Starter for 10

Here are the questions for this episode of Retinal Cerebrations. Send your answers to hookonthedot@gmail.com before 3rd December, 6:00 A.M.(GMT). Don't forget to read the RULES POST to see how you score points in this quiz before sending the answers. I will be back with the answers, scores and the next quiz on 3rd Dec.

Here we go...

1. Connect.

2. Identify this movie whose poster is shown below. (Clue: Although critically acclaimed it holds a dubious record w.r.t. awards)

Answers to Ninth Gate

The answers are:

1. Reebok.(From top left in clockwise manner:- Chariots of fire, the running shoes worn by the famous athletes Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddel in the 1924 Summer Olympics, featured in this movie were designed by none other than Reebok Shoes Company; Manish Arora, who has designed the Fish Fry range of shoes for Reebok; Scarlett Johansson, who is the brand ambassador for Reebok and promotes the Hearts range of shoes; Jay-Z, who was the first non-athlete to recieve a signature Reebok shoe - I knowingly didn't include any athletes :))

2. Palk Strait (Other acceptable answers are Adam's Bridge, Rama Bridge, Sethusamudram Project)

The two quiz no-early-bird jinx has been broken and we finally have an early bird winner this time. Thanks for the great response shown. Keep flooding my mailbox the same way. The TRUTH-SEEKERs for this round are :-

Nishit Ganatra - 3 (early bird)
Ullash Gutgutia - 2
Praveen - 2
Sadashiv N - 1
Sandeep Kumar - 1
Anand Shankar - 1
Ais Dev - 1
Neelu Tripathy - 1
Sabarish Senthil - 1
Sandipan Chakravarty - 1

Congratulations to all of you. Check out the updated cumulative scores in the The Cumulative Scores link.

Ninth Gate

Here are the questions for this episode of Retinal Cerebrations. Send your answers to hookonthedot@gmail.com before 27th November, 6:00 A.M.(GMT). Don't forget to read the RULES POST to see how you score points in this quiz before sending the answers. I will be back with the answers, scores and the next quiz on 27th Nov.

Here we go...

1. Connect.

2. Identify what is being shown in this satellite image.(Clue: It's been in news for sometime now)

Answers to 8 MM

The answers are:

1. Catwoman. (From top in clockwise manner:- Bob Kane, who along with Bill Finger created the character; Halle Berry, who portrayed the character in the movie of the same name; Michelle Pfeiffer, who portrayed the character in the movie Batman Returns).

2. Newton's Cradle or Newton's Balls, a device used to demonstrated the conservation of momentum and energy.

This is second time in a row that there have been no all correct replies. So nobody gets the early bird bonus. The TRUTH-SEEKERs for this round are :-

Husain Poonawala - 1
Priya Kamala - 1
VIAC - 1
Anindip Dwari - 1

Congratulations to all of you. Check out the updated cumulative scores in the The Cumulative Scores link.

8 MM

Here are the questions for this episode of Retinal Cerebrations. Send your answers to hookonthedot@gmail.com before 23rd November, 6:00 A.M.(GMT). Don't forget to read the RULES POST to see how you score points in this quiz before sending the answers. I will be back with the answers, scores and the next quiz on 23rd Nov.

Here we go...

1. Connect.

2. Identify this particular device/apparatus. (Clue: Think Scientific laws)

Answers to Seven Samurai

Sorry for the delay in posting the answers. The answers are:

1. Benetton. (From top in clockwise order:- Luciano Benetton, the chairman of the Benetton Group; Oliviero Toscani, who was responsible for designing the controversial Benetton ads from 1982 - 2000; Michael Schumacher who won his first F1 driver championship with Benetton Ford racing team.)

2. Bindeez toy, also known as Aqua dots, which was awarded the Australian Toy of the year in 2007 and among many surveys was named as one of the 12 best toys of 2007. This was in news recently in news after being withdrawn from all global markets after some children took ill because of swallowing the beads.

The questions this time proved to be extremely tough as I got lot of wrong replies. The TRUTH-SEEKER for this round is :-

Anant Singhania - 1

Check out the updated cumulative scores in the The Cumulative Scores link. I will be back with the new questions in a day.

Seven Samurai

Here are the questions for this episode of Retinal Cerebrations. Send your answers to hookonthedot@gmail.com before 17th November, 6:00 A.M.(GMT). Don't forget to read the RULES POST to see how you score points in this quiz before sending the answers. I will be back with the answers, scores and the next quiz on 17th Nov.

Here we go...

