Arre Bhai June 2011

24-Jun-2011, Riyaz Usman

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• 1) What was the announcement?

• Pottermore

• 2) This is a new species of mushrooms of Spongifera genus was found in 2010 in Sarawak, Malaysia.

• Due to its appearance, the mushroom was named Spongifera ___________.

• Spongifera Squarepantsi

• 3) If you search for terms related to a specific topics in Google in the month of June 2011, you would get a rainbow at the end of search bar.

• What topic?

• LGBT

• 4)

• 5) Who are they, Why are they dressed like this?

• Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, director and producer of Tin Tin, dressed as Thomson and Thompson.

• 6) Recently, a research group from MIT's Media Lab has leveraged commercially available technology to transmit holographic video over the internet using a single Xbox 360 Kinect camera and a standard laptop.

• The display used to project the hologram, however, is "the one component of the researchers' experimental system that can't be bought at an electronics store for a couple hundred dollars."

• What message did they transmit using the above mentioned technology?

• The "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope." hologram message from Princess Leia from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

• 7) “Just a week back, I was holding on to a near-vertical ice face with a pick, weighed down by 25 kilos of supplies, with two other guys tied to me with a rope, completely dependent on me. And I think that was easier.”

• Arjun Vajpai, youngest Indian to climb Mount Everest, is talking about what?

• Delhi University 100% cut off.

• 8) This is a 1986 hit song, originally sung by a makossa group from Cameroon called Golden Sounds. The song was such a hit that they eventually changed their name after the song. The song pays tribute to African skirmishers during World War II. Most of the band members were in the Cameroonian Army themselves and used make up, fake bellies, and fake butts for comic relief.

• The song was used extensively in the frontlines by the Nigerian Army during the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970) and in schools as a marching song in the 1970s and 1980s.

• The song is still used today almost everywhere in Africa by soldiers, policemen, boy scouts, sportsmen, and their supporters, usually during training or for rallying.

• Waka Waka

• 9) www.priceless.com – Whose website?

• Mastercard

• 10)

• Cricket Match at 1900 Olympics

• 11) Where would you have seen this?

• Mars Attack!

• 12) In 1939 Walt Disney won an Academy Honorary Award "as a significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field". Disney received the award consisting of 8 trophies, presented to him by 10-year-old child actress Shirley Temple.

• Which Movie?

• Snow White and Seven Dwarfs

• 13) Identify

• Statue of Pythagoras in Samos, Greece

• 14) “Dear Dr. ____, I am a ninth-grade student at the White Plains High School. While it should not matter, I would like to mention that I am a white girl. I read in the paper of your misfortune, and of your suffering. And I read that if you had sneezed, you would have died. And I am simply writing you to say that I’m so happy that you didn’t sneeze.”

• Martin Luther King II

• 15) A feature added to Youtube for a short period in 2010. What does the button do?

• Adds Vuvuzela noise to any video

• 16) How do you know John Roland Reuel better?

• J.R.R. Tolkien

• 17)

• 18)

• Traffic signal for color blind

• 5)

• Age of Empires II Campaigns

• 20) The _________ sign, radiological sign is a radiolucent shadow seen in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen may indicate gallstones as a possible cause of a patient’s abdominal pain. If the x-ray beam aligns with the longitudinal axis of the stone, the typical pattern can be seen.

• Benz sign

• 21) Identify the sport.

• Quidditch

• 22) Club Name: _. _. _. _. _.• Office Bearers:

– Great Grandiose Dictator-for-Life, The Ruler Supreme, The Fearless, The Brave, The Held-high-in-esteem, _______ the Bold.

– First _____ and El Presidente, The delight of all cognoscent.

• Meeting Location: Clubhouse in Garage, Tree Fort, Box of Secrecy

• Official Anthem: “Oh, _._._._._., best club in the cosmos...”

• G.R.O.S.S.

