Daily Question #134

Easy. The band X took its name from the man in the pic. Identify X.

Cracked by Rithwik and Navin!!

Answer : Duran Duran, named after Dr.Durand Durand from the 1968 movie Barbarella.

Daily Question #126

Sitter. I simply had to post this question. What?

Cracked by Pandora, Navin, Debasish, kcgadiyar and Manish!!

Answer : Incidents/people mentioned in Billy Joel's song We Didn't Start the Fire

Daily Question #118

Yet another entertainment question. B connects A and C. Identify all and explain.

Cracked (almost) by Pandora, saurabh and Karthik!

Answer : A - Leonard Skinner, physical-education teacher at Robert E. Lee High School after whom the band Lynyrd Skynyrd was named.
B - Sweet Home Alabama
C - Con Air

The song Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd is featured in the movie Con Air.

Daily Question #110

What is being shown?

Cracked by 9 of you!! Good work!

Answer : Michael Jackson-related searches on Google was first interpreted as an attack on its service. The spike in queries began at about 2:45 p.m. PDT Thursday, and Google thought the traffic was an attack for about 25 minutes.

Daily Question #105

X, randomly, renamed themselves after the phenomenon depicted in the following pic (enlarge for better view). Identify X.

Cracked by lordmaldy, Sandipan, triviafreak, yossarian, Abhinav and Kamal Rathi!!

Answer : X - R.E.M

Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is a normal stage of sleep characterized by rapid movements of the eyes. The band members selected "R.E.M" as their name, randomly from the dictionary.