Daily Question #114

We are all familiar with the phenomenon shown below. Name the syndrome.

Uncracked!! Sad!

Answer : Student Syndrome

It refers to the phenomenon that many people will start to fully apply themselves to a task just at the last possible moment before a deadline.

Daily Question #106

Answers for Quiz Bonanza #3

The sporting term X was coined by A and is derived from B and C. Identify X.

Cracked by triviafreak and yossarian!!

Answer : Super Bowl

A - Lamar Hunt
B - Super Ball
C - Rose Bowl stadium

Hunt thought of the name after seeing his children playing with a toy called a Super Ball. The "bowl" term originated from the Rose Bowl Game, which was in turn named for the bowl-shaped stadium in which it is played.

Daily Question #97

X, invented by A, is a term that originated in 2003. The popularity and ease of organising X can be attributed to the rise of social networking sites. B is a famous instance of X while C is named after X. Identify X.

Cracked by gerimox, Sandipan Chakravarty, Navin Pai and triviafreak!!!

Answer: X- Flash Mob

A- Bill Wasik

B- Silent Disco

C- Flash Mob Computing.

Daily Question #66

Connect to a phrase/phenomenon.

PS : Quiz Bonanza #1 is still open.

Cracked by raghu, Vivek, Shrey, Mr.Q, Bad Ass Thambi and Rithwik!!

Answer: St.Elmo's Fire

It is an electrical weather phenomenon in which a glow appears around tall, sharp structures, and is sometimes seen on ships during thunderstorms. It is named after St. Erasmus (The Martyrdom of Saint Erasmus has been shown). The movie is called St.Elmo's Fire, and the phenomenon has also been featured in Tintin in Tibet.

Daily Question #54

Connect to a term. Lot of hints in pic.

Cracked by raghu, Ajay, A:Might and V.Chandrashekar!

Answer : McCarthyism is the politically motivated practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence. The term specifically describes activities associated with the period in the United States known as the Second Red Scare, lasting roughly from the late 1940s to the late 1950s and characterized by heightened fears of Communist influence on American institutions.

- Senator Joseph McCarthy after whom it is named
- Hollywood Ten/ Hollywood Blacklist who were denied employment due to their alleged communist influence
- The term was coined in this Washington Post cartoon by Herbert Block
- A 1947 comic book published by the Catechetical Guild Educational Society warning of the supposed dangers of a Communist takeover

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Daily Question #49

X which started with A and ended with B, was broken by C. Identify X.


Hint : X was named after this (pic below)

Went uncracked!!!

Answer: Curse of Tippecanoe

It is a term used to describe the pattern where from 1840 to 1960 each American President who had won the election in a year ending in zero died in office.

A- William Henry Harrison (elected in 1840)
B- John F Kennedy (elected in 1960)
C- Ronald Reagan (elected in 1980)
D- Battle of Tippecanoe

Daily Question #41

Connect to a person.

Cracked by V.Chandrashekar, Srini and aamaadmi! Great job!

Answer : Mae West

- Mae West Lips sofa by Salvador Dali
- Mae West life preserver jackets
- A parachute malfunction called Mae West
- Mae West curve

Daily Question #36

Identify the term X that originates from the practice shown in the pic. The video is a hint.

Uncracked!

Answer : Third Degree

- In Masonic lodges there are three degrees of membership; the first is called Entered Apprentice, the second Fellowcraft, and the third is master mason. When a candidate receives the third degree in a Masonic lodge, he is subjected to some activities that involve an interrogation and it is more physically challenging than the first two degrees. It is this interrogation that was the source of the name of the US police force's interrogation technique.

Daily Question #31

Connect to a biz cum entertainment related term.

Went Uncracked!

Answer : Reverse product placement i.e real life products inspired from fiction.

- Kwik-E-Mart from The Simpsons (set up by 7-Eleven)
- ACME communications from Acme corporation (Looney Tunes)
- Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. from Forrest Gump

Daily Question #22

Simply connect.

Hint : What's in a name?

Cracked by Rithwik alone!! Great job!

Answer : They all have units of measurement named after them.

- Fonzie from Happy Days, unit of coolness
- Lenat, unit of bogosity from the fictional field of Quantum Bogodynamics
- Warhol, unit of fame
- Smoot, height of Oliver R Smoot which was used to measure the length of Harvard bridge
- Helen (of Troy), unit of beauty

Daily Question #20

Connect to a law or just give funda. Though scary, the answer isn't scientific in nature. Also, there are five separate pics.

Cracked by the one and only Bad Ass Thambi! Hats Off!

Answer : Stigler's Law of eponymy ("No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.")

- Salmonella (Discovered by Theobald Smith, named after Daniel Salmon)
- Gaussian distribution ( Introduced by De Moivre, named after Carl Friedrich Gauss)
- Mandelbrot Set (Discovered by Pierre Fatou and Gaston Julia, named after Benoit Mandelbrot)
- Wheatstone Bridge (Invented by Samuel Christie, named after Charles Wheatstone)
- Leibniz formula for pi (Discovered by Madhava, named after Gottfried Leibniz)

Daily Question #9

Connect the pics to an english term with a sporting connotation.

Hint : The word was coined by the old man in the pic.

Cracked only by xyz. Brilliant work!

Answer : Astroturfing

- Houston Astrodome stadium after which AstroTurf is named.

- Lloyd Bentsen, who coined the term

- Blair Witch Project employed Astroturfing to publicize the movie

- National Smokers Alliance, an astroturf group created on behalf of Philip Morris

- People's Republic of China employed astroturfing bloggers known as "50 Cent Party"

Daily Question #3

What is going on?
Hint : Looking for an english term

Cracked by MrQ and Rithwik K. Well Done

Answer : Harakiri