Mindgames ed. 5

In which I scour Open and other news sources for questions based ONLY on recent events. (Which in itself is a clue for people who think the quiz is hard.)

Q1. Before 1984 there was this in 1983 with a price tag of $9,995. What?

Q2. Gautam Gambhir, Jacques Kallis and Mohammed Yousuf are cricketers and the joint holders of what cricketing record?

Q3. What does the city of Vancouver have to do with lotus-eaters?

Q4. Identify the man in the picture.

Q5. ‘Ha Ha Ha’ is a clue. Can you name the writer I am alluding to? He was at this year’s Jaipur Literary Festival.

Q6. If the plane of the moon’s orbit were not slightly tilted, solar eclipses would be occurring at every _____ _____ (3, 4)

Q7. Right now, which country in the world is likely to have the most number of people suffering from what is known as ‘Crush syndrome’?

Q8. Mel Gibson and January 26th. Name the award.

Q9. ‘Going, going … not gone!’ Who all?

Q10. Who or what has been referred to as ‘Willy the Wombat’?

Your first task in this round is to identify the person/thing shown in the picture. Then, connect a, b and c to another well-known person, 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) The class apart

c) The story of Ali and Ryan

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

Solutions to Mindgames 4, and then some: This time, we had three people who came close, but, like last time, no cigar. The trio of Rajesh Ranganath, Soumya Bassein and Anand Rajan scored the most correct answers (9). Once again, no all-correct entries. Congratulations people and better luck next time.

A1. Gordon Brown

A2. Richter Scale

A3. January 15th Eclipse

A4. Human hair

A5. Manish Pandey

A6. China

A7. Hockey India

A8. There’s the Singapore Index on Cities’ Biodiversity and the Strait Times Index for the Singapore stock market.

A9. Taj Nagar, the people of this town built themselves a railway station.

A10. 2010 AL30 is the mystery object that whizzed past our planet. Orbital projections indicated that the object flew by Earth at a distance of just 80,000 miles (130,000 kilometers). That’s only a third of the way from here to the moon.

a) Barack Obama (Our ‘final answer’ accused Obama of speaking in tongues)

b) Seachlight (Our ‘final answer’ was born in Searchlight, Nevada)

c) White and Blue (Our ‘final answer’ is white and represents the Democrats)

Final answer: Harry Reid is the final answer.

In which I scour Open and other news sources for questions based ONLY on recent events. (Which in itself is a clue for people who think the quiz is hard.)

Q1. Before 1984 there was this in 1983 with a price tag of $9,995. What?

Q2. Gautam Gambhir, Jacques Kallis and Mohammed Yousuf are cricketers and the joint holders of what cricketing record?

Q3. What does the city of Vancouver have to do with lotus-eaters?

Q4. Identify the man in the picture.

Q5. ‘Ha Ha Ha’ is a clue. Can you name the writer I am alluding to? He was at this year’s Jaipur Literary Festival.

Q6. If the plane of the moon’s orbit were not slightly tilted, solar eclipses would be occurring at every _____ _____ (3, 4)

Q7. Right now, which country in the world is likely to have the most number of people suffering from what is known as ‘Crush syndrome’?

Q8. Mel Gibson and January 26th. Name the award.

Q9. ‘Going, going … not gone!’ Who all?

Q10. Who or what has been referred to as ‘Willy the Wombat’?

Your first task in this round is to identify the person/thing shown in the picture. Then, connect a, b and c to another well-known person, 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) The class apart

c) The story of Ali and Ryan

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

Solutions to Mindgames 4, and then some: This time, we had three people who came close, but, like last time, no cigar. The trio of Rajesh Ranganath, Soumya Bassein and Anand Rajan scored the most correct answers (9). Once again, no all-correct entries. Congratulations people and better luck next time.

A1. Gordon Brown

A2. Richter Scale

A3. January 15th Eclipse

A4. Human hair

A5. Manish Pandey

A6. China

A7. Hockey India

A8. There’s the Singapore Index on Cities’ Biodiversity and the Strait Times Index for the Singapore stock market.

A9. Taj Nagar, the people of this town built themselves a railway station.

A10. 2010 AL30 is the mystery object that whizzed past our planet. Orbital projections indicated that the object flew by Earth at a distance of just 80,000 miles (130,000 kilometers). That’s only a third of the way from here to the moon.

a) Barack Obama (Our ‘final answer’ accused Obama of speaking in tongues)

b) Seachlight (Our ‘final answer’ was born in Searchlight, Nevada)

c) White and Blue (Our ‘final answer’ is white and represents the Democrats)

Final answer: Harry Reid is the final answer.

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Avinash Subramaniam