Elementary!

by Sinnerman

Connect the occupants of the boxes that have been blanked out. The red ones connect a little more obviously and directly than the blue ones, but they all connect beautifully to the same thing.

(You can click on the image to see it in its full-size glory.)

Only visakasimhan and to an extent, cluelessanon, reacted correctly.

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My First

Hi guys,

Seeing ur proactiveness in maintaining this blog, i have finally decided to abandon my sloth, eliminate the deep hollow in my couch and start posting..my first question, one off really nd a very simple one,

As usual, Connect

General Quiz

1. Olympic, Britannic, __________.

ID the blank and put funda.

2. American Cotton Oil Company, American Sugar Company, American Tobacco Company, Chicago Gas Company, Distilling & Cattle Feeding Company, Laclede Gas Light Company, National Lead Company, North American Company, Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, U.S. Leather Company, United States Rubber Company, X.

Again, ID and put funda.

3. Prior to the release of the recent hit movie X, the producer Y was sued by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. This led to Y making an important change. What exactly happened?

4. Bernard Lagat (1500), Alberto Contador(Tour de France), Alain Bernard(Swimming 100m Freestyle), Usain Bolt(100m), Cat Link V(1998,westbound). What is common? <the list is non exhaustive>

5.  X is India’s largest company in it’s field. It’s products enjoy a 45% market-share in India and 5% of global exports. The company is currently growing at a steady rate of 10% every year. It has achieved the distinction of being the first Indian Company to break the monopoly of similar Chinese products in the US market, besides pioneering sales in countries such as U.K, Germany , Belgium , Holland etc. As of 2007, it had a turnover of over 1 billion rupees. Which company?

6. British-1599
Danish-1616
Dutch-1602
French-1664
Swedish-1731

What?

7. “If youth, throughout all history, had a champion to stand up for it; to show a doubting world that a child can think; and,possibly, do it practically; you wouldn’t constantly run across folk stoday who claim that “a child don’t know anything.” A child’s brain starts functioning at birth; and has, amongst its many infant convolutions, thousands of dormant atoms, into which God has put amystic possibility for noticing an adult’s act, and figuring out its purport.”

Something special about this extract from a book. Whatitis?

8. X is a classic theme in world literature, art, and film. It was an archetypal character of medieval romances, where typically knight-errants would come to alleviate the situation. The Emprise de l’Escu vert à la Dame Blanche (founded 1399) was an order which had X as it’s theme. The movie Ingagi had X as it’s theme. What is the theme X?

9. The character X usually wears a snow suit with a tightly drawn hood. Hiss lines are all muffled, and he is often used to get words, including “shit”, past the censors. His death and resurrrection was a frequent theme of the series. Spontaneous combustion, Michael Jackson have been causes for his death. He has also died on numerous occasions for the good of other people like once for the sake of the Jews, once to stop satan etc. “Oh my God, they killed X!” “You bastards” is a usual catchphrase upon his death.  Who is X?

10. Abortion, Advocacy groups, Business and Economy, Drugs, Education, Entertainment, Gambling, Games, Government, Health, Illegal or questionable, hacking, search engines and portals, url translation sites, web hosting, tastless, racism, job search,shopping. Again, a non exhaustive list.
What is this..

11.  2007 - “Gerald began — but was interrupted by a piercing whistle which cost him ten percent of his hearing permanently, as it did everyone else in a ten-mile radius of the eruption, not that it mattered much because for them “permanently” meant the next ten minutes or so until buried by searing lava or suffocated by choking ash — to pee.”
2006 - “Detective Bart Lasiter was in his office studying the light from his one small window falling on his super burrito when the door swung open to reveal a woman whose body said you’ve had your last burrito for a while, whose face said angels did exist, and whose eyes said she could make you dig your own grave and lick the shovel clean.”
2005 – “As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the dual Stromberg carburetors in his vintage Triumph Spitfire, highly functional yet pleasingly formed, perched prominently on top of the intake manifold, aching for experienced hands, the small knurled caps of the oil dampeners begging to be inspected and adjusted as described in chapter seven of the shop manual.”

These 3 extracts have something in common. What?

12. If explanations about their achievements become too longwinded, the speakers are interrupted by the cries of Miss Sweety Poo (or Sweety-Poo), a little girl who repeatedly cries out “Please stop. I’m bored” in a high-pitched voice. Throwing paper airplanes onto the stage was a long-standing tradition but this was changed in 2006 due to security concerns. In past years, Roy Glauber has swept the stage clean of the airplanes as the official “Keeper of the Broom”. In 2005 however, he was not able to do his job because he was traveling to stockholm to claim an award. What are we talking about?

