dry as a bone

1) The name of the band D12 is short for the Dirty Dozen, but the band has only six members. What's the funda?

2) On Wednesday, May 13th, 1997, ABC aired an episode of "Dharma & Greg" in which the couple tries to have sex in public because everyone will be indoors doing something.

3) Srikanth - 0, Gavaskar - 0, Amarnath - 5, Patil -1, Yashpal - 9. With the first five wickets gone thus, yet historic match. How?

4) What was launched in 1929 by the London Rubber company and derived its name from the qualities of "durability, reliability and excellence"?

5) 'Stay in College/ Get the Knowledge/ Stay there till you're through/ If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread/ They can sure make something out of you!". This is doggerel written by a famous sports person. Who?

--rahul

set the ball rolling

easy ones to start with

1. identify the occasions depicted by these amul adds
a.

b.
c.

2. give the name of the character and the character on which this is modeled.




3. Though he tried to be historically accurate, Ashutosh Gowarikar made one error in terms of a prevalent rule in cricket matches in those days.(Lagaan)
What rule?

4. give a specific connect between the two characters. Hint-It's a fake world, after all...





5.All of her first three movies(1970s) recieved an 'A' from the censor board.She got so pissed off that she dropped an 'a' from her surname to show her dissent and declared "I have donated the A to Censor Board!"-Which heroine.

--Rahul

Undisputed Attitude

Four simple questions.

Answer in rot13 (http://www.rot13.com/) in the comments section.

- Vaibhav.

The questions:

1. The German government issued a set of regulations, effective April 1, 1905, which introduced three new conventions:

1. Ruhezeichen ("Cease-sending signal")
2. Suchzeichen ("Quest signal")
3. Notzeichen

How do we know Notzeichen better?

2. On March 18, 1995, a certain person issued a two-word press release: "I'm back." Name the person, and give funda.

3. Which site devoted to movie reviews takes its name from a practice of old time audiences on watching a play they didn't like?

4. Fill in the blanks.

McDonalds
Chinese army
US department of defense
_____________________
Walmart
National Health Service(UK)

A Single....

Here's a single question - Connect........

A famous song by a very famous band 'X' features a chorus sung (or rather chanted) by a large number of people who were fans of 'Y', attending a stadium where Y 'performed'.

The song sung by the chorus is called 'Z' , which is the anthem of 'Y'........

X, Y, Z ?

I can give a hint if required.
Follow ROT13.

~Chinmay.....

sports time

a sports quiz

should be easy to crack

1) What is depicted?

1923-. .42

24- .50

25- .29

26- .31

27- .37

28- .37

29- .30

30- .37

31- .34

32- .34

33- .33

34- .36

35- .32

36- .35

37- .35

38- .29

39- .14

2) CONNECT (EXHAUSTIVE)

Roberto Moreno, Nelson Piquet, Martin Brundle, Ricardo Patrese, Jos Verstappen, J.J. Lehto, Johnny Herbert, Eddie Irvine, Rubens Barrichello, Felipe Massa, Gachot, Moreno, Zanardi, De Cesaris

3) When the U.S delegation noticed that there was no American flag among the national flags for the opening ceremonies, they retorted in a certain manner which marked the birth of this certain exception in the opening ceremony which continues till date. Who was the athlete involved and what is the tradition?

4) look at the pic and try to guess what first did this player do and name him.

-rahul

Timepass

Four easy questions

use rot 13
--Rahul

1 Who portraying whom and holding what?




2) What has been blanked out ? Its a name



3) Why is this pic significant in the history of cricket ? and who is the batsman ?


4) Connect

Saddam Hussein, Ayrton Senna, Daniel Pearl, Lee Harvey Oswald, Karl Wallenda- not an exhaustive list

mix quiz

A short quiz

do use rot13 and yes pain Vaibhav for treats


1) X, a sportsperson, was and still is, known as Y in his native country. He took the name X only when he moved to the world stage. Another player( same country), who is known to the world as Y went by a nickname Z initially in order to avoid confusion with X. In 1996 Olympics X played as Y since another player named X, who was 2 years his senior, was also on the team.


2) Name the place.


3) give a connect.

nobody seems to be getting the third one so 1 hint-this fourth pic should make it simple








4) What specific thing would connect the following?

Kun Lun Mountains, Hunza Valley, Ojai Valley, Kham in Yunnan province, Lijiang Zhongdian, abandoned city of Tsaperang.

Note-Not an exhaustive list

-Rahul