Friday, January 30, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
first mokka q..
ID X. Extremely arbit, but very pertinent. :)
3 Questions this time
2. "This is not authorized by us. The Simpsons does not, and never has, endorsed ___________________ any more profound than Butterfinger bars." - Al Jean. Put Fundae.
3.
"O'Leary, O'Reilly, O'Hare and O'Hara,
There's no one as Irish as X,
You don't believe me, I hear you say
But X's as Irish, as was Y.
His granddaddy's daddy came from Moneygall,
a small Irish village, well known to you all".
X and Y and fundae
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
2 Questions
nine million threads created that day. It simply asked members to post facts about X, at
which point hundreds of pieces of completely false and exaggerated X trivia came pouring
in. Later they were gathered into the X _________.
2. Issei was a student of avant garde literature at the Sorbonne Academy in Paris in the early
80s. He now enjoys the status of celebrity in Japan.He is often a guest speaker at various
public events and talk shows, openly talking in about __________. He also has starred in
movies, written two books (one basically a step-by-step re-enactment of his 1981 ______)
and even inspired the Rolling Stones's song, "Too Much ______." What did Issei do in 1981?
P.S: Q1 is not as easy as it sounds. :)
Monday, January 26, 2009
Su Manat.
The pre-Islamic Arabs believed Manāt to be the Goddess of fate. Initially Mohammad decreed that Manat and two other Goddesses could be worshipped along with Allah. Manat and the two other Goddesses were said to be daughters of Allah and would act as intermediaries between the devout and Allah.
As Islam became a Monotheistic faith, the three 'Daughters of Allah' became an oddity. To remove this, Mohammad decreed that there is only one God,Allah. And the verses in the Quoran describing these Goddesses were put in his mouth by Satan. These verses were then on referred to as the 'Satanic Verses'.
Connect with the above picture.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Coldage
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Jimbly Id and Connect!
2.Much of Y's recorded output has been instrumental, and his releases have spanned genres ranging from blues-rock, heavy metal, jazz fusion and (currently) a blend of guitar-rock and electronica. Y has earned wide critical praise and four Grammy awards for Best Rock Instrumental Performance, and had two hit albums in the mid-1970s as a solo act. However, Y has not been able to establish and maintain a broad following or the sustained commercial success of many of his collaborators and bandmates.
Y has been nominated for 2009 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and was promptly chosen for induction for the April 4, 2009 ceremony.
3.In 1981 Z joined with Yes bassist Chris Squire and Yes drummer Alan White to form a supergroup called XYZ . They rehearsed several times, but the project was shelved. Demo’s of the sessions have turned up on bootleg and they reveal that some of the material showed up later on other projects, notably The Firm's “Fortune Hunter” and Yes songs “Mind Drive" and “Can You Imagine?” Z would later join Yes on stage in 1984 at Westfalenhalle in Dortmund, Germany, playing “I’m Down.”
Z next linked up with Roy Harper for an album (Whatever Happened to Jugula?) and occasional concerts, performing a predominantly acoustic set at folk festivals under various guises such as the MacGregors, and Themselves. In 1984, Z recorded with _________ as The Honeydrippers, and with John Paul Jones on the film soundtrack Scream for Help. He also teamed up with Paul Rodgers of Bad Company and Free fame to record 2 albums under the name The Firm. The first album was the self-titled “The Firm”, followed by “Mean Business” in 1986. Popular songs included the commercially successful “Radioactive,” and “Closer,” which employs a horn section to subtle effect. The cover version of “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling” featured vocals by Paul Rodgers but was never released as a single. The album peaked at #17 on the Billboard’s Pop Albums chart.
Long Koschin, Small answer
1.....________ were popular and influential during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The band melded the British Invasion sound with elements of contemporary folk and pop music. They
also helped forge such subgenres as folk rock, space rock, raga rock, psychedelic rock,
jangle pop, and on their 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo, which featured Gram Parsons
country rock.
In 1991 they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2004 Rolling Stone
Magazine ranked them #45 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Its
band members went on to successful solo careers after leaving the group.Their trademark
songs includes the cover of Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" .
2.......
3....________ are an English pop band formed in the early 1960s. Known for their distinctive
vocal harmony style (which influenced many other groups) they became one of the leading
British bands of the era, and they enjoyed considerable popularity in many other countries
(including Australia) although they did not achieve major US chart success until the early
1970s. Like The Rolling Stones, they are also notable as one of the only British pop bands
of the Sixties that has never officially broken up and which continues to record and perform to the present.
