Question from Rohit Menon.
What is common to these phrases?
The truth is out there
Government denies knowledge
Deny everything
Apology is policy
Answer: Quotes from the X-files. Cracked only by Kaushik.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Question 916: Quadratic solution
Question 915
Question from Soumya, our most frequent guest contributor:
In March 1970, Larry Nichols invented a 2×2×2 Puzzle and filed a Canadian patent application for it. Two years later X invented Y. Names such as 'The Gordian Knot' and 'Inca Gold' were considered for it but the name Y stuck. There are around 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 permutations of the puzzle. Software can also simulate very large puzzles that are impractical to come up with, such as 100×100×100 and 1,000×1,000×1,000.
Id X and Y.
Answer: Erno Rubik and the Rubik's cube
Question 914
Question from Rishi Raj: Connect:
Answer: Tom Clancy's works: The Hunt For Red October, Patriot Games, The Sum Of All Fears, Clear and Present Danger, Splinter Cell, H.A.W.X, Ghost Recon and the logo. Cracked only by Aashlesh, good work!
Friday, December 3, 2010
Question 913
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature "for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty."
He later said about Alfred Nobel, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."
He is incidentally the only person to win the Nobel prize as well as the Oscar(for Best Adapted Screenplay). Who?
Answer: George Bernard Shaw
Question 911: Games Punekars play
Well the guy above, Raju Dabhade, invented an sport collaborating the skills used in Basketball, Handball, and Skating about 5 years ago. He worked as a sports teacher in a school in Pune n now is the Gen secretary of the IRBF (international federation of the game he invented). The first International tournament of the sport is taking place in Pune next year! It might not be long when we see it in the olympics and India dominating it as it does now!!. Which sport? Answer: Rollerball
Question 910
The son of Italian immigrants, X picked up the guitar as a teenager. He plays guitar left-handed. In an industrial accident at the age of 17 on his last day of work in a sheet metal factory, he lost the tips of the middle and ring finger of his right hand. He considered abandoning music after attempting to learn to play right-handed. He then strung his guitars with extra-light strings (using banjo strings, which were a lighter gauge than even the lightest guitar-strings of the time) and wore plastic covers over the two damaged fingers. He fashioned the latter himself, by melting plastic liquid-soap bottles into a ball and then using a soldering iron to make holes into this ball, putting his fingers in while the plastic was still soft enough to be shaped. He then trimmed and sanded away the excess plastic to leave himself with two thimbles, which he then covered with leather, to provide better grip on the strings. Which guitarist?
Answer: Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Question 909: Neither Dots Nor Feathers
X and Y originally wrote the screenplay for A as a thriller: Young man in the rough-and-tumble streets of South Boston, who possesses a superior intelligence, is targeted by the FBI to become a G-man. They later dropped the thriller aspect of the story and focused on the relationship between the protagonist and his psychologist. Noted screenwriter Z read the script and further suggested that the film's climax ought to be the protagonist's decision to follow his girlfriend to California. He has consistently denied the persistent rumor that he wrote the screenplay or acted as script director. Z has even said, "I would love to say that I wrote it. Here is the truth. In my obituary it will say that I wrote it. People don't want to think those two cute guys(X and Y) wrote it."
Identify A, X, Y and Z.
Answer: A: Good Will Hunting X: Matt Damon Y: Ben Affleck Z: William Goldman
Question 908: The Dots
X was born on 22 December 1887. His father worked as a clerk in a shop and his mother was a housewife. In December 1889, X had smallpox and recovered, unlike thousands who succumbed to the disease that year.
On 1 October 1892, X was enrolled at the local school. Just before the age of 10, in November 1897, he passed his primary examinations in English, geography and arithmetic. With his scores, he finished first in the district. That year, X entered Town Higher Secondary School where he encountered formal mathematics for the first time. By age 11, he had exhausted the mathematical knowledge of two college students who were lodgers at his home. He was later lent a book on advanced trigonometry which he completely mastered this book by the age of 13 and discovered sophisticated theorems on his own. By 14, he assisted the school in the logistics of assigning its 1200 students (each with their own needs) to its 35-odd teachers. When he was 17, he independently developed and investigated the Bernoulli numbers and calculated Euler's constant up to 15 decimal places. Which wonderkid?
Answer: Srinivas Ramanujan
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Question 907: The Feathers
Connect to a certain cultural practice of the Red Indians of North America:
Answer: Totem poles: The logo of Landmark bookstores is a Totem pole, the circuit is called totem pole configuration(used in TTL families) and a seastack in Tasmania called the Totem pole.
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