General Quiz-3

Here goes the next edition ..

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1.Charley Douglass was a sound engineer who is known for creating the X. The X stood a little over two feet tall and could be played like an organ to replicate different kinds of ________.

The operator could also select particular genders and ages. Some say Douglass recorded audiences from I Love Lucy, The Red Skelton Show, or Marcel Marceau's mime act to use in his X.

2.

What two word term is used in reference with the above picture?

3. X is a silent, black and white film made in 1964 by Andy Warhol. It consists of eight hours and five minutes of continuous real time footage of X. Abridged showings of the film were never allowed; supposedly the very unwatchability of the film was important. It was filmed on the night of July 25-26 from 8:06 p.m. to 2:42 a.m. from the 41st floor of the Time-Life Building, from the offices of the Rockefeller Foundation. It was shot at 24 frames per second but is projected at 16.

In 2004, "X" was added to the National Film Registry in the Library of Congress in recognition of the cultural, historical and aesthetic significance of the movie. Name the movie.

4 Identify this place in England

5. This is the “Horn and Hoof flag”.Where will you find this flag?

6. Name the book and the author.

7. Persons who work in the army are not exposed to much dirt from their surroundings and also do not handle dirty or muddy objects. Hence their palms are clean.

Persons who work in the navy and on the decks of ships are exposed to much dirt from their surroundings and also handle dirty or muddy objects. Hence their palms are relatively dirty.

This is the reason for a prime difference between a particular practice of the army and the navy. What practice?

8. The first X was commissioned by Tsar Alexander III of Russia as a surprise for his wife Maria Fyodorovna. Empress Maria was so delighted by this gift that Alexander appointed Y a "Court Supplier" and commissioned a gift each year thereafter, stipulating only that it be unique and contain a surprise. His son, Nicholas II of Russia continued the tradition, annually presenting a X each spring to his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna as well as his then-widowed mother.

Of the 69 known X, only 61 have survived to the present day. The vast majority of them are stored in public museums, with the greatest number, 30, in Russia. In November 2007, a X, named by Christie's auction house as the 'Rothschild X' sold at auction for £8.9 million.

9.
Australia - Mike Ward

Austria - Hans Meier

Bolivia - Juan Perez

France - Monsieur Durand

India - Ashok Kumar

Japan - Yamado Taro

United States - ?

Fill in the blank and explain.

10 . On February 14, 2007, X displayed a chocolate-dipped strawberry that combined its characters into a green stem, giving the appearance something was missing: thereby displaying a wrong version. In response to several speculations the officials responded: "When you look at X, you may worry that we forgot ourselves overnight, skipped a letter, or have decided this new version has a better ring to it. None of the above. I just know that those with true romance and poetry in their soul will see the subtlety immediately. And if you're feeling grouchy today, may I suggest eating a strawberry."