• 23) There are 4 of them: Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde. Blinky is a nickname for “Shadow,” Pinky is a nickname for “Speedy,” Inky is short for “Bashful” and Clyde is really named “Pokey.” In the Japanese version, you’ve got Urchin, Romp, Stylist and Crybaby, whose respective nicknames are Macky, Micky, Mucky and Mocky.

• Pac-Man villains

• 24) X & Y, the two biggest names in their field and long-time rivals, were once sharing a cab in Manhattan when they came up with an agreement.

• Thus the dedication in X’s book ‘Report on Planet Three’ reads “In accordance with the terms of the X-Y Park Avenue treaty, the second-best science fiction writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction writer”.

• Arthur C Clarke and Isaac Asimov

• 25) Mannarshala Temple in Alappuzha, Kerala is one of the rarest temples in the world where serpent deities are worshipped. What other rarity does this temple hold?

• The only temple with women priests.

• 26) Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is a website provided by NASA and Michigan Technological University (MTU). According to the website "Each day a different image or photograph of our universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.“

• On April 1 2005, NASA posted an image on APOD, along with a news story that caused that aroused a lot of public interest before they realized the hoax.

• However, It was only three years later that the joke became a reality as NASA’s false claim was proved by one of its own space probes.

• What was the news story/APOD that NASA published?

• Water on Mars

• 27) Out of all the Conan Doyle works what specialty does ‘The Case of George Ernest Thompson Edalji’ and ‘The Case of Oscar Slater’ hold?

• These are the real cases solved by Doyle.

• 28) US Post released this special stamp honoring Statue of Liberty. The stamp is very popular among philatelists. Spokesman for MGM Resorts international pointed out, “Everyone thought the post office was honoring just one great American institution when in reality they were honoring two — the Statue of Liberty and ___ _____!”

• Las Vegas. By mistake the postal service used the photo of Statue Liberty replica at Las Vegas, instead of the original one at New York.

• 29) Dancing Crane, Singing Luan• Precious Sword, Golden Hairpin• Sword Spirit, Pearl Light• ________ _____, _____ ______• Iron Knight, Silver Vase

• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

• 30) The Hank McCune Show was an American sitcom. The series began as a local Los Angeles program in 1949. NBC placed it on its national primetime schedule at the start of the 1950-51 season. It was cancelled three months later.

• McCune portrayed a television variety show host named after himself, and each week the character managed to blunder his way into a variety of comic predicaments.

• What first in TV entertainment?

• Laugh Track

• 31) I: Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made aware of its situation.

• III: Any body passing through solid matter will leave a perforation conforming to its perimeter.

• V: All principles of gravity are negated by fear.• VI: As speed increases, objects can be in

several places at once.• VIII: Any violent rearrangement of feline matter

is impermanent.• X: For every vengeance there is an equal and

opposite revengeance.

• Cartoon Physics

• 32)

• IBM Watson and Wolfram Alpha

• 33) The pattern is called EURion constellation, looks similar to the Orion constellation. What is it used for?

• Currency Detection.

• 34) What are these kinds of cartoons called?

• CAPTCHA Art

• 35) The Google Books error page pays homage to two things. What?

• Moby-Dick and Twitter Fail whale.

• 36) Whose Wan?

• Richard Feynman

• 37) One of the primitive computer games. Name the game and author.

• Donkey.bas, Bill Gates

• 38) New York Subway. What was before?

• FML

• 39) He is probably the only one to receive a posthumous award named after one of his inventions, in 2010. He received the award for the invention, which the award is named after.

• T. A. Edison won a posthumous Grammy in 2010 for his invention of Gramophone, and the contributions to entertainment industry thus.

• 40) If your screensaver looks like this, what program are you running?

• 41) Connect

• Back to the Future.

