Quizlexic

Question 1472

2015-03-09T10:40:00.000+05:30

The Reel Eye Company is one of the largest companies which provides this particular 'service' to film, TV and media companies in the western world. Founded in 1997, it has quickly become one of the largest service-provider of its kind and counts the X-Men franchisee, the Marvel superhero films, Game of Thrones and the latest Star Wars movie as its clients.

What 'service' does the Reel Eye Company provide?

1471

2015-03-04T20:15:00.001+05:30

The title to which novel comes from the first verse of W.B. Yeats's poem "The Second Coming"?

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
______ ____ _____; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Question 1470

2013-03-14T02:50:00.004+05:30

Seen in Pacific Northwest, North America
Height: 6-10 feet
Weight: more than 500 pounds(230kg)
Has an unpleasant smell. nocturnal, omnivorous
Facial characteristics: large eyes, a pronounced brow ridge, and a large, low-set forehead; the top of the head has been described as rounded and crested.
Normally has 5 toes, but few cases of 2, 6.
What is this a report of?

Question 1469:Do it Gently

2013-03-08T18:42:00.000+05:30

"X" included a reference to "Y" in the original radio version of "Z", in which he describes the main characters surveying the landscape of an alien planet, while their android companion, hums a song by "Y". This was cut out of the CD version. "X" also compared the various noises that the kakapo makes to "Y studio out-takes" in his nonfiction book on endangered species, "W"

X's official biography shares its name with a song by "Y". "X" was friends with "Y" guitarist "A". In fact once on X's birthday, he was invited to make a guest appearance at Y's 28 October 1994 concert at Earls Court in London, playing guitar on two songs. "X" chose the name for Y's 1994 album, "B", by picking the words from the lyrics to one of its tracks. "A" also performed at X's memorial service, and what would have been X's 60th birthday party.

Here is some more:

"X" was a friend of the lead singer, pianist and songwriter of Procol Harum, Gary Brooker. "X" invited him to one of the many parties that he held at his house. On one such occasion, Brooker performed the full (4 verse) version of A Whiter Shade of Pale and also performed at X's memorial service.
"X" appeared on stage to perform In Held Twas in I at Redhill when the band's lyricist Keith Reid was not available. On several other occasions he introduced Procol Harum at their gigs.
"X" would listen to music while writing, and this would occasionally influence his work. On one occasion the title track from a Procol Harum album was playing and his thoughts were:

"Suddenly in the middle of the song there was this huge orchestral climax that came out of nowhere and did not seem to be about anything. I kept wondering what was this huge thing happening in the background? And I eventually thought ... it sounds as if there ought to be some sort of floorshow going on. Something huge and extraordinary, like, well, the end of the universe".

I only want X,Y.

Question 1468

2013-03-02T23:31:00.000+05:30

Starts with Prima autem et manifestior via est, quæ sumitur ex parte motus, from The Argument of the Unmoved Mover, going through The Argument of the First Clause, The Argument from Contingency, The Argument from Degree, ends with Ergo est aliquid intelligens, a quo omnes res naturales ordinantur ad finem, et hoc dicimus ____ , from the X Argument which states/proves in the end that Y exists. All of them are proposed proofs taking the form of scholarly arguments. Gimme Y and Identify.

Question 1467: Fascinating

2013-03-01T09:26:00.003+05:30

The text was clearly written from left to right, with a slightly ragged right margin. Longer sections are broken into paragraphs, sometimes with star or flower-like "bullets" in the left margin. There is no obvious punctuation, and no indications of any errors or corrections made at any place in the document. The ductus flows smoothly, giving the impression that the symbols were not enciphered, as there is no delay between characters as would normally be expected in written encoded text.

The text consists of over 170,000 glyphs, usually separated from each other by narrow gaps. While there is some dispute as to whether certain glyphs are distinct or not, an alphabet with 20–30 glyphs would account for virtually all of the text; the exceptions are a few dozen rarer characters that occur only once or twice each. Various transcription alphabets have been created, to equate the glyphs with Latin characters in order to help with cryptanalysis. The first major one was created by cryptographer William F. Friedman in the 1940s, where each line of the text was transcribed to an IBM punch card to make it machine-readable.

Wider gaps divide the text into about 35,000 "words" of varying length. These seem to follow phonological or orthographic laws of some sort, e.g., certain characters must appear in each word (like English vowels), some characters never follow others, some may be doubled or tripled but others may not, etc.

Statistical analysis of the text reveals patterns similar to those of natural languages. For instance, the word entropy (about 10 bits per word) is similar to that of English or Latin texts. Some words occur only in certain sections, or in only a few pages; others occur throughout the text. There are very few repetitions among the thousand or so "labels" attached to the illustrations.

On the other hand, the "language" is quite unlike European languages in several aspects. There are practically no words comprising more than ten glyphs, yet there are also few one- or two-letter words. The distribution of letters within words is also rather peculiar: some characters occur only at the beginning of a word, some only at the end, and some always in the middle section.

