ANSWERS FOR THE WEEK 12/10/2008

1.William Shakespeare

2.Walter pater

3.W M Thackeray

4.Jean Genet

QUESTIONS FOR THE WEEK 12/10/208

A SPECIAL QUIZ ON LITERATURE

1.Whose epitaph is this?

“ Good friend, for Jesus’ sake forbear

To dig the dust enclosed here,

Blest be the man that spares these stones,

And curst be he that moves my bones’

2. ‘ All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music’- Who made this

Observation?

3.Who wrote “ There’s no sweeter tobacco comes from Virginia, and no better brand than

Three Castles”

4.The author of The Thief’s Journal has actually been a thief. Who is he?

With love and regards jithesh maniyat

ANSWERS FOR THE WEEK 05/10/2008

1.Zeno

2 Midpoint theorem

3.Oswald Spengler

4.Pythagoras

QUESTIONS FOR THE WEEK 05/10/2008

A SPECIAL QUIZ ON MATHEMATICS

1. Who gave the four mathematical paradoxes now famous namely, Dichotomy, Achilles, Arrow and Stadium ?
2. “ The line joining the midpoints of two sides of a triangle is parallel to the third side and half its length” – Which is this theorem?
3. Who is said “ There is not, and can not be, number as such. There are several number – words as there are several cultures”
4. When once a dog was being beaten, this mathematician cried “ Stop, beat no more,it is the soul of a friend; I recognized it, hearing its complaints .” Who was he?

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ANSWERS FOR THE WEEK 28/09/2008

1. Alexander Alan Milne(1882-1956)

2. Abigail Smith Adams

3 Andrew Jackson

4.Abraham Lincoln

QUESTIONS FOR THE WEEK 28/09/2008

1. He is famous for the juvenile verses and stories he wrote for his son, Christopher Robin. His woks include When We Were Very Young, Now We Are Six, The House at Pooh Corner etc. Who is this best known English author of several children’s books

2. Name the lady whose husband became the second president of United states of America and her son became the sixth president

3. Which U S President Issued a proclamation against state nullification of federal law in 1832, warning "disunion by armed force is treason”

4. Which U S President received a patent in 1849 for a system he designed to adjust the buoyancy of steamboats?

With love and regards jithesh maniyat

ANSWERS FOR THE WEEK 21/09/2008

1 .Leslie R. Groves

2. Guerilla Warfare

3.Osama bin Laden

4. Abraham Lincoln

QUESTIONS FOR THE WEEK 21/09/2008

1. The U.S. government established the top secret Manhattan Project in 1942 to

develop an atomic device. The project was under the direction of American

Physicist Robert J Oppenheimer.Which U.S. Army Brigadier General was the

leader that project

2. "The enemy advances, we retreat. The enemy camps, we harass. The enemy tires, we attack. The enemy retreats, we pursue." What kind of military tactic is Mao Tse-tung describing?

3. “They violate our land and occupy it and steal the Muslims' possessions, and when

faced by resistance they call it terrorism”. These are the words by person in news

on june 10,1999

4 At 6 feet, 4 inches, Who was the tallest president of the United States of America?

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ANSWERS FOR THE WEEK 14/09/2008

1. Kozhikode Abdul Khadar
2. Oscar Wilde
3. The Rules of the Game (or La Regle du Jeu)
4. Z

QUESTIONS FOR THE WEEK 14/09/2008

A SPECIAL QUIZ ON FILMS

1. He was born as Leslie Andrews in 1916 and his voice was an exquisite blend of torment and anguish, tenderness and joy. He made his debut in playback singing in 1951. He died in 1977 under another name. Who?

2. Merlin Holland is a publisher, a dealer in glass and ceramics, and a writer who has edited and published several works about his very famous grandfather. his grandmother was constance lloyd before she married, and she changed her surname in 1895, to holland. who was the famous grandfather

3. Andre Jurieu broke Charles Lindbergh’s record for flying solo across the Atlantic, but Christine, the woman he loves, is not there to greet him. After Christine’s husband invites Andre to go hunting, Christine discovers her husband is having an affair with her niece Genevieve. Marceau, the poacher, flirts with the gamekeeper’s wife, Lisette, which leads the gamekeeper to chase Marceau with a gun. A major influence on Robert Altman’s Gosford Park, Name this 1939 portrait of the French upper class directed by Jean Renoir.

4. This film ends with an optimistic news broadcast abruptly interrupted by an offscreen narrator’s epilogue about an authoritarian right-wing coup. Inspired by the real-life assassination of Grigoris Lambrakis, it depicts an investigation conducted by a deputy played Yves Montand. The investigation is covered up, but the martyr’s supporters paint graffiti declaring “He Lives,” a reference to the film’s title. Directed by Costa-Gavras, Name this 1969 Best Foreign Film Oscar winner with a one-letter title.

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