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1)Recruits to the X must be Catholic, single males with Swiss citizenship who have completed basic training with the Swiss military and can obtain certificates of good conduct. Recruits must have a professional degree or high school diploma and must be between 19 and 30 years of age and at least 174 cm (5 ft, 8.5 in) tall.The total term of office may be between 2 to 25 years. They are provided with special uniforms which weigh about 3.6 Kg an consists of 154 pieces. Identify X?
2)Y was mainly introduced because the wearer could act more freely in cases where he or she wanted to interact with other members of the society outside the bounds of identity and everyday convention. Today Y is a very highly valued and preserved art form.Common types of Y include Bauta, Plague doctor,Columbina,Volto,Moretta. What is Y?
3)Identify the lady and the trivia behind the launch?
Hint: Mahavishnu of mount road, A Friday 10:30AM to 12:00PM
4)What is special about this ?
5)Who on what?
I've grown a goitre by dwelling in this den–
As cats from stagnant streams in Lombardy,
Or in what other land they hap to be–
Which drives the belly close beneath the chin:
My beard turns up to heaven; my nape falls in,
Fixed on my spine: my breast-bone visibly
Grows like a harp: a rich embroidery
Bedews my face from brush-drops thick and thin.
My loins into my paunch like levers grind:
My buttock like a crupper bears my weight;
My feet unguided wander to and fro;
In front my skin grows loose and long; behind,
By bending it becomes more taut and strait;
Crosswise I strain me like a Syrian bow:
Whence false and quaint, I know,
Must be the fruit of squinting brain and eye;
For ill can aim the gun that bends awry.
Come then, Giovanni, try
To succour my dead pictures and my fame;
Since foul I fare and painting is my shame.
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Happy New Year 2012. All the questions are based on the unexplained.
1)HG Wells, Bhagavatha Purana, Cornell?
#Cornell University research achieves time cloaking.
2)Connect Atala, Vitala, Sutala, Talatala, Mahatala, Rasatala and Patala?
#The world's under the earth as per Bhagavath Purana.
3)Founder of an alternative school of medicine?
#Founder of the Reiki system-Mikao Usui
4)Apparently You can find 'someone/thing'with this?
#A ghost tracking kit.
5)King Tut?What is going on here?
#Summum religion - believer of modern mummifying techniques.
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Most of the questions in this post have been inspired from a recent trip to Berlin. The gory(especially what I saw in a concentration camp),bravery, brilliance, persistence I learnt from these stories of WWII will never fade from my mind forever.I am thankful for such a beautiful life we all live. Sorry to sound dramatic especially in a quiz blog but the Holocaust stories were too much to digest.
1)Sorry to use the F* word.But this is indeed a F*ing brilliant operation.What?
#Operation Bernhard where the nazis employed jews to print counterfeit notes during the WW.
2)He is creditted with havng identified Hitler's body after his suicide. But what was the proof?
#Hitler's dentist Dr Hugo Johannes Blaschke. Hitler used to have chocolate cake everyday at 5 PM. Shortly before he shot himself he is said to have had the cake and it was with the remains of the cake the doctor confirmed it was Hitler.
3)No one connected to the WWII but a German very close to Apple Inc. Who?
#Dieter Rams a leading designer at Braun said to be Steve Jobs's inspiration. Rams is most noted for his design principles and keeping them simple.
4)What are these colored charts?
#The various colors allotted to Jews based on their category.
Gold/Yellow stood for the Jewish people
Purple stood for Religious Offenders (fundamentalists)
Green stood for Criminals
Red stood for Political Prisoners
Pink stood for Sexual Offenders, e.g. homosexuals, rapists, pedophiles etc
Brown stood for Illegal Immigrants
Dark Blue stood for 'Asocial ' Offenders: Behavior problems such as Mental Illness
White stood for 'Special Treatment'.
Some would even have a nested star like gay jew would have a pink and a gold star.
5)Identify X? Courtesy : Wikipedia
There were four principal variants of the X, the P50, also known as the X 500, produced 1957–1962; the X 600, produced 1962–1964; the X 601, produced 1963–1991; and the X 1.1 produced 1990–1991 with a 1,043 cc (63.6 cu in) VW engine (making the "1.1" a slight misnomer). The engine for the X 500, 600 and original 601 was a small two-stroke engine with two cylinders, giving the vehicle modest performance. At the end of production in 1989 it delivered 19 kW (26 horsepower) from a 600 cc (37 cu in) displacement. The car took 21 seconds from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) and the top speed was 112 km/h (70 mph). There were two main problems with the engine: the smoky exhaust and the pollution it produced—nine times the amount of hydrocarbons and five times the carbon monoxide emissions of the average European car of 2007. The fuel consumption was 7 l/100 km (40 mpg-imp; 34 mpg-US).[6] Since the engine does not have an oil injection system, two-stroke oil has to be added to the 24-litre (6.3 U.S. gal; 5.3 imp gal) fuel tank[7] every time the car was filled up, at a 50:1 or 33:1 ratio of fuel to oil. Gas stations of the time in countries where two-stroke engines were common served premixed gas-oil mixture from the pump. Today, owners normally carry a container of two-stroke oil in the car for this purpose. The earlier models have no fuel gauge; a dipstick is inserted into the tank to determine how much fuel remains.
