19th General Quiz. In the movie X, the character of Y, Isabelle, claims that her first words in...

19th General Quiz

In the movie X, the character of Y, Isabelle, claims that her first words in English were “New York Herald Tribune! New York Herald Tribune!” This scene is a reference to the movie A, in which actress B, yells the same, while walking down Champs Élysées, with a bunch of newspapers in her hand.

Identify X, Y, A and B.

Eva Green (Y)

Jean Seberg (B)

X

A

What happens next…..?

In a Peanuts strip from 1953, Schroeder embarks on an intensive workout. He does push-ups, jumps rope, lifts weights, touches his toes, does sit-ups (“Puff, Puff”), boxes, runs (“Pant, Pant”) and finally eats (“Chomp! Chomp!”).

In the last two panels he walks to his piano with determination and begins playing furiously, sweat springing from his brow. The eighth notes above Schroeder’s head are from the opening bars of Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier” Sonata (Op. 106), a piece so long, artistically complex and technically difficult that it is referred to as the “Giant” Sonata.

Courtesy: NYTimes, Jan13, 2009

What do the red stars represent?Hint will be given if asked for!

Skopje

Macedonia

Skopje

Macedonia

Shantiniketan

Calcutta

Chidambaram

Thiruchirapalli Mumbai

AlmoraKhanewal

Lahore

British-Raj CitizensRonald Ross – Almora, UttarakhandRudyard Kipling – Mumbai, MaharashtraRabindranath Tagore – Calcutta, WBSir CV Raman – Tiruchirapalli, TN

American Citizens of Indian OriginHargobind Khorana – Khanewal, PakistanS Chandrasekhar – Lahore, PakistanVenki Ramakrishnan – Chidambaram, TN

Indian Citizens of foreign originMother Teresa – Skopje, Macedonia

People of Indian DescentVS Naipaul- Port of Spain, Trinidad

Nobel Memorial Prize in EconomicsAmartya Sen – Shantiniketan, WB

Birth Places of Nobel Laureates from India/Indian origin/Indian born…..

Connect…

Ballets composed by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky

The NutcrackerSwan Lake

Sleeping Beauty

Who is this man, and why did he make this chart?

Alfred Mosher Butts, the inventor of the board game Scrabble, sitting on a pile of Scrabble tiles. He decided upon the letter distribution by studying the letter frequencies on the first page of the New York Times and made a chart of it. The frequencies of alphabets in Scrabble have remained unchanged since its invention by Butts during the Great Depression.

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Eleanor Rigby

Long, winding road

Hey, Jude!

Matchbox

P.S. I love you

I am the walrus

Julia

Lady Madonna

TheBeatles

Yellow Submarine

Connect the man with the picture on the right.

Enzo Ferrari. The picture on the right is that of Count Francesco Baracca, an Italian Air Force pilot & WWI hero. His mother Countess Paolina, asked Enzo to use the prancing stallion symbol on his car for good luck.

However, instead of the white background, Enzo used yellow, the colour of his hometown, Modena, alongwith the colours of the Italian national flag.

Also, the tail of the Ferrari stallion points upwards, unlike the original!

New York

Chicago

New Haven

Hawaiian

Californian

Greek

Sicilian

St.Louis

Mexican

Detroit

The following are different kinds of what?

Pizza styles

__________ ___________ was started by Michael Hart in 1971 with the digitization of the United States Declaration of Independence. Hart, a student at the University of Illinois, obtained access to a Xerox Sigma V Mainframe Computer in the university's Materials Research Lab. Through friendly operators, he received an account with a virtually unlimited amount of computer time; its value at that time has since been variously estimated at $100,000 or $100,000,000. Hart has said he wanted to "give back" this gift by doing something that could be considered to be of great value.

What did Hart start?

Hart is the founder of Project Gutenberg, the oldest digital library. Project Gutenberg is now hosted by ibiblio at the Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The Project was named after Johannes Gutenberg, who was the inventor of the mechanical printing press and movable type printing press.

Who is this distinguished scientist?

Arthur C. and Caroline J. McCallister Distinguished Chair Professor

Anderson Faculty Scholar

Director of the Center for Computational Research and the National Institute of Dynamical Physics.

Recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Prize of the Netherlands,

National Science Foundation Presidential Investigator Award,

Exceptional Achievement Medal from the International Society of Engineers,

Pi Gamma Tau Industry Excellence Professorship,

He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Advanced Dynamics, the Journal of Nano-Particle Computation, Physik-Publication and several other journals, and on the advisory boards of many industry consortia.

He holds honorary doctorates from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Tsing-Chua Beijing University and the Universidad de Sao Paulo, among others

Prof. Smith of PHD comics!!

This object was used by the Incan civilization, its usage being taught to the ruling classes and higher classes in the third year of schooling.

However, the Spanish Conquistadores mistook it to be idolatrous and destroyed many of them, as a result of which these are found mainly in museums or anthropology departments of universities.

What is this object? And what is its alleged purpose?

This is a Quipu, or Khipu, also called Talking Knots. These were recording devices used by the Incans to save numeric data. A number is represented as a sequence of knot clusters in base 10. Each cord consisted of positions for units, tens, hundreds, and so on.

Purportedly used by the Quipucamayocs, the accountants, or Quipu-authorities, to calculate taxes and conduct population surveys!

Connect!

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The Vipers in Kill Bill 1&2

Black Mamba Sidewinder Snake charmer

California mountain snake Cottonmouth Copperhead

What are the input strings for the algorithm?

A method for finding an effectively random location nearby and visiting it: a Spontaneous Adventure Generator.

Every day, the algorithm generates a new set of coordinates for each 1°×1° latitude/longitude zone (known as a graticule) in the world. The coordinates can be anywhere -- in the forest, in a city, on a mountain, or even in the middle of a lake! Everyone in a given region gets the same set of coordinates relative to their graticule.

Geohashing…..

The date, and that date’s Dow Jones opening

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Chicory Coffee substituteAlso called “Blue Sailor”

Add four to 100, multiply by eight, and then add 62,000. By this rule the circumference of a circle with a diameter of 20,000 can be approached.

Who said the following? And what was the person talking about?

Add four to 100, multiply by eight, and then add 62,000. By this rule the circumference of a circle with a diameter of 20,000 can be approached.

Chaturadhikam śatamaśṭaguṇam dvāśaśṭistathā sahasrāṇāmAyutadvayaviśkambhasyāsanno vrîttapariṇahaḥ.

Aryabhata, approximating the value of π (3.1416)

Born in 1935, in Brooklyn, to Nettie & Martin Konigsberg

Life-size statue of him in Oviedo, Spain

Has had marriages/relationships with Harlene Rosen, Louise Lasser, Diane Keaton, Stacey Nelkin, Mia Farrow and his adopted step-daughter, Soon-yi Previn

Has played with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band

The voice-over for the character Z in the movie Antz

Has won numerous Academy & BAFTA Awards

Identify this person…..

Woody Allen

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