1. Connect.

2. Identify. ( An Easy One - Making amends for the tough picture in the last quiz)

Answers to Sixth Sense

The answers are :

1. Dhoni (From top in clockwise direction:- Dhoni is a special type of boat used in Maldives (I have no idea if Dhoni gets his name from there or gives his name to it !!!); MS Dhoni was the MTV youth icon of year 2006; Brylcreem was one of the first ads Dhoni signed for (ala another great indian wicketkeeper Farookh Engineer)).

2. Only one person got it right. This character is Barney Google seen here with his pet Spark Plug. He is one of the 20 comic characters immortalized by the comic strip classic series of commemorative stamps in the US.

Dhoni seems to be probably next most popular cricketer after Sachin as almost everyone cracked the first one easily. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for the great response to this series of quizzes and for taking the site hits past 1000. I will try to make these quizzes as interesting as possible. Your suggestions are welcome and do mail them to hookonthedot@gmail.com .

The TRUTH-SEEKERS for this round:-

Sandipan Chakravarty - 3 (early bird)
Shiv Anant Tayal - 1
Aditya Modi - 1
Praveen - 1
Kamal Rathi - 1
Sneha ranjan - 1
Abhishek Sahay - 1
Husain Poonawala - 1
Venkatesh - 1
Sharat Nambissan - 1
Shyam Naren - 1
Nishit Ganatra - 1
Roshan Lal Anand - 1
Vipul Dassani - 1

Check out the updated cumulative scores in the The Cumulative Scores link.

Sixth Sense

Here are the questions for this episode of Retinal Cerebrations. Send your answers to hookonthedot@gmail.com before 13th November, 8:00 A.M.(GMT). Don't forget to read the RULES POST to see how you score points in this quiz before sending the answers. I will be back with the answers, scores and the next quiz on 13th Nov.

Here we go...

1. Connect.

2. Identify this Comic Strip character.(Clue: Think internet)

Answers to Fifth Element

The answers are:

1. Samsonite (From top in clockwise direction:- Alicia Keys dedicated the song Samsonite Man from her album The Diary of Alicia Keys to the luxury brand; American Tourister which was acquired by Samsonite; Lacoste which has given Samsonite the worldwide license to design its bags)

2. Probably the most recognizable person in the world - Charlie Chaplin (though he is pretty unrecognizable here)

The TRUTH-SEEKERS for this round are:-

Nishit Ganatra - 3 (q2: by any chance ? - ofcourse dude)(early bird)
Sandipan Chakravarty - 2
Chetan Prusty - 2
Sadashiv N - 2
Gaurav Jindal - 1
Varun Reddy - 1
Varun - 1
Kamal Rathi - 1
Vivek Venugopalan - 1
Srihari K - 1
Anirudh Venky - 1
K.V.Krishnamurthy - 1
Neethu Ramachandra - 0.5 (you gave me everything except for the connection for q1)

Check out the updated cumulative scores in the The Cumulative Scores link.

Fifth Element

Here are the questions for this episode of Retinal Cerebrations. After two seemingly tough questions in the last round, this time I have brought in two rather easy ones. Send your answers to hookonthedot@gmail.com before 10th November, 6:00 A.M.(GMT). Don't forget to read the RULES POST to see how you score points in this quiz before sending the answers. I will be back with the answers, scores and the next quiz on 10th Nov.

Here we go...

1. Connect.

2. Seems familiar??? Who's this famous celebrity?.

How to Score - Changes

Upon requests from several people, I am changing the scoring pattern for the quizzes. For more information check out the RULES link. The previous scores have been accordingly updated as per the new format.

Answers to Fantastic Four

The answers are:

1. The connection is all their respective identities and images are protected by CMG Worldwide.(From top left: Arthur Ashe, Mahatma Gandhi, Ingrid Bergman, Malcolm X, Marilyn Monroe and Mark Twain)

2. Larry King.

The TRUTH-SEEKERS for this round are:-
Tathagata - 1
Chetan Prusty - 1

Check out the updated cumulative scores in the The Cumulative Scores link.

Fantastic Four

Here are the questions for this episode of Retinal Cerebrations. Send your answers to hookonthedot@gmail.com before 6th November, 6:00 A.M.(GMT). Don't forget to read the RULES POST to see how you score points in this quiz before sending the answers. I will be back with the answers, scores and the next quiz on 6th Nov.

Here we go...

