Association of Serious Quizzers: 2009

Connect them...Pretty simple...Just one for the occassion...

Send in your answers to kshira.saagar@gmail.com

Thanks!!!

The Connect is Thanksgiving...

Abraham Lincoln - On October 3, 1863, Lincoln issued a Thanksgiving Proclamation that declared the last Thursday in November

Sarah Josepha Hale - The author of "Mary Had a Little Lamb," Sarah Josepha Hale, was key in getting Thanksgiving officially recognized as a national holiday.

FDR - In 1939, the last Thursday of November was going to be November 30. Retailers complained to FDR that this only left 24 shopping days to Christmas and begged him to push Thanksgiving just one week earlier. It was determined that most people do their Christmas shopping after Thanksgiving and retailers hoped that with an extra week of shopping, people would buy more. So when FDR announced his Thanksgiving Proclamation in 1939, he declared the date of Thanksgiving to be Thursday, November 23, the second-to-last Thursday of the month.

Harry S Truman - Since Harry Truman, every president has pardoned a turkey for Thanksgiving.

That's all folks!!!

Hi all,

This is the second post of ASQians.blogspot.com...yeah you can all see that...was just stating..

There are totally five main questions which on solving gives 5 "keywords"...

Each question has sub-questions, each of which you need to connect to identify the "keyword"...

Yes...Simple connect and theme...

1) Keyword 1

1.1)In October 1707, A, was returning from the Mediterranean with Shovell on board. The 21 ships in the squadron entered the mouth of the English Channel on the night of 22 October 1707 "(Old style)". A struck the Outer Gilstone Rock off the Isles of Scilly, and was wrecked with the loss of her entire crew of about 800 men, along with three other ships. As a result of navigational errors, the ships were not where they were reckoned to be. It was largely as a result of this disaster that the Board of the Admiralty instituted a competition for a more precise method to determine longitude.It had previously survived the Great Storm of 1703.

What was the dubious A?

1.2)

B-Identify the document.

1.3)

C-Identify..simple.

Keyword 1- Connect A,B,C.

2) Keyword 2

2.1)

nuclear war

yo bad azizi as a nuclear war

nuclear war

yo bad azizi as a nuclear war

A-Whose lyrics?

B-And from what?

2.2)"Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am? I'm a dog chasing cars. I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it. You know, I just ... do things. The mob has plans, the cops have plans, Gordon's got plans. You know, they're schemers. Schemers trying to control their little worlds. I'm not a schemer. I try to show the schemers how, pathetic, their attempts to control things really are."

C-Whose dialogue?yes..easy one..

2.3)The series' gameplay involves huge number of enemies, large, open areas, and various hidden rooms and treasures. The levels in the games are massive, depicting vast plains, deep valleys and the exterior/interior of the monuments of different human civilizations. Monster fighting makes up most of the games, with D's only help being NETRICSA (NEuro-TRonically Implanted Combat Situation Analyser), an advanced computer AI surgically implanted in his brain. NETRICSA serves as an in-game strategy guide, cataloguing encountered enemies and powerups, and at the same time providing bits about the background story and hints on how to cross the levels. Though often the hints are quite obvious and presented in a humorous way.

Name D.

Keyword 2 : Connect B,C,D.

3) Keyword 3

3.1)The game(A-B) starts with the first person reciting a stanza (X) of a poem. For example:

ab key baras phir wo aiay ga

ab key baras phir milain giay ham

The next player has to reply with another verse starting with the last letter of the verse used by the previous player. In this case it was m.

Meri shaeri sey shaaed kuch tum bhi seekh jaao

ye mohabbatoN ke qissey heiN jaa'ezey wafaa key

Now, the next player has to reply with a verse starting with y.

yea waqat key tamashay bee hain ajab tamashay

jo kal tak apnay thay aaj wo paraiay hian

The next player has to reply with a verse starting with n, and so on.

A verse that has already been used in a game may not be repeated. The rules used by experienced players can be more stringent, such as allowing the use of only one poet's verses or of one theme.

