Quiz of the Day - 31 July 2012

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Question of a different kind for the daily quiz.

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Pictured on the right hand side, is a memorial, which, one can see at Matauri Bay, New Zealand. This was erected by the people and the government of New Zealand for an incidence involving French secret agents.

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Identify the monument and the incidence, which led to the erection of this memorial.

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Answer: Time for the answer. The memorial was set up for the international activists group Greenpeace's erstwhile lead vessel, Rainbow Warrior, at Matauri Bay, New Zealand. Rainbow Warrior was the lead ship in the protest against France's planned nuclear tests in one of it's territories in the Pacific region. To thwart any protest against the Government of France, a secret operation was planned and given the go ahead from Paris. When anchored at Matauri Bay, inside New Zealand's territorial water, it was sunk by the French Secret Services agents.
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Congratulations to Dela and Ali for giving the right answer! :)
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Quiz of the Day - 30 July 2012

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We travel to SW19 again for the daily quiz, as the players are back there, this time, for Olympics glory.

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A legendary player is shown in the photograph on the right hand side, playing in the gentlemen's final at the Wimbledon.

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Identify the tennis player in the photo.

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Answer: The photograph is of Henry Wilfred "Bunny" Austin playing in the 1938 Wimbledon Gentleman's Final Match, the last British player to do so.

Quiz of the Day - 29 July 2012

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Daily quiz, today, takes us to the inside of a hangar.

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What you see in the photograph on the right hand side, is a jet engine powered vehicle (the word vehicle is used in a medium neutral way) and a world record holder in a certain category.

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You have to simply identify the name of the photographed vehicle, along with the record it holds.

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Answer: The vehicle is called ThrustSSC (or Thrust SSC, Thrust supersonic car). It is a British jet-propelled car developed by Richard Noble, Glynne Bowsher, Ron Ayers and Jeremy Bliss. It  holds the World Land Speed Record, set on 15 October 1997, when it achieved a speed of 1,228 km/h (763 mph) and became the first car to officially break the sound barrier.
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Congratulations to Anindya Mozumdar and Ali for getting the answer right.

Quiz of the Day - 28 July 2012

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Back to another controversial advertisement for the daily quiz.

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On the right hand side, you can see the outdoor advertisement for something, titled "White is coming". It generated a lot of controversy and heat, due to its suggestive content. As the picture shows a white blonde (probably) girl chocking a hapless black girl, and combined with its tagline "White is coming", was seen as a racial statement, depicting the supremacy of people with white skin over the persons with black skin colors. The controversy generated, forced the company to withdraw the ad from the market.

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You have to simply identify the name of the company and the product range for which the advertisement had been published.

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Answer: The answer is Sony PSP. Sony was about to launch a white colored model of PSP and this ad was part of the product launch campaign. However, after people started complaining about the racist overtones of the ad, Sony withdrew the ad from OOH Media.
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Congratulations to Samanway Banerjee, Quizster, Atanu and Ali for cracking the question! :)

Quiz of the Day - 27 July 2012

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Today's daily quiz question is probably a child's play for serious quizzers.

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The black and white photograph that you can see on the right hand side, was taken during the first meeting of the boys pictured. The duo ultimately went on to become very successful and famous.

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Identify both the persons.

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Answer: The kids pictured are Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, who were class-friends during school days. After their families moved apart, both had a chance meeting and their friendship grew again. In 1962, they formed The Rolling Stones, one of the most acclaimed and successful rock music bands in the history.
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Congratulations to Ali for getting this right! Like your namesake, I believe that you can also use those famous lines, "I am the best!" 

Quiz of the Day - 26 July 2012

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Let's go back some way up the time for the daily quiz question of the day.

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The snap on the right hand side shows an endorsement and a print advertisement copy for Lux Toilet Soap. The endorser, an actress, a film star was quite charming in her day.

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All you have to do, is identify the lady who had endorsed the product. 

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Answer: Time for the answer, as usual. The actress is none other than the classic beauty Leela Chitnis. In an early example of brand endorsements, she is seen here endorsing the Lux Toilet Soap from Hindustan Lever Ltd.
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Congratulations to Ali for cracking this! Great going man! :)

Quiz of the Day - 25 July 2012

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CERN was in the news recently due to the so called "god particle", so I thought about including the "goddesses" from CERN for the daily quiz.

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On the right hand side, what you can see, is a poster of Les Horribles Cernettes, ("The Horrible CERN Girls"), which is an all-female parody pop group, self-labelled "the one and only High Energy Rock Band", founded by employees of CERN which performs at CERN and other HEP related events. Their musical style is often described as doo-wop. The initials of their name, LHC, are the same as those of the Large Hadron Collider which was later built at CERN.

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That was the introduction part. Now coming to the business end, you will have to tell me, the significance of the picture concerned.

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Answer: Its the time for the answer. And, the answer is - This photo of the LCH band members was the first ever picture of a band to be published on the Internet. The picture was edited using Photoshop 1.0 and was uploaded in the year 1992.
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Congratulations to Pranat Kashyap and Kapinjal Chowdhury for correctly answering the question! :)

Quiz of the Day - 24 July 2012

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How about a little wildlife for the daily quiz?

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The emblem on the right hand side is enough to strike fear in the minds of viewers. Identify the organization which used this emblem for a period of time in the 1960's. 

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Answer: Yes, Pranat Kashyap, you are absolutely right. This particular emblem had been used by the original Black Panther Party of the USA in the 1960s to symbolize the Black Panther Power.