• 42)

• Indian Currency Notes

• 43) ________, was invented in the 19th century as powerful surgical antiseptic. It was later sold as both a floor cleaner and a cure for gonorrhea. But it wasn't a runaway success until the 1920s, when it was pitched as a solution for "chronic halitosis"— a then obscure medical term for ___ ______. New ads featured forlorn young women and men, eager for marriage but turned off by their mate's ___ ______. Until that time, ___ ______ was not conventionally considered such a catastrophe. But _______ changed that.

• Listerine.

• 44) These Korean made shoes are called ‘Unification shoes’. Why?

• The soles are made in South Korea and the uppers in North Korea.

• 45) Identify the major product of the company founded by him.

• Tiger Balm

• 46) In 1997, 17-year-old student Daniel Malmedahl recorded himself impersonating the noises produced by internal combustion engines. He posted this on a website and caught the attention of a Swedish television researcher, who convinced Daniel to perform the sound live on air. After it debuted on television, recordings of his performance began appearing on file sharing networks and various websites under the filename "2TAKTARE.MP3“

• In late 2003, Erik Wernquist encountered the sound effect and was inspired to create the 3D animated character "The Annoying Thing" to accompany it.

• It spawned a worldwide hit single, two albums, a range of merchandise and toys, and two video games.

• Crazy Frog

• 47) _____, the ____• Bosgrove, the butler• Genie, the genie• Kairu, the Dolphin• Peedy, the parrot• Robby, the robot• Merlin, the wizard

• Clippy, the Clippit. MS Office Assistants.

• 48) India became only the sixth country in the world to develop strategic undersea missiles when in January 2010 it launched the K-4 missile – a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) with an eventual range of 3,500 km. They named it after a person.

• What does the letter “K” stand for?

• Kalam

• 49) Identify

• Blackbox

• 50) Olympians Cameron and Tyler has been the subject of a 2010 movie. What movie?

• The Social Network

• 51) The 1980 Moscow Olympics were the first where electronic scoreboards at events scored by judges were made to display 4 characters (2 digits & 2 decimals). At previous events, scoreboards would display only 3 characters.

• Who/What necessitated the change?

• Nadia Comeneci

• 52) Melissa Roberts did it at Wimbledon in 1996, and Sander Lantinga emulated her in 2006. Robert Opel did it at the Oscar Awards in 1974, and Mark Roberts did it at the 2006 Winter Olympics. Bruce McCauley did it at the 1977 Ashes Test match, and got spanked by Greg Chappel for his troubles.

• What?

• Flashing/Streaking at Stadiums

• 53) Country Fact File• Location: Eastern Europe (somewhere in the former Soviet bloc)• Type of Government: Dictatorship• Society: Pigs and Human have equal intelligence and social

standing. Pigs also form part of Government. It is an extremely poor, "fourth-world" country that has abandoned Communism.

• Geography: Most of the nation is covered with waist-deep mud, which the residents use to build houses.

• People: All citizens have beards, including women and children• Economy: Mud based. Much of the economy has been ravaged by

a civil war between right and left handed citizens• Foreign Policy: The country was once at war with France. But

France ended the war after a short bombing when it realized that the GNP of the country had tripled after citizens sold bomb shrapnel as scrap metal.

• National bird: Frisbee.

• Elbonia

• 54) This sequence is always accompanied by the opening bars of the theme, composed by Monty Norman, orchestrated by trumpeter and composer John Barry and Burt Rhodes. Stunt man Bob Simmons played the role in the first one in 1962.

• There have been several variants of the sequence regarding attire, posture, the sound, the color and speed of the blood, etc. The early sequences showed in a suit and tie, until 1977, which from then on showed a dinner jacket and bow tie. However, the latest two sequences feature an open-necked shirt and business suit respectively.

• The sequence was traditionally placed at the start until 2006, where it appears after the cold open and is incorporated into the plot; in 2008, it occurs at the end.

• The Gun Barrel sequence of James Bond movies.

• 55) 15th-century Church of Saint-Maclou in Rouen, France. A typical example of a particularly florid style of late Gothic architecture in vogue in France, Spain and Portugal during that period. The name that was used to describe this style is a word meaning ‘flaming’ in French, referring to the look of the ornamentation used. This word has since passed into English. What’s the good word?

