High Court. Muthuswamy Iyer later became the first native Indian to be appointed as judge of the Madras High Court.

Question Of The Day #50: Identify.

The questions for this week shall be based on Print Media.

Identify the person in the pic, and what's his claim to fame?

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

James Augustus Hicky was an Irishman, who launched first printed newspaper of India, in January 1780, with the name Bengal Gazette; it also came to be known as Hicky's Bengal Gazette.

Question Of The Day #35: It's Snack Time!

And that brings us to the week's final question on Food.


The first mention of this famous dish is said to be in the original version of the book shown below. It is a history of the Ghaznavid Empire written by Abul-Fazl Bayhaqi in Persian in the 11th century CE. Which dish is being referred to here?

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

SAMOSA 

Question Of The Day #34: The number's 74!

Weekly Theme: Food

Why is this map present in this week's quiz? Put funda.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

This map shows the 74 villages in southern Tamil Nadu, which are collectively known as the Chettinad region. It's famous for its culinary delicacies which come under the Chettinad cuisine.

Question Of The Day #33: Newsmaker

Weekly Theme: Food

Why was this place in the news earlier this year? (Attention to Details, you see :D)

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Mr. Du Xin, a die-hard fan of the TV Series FRIENDS, has opened a mini replica of the show's Central Perk café in Beijing, China in January 2013. The café serves the same snacks mentioned in the show and the menus are filled with fun facts and details from the series.

Question Of The Day #32: Royal Dish?

Weekly Theme: Food

Which dish owes its origin to the person in the image?

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Though recent research contradicts this theory, the popular Pizza Margherita is considered to be named after Queen Margherita of Savoy, Italy. 

Question Of The Day #31: Love

Weekly Theme: Food

What has been blanked out? Give full funda.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Hershey's Kisses model street lamps. Chocolate Avenue was one of the first two streets built in the town of Hershey by Milton Hershey when he built up the town for his chocolate empire; the other was Cocoa Avenue. The intersection of Chocolate Avenue and Cocoa Avenue has alternately wrapped and unwrapped Kiss street lamps.