#132: where does their allegiance lie?

identify these 2 footballers and the feat they achieved...

Good try Rohan, you could identify only one of them. No points.

Answer:
Luis Monti (top) and Attillio Demaria (bottom) are the only footballers to represented two different national teams, namely Argentina and Italy, at two different World Cups ,that of 1930 and 1934. Luis Monti has a distinction of being the only footballer to play in the final matches of both the editions representing two different nations.

#131: much obliged...

Connect.

Cracked by shiva. excellent work!

Answer: quoting shiva's answer - Connect is jeeves...ask jeeves was the original version of ask.com which was based on jeeves Bertie Wooster's fictional valet from the works of P. G. Wodehouse....n d Cheshire cat's voice in alice in wonderland was given by stephen fry who also played jeeves role in jeeves n wooster TV series..n den in that alan moore's league of extra ordinary gentleman jeeves's character appears in a segment...

#130 : What on earth....?

What does this picture depict?

P.S. The big bang theory enthusiasts will have it easy.

Cracked by:
rohan, navin pai, anshuman, v. chandrashekhar, kar295rocks, pranav.

easy one this. its schrodinger's cat experiment. for further reading go to wikipedia.

#129: I am your daddy...

When Linda Blair did the girl The Exorcist, they hired Mercedes McCambridge to do the voice of the devil coming out of her. And there was controversy as to whether Mercedes should get credit. I was one who thought no, she was special effects. So when it came to Darth Vader, I said, no I'm just special effects. But it became so identified that by the third one, I thought, OK I've been denying it, I've been saying it sounds like uncola nut guy HolderGeoffrey Holder! ... But for the third one, I said OK, I'll let them put my name on it.]

who said this when asked why his name wasnt included in the credits of one of the most famous movies of all times?

Cracked by: Anshuman, Rohan, Nihar

Answer: James Earl Jones, for the voice of darth vader.

#128: speed is relative...

A was developed to dethrone B as the fastest X. B was named after Y which was the fastest airplane then. Identify A, B and Y.

cracked by Anoop and pranav.

Answer:

(A)suzuki hayabusa (japanese for peregrine falcon) which was aptly named because it ate the (B)honda blackird for dinner, when it came to being the fastest production motorbike.

the honda blackbird had been named after theSR-71 blackbird by lockheed martin.

#127 The Beautiful Game

Connect the pictures shown above.

Hints:


The band shown below were the creators of the original one.
The person shown in the picture below is involved with the latest version.
Cracked by sumo_ftb, Shiva, Rohan and Anshuman.

Answer: The connect is "Three Lions" , a song released in 1996 , the official anthem of English Football Team for that year's European Championship. The song was re-recorded in 1998 and 2010 for the respective World Cup campaigns.
The song featured on the CD of the The Beautiful Game—Official Album of Euro 96. Hence the title for the question.

# 126 The FIFA mania continues...

Simply Connect.

Cracked by Anshuman (assuming that you meant 2018 and not 2012) , while sumo_ftb has got only half of it and will get only half a point.

Answer: These are the logos presented by various nations bidding to host either of the 2018-2022 FIFA world Cup. All of the nations's named below have placed their bid for both the editions in the hope of getting any one.
The nations are as follows(in the order of the given pictures from top to bottom):
1. Portugal and Spain(combined bid)
2.USA
3.Russia
4.England
5.Belgium and Netherlands (combined bid)
6.Australia

#125 The _____city has come alive.

An inspiration for what?
(The question is easier than you imagine.)

Cracked by sumo_ftb , anonymous , Shiva and Anshuman.
Answer: Soccercity Stadium at Johannesburg, the design is inspired by Calabash (shown above.)

#124 : Dead or Alive?

This gave rise to ?

So,an easy question gets everyone's tails up!

It is indeed the Ashes,which originated from a satirical obituary of English Cricket which was published in the English newspaper.




Cracked by 8 of you!

V. Chandrashekhar ,sumo_ftb,Pranav,shiva,escapist,Kaushik,Rohan,Anshuman!

#123: let the force _____ be with you

what does the map show?

red: have done it.

green: doing it.

yellow: will do it in near future.

answered by anshuman.

answer: countries which have, are and will be hosting F1 championships.

122: A remind point...

X was a painter famous for his paintings, which consisted of white back ground, upon which was painted a grid of vertical and horizontal black lines and the three primary colors. These paintings inspired the designs for the uniform of the cycling team (b).
Y designed his 1965 collection (b) based on the X's paintings which proved to be quite popular.

Identify X and Y.

(a)

(b)

cracked by navin and v. chandrashekar.

answer is piet mondrian (X) and yves sain laurent (Y). the title is an anagram of piet mondrain.

#121: its shocking!

announcement:
1) the weekend high five will be open till Monday.
2) we here at jack and lagoon encourage the use of google and tineye. the purpose of this blog is to increase knowledge.
3) in the q. (4) of the weekend high 5, we all know that its a , but whats special about it? look at it.
Connect these great men.

cracked by v chandrashekhar
they are: ohm, volt, ampere, watt. connect them yourself.

#120 : Weekend High-fives!

We will celebrate our revamp with a set of five questions

Crack them and drop in your answers as comments and do let us know what you think about the revamp + the questions !


1) Whats' the significance of this movie??



2) ID the logo (A part of the name of the car shown in question no 119 can be used as a hint.)

3) Tell me where this can be found






4) Identify the car!



5) Who is this bugger? (Use question number 116 as your hint)



Send in your answers by comments.

Happy quizzing!