1. Connect these six people with something particular. Remember they are part of a long list.

2. Identify this person whose mug shot is shown.

Podium Standings

After an overwhelming response, there are lots of new entrants in the podium this week. The Cumulative Scores with scores attained in the previous quiz in brackets:

1.  Sandipan Chakravarty - 23 (1) 
2.  Sabarish Senthil - 11.5 (2)
3.  Chetan Prusty - 11
4.  Nishit Ganatra - 9
5.  Siddharth Jain - 7.5
6.  Tathagata - 7 
     VIAC - 7 
     Srinivas Rajagopal - 7 
7.  Ullash Gutgutia - 4
     Pranesh Prakash - 4
     Bhavin Vora - 4
8.  Priya Kamala - 4.5 (2)
9.  Nikhil Lasrado - 3.5 
10.Sudarshan Mohan - 3
    Abhishek Sahay - 3
    Sadashiv N - 3
    Manish Achuth - 3
    Praveen - 3
    Nishanth Raman - 3
    Brian D'Souza - 3
    Karan S - 3 
    Anubhav chatterjee - 3
  Sriram Gopalaswamy - 3 (3)
    Sylvian Patrick - 3 (3)
11.Sundari - 2.5  
    Sucharit Katyal - 2.5 
12.Varun Agarwal - 2
    Mathew Vargese - 2
    Kamal Rathi - 2
    Tirumal Chamarti - 2
    Husain Poonawala - 2
    Shyam Naren - 2
    Nishanth Jayarajan - 2
    Mit Chowdhury - 2
    Rajiv D'Silva - 2
    Prahlad S - 2
    Pratik Shukla - 2
    Varun - 2
    Saket Ranjan - 2
    Thomas Mathew - 2
    R.Varun Krishna - 2 
    Rishabh Kaul - 2 
    Ninad W - 2 
    Arun Thulasi - 2
    Shubhendu Saha - 2 (2)
    Preshanth Sampath - 2 (2)   
    Sharath Bhagavan - 2 (2)
    Raji Muthukrishnan - 2 (2)
    Batty Bryant - 2 (1)
    Sayantan Bose - 2 (1)
13.Gaurav Jindal - 1
    Varun Reddy - 1
    Vivek Venugopalan - 1
    Srihari K - 1
    Anirudh Venky - 1
    K.V.Krishnamurthy - 1
    Shiv Anant Tayal - 1
    Aditya Modi - 1
    Sneha ranjan - 1
    Venkatesh - 1
    Sharat Nambissan - 1
    Roshan Lal Anand - 1
    Anant Singhania - 1
    Anandip Dwari - 1
    Sandeep Kumar - 1
    Anand Shankar - 1
    Ais Dev - 1
    Neelu Tripathy - 1
    Vibhash Awasthi - 1
    Parag Lokhande - 1
    Shrinidhi Rai - 1
    Susilkumars Sundaravaradan - 1
    Ajay Sahoo -1
    Vivek Acharya - 1
    Souvik Mandal - 1
    Manjit Mohanty - 1
    Rajkamal Vasu - 1
    Niranjan Salimath - 1
    Nikhil - 1
    Dhruv Mangal - 1
    Prateek Vijayavargia - 1
    Santanu Dey - 1
    Shishir Shivhare - 1
    Mohammed Zuber - 1
    Venkatasubramanian Ramachandran - 1
    Kshira Saagar - 1
    Jagadish Mahendran - 1
    Nitin Nair - 1 (1)
    Uttam Padukone - 1 (1)
    barb rose - 1 (1)
    Dwarkanath - 1 (1)
    Santoshv - 1 (1)
    Bhargav Shastry - 1 (1)
    Jitaditya Narzary - 1 (1)
    Arun Arumugham - 1 (1)
    S Srinath - 1 (1)
    Amit Singh - 1 (1)
    Anand Babu - 1 (1)
14.Neethu Ramachandra - 0.5

Answers to Three Musketeers

The answers are :

1. The connection is Sherlock Holmes. (From top left: Lord Swaraj Paul who is famously called Baron of Baker Street, Baker Street being the place where the fictitious Holmes lived; Scotland Yard whose criminal database is known as Home Office Large Major Enquiry System(HOLMES); Royal Society of Chemistry, Holmes was the first and probably only fictional character to be inducted; Strand Magazine where it was published for the first time.)

2. Lady Kalla, a single edition watch designed by Vacheron Constantin, given as special wedding gift to the late Princess Diana. Carved from 18-carat white gold, the watch was made of 108 emerald-cut, perfectly matched diamonds, with 26 more on the dial, adding up to 30 carats of diamonds with 3,172 facets. It cost $500,000, and it is obviously worth a lot more now. Anyone wants to buy!!!

The TRUTH-SEEKERS for this round are:
Sandipan Chakravarty - 2
Tirumal Chamarti - 2
Anubhav chatterjee - 1
Abhishek Sahay - 2
Tathagata - 3 (Early bird)

Way to go quizzers. Check out the next quiz in my post later today.