Although the group admired ________(a musician), their name was inspired primarily by the
sprigs of _______ in evidence around Christmas of 1962, at the time they re-formed their
previous band, The Deltas, and had to come up with a new name. The original lineup included
Allan Clarke as lead vocalist, X as guitarist and backup vocalist, Jeremy Levine on rhythm
guitar, with Eric Haydock and Don Rathbone rounding out the group on bass and drums.
4...Y has directed (or co-directed) a number of films using the pseudonym Bernard Shakey,
including Journey Through the Past (1973), Rust Never Sleeps (1979), Human Highway (1982),
Greendale (2003), and Deja Vu <CONNECT>(2008). He is currently working on a documentary about electric car technology, tentatively titled Linc/Volt.
HINT: 1. The connect is in the question.. in clue no.4 ..ie the movie name is deja vu followed by the connect.
2. The order of clues has some significance.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
put fundae
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Ety Ety Ety
Sounds pretty innocuous, right? Well, it was, up until around 1819, when the citizens of Germany and other neighboring countries began using it as their rallying cry while going Hebrew-hunting in the Jewish ghettos. Y is a phrase.
2. Originally, X was derived from the French word _______ ("of Bulgaria"), meaning the medieval Bulgarian clerical sect of the Bogomils, which facing severe persecution in Bulgaria spread into Western Europe and was branded by the established church as particularly devoted to the practice of sodomy.
The word is also used amongst friends in an affectionate way (you old X) and is used as a noun in Welsh English vernacular to imply that one is very fond of something (I'm a X for Welsh cakes). It can also imply a negative tendency (He's a silly X for losing his keys) [i.e He's a fool for losing his keys often].
A colloquial phrase in England (and often in New Zealand and Australia as well) to denote or feint surprise at an unexpected (or possibly unwanted) occurrence is "X me, here's my bus" or "Well, I'm Xed!". It can also be used to indicate a state of fatigue, such as "I'm Xed."
3. The word Z comes into English from Latin _______, from the ancient Greek word ______ . The word is onomatopoeic, the _______ representing the impression of random hubbub produced by hearing a spoken language that one cannot understand, similar to blah blah, babble or rhubarb in modern English.
Depending on its use, the term Z either described a foreign individual or tribe whose first language was not Greek or a Greek individual or tribe speaking Greek crudely.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Shazz: Origins
2. X refers to a fairly recent development from an earlier one which still exists. The word now means "a rambling confused or pointless statement". It is derived from an old game_________ played with written rolls. Various items contained in the roll were attached to strings which the players drew at random. The game seems to have been a simple amusement the items in the roll being verses describing personal character, usually a childrens rhyme consisting of a list . X?
3. It was first used in a column by American sports writer Dan Cook in 1976. Cook's column which appeared in san antonio news express was about the San Antonio spurs. Cook who also worked as a broadcaster for Kents tv in san antonio repeated the phrase in april 1978 when the spurs were down 3 games to 1 in the playoffs against the washington bullets. It turned
out that Cook was right; the spurs won the next game but lost game 6 and the series. Dick Motta, the bullets coach heard the phrase and used it himself to caution against overconfidence in the bullets upcoming series with the Philadel 76ers. Motta was widely quoted and the phrase entered the sporting vernacular. What phrase?
4. According to medieval physiology the human body contained four chief fluids or 'humours' - blood, phlegm, choler and melancholy - and the relative proportions of these in one's body determined one's temperament, among other things. If blood (____ in Latin) predominated, this gave a ruddy complexion and a hopeful, brave character. A person with these attributes was therefore said to be X. The word used to have some other meanings but this is the one that has survived. X?
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Another etymo
etymo
The greeting expression was eventually shortened to X, lost all its servile connotations and came to be used by speakers of all classes. The word _____ is still used in Venetian and in Lombard as an exclamation of resignation ("Oh, well, never mind!"). A Milanese proverb ______ ("If there is [money], there is; if there isn't, farewell! [there's nothing we can do]").
x?
