Qn. for Jan 28th

Sorry for the late post...

What separates Group A from Group B?

Group A:

Grateful Dead
Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Who
Jimi Hendrix

Group B:

Led Zeppelin
The Beatles
The Doors
Bob Dylan

Qn. for Dec. 17th.

Sorry for the late post...

What is being demonstrated in the following sequence of images?

Qn. for Dec. 3rd.

Connect the following:

1. Joan found Mark and Mike jumping Janet and Susan outside Nora's drugstore.

2. How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics. All of thy geometry, Herr Planck, is fairly hard.

3. Here He Lies Beneath Bed Clothes, Nothing On, Feeling Nervous. Naughty Margaret Always Sighs, "Please Stop Clowning Around."

Qn. for Nov. 19th

What does the partial map depict?

Qn. for Nov. 5th.

X's work was stimulated by the Italian anatomist and physiologist Y, who in 1780 noticed that dissected frog's legs would twitch when struck by a spark from a Leyden jar, an external source of electricity. In 1786 he noticed that twitching would occur during lightning storms. After many years Y learned how to produce twitching without using any external source of electricity. In 1791 he published a report on "animal electricity." in which he detailed his creation consisting of frog's legs (FL) and two different metals A and B, each metal touching the frog's leg and each other, in the formation A-FL-B-A-FL-B...etc.

Within a year X made the requisite change in Y's creation and invented ___________. Who were X and Y? What did X invent?

Qn. for Oct. 22nd.

Sorry for the late post...


Connect the following:

1. Earthquakes
2. Sound
3. Acidity/Alkalinity

Qn. for Oct. 8th.

Identify the phrase X.

The origin of the phrase is not definitively known. However, popular etymology has risen to the challenge, and a vast number of explanations of varying degrees of plausibility have been suggested. The proposed sources have been as diverse as the volume of graves or concrete mixers; the length of bridal veils, kilts, burial shrouds, bolts of cloth, or saris; American football; ritual disembowelment; shipyards; and the structure of certain sailing vessels. Little documentary evidence has ever surfaced supporting any of these, and many labor under the significant disadvantage of being claimed as several centuries earlier than the first recorded use of the term. Perhaps the most frequently quoted is from World War II, where it is suggested that to "go X" was to fire an entire aircraft machine-gun ammunition belt.

Qn. for Sep. 29.

Connect the following:

1.

2.

3.

Identify the genre - Sep. 17th

X is a genre of music. It peaked during the middle to late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Women embraced X as well, and the music eventually expanded to several other popular groups of the time.

While performers and singers of X garnered the lion's share of public attention, the behind-the-scenes producers played an equal, if not more important role, since they often usually wrote the songs and created the innovative sounds and production techniques that were part of the "X sound".

An angry backlash against X music and culture emerged in the United States, hitting its peak with the July 1979 `X Demolition Night'  riot. While the popularity of X in the United States declined markedly as a result of the backlash, the genre continued to be popular elsewhere during the 1980s.

Qn. for Sep. 7th.

Sorry for the late post...here is the question:

The puzzle includes 16 letters from 16 different alphabets, many of which — but not all — represent a letter from that alphabet that most closely resembles the English "W".

What am I talking about?

Question for Aug. 25th.

A theory as to the origin of X and Y is that it came from when men-at-arms wore armor. They evolved from a way of showing that the right hand was not concealing a weapon. A combination of showing an empty right hand, palm outwards (X), which was then raised formally to a helmet to raise a visor (Y) would demonstrate non-aggressive intentions, and therefore respect.

Identify X and Y.

(To clarify, the above theory is not the most widely accepted origin theory for X and Y.)

Qn. for Aug. 18th.

Sorry for the late post. What is the below pic about?

Can you identify what (some of) the abbreviations stand for?

Qn for Aug.6th.

The following conversation occurred between two operators of the American Telegraph Line between Boston and Portland, Maine, on the night of September 2, 1859:

Boston operator (to Portland operator): "Please cut off your battery [power source] entirely for fifteen minutes."
Portland operator: "Will do so. It is now disconnected."
Boston: "Mine is disconnected, and we are working with the X current. How do you receive my writing?"
Portland: "Better than with our batteries on. - Current comes and goes gradually."
Boston: "My current is very strong at times, and we can work better without the batteries, as the X seems to neutralize and augment our batteries alternately, making current too strong at times for our relay magnets. Suppose we work without batteries while we are affected by this trouble."
Portland: "Very well. Shall I go ahead with business?"
Boston: "Yes. Go ahead."

The conversation was carried on for around two hours using no battery power at all and working solely with the current induced by the X, and it was said that this was the first time on record that more than a word or two was transmitted in such manner.

Identify X. Who or what caused it?

Qn. for July 27th.

Connect the following:

1.

2.

3.

Etymology Qn. for July 14th - Dev

In 1880, Charles Stewart Parnell gave a speech in Ireland to a crowd of Land League members. During his speech, he asked the crowd: "What do you do with a tenant who bids for a farm from which his neighbor has been evicted?". The response from the crowd was: "kill him", "shoot him". Parnell replied:

I wish to point out to you a very much better way – a more Christian and charitable way, which will give the lost man an opportunity of repenting. When a man takes a farm from which another has been evicted, you must shun him on the roadside when you meet him–you must shun him in the streets of the town–you must shun him in the shop – you must shun him on the fair green and in the market place, and even in the place of worship, by leaving him alone, by putting him in moral Coventry, by isolating him from the rest of the country, as if he were the leper of old – you must show him your detestation of the crime he committed.

This speech set out the Land League's powerful weapon which was first applied to the land agent Charles X. As usual, identify X.

Question for June 30th - Dev

Apologies for the late late post...

Identify X. From the book:

"There was only one ____ and that was X, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Y was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Y would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Z was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of X and let out a respectful whistle."

Bonus points for identifying Y and Z.

Question for May13th - Dev

What is a popular term used to describe the phenomenon that is common in the following, other than the fact that both have cats in them? Who came up with these specific examples of that phenomenon?

Question for 4/30 - Dev

Sorry for the late post. Here is the question.

Rudyard Kipling once wrote to a magazine:

"I've just read that _____. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers."

Identify what he was talking about. A similar thing happened to Lal Bihari, who famously, among various attempts to publicize his situation stood for election against Rajiv Gandhi in 1989 (and lost). He was awarded the Ig Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for his '_____' activities, which should highlight a second (and ironic) connection to the thing we are talking about.

Identify the genre - Apr. 16th

X is a music genre. From its early development until the present, X has incorporated music from 19th and 20th century American popular music. Experts say that X differs from European music in that it has a "special relationship to time, defined as 'swing'", "a spontaneity and vitality of musical production in which improvisation plays a key role"; and "sonority and manner of phrasing which mirror the individuality of the performing musician".

The origin of the word X is one of the most sought-after word origins in modern American English. The word began as a West Coast slang term around 1912, the meaning of which varied but which did not refer to music at that time. In the sense of pep and enthusiasm, X continued in use in California for several years before being submerged by the music meaning of the word.

The disaster of 1883 - Question for Apr. 2nd.

The following is just one of the effects of the 1883 event, that occurred in Indonesia. Identify the event:

The event darkened the sky worldwide for years afterward, and produced spectacular sunsets throughout the world for many months. In 2004, researchers proposed the idea that the blood-red sky shown in Edvard Munch's famous 1893 painting The Scream is also an accurate depiction of the sky over Norway after the event.

Munch said:

"Suddenly the sky turned blood red ... I stood there shaking with fear and felt an endless scream passing through nature."