The Key of Three
The Truth is Out There. The Answers are Right Here. Welcome to another answer session at XQZ. Don't forget to rate the questions after you've read the answers - see the posting Ground Zero to understand the rating system. Now see What Lies Beneath.
3.1
Gung Ho is indeed the answer... giving the Mandarin words made it easier, but it's funny, isn't it, how such a typical American phrase came from China? Of course, come to think of it, chopsuey came from the States....
Kaushik and Shrey figured this out.
3.2
Lance Armstrong is correct - these are some of the teams he has cycled with and won prizes with - however, he won the Tour de France only with the US Postal Service and the Discovery Channel.
Kaushik dredged the murky depths of his memory to get the answer with a great guess. Shrey and Corpsed got this too. And we have a tentative but correct answer from Einsteinophile.
3.3
Heheh... this is Elbonia from Dilbert. Incidentally, Scott Adams has another comic (currently shelved) called Plop, which is all about Elbonians.
Kaushik knew this one, and Shrey remembered the Dilbert connection, and Corpsed just couldn't rest without knowing the answer, so he took a little help, but yeah, they got it.
3.4
E.T. the Extra Terrestrial!
Kaushik got this in one, as did Corpsed.
3.5
Well, if the President's plane is called Air Force One, then his helicopter would be called.... Marine One.
Heheh, nice name, Kaushik. "Mr. President" is pretty cool. Shrey got this but wasn't sure. Corpsed tried Air Force Two - right idea, but wrong kind of military.
3.6
The company is Raytheon (light of the gods), and their inventive employee created the microwave.
Kaushik figured the microwave, but not the company. Corpsed got this, though very modestly admits to having some help. Good going though.
3.7
These highly incestuous companies belonged to the aeronautics/aerospace industry.
The original list is given below:
1912 Glenn L. Martin forms the Glenn L. Martin Company, and the Loughead brothers form the Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company.
1915 William Boeing takes lessons from Mr. Martin.
1916 The Loughead brothers form the Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company. Martin merges with the Wright company to form the Wright-Martin Aircraft Company. Jack Northrop works for Loughead. William Boeing starts the Pacific Aero Products Company.
1917 Martin splits off from Wright-Martin to become the Glenn L. Martin company again. William Boeing starts the Boeing Airplane Company.
At some point D.W. Douglas works as chief engineer at the Glenn L. Martin company.
1920 D.W. Douglas starts the Davis-Douglas company (which became the Douglas company in 1921, and in 1928, the Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc.). At some point Loughead closes.
1923-26 Jack Northrop works for Douglas.
1926 Loughead is restarted with the new name Lockheed, which is pronounced the same way, but is spelt in a simpler manner. Nothrop returns to work for Lockheed.
1929 Northrop leaves Lockheed to start a company which is subsidiary to another, but which is named after himself.
1930 L. R. Grumman starts Grumman Aeronautical Engineering Co. .
1932 Jack Northrop returns to Douglas, runs a subsidiary.
1933-38 J.S. McDonnell is chief engineer at the Glenn L. Martin company.
1938 Jack Northrop starts his own company Northrop Aircraft, Inc. .
1939 J.S. McDonnell starts McDonnell Aircraft Corp..
1961 Martin merges with another company (the American-Marietta Company), changes name to Martin-Marietta.
1967 McDonnell merges with Douglas to form the McDonnell Douglas Corporation
1994 Northrop merges with Grumman to form Northrop-Grumman
1995 Lockheed merges with Martin-Marietta to form a company called Lockheed-Martin
1996 Boeing merges with McDonnell-Douglas
1998 Lockheed-Martin abandons attempt to merge with Northrop-Grumman.
Nobody got this (though Corpsed gave a pretty good answer using car companies), but you can bet that not many people know this.... I had to dig a lot to get the entire timeline - so go ahead and use it in your quizzes :)
3.8
In the game Pac-Man, the Pac-Man has to run from the monsters.... unless he eats the special stuff, in which case he can eat the monsters. In the Pac-Man defense, the company which is under threat of a hostile takeover starts a hostile takeover of the company that is trying to buy it.
A beautifully short and sweet answer by Shrey.
3.9
This was the first time that the famous Moore's Law (which deals with the further miniaturization and large scale integration of computer chips) was mentioned in print. Intel had lost their own copy of the magazine and offered this reward to get another. For a few days, librarians in America had to lock their cupboards very securely to prevent the theft of copies!
Kaushik got this, we had a great guess by Shrey, and an extremely confident reply from Einsteinophile.
3.10
Heh.... Corpsed thought it might have something to do with the DPS MMS clip (heheh), but no.... I have no idea how you guys figured it out... anyhow, this lens was used to film the segments of 2001: A Space Odyssey that were supposed to be from HAL 9000's point of view.... also, this lens was shown as HAL's lens (remember that glowing red light?).
Shrey and Einsteinophile figured Kubrick, I don't know how.... and Einsteinophile even managed to pinpoint Space Odyssey.... amazing.
Nice going, guys.... remember, there's no buzzer, no time limit (well, kinda) and no negative points, so go ahead and guess! Till next time. I had better start work on Set Five!
Sayanora.
