QUEURIEST - VI
Keep Guessing - Johnnie Guesser
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1. If James Joyce wrote A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, who wrote A Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man? God knows!
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2. This one might really whip the bails off you. Who holds the record for the most number of stumpings in Test cricket history?
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3. Golden Hind: Francis Drake :: Millennium Falcon : _____________?
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4. What happens when somebody is subjected to defenestration? Linux fans, anyone?
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5. Easy one. Who led the mutiny onboard the HMS Bounty?
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6. Codenames! The secret plans for what was called Project Chess?
Crazy Cryptic Clue: A giant that could be royal, Prussian and marine has something to do with it, perhaps? But little to do with Mr. Garik Weinstein though, contrary to what you might think.
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7. Who, along with superstar pals 'Beatle' George Harrison, 'Heartbreaker' Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and Roy Orbison - formed a band called the Traveling Wilburys? The answer, my friend is . . .
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8. Which month in the calendar is named after Latin for `to open'? You may guess, but think what could be before!
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9. Surprisingly easy one. What does a thaumatologist do?
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10. What was codified in a 1942 short story called 'Runaround'? Cryptic Clue: Mt.SinAI !
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BONUS Question
Q. Can you make 24 out of 4 zeroes only? Use mathematical operations only. ie, make an expression out of 0,0,0,0 such that it evaluates to 24.
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From: "SonOfDelphi"
Date: Thu Jan 9, 2003 12:18 pm
Subject: Queuriest - VI
Welcome to episode 6 of Queuriest.
a few words about the Queuriest series. I intend these quizzes to be competitive in nature. That's why I toss in a few sitters and also why clues abound, so that there's something for everybody. I don't bury the questions in voluminous prose (obscurification). Neither do I introduce deliberate misspellings or inaccurate info. (Two anti-googling strategies commonly employed). Direct & honest, trust implied. That's what I like...
and if you attempt to answer the Qs honestly, then the answers stay longer in your head when they come. That's the ultimate aim, right? Plus that way it's more fun and satisfying for all involved...and there need be no shame in getting 'just' 1 or 2. And 50% in a set of Qs set by another person is very good indeed.
and in case you do google for a question (when it absolutely CAN't wait!!) , at least indicate that in the answer, I'll give you half the points. CONSCIENCE, not CON-SCIENCE! ;-) That way it would be fair both on googlers (some reward for searching so hard) and on others who attempt the Qs by themselves ...and give me some extra info also please :-)
If, on the other hand, you feel that these quizzes are just google-guides, then please tell me, I'll stop posting the scores, just the answers should do fine then, won't it. . .I feel it's unfair on the genuine, competitive respondents otherwise (sometimes it breaks my heart to place a googler above a genuey :-(. . .also, I need not frame the questions all that carefully then, you would find the errors anyway, huh? :-)
I hope I do not lose my audience because of these lamentations of mine! Not possibly, 'cos it's the other guy that I was complaining about, right? :-)
GET CRACKING NOW!!!!
luv
thomas
ANSWERS
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From: "SonOfDelphi"
Date: Sun Jan 26, 2003 11:00 pm
Subject: Answers to Queuriest - VI
Hi everybody!
45 responses in all. Perhaps this was the cluesiest episode yet. Most questions had clues - used very imaginatively by respondents!
sorry for the LOOOOOOOOOOONG delay in posting the answers. Now, what excuse can I give? ....
"And on the seventh, He Rested."? :-Queuriegenesis 1:18
;-)
luv
thomas
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QUEURIEST - VI
Keep Guessing - Johnnie Guesser
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1. If James Joyce wrote A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, who wrote A Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man? God knows!
*Joseph Heller, the Catch-22 guy. God knows was the clue. It's another book he wrote.
Dylan Thomas wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
2. This one might really whip the bails off you. Who holds the record for the most number of stumpings in Test cricket history?
*Bert Oldfield of Australia. He was the wicketkeeper in the middle 20th century. '30s I guess. 52 in career.
Pure statististics. Never mind if you didn't get this one.
3. Golden Hind: Francis Drake :: Millennium Falcon : _____________?
*Han Solo, in Star Wars
AC:Lando Carlrissian is the actual owner, Han Solo gets it only later.
does anybody know whether there's an expansion for R2D2 or C3PO?
4. What happens when somebody is subjected to defenestration? Linux fans, anyone?
*He gets thrown out of the window.
The Linux comment was just a bit of fun from me. I'm not too sure whether it applies to removing windows from computers ...or .... does IT?
refer Defenestration of Prague & Thirty Years also.
5. Easy one. Who led the mutiny onboard the HMS Bounty?
*Fletcher Christian
Some answered Bligh, Bligh is the author/captain.
