Time for cerebral exercise - 2

makham · Post by **makham** » 05 Nov 2008, 20:27

Here it comes. Based on feedback the clues this time are less cryptic and more straightforward. As usual this is not a memory test. Answers can be logically worked out from the clues. All answers are names of ragas you know. Start cracking and happy solving:

1. Cupid's favorite
2. Butter stacked at XL
3. Combat an armoured car from inside
4. Frying medium (of yesteryears?)
5. Can you change a rival?
6. Respectful prefix for him or is it poison
7. Respectfully addressing him
8. Hear the hoot of Vishnu's vehicle
9. Neither borrow nor steal from charming programmer
10. And finally favorite of all of us here

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 06 Nov 2008, 01:15

1. mAraranjani
4. vanaspati
5.varALi
6.dheera shankarrAbharaNam.
8.garuDadhwani
10. rasikapriyA.

shadjam · Post by **shadjam** » 06 Nov 2008, 05:15

I am just winging it for a few

2. navaneetham
3. chakravAham
7. shrI
9. kApI

sunadha2003 · Post by **sunadha2003** » 06 Nov 2008, 06:54

1. Cupid's favorite - ratipatipriya / mararanjani??
2. Butter stacked at XL - navaneetham
3. Combat an armoured car from inside- jan"kar"adhwani??
4. Frying medium (of yesteryears?) - vanaspati/ "ghee"ravani/
5. Can you change a rival? varali
6. Respectful prefix for him or is it poison - no idea:(
7. Respectfully addressing him - shri
8. Hear the hoot of Vishnu's vehicle - garudadhwani
9. Neither borrow nor steal from charming programmer- copy Kapi
10. And finally favorite of all of us here - rasikapriya

vijay · Post by **vijay** » 06 Nov 2008, 11:41

9. Begada

Await answers to 2,3 and 6. Others seem to have been cracked.

makham · Post by **makham** » 06 Nov 2008, 19:06

Good attempt. Congrats to

sunadha2003 for getting 1,2,4,5,8 and 10 right
vijay for getting 9 right
shadjam for getting 2 right
punarvasu for getting 4,5,8 & 10 right.

That leaves 3,6 &7:

3 is atana: CombAT AN Armoured etc. ATANA is inside the clue itself !
6 is actually Sree. It is a respectful prefix for HIM. I recently learnt that Sree also means poison as in Sreekantan
7 is tough - addressing HIM is MAN, respectfully addressing is MAN - JI, Manji

Rationale for others:

1. Cupid is Manmadhan who is Ratipati
2. Butter is Navaneetham and is at No. 40 (XL is 40) in the melakarta scale
4 , 5 and 8 are very direct
9. Neither borrow nor steal gives BEG. Ms. ADA Lovelace is considered to be the world's first software programmer (she is incidentally the daughter of the English poet Lord Byron). So we get Begada.

Hope you enjoyed the exercise

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 06 Nov 2008, 21:09

Very nice, makham! I got only half of them right and it was fun.

MaheshS · Post by **MaheshS** » 06 Nov 2008, 21:32

Super makham, even though I only got three

The Begada clue is a classic!

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 06 Nov 2008, 21:55

makham
Superb one I just got three,manji and begada was almost impossible for me to interpret without your explanation, even if you had given the answer.

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 06 Nov 2008, 22:01

sunadha2003 · Post by **sunadha2003** » 06 Nov 2008, 23:00

Sooper sooper.. i enjoyed participating..

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 07 Nov 2008, 00:55

makham: Quite a creative set of questions. I am sure you had a lot of fun transforming the answers to questions, especially the hard ones, as much as we had trying to guess your scheme

I agree 7 was too obscure. So was 3 for me. But both are clever. I liked the explanation for 9.

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 07 Nov 2008, 02:19

makham, wonderful; thanks once again.