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Hippasus was a pythagorean philosopher and one of the earliest disciples of Pythagoras. He was one of the first to protest against the pythagorean idea of closed Brotherhood of followers bound together by a mystical belief in a cosmos ruled by numbers. Against this background, Hippascus took a step that was regarded by the conservative members as sheer betrayal. For this, he was expelled from the academy and very shortly thereafter Hippasus was drowned in a "mysterious" sea accident. Some said that a storm had stuck the ship as a vengeance of the Gods; others said that he had been pushed overboard by agents of the brotherhood. What was the betrayal that Hippasus committed that cost him his life?
He proved the irrationality of the square root of 2. The pythagoreans, to whom, integers (and by extension rationals) meant a lot, this was a mortal blow.
Bali, the demon king, was killed by Vishnu in his Vamana avatar. However, after his death, Bali was placed in a special heaven of much greater splendor than the one governed by Indra. This special heaven is guarded by Vishnu himself and Bali is slated to be the next Manu. One obvious reason for all this glory is that he was a righteous person. What is the other more subtle reason?
Hint : It relates to an earlier avatar of Vishnu.
Bali is the grandson of Prahlad. In the simha avatar, Vishnu promises Prahlad to look after all his descendents.
In the early part of the 19th century, _____ promoters went up and down the east coast loudly promoting ______ as an excellent place to invest. Detractors said that these claims were full of wind. Later, ____ and New York were competing to hold the 1893 world’s Columbian exposition. Charles A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, wrote an editorial advising "against the non-sensical claims of that _____ . Its people could not hold a world ’s fair even if they won it”. The editorial is widely credited with popularizing the nickname of the city. Identify the city and its nickname.
Chicago, the "windy city"
This person was a USAF engineer with the rank of a Captain. In 1949, he was working at the Aero Medical research lab at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, in support of Coloner J P Stapp's research on rocket sleds. In the course of the experiments, he had to put up with a rather inept technician who consistently kept wiring the circuit wrongly resulting in malfunctioning. When this happened once too many times, this person got frustrated and said something very famous. Who is the person and what did he say?
Easy one. Captain Ed Murphy of Murphy's law fame.
The Hindu carried a cartoon by Keshav showing a villager wanting some currency notes and commenting to another, “Yes, it’s a compensation for moving away from my hut near the site – a few more postponements and I can build a house of my own…” Amul came up with this suggestion that “all ______ needed to do was use butter instead of fuel”. What do these refer to?
The repeated postponment of the Agni launch. Found this is "wings of fire" by Dr.Abdul Kalam.
A sitter : “I had so many complaints about the horse’s head. There were 20 or so people killed in the film, but everyone said: “you killed a living animal to get the head!” Not I. The horse was killed by the dog-food companies to feed your little poodles. Who about what?
Francis Ford Coppola about the famous scene in Godfather.
The present meaning of the term is attributed to Edmund Burke (1729-1797), a British politician. In one of his speaches in the parliament, he addresses the 3 sections of the parliament namely the Lords temporal, Lords spiritual and the Commons. And then he pointed to another section of people seated in the parliament and said, "Yonder sits the ______ _________". Fill in the blanks.
The Fourth Estate. The houses of the English parliament were previously called estates. Burke referred to the press box as the fourth estate.
Workable...What is celebrated at 1:59 PM of the 14th of March every year?
Pi day. 3/14 1:59 pm (the decimal expansion of pi). July 22 is celebrated as the Pi approximation day.
In 1650, a man called George Fox was on trial in England for his religious beliefs. He commanded the judges to "tremble at the words of the lord". One of the judges made a taunting remark on this statement. Fox and his followers derive their present name from that taunt. Another theory of the origin of this term is because adherents of this belief used to have large number of deliriums and states of extreme agitation in their religious rapture. What sect of people are we referring to?
Quakers.
He was the son of the messenger God Hermes and the Goddess of love, Aphrodite. When he was 15 years old, he decided to travel and wander in unknown lands and chanced upon a beautiful pool. In the pool lived the nymph Salmacis, who fell in love with him. When he jumped into the pool for a swim, Salmacis appeared and embraced him. The more he tried to escape, the more she clung him. Seeing he was clearly wanting to escape from her, she prayed to the Gods not to ever let them seperated and embraced him. The Gods heard and granted her prayer. What is the name of the unfortunate person?
Hermaphrodite. Clues all over the place. The Gods let Salmacis merge into his body.
Mary, Queen of Scots is one of the most tragic characters in English History. She was found guilty of trying to usurp the throne of Queen victoria and was awarded the death sentence. Her scottish people started a practice of mourning her death in a particular way that has carried on to us. We see this symbol of mourning the death of the queen even today. what is the symbol?
Lawyers wearing black coats.