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This is the nickname originally applied to the members of the 10th cavalry of the United States army which was formed on September 21, 1866 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Eventually it came to be encompass the 9th Cavalry and the 24th and 25th Infantry regiments as well, all of which were the first African-American units in the army. The Indian tribe of Kiowa bestowed this name upon the 10th Cavalry in admiration following encounters with them in western Kansas. The name is believed to be a reference to either the hair of the troops that resemble the mane of the _____ or to more general attributes of the _____ such as ferocity, strength and stamina. What is the nickname?
Buffalo Soldiers. The Bob Marley song by the same name (if you are a tamilian, the Deva song in Nerukku Ner as well :) ) is based on these soldiers.
“The Conqueror” was a 1956 motion picture produced by Howard Hughes and starring John Wayne in a portrayal of the life of Genghis Khan. Other performers included Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead (of Citizen Kane fame) and Pedro Armendariz. The movie was mostly shot on location in St. George, Utah. Hughes later shipped 60 tons of dirt back to Hollywood for reshoots. The picture was a critical and commercial failure (often ranked as one of the worst movies of the 50s) and is notorious for yet another reason. This reason led the movie to be called “An RKO ______ picture”. Hughes was supposedly so guilty regarding this movie that he later paid an extra $12 billion for every existing print and kept the film away from the public eye for over 17 years. This movie, along with “Ice Station Zebra” is said to be the films Hughes watched endlessly during his final years. Why is this movie so notorious?
The blanked out word is "radioactive". The movie was shot in the deserts of Utah, downwind of the Nevada nuclear test range. Most of the cast and crew (including John Wayne) developed some form of cancer which in many cases was terminal. The crew knew about the nuclear tests but the effects of exposure were much less understood then.
This practice first started in the British Raj. The first recorded evidence is when in July of 1858, Sir William Herschel, Chief Magistrate of the Hooghly distict in Jungipoor, India implemented it on a whim in his business contract with a local business man named Rajyadhar Konai. The idea was “to merely frighten him out of all thought of repudiating his signature since he believed that personal contact with the document made it more binding”. Konai was suitably impressed and Herschel continued the practice in all his subsequent negotiations with the locals. The first institution dedicated to this practice started in Calcutta where Azizul Haque and Hem Chandra Bose developed the scientific basis for what started as a superstitious ritual. What practice is it?
Fingerprinting.
The first prototype of this was developed by Walter Frederick Morrison and codeveloped and financed by Warren Franscioni in 1948. However, this was unsuccessful and a later model by Morrison named “Pluto Platter” made in 1955 was the first commercially available product. Wham-O bought the rights and renamed it _____, a deliberate misspelling of the name “_____ Pie Company” of Bridgeport, Connecticut whose pie tins were used by Yale university students in the campus for similar purposes. Fill ‘er up.
Frisbee. The pie company was called Frisbie. Question dedicated to the "gurus of ultimate" :)
Frederick Paulus became the Commander of the German Sixth Army in January 1942 and led the drive on Stalingrad. Against his better judgment, he followed Hitler’s orders to hold the Army’s position in Stalingrad under all circumstances. The 6th army soon got completely encircled by the Red Army. Hitler instead of sending a rescue mission made the curious decision of promoting Paulus to a Field Marshall on the merits of this dismal campaign. Why the decision?
No Field Marshall had ever surrendered to the enemy in German military history. Hitler wanted to send the message loud and clear to Paulus to not entertain any thoughts of surrendering.
The Merry Pranksters were a group of people who collected around the novelist Ken Kesey and traveled across the United States in a psychedelic painted school bus named “Furthur”. The original purpose of the trip was to visit the World’s Fair in New York which took place in 1964. The pranksters were heavy users of marijuana and LSD and in the course of their journey converted many people whom they encountered to these drugs. The conversion ceremonies consisted of pumping people up with these drugs and seeing how long they can stand it. The band Grateful Dead formed during the bus trip and supplied the music to these ceremonies. Question is, what is the name given to these conversion ceremonies?
Acid tests. LSD is colloquially known as acid.
We don't want to fight,
But by ____ if we do,
We've got the ships,
We've got the men,
And got the money too.
We've fought the Bear before,
And while we're Britons true,
The Russians shall not have Constantinople
This is a popular music-hall song by G.W.Hunt which appeared at the time of the Russo-Turkish war, when anti-Russian feeling ran high and Disraeli ordered the Mediterranean fleet to Constantinople. The russo-phobes came to be known as _____. Fill in.
Jingo is the blank. Any form of chauvinistic patriotism has since been referred to as Jingoism
Connect the Russian city of Perm, Devon in England, the latin name for North Wales, a Celtic tribe in Wales, three distinct layers in the soil of Germany ( red beds, chalk and black shales), a limestone mountain range in the Germany-France-Switzerland border region.
All these have given rise to the names of different geological eras.
