No. 61: Connect

60: XKCD on what?

Answer : Guitar Hero.

59: What's this called?

Be specific. I don't want descriptions.
Answer : Spider Walk.

58: Textual One

If you cover a bulb in a handkerchief and stamp it, thus crushing it and the rest of the hall screams "Mazel Tov!", what just happened to you?
Answer : You got married jewish style.

No. 57: Connect:

What connects all these pictures?
Dawood Ibrahim.

No. 56: Connect

What connects these two creatures (and Ayush)?
Answer : Dumbo.
A is Disney's dumbo the elephant.
B is the dunbo octopus.
Ayush is a dumbo!

No. 55: ID her.

Its hard enough to make it once. But to assume a fake name and make it thrice is just fantastic. Who is she?
Answer : Marilyn Waltz, three time playboy center fold girl.

No. 54: Shot @ the Scoreboard

Questions 54 to 58 mark the opening of the Scoreboard. This is for December. Regular updates shall follow(hopefully).

This is X. He is a tribute to Y, who is the 13th greatest villain of all time. Give both X and Y. Part points.
Answer : X is auto from WALL-E
Y is HAL 9000 from A.C. Clarke's 2001 : A Space Oddessy

No. 53

A
B

A is named after B. What B is holding in her hands may be a clue. A is a veriety of an optical illusion owing to total internal reflection. Give me both A and B.

No. 52

Connect!

Keg-O-Lager VII

Looks like winning is getting habitual @ F.Y.I:
Here we go again...

1. Athith and Shubham(yes those no good 9th std scoundrels!) won TWO VAIOs at the Texas Instruments Quiz National Finals. Well done buggers.

2. Alpha-Q placed second in the School category @ Landmark '09.

Cheers to the winners...

No. 51

Identify musical instrument
Answer: Chapman Stick
Cracked By: Abhilash, Disastrousreflections and Chandrashekar.

No. 50:

Who is captured beautifully in multi-shot? What did he successfully do?
Answer: Mike Metzger performing a motorcycle back-flip across the Casear's Palace Fountains at Las Vegas.
Cracked by: Madhu, Varsha(partly)

Keg-O-Lager VI

We have a huge list of achievements to cover:

Athith and Shubham won the Hindu young world quiz and made it to the National Finals.
Alpha-Q won the Gen Quiz at Equinox @ SJPUC.
Suvesh, Vishwas and Vishal won the Music Quiz at Equinox.
Tiwari, Ayush and I placed 2nd in the Music Quiz at Equinox.

Vineeth and Soda won the Sr.Quiz at New Horizon.
Alpha-Q won the Junior Quiz at New Horizon.
Suvesh and Vishal placed 2nd at the Junior Quiz at New Horizon.

Cheers to all....

Thank You...

The FYI meet on 6th Nov was very eventful. Thank you all for making it a success. We saw some new faces and also gave away cash prizes for the first time(thus starting a new tradition of giving money under the table to the winners).

Thanks to Babu for "Write, Scratch, Erase... Again". It was a lot of fun andquestions were aces! We were all surprised to see so many chicks in Babu's presentation though... I guess the guy is finally growing up! Homo and Srikanth came to FYI for the first time and won... in style. But the margin was small. The runners up were all separated by a maximum of 1.5 points or 1 star.

The FYI Open was super. Brunzo and I thank everyone who took part. Especially the new guys. The prelims saw the lowest high score so far(say that 5 times quickly)- 10.5 on 25. Muhahaha!

Vineeth, Vinay, Vijay(V3??) Homo and Srikanth were the only strangers to the finals. Athreya, Shreyas and Swaroop, the usual suspects were there. For the first time, a school team made it on stage. I am proud to say that they are my juniors from Carmel! Well done guys... Jayanth and Aditya. The highlight though, was Deepak teaming up with Baspure! Champions from FYI2 and FYI3 combined and as expected, stole the show at FYI4...
Though there were no jigs from Baspure's end this time, there was a brilliant crack on the theme at stage I which earned him the honorary FYI title of "Theme-appa". Hahaha...

Thank you everyone for coming and keep quizzing.
Cheers!

The F.Y.I Open 2009

Hey Guys...
Its finally time...
F.Y.I brings you its second outing of the year, the F.Y.I Open 2009. There will be 2 quizzing events. The details are as follows:

Date: Friday, November 6, 2009.

Venue: Restaurant Gokul Veg. DVG Road(Opposite Vittal Garments), Gandhi Bazar, Bangalore - 560 004.

1. Write Scratch Erase... Again

This is a written quiz. This time there is a small change. The event is for teams of TWO.
Only one set of written questions and the best team wins.

Time: 1500 hrs
QM: Babumatic

2. The F.Y.I Open Winter '09

This is our regular all time favorite quiz. As usual, Teams of TWO. Two stages of quizzing... A written prelims will be followed by a Finals. Best 6 teams battle it out on stage. Prizes for top 3 finishers(hopefully!). The event will start right after the first quiz.

