Saturday, September 15, 2007

Queuriestu - III

hi
Here's the third instalment of Queuriestu. Questions are simpler (I hope) this time around.
Read between the lines and think out of the box. Hope you enjoy cracking this set.
Cover me in replies, drown me slowly!
Answers next Friday.
luv
sonofdelphi
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QUEURIESTU - III
We Can Work It Out
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1. Won't blame you if you can't understand this. What word is derived from French for the twittering
noises made by birds?
*
2. Anyone can answer this one. What were the names of the tunnels built for/in The Great Escape?
*
3. A heady mix of current affairs and trivia. This chimpanzee was taught sign language and was named
after the person recently voted the world's top living intellectual. Give me the name...of the chimpanzee.
*
4. A typical, 'character'istic connection question. Connect Orson Welles, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
and Lee Falk.
*
5. The logo of which company, a major star of the day, is formed by its name being interleaved four
times in a circular fashion?
*
6. What was Linus Torvald's planned name for Linux? Free something, you say, cryptically.
*
7.If an aye-aye is a kind of monkey and beri-beri is a vitamin deficiency disease...,
who or what is an atlatl?
*
8. What did Hermann Rorschach, the Swiss psychiatrist, invent/create? What did you say that was?
*
9. Ozzy, anyone? What is the Osborne effect?
*
X. As far as currencies go, what is peculiar about the Mauritanian Ouguiya and Madagascar's
Ariary? The clue is that this question is inappropriately numbered!
*
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hi
Here are the answers to Queuriestu - III.
Not too many responses :-(
Perhaps I should not have opined that this was an easy set...it seemed it was not!
>> Questions are simpler (I hope) this time around.
Hope for a better response next time around.
luv
sonofdelphi
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QUEURIESTU - III
We Can Work It Out
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1. Won't blame you if you can't understand this. What word is derived from French for the twittering
noises made by birds?
* Jargon
Very few people got this one. Gibberish was a very appropriate guess, though incorrect.
2. Anyone can answer this one. What were the names of the tunnels built for/in The Great Escape?
* Tom, Dick and Harry
Anyone. Get it?
3. A heady mix of current affairs and trivia. This chimpanzee was taught sign language and was named
after the person recently voted the world's top living intellectual. Give me the name...of the chimpanzee.
* Nim Chimpsky was the name of the chimpanzee
Many of you worked it out to Noam Chomsky, but I'd specifically asked for the name of the chimp.
+I - Wikipedia has an article about Nim. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim_Chimpsky
4. A typical, 'character'istic connection question. Connect Orson Welles, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
and Lee Falk.
* The connection is Xanadu. Have given points to all answers with this word.
They all created characters (so it was a character-istic connect) who lived in Xanadu. Coleridge
wrote Kubla Khan, an epic ode to the real-life Mongol conqueror, who lived in Xanadu. Lee Falk
created Mandrake (he created Phantom too), who lived in Xanadu. Charles Foster Kane, the hero
of Orson Welles's classic Citizen Kane, also gave his residence the same name.
5. The logo of which company, a major star of the day, is formed by its name being interleaved four
times in a circular fashion?
* Sun, the only star of the day :-), Microsystems
+I - SUN - stands for Stanford University Networks
+I - Such symbols are called ambigrams
6. What was Linus Torvald's planned name for Linux? Free something, you say, cryptically.
* Linus wanted to name his Freax !
Working the clue out: Free X (Something) and reading it aloud. Juvenile.
+I - He chose this after his friend Ari Lemmke gave him a directory called Linux because he didn't like
the name Freax. Who would have!
+I - He wanted to modify Andrew Tanebaum's Minix initially but was not allowed to. Check out my short
7.If an aye-aye is a kind of monkey and beri-beri is a vitamin deficiency disease...,
who or what is an atlatl?
* An atlatl is a type of primitive weapon - a kind of spear-thrower
Precursor to the bow and arrow?
8. What did Hermann Rorschach, the Swiss psychiatrist, invent/create? What did you say that was?
* Inkblot test
Where they show you weird pictures and ask "What do you think that is?". Have seen this only in
movies.
+I - Also known as TAT - Thematic Apperception Test
9. Ozzy, anyone? What is the Osborne effect?
* Loss of sales for a company's current product because of the company's yet-to-be-launched
new product.
Apple might just have done it - with their announcement of Intel Apple PCs...Microsoft keeps doing
it, but is lucky, every time!
+I - It is named for Adam Osborne; his company which went bankrupt after he announced the
Osborne-II computer.
+I - Adam Osborne died in Kodaikanal in 2003, which is when I first heard about him
QM: Apologies for the misleading Ozzy allusion! ;-) Oh pedantic me, but it is Ozzy Osbourne,
not Osborne.
X. As far as currencies go, what is peculiar about the Mauritanian Ouguiya and Madagascar's
Ariary? The clue is that this question is inappropriately numbered!
* These don't follow the decimal system.
+I - 1 Ouguiya = 5 Khoums
+I - 1 Ariary = 5 iraimbilanja.
(I've already forgotten!)
+I - Madagascar only recently changed its currency from the Malagasy Franc.
+I - Iraimbilanja means "one iron weight"
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CURIOUSEST! - Enjoyable attempts
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1. On Jargon
Gibberish (Was very popular)
2. On Tom, Dick and Harry
Jane Doe and John Doe.
X and Y
Any And One
3. On Nim Chimpsky
Noam Chimpsky
7. On Atlatl
Albino monkey with vitamin-deficiency
Inca headgear
9. On Osborne effect
An irresistible urge to eat live bats!
X. On Ouguiya/Ariary
Have odd numbered notes, like a 9 ouguiya note
The coins are all crosses (Xs)
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SCORES (chronological, quiznetimal numbering)
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1. Dinesh Krithivasan - 4 (Fantabulous tries, early bird!)
2. Vivek Krishnan - 3 (Thanx for the extra info)
3. My Quizbox - 3 (No clue as to ur name!)
4. Srikanth Madani - 4.5 (Missed out on number-base)
5. Dijo - 1 (Minix was Tanenbaum's OS)
6. Kamal Rathi - 3 (Not B&A exactly, but OK)
7. Nishanth - 2 (Cool tries)
8. Vaibhav Devanathan - 2 (First to jargon)
9. Balasubramanian K.A - 9 (Fantastic)
X. Abid EH - 2.5 (Half for mandrake and chomsky together)
Y. Ranjith Kumar - 3.5 (Imaginative work on the connect and chimp)
Z. Rachana Parmar - 5 (Good effort)
A. Venkateshwar KR - 1 ( Entertaining as always)
B. Shashwat Quiz - 8 (Solid)
C. Anish Babu - 1 (Good attempts)


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