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Showing posts with label trivia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trivia. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

When solution becomes a trend...


This drink is believed to get its name because it was made for the workers in a steel works in Glasgow. These workers were dying from the large amounts of beer drunk to quench their thirst from the heat of the steel works and this was introduced as an alternative by A.G. Barr.
Identify the drink.

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Glen Jacobs

His real name is Glen Jacobs. He earned a degree in English Literature at Northeast Missouri State University, where he played both basketball and football. Most fans are aware that he is very outspoken in terms of politics and is even a member of the Free State Project. He hosted a podcast titled The Tiny Political Show under the pseudonym Citizen X (from March 16, 2007 to March 13, 2008) and ran a blog called The Adventures of Citizen X at AdventuresOfCitizenX.com and is also a contributor to LewRockwell.com.
If all that wasn’t surprising enough, he even owns an insurance company with his wife called The Jacobs Agency, which is located in Tennesse.
How do we know him better?

Daedalus

In the movie Birdman, the character of Michael Keaton has been compared to X, who in Greek mythology is the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the creator of the Labyrinth. X and his father attempt to escape from Crete by means of wings that his father constructed from feathers and wax. X's father warns him that he should fly neither too low nor too high, because the sea's dampness would clog his wings or the sun's heat would melt them.But X ignored his father's instructions not to fly too close to the sun, resulting in the wax in his wings getting melted and him felling into the sea. Who is X ?

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

impossibly long ash........

Though he loved cigar, he used to smoke only half of each cigar but kept the butts. No matter where we went - anywhere in the world - his staff had to collect all the butts and put them in a special box. That box was brought back and the butts were handed to one of the gardeners, who used to smoke them in his pipe.
He prepared for difficult negotiations by sticking a hatpin into a cigar, then later lighting and smoking the cigar until the attention of the entire audience was on the impossibly long ash (wondering when it would fall off) and not on any of the points his opponent was trying to make.Yeah, he was smart !!

Who was he ?

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Nasika...

Kaushik Basu is a renowned economist who has worked with GoI in the past and is currently engaged with the World Bank. Mr. Basu is also credited with modifying the Su-doku and making it a two player game called Dui-doku. Apart from this he has also taught at Cornell Univ. In a newspaper article he recalled his meeting with a renowned personality and his curiosity about the surname of that person led to the revelation that it's origin lay in a Sanskrit word "nasika" (for nose). 

Basu's meeting with whom was he describing?

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Symbolics Inc. founded by MIT AI lab staffers and associated hackers, designed and manufactured a line of Lisp machines, single-user computers optimized to run the Lisp programming language. Though the company doesn't exist anymore , but it was one of the pioneers of Internet.

What unique record does it hold?
His wish of having a strong representation of 'his tribe' through ________ , his love for a famous singer and one of her renowned songs, his upbringing in a family which owned a women's clothing store and his close association with a politician led to the designing and large scale manufacturing of ___________. He believed it contained all the elements of spirit, harmony, life, nature etc. The original design was modified to cut down the expenses due to one of the raw materials being very expensive.
Now, I want the name of the person, singer/song, the item in question and the expensive raw material ?

Sunday, January 25, 2015

Sing from the top. Again.



This song's tune originates from nineteenth century Warsaw (Poland) and it was used in a lullaby titled "Wlazł kotek na płotek", written by Oskar Kolberg and composed by Stanisław Moniuszko. However the Lyrics for this lullaby were about a kitten on a fence.

The modern song which we know now is in fact named "X". The lyrics were written by Edith Newlin and the tune is traditional. It was published in 1937 by Willis Music Co. These lyrics differ slightly to the one used in the show Y, with the show changing the sequence.

The song is originally called with a slightly different name, and parts of its lyrics sequence have been altered for the version sung in Y. Mentioned in Y at times, X appeared first in S01E11 and continues to appear in each season. When sung to the protagonist, "X" has never been shown to finish without being interrupted and he demanding for it to be sung "from the top", showing his extreme attachment to the song.
In November 2010, Y held a contest where contestants uploaded their version of "X", and other users could vote for their favorite.
Id X and Y.
Showing posts with label trivia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trivia. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

When solution becomes a trend...


