Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Quest Pistols # 38

Question

Connect them to a very well known brand of the gone times.

Answer

The image is of the Los Angeles based band Goldspot,with Siddharth Khosla,an American Indian,as its frontman.

As per Siddharth,he named the band after the popular Indian soft drink brand Goldspot.

The brand was owned by Parle, but was sold to Coca Cola when it re-entered the Indian market in 1993. Gold Spot was withdrawn from the market in order to make space for Coca-Cola's Fanta brand.

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Quest Pistols # 37

Their marriage was and continues to be of a much wider significance worldwide.
What ?

Answer

Shown in the image is the couple of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia and the Duke of Edinburgh.

In 1874,a London based bakery Peeke Freans created the tea time loved Marie biscuit to commeorate their marriage.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Quest Pistols # 36

Question


The cut-out part of the above image includes a well known person of the current times.

Who ? Also mention the funda behind the getting together of this name and the lady in the image.

Answer


This is a grab from a French television commercial for the well known beverage brand Schweppes.

The lady is Nicole Kidman and the identity in question was Rubina Ali,the child actor from the academy award winning film Slumdog Millionaire.

Friday, July 17, 2009

Quest Pistols # 35

It was a hot-hot hiatus.Now getting back to what we usually do...

Question


It's time for them to take control.Both of them were in news recently for 'almost' the same context. (but both of them aren't related to each other).

Name both of them and what brought them to news.

Answer

(refer to the first comment in the comments section)

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Quest Pistols # 34


Question

Where does this appear ? (Not to forget,the lady shown is immensely popular.)


Answer

Towards the end of the video "Black or White" by Michael Jackson,when a series of models appear.

The lady is the now supermodel Tyra Banks.

RIP M.J. !!

Sunday, July 5, 2009

A 'queer' Quest Pistol

no 'straight' thinking for these questions !! ;)
Question 1:






The image A coined a term which images B and C exemplify. D , connected to images C & E also exemplify the same term.

What is D ? Also mention the term being talked about and the entire funda behind the set of these pics .


Answer

Image A is of Romeo and Juliet.The term being talked about is "Star crossed Couple". Quoting Wikipedia,

""Star-crossed" or "star-crossed lovers" is a phrase describing a pair of lovers whose relationship is said to be doomed from the start. The phrase is astrological in origin, stemming from the belief that the positions of the stars ruled over people's fates. To describe a relationship as "star-crossed" is to say that it is "thwarted by a malign star", or that the stars are working against the relationship. The phrase is best known from the play Romeo and Juliet by the Elizabethan playwright William Shakespeare ."

The movies "A Walk To Rememeber" and "Titanic" had couples that were example of star crossed ones.

D is the film Brokeback Mountain,based on the relationship between two men.Its posters were inspired by those of the movie Titanic.Again,the couple shown in the film Brokeback Mountain was an example of a star crossed couple.

E highlights the decriminalization of IPC 377 in a recent judgement of the Delhi HC.Thus D & E are linked


Question 2:

This person was in the news of the gone days.Identify him.


Answer

Ashok Row Kavi. He has re-launched India's first and only Gay Magazine,Bombay Dost last month.

Ashok is also the founder of the popular magazine Debonair.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Quest Pistols # 32


Question


The company X,founded by A was in news recently.

B is the logo of an iconic brand of the parent company of X.

C is the logo of one of the company X's projects which on completion will be the first of it's kind.

Identify A,X and the brand/project depicted by the logo B and C.

Answer

A: Walchand Heerachand

X:Hindustan Construction Comany (HCC),in news for being the developer of the recently started Banda-Worli Sea Link in Mumbai,India.

B:Premier Motors (remember the Premier Padmini !!)

C: Lavasa,being promoted as the largest hill city of free India.