Quest Pistols # 47

Question
Identify the book.

Answer

A Call to Honour by Jaswant Singh

Quest Pistols # 46

Question

A strip from an extremely popular comic is shown above (A part of the image has been blacked out). This particular strip is said to have served as an idea for an online portal to introduce an additional service/functionality.

What ?

Answer

YouTube has placed a feature on comments that plays back the comment aloud on "Audio Preview", based on the strip "Listen to Yourself" of the ultra famous webcomic xkcd.

Quest Pistols # 45

(A)



(B)



(A) could be considered to have lead (B) to create a very useful computing tool of utmost importance. Identify.

Answer

(refer to the first comment under the comments section)

Cadbury's Dark Truth

In a novel marketing strategy,Cadbury India is using social media marketing to strenghten and promote it's premier dark chocolate brand Bournville.

Cadbury has created a blog titled The Dark Truth,authored by a fictional character named Old Hound.Another fictional character Mark,a childhood pal of Old Hound is told to go missing after he ate Bournville.While searching for him, Old Hound receives a clue that if he collects 100 stories about people receiving something only after they have earned it, he will come to know where Mark is. The story is still in the process. A nice brand furnishing strategy that is likey to keep the target audience hooked.

Quest Pistols # 44

Question
Easy one..He is the probably the only sportsman of his kind,because of something he is pursuing currently.Identify him.

Answer

Viren Rasquinha,former captain of the Indian Hockey Team and now pursuing MBA in ISB,Hyderabad.

Quest Pistols # 43

Question

This print advertisement that appeared in a newspaper kicked off something iconic . What ?

Answer

This satirical obituary was published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, in 1882 after a match at The Oval in which Australia beat England on an English ground for the first time. The obituary stated that English cricket had died, and the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia. The English media dubbed the next English tour to Australia (1882–83) as the quest to regain The Ashes.

Quest Pistols # 42

cure me of this repression,grant me the power of unbridled expression !!
Happy Independence Day friends !!

This image is actually a video grab from a film based on an extremly popular novel (both with the same name) . The name of the figure (in the novel and the film) that appears on the telescreen shown in the image is now actually a widely accepted term for a system that has traits same as that of the figure shown in the image. (Hint:Think Freedom) . Such is its impact on the popular culture that a well known television show is named after it.(Hint: there is an Indian connection to the show)

Name the figure & the novel.

Answer

The novel is George Orwell's 1984 and the figure is Big Brother.The novel has several instances where the phrase "Big Brother is watching you" has been mentioned.

Quest Pistols # 41

No..we were fit and fine during the last few days .It was our internet service that caught the trendy flu malady.




This is the logo of a company that developed something of prime importance these days.

Which company ?

Answer

(refer to the first comment in the comment section)

Quest Pistols # 40

Question

Mention the contribution of the highlighted region in the map to the modern day English language.

Answer

The highlighted region is Laconia,a place in Greece.

The word "laconic" is derived from the name of the region by analogy - to speak in a concise way, as the Spartans were reputed by the Athenians to do.

Quest Pistols # 39

Identify the person in the cut out part of the image.

Answer

Robert DeNiro (L) with Jake LaMotta.

Robert DeNiro played Jake LaMotta , a middleweight boxer in the film Raging Bull,based on a book with the same name.