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QS 147

January 17th, 2010

What? Where?

147

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4 Hittites and 2 Missises
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QS 137

January 6th, 2010

On the homepage of whose website will you find the following illustration?

A
137

Cracked by Kaushik, Rauhl, Kamal Rathi, Achaiah, Varun Shenoy, John Rebus, Rithwik, Siddharth Mohapatra, Debasish and Mayura
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QS 78

November 6th, 2009

What unenvious and exhaustive list do they A and B belong to?

Connect C (the event, not personality) to one of them and give me the funda

A
78a

B
78b

C
78c

Clue: First day of the month

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QS 66

October 25th, 2009

Find the latest weekly here

A bit busy, hence a rather dull question..

What are they? What were they? What movie was it prominently featured in?

66

Answer: Building on Achaiah’s answer – The Old retired gasometers in Vienna which are now being used as a kind of self contained housing complex. featured in The Living Daylights

Answered by Achaiah, Mayura, Nithin and Appu

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QS 60

October 18th, 2009

These “scuba divers” have been in the news recently. Who are they and what is the Indian connection?

60A

60b

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QS 40

September 27th, 2009

Clue Added to yesterday’s question. Give it another shot

A:B::C:D::E:F::G:?

A
40A

B
40b

C
40c

D
40d

E
40e

F
40f

G
40g

Answer Connect is names given to defense strategies employed by lawyers to save their clients
Twinkie Defence (a) – to save Dan White (portrayed by Josh Brolin(b) in Milk)
King Kong defence – The Pirate Bay(d)
Idiot defense or Sergeant Schultz(e) defense – Bernie Ebbers(f)

This was later parodied in Southpark where a new defense strategy called the Chewbacca defense (Peter Mayhew(g) played Chewbecca) is used by Johnnie Cochran on behalf of a record company against Chef

Answered correctly by Appu only

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