This place achieved international fame in 22-7-09 and its name is phonetically similart to the hindi for 'counting of stars'. It was where Bhaskaracharya set up a camp to study the movement of stars, which is a strange coincidence since this was the best place to view an event, which was calculated to be the longest in this century. Identify this place.
Answer-Taregna in Bihar.
answered by www.guessthelogo.blogspot.com
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Conquerers
Which event is depicted in the painting?
Hannibal Crossing the alps. Cracked by rakloDrama and Kamal Rathi
Monday, November 16, 2009
118:Eassssy...Unlike my exams..
What is this?(click on image for better view)
This is the Las Vegas Strip
Cracked by Mrinalini, Rachit and partly by Shrey
Saturday, November 14, 2009
117: Have a bite off....
It was first popularizedby John J. Fitz Gerald in a number of New York Morning Telegraph articles in the 1920s in reference to horse-racing. The earliest of these was a casual reference on May 3, 1921:
J.P. Smith, with Tippity Witchet and others of the L. T. Bauer string, is scheduled to start for _____________ to-morrow after a most prosperous Spring campaign at Bowie and Havre de Grace.
On another instance-
Two dusky stable hands were leading a pair of thoroughbred around the "cooling rings" of adjoining stables at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans and engaging in desultory conversation.
"Where y'all goin' from here?" queried one.
"From here we're headin' for _______________," proudly replied the other.
Fill in the blanks
Answer- 'Big Apple'. The nickname for NewYork being used for the first time. Cracked by Anurag, Shrey, Varun Shenoy and Mrinalini
J.P. Smith, with Tippity Witchet and others of the L. T. Bauer string, is scheduled to start for _____________ to-morrow after a most prosperous Spring campaign at Bowie and Havre de Grace.
On another instance-
Two dusky stable hands were leading a pair of thoroughbred around the "cooling rings" of adjoining stables at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans and engaging in desultory conversation.
"Where y'all goin' from here?" queried one.
"From here we're headin' for _______________," proudly replied the other.
Fill in the blanks
Answer- 'Big Apple'. The nickname for NewYork being used for the first time. Cracked by Anurag, Shrey, Varun Shenoy and Mrinalini
Friday, November 13, 2009
116:Yummy...
Fill in the blanks...
Answer- Fish n Chips.Cracked by www.guessthelogo.blogspot.com (O.o) and Mrinalini
115:Search and Rescue?
Put Funda
Illustration of the meeting between David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley at Ujjiji, which gave the famous line 'Dr.Livingstone I presume'.Cracked by raklodrama, Anurag and Mrinalini.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
114:Catalan Classic
Identify this structure
This is the 'Sagrada Familia' or 'The Church of the Holy Family', designed by Antonio Gaudi and located in Barcelona.
Answered by Chandrashekhar
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