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Saturday, January 19, 2008

Oh yeah?

What according to north indian tradition is typically stored wrapped in a moist red colored cloth called the “shaal baaf” and is consumed in an ubiquitous form called the “gilouree”?

Friday, January 18, 2008

Birdwatching by the Gomti?

•This is a historic building on the fringes of the Gomti river in Lucknow, built by Sadaat Ali Khan between 1798-1814.

•This along with two other buildings – the Mubarak Manzil and the Shah Manzil – built later on by Nawab Ghazi Uddin Haider was mainly constructed for the Nawab and his courtiers to watch animal combats held on the other side of the Gomti and indulge in bird watching.

•Name this historic building, which is better known to us under a slightly different context today.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Who's the kid?

A little boy wrote a letter to Robert Ripley, with a drawing of his dog Spike. He explained the amazing facts that his hunting dog eats pins, tacks and razor blades, with no apparent harm to him. Ripley published the drawing and the story. Who was the little boy?

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

What dish?

This dish (X) consisting of flaked fish (usually smoked haddock), boiled rice, eggs and butter was a favourite breakfast dish in Victorian England, fish being often served for colonial breakfasts so that fish caught in the early morning could be eaten while it was still fresh. X’s name is a corruption of an Indian dish’s name Y from which it is derived. Identify X and Y.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Great father, great son!

Who is the painter and the boy in the painting?

Monday, January 14, 2008

Identify the gentleman in the pic!

What term?

The first usage of the word can be traced to a 17th century French text Origines de la Langue Française de Ménage. The term was used to describe a group of people dining in a restaurant who brought their own wine. what term?