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.

Three Musketeers

So, finally, questions are ready to roll. Send your answers to hookonthedot@gmail.com before 2nd 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 2nd Nov.

Here we go...

1. Connect.

2. For whom was this watch designed and name the brand? (clue: This was a wedding gift for a celebrity and was one of the few things recovered from that person's dead body)

Quizzing Re-incarnated

After a long hiatus, I am back to my quizzing ways. There will be some small changes in the way this quiz will now be run. The new rules for this quiz are:

1. There will be one connection question and a pictorial question in every quiz. Sometimes there might be a bonus question carrying 1 point.
2. Quizzers will have to reply the answers back within the mentioned period to the mail id mentioned.
3. Keep coming for more quizzes every time because apart from individual quiz score count, I would also be maintaining the overall cumulative scores.
4. The point scoring system is as follows: each connection question carries 1 point and the pictorial question carries 1 point. The first all correct reply also gets an additional 1 point.
5. The pictures are normally of 800 x 600 resolution so you can either do a view image (mozilla) or copy the picture (other browsers) to view the bigger image.

The quiz begins today. So get ready for exploiting your gray cells!!!

Answers to Part Deux

The answers are :-

1. The connection is Adolf Hitler.
( From top left: Charlie Chaplin whose character in The Great Dictator was a parody of Hitler, Eva Braun who was Hitler's girlfriend and Yertle the Turtle, a cartoon character based on Hitler)

2. The connection is only three Indians featuring in the 20 most influential Asians of the 20th century declared by TIME magazine.
( From left: Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore and M.S. Swaminathan, the person behind the Green Revolution)

3. The connection is the only Indians to take all the 10 wickets in an innings on Indian soil.
( From left : Anil Kumble, Debashish Mohanty and Subhas Gupte)

The truth-seeker for this quiz -
Golak Bihari Sarangi - 2.