Set Eight

Once again, welcome to another page of questions at XQZ. First, the - you know, I wonder how many of you actually read the intro. I guess I should include a series of personal insults and then see who respond. Oh well. For those of you who are new to this, please check out the first posting Ground Zero in order to learn the basic rules of this quiz blog. Remember to use rot13.

In other news, Shanth has continued his series of intriguing and very hard to google questions. Please do check out African or European. In yet more news, Set Seven is still up for grabs, so please do send in your answers, as well as the ratings for previous sets - thank you, Kaushik and Shanth, for being so regular with your feedback, but I'd appreciate it if you other people would also chip in so that I get a more balanced viewpoint. Also do write in and tell me if you feel that the distribution of questions is tilting too much one way or the other.

But you're impatient now. Very well. After a long time, this set contains several picture questions. They are still amenable to googling, but try to resist that temptation as far as possible. You appreciate the answer more if you wait for it :)
Any way -

En avant!

Set Eight

We start with a easy one:

8.1
This fly was named after a person for his contributions to Dipterology (the science of flies). Who?




8.2
Name this marvel of nature, about which statesman and orator Daniel Webster once said, "Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the Mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men."



8.3
Fill in the blank, and name the book from which this extract is taken.

Her destination was one of the dubious software rental complexes that lined Memory Lane. There was a stillness, a hush. Booths lined a central hall. The clientele were young, few of them out of their teens. They all seemed to have carbon sockets planted behind the left ear, but she didn't focus on them. The counters that fronted the booths displayed hundreds of slivers of _________, angular fragments of coloured silicon mounted under oblong transparent bubbles on square of white cardboard. Molly went to the seventh booth along the south wall. Behind the counter a boy with a shaven head stared vacantly into space, a dozen spikes of _________ protruding from the socket behind his ear.

8.4
Identify and connect these pictures. The first three are perhaps more relevant, but the other two are also useful.







8.5
Fill in the blank with a word, which has come to denote any word used as a catch-phrase or codeword among a select group:

Then the Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. Whenever one of the fugitives of Ephraim said, "Let me go over," the men of Gilead would say to him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" When he said, "No," they said to him, "Then say __________," and he said, "_________," for he could not pronounce it right. Then they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. Forty-two thousand of the Ephraimites fell at that time.

*Commercial break*

Usual Useless Bonus question

It's a silly question, but it occured to me and I didn't know the answer straight away, though it can actually be worked out quite easily. We all use ROT13 a lot, but why is it called ROT13?

*We now return to our regular programming*

8.6
E. Montagu noted that this man was the only man ever to join the Royal Marines after he was dead! He had a fiancée named Pam, and when his body was recovered, they found a photograph of her and love letters. They also found a set of keys, theater stubs for a recent performance, a statement from his club for lodging in London, and so forth. His careless nature was revealed in his overdue bills, a replacement identification card to replace the one he lost, an expired pass to Combined Operations HQ that he forgot to renew, and an irate missive from a bank manager from Lloyds Bank for an overdraft of £17 19s 11d.

Who was he, and why was he important?

8.7
If a red ribbon stands for awareness about AIDS/supporting AIDS patients, what are the following for?





8.8
Identify and connect these three pictures:





8.9
Identify these lovely ladies and connect. It's not a superficial connect, but it is a simple and nice answer.







8.10
My personal favourite, partly because I put in such a lot of work editing the pic, partly because it's a touching moment.

Identify this place. The photo has been heavily Photoshopped, but the man visible in the picture is doing something ....



Till next time, kameraden.