6. Codenames! The secret plans for what was called Project Chess?
Crazy Cryptic Clue: A giant that could be royal, Prussian and marine has something to do with it, perhaps? But little to do with Mr. Garik Weinstein though, contrary to what you might think.
*Project Chess was the secret plans for the IBM PC, the PC itself I believe was codenamed Acorn.
The clue wasn't called __Crazy___ Cryptic Clue for nothing! Giant=> Big + royal, Prussian,marine=>Blue (shades of) together => Big Blue => IBM. Garik Weinstein =>original name of Garry Kasparov. little to do with him => Project Chess has nothing to do with chess.
7. Who, along with superstar pals 'Beatle' George Harrison, 'Heartbreaker' Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and Roy Orbison - formed a band called the Traveling Wilburys? The answer, my friend is . . .
*...blowin' in the wind. The answer,my friend is Bob Dylan.
8. Which month in the calendar is named after Latin for `to open'? You may guess, but think what could be before!
* April. It's not January as many seemed to think.
Guess! What's before MAY?!! ;-)
9. Surprisingly easy one. What does a thaumatologist do?
*Studies miracles.
A lot of answers mentioned magic. Have given marks for that as well.
10. What was codified in a 1942 short story called 'Runaround'? Cryptic Clue: Mt.SinAI !
* The Three Laws of Robotics. Yeah, the story is by Isaac Asimov. Just robot is not good enough, I'm sorry.
About the clue. Mt.Sinai is where Moses received the Ten Commandments from God. and AI= Artificial Intelligence. Get it? Mt.SinAI.
BONUS Question
Q. Can you make 24 out of 4 zeroes only? Use mathematical operations only. ie, make an expression out of 0,0,0,0 such that it evaluates to 24.
* (0! + 0! + 0! + 0!)!
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The scores (in chronological order)
1. Asish Koshy - 7
2. Sharad Singh - 4
3. Suki - 1.5
4. Shiraz - 9 (0.5 each for 2Qs)
5. Mamatha Balasubramanian - 2 (nice working out)
6. Sujith Vijay - 9 (o yeah,i know to get 8 with two 0s :-p)
7. Ramkumar Sankar - 1
8. Prasun Ratn - 1
9. Kensy Joseph - 3
10. TalonX the Surreal - 2
11. Avinash Iyer - 3 (Bonus qUIZZER?)
12. Madhu M - 2 (Share ur views on Heller)
13. Kunal Malhotra - 8
14. Partha Sengupta - 3
15. Sreeram - 3
16. Syam Prasad - 5
17. Lahar Appaiah - 5 (May <-- Goddess of fertility Maia)
18. Avjit Chaudhuri - 7
19. Devilcat - 4
20. Sukhamaya - 4
21. Santhosh D'Souza - 9 (nice work on April!)
22. Acharya Rajib - 7
23. R.Krishna - 8
24. Suranjan Chakrabarty- 6 (I believe there's more than 1 album though for TW)
25. Navneet Bal - 5
26. Dinesh Krithivasan - 5.5
27. Samrat Sengupta - 2
28. Aniruddha Gupta - 7
29. Anshuman Mishra - 5
30. Debashree Mitra - 4
31. Koushik Vedaraman - 5
32. Hussain Poonawala - 1
33. Paul Ahmitough - 9
34. Satyajit Chetri - 1
35. Vijay Krishnan - 2
36. Pramod R - 1
37. Venkateswar KR - 0 (queery effort!)
38. Anannya Deb - 4
39. Bhaskar Singh - 0
40. Pauline Daniel - 1
41. Prithwiraj Mukherjee - 3.5
42. Thejaswi Udupa - 7
43. Sankle Pradesh - 3
44. Avik Chatterjee - 2
45. Bharat Jayakumar - 1 (may the 44444.. be with U2!)
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Funnest!-
Click OK to restart on Defenestration
00:00 = 24 hrs midnight on BonusQ
Plan to kill Bobby Fischer by Soviets on Proj Chess
Guessest!- nice guessing
May, December on April
Phileas Fogg, Frank Poole on Millennium Falcon
Nirad Chaudhuri on Joseph Heller
Picasso,MF Hussain on Artist as Old Man
Turing Test on Runaround
Hitler's submarine fleet on Project Chess
Expectedest!
Removing MSWindows from PC on defenestration
Deep Blue for Project Chess
* Most popular wrong answer: William Bligh has no HMS mutiny
* All questions were answered
* Shiraz,Paul,Santhosh top the quiz with 9 points
* What I realised: Clues are interpreted and used in myriad ways. Sometimes in ways unIMAGINED by framer!
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A match may start a fire. But once the fire is
started, putting out the match will not be of
any use.
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