A-B-What is this two-lettered game?(not antakshri..u are close)

3.2)According to Merv Griffin, the idea for C was born when he and his wife Juliann were on a plane trip from Duluth to New York:

I was mulling over game show ideas, when she noted that there had not been a successful "question and answer" game on the air since the quiz show scandals. Why not do a switch, and give the answers to the contestant and let them come up with the question. She fired a couple of answers to me: '5,280' and the question of course was 'How many feet in a mile?'. Another was '79 Wistful Vista.' That was Fibber and Mollie McGee's address. I loved the idea, went straight to NBC with the idea, and they bought it without even looking at a pilot show.

Name C.

3.3)In the movie D, jazz musician C.K. Dexter Haven had married and divorced rich Tracy Samantha Lord, but remains in love with her. She, however, is about to get married to a bland gentleman of good standing, George Kittredge. The intense and edgy reporter by the name of Mike Connor covers the nuptials for Spy Magazine, and falls for her as well. She must choose between the three very different men in a course of self-discovery.Meanwhile whilst looking at expensive wedding presents, the lovers decide that they don't want to be millionaires and hence they sing E.

Name D and E. E atleast.

3.4)

F-Graph of what?

Keyword 3 –Connect A-B,C,E "with"/"using" F

4) Keyword 4

4.1)A was born on a soybean, corn and cattle farm near Clarks, Nebraska, where he attended public school. He attended the University of Nebraska, but he never declared a major, and eventually dropped out. In the years that followed, A drifted around the country - Key West, Dallas, Austin - working various technology jobs and trying to pursue start-ups. By 1996, he found himself back on the family farm, with little money and few prospects. He took a marketing job at the media/conference firm O'Reilly Inc. and quickly became an independent contractor job writing computer code. He then did some freelance work with companies like Intel and Hewlett-Packard.

Name A.

4.2)B is the co-author of We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs, and a frequent speaker at technical conferences concerning online journalism and the role of women in technology. B was named a Young Innovator Who Will Create the Future in 2003 by MIT's Technology Review magazine. B was a member of the RSS Advisory Board from 2006 to 2007.

Name B.

4.3)The term "X" was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997. The short form, "Y" was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word "Z" into the phrase we "Y".Shortly thereafter,A and B used "Y" as both a noun and verb and devised the term "Z" in connection with it,leading to the popularization of the terms.

Name X,Y,Z.

Keyword 4: Z.

5) Keyword 5

5.1)X was a computer manufacturer headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and later in Concord, Massachusetts, with manufacturing facilities in Chatsworth, California (a suburb of Los Angeles). Its first CEO, chairman, and founder was Russell Noftsker.X designed and manufactured a line of Lisp machines, single-user computers optimized to run the Lisp programming language. Symbolics also made significant advances in software technology, and offered one of the premier software development environments of the 1980s and 1990s, now sold commercially as Open Genera.X was a spinoff from the MIT AI Lab, one of two companies to be founded by AI Lab staffers and associated hackers for the purpose of manufacturing Lisp machines. The other was Lisp Machines, Inc., although X attracted most of the hackers, and more funding.

Name X.

5.2)Founded in 1948, by Leo Beranek and Richard Bolt, professors at MIT, with Bolt's former student Robert Newman, Y started life as an acoustical consulting company. Their first contract was consultation for the design of the acoustics of the United Nations Assembly Hall in New York. Subsequent commissions included MIT's Kresge Auditorium (1954), Tanglewood's Koussevitzky Music Shed (1959), Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall (1962), and Baltimore's Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall (1978). They have examined the Richard Nixon tape with the 18 minutes erased during the Watergate scandal and the Dictabelt evidence which was purportedly a recording of the JFK assassination.

Name Y.

5.3)"We're building a machine that will be proud of us."-was the motto of Z.

Name Z.

Keyword 5: Connect X,Y,Z.

Final Themeee : Keywords 1,2,3,4,5....that's all...

Please send in your answers to kshira.saagar@gmail.com

Please don't post it as comments.

Scores and Answers in a week.

Each question carries one mark and each connect/keyword carries 2 marks.

Final theme fetches 5 marks.

And post ur feedback as comments.

Thanks.

Happy quizzing!!!

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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

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Friday, October 9, 2009

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October 1 - Are you qualified?

Friday, September 25, 2009

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Thursday, September 24, 2009

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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

September 24 - Something Constructive

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

September 23 - Are you game?

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Picturesque Start