Showing posts with label Geography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Geography. Show all posts

06 July, 2009

Daily Question #115

Simple. A is a city inspired by B. Identify both.




Cracked by 11 of you!!

Answer : Vice city (A) from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City inspired by Miami city (B).

11 May, 2009

Daily Question #59

Connect to a city.



Cracked by shrey, Rohan, Shrey Gupta, v.chandrashekar, priyanka and tarun!

Answer : Kolkata / Calcutta

- Garden of Eden (Eden Gardens)
- Calcutta Cup for rugby contest between England and Scotland
- Madhubala's famous song from the movie Howrah Bridge
- Logo of Mohun Bagan (based in Kolkata)
- Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids by Zana Briski (Academy award winning documentary about the children of prostitutes in Sonagachi, Kolkata's red light district)
- Dum Dum bullets after which Dum Dum region is named (Dum Dum airport)
- Logo of IIM Calcutta

11 April, 2009

Daily Question #30

Connect. Think lateral
Hint : Cricket and Geography


Cracked by V.Chandrashekar and avik!

Answer : English Counties

- Clark Kent ("Kent")
- Derby ("Derbyshire")
- Yorker ("Yorkshire")
- ! ("Middlesex")
- Lanka ("Lancashire")

07 April, 2009

Daily Question #26

Connect to a technique.
Hint : Named after a place.


Cracked by The Editor, Srini Rajagopal and Anand Shankar!

Answer : Monte Carlo method

- Monaco GP on the streets of Monte Carlo.
- The method can be illustrated as a game of battleship.
- Named after the Monte Carlo casino.
- Used extensively in the Manhattan Project (pic of Trinity test)