Perm - Permian
Devon - Devonian
Latin name for Wales is Cambria - Cambrian
Celtic tribe is silures - Silurian
3 layers of soil - Triassic
Limestone range is Jura - Jurassic
There are several theories about the origin of this phrase. One of the most famous concerns a boxer, Norman Selby a.k.a “Kid ____” who was the welterweight champion from 1898-1900. The story goes that he had many imitators and hence to distinguish himself had to adopt this term. Another possibility is that the term originally referred to pure heroin imported from Macao. What term?
The Real McCoy.
He is one of the most influential science fiction writers ever. Most of his works explore the nature of reality and are characterized by a constantly eroding sense of reality. He wasn’t so different in real life and experienced strange visions constantly. He described them as laser beams and geometric patterns interspersed with images of Jesus and ancient Rome. He began to believe that history has actually stopped at 1st century C.E and that in reality he is Thomas – a Christian persecuted by the ancient Romans. He also believed that Richard Nixon is the current emperor incarnate and he induced Nixon’s impeachment with the help of a God-like entity that he called VALIS (Vast Active Living Intelligence System). Identify.
Philip K. Dick. The movies Blade Runner, Minority report, Total recall, Paycheck are all based on his novels.
Earth's flaming debris still filled half the sky when the question filtered up to Central from the Curiosity Generator. "Why was it necessary? Even though they were organic, they had reached Third Order Intelligence." "We had no choice: five earlier units became hopelessly infected, when they made contact." "Infected? How?”
The microseconds dragged slowly by, while Central tracked down the few fading memories that had leaked past the Censor Gate, when the heavily-buffered Reconnaissance Circuits had been ordered to self-destruct.
"They encountered a - problem - that could not be fully analyzed within the lifetime of the Universe. Though it involved only six operators, they became totally obsessed by it." "How is that possible?" "We do not know: we must never know. But if those six operators are ever re-discovered, all rational computing will end."
"How can they be recognized?" "That also we do not know; only the names leaked through before the Censor Gate closed. Of course, they mean nothing." "Nevertheless, I must have them."
The Censor voltage started to rise; but it did not trigger the Gate. "Here they are: ____, ____, _____, ______, ______, ______”
This is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke for the first edition of Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. With due apologies to the length of the question, What are the names of the operators?
King, Queen, Bishop, Knight, Rook and Pawn.
The U.S Magazine Reason achieved a startling technological advance in its 2005 June issue to its 40,000 subscribers. The magazine cover screamed “________! The unsung benefits of a database nation”. Inside, the magazine gave a frightening glimpse of the extent to which Internet’s prying eyes can reveal many details of what people used to think were their private lives. The cover picture effectively drove the point home. In describing the magazine’s effort, its Editor-in-Chief said, “It was a nifty experiment. A team of a dozen people in six states, from Connecticut to Arkansas to California, spent several months collating data before realizing the final product. What did the magazine do?
They delivered customized copies of the magazine to each of their subscribers with an aerial photo of their house alongside the subscriber's name on the cover. See Image
X is a US citizen who also holds citizenship of Antigua and Barbuda, where he owns X International Bank Limited (xIBL), a company organized under the laws of Antigua and Barbuda. The company's assets are reportedly more than US$20 billion. This guy X through his company X Financial Group (xFG) hired a lobbying firm in Houston in November 1999 and began contributing generously to Republican and Democratic Party committees, particularly through the loophole created by Section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code, which permitted unlimited donations. According to a consumer rights group called Public Citizen's Congress Watch, the X Group's sole interest was in blocking anti-money laundering legislation being introduced by the Bill Clinton administration. The group did not shy away from citing Antigua as a country with "a reputation as a money-laundering haven." But, X has been in the news recently for something entirely different. What?
Allen Stanford, who has invested in Twenty20 cricket in West Indies. He is trying to be cricket's new kerry packer.
Products that define a new standard and become known by name (like Xerox) are rare, but MY created one for the financial industry. Founded in 1981, his company has over 90,000 users of the terminal that is considered to be the premier information and analysis system on Wall Street and also provides financial news and data to financial companies and organizations in virtually every country in the world. It is known simply as the "Y” or the Y Terminal. M Y was also the 108th mayor of New York City.
Michael Bloomberg, the current mayor of New York. He developed the Bloomberg terminal which allows financiers to monitor the market real-time. See Image
200m
John W. Tewksbury ,USA 22.2
_______________ 22.8
Stanley Rowley, AUS 22.9
200m Hurdles
Alvin Kraenzlein, USA 25.4
_________________ 26.6
John W. Tewksbury, USA 26.8
________ set a world record in the second heat of the 200 meter hurdles which was bettered by Kraenzlein in the final. He also reached the final of the 110m hurdles and failed to finish, and participated in 60m and 100m sprint where he failed to qualify for the final.
He later moved to the United States where he became a silent movie actor under the screen name Norman Trevor. He acted alongside Hollywood legends like Ronald Colman in movies like Beau Geste (1927) and Tonight At Twelve (1929). He also appeared in several Broadway shows.
Identify _______________.
Norman Gilbert Pritchard, the first Indian athlete to compete and win a medal in the olympic games. He was born and brought up in Calcutta. He is also credited with the first hat-trick in an open football tournament in India.
