Set Two
Hello, and welcome to XQZ. If you're new to this blog, please see the first posting Ground Zero in order to learn the basic rules of this quiz blog. Remember to use rot13.
The answers to Set Zero will be up tomorrow (Friday). I'm leaving the country on Saturday morning, and will try to post Set Three (and the answers to Set One) from my sister's place in the UK. After that I'm afraid there will be a hiatus until I make my new home away from home a bit homely. But it might be shorter than I expect, so keep watching this space!
To the Questions!
Set Two
Picture, picture, in the blog.....
2.1
He was rejected twice by the Academy of Arts in Vienna (1907–1908) for "lack of talent"—which he resented deeply—he did not try to find a different job or learn a profession. He was told he should become an architect, since he had some flair for painting buildings. He worked as a struggling painter in Vienna, copying scenes from postcards and selling his paintings to merchants and tourists (there is evidence he produced over 2000 paintings and drawings before World War I). Here are two of his paintings. Who was he?
2.2
The picture shows the ground on which a certain sport or game is played. Which game/sport? (Credit for this question goes to Aditya Kumar)
2.3
With which pseudoscience (which is also a protoscience) is this diagram associated?
2.4
What is shown here?
2.5
A standard lateral thinking question is: Consider nine dots laid out in a square grid. Without taking your pen off the paper, draw four straight lines such that each dot lies on at least one line. Management consultants used this problem to illustrate to companies that some problems required innovative thinking and the recognition of unconscious assumptions. The solution to the problem is shown below. What now common English phrase was coined by the consultants to describe the solution and this way of thinking?
Random
2.6
The National Geographic is renowned for its attention to detail and the veracity of its maps and articles. However in its May 1977 issue, which featured the Celtic world and its history, one of the maps was inaccurate on one small count. None of the readers complained though. Why?
(Once again, credit to Hrishikesh Varma)
2.7
Which venture in 1896 was financed by the sale of souvenir stamps and medals and the donation of money by a wealthy businessman called Georgios Averoff?
(And again, thank you Mr. Varma)
2.8
It costs only $28, and was created for the first time some time in the late 1960s by sculptor Ram Chandra and Dr Pramod Karan Sethi. There are at least 72,000 users in India alone, and it is also popular in war torn countries like Afghanistan, Rwanda and Cambodia. What is it?
2.9
In terms of Longitude, to which states do the Easternmost and Westernmost points of the United State of America belong?
2.10
During the opening of the Philadelphia concert in this year's Live 8 concert, Will Smith led the combined audiences of London, Philadelphia, Berlin, Rome, Paris and Barrie in a synchronised finger click at a rate of one click every three seconds. What did it represent?
Salut!
The answers to Set Zero will be up tomorrow (Friday). I'm leaving the country on Saturday morning, and will try to post Set Three (and the answers to Set One) from my sister's place in the UK. After that I'm afraid there will be a hiatus until I make my new home away from home a bit homely. But it might be shorter than I expect, so keep watching this space!
To the Questions!
Set Two
Picture, picture, in the blog.....
2.1
He was rejected twice by the Academy of Arts in Vienna (1907–1908) for "lack of talent"—which he resented deeply—he did not try to find a different job or learn a profession. He was told he should become an architect, since he had some flair for painting buildings. He worked as a struggling painter in Vienna, copying scenes from postcards and selling his paintings to merchants and tourists (there is evidence he produced over 2000 paintings and drawings before World War I). Here are two of his paintings. Who was he?
2.2
The picture shows the ground on which a certain sport or game is played. Which game/sport? (Credit for this question goes to Aditya Kumar)
2.3
With which pseudoscience (which is also a protoscience) is this diagram associated?
2.4
What is shown here?
2.5
A standard lateral thinking question is: Consider nine dots laid out in a square grid. Without taking your pen off the paper, draw four straight lines such that each dot lies on at least one line. Management consultants used this problem to illustrate to companies that some problems required innovative thinking and the recognition of unconscious assumptions. The solution to the problem is shown below. What now common English phrase was coined by the consultants to describe the solution and this way of thinking?
Random
2.6
The National Geographic is renowned for its attention to detail and the veracity of its maps and articles. However in its May 1977 issue, which featured the Celtic world and its history, one of the maps was inaccurate on one small count. None of the readers complained though. Why?
(Once again, credit to Hrishikesh Varma)
2.7
Which venture in 1896 was financed by the sale of souvenir stamps and medals and the donation of money by a wealthy businessman called Georgios Averoff?
(And again, thank you Mr. Varma)
2.8
It costs only $28, and was created for the first time some time in the late 1960s by sculptor Ram Chandra and Dr Pramod Karan Sethi. There are at least 72,000 users in India alone, and it is also popular in war torn countries like Afghanistan, Rwanda and Cambodia. What is it?
2.9
In terms of Longitude, to which states do the Easternmost and Westernmost points of the United State of America belong?
2.10
During the opening of the Philadelphia concert in this year's Live 8 concert, Will Smith led the combined audiences of London, Philadelphia, Berlin, Rome, Paris and Barrie in a synchronised finger click at a rate of one click every three seconds. What did it represent?
Salut!
posted by Rare Hand Axe at 7:42 AM
3 Comments:
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2.4 Fraan'f penfu ng Vzbyn
2.5 guvaxvat bhg bs gur obk
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