3.1
Gung Ho is indeed the answer... giving the Mandarin words made it easier, but it's funny, isn't it, how such a typical American phrase came from China? Of course, come to think of it, chopsuey came from the States....
Kaushik and Shrey figured this out.
3.2
Lance Armstrong is correct - these are some of the teams he has cycled with and won prizes with - however, he won the Tour de France only with the US Postal Service and the Discovery Channel.
Kaushik dredged the murky depths of his memory to get the answer with a great guess. Shrey and Corpsed got this too. And we have a tentative but correct answer from Einsteinophile.
3.3
Heheh... this is Elbonia from Dilbert. Incidentally, Scott Adams has another comic (currently shelved) called Plop, which is all about Elbonians.
Kaushik knew this one, and Shrey remembered the Dilbert connection, and Corpsed just couldn't rest without knowing the answer, so he took a little help, but yeah, they got it.
3.4
E.T. the Extra Terrestrial!
Kaushik got this in one, as did Corpsed.
3.5
Well, if the President's plane is called Air Force One, then his helicopter would be called.... Marine One.
Heheh, nice name, Kaushik. "Mr. President" is pretty cool. Shrey got this but wasn't sure. Corpsed tried Air Force Two - right idea, but wrong kind of military.
3.6
The company is Raytheon (light of the gods), and their inventive employee created the microwave.
Kaushik figured the microwave, but not the company. Corpsed got this, though very modestly admits to having some help. Good going though.
3.7
These highly incestuous companies belonged to the aeronautics/aerospace industry.
The original list is given below:
1912 Glenn L. Martin forms the Glenn L. Martin Company, and the Loughead brothers form the Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company.
1915 William Boeing takes lessons from Mr. Martin.
1916 The Loughead brothers form the Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company. Martin merges with the Wright company to form the Wright-Martin Aircraft Company. Jack Northrop works for Loughead. William Boeing starts the Pacific Aero Products Company.
1917 Martin splits off from Wright-Martin to become the Glenn L. Martin company again. William Boeing starts the Boeing Airplane Company.
At some point D.W. Douglas works as chief engineer at the Glenn L. Martin company.
1920 D.W. Douglas starts the Davis-Douglas company (which became the Douglas company in 1921, and in 1928, the Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc.). At some point Loughead closes.
1923-26 Jack Northrop works for Douglas.
1926 Loughead is restarted with the new name Lockheed, which is pronounced the same way, but is spelt in a simpler manner. Nothrop returns to work for Lockheed.
1929 Northrop leaves Lockheed to start a company which is subsidiary to another, but which is named after himself.
1930 L. R. Grumman starts Grumman Aeronautical Engineering Co. .
1932 Jack Northrop returns to Douglas, runs a subsidiary.
1933-38 J.S. McDonnell is chief engineer at the Glenn L. Martin company.
1938 Jack Northrop starts his own company Northrop Aircraft, Inc. .
1939 J.S. McDonnell starts McDonnell Aircraft Corp..
1961 Martin merges with another company (the American-Marietta Company), changes name to Martin-Marietta.
1967 McDonnell merges with Douglas to form the McDonnell Douglas Corporation
1994 Northrop merges with Grumman to form Northrop-Grumman
1995 Lockheed merges with Martin-Marietta to form a company called Lockheed-Martin
1996 Boeing merges with McDonnell-Douglas
1998 Lockheed-Martin abandons attempt to merge with Northrop-Grumman.
Nobody got this (though Corpsed gave a pretty good answer using car companies), but you can bet that not many people know this.... I had to dig a lot to get the entire timeline - so go ahead and use it in your quizzes :)
3.8
In the game Pac-Man, the Pac-Man has to run from the monsters.... unless he eats the special stuff, in which case he can eat the monsters. In the Pac-Man defense, the company which is under threat of a hostile takeover starts a hostile takeover of the company that is trying to buy it.
A beautifully short and sweet answer by Shrey.
3.9
This was the first time that the famous Moore's Law (which deals with the further miniaturization and large scale integration of computer chips) was mentioned in print. Intel had lost their own copy of the magazine and offered this reward to get another. For a few days, librarians in America had to lock their cupboards very securely to prevent the theft of copies!
Kaushik got this, we had a great guess by Shrey, and an extremely confident reply from Einsteinophile.
3.10
Heh.... Corpsed thought it might have something to do with the DPS MMS clip (heheh), but no.... I have no idea how you guys figured it out... anyhow, this lens was used to film the segments of 2001: A Space Odyssey that were supposed to be from HAL 9000's point of view.... also, this lens was shown as HAL's lens (remember that glowing red light?).
Shrey and Einsteinophile figured Kubrick, I don't know how.... and Einsteinophile even managed to pinpoint Space Odyssey.... amazing.
Nice going, guys.... remember, there's no buzzer, no time limit (well, kinda) and no negative points, so go ahead and guess! Till next time. I had better start work on Set Five!
Sayanora.
posted by Rare Hand Axe at 7:02 PM
1 Comments:
Actually I haven seen the movie Space Odyssey...but thts one which I wanted to see (very badly)...and thought it mite be the one!!Since its the "most talked about"!!! :)
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