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Friday, January 16, 2009
showbiz
It was first conceived by X to hide the wrinkles in a rayon suit at a 1956 performance at New York, according to a Rolling Stone interview. "It got an ovation," he recalls, "so I did it again and again."[1]
Another version, the one cited in his autobiography, reads:
"A brighter seat of my memories is based on pursuing my rubber ball. Once it happened to bounce under the kitchen table, and I was trying to retrieve it while it was still bouncing. Usually I was reprimanded for disturbing activities when there was company in the house, as there was then. But this time my manner of retrieving the ball created a big laugh from Mother's choir members. Stooping with full-bended knees, but with my back and head vertical, I fit under the tabletop while scooting forward reaching for the ball. This squatting manner was requested by members of the family many times thereafter for the entertainment of visitors and soon, from their appreciation and encouragement, I looked forward to the ritual. An act was in the making. After it had been abandoned for years I happened to remember the maneuver while performing in New York for the first time and some journalist branded it the ____________."
X and ___________ ........
Fill in the blanks
Thursday, January 15, 2009
The Return of the Jungle
The device was called, not unreasonably, the A Bottle.
B is a slang term for beer, and beer drinkers would certainly be disdainful of bottled soft drinks. This slang term dates from around the early to mid 20th century. Eric Partridge, in A Dictionary of Slang, claims it as serviceman's slang and dates it from the 1930s. An early example of it in print comes in J[ohn] B[oynton] Priestley's Three men in new suits, 1945:
"It's drink... Booze or B... Nine times out of ten... you wake up in the morning... with the usual hangover."
It's not difficult to see how a soft drink in a A Bottle could have come to be called AB.
Happy Birthday Wiki
ID X..
Then later in the early 1960s the Madras government set up a pay committee to review the pay structure and the service conditions of its officers and staff. One day a ‘top secret’ double-sealed cover landed on the desk of the chairman. It was from ‘CCA, office of the chief secretary, Fort St George, Madras’. He opened the cover to find a very humble and polite representation for upgrading the post of CCA to that of office superintendent in the chief secretary’s office because of the petitioner’s unblemished service record of 20 years. But there was noone with any clue as to what CCA stood for. The chairman sent for the petitioner who clarified that CCA stood for Churchill’s _______ Assistant.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Quack
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
just for fun...
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=psvL2eYQ7YM&feature=related
Connect!
basically something common happened to all of them and the last time was 1991 and it could happen again this year. wat?
Monday, January 12, 2009
brisingr is not the end.... :X
Mr Y said: "Even though I honestly had not planned on doing this, I guess, with a billion people watching it's as good a time as any.
"So, my fellow Americans, I'm going to take this opportunity right here and now, to formally announce my intention..."
Drowned out
However, he never got to finish his sentence, as the music used to make winners wrap up their speeches cut in and drowned him out.
He left the stage with X laughing.
Mr.Y won an oscar that year.
X, Y , Z
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Who?
1.) Being the spokesperson for United Way, doing an eight-minute commercial, which helped bring in over two billion dollars.
2.) Veterans Administration spokesperson visiting over 12 V.A. hospitals and speaking with World War II, Korean and Vietnam War Veterans including one from World War I.
3.) Winning the 1998 Epiphany award on _________ for the best Christian program.
4.) The Jewish Humanitarian Man of the Year Award.
5.) Actively involved with the Make A Wish Foundation for 20 years by making dreams come true for terminally ill children.
6.) !!blanked out!!
7.)!!blanked out!!
8.) Commissioned Police Officer for Terrell, Texas.
9.) Motivational speaker for many Christian ministries, such as T.D. Jakes Ministry, Trinity Broadcasting, and Bill Glass Crusade.
1. Identify this husband and wife, both of whom are renowned in different fields.
2. Connect this exhaustive list of people.
Richard Rodgers,Helen Hayes,Rita Moreno,John Gielgud,Audrey Hepburn,Marvin Hamlisch,Jonathan Tunick,Mel Brooks,Mike Nichols
3. Originally, the term X referred to a piece of work produced by an apprentice or journeyman aspiring to membership in the old European guild system. His fitness to qualify for guild membership was judged partially by the X, and if he was successful, it was retained by the guild. Great care was therefore taken to produce a fine work in whatever the craft was, whether confectionery, painting, goldsmithing, knifemaking, or many other trades. The Royal Academy in London is one institution that has acquired a fine collection of "Diploma works" as a condition of acceptance.
