TDQD - The Daily Quizzing Dose

Question 1 This is a 1950 American film written and directed by Billy Wilder, starring Gloria Swanson,William Holden, Erich von Stroheim and Nancy Olson. The title of the movie comes from large road running between Los Angeles and Beverley Hills, California. The movie was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, winning only three. It is said to be one of the most iconic film in the category of film noir (a genre of film marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, and menace). Id the movie.

Question 1 This is a paragraph from the famous song by Bob Dylan named "Motorpsycho Nightmare". Well, I couldn’t leave Unless the old man chased me out ’Cause I’d already promised That I’d milk his cows I had to say something To strike him very weird So I yelled out “I like _____ ______ and his beard” Rita looked offended But she got out of the way As he came charging down the stairs Sayin’, “What’s that I heard you say?” The blanked out name is that of a famous leader who died recently. FITB.

Question 1 X was a French philosopher and writer who won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. X's views contributed to the rise of philosophy known as "absurdism". X is generally associated with the philosophy of existentialism, which X has repeatedly denied. Id X. 

Question 1 While each page of this document was beautified and decorated by artists Beohar Rammanohar Sinha and Nandalal Bose, the document was hand-written with beautiful calligraphy by Prem Behari Narain Raizada. Which document are we talking about?

Question 1 This is a wine collection which was prepared by Vintage Wine Estates, a Santa Rosa based winery in partnership with a prominent broadcaster. The collection includes a Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and red blend. The collection is inspired from what?

Question 1 This test gauges whether a computer-based synthesized voice can tell a joke with sufficient skill to cause people to laugh. It was proposed by a famous film critic at the 2011 TED conference as a challenge to software developers to have a computerized voice master the inflections, delivery, timing and intonations of a speaking human. Who proposed the test or after whom is this test named?

Question 1 The Warrior is a 2001 film by filmmaker Asif Kapadia starring Irrfan Khan. The film won BAFTA for Best Film and was selected as official entry of UK for Academy Award for Best Foreign Film that year. However the entry was rejected by Academy Awards. Why did they reject their entry?

Question 1 There are various theories which try to explain the reddish sky in the background of this painting. One theory suggests that the artist's memory of the effects of the powerful volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, a volcanic island situated near Indonesia, which deeply tinted sunset skies red for months during 1883 and 1884, about a decade before the artist painted the painting. This explanation has been disputed by scholars, who note that X was an expressive painter and was not primarily interested in literal renderings of what he had seen. Another theory suggests that the proximity of both a slaughterhouse and a lunatic asylum to the site depicted in the painting may have offered some inspiration. Which popular painting are we talking about here and give me the painter?

Question 1 This is a house enlisted on Airbnb which is modeled after which famous American animated television series?

Question 1 This is an Italian saying which means used to "urge someone to make the most of the present time and give little thought to the future". It was made popular by a certain Robin Williams movie in which he plays the role of an English teacher. Give me the saying and movie.

Question 1 Sonam Wangchuk is an engineer based in Ladakh. He recently won the Rolex Award for Enterprise for his following creation. His aim behind this creation was to find a solution to the water crisis being faced by the farmers of Ladakh in the critical planting months of April and May before the natural glacial melt waters start flowing. Also, the technique has been used for disaster mitigation at high altitude glacier lakes. How do we commonly know this creation?

Question 1 This Amul ad is in reference to what?

Question 1 This is a sketchbook containing 65 previously unknown drawings, said to be drawn by X. However, the X Museum in Amsterdam had dismissed the drawings in the "so called lost sketchbook" as fake. Id X.

Question 1 This is a Google Trends graph which shows the sudden spike in Google Search of removal of a particular thing. The people who searched about it were mainly from India. The thing we are taking about is produced by a certain company started by Maharaja Nalvadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar in 1937 and is the only company authorized to produce the product. Also, the search was about "how to remove the applied product". Just give me the name of the product we are talking about? (The spike can be seen from November 15, 2016 at 3.30 PM).

Question 1 The DRDO X is a unmanned combat air vehicle being developed by DRDO. X is derived from the National Aerospace Laboratories's LCRA (Light Canard Research Aircraft) developed by a team under the leadership of late Prof X Damania in the 1980s. Also, X happens to be the name of a very popular Bollywood film released in 2016. Id X, which is a six lettered word.

Question 1 This movie released in 2014, is based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name. It tells the story of a young robotics prodigy named Hiro Hamada who forms a superhero team to combat a masked villain. It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and was the highest grossing animated film of 2014. However, when released people thought that the movie was the sixth part of the original film series, which is untrue. Which movie?

Question 1 A restaurant in Chennai named "Suprabaa" has introduced a "X White Dosa (Butter Dosa)" recently. When they uploaded the image of the dosa, an user commented that "It's actually supposed to be orange." Id X.

Question 1 "Heil Honey I'm Home!" is a British sitcom that was aired in 1990 and was cancelled after one episode. It centers on fictionalized versions of X and his wife Y, who live next door to a Jewish couple, Arny and Rosa Goldenstein. The show spoofs elements of mid-20th century American sitcoms and is driven by X's inability to get along with his neighbours. Id X and Y.

Question 1 This is a latest internet sensation wherein people stand completely still for a minute or so. A person films the whole thing with a camera moving around the area and sometimes getting close up shots of the people who are standing still. Give me the name of this new viral internet challenge.

Question 1 Guanggun Jie is an entertaining festival widespread among young Chinese people, to celebrate the fact that they are proud of being ______. The date, November 11th, is chosen because the number "1" resembles an individual that is alone. FITB or give me the word by which we popularly know the festival.

Question 1 This is an image which was shown by Barack Obama during White House Correspondents' Dinner, wherein Obama and Seth Meyers roasted X. Id X or the blanked part from the image. 

Question 1 Whose biography?

Question 1 Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) will be undertaking a pan - India bird count on 12th November, 2016 to commemorate the birth anniversary of which famous ornithologist?

Question 1 This is a handwritten poem by X in 1942, months before she and her family went into hiding. The handwritten eight-line poem was written in the “poezie album” or friendship book of the older sister of X’s classmate and best friend Jacqueline van Maarsen. Id X.

Question 1 In a scene in the movie Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, Anushka Sharma asks Ranbir Kapoor, what he wants to become to which he replies that he wants to be a singer like X, to which she says that, "Woh gaate kam the rote jyada the (He sang less and cried more). Id X, who was a very popular singer.

Question 1 A political party based in Maharashtra named Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) will be making a small but significant change in their electoral symbol. What is the change which they have planned?

Question 1 Twitter recently bought out this special emoji for the fifth season of which Indian show (Blanked out from the image is the name of the show)?

Answer to Post 172 Swedish Schindler Question 1 This was an ad put up by a firm. The half of the profits from the selling of this particular beer will go to the "revival" of a particular thing, which was "pronounced dead" by some people a few days back. So for what purpose will the half of the profits gained from the sale of this beer will be used?

Question 1 Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat who was known for saving thousands of Jews during the Holocaust. He issued protective passports and sheltered Jews in buildings designated as Swedish territory. Recently, he was formally declared dead by Swedish Tax Agency, 71 years after his disappearance. However, he is popularly nicknamed after a German who saved more than 1000 Jews during the Holocaust. So how do we popularly know Raoul Wallenberg?

Question 1 Operation X was a plan drawn up by the Pakistan Army in May 1965 to attack the Akhnoor Bridge in Jammu and Kashmir. The operation ended in a failure for the Pakistan Army as the stated military objectives were not achieved and they subsequently were forced to retreat following a counterattack by the Indian Army. X also happens to be a popular term in sports. Id X.