Scoring :

5/5 : 6 points ( +1 : bonus)
4/5: 4.5 points
3/5 : 3
2/5 : 2
1/5: 1

here go the points:
anshuman: 2
rohan: 1
shankha: 1

Answers:
1) its the poster for disney's The Princess and the Frog. its the first disney movie with an african american protagonist.
2) the logo belongs to National instruments. its a company which produces softwares for circuit making etc. (apologize for the geekiness)
3) its a painting in obama's presidential office.
4) its a Ferdinand 911 GT3 RS (rumored to be the slowest porsche). The wrinkly bodywork is attributable to the fact that it is made of metallic foil draped over a PVC pipe spaceframe. it is powered by a man on a bicycle.
5) Dr. Andy Harland, the man who designed the controversial jabulani ball.

#119: its like a pin in ______

Identify the logo.
hint:

Cracked by navin pai. the only person who seems to visit our blog. none the less we will soldier on in the face of adversity.

Answer: the logo is of pininfarina. the italian design house which has designed cars for ferrari lamborghini, alfa romeo, cadillac etc. and also the torch for the torino winter olympics as stated by Navin pai.

the car is an austin a40 farina. so pin in farina :P

Announcement:

1) Check out the spanking new Scoreboard.
2) Navin Pai is the 50th person to answer on our blog.
3) This is question number 119 because we noticed that we have given the number 72 to two questions, and we are too lazy to change all the question numbers.

#117: cannons! can u believe it?

Identify the piece of music being discussed...

cracked by navin pai.

answer: tchaikovsky's 1812 overture. remember the tune in v for vendetta when he blows up the building? thats the one.

#116 Sitter. Identify the ball.

Give me the name of the ball.( No points for telling which tournament it is being used in.)

Come on people.
Lets see some points on our scoreboard.
Answer:
Thank you for attempting Lionel,escapist and Navin Pai.
The question was a tricky one, and as expected everyone seems to have fell for it, but Naveen earned half a point for being the closest.

This is the Adidas Jo'bulani to be used in the world cup final match in 2010. Built with the same advanced construction as the Jabulani, the Jo'bulani ball has a golden colour scheme to match the trophy, and in homage to the "City of Gold" - Johannesburg, where the Final will be held - the date - July 11th 2010

#115: they are not rowdy, ruff....

Identify them.

goes unsolved.

they are the women who did the voice over for the powerpuff girls. tara strong, elizabeth daily and cathy cavidini. the title refers to them being the opposite of the rowdyruff boys.

#114 No more miracles....

The pictures above are related to two different events which were considered to be miracles when they happened.
The first picture is of the event which took place first, and it is also the cover of the magazine "Sports Illustrated".
The second picture is a poster of the movie which is based on a book written by a person involved in the second event. The second event was named with reference to the first event.

Which events are being talked and how are they popularly known as?

Answer:
The first event was called the Miracle on ice.
The "Miracle on Ice" was a medal-round men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York, on February 22. The United States team, made up of amateur and collegiate players and led by coach Herb Brooks, defeated the Soviet team, which was considered the best hockey team in the world.


The second event with reference to the first event was named as the Miracle on grass.
On 29 June 1950, at the 1950 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, the United States defeated England 1–0 in a group match. This unexpected result has led to the match being described as the "Miracle on Grass", in reference to the 1980 Miracle on Ice, in which the US ice hockey team beat the Soviet Union.The match was played in Belo Horizonte at Estádio Independência. The game and the U.S. team were profiled by author Geoffrey Douglas in his book The Game of Their Lives,which was made into a film of the same name (later renamed as The Miracle Match).


If  any of you is interested in more details then you may visit the wikipedia pages of these events.

#113 Id the ad and the topic being highlighted.

Again a question goes unattempted.

Answer:
Its an Amul Butter Ad, highlighting the dissatisfaction of the nation's people over the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Verdict.

#112 Lawn moving....

Identify the car and tell who had made the same type of car before this one.

No attempts, with the World Cup on ,thats a real shame. Anyways,

Answer: This is the special edition (or should I say the World Cup edition) of Hyundai's i10.The body of cars have been covered with artificial turf lines and have been marked “the club that any gardener would be proud.” The roof of these special i10 houses one huge football each measures 1.5mtr diameter. While the driver applies brake it will enter the arc. A pair of hand gloves and boots has been replaced the rear view mirrors. A set of four small footballs form the wheel caps.

Bill Nye is the person who made a turf( or grass) covered car before this.

Hyundai is one of the official sponsors of the FIFA World Cup 2010.

#111 : And our Nba question :P

What connects these 4 ?(exhaustive connect)




These are the only four players to complete the Quadruple Double .

Pic 1 : hakeen olajuwon
pic 2 : Alvin robertson
pic 3 : Nate thurmond
pic 4 : David robinson

#110: it was loved by a spy...

this car is inspired from a movie, which involves this car's predecessor, designed to do the same thing as this car. identify the company that designed this car and the cars name.

half the points to rohan.

Answer: the car driven b james bond in the spy who loved me was lotus esprit. inspired by that the swiss company Rinspeed developed the sQuba concept based on the lotus exige.

they used two different esprits in james bond (one modified as a submarine and one to be driven on road). but this car can actually be used as a submarine without any modification (u will have to wear Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus)

#109 : All that glitters....may be stolen.

Aye..trophy hunting again.What is this awarded for?
right you are v. chandrashekhar and rohan...
answer: its the jules rimet trophy which was stolen...

#108: luck gets you to the other side...

Connect. Be specific...

identified by rohan correctly. but no points for that...

1) dr. no from james bond

2) imran khan in luck(thus the title for this post)

3) mia harris as mika in ninja assasin

answer: they all have played characters with their hearts on the wrong side (or should i say the right side?). this condition is known as situs inversus. for a list of fictional characters with this

predicament, check out the wiki page...