Time: 1630 hrs
QM's: Brunzo and Suraj

* Reg fee of Rs 50 per event will be collected. Prizes will be announced and given on the spot.
** Please Register before hand with Suraj @ psycho.suraj@gmail.com or call @ 9901657662.

Hoping to see a HUGE turnout... Spread the word like wild fire!

FYI Bangalore

Dissolve!

I regret to inform that the scoreboard for October will be dissolved.
This is because FYI 4 is just around the corner (Nov 6th tentatively). Watch out for the poster. 24 hrs at most and its time to spread the word folks. We're about to go into overdrive and expect all of you to hang on the the crazy train as it speeds outta the station! Hang on tight...

[#49: We're back]

A minesweeper's best friend. What's this?
Answer: Bangalore Torpedo

the nxt question....i frgot the question number!

Jess was a boxing promoter whose achievements included co-promoting a bout in 1915 between Jess Willard and Jack Johnson. In 1926, while working with Tex Rickard , he started promoting boxing in Madison Square Garden in New York. They started an association that went on to be a very famous organization. Jess died and his son was brought in to replace him. Now, Jess' son and his family OWN the association. This association, got into a name fight with a famous NGO and thus they had to rename themselves,
What association?

Ans: WWE

Questions Withheld!

Exams Suck!
They Suck!
I hate exams!
Exams suck the blood out of you. Exams are illegal and ought to be banned. Exams Suck!

Due to above listed reasons, there shall be no questions posted from 7th October to 16th October 2009. I'm sorry but Exams suck. If Brunzo by god's graze discovers what a computer is, then you might have a few questions here and there bu till then... I'm sorry.

P.S: Exams Suck!

[#47: Identify The Beauty]

Answer: NASA's X43 SCRAMJET. Can reach upto Mach 12.
Cracked by: Nihar, Akshay, Vijay & Deepak

[# 46: Gods of sketch]

Id Group.
Answer: The Python/ Monty Python and the Flying Circus
Cracked by: Varsha, Ayush, Athreya, Akshay & Vijay.

[# 45:]

ID both characters for 5 pts each.
Answer: Prometheus and Bob from Kablaam!
Cracked by: Suvesh, Akshay and madhu.

[#44: One word connect]

[#43: F.Y.i without sex? Impossible!]

Hehehe... well what can I say? I just had to throw one in! This is something the Victorians started. (I love those horny buggers). What is this practice called as?

Answer: The practice of replacing parts of a photo or painting with flesh and getting a kick out of feeling that flesh up is called Furtling.
Goes Uncracked(as expected)...

[#42: Connect]

A
B


A are one of the pioneers of a certain genre and are named after B's nickname. Connect.

Answer: A is the Grunge band Green River
B is Leon Ridgway, the Green River Killer. A is named after B.
Connect is Green River

Cracked by: Ayush. Well done dude...

[#41: ID the strange breed]

Cryptic clue: Charlie met his life @ India's iPhone 3G service center!!
PS: For the last time damn it, I'm sober.

Answer: Cryptic clue solves thus... Charlie met his life= Charlie Brown and Metlife... Snoopy the Beagle is common to them. India's iPhone 3G = Vodafone = Pug.
Beagle + Pug = Pugle which is the answer.

Cracked by: Ayush. Only crack. Well done.

[#40: Intelligent Guess]

Believed by some to be the best of its kind in the world because if its efficiency. This is the seal of which organisation?

Answer: This is MOSSAD. Israel's intelligence agency. The Jewish candlesticks in the middle was supposed to be a hint.
Cracked By: Athith, Deepak, Ayush and Suvesh.

The Month of Octavius! [# 39]

New questions for a new season. get cracking guys. Tell me which classy film production bears this logo...
Answer: Makers of POC... Jerry Bruckheimer Films.
Cracked by: Deepak, Ayush, Harsha and Suvesh.

Keg-O-Lager V: Magna Christa

If I had to play a song at the end of our conquest at Christ Junior College on 24th & 25th Sept, I'd play Pantera's Domination. Because as we all know, F.Y.i dominated like never before at Magna Christa '09.

24th saw the General Quiz. Srimukh, Ani and Pranav finished first for SKCH while Alpha-Q came 2nd and Brunzo cleaned up the tail with Satwik and Diwakar. All 3 winners from F.Y.i. I even proudly grabbed the mike at the end of the roller-coaster quiz and showed off my gang to all dumbfounded onlookers. Muhaha...

25th was the "Science" quiz with questions about Robert Koch, Golden Hour Photography and other questions on similar levels on the pain scale which made us flinch at alarming rates. Taking 2 negatives on the buzzer, Alpha-Q came in 4th. But Srimukh and gang managed to come in 1st again(Surprise!!) while Brunzo and gang came in 2nd. Swaroop and Shreyas came in 3rd thus making it a top 4 F.Y.i finish. Pasted, belted, creamed and terminated? I think so!
May the booze flow like water... Cheers!