4. P C ______was a British writer, mostly of adventure fiction. He is remembered best for Beau Geste, a much-filmed book of 1924 involving the French Foreign Legion in North Africa, and its sequels, Beau Sabreur and Beau Ideal. He, along with another person,wrote something that many Indian schoolkids would be familiar with. What?
5. During the Diwali celebrations in 2007 at the British House of Commons, the Asian community anointed the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown by giving him an Indianized version of his first name, which is one of the many names of Lord Krishna. What?
Saturday, January 10, 2009
sunday ...bloddy sunday....
Wishful thinking that gets in the way of reality and smart decision-making as policy makers who believe something to be true (like the presence of weapons of mass destruction) start acting like they have evidence to prove it true. Closely associated with faith-based decision-making and "in your dreams" thinking, Y effect describes those things that exist only because people believe in them. Examples include monetary system, rule of law etc.. |
Friday, January 9, 2009
ID the peoples..
A(born:11 May 1909, death: 1 December 2001) was an American born film director, who was well known for directing ______ movies between 1936 to 1950. He graduated from University of Southern California and moved to _____ and eventually directed B (a movie) introducing C who later was to become ______ through his film career. He also introduced stalwarts of ____ cinema including blah, blah and D.
ID all and connect
B (1736 – October 29, 1796) was a Virginia planter and American Revolutionary who headed an irregular court in Virginia to punish Loyalist supporters of the British during the American Revolutionary War. In several incidents in 1780, B and several other militia officers and justices of the peace rounded up suspects who were thought to be a part of a Loyalist uprising in southwestern Virginia. The suspects were given a summary trial at an informal court; sentences handed down included whipping, property seizure, coerced pledges of allegiance, and conscription into the military.
C (11 July 1754 – 24 February 1825) was an English physician who published an expurgated edition of ________'s work that he considered to be more appropriate for women and children than the original. He similarly edited Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. His expurgation was the subject of some criticism and ridicule .
D (27 January, 1836 – 9 March, 1895) was an Austrian writer and journalist, who gained renown at his time for his stories of Galician life and romantic novels.
During his life, D was well-known as a man of letters, who was seen by some as a potential successor to Goethe and was often compared to Turgenev. He was a utopian thinker who espoused socialist and humanist ideals in his fiction and non-fiction. Most of his works remain untranslated in English; the novel Venus in Furs is his only book commonly available in English.
*Yawwwwwwn*
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Sports !!!
Most Xs since the inception in 1978 were from Paris, France to ______ but due to political
instability in Africa the 2009 X will be run in South America, the first time X takes place
outside of Europe and Africa. X is open to both amateur and professional entries. Amateurs
typically make up about eighty percent of the participants.
X is a sporting event. Which ?
2.
Y is a Tamil language film set to be released in 2008. It stars Raghavendra Lawrence and Sneha
in the lead roles. The film released on May 23, 2008. Y? Yes, this is a Sports Quiz.
3.
Z was awarded the Croix de guerre and the Médaille de la Résistance by the French government for his efforts in fighting the German occupation; to the end of his life, however, Z would refer to his work with the French Resistance as 'boy scout stuff'.
Z who died in Paris on 22 December 1989 aged 83, had two first-class games for Dublin University against Northamptonshire in 1925 and 1926, scoring 35 runs in his four innings and conceding 64 runs without taking a wicket. What is Zs claim to fame ?
4.
10 days after the national team returned home, while sitting in a bar called "El Indio" in Medellin with his girlfriend, 3 people came close to Q and started to tease him. Q responded to them, but since they were violent people they took him outside to the parking lot and murdered the 27-year-old when they shot him 12 times and after every shot they screamt Y, mimicing _______________. It seems that they gambled and lost lot of money because of _________ and decided that Q is the one to blame. The murder shocked the whole nation. 120,000 people came to the funeral of Q. Gimme Q and Y
5.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
connect..
Magha from Kalinga had invaded Y with a “savage force” of Keralite mercenaries in 1215. One of his strongest fortresses was in Pulachchery, which is said to be X in the modern times, as both Pulachchery and X mean “bird sanctuary”.Parakramabahu II had to take the help of the Cholas and Pandyas to get rid of Magha and his Keralite hoardes. Chandrabhanu II, an invader of Malay origin, also helped. X is the part of the connect.