From Twitter 09-02-2010

• 15:43:31: THEME 3
  
  3A Identify this Indian Lawyer. No not that obvious. http://twitpic.com/2klv4w
  
• 15:46:06: Got to hurry a bit, so Yes Sardar patel. @agadwal 10 points
  
• 15:47:27: 3 B. Identify the sketcher. http://twitpic.com/2klw4v
  
• 15:50:34: DAMN NEAT @SJSwaminathan cracks the theme and gets 20.
  
• 15:51:27: 3B Answer is da vinci, and his sketch Tata Nano ! (j/k) that's his first sketch automobile.
  
• 15:53:38: 3C Still from 2009 British movie. Identify the character played by the boy on right http://twitpic.com/2klxom
  
• 15:55:56: He is on a song @SJSwaminathan the movie is Nowhere boy, Character John Lennon
  
• 15:56:57: 3D Identify http://twitpic.com/2klyiz
  
• 15:58:06: THEME'S CLOSED: the theme was INternational Airports - Patel, Lennon, Vinci, and?
  
• 15:59:17: Not JFK. Think of other international Airports.
  
• 16:02:07: This theme has been monopolized by @SJSwaminathan Answer is GHW Bush ( Senior)
  
• 16:05:03: Twitpic is rate limiting sorry for the delay.
  
• 16:05:19: THEME 4
  
  4A Which Indian is associated with this event? http://twitpic.com/2km0u1
  
• 16:07:51: It is Swami Vivekananda, that's like quiz i know instant answers @krtgrphr the event is world parliament of religions.
  
• 16:08:27: For the sake of bandwith, Theme is not Chicago or Barack.
  
• 16:10:12: I'll get a ticket to liverpool game or a radiohead gig for whoever cracks the theme.
  
• 16:10:48: Identify this girl. Not a movie star! http://twitpic.com/2km2cu
  
• 16:11:58: It's not a clue btw.
  
• 16:12:27: Clue is contemporary politics.
  
• 16:14:19: Not again , @SJSwaminathan, it is Sonia Sotomayor. All attempts at THEME so far are wrong.
  
• 16:16:14: 4C. An ex marine who went into a career he despised. His anger has been famously described as 'smoke coming (cont) http://tl.gd/3f0da9
  
• 16:18:03: Quizzers trying theme haven't been successful. So far. Three qs out.
  
• 16:19:19: In the history of the world, only one person's anger is like smoke coming off ice. Readers where are you?
  
• 16:21:45: couple of good guesses, keep it coming. Frustrated , A man wrote a famous letter to R2D2 asking him to be this person
  
• 16:23:02: Okay well done @gauravsabnis. It is Michael Corleone. Coppola wrote a letter to R2D2 to be his Michael as he couldnt find the right actor.
  
• 16:23:49: THEME anyone?
  
• 16:26:05: @gauravsabnis it was a funny letter to R2D2, via george lucas. they been buddies since long. it was before the movie.
  
• 16:26:49: @gauravsabnis it was the they ahd shared together. the letter was called be my michael.
  
• 16:27:42: No theme cracked so far!
  
• 16:30:22: Should I change the last q?, no I'll stick with it, and add another if u guys cant crack.
  
• 16:31:13: 4D Identify the writer. http://twitpic.com/2km7rb
  
• 16:32:41: BTW when i first made up this theme in india it was first cracked in 2 questions.
  
• 16:33:05: No right answers keep it going.
  
• 16:36:56: 4D It is a young Hemingway @SJSwaminathan impressive. Theme ANYONE - vivakananda, hemingway, m corleone, sonia sotamayor
  
• 16:37:43: okay bonus question coming up, sitter.
  
• 16:38:40: Identify. And the theme? http://twitpic.com/2km9qc
  
• 16:40:11: Well first identify the chap in the bonus question.
  
• 16:42:23: Nick Jonas it is of the Jonas Brother and again by @SJSwaminathan . now the theme
  
• 16:43:26: No No to all, guess I'll close it. THEME They are /were all DIABETICS, sweet no?
  
• 16:45:07: 5A.
  
  once asked what she did one long flights she said : listen to music and do homework. Apparently she (cont) http://tl.gd/3f0jcv
  
• 16:46:08: @ShriniWasK a 16 year college kid will tell you that Nick Jonas owns a charity for diabetes
  
• 16:48:22: It is Maria Sharapova , 10 for @siddharthadev18
  
• 16:50:56: 5B Buddhists and Christians claimed he was portrayed as Buddha and Christ. Son of John Anderson and Michelle (cont) http://tl.gd/3f0kpl
  
• 16:52:17: Neo from Matrix it is @SJSwaminathan 10 again
  
• 16:52:42: THEME ANYONE?
  
• 16:54:03: 5C This is a Raja Ravi Verma painting. Identify the man. http://twitpic.com/2kmdoi
  
• 16:55:07: NOT RAVAN. Ravan ruled out!
  
• 16:55:28: RT @raytida: Nithyananda RT @kweezzz: 5C This is a Raja Ravi Verma painting. Identify the man. http://twitpic.com/2kmdoi
  
• 16:56:03: It is Arjuna , points to @abhisheknanda90
  
• 16:56:27: I'll give a moment for the theme?
  
• 16:58:41: 5D Name the man on the right http://twitpic.com/2kmeuh
  
• 16:59:42: THEME'S been cracked by @vibhendu @siddharthadev18 - They are all ambidextrous.
  
