tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21450960689001171572024-03-26T16:17:22.671+05:30Inter-Connectedness of All ThingsAnniesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052943192316292028noreply@blogger.comBlogger136125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145096068900117157.post-16660175130272916762024-03-20T05:08:00.008+05:302024-03-20T05:09:01.498+05:3010Q (Mar 20, 2024)1. The right-wing historian P.N. Oak (1917-2007) was well known for his crackpot theories, which the RW world loves to repeat and amplify. From his mind arose such gems as that the Taj Mahal is actually a Shiva temple called Tejo Mahalaya, that the word 'Christianity' came from the Sanskrit words 'Krishna-neeti', and that the name 'Abraham' comes from 'Brahma'. In the same vein, he proposed that Anniesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052943192316292028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145096068900117157.post-60457456041932248872024-03-12T09:50:00.002+05:302024-03-20T05:15:00.845+05:3010Q (Mar 12, 2024)1. Formed in 2019 by Andre Ventura, a guy who likes to make the Nazi salute, a right-wing populist party named Chega (meaning 'Enough') won 48 out of 230 seats in the legislature of which country in election results declared on March 11, 2024? That was four times the 12 seats they won during the previous elections in 2022!2. This new plaything (pic below) is starting to gain a lot of ground on Anniesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052943192316292028noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145096068900117157.post-92202605914101920532024-03-07T09:52:00.005+05:302024-03-12T09:56:22.788+05:3010Q (Mar 7, 2024)1. What place name with religious connotations – also a surname in some places, including here in Goa – comes from a Hebrew word meaning 'to guard', and is likely cognate with an Arabic / Urdu word related to keeping watch?2. In 'Little Girl Lost' (1990), a memoir that she wrote when she was just 15 years old, [X] says: “I had my first drink at age nine, began smoking marijuana at 10, and at 12 Anniesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052943192316292028noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145096068900117157.post-63238037446764323142024-03-01T09:17:00.002+05:302024-03-07T09:55:29.198+05:3010Q (Mar 1, 2024)1. In ancient Rome, voting at legal assemblies was done by group, with the majority in a group determining its vote. The group chosen to vote first on an issue was called the '____________', a term that roughly means 'those asked for an opinion before others'. Because the first vote was considered to be of great importance, Latin speakers also used the noun to mean 'preference' and later 'Anniesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052943192316292028noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145096068900117157.post-66102596358663614592024-02-12T11:26:00.002+05:302024-03-01T09:20:36.494+05:3010Q (Feb 12, 2024)1. In 19th-century Britain, a 'fawney' was a colloquial word for a finger ring. A confidence game called the 'fawney rig' developed that involved the con artists dropping what looked like a golden ring on the street, and rushing to pick it up the moment a bystander went for it. They would then offer to keep the ring in exchange for half of what they could get from it. Some marks would take this Anniesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052943192316292028noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145096068900117157.post-81756452213353563212024-02-06T07:38:00.005+05:302024-02-12T11:37:24.278+05:3010Q (Feb 6, 2024)1. What word – German for 'compulsion to move', and one of the last words in any English dictionary – is generally used in the context of chess and other games?2. Sling ____ and port ____ are the two main acceptable ways of carrying what? Both blanks are the same word.3. Shown in the composite image above is the logo of the oldest existing club football tournament in Asia, and the person who it Anniesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052943192316292028noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145096068900117157.post-64514372906071787782024-01-30T13:01:00.007+05:302024-02-06T07:43:08.071+05:3010Q (Jan 30, 2024)1. Tannenbaum is the German word for a fir tree. Knowing that, what is the title of the well-known English translation of the song "O Tannenbaum", written in 1824 by organist, teacher and composer Ernst Anschütz?2. And, during World War 2, Operation Tannenbaum was the planned but never carried-out invasion of which country by Nazi Germany?3. As part of its marketing strategy, Amar Chitra Katha Anniesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052943192316292028noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145096068900117157.post-62336621102370421102024-01-21T10:45:00.003+05:302024-01-30T13:10:52.217+05:3010Q (Jan 21, 2024)1. Shown below are a satellite image of Guanabara Bay and an early 20th-century picture of a city on its banks. The bay was first encountered by Europeans on January 1, 1502, when the Portuguese explorers Gaspar de Lemos and Gonçalo