Q-Factor

its not just Quizzzing...its Thinking Out Of The Box!!

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Friday, April 29, 2011

Q#469



CONNECT THEM TO A PARTICULAR SONG!!!
ANS: The song ‘Mehbooba mehbooba’ sung by R. D. Burman(2ND PIC) in the movie Sholay is inspired by a song titled ‘Say you love me’ by DEMIS ROUSSOS (1ST PIC)!

Q#468


IT IS ONE OF THE PAINTINGS  OF SALVADOR DALI. JUST CONNECT TO A FILM BY ROBERT PATTINSON.

ANSWER- IT IS INFACT  , LITTLE ASHES.

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Q#467

ANS: During Rama's absence in Ayodhya, Bharata also didn't stay there. Leaving administration in the hands of Shatrughana, he lived at a place called NANDIGRAM.
so,the connection is obviously NANDIGRAM!

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Q#466



THIS IS A SCULPTURE  BY  DAMIEN HIRST.  JUST CONNECT IT TO A SONG BY STEVE VAI.

ANSWER- IT IS INDEED " FOR THE LOVE OF GOD".

Q#465




HE ONCE PUNCHED A MAN BACK INTO A MONKEY. THEREFORE PROVIDING 
EVOLUTION :).JUST IDENTIFY HIM...

ANSWER- HE IS INDEED CHUCK NORRIS!

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Q#464



ANS: THE CONNECTION IS GUIDE OBVIOUSLY.
IST PIC IS OF PEARL S BUCK WHO ADAPTED THE BOOK IN ENGLISH.
2ND PIC IS OF R K NARAYAN,WHO WROTE THE BOOK GUIDE
3RD PIC IS OF DEV ANAND,WHO ACTED AS THE GUIDE IN THE HINDI FILM GUIDE!


Monday, April 25, 2011

Q#463


Q: WHOSE STATUE?????
A:KASPAR HAUSER

Q#462



DRY AFFAIR......WHAT DID HE CREATE?

ANSWER--HE IS JAMES GOSLING, THE FOUNDER OF JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE...

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Q#461


ANS:THE FIRST PIC IS OF VIC RATTLE HEAD,MASCOT OF MEGADEATH AND THE SECOND PIC IS OF MAHATMA GANDHI. THEY BOTH EMBODY THE MOTTO OF
"SEE NO EVIL,SAY NO EVIL,HEAR NO EVIL"

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Q#460


ANS:
Thats Gabe Rivera, founder of Techmeme.com
The most awesome tech news website ever!

NOTICE

QUESTION NUMBER 456-457-458-459 OPEN.

REST OF THE ANSWERS ARE POSTED.

HAPPY QUIZZING.

Q#459


ANS:
This is the first ever recording of the world’s deepest living fish, found below 7,500 m. They get their name due to their resemblance to a land-based gastropod.

Q#458



IDENTIFY THE LADY WITH JAWAHARLAL NEHRU.

ANSWER---SHE IS NONE OTHER THAN EDWINA MOUNTBATTEN, DAUGHTER OF LORD MOUNTBATTEN. THE ENDURING LEGACY BETWEEN HER AND NEHRU IS KNOWN TO ALL.

Friday, April 22, 2011

Q#457



HE IS AN AMERICAN  ENTREPRENEUR WHO ORGANIZED BARACK OBAMA'S  2008 ELECTION ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKING CAMPAIGN.   WHICH SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE DID HE CO-FOUND AND WHICH SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE DID HE FOUND?  NAME BOTH THE SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES...


ANSWER---HE IS CHRIS HUGHES, FOUNDER OF JUMO, A SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE FOR CAUSES  AND CO-FOUNDER OF FACEBOOK.

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Q#456



IDENTIFY THE LADY. WHAT'S HER  RECENT CLAIM TO FAME?

ANSWER---SHE IS LEELA SAMSON, THE NEXT CHAIRPERSON OF CENSOR BOARD.

Q#455



SIMPLE ONE.. MAP FOR WHAT?

ANSWER- IT IS THE  DRINKING AGE WORLD MAP.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Q#454



COAT OF ARMS OF?  ( HINT- 19TH APRIL)

ANSWER- COAT OF ARMS OF POPE BENEDICT -XV1

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Q#453



SIMPLE, JUST CONNECT THEM TO A PARTICULAR RECORD

ANSWER- SURESH RAINA AND GOD ARE THE ONLY TWO INDIAN BATSMAN TO SCORE CENTURIES IN ALL VERSIONS OF CRICKET. ONEDAY, TEST AND T20 CRICKET

Q#452



ANOTHER SIMPLE ONE.      FLAG OF?


ANSWER- IT IS THE FLAG OF AZAD KASHMIR OR PAKISTAN OCCUPIED KASHMIR.

Q#451



SIMPLE ONE FOR THE DAY. PRINT AD FOR? 


ANSWER- A BRILLIANT AD BY MERCEDES BENZ.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Q#450


CONNECT THESE PERSONALITIES. 


ANSWER- SOURAV GANGULY , SHATRUGHAN SINHA, SHAHRUKH KHAN-- ALL ARE HOSTS OF BENGALI, BHOJPURI, HINDI VERSION OF KAUN BANEGA CROREPATI..

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Q#449


ANS: THE FILM MOTORCYCLE DIARIES AND QUANTUM OF SOLACE DIDN'T GET PERMISSION TO SHOOT AT MACHUPICHU BUT ROBOT DID.

Monday, April 11, 2011

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Q#447


by BEDANGA KASHYAP!