• 17:00:08: Oh fuck, the the other man sorry!
  
• 17:01:56: oen can't google an ambidextrous cricketer, is it?
  
• 17:03:52: Yes , finally. @moebile and @ ShriniWasK - Hanif Mohammed the Pakistan Star
  
• 17:04:43: 6A
  
  He was once a talented goalkeeper, but discontinued football because of TB. Father of twins, twice married (cont) http://tl.gd/3f0o8s
  
• 17:06:53: or the record I dont know @SJSwaminathan but he seems always give the first correct answer : Albert Camus
  
• 17:07:41: 6B Identify the person it is dedicated to http://twitpic.com/2kmh5w
  
• 17:08:43: Ah!!!!!!! thank the lord for first q theme crackers ---- @vibhendu THEME'S been cracked. 20 for u
  
• 17:10:02: I'll give it to @krtgrphr Answer lady Diana. Paris Di candle.
  
• 17:11:39: Wh at is it, and who is associated with it? http://twitpic.com/2kmi5a
  
• 17:12:12: @ShriniWasK FYI predict wrong!
  
• 17:13:43: @SJSwaminathan it's been cracked
  
• 17:14:31: It is the death spot of Steve Prefontaine , the coos bay runner @Loading_PlzWait gets it
  
• 17:16:20: 6D This is for the bookworms of you: identify the writer, it is a famous first page http://twitpic.com/2kmjcf
  
• 17:18:21: bit hard yeah? clue When he died, Nobel committee announced he was on the considered shortlist
  
• 17:19:49: WS Sebald indeed ! @sidvee the novel is Austerlitz, no parabreaks
  
• 17:20:06: and @livetimefe gets it too
  
• 17:20:41: Theme of course is Death by car accidents Camus, Diana, Prefontaine and Sebald.
  
• 17:21:22: Okay last theme. Can I just say, this is the longest I have been on the net since 2001.
  
• 17:24:35: 7 A Maverick, his fav writer is Scot Fitzgerald, Known alcoholic, reknowned as a chess player on the shooting (cont) http://tl.gd/3f0tvd
  
• 17:28:31: No answers - clue: returned a coveted award.
  
• 17:28:59: refused rather.
  
• 17:29:39: Not Brando, where are the good old classical quizzers?
  
• 17:30:31: Okay, it is George C Scott @SJSwaminathan gets it and embarrasses me further.
  
• 17:31:42: 7B. Identify . http://twitpic.com/2kmncc
  
• 17:33:28: Julia Roberts indeed , sounds like a full football stadium is chanting starting with @sidvee
  
• 17:33:58: Not Kubrick. but clever, appreciate it.
  
• 17:35:22: 7C father of three children ocean, sonnet and true. Once described as method actors method, african american (cont) http://tl.gd/3f119r
  
• 17:36:24: THEME'S been cracked - BIOPICS @SJSwaminathan @siddharthadev18
  
• 17:37:25: Sorry won Oscars for BIOPICS, - so think on thsoe lines - so far, Patton, Erin Brokovich,? ?
  
• 17:38:42: That became dinnit? @PranavBakliwal @SJSwaminathan @BrainBlubber @siddharthadev18 and the rest of the all
  
• 17:39:04: Forest Whitaker it is. Anomaly? anyone?
  
• 17:42:38: okay it's ptosis, droopy eyelid on one eye, great story if u care to read it on his acting anyway @SJSwaminathan gets it right
  
• 17:43:02: 7D Her lucky tsar grandfather was travelling outside russia during Russian revolution and ended up staying in (cont) http://tl.gd/3f13on
  
• 17:47:17: Helen Mirren @sidvee gets to her first. Theme Patton, Brokovich, Idi Amin, Elizabeth II
  
• 17:47:48: So well that's it. Thanks for participating, hope u enjoyed it .
  
• 17:47:55: That's the last one. It was nice after all these years. My due apologies for the rather rickety pace and sham (cont) http://tl.gd/3f15ar
  
• 17:50:04: One final lagniappe coming up.
  
• 17:51:00: One final Lagniappe, give me one word for the picture. http://twitpic.com/2kmsjx
  
• 17:52:51: Thanks all, I didn't had to do a lot of work, most of questions , themes were generic and pre 2003 as you would have noticed. Cheers
  
• 17:55:37: Okay, no answers - DOGME 95 that's Trier, Vinterberg, Levring, Jacobsen,
  
  More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogme_95
  
• 18:02:52: Some awesome quizzes today. There's more in the weekend. http://bit.ly/arO5Ej. Contact @UnnamedEntity to host a quiz
  
• 22:38:43: On your laptop, your phone, your brain, your desktop, your iPad, whatever: Roadrunner contest 9am today, 55 minutes away. Watch for it!
  
• 23:13:09: 1,2,3,4 ... 14, 15, and so on till 18: 18 minutes left for Roadrunner contest! @DeathEndsFun
  
• 23:30:24: Roadrunner contest: Read Question 5 here: http://u.nu/7ubne Good luck, enjoy! Don't forget #DEFRR and @DeathEndsFun in your answer
  
• 23:32:00: I will take answers starting 915am IST. Time for you to dig and probe and whatever else you want to do. @DeathEndsFun
  
• 23:34:53: And that's all for me from here for now. Happy quizzing to you all, now and always! My name is @DeathEndsFun, James @DeathEnds - oops sorry.
  

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