• Flamboyant

• 56) It is an English surname, originally a nickname for a person with closely cropped hair. It’s an uncommon first name. The name is well known due to just one fictional character; so well known that it has become acceptable as a common noun in English especially used ironically to address somebody who has stated the obvious. Literally means “fair-haired” in Old English.

• Sherlock

• 57) Roderick Jaynes has edited all films directed by Coen Bros from their debut film Blood Simple to their latest True Grit. ‘He’ has never worked for any Non-Coen films. Nominated for Oscars twice – Fargo and No Country for Old Men. In case if he had won any of them, it was quite sure that Coen Bros would receive the award on behalf, since he was absent on these ceremonies.

• How is Roderick Jaynes related to Coen Bros?

• Roderick Jaynes is alias for Coen Bros under which they take the editing credits.

• 58) In 1917, Phalke released ‘Lanka Dahan’, with A. Salunke as Rama. Who played Sita in the film?

• A. Salunke. This was the first double act in Indian cinema.

• 59) Mont Blanch Gandhi 241 was a special collectors edition launched in October 2009, later went into several controversies.

• What does 241 signifies?

• 241 miles, the distance covered in Dandi March.

• 60) A UK student’s effort to publish something. If published completely, it is said that it would be equivalent to 952 volumes of the majot other one. In picture is just 0.01% of the complete set.

• What?

• Wikipedia

• Bonus – Connect the six questions.

• 1) It’s no more about winning in the flat world. It’s about ______ ________ _________

• 2) This was a British Royal Navy research vessel commanded by Lieutenant James Cook on his first voyage of discovery, to Australia and New Zealand from 1769 to 1771.

• It is also is a first-rate Ship of the Line, a heavily-armed naval vessel used by the British Navy captained by Cutlet Becket in Pirates of the Caribbean: At worlds End, which fights Flying Dutchman captained by Will Turner and Black Pearl captained by Jack Sparrow.

• Also the name of two different SUVs, one manufactured by Mitsubishi, and another by Ford (in Indian market).

• 3) George Edward _______, better known as Professor _______, is a fictional character in a series of science fiction stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Unlike Conan Doyle's laid-back, analytic character, Sherlock Holmes, Professor is an aggressive, dominating figure.

• Like Sherlock Holmes, Professor was based on a real person — in this case, a professor of physiology named William Rutherford, who had lectured at the University of Edinburgh while Conan Doyle studied medicine there.

• 4) On which popular TV channel’s logo will you find the element Scandium appropriately used so as to double-up as the name of the channel?

• 5) She is the feminine personification of the United States of America.

• 1924 - No clouds; Rays emanating from torch in a flickering style of animation. She wore a headdress.

• 1936 – She now stood on a pedestal, wore no headdress, and the single word appeared in chiseled letters behind her. The animation was improved so that the torch now radiated light instead of the more artificial-looking rays of light projecting from the torch.

• 1976 – Along with other changes, her body shape was described as resembling a Coke bottle.

• 1992 – Digitally repainted to return to her "classic" look. Starts with a bright light, which zooms out to reveal the torch and then then her. Jenny Joseph, a homemaker and mother of two children, was the model, but used a composite for the face.

• 6) If Atlantic was Sea of Atlas (in Greek), this is a legendary island first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, which means Island of Atlas, right in the middle of Atlantic. The concept of a lost continent, has been generally rejected, but also has found a lot of supporters including some Nazi theorists.

• Francis Bacon's 1627 essay The New _______ describes a utopian society that he called Bensalem, located off the western coast of America. A character in the narrative gives a history of ________ that is similar to Plato's and places it in America.

• Answers1. Building Tomorrows Enterprise2. Endeavour3. Challenger4. Discovery Science5. Columbia6. Atlantis

• Connect – NASA Space Shuttles