P.S: If Ernst Grafenberg would be revealed, we would have nailed the parts of the body question. Who says perversion is bad?

Scoreboard for the month of September

Here are the scores as they stand at the end of the first par of F.Y.i's monthly roll of questions. Vijay tops the scoreboard and will receive a little token of appreciation at the next F.Y.i meet( one of the Fridays in October end) i.e if he turns up(hehe...). Congratulations Vijay. Well done to all you other crack-heads and better luck in October. You do realize the next tabulation will take place on Halloween. So all you spooks, get cracking.

Vijay (220 pts)

Athith (130 pts)

Deepak (115 pts)

Govind (115pts)

Harshavardhan (95 pts)

Caveman (90 pts)

Chandrashekar (60 pts)

Abhilash (55 pts)

Varsha (40 pts)

Pallavi (40 pts)

Suvesh (40 pts)

Swaroop (40 pts)

Akshay (35 pts)

Udit (30 pts)

Athreya (30 pts)

Sharan (30 pts)

Avinash (30 pts)

Debashish (30 pts)

Vishwas (20 pts)

VJ (20 pts)

Bhargava (20 pts)

Madhu Kashyap (20 pts)

Madhusudhan (20 pts)

Homo (20 pts)

Nihar (20 pts)

Rithwik (15 pts)

Volga (10 pts)

Parikshit (10 pts)

Akshath (10 pts)

Elitequizclub (10 pts)

Suraj S (10 pts)

#37: Look hard!

One name in a particular industry connects both pics here. What one word?

Answer: Gibson. A is Les Paul after whom a string of guitars by Gibson Guitar Corp is named. B is Guitar Hero that uses Gibson guitars for the controllers.

Les Paul shall also be awarded points.
PS: I said Look hard because the answer is on the board behind Les.

Cracked By: Athith, Swaroop, Nihar, Bhargava, Vishwas and Madhu Kashyap.

#36:

Keeping it simple...Greetings for what?

Answer: Easter. The postcard shows Easter Rabbits and eggs.
Cracked By: Vijay, Athith, Caveman, Abhilash, Suvesh, Swaroop, Nihar, Sharan, Vishwas, Akshay, Madhu and Volga.

#35: Connect over 24 years!

A
B
C

A befell the same fate as B, 24 years after B's unlucky time thanks to C. Id and connect.

Answer:
A is Pantera's Dimebag Darrel
B is John Lennon
C is Nathan Gale, Dimebag's murderer.

The connect I was looking for(which nobody managed) was that Dimebag was shot on stage by Gale exactly 24 years after Lennon.

Part pts for IDing to: Vijay, Caveman and Akshay

#34: Housie!

This house in the painting inspired something else in black and white later on that became much more famous than the painting itself. What did this painting inspire?

Answer: This is House by the Railroad by Edward Hopper. I wanted the claim to fame. This is the house which inspired the Bates motel in Hitchcock's Psycho.

Cracked By: Vijay, Deepak, Debashish, Akshay.

Maximum Beneficium (# 33: )

Again....set of 5 questions. Bonus 15 for cracking all. All the best...

ID her and give me her claim to fame for doing something nobody else ever did. (5+5 pts)

Answer: She is Nora Miao. Only female to share a screen kiss with Bruce Lee.
Cracked by: Vijay, Deepak, Rithwik, Akshay.

#32: (S)poof!

Bart portraying role of ______? 5 pts.
Lisa in the audience, is pretty pissed of. Who is she supposed to be? 5 pts.

Answer: Bart is Amadeus Wolfgang Mozart. Lisa is Antonio Salieri. It as the same episode in which Lisa tries to grow a penis to inherit Homer's kingdom!!

Cracked by: Deepak, Govind, Abhilash, Pallavi, Suvesh and Avinash.

#31: Vroom!

Give me the claim to fame of this thing...

Answer: This is La Poderosa, The Norton 500 that Che Guevara used to travel around South America.
Cracked by: Swaroop and Govind

#30: Connect

AB
C


B belongs to A and shares its name with C. Connect...

Answer:
A is the movie Mandragora
B is the Mandrake root which belongs to the genus Mandragora
C is the comic strip Mandrake the Magician

The connect is Mandrake.
Cracked by: Suvesh, Athith, Govind & Abhilash.

# 29:

Mad magazine cover showing queer similarities between _______ & _______. Fill both blanks for 10 pts.

Answer: George Bush and Dr. Seuss.
Cracked by: Vijay, Govind, Abhilash, Pallavi, Avinash, Nihar and Sharan.

Maximum Beneficium (# 28: )

Logo of?
Questions 28 - 32 will be a part of a bonus set called Maximum Beneficium where you can score an added 15 points for cracking all 5 in the set. Happy cracking!

Answer:The Theosophical Society.
Cracked By: Sharan and Chandrashekar