Quizzically Yours

 


1.Connect and give fundae.

2.What unique distinction does this head of state hold?

1.He holds the distinction of being the first and only Indian to be 'something'. Who's this?



2.Connect









3.What 'nickname' did this 19th century American criminal earn for himself from a Scotland Yard detective due to his famed exploits? (Hint : British historian Ben Macintyre has penned a book about him.)

1.Claim to fame of the book?




2.Identify the controversial founder of a popular Swedish site.









3.The dargah of Sufi saint Bu Ali Shah Qalandar is located nearby this place. This place was renovated by the British in 1866. Whose simple unadorned tomb is this?

1. The illustration depicts a 16th century Indian ruler's first meeting with a local dancer in his kingdom. Identify the lady.




2. Overlooking the Bay of Bengal, this 19th century fort was built by a Maratha ruler to commemorate what event? It derives its name from the word 'minaret'.







3. This guy, who was named as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by TIME, has quite a way with words. Name him.






4. Identify the person bowling. (Hint: 'God help us' err... 'God is Great')




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Connect.. or put funda..

X is a silver coin that was minted in the Spanish Empire after a currency reform in 1497. The US dollar was also based upon this coin until the Coinage Act of 1857 discontinued the practice. As it was widely used in Europe, the Americas and the far-East, it became the first world currency by late 18th century. What is the more famous phrase used for X?



 Raghul and Sparky get it right.
Its piece of eight from peso.

• Although X's family was Muslim, he was raised by Hindus for most of his life. His father was a freedom activist. His mother Lateef Fatima was the adopted daughter of Major Shah Nawaz Khan who served as a General in Subhash Bose's INA.

• Once, Timur(14th century emperor) was playing his favourite game chess, when he received the news of the birth of his child, whom he named X, which is the Persian name of a chess move called "castling".

Name X. (note: X isn't the same person in both the cases.)

Kay Chan is spot on..
Shah Rukh is the answer

Connect and put funda.

Nice one Sparky
Danny Boyle's the answer
He's gonna be the artistic director of the London 2012 Olympic Games

And so the all auspicious 101st post, and that too from a visitor...couldn't get better.

A moderately tough one... Connect again

The connect is the novel Heart of Darkness. The leftmost guy is Joseph Conrad, the author of the novel. The woman is Eleanor Coppola, Francis Coppola's wofe who made a documentary on the novel. Footages from the documentary were used in the movie Apocalypse Now. The middle guy is Orson Welles, who wanted to make a movie on the novel as his first movie. He was also the first choice to play Col.Kurtz in the Apocalypse Now, but ended up making Citizen Kane.

Bhishma was once looking for wives for the Princes of the Kuru race. He went to the Kingdom of X, whose princess was supposed to be the greatest beauty of the land of Bharata. During the swayamvar however, the princess of X refused to marry the Kuru Prince. Bhishma then attacked the kingdom of X, defeated the King and imprisoned the entire population, giving them one handful of rice to eat a day.The King decreed that the handful of Rice be given to his youngest son, so that the family lineage be continued. One by one, the entire population starved to death, as was expected. As he lay dying, the King called his youngest son and asked him to swear revenge on the entire Kuru Race and be the cause of it's downfall.He then asked him to salvage the bones of his right hand and perform a certain act that was to aid him in his Quest for vengence.

Who? What act? Put full fundaes...

cupidcobra1 gets it right.
Its shakuni who made a dice with his fathers bones.

1. What is the main source of income for this set of pacific islands?



2. X means 'whole burnt sacrificial offering to a god' in Greek. It is substituted to Ha-Shoah in Hebrew and Porajmos or Samudaripen in Romani. Identify X.

3. That’s the pic of the Raffles Hotel in Perth and the Canning highway leading up to it. Because the Hotel is at the bottom of a steep hill, the intersection there has had many accidents and crashes. What did this inspire?

 

3) Highway to Hell

Sparky gets the second alone..