13. An experiment conducted at MIT gave the following result. Specific gravity of X – 1.0. Specific gravity of Y – 1.6. X<Y. QED. What?

14. From 1955 to 1979 (except for a six month gap in 1976), the first letter of the name had a number of stars printed in or around the letter. The legend claims that this was either a rating that the Chief creative officer of the magazine gave to the person on the cover based on certain criterion. Another rumor was that if the stars were inside the starting letter of the magazine’s name, the Chief Creative Officer was intimately involved, while if they were outside, he was not. In reality, the stars, which ranged in number between zero and twelve, were solely used to indicate the domestic or international advertising region for that particular printing.

Put funda.

15. Mercedes Gleitze was the first British woman to swim the English channel on 7 October 1927. Some doubts were cast on her achievement when a hoaxer claimed to have made a faster swim only four days later. To silence her critics, Mercedes Gleitze attempted a repeat swim on 21 October in the full glare of publicity. Although she did not complete the second crossing, a journalist for The Times wrote “Having regard to the general conditions, the endurance of Miss Gleitze surprised the doctors, journalists, and experts who were present, for it seemed unlikely that she would be able to withstand the cold for so long. It was a good performance.” He also found something and said, “Hanging round her neck by a riband on this swim, Miss Gleitze carried X, which was found this evening to be in perfect condition”. X was then launched in England and attained great success. X was taken to the Mariana Trench by Jacques Piccard at 1960 and was stil in working condition when it was brought back and also was carried by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on their successful climb of Everest.  X?

Sports Quiz

1. This striker started professional football at Dundee Utd and played 2 full seasons there. In 1975 he moved to Aston Villa  & scored 25 goals in the league to win the Golden Boot. The next year he won both the PFA Young Player of the Year and the PFA Player’s Player of the Year(which was next repeated by Cristiano Ronaldo in 06-07). Then he played for Wolves, Everton, WBA and retiring. He later moved into commentary work with famous statements like “Take a bow son, take a bow” and “You better open the top drawer, and pop it in”. Who?

2. His first professional club was St. Johnstone. He then moved to Sunderland and from there to Rangers where he had a very successful spell. In 15 years at Rangers he scored 355 goals in 418 games. Nicknamed “The Judge” who is he, currently the Asst Coach at Rangers?

3. He began his career as a reporter for Barnet Press and the Sheffield Morning Telegraph. He was then hired by the BBC and started presenting the Match of the Day. He is Britain’s favorite commentator and his popularity soared when BBC introduced the “Mini X” desktop toy. In Shevchenko’s first season at Chelsea, he said “Sheva can’t hit a barn door with a banjo for Chelsea”. Other things he says includes “That tackle was so hard, it hurt his entire family”. Who? (Ob, X is his name..)

4. Some of X’s most famous comments were made during the 1999 UCL final. Just before the first goal, he said “Can Man Utd score?? They always score.”. And again, just before the winner was scored, he said “As things stand, we’re going into extra time with the golden goal hanging like a massive shadow over this final, unless Ole Gunnar Solksjaer can conjure up another”. And of course, Solksjaer obliged.

Another memorable quote came in 2002, when 16 year Y scored against Arsenal to snap their unbeaten streak and X said “Remember the name. Y!!”. Y is now a very famous player in his own right. ID X and Y.

5. Connect qns 1-4.

6. This man was one of the finest bowlers of all time with the best bowling average among all bowlers who’ve taken more than 200 wickets. In a test match at Headingley against England, he took 7 wickets in the second innings despite a broken thumb and batted one handed through the match. He once said to David Boon, “David, if you don’t get out, I’m going to have to come around the wicket and kill you.” Who?

7. This game arose as a military game. It represents the 4 divisions of the army and strategy is the key. What game.

8. Harold Abrahams enters Cambridge in 1919 and completes the Trinity Great Court Run. Eric Liddell sees running as a way of glorifying God. At their first meeting, Liddell wishes Abrahams well and then defeats him in a race. Abrahams then hires a trainer to help him defeat Liddell. Anyway the two compete in the 1924 Paris Olympics, and Abrahams wins the 100m. Plot of which movie?

9. Liverpool, Man Utd, Arsenal, Porto, Real Madrid, Valencia, Barcelona, Marseille, Lyon, PSG, Juventus, AC Milan, Inter Milan, PSV, Ajax, Borussia Dortmund, Bayer Leverkusen, Bayern Munchen. What’s common?

10. This was used for marking trees and cattle and ranch boundaries in America. However the Nelson Company promoted it as a sport. It really caught on when Sports Illustrated wrote an article about this in it’s June 1980 edition. What?

-Bounce

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