Friday, September 14, 2007

Who played Roy Hobbs?

Based on the book written by Bernard Malamud , The Natural is a baseball movie about Roy Hobbs , a baseball prodigy whose career is almost cut short by a bullet wound. Roy Hobbs starts of as a pitcher but changes into a slugger after the bullet wound and gets into the Major League. The movie deals with matchfixing and other aspects of the game as well. Simple question , who played the role of Roy Hobbs in the movie , which also starred Kim Basinger ,Glenn Close.


Robert Redford.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Which Company?

X was the pharmaceutical division of L'oreal before it merged with another French company in 1999. The Merged Entity in made a hostile take over bid for a company that was formed out of the merger of Rhone-Poulenc S.A and Hoescht AG. What is X?

Synthelabo

Sunday, September 09, 2007

Which Song?

The song is reportedly about singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell, with whom The lead singer and lead guitarist of the band were both infatuated. The song goes "They say she plays guitar/and cries and sings". The main vocal melody of this song , inspired Pearl Jam's song "Given to Fly". What is this song?

Going to California.

Which Element?

Which chemical element gets its name from the Scandinavian term for ‘heavy stone’

Tungsten

Another description by Churchill

What did Churchill describe in 1940 as “an enemy within gates doing more harm than good?

BBC