July 12, 2009
This is the first ( and accurate) representation ( this being an image of the woodcut carving), of a particularly fatal act in history, the word for this act having resulted thence.
What this?
The title is a reference to a certain Peter, which is what this question aims to be 
July 9, 2009
ID.
A clue of sorts:
Went un-cracked.
ANSWER: Ellis Island. This was the main entry point for immigrants to the US till 1954. In the Godfather, Vito Andolini is wrongly assigned the surname of Corleone by the immigration clerk at Ellis.
July 6, 2009
Screenshots from a controversial game. Either give me the name or tell me why its controversial. (Hint: the title of the post is two steps removed from the answer)
Cracked by Rohit,Tarantinofan,Johny Walker,Logik.
ANSWER: Super Columbine Massacre RPG.
July 5, 2009
A warm welcome to me.
Kicking off the “alumni questions” category with this qstn.
Id the chap, and put Funda …
The cartoon says – ” I suspect my husband is ‘hiking’ on me”
Cracked completely by : Shrey Goyal, logik***** [ welcome back, saar 
] and Karthik.
and partially by ashwini_nit and Tejas
July 1, 2009
This is the story of a man too proud to run from the guy who ’sat’ on the chair. Who ’supposedly’ sat here? Also, id the movie.
Clue(s):
Answer: Movie: High Noon. Guy: Frank Miller.
Cracked by: Aditya Sridhar and ashwini_nit.
June 23, 2009
That space in which you type out your mail. Whats it called?
ANSWER: Post Box!
June 22, 2009
This one is from Logik. Connect.
1.
2. 
3.
4.
Cracked by Rithwick and Vikram.
ANSWER: Lecoq named the element “gallia” after his native land of France. It was later claimed that, in one of those multilingual puns so beloved of men of science in the early 19th century, he had also named gallium after himself, as his name, “Le coq,” is the French for “the rooster,” and the Latin for “rooster” is “gallus”; however, in an 1877 article Le coq denied this supposition. (The supposition was also noted in Building Blocks of the Universe, a book on the elements by Isaac Asimov.)
June 20, 2009
Id and Connect.
Cracked by Logik alone.
ANSWER: 1 & 2: Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker. 3: David H Levy.
Connect: The Famous Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 that collided with Jupiter in 1994.
June 13, 2009
ID the saint(left).
Clue:
Cracked by Tejas,Gautam,Chithananda,Shrey Goyal.
ANSWER: St.Elmo( Erasmus also is right). Clue:St.Elmo’s Fire.
June 12, 2009
Id and Connect.
Cracked by Nash alone.
ANSWER: Connect is “Jurassic”.
1. Jura mountains ( “forest mountains”) from which the term Jurassic is derived.
2. Michael Crichton, Author of Jurassic Park.
June 8, 2009
This one is from Logik.
Id and Connect.
1.
2. 
3. 
Cracked by Nishant,Tejas and Nash.
ANSWER:
1. The cover of the album “And No One Else Wanted to Play”, by the punk rock band SNFU.
The photograph which was used without permission, is “Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park, New York City, 1962″, by Diane Arbus.
2. The poster of the movie, ” Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus “.
3. Stanley Kubrick’s movie ” The Shining “, which shows the twins in a similar pose, as in the photograph
“Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967 “, by Diane Arbus
The connect is the legendary American Photographer Diane Arbus, noted for her portraits of people on the fringes of society.
June 2, 2009
Connect the lady and the gentleman. Take the gentleman below as a clue.
Answer:
Philippe Chatrier (1) and Suzanne Lenglen (2), Courts at the Roland Garros (clue) Stadium.
Cracked by archit, Nishant Raman, Ajay Parasuraman, Johny Walker and Subbu.
June 2, 2009
This one is from Logik.
Id W, X,3, 4 and Connect.
1. 
W is the original instrument, which has its roots from a country Y, the name of the instrument being a word for a class of such instruments in the language spoken in Y.
2.
3.
4. 
3. & 4.[ the man on the right]. Notable players of an instrument X -> which is a derivative of W, and the name being derived from 2.
Different people got different parts of it right.
ANSWER:
W – Pandoura/Pandura/Pandora – derived from the Greek word for Lute [ a generic term for a pluckable string instrument]
X- Mandolin, the name being derived from mandora/mandola, the italian word for almond being ‘mandorla’. the instrument being derived from the pandura.
3 – John Paul Jones, Led Zeppelin’s bass guitarist who is an accomplished Mandolin player, which can be heard on tracks like Going to California.
4 – U.Rajesh, a famous Carnatic mandolin player, and brother of Mandolin U.Srinivas.
May 31, 2009
Connect:
A
B
C
Shrey Goyal requests you to check out his take on quizzing @
http://shrey-knows.blogspot.com/2009/05/that-quizzy-feeling.html
ANSWER: The Doors. For details refer any of the comments below
CRACKED BY: Seven of you.
@maga: Blanking Marriage of Heaven and Hell leaves almost nothing to be seen in the picture.
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