Saturday, July 5, 2008

ANSWERS GENERAL QUIZ-5

1 .During the 2004 U.S presidential elections there were allegations of data irregularities and systematic flaws especially in Florida. Diebold, the company manufacturing the voting machines tightened its security after it was revealed that a simple virus can hack its electronic voting machines. But however months later a hacker broke their lock. How did he do it?

The advertisement contained the image which was an exact replica of the key to the electronic voting machines.


2 . Helen Duncan (1897 – 1956) a scottish woman, during World War II. In Portsmouth, she indicated knowledge that a warship had been sunk. Because this fact had been kept from the public, the British Admiralty chose to attempt to discredit her. She was arrested and eventually charged at first __________, she was jailed for nine months. Winston Churchill was less than impressed with the whole thing and eventually repealed the___________Act in 1951.

WITCHCRAFT


3. X is a catchphrase and proverb used in discussing economic inequality. William Harrison said, in an October 1, 1840 speech, " I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed to the purpose of making X.

In 1821, Percy Shelley argued that in his England, "the promoters of utility" had managed to exasperate at once the extremes of luxury and want. X; and the vessel of the State is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.
The phrase X was also very famously quoted in a movie. Give me the name of the movie and the phrase.

X- The rich richer and the poor poorer Movie is Rajnikanth's latest Sivaji

4.
Fill in the first blank

'Why does a chicken cross the street?


5. During Perestroika, they began to feature leaders of the Soviet Union. Easily Mikhail Gorbhachev was the largest, then Leonoid Brezhnev, Nikita Khruschev, Josef Stalin and the puniest Vladimir Lenin.

But in recent times the largest Gorbhachev has been replaced with Vladimir Putin, then comes Boris Yelstin, Mikhail Gorbhachev, Josef Stalin and then the Vladimir Lenin. Explain.

A matryoshka doll or a Russian nested doll

6 X are non-structural details that make up letters and symbols. The explanation proposed by Father Edward Catich in his 1968 book The Origin of the X is now broadly accepted: the Roman letter outlines were first brushed onto stone, and the stone carvers followed the brush marks which flared at stroke ends and corners, creating X.

In print, Y are more typically used for headlines than for body text. The conventional wisdom is that X help guide the eye along the lines in large blocks of text. In typography, a Y is one that does not have the small features at stroke endings. Y have become the de facto standard for body text on-screen, especially online.

X- Serif Y-Sans-Serif

7 In "From the Ruins of the Reich", Douglas Botting claims the term originated among black GIs in occupied Germany when the occupying soldiers sometimes slept with German war widows; getting sex he didn't deserve so she could feed her children.Whats is the not so famous word but used ubiquitously?

This question is not meant to offend anyones sentiments.... just for the sake of quizzing.... Motherfucker

8 Moghal-e-Azam (1960)
Taj Mahal (2005)
Sohni Mahiwal (1984)

What connects these three films?

Indian films that were screened in Pakistan

9 The first person who claimed to be X was the Brazilian businessman José Roberto Penteado. When Penteado started to get media attention, including an offer to be in a Volkswagen commercial, a 25 year old Hungarian man named Péter Guzli came forward as the real X.
Guzli took the photo on November 28, 1997, and was also responsible for the initial edit. He edited the image for a few friends, not realizing it would spread so quickly. He first provided the original undoctored photo and several other photos from the same series as proof to a Hungarian newspaper. Later on, the show Wired News examined the evidence and confirmed that Guzli was the real X. What are we talking about?

The tourist guy, also known as the accidental tourist ,WTC Guy, or tourist of death, is an Internet phenomenon consisting of a photograph of a tourist that has appeared in many photoshopped pictures after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

10 What is the name of this rather commercial painting/cartoon?

"The last breakfast" ---the characters are the mascots of kellogs cereals.

Ciao
Bharath







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