We begin by addressing business quizzers
Explain everything!
20 questions to solve
5 points for making a discovery
1.
Originally just white and silken, later used for such stuff with repeated geometric patterns. Repaid and pampered, but nothing to do with the word two.
ANSWER
DIAPERFrom the Latin Diasprum, "thoroughly white," or perhaps "white interspersed with other colors," from dia- + aspros "white.
Repaid anagram etc. The visuals are examples of the geometric patterns
4.
The norm in India is to be functional, (extending to weapons) historical (including persons), or geographical—which could mean rivers, mountains, cities, states, and even fish.
What?
ANSWER
Horace Logan, producer and MC of the Louisiana Hayride, a country music
show performed live at the Shreveport Municipal Auditorium and broadcast
on RADIO KWKH said “Elvis has left the building’” for the first time in 1956. He was attempting to get the somewhat bowled over audience to settle down.
6.
Eyetie, Limeys, beheaded dispenser-turned-detective and Russian who sounded like he was about to murder relatives. All of them have tonnes of this stuff.
ANSWER
The Sonnet.Variants include the Italian (Petrarchan), the English (Shakespearean), the Spenserian and the Pushkin sonnet. Thus the clues (Di-Spenser and Push Kin). And tonnes was an anagram for the answer.
ANSWER
Spode Bone China. Top picture shows the Spode Pottery Works set up by Josiah Spode at Stoke-on-
Trent, Staffordshire.
ANSWER
William Faulkner borrowed the title As I Lay Dying from words
spoken by Agamemnon in Homer’s Odyssey. The surname Faulkner once
denoted the profession the clue alludes to. Anagram for Greek hero
should lead to cuckold-hero.
ANSWER
Home Alone.Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) gets
separated from his family while they travel to Paris and Miami in the first two Home
Alone movies.
ANSWERThe Travelling Salesman Problem
Map shows solution/route for a travelling salesman who needs to cover 15000 German cities.
ANSWER
COMPUTERO Cute Rump was an irresistible almost-anagram describing what Go Ogle setter and takers do. Sigh.
ANSWER
EFFICIENTLYRupert Baxter, in the works of PG Wodehouse, was sometimes described as The Efficient Baxter. Dip him a little
bit in lye for the adverb.
ANSWERRobert Heinlein could have written these words
in Time Enough for Love with business quizzers in mind!
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building,
write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act
alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight
efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
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