Mindgames ed. 2

Mail your answers to avinash@luciferlabs.com latest by Saturday. Only entries received by 5 pm on Saturday will be considered for the prize (a six-month free subscription to Open magazine. Do please note that this offer is valid only in India.)

Good luck with the quiz. And look out for the next edition of Mindgames next Tuesday, 12 January, and thereafter on the same day every week.

(In which I scour Open and other news sources for questions based on recent events.)

Q1. Three eyes do it. Name the film.

Q2. He goes for the jugular in a light-hearted vein. Name this old-time writer and columnist from Kutch, which is still a part of the Indian state of Gujarat.

Q3. Over five hundred thousand people ‘follow’ this writer, parliamentarian and minister like cattle. Who?

Q4. Director the Name. (11, 5)

Q5. He went from Uttar Pradesh to Jharkhand to Andhra Pradesh to infamy.

Q6. Who or what recently passed Japan and France at close to 350 kmph

Q7. Who is she?

Q8. Dying out because of dead livestock. What?

Q9. Buddha, Narasimha, Matsya but not ______ (4)

Q10. In ancient times, the Romans called it the Digitus Infamis. How do we know it better now?

Your first task in this round is to identify the thing shown in the picture. Then, connect a, b and c to a well-known person, which is your final answer. All three ‘connections’ have to be explained for an entry to qualify as a ‘final answer’.
Note: The picture clue a) is not the final solution.

a)

b) Victoria’s Secret

c) Rhymes with ‘glimmerman’ (5)

Q. Who is connected to A, B and C?

Solution to last week’s quiz and the winner: Stephen Roxburgh from distant, cold and beautiful Canada scored the most correct answers (6). Congratulations Stephen. Thanks a bunch, all of you, for participating. Keep coming back for more.

A1. Idlis, soft, round and fair like the soft, round and fair actress ‘Khushboo’.

A2. Jonathan Littel (Bad Sex in Fiction prize)

A3. Elephants

A4. It was successfully test-fired from the INS Subhadra (In the Mahabharata, Subhadra was the mother of Abhimanyu.)

A5. Pooja Chopra, Miss World 2009 pageant

A6. Orlando Bloom

A7. From chappals to Cathedrals

A8. Yegor Gaidar, the ‘shock therapy’ economist from Russia.

A9. General (Retd.) Sarath Fonseka

A10. Sir Alex Ferguson

a) The man in the picture is Rajendra Pachauri, the chairperson of the IPCC. The Nobel Peace Prize was jointly awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and our final answer.

b) The state that lost him the US Presidency

c) The thing that he supposedly claimed to have ‘invented’.

A. The final answer is Al Gore. (As mentioned earlier, you have to ‘solve’ all the three clues and the final answer.)

Mail your answers to avinash@luciferlabs.com latest by Saturday. Only entries received by 5 pm on Saturday will be considered for the prize (a six-month free subscription to Open magazine. Do please note that this offer is valid only in India.)

Good luck with the quiz. And look out for the next edition of Mindgames next Tuesday, 12 January, and thereafter on the same day every week.

(In which I scour Open and other news sources for questions based on recent events.)

Q1. Three eyes do it. Name the film.

Q2. He goes for the jugular in a light-hearted vein. Name this old-time writer and columnist from Kutch, which is still a part of the Indian state of Gujarat.

Q3. Over five hundred thousand people ‘follow’ this writer, parliamentarian and minister like cattle. Who?

Q4. Director the Name. (11, 5)

Q5. He went from Uttar Pradesh to Jharkhand to Andhra Pradesh to infamy.

Q6. Who or what recently passed Japan and France at close to 350 kmph

Q7. Who is she?

Q8. Dying out because of dead livestock. What?

Q9. Buddha, Narasimha, Matsya but not ______ (4)

Q10. In ancient times, the Romans called it the Digitus Infamis. How do we know it better now?

Your first task in this round is to identify the thing shown in the picture. Then, connect a, b and c to a well-known person, which is your final answer. All three ‘connections’ have to be explained for an entry to qualify as a ‘final answer’.
Note: The picture clue a) is not the final solution.

a)

b) Victoria’s Secret

c) Rhymes with ‘glimmerman’ (5)

Q. Who is connected to A, B and C?

Solution to last week’s quiz and the winner: Stephen Roxburgh from distant, cold and beautiful Canada scored the most correct answers (6). Congratulations Stephen. Thanks a bunch, all of you, for participating. Keep coming back for more.

A1. Idlis, soft, round and fair like the soft, round and fair actress ‘Khushboo’.

A2. Jonathan Littel (Bad Sex in Fiction prize)

A3. Elephants

A4. It was successfully test-fired from the INS Subhadra (In the Mahabharata, Subhadra was the mother of Abhimanyu.)

A5. Pooja Chopra, Miss World 2009 pageant

A6. Orlando Bloom

A7. From chappals to Cathedrals

A8. Yegor Gaidar, the ‘shock therapy’ economist from Russia.

A9. General (Retd.) Sarath Fonseka

A10. Sir Alex Ferguson

a) The man in the picture is Rajendra Pachauri, the chairperson of the IPCC. The Nobel Peace Prize was jointly awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and our final answer.

b) The state that lost him the US Presidency

c) The thing that he supposedly claimed to have ‘invented’.

A. The final answer is Al Gore. (As mentioned earlier, you have to ‘solve’ all the three clues and the final answer.)

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Avinash Subramaniam