Friday, December 14, 2007

Mind Matters 1.

1. Connect.


































Arundhati Roy. The first clue is the 2007 Booker Prize winner, the second one is John Berger whose quote "Never again will a single story be told as though it's the only one" opens her one and only novel the "God of Small things". Third clue is of coure Prannoy Roy who is her first cousin. .

2. Who is X (1938)?

1934 __________________1935









1938 ____________ 1939








Time's Person of the year for 1938 is Adolf Hitler. 1934 was FDR, 1935 was Haile Selassie and 1939 was Stalin

3. X was first published in 1858 in the United Kingdom and was written by Y. Y died after the release of the second edition of X in 1860. As of today there are 39 editions of X published and it is still considered one of the most comprehensive and detailed books in its field. X has also lent a slightly altered version of its name to a hit television show Z based in Seattle. Identify X,Y,Z. {Giveaway}

X is Gray's Anatomy written by Y who is Henry Gray. Z is ofcourse the hit tv show Grey's Anatomy.

4. After the French Revolution the King, the Queen and the Jack disappeared from the deck of playing cards in France and were replaced by three other cards? What were the names of these cards?
Liberty, Equality and Fraternity

5. Connect. There is a common theme associated with each of the below sets. {However the sets aren't inter-related themselves}. Also Identify the individual connection if possible.

1.Signor Orlando Mazzitto, Anam Santh, Santh Samrath
2.M.M Keeravani, Maragadamani, M.M Kreem.
3.Charles J. Kenney,Carleton Kendrake, A. A. Fair.

All the names in each connect refer to the same person. They are all aliases. The first one is Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, the second one is the music director M.M Kreem and the third one is the author of the Perry Mason books Erle Stanley Gardner.

7 comments:

Ash said...

1.No clue...

2. Hitler - He was Time's Man of the year for 1938 . 2 others are FDR and Stalin...

3.Grey's Anatomy, Gray is the guy and the book is Gray's Anatomy.

4. Prosperity,Equality and Liberty (Googled)

5. (Surprised to find) - 2 names are aliases of the other.

Unknown said...

q4. liberty, equality, fraternity

i'll get back at you with the remaining

Anonymous said...

you jobless SOB!

Rishabh Kaul said...

1Arundati Roy.

2time person of year-HITLER

3grey's anatomy is the funda

4Liberty Equality and Fraternity, coz of the french revolution

Didnt want to google for 5th

Ash said...

Why Arundhati Roy? The 1st is some Booker prize winner and the last is Pranoy Roy. Does that make the connection "Arundhati Roy" just cuz she won a Booker Prize and her last name is Roy?

Anonymous said...

The height of joblessness!

Rishabh Kaul said...

prannoy roy is the uncle of arundati i think