Coelho arrived on its shores. The name given by the exploration team to the bay originally used the Portuguese word for lagoon as part of the name of the bay, but Anniesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052943192316292028noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145096068900117157.post-36845400142810043502021-10-17T09:50:00.003+05:302021-10-17T20:55:47.585+05:30One-Off Q (Oct 17, 2021)Take a look at this video clip, and list the answers to the questions below it. Post your answers in the Comments box, clearly marked with the appropriate letters of the alphabet, and with your name at the bottom of the post.Questions A-B. Name this movie A and its director B.C. Name the main actor C, the young guy with the blond hair who walks into the club, and at the end of the clip runs off Anniesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052943192316292028noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145096068900117157.post-70194121447251196972018-03-25T01:06:00.001+05:302018-03-30T19:12:14.026+05:3010Q (March 24, 2018)
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1. John William Hessing was a soldier from the Netherlands, initially in the employ of the Dutch East India Company in Ceylon. After the British overpowered the Dutch in 1781 and annexed all their sub-continental holdings, Colonel Hessing continued the fight as a mercenary, first in the employ of the Nizam of Hyderabad,Anniesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052943192316292028noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145096068900117157.post-62596533310384442832018-03-19T23:15:00.006+05:302018-03-25T00:52:16.899+05:3010Q (March 19, 2018)
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1. You may have heard of Sake Dean Mohamed, the first person to open an Indian restaurant in Britain. While the restaurant didn't work out, in 1814 Mohamed and his Irish wife Jane moved to Brighton and opened a public bath-house, also the first of its kind in England. The bath-house was very popular, and both King Anniesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052943192316292028noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145096068900117157.post-41170437547255075482018-03-11T19:00:00.001+05:302018-03-19T22:03:04.555+05:3010Q (March 11, 2018)
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1. La Madone des Motards, known in English as the festival of the Madonna of the [X] (it's a plural word), is promoted as the largest “pilgrimage” of its kind in France. Begun in 1979 by a local abbot as an event for himself and 37 friends, it annually attracts 10,000-plus participants from across Europe to the fields Anniesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052943192316292028noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145096068900117157.post-87590576558183424752018-03-06T01:26:00.000+05:302018-03-11T18:53:20.037+05:3010Q (March 6, 2018)
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1. According to Sri Lankan legends, when the Buddha died in 543 BCE (or thereabouts), his body was cremated in a sandalwood pyre at Kushinagar, and his left canine tooth was retrieved from the funeral pyre by Arahat Khema, who then gave it to King Brahmadatta for veneration. Brahmadatta kept it in his capital city of Anniesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052943192316292028noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145096068900117157.post-6728226907860806772018-02-24T21:38:00.008+05:302020-08-17T09:05:27.286+05:3010Q (February 24, 2018)
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1. An underground version of this path-breaking 1970s English
movie, dubbed in Tamil, was doing the rounds when I was in college in
Madras in the '80s. It was titled (in translation) 'Supriya Shocks
Selva', which is both appropriate and absurd. Which movie?
A. 'Sybil', the cult classic
2. This image depicts StAnniesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052943192316292028noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145096068900117157.post-79090999416648995252018-02-20T22:24:00.001+05:302018-02-24T21:31:39.565+05:3010Q (February 20, 2018)
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1. The X Challenge, a promotional initiative for the movie X, hit social media recently. Alia Bhatt did it hanging upside down from some equipment in a gym; Anil Kapoor and Rajkummar Rao did it outside a pharmacy somewhere in Punjab, prompting Sonam Kapoor to tweet: "Woohoo!! Dad this is fantastic! I am who I am becauseAnniesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052943192316292028noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145096068900117157.post-67149324360263759182018-02-10T22:06:00.002+05:302018-02-20T22:05:03.785+05:3010Q (February 10, 2018)
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1. You might imagine that this World Heritage Site, National Park and Ramsar Site is named for its natural beauty, but it's actually named after the local name for the mangrove species Heritiera fomes (whose flowers are shown here), that are found there in large numbers. Which cross-border site?
