General Quiz-4

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1. Connect the four pics with an apronym and explain.

2. A band-pass filter is a device that passes frequencies within a certain range and rejects (attenuates) frequencies outside that range. An example of an analogue electronic band-pass filter is an RLC circuit (a resistor-inductor-capacitor circuit).

How is this schematic band-pass filter that appears in a novel 'V' written by Thomas Pynchon a reference to pop culture?

3 Proponents state that the they are accurate 75% to 90%. A Canadian study for 13 cities in the past 30 to 40 years puts success rate level at 37%. Also, the National Climatic Data Center reportedly has stated that the overall accuracy rate is around 39%. Random chance at a correct guess would be about 33%.

* Wiarton Will in Wiarton, Ontario

* General Beauregard Lee, PhD in Atlanta, Georgia

* Brandon Bob of Brandon, Manitoba

* Sir Walter Wally of Raleigh, North Carolina

Put fundaes..

4 Recently the Oxford English Dictionary has seen a reduction of about 4000 words. Angus Stevenson, eliminated some 16,000 _____ from the sixth edition, published last month. “People are not confident about using them anymore,” he said. “They’re not really sure what they’re for.”

What did Oxford do?

5. X is a style of drawing that uses the stipple method to create an image. They are designed to emulate the look of woodcuts and engravings on certificates and currency. Y first began using X in 1979 by freelance artist Kevin Sprouls. Y felt that the drawings complemented their classical feeling and gave it a sense of stability.

Each X takes between three to five hours to produce. Women are often more difficult to depict than men, due to their more complicated haircuts. In 2002, the Smithsonian Institute acquired 66 original X drawings and have put them on permanent display in the National Portrait Gallery.

6. It is maximum 30 ft (9.1m) wide and is about the same color as the soil surrounding it. Based on the optics of resolving power, (distance versus the width of the iris) an object of reasonable contrast to its surroundings some four thousand miles in diameter would be considered acceptable.

But it is of course not a disc but more like a thread, and a thread a foot (15 cm) long would not be visible from a hundred yards (90 m) away, even though a human head is.

Put fundaes..

7. What famous riff were the Italian football fans chanting after the Fifa 06 finals and why?? Italy’s RTWC:

Italy 2-0 Ghana

Italy 1-1 USA

Italy 2-0 Czech Republic

Italy 1-0 Australia

Italy 3-0 Ukraine

Italy 2-0 Germany

Italy 1-1 France Penalty 5-3

8. The most famous review of X novel Y was written by the conservative author Whittaker Chambers. It was unrelentingly scathing. Chambers accused X of supporting the same godless system as the Soviets, claiming "From almost any page of Y, a voice can be heard, from painful necessity, commanding: 'To the gas chambers—go!'" Five decades later, The Intellectual Activist published a reply, arguing that Chambers had not actually read the book, as he misspelled the names of two major characters and used no quotations from the novel in his critique.

He called Y's characters flat and uninteresting, and the heroes implausibly wealthy, intelligent, physically attractive and free of doubt while arrayed against antagonists who are weak, pathetic, full of uncertainty, and lacking in imagination and talent

9. In the 1931 Rose Bowl game, "Five-Yard" Fogerty carried 25 times and gained exactly 5 yards on each carry. It was in that game that teammates celebrated the oddity of Fogerty's achievement. The results of that game were Alabama, 24, Washington State, 0. Fogerty played one year of professional football before breaking his leg in a skiing accident. Something really well known originated from this incident. What?

10. The various ways in which this has been done:

Plain old jumping

Tunnels

Waiting for favorable winds

Hot air balloon

Sliding along aerial wires

Flying Ultra lights

Driving a sports car

11. This is an infamous scene from the movie “It happened one night.” What specific disastrous economic effect did this particular scene have?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_CsWOx9QJs

Ciao

Bharath