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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.
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1)I came to life sometime around 1889 , my name literally means a "Round Object" and constitutes two different characters either a formal one or informal one.My other names include Kuai, Man, Sin.What am I?
#Chinese Yuan or a Reminibi
2)What?
#The Annual Solar car race track, held in Australia.
3)Who?
#Demasduit ,the last of the beothuk race wiped out from Newfoundland.
4)He is indirectly trending with Anna these days :D
#Angry Birds's lead designer Jaakko Iisalo who is instrumental in modeling the characters of the game.
5)What?
#IBM's Neurosynaptic which is built on the functioning of the human brain.
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1)What would be your motive contacting dignitas@dignitas.ch ? (Do not risk emailing ;-)
#Suicide Tourism in Switzerland.
Dignitas is a Swiss assisted dying group that helps those with terminal illness and severe physical and mental illnesses to die assisted by qualified doctors and nurses.
2)What would you be doing if you worked for the SonderKommando?
#Sonderkommandos were work units of Nazi death camp prisoners, composed almost entirely of Jews, who were forced, on pain of their own deaths, to aid with the disposal of gas chamber victims during the Holocaust.
3)Logo of what?
#Lulz Security, commonly abbreviated as LulzSec, is a computer hacker group that claims responsibility for several high profile attacks, including the compromise of user accounts from Sony Pictures in 2011.
4)Recipe for what?200g nougat
200g marzipan
80g icing sugar
a shot kirsch/kirschwasser (fruit schnapps)
150g dark or milk chocolate coating
30g pistachios
#MozartKugelen
5)Guess his wallet is big enough?
#Osama Bedier , ex employee of Ebay who currently works for google has been accused of stealing data from Ebay for the Google Wallet.
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1)Connect?
#Lady Gaga and Eric Schmidt have jointly founded a company called Backplane. The first one is an image of a backplane.
2)What are they posing with?
#Vienna University unveils world's smallest 3D printer.
3)First of its kind?
#Scientist's suceed in releasing the world's first computerized brain map.
4)First of its kind?
#World's first Bionic hand.
5)Connect Darwin's dark spider,eternal light mushroom,monitor lizard,pollinating cricket,Walter's duiker?
#New Species dicovered in 2011.
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1)Something next generation is coming up this size?
2)Identify?
#TED Talks Phyllis Rodriguez and Aicha el-Wafi have a powerful friendship born of
unthinkable loss. Rodriguez' son was killed in the World Trade Center while Aicha's son was convicted of plotting the 9-11 attacks.
3)Who is she?
#Phan Th Kim Phúc, O.Ont (born 1963) is a Vietnamese-Canadian best known as the child subject of a Pulitzer Prize winning photograph taken during the Vietnam War on June 8, 1972
4)Connect?
#Osama Bin Laden, His niece Wafa Dufour, Navy seals and one of his ancestors.
5)Connect May 1 and this image below?
#The original Gerenimo-was a prominent Native American leader of the Chiricahua Apache who
fought against Mexico and the United States after whom the attack on Osama was code worded.
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1) If you suffered from Trichotillomania what would you be doing?
#is the compulsive urge to pull out one's own hair leading to noticeable hair loss, distress, and social or functional impairment
2)Medical Dilemma but what?
#Last alive sample of the Small Box bacteria.
3)First of its kind?
#World's first 3D porn film.
4)What is their claim to fame?
#Krishna Prasad Chigurupati and his wife Uma Krishna Prasad from Hyderabad have the distinction of being the first married couple in the world to participate in a marathon at the northern most point of the globe, the North Pole.
5)What? Where?
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1) What are they?
#According to traditional Japanese lore, the Oar fish rise to the surface and
beach themselves to warn of an impending earthquake – and there are
scientific theories that bottom-dwelling fish may very well be susceptible
to movements in seismic fault lines and act in uncharacteristic ways in
advance of an earthquake – but experts here are placing more faith in their
constant high-tech monitoring of the tectonic plates beneath the surface.
2) Really? but why?
#Since 2009 the European Space Agency’s Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) has been mapping the Earth’s gravitational field, and the agency released its most detailed model of the geoid to date. More potato-shaped than spherical, this latest model shows just how different gravity can be at different points on our planet.
3)Where Why What?
#At 9:30 a.m. on March 20, 2010, precisely on time, the Plastiki, a "boat made of 12,000 plastic bottles," and the brainchild of banking heir David de Rothschild, set sail from a berth in Sausalito, Calif., just north of the Golden Gate Bridge, on its way to Australia. The Plastiki was not just the world's first boat made buoyant by discarded soda bottles. It was also a statement about the world's garbage problem, and the fact that most plastic bottles are thrown away rather than recycled. The goal was to sail 11,000 nautical miles to Sydney, Australia.
4)History?
#Japanese Tree of Hope
5) First of its kind?
#Developed by Intelligent Energy, this is London’s first cab powered jointly by a hydrogen fuel cell and lithium polymer battery packs.
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1)Identify the man on the left?
#Ajit Jain
2) What?
#Edge Rank Algo used by Facebook.
3) Where?
#The Red Forest in Chernobyl where the vegetation changed color due to the radio active elements in the atmosphere.
4) Who?
#Spiderman - Alaine Robert.
5) Connect?
#Nassuridin Shah, his nephew Oswais Shah,Saira Elizabeth Luiza Shah (Scottish mother of Idreis Shah his relative), Poster of a hollywood movie Shah acted