ANS:
Dire Straits-Sultans of Swing

W.Akram - Sultan of Swing
S.
Tendulkar - favourite song, huge fan of Dire Straits/Knopfle

Q#446


CONNECT
(QUESTION COURTESY-BEDANGA KASHYAP)

ANS:The 23 enigma refers to the belief that most incidents and events are directly connected to the number 23, some modification of the number 23, or a number related to the number 23.
William S. Burroughs being the first person to believe in the 23 enigma.
The 2007 film The Number 23, starring Jim Carrey is the story of a man who becomes obsessed with the number 23 while reading a book of the same title that seems to be about his life.

Q#445


WHOSE PICTURE IS MISSING? ID AND CONNECT!
(QUESTION COURTESY-BEDANGA KASHYAP)

ANS: THE MISSING MAN IS SHAKESPEARE
Other man are
1. Edward De
Vere 17th Earl of Oxford
2. Sir Francis Bacon
3. Christopher Marlowe
4. William Stanley-6th Earl of Derby
They are all authors, and they are related to Shakespeare with controversies on ownership of their work “Shakespeare authorship question”.
Details of controvery is as follows:
1. The case for Oxford’s authorship is also based on perceived similarities between Oxford’s biography and events in Shakespeare’s plays.
2. Mainstream scholars criticise Bacon’s attributed poetry as too dissimilar to Shakespeare’s for it to have been written by the same person.
3. Marlowe may have faked his death and then continued to write under the assumed name of William Shakespeare.
4.Asserting a similarity with the name “William Shakespeare”, supporters of the Stanley candidacy note that Stanley’s first name was William, his initials were W. S., and he was known to sign himself, “Will”. They also cite biographical parallels between his life and incidents in the plays

Q#444


QUESTION COURTESY- BEDANGA KASHYAP

ANS:
They are the Jacks in a pack of cards……Ogeir the Dane,La Hire,Hector and Sir Lancelot…….the 8 being 4 Queens in a pack of card….Athena,Judith,Rachel and Argine….and 4 Kings being David,Charlemagne,Alexander and Julius Caeser

Q#443


question courtesy-BEDANGA KASHYAP
ANS:
A. Pancho Villa
B. Geronimo
C. Martin Van Braun
Their skulls were reportedly stolen by the Skull and Bones secret society of Yale University.
D.The Bone collector

Q#442


QUESTION COURTESY-BEDANGA KASHYAP

ANS:

Refers to Elizabeth Taylor’s record of most costume changes in a film, for Cleopetra(1963), that was later broken by Madonna for Evita(1996).

Q#441


CONNECT!
(QUESTION COURTESY-BEDANGA KASHYAP)

ANS:Death of Heath Ledger…..Jude Law,Collin Farell and Johnny Depp completed the role played by Heath in The Imaginarium of Dr Pernassus

Q#440



ANSWER- IT IS INDEED GREY MATTER.

Q#439



IDENTIFY THE INDIAN SOCIAL ACTIVIST IN NEWS RECENTLY.

ANSWER- INDEED, ANNA HAZARE.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Q#438


IDENTIFY THE  TWO GENTLEMAN. AND WHAT IS THE RECENT CONTROVERSY?

ANSWER- THEY ARE RESPECTIVELY MAHATMA GANDHI AND HERMANN KALLENBACH.
JOSEPH LELYVELD, THE PUTLIZER AWARD WINNER CLAIMED IN HIS BOOK GREAT SOUL THAT THEY WERE HOMOSEXUAL WHICH SPARKED OFF.

ANSWER OF THE LONG VISUAL CONNECT

REFER TO QUESTION NUMBER 431.

SLIDE-1---HEAT INDEX,  THE DEER HUNTER,  NEWYORK, NEW YORK.

SLIDE-2---PAU-BRASIL TREE WHICH GIVE ITS NAME TO BRAZIL, THE TAXI DRIVER, STARDUST AWARD.

SLIDE-3---MULK RAJ ANAND- THE UNTOUCHABLES, THE RAGGING BULL, HIDE AND SEEK.

SLIDE-4---MARIO PUZO WHO WROTE GOD FATHER , CASINO, ANGEL HEART.


CONNECTION IS INDEED FILMS BY ROBERT DE NIRO.




Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Q#437


AN EASY ONE FOR THE DAY.... IDENTIFY THE LADY.


ANSWER--- SHE IS NONE OTHER THAN BACHENDRI PAL, THE FIRST INDIAN WOMAN TO SCALE MOUNT EVEREST .

Q#436



ANSWER- IT IS INDEED GATTU.

Monday, April 4, 2011

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Q#433


CONNECT THESE PICTURES TO A PERSONALITY.( QUESTION COURTESY- THE USUAL SUSPECTS)


ANSWER---CONNECTION IS ANIL KAPOOR INDEED.
Mont Blanc – Brand Ambassador,
Vikas Swaroop- Q&A Slumdog Millionaire,
Mission Impossible- He will play the role of an Indian business tycoon Brij Nath in MI 4,
24( Television Series)- He plays the role of Omar Hassan, President of the fictional Islamic Republic of Kamistan 

Mont Blanc – Brand Ambassador,
Vikas Swaroop- Q&A Slumdog Millionaire,
Mission Impossible- He will play the role of an Indian business tycoon Brij Nath in MI 4,
24( Television Series)- He plays the role of Omar Hassan, President of the fictional Islamic Republic of Kamistan 

Q#432



IDENTIFY THE STRUCTURE . IDENTIFY THE DESIGNER TOO.


ANSWER- IT IS THE TURNING THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN STRUCTURE IN JERUSALEM MUSEUM . IT IS DESIGNED BY ANISH KAPOOR.