This drink is believed to get its name because it was made for the workers in a steel works in Glasgow. These workers were dying from the large amounts of beer drunk to quench their thirst from the heat of the steel works and this was introduced as an alternative by A.G. Barr.
Identify the drink.

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Glen Jacobs

His real name is Glen Jacobs. He earned a degree in English Literature at Northeast Missouri State University, where he played both basketball and football. Most fans are aware that he is very outspoken in terms of politics and is even a member of the Free State Project. He hosted a podcast titled The Tiny Political Show under the pseudonym Citizen X (from March 16, 2007 to March 13, 2008) and ran a blog called The Adventures of Citizen X at AdventuresOfCitizenX.com and is also a contributor to LewRockwell.com.
If all that wasn’t surprising enough, he even owns an insurance company with his wife called The Jacobs Agency, which is located in Tennesse.
How do we know him better?

Daedalus

In the movie Birdman, the character of Michael Keaton has been compared to X, who in Greek mythology is the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the creator of the Labyrinth. X and his father attempt to escape from Crete by means of wings that his father constructed from feathers and wax. X's father warns him that he should fly neither too low nor too high, because the sea's dampness would clog his wings or the sun's heat would melt them.But X ignored his father's instructions not to fly too close to the sun, resulting in the wax in his wings getting melted and him felling into the sea. Who is X ?

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

impossibly long ash........

Though he loved cigar, he used to smoke only half of each cigar but kept the butts. No matter where we went - anywhere in the world - his staff had to collect all the butts and put them in a special box. That box was brought back and the butts were handed to one of the gardeners, who used to smoke them in his pipe.
He prepared for difficult negotiations by sticking a hatpin into a cigar, then later lighting and smoking the cigar until the attention of the entire audience was on the impossibly long ash (wondering when it would fall off) and not on any of the points his opponent was trying to make.Yeah, he was smart !!

Who was he ?

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Nasika...

Kaushik Basu is a renowned economist who has worked with GoI in the past and is currently engaged with the World Bank. Mr. Basu is also credited with modifying the Su-doku and making it a two player game called Dui-doku. Apart from this he has also taught at Cornell Univ. In a newspaper article he recalled his meeting with a renowned personality and his curiosity about the surname of that person led to the revelation that it's origin lay in a Sanskrit word "nasika" (for nose). 

Basu's meeting with whom was he describing?

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Symbolics Inc. founded by MIT AI lab staffers and associated hackers, designed and manufactured a line of Lisp machines, single-user computers optimized to run the Lisp programming language. Though the company doesn't exist anymore , but it was one of the pioneers of Internet.

What unique record does it hold?
His wish of having a strong representation of 'his tribe' through ________ , his love for a famous singer and one of her renowned songs, his upbringing in a family which owned a women's clothing store and his close association with a politician led to the designing and large scale manufacturing of ___________. He believed it contained all the elements of spirit, harmony, life, nature etc. The original design was modified to cut down the expenses due to one of the raw materials being very expensive.
Now, I want the name of the person, singer/song, the item in question and the expensive raw material ?

Sunday, January 25, 2015

Sing from the top. Again.



This song's tune originates from nineteenth century Warsaw (Poland) and it was used in a lullaby titled "Wlazł kotek na płotek", written by Oskar Kolberg and composed by Stanisław Moniuszko. However the Lyrics for this lullaby were about a kitten on a fence.

The modern song which we know now is in fact named "X". The lyrics were written by Edith Newlin and the tune is traditional. It was published in 1937 by Willis Music Co. These lyrics differ slightly to the one used in the show Y, with the show changing the sequence.

The song is originally called with a slightly different name, and parts of its lyrics sequence have been altered for the version sung in Y. Mentioned in Y at times, X appeared first in S01E11 and continues to appear in each season. When sung to the protagonist, "X" has never been shown to finish without being interrupted and he demanding for it to be sung "from the top", showing his extreme attachment to the song.
In November 2010, Y held a contest where contestants uploaded their version of "X", and other users could vote for their favorite.
Id X and Y.