Answers

OQ #66:

1. Mats Wilander and Sting.

went uncracked.

2. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.

Arjun Murali and Kartik Shankar get it

3. George Mallory and his wife Ruth (Thomas Gray wrote the poem Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard, the title of Jeffrey Archer's book Paths of Glory is from here, the book is based on Mallory's life.)

cracked by Kartik Shankar and Arjun Murali

4.

a) Eric Clapton

cracked by Kartik and Omkar

b) Audrey Hepburn

uncracked

c) Bonnie and Clyde

uncracked, surprisingly

d) Jimmy Page

Kartik and Omkar.

OQ #67 will be up in a couple of days. See you guys tomorrow at Mahaquizzer :)

OQ #66

1. He traded his French Open trophy with someone and got a Grammy award in exchange. Name both the fellows.

2. Complete the list. More people can be added.

John Hunt, George Lowe, Alfred Gregory, Tom Bourdillon, Charles Evans, X & Y.

3. Continuing on a similar vein as the previous question, identify the people in the picture.

Clue: Thomas Gray.

4. Open theme: Famous people in their younger days.

Identify.

a)

b)

c)

d)

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OQ #65:

1. They all voiced Mammy Two-Shoes from Tom & Jerry.

cracked by Jun and Shtud Bhai.

2. He is the only person to take a hat-trick in both the innings of a test match/Only player to take two hat-tricks in the same match. Took both the hat-tricks during the same day (28th may, 1912) against SA in the First test of the famous Triangular Tournament.

3. Kamala Das/Kamala Surraiya.

cracked by Jun, Meenakshi, Ashwini and somebody named Nobody :-/

4. Airtel.

cracked by Jun and Shtud alone, surprisingly.

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OQ #65

Qns contrib Arjun Murali and myself

1. Connect the three women

Lillian Randolph

Thea Vidale

June Foray

2. The person in the pic is Jimmy Matthews, who played cricket for Australia during the 1911-12 season. He is till now the only person to achieve something in the game. What did he do?

3. She was born in Thrissur in 1934. Her father was a former editor of Mathrubhumi. When she wished to begin writing, her husband supported her decision to augment the family's income. She would often wait until nightfall after her family had gone to sleep and would write until morning."There was only the kitchen table where I would cut vegetables, and after all the plates and things were cleared, I would sit there and start typing". Her first book was Summer in Calcutta in which she wrote chiefly of love and betrayal. She died on May 31st, 2009.

Who this be?

4. Once again, easy one to finish with.

Which company's symbol was named the Wave after a 6 month online contest? The winning entry was by Mukesh Chauhan, a Delhi engineer.

Answers

OQ #64:

1. She outed Arnold Schwarzzen-whatever-his-spelling-is's scandalous affairs. Some say that even Tiger Woods is no match for Arnie's sexploits.

cracked by GSK, Ameya, Meenakshi, Omkar.

2. Wafah Dufour (orig. Wafah bin Laden, she took her mother's maiden name), one of the 300 nieces and nephews of one Mr. Osama bin Laden.

cracked by the same people.

3. Mick Jagger and AR Rahman, the connect being the band Super Heavy.

cracked by the same people again

OQ #64

1. The lady in the picture is 50 year old Mildred Baena, mother of four. Question is, why is she in the news currently?

2. NSFW? Identify, and give me the name of her world-renown uncle.

3. Easy one to finish with.

Dave Stewart, Damien Marley, Joss Stone, X and Y. Complete the list, and connect.