2. [Audio link] Anniesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052943192316292028noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145096068900117157.post-7565785947939996102018-02-03T18:05:00.002+05:302018-02-10T21:57:49.996+05:3010Q (February 2, 2018)
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1. The word for what annual event comes from the French word for a purse or a small bag, which is why there's usually a handy briefcase involved?
2. In US prison slang, what is a 'four-piece suit'?
3. Name subject and (rather surprising) artist of this sketch made c. 1656 - c. 1658.
4. The area that is now this Anniesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052943192316292028noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145096068900117157.post-64803964762051166462018-01-27T03:37:00.001+05:302018-02-03T17:34:31.328+05:3010Q (January 27, 2018)
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1. The person who owns this film production company (as well as a publishing imprint by the same name) could be ruing or relishing the irony – the meaning of the phrase in Latin could apply to his fortunes, his marriage and even his reputation. Who, and what does Infinitum Nihil mean?
2. This commonly-used English Anniesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052943192316292028noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145096068900117157.post-12501811410095317682018-01-12T21:14:00.004+05:302018-01-27T03:23:20.515+05:3010Q (January 12, 2018)
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1. The name that the Persians used for the nomadic tribe that the Greeks called Scythians is associated in India with what is known as the Indian national ________. This may give the official marker, but hardly anyone knows it. You can get to the relevant figure by subtracting 78 from the equivalent figure in the more Anniesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052943192316292028noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145096068900117157.post-1135744306432473052018-01-06T02:53:00.001+05:302018-01-12T21:09:44.855+05:3010Q (January 6, 2018)
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1. The snark mark is a new-age punctuation mark that indicates that there's another layer of meaning in a sentence, usually a sarcastic or ironic one. What two standard keyboard characters, meant to represent an eye and a raised eyebrow next to it, make up the snark mark? [You can just type the relevant characters for Anniesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052943192316292028noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145096068900117157.post-11768841275965413312017-12-31T11:59:00.001+05:302018-01-06T01:50:09.375+05:3010Q (December 31, 2017)
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1. A writer, journalist, photographer, filmmaker and graphic designer who has been associated with various people's movements since 1990, Sonia Jabbar took over this family business a few years ago, and has been trying to revitalise its image using innovative marketing and promotion initiatives such as this sort of Anniesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052943192316292028noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145096068900117157.post-69789401955963670102015-04-11T01:14:00.000+05:302017-12-31T09:32:47.344+05:3010Q (April 10, 2015)
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1. What are the people in this video clip, known as Foley artists, doing? The name comes from that of Jack Foley, a pioneer of this technique.
2. On December 15, 2009, this Google doodle marking L.L. Zamenhof's 150th birthday, honoured what invention of his?
3. Identify this person, Chairperson of the Anniesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052943192316292028noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145096068900117157.post-13836742642918084182015-04-05T11:56:00.000+05:302015-04-11T01:06:17.292+05:3010Q (April 5, 2015)
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1. To begin with, a question in two parts. The person shown on the left below was the only important non-British general whose advice was constantly sought during wartime by Winston Churchill. He was invited to the Imperial War Cabinet in 1939, and appointed a Field Marshal of the British Army in 1941. On the Anniesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052943192316292028noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145096068900117157.post-60548211934781480422015-03-27T19:52:00.000+05:302015-04-05T11:44:05.099+05:3010Q (March 27, 2015)
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1. In the 18th century, 'redhand' was a legal term used in Scotland meaning 'in the act of crime', but it was this particular author who used that to coin the phrase 'caught red-handed'. He is generally credited as being second only to Shakespeare as an individual source of English neologisms, with such now-common phrases as 'cold Anniesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052943192316292028noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145096068900117157.post-6602969727401322282014-10-08T08:57:00.000+05:302014-10-16T11:08:29.570+05:30String Theory set 15
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071. A generic term used to describe the Latrodectus genus of venomous arachnids (best known in the context of the dangerous L. mactans, L. hesperus, and L. variolus).
072. This spoofy Marvel character, whose real-life alter ego is called Peter Porker.
073. An abbreviated name used (originally pejoratively) for the communications Anniesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052943192316292028noreply@blogger.com12