TDQD - The Daily Quizzing Dose

Question 1 This is an image from Uber's patent application which they had filed on 25th May for something. So, in this image what does the dinosaur represent?

Question 1 The Elle Australia June 2017 edition has become the first magazine to shoot both its cover and fashion editorial using this device. When asked about the use of this device for shoot, fashion photographer Georges Antoni said: “One thing that struck me was how liberating it was to shoot and not worry about lenses, tripods, tethering to the computer, etc". Also, Justine Cullen, editor-in-chief of Elle Australia said: “Since launch, Elle Australia has always been the place where fashion meets pop culture and innovation, and nowhere is that junction more apparent than with this beautiful cover." So what device they had used?

Question 1 The most common and interesting trivia associated with this player is that of the origin of his name. However, another interesting trivia is his jersey number, which is 555. When asked why this particular number, he said, "I was born on 5th of October at 5:05 AM. So, I decided to go with 555 as my kit number." Which player?

Question 1 Connect: Hanuman, Jambavan, Parshurama, Narada, Durvasa, Agastya, Bhardwaja, Vishwamitra, Atri, Vibhishana (inexhaustive list)

Question 1 Self-Employed Women's Association is a trade union based in Ahmedabad that promotes the rights of low-income, independently-employed female workers. With over 2 million participating women, it is said to be the largest organization of informal workers in the world and largest non-profit in India. It was founded in 1972 by Gandhian and civil rights leader Ela Bhatt. How do we popularly know this organization, a word which literally means "service" in several Indian languages.

Question 1 This image is attempting to ridicule the recent changes made in a F1 team's car. Which team?

Question 1 Where would you find this?

Question 1 If Klaus Barbie is for Lyon, Ratko Mladić & Radovan Karadžić are for Bosnia, Tikka Khan is for Bengal, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar is for Kabul, then who is it for Amritsar? Also, explain the connect.

Question 1 This 1992 untitled painting, depicting face shaped like skull was sold for a record 110.5 million dollars. It was brought by a Japanese collector named Yusaku Maezawa. Which artist has painted this?

Question 1 Who is this acclaimed Greek director, known for creating critically acclaimed films Dogtooth, The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer.

Question 1 "Redoubtable" is a 2017 French drama film written and directed by Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist fame). The movie chronicles the tumultuous relationship between an iconic French director and his wife Anne Wiazemsky. Which is this famous director, who is often identified with the 1960s French film movement La Nouvelle Vague (popularly known as New Wave").

Question 1 He was an American writer and philosopher known for his novels Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (ZAMM) and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals. Identify this author, who passed away recently.

Question 1 This is an analogy, coined by a famous philosopher to illustrate that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making scientifically unjustifiable claims, rather than shifting the burden of disproof to others. In this analogy, the philosopher asks to us to imagine a man claiming that there is a certain object orbiting the sun between Earth and Mars. The object is too small for us to see and since we can’t go into space (this was written in 1950s), there’s no way to show that the object isn’t actually there. The hypothetical man further says that, “since you can’t prove the object isn’t there, you must assume that it is there.” How do we popularly know this analogy?

Question 1 Korean Barista Lee Kang Bin specializes in creating such type of art. His food-dye based latte art, which he does on milk foam, is known as what? The following image is an example of such type of art.

Question 1 With what five lettered word would you directly connect Samsung Galaxy S8 and Snapdeal?

Question 1 According to Urban Dictionary, it is defined as, "A person who, being unable to express his anger through physical violence (owning to their physical weakness, lack of bravery and/or conviction in real life), instead manifests said emotions through the text-based medium of the internet, usually in the form of aggressive writing that the person would not (for reasons previously mentioned) be able to give form to in real life." What is such person called as?

Question 1 This term is defined as the tendency in physical objects to deteriorate because of the fundamental instability of the components of which they are made, as opposed to deterioration caused by external forces. Also, it is the name of a 2014 film, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and adapted from the novel of the same name by Thomas Pynchon. Which film OR novel?

Question 1 If typists are judged by the number of words they type per minute, which group of people, associated with computers, could be judged by the metric of "actions per minute (APMs)"?

Question 1 Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez is a Venezuelan terrorist currently serving a life sentence in France for the 1975 murder of an informant for the French government and two French counter-intelligence agents. A committed Marxist-Leninist, he is said to be one of the most notorious political terrorists of his era. When he joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in 1970, recruiting officer Bassam Abu Sharif gave him the code name, by which he is now popularly known, because of his South American roots. How do we popularly know this self-proclaimed 'professional revolutionary' ?

Question 1 Which American snack cake, marketed as "Golden Sponge Cake with Creamy Filling", is being talked about here?

Question 1 X has recently been announced as a development driver for Haas F1 team and will soon possibly become third driver in F1 from India, after Narain Karthikeyan and Karun Chandhok. Id this 19 year old, who hails from Bengaluru.

Question 1 "Men with Brooms" is a 2002 Canadian romantic comedy film, starring and directed by Paul Gross. This offbeat comedy tells the story of a reunited team from a small Canadian town as they work through their respective life issues and struggle to win the championship for the sake of their late coach. So which winter sport the team plays in this movie, a sport in which we literally have to use 'sweep' to play?

Question 1 Which Indian bowler recently became the leading wicket taker in women's ODIs, surpassing Australia's Cathryn Fitzpatrick. 

Question 1 Leila Seth, who passed away recently, was the the first woman to become Chief Justice of a state High Court. Also, she was the first woman to top the London Bar exam (in 1958). After this achievement, Seth was referred to as "______ __ ___" by a London newspaper, which carried a photograph of a young Leila Seth with her infant son, born only a few months before the exams. In what witty way did the newspaper report her achievement OR FITB.

Question 1 This is an extremely barren desert of southwestern Bolivia, in the Potosí Department. It is entirely contained within the borders of Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve and is characterized by landscapes that resemble surrealist paintings of which famous painter?

Question 1 This stalls are set up by a company named Escape Computing in Ethiopia. For what purpose are this ATM-like kiosks used OR what commodity is being illegally vended through these machines?

Question 1 These are the images from a recent print campaign by Forbes Brazil where they are attempting to highlight a certain issue. Which issue? The ad further says that if these billionaires would have been women in real life, then apparently due to the issue in question, there would have been a fall in their current position in a certain list. Which issue and which list?

Question 1 In 2016, filmmaker Kevin Smith said about Richard Kelly: "He is insanely creative and is not unlike Christopher Nolan. But Nolan wound up in the Warner Bros. system where he got special handling, and he got a lot of money to make huge art films like Inception. Richard can be one of our greatest filmmakers. He is right now, but just a lot of people don't realize it. He's still a kid, and someone needs to Nolan that kid." So what is Richard Kelly's biggest claim to fame, a work which has quite a cult following and is rated as one of the greatest independent films ever made.

Question 1 The Circle is a 2017 film starring Tom Hanks and Emma Watson. In the movie, the logo of the fictional tech company "The Circle" is similar to the logo of which contemporary company, headquartered in San Francisco, California?

Question 1 Id the famous fictional scientist, who in the following image (in the middle) can be seen along with his friends Jeremy Saunders and Wilhelm Kro.

Question 1 In order to eliminate bias and favoritism in its selection process at junior level, what unique idea did the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) come up with during its recently concluded preliminary Under 12 trials, initiated under the guidance of former Test cricketer Chandrakant Pandit.