X two-stroke engine.The X was a steel monocoque design with roof, bootlid/trunklid, bonnet/hood, bumpers/fenders and doors in Duroplast, a form of plastic containing resin strengthened by wool or cotton. This helped the GDR to avoid expensive steel imports but, in theory, did not provide much crash protection, although in crash tests it allegedly performed superior to some contemporary Western hatchbacks.[8][9][10] Because the car lacked a fuel pump, the fuel tank was placed high up in the engine compartment so that fuel could be fed to the carburettor by gravity; a trade-off of this design is an increased fire risk in front-end accidents. The X was the second car to use Duroplast, after the "pre-X" P70 (Zwickau) model (1954–1959). The duroplast was made of recycled material, cotton waste from Soviet Union and phenol resins from the East German dye industry, making the X the first car with a body made of recycled material.[5]
Production of the X on April 30, 1991 reached 3.7 million vehicles.
#The funny cars of East Germany Trabant :o)
4 questions in this posts pertain to Time travel or extra terrestrial life.
#Wormhole- In physics, a wormhole is a hypothetical topological feature of spacetime that would be, fundamentally, a "shortcut" through spacetime
2) What is his claim to fame?
#Pickles (died 1967) was a black and white Collie dog renowned for his role in finding the stolen Jules Rimet Trophy in 1966.
3) Logo of what?
#Time Travel Tourist-John Titor is the name used on several bulletin boards during 2000 and 2001 by a poster claiming to be a time traveler from the year 2036
4)What?
#
5)What Language?
#Lincos (an abbreviation of the Latin phrase lingua cosmica) is an artificial language first described in 1960 by Dr. Hans Freudenthal in his book Lincos: Design of a Language for Cosmic Intercourse, Part 1. It is a language designed to be understandable by any possible intelligent extraterrestrial life form, for use in interstellar radio transmissions
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The blogger app has'nt helped me get back to the weekly updating of MHT still :) Working towards it. Meanwhile, I make this earnest call from fellow quizzers to contribute questions for the 150th post of MHT. Please send out your questions to movinghandtypes@gmail.com
1) What does this peice of code do?
bool is_XYZ_valid(char digits[10]) {
int i, a = 0, b = 0;
for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
a += digits[i]; // Assumed already converted from ASCII to 0..9
b += a;
}
return b % 11 == 0;
}
Hint:This is not anything to do with Dennis Ritchie.
#Code to validate a right ISBN number for a book.
2) What is special about this web?
#The first spider web in space.
3)Connect?
#Steve jobs- the creator of the apple icon Jonathan Mak, Jobs biological father, his guru Kobub Otogawa.
4)Medical researchers rarely get the mention as much as technologists or other scientists do. I have been really amazed by this person's contribution to genetics. Identify?
Hint: My sister's keeper by Jodi Picoult.
#Yury Verlinksy- Doctor who pioneered prenatal diagnosis for detecting genetic and chromosomal disorders in foetus.
5)Explain the idea behind this doodle?
#French astronomer had emailed Google about the Venus Transit, in which Venus casts a shadow on the sun every 122 years. During the transit, you'll see a black dot moves across the sun.
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My first post from the Blogger app for smart phones. This app should have come in long ago but neverthless :)
1)Someone almost died here?
#Lauterbrunnen falls in Interlaken, Switzerland where Sherlock holmes was killed but later came back to life .
2)Connect?
# A type of knot called the Led Zepplin knot. Logo of Led Zepplin.
3)Etymology of a term whose opposite is more popular. Hint:Srilanka
#The term Serendipity.
4)What? Sitter?
#Schrodinger's cat.
5)Who?
#Nazi survivor Eichmann who was caught alive by Mossad and executed.
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All the questions in this post in a way relate to an end of world scenario or a parallel world existence.
1)What does this building house?
#Svelbard Seed bank.
2)Y=1/10000th part of hair tip?
What is Y?
#Dimension of the Jivatma
3)But where?
#Domino's pizza's blue print for a store in the Moon.
4)What does this painting depict?
#Yggdrasill, pronounced [ˈyɡːˌdrasilː]) is an immense tree that is central in Norse cosmology. It was said to be the world tree around which the nine worlds existed. Its name is generally considered to mean "Ygg's (Odin's) horse".
5)What is this phenomenon called?
#Time Wave Zero.
