Quiz by Raghu and Arvind
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CONNECT :
* Tecumseh (c.1768–1813) - famous leader of the Shawnee people. Attempted to rally disparate Native American tribes in a mutual defense of their lands died in the War of 1812. Longtime adversary William Henry Harrison considered Tecumseh to be "one of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally to produce revolutions and overturn the established order of things.”
* John Hinckley Jr’s failed assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan in 1981.
Tecumseh's curse or Zero Year curse
* 1840 - William Henry Harrison, died of pneumonia in 1841
* 1860 - Abraham Lincoln, assassinated in 1865
* 1880 - James Garfield, assassinated in 1881
* 1900 - William McKinley, assassinated in 1901
* 1920 - Warren G. Harding, died of heart attack in 1923.
* 1940 - Franklin D. Roosevelt, died of cerebral hemorrhage in 1945
* 1960 - John F. Kennedy, assassinated in 1963.
* 1980 - Ronald Reagan, survived assassination attempt
* 2000 - G.W.Bush, survived choking on pretzel -
What are :
Saffir-Simpson
Beaufort
Fujita
types of ?Saffir-Simpson Scale - Hurricanes (Category 1 to 5)
Beaufort Scale - Wind Force (Number 1 to 12)
Fujita Scale - Tornadoes (F0 to F5)
Richter Scale - Earthquakes ( ~ 1 to 10) -
In issue 33, MAD published a partial table of the "Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures", developed by X as a 19-year-old.
Potrzebie = thickness of MAD issue 26, or 2.26334851743 mm.
ngogn = 1000 cubic potrzebies
blintz = mass of 1 ngogn of halavah, which is "a form of pie [with] a specific gravity of 3.1416 and a specific heat of .31416")
time in seven named units (decimal powers of the average earth rotation, equal to 1 "clark").
The system also features such units as whatmeworry, cowznofski, vreeble, hoo and hah.
X coined the term Surreal Numbers in 1974 book ‘Surreal Numbers: How Two Ex-Students Turned on to Pure Mathematics and Found Total Happiness’, whose definition & construction was given by John Conway.
Who is X ?Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University.
Donald Knuth -
CONNECT:
* The Chaco War (1932–1935) was fought between Bolivia and Paraguay over control of the arid Chaco Boreal region of South America.
* Khemer Rouge & civil war in Cambodia
* British Mandate of Palestine and Transjordan, a swathe of territory in the Middle East, formerly belonging to the Ottoman Empire and the Iseraeli port Haifa.
* Czechoslovakia or Austria and expansionist Nazi Germany prior to World War II
* A prototypal banana republic where US-based companies and USSR vie for powerReal Life analogies used by Herge in the Tintin comics.
* El Chapo - Broken Ear
* Sondesia - Flight 714
* Khemed & its port city of Khemikhal (a pun on "chemical”) Land of Black Gold & Red Sea Sharks - Abdulla & the Emir
* Syldavia - King Ottokar’s Scepter
* San Theodoros & Borduria - Picaros, Broken Ear -
IDENTIFY :
This comic book character was created by Belgian artist Morris
and early scripts written by Rene Goscinny. In 1983 this characters constant use of cigarettes was replaced by Morris with a piece of straw, which earned him recognition with the World Health Organization.
Each story ends with character singing the lines (in English) :
"I'm a poor lonesome __________, and a long way from home...".Lucky Luke
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CONNECT :
Slartibartfast from the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy books.
Horsehead Neubla - The planet Magrathea is supposed to be hidden here.
The Fjord's of Norway is what he specializes in.
The third is the character from the 1978 H2G2 TV series.