The text seems to be more repetitive than typical European languages, causing single-substitution alphabet decipherings to yield babble-like text.

There are only a few words written in a seemingly Latin script. The lettering resembles European alphabets of the late 14th and 15th centuries, but the words do not seem to make sense in any language. Also, a series of diagrams in the "astronomical" section has the names of ten of the months (from March to December) written in Latin script, with spelling suggestive of the medieval languages of France, northwest Italy or the Iberian Peninsula. However, it is not known whether these bits of Latin script were part of the original text or were added later. With everything from its origin, purpose, ownership, significance and authenticity a mystery, what is this?

Question 1466

2013-02-25T17:17:00.001+05:30

Identify. Too many clues there. Sorry I'm bored and running dry at the moment.

Question 1465

2013-02-14T23:18:00.000+05:30

Focussing onto a 20 cm × 25 cm (7.9 in × 9.8 in) pewter plate coated with bitumen of Judea, a mixture similar to asphalt, hardening the bitumen mixture by exposing it to about 8 hours of light, while the unexposed portions remained water soluble and then washing them away with a mixture of oil of lavender and white petroleum gave this. What is it called?

Question 1464

2013-02-09T22:18:00.000+05:30

-Wolf
-Snow
-Sap
-Growing
-Flower
-Mead
-Hay
-Corn
-Harvest
-Hunter's
-Beaver
-Winter
-X. What is missing?

Question 1463

2013-02-05T00:46:00.001+05:30

Subject in question: La Gioconda/La Joconde

First at the scene: Louis Beroud

Initial Suspects: Guillaume Apollinaire, X(Implicated by Apollinaire)

Culprit: Y

Gimme X.

Answer: Pablo Picasso

Question 1462:Atithi Devo Bhava

2013-02-03T21:11:00.000+05:30

A fairly simple one..

X was living at Nether Stowey (a village in the foothills of the Quantocks). It is unclear where the event actually took place..

On awakening he(X) appeared to himself to have a distinct recollection of the whole, and taking his pen, ink, and paper, instantly and eagerly wrote down the lines that are here preserved. At this moment he was unfortunately called out on business by Y, and detained by him above an hour, and on his return to his room, found, to his no small surprise and mortification, that though he still retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purport of the vision, yet, with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images, all the rest had passed away like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone has been cast, but, alas! without the after restoration of the latter!

What?

Answer: Kubla Khan and the Person from Porlock

Question 1461: L'exquis

2013-02-02T20:16:00.000+05:30

[sic]According to tradition, a marshal of artillery to French king Henry IV, François Hannibal d'Estrées, presented the X monks at Vauvert, near Paris, with an alchemical manuscript that contained a recipe for an "elixir of long life" in 1605. The recipe eventually reached the religious order's headquarters at the Y monastery, in Voiron, near Grenoble. It has since then been used to produce the "Elixir Végétal de la Y". The formula is said to call for 130 herbs, flowers, and secret ingredients combined in a wine alcohol base. The monks intended their liqueur to be used as medicine. The recipe was further enhanced in 1737 by Brother Gérome Maubec.

The beverage soon became popular, and in 1764 the monks adapted the elixir recipe to make Z(Green), as is known today. In 1793, the monks were expelled from France, and manufacture of the liqueur ceased. Several years later they were allowed to return. In 1838, they developed Yellow Z, a sweeter, 40% alcohol (80 proof) liqueur, colored with saffron.

The monks were again expelled from the monastery following a French law in 1903, and their real property, including the distillery, was confiscated by the government. The monks took their secret recipe to their refuge in Tarragona, Spain, and began producing their liqueurs with the same label, but with an additional label which said Liqueur fabriquée à Tarragone par les Pères X ("liquor manufactured in Tarragona by the X Fathers").

Today, the liqueurs are produced in Voiron using the herbal mixture prepared by two monks at Y. The exact recipes for all forms of Z remain trade secrets and are known at any given time only to the two monks who prepare the herbal mixture. Just gimme Z(below)

Answer: Chartreuse

Question 1460: Qui êtes-vous ?

2013-01-26T11:02:00.001+05:30

[sic]The name X, along with Y were regularly invoked in English legal instruments to satisfy technical requirements governing standing and jurisdiction, beginning perhaps as early as the reign of England's King Edward III (1312–1377).[5]

The Oxford English Dictionary states that X is "the name given to the fictitious lessee of the plaintiff, in the (now obsolete in the UK) mixed action of ejectment, the fictitious defendant being called Y.
This particular use became obsolete in the UK in 1852:
As is well known, the device of involving real people as notional lessees and ejectors was used to enable freeholders to sue the real ejectors. These were then replaced by the fictional characters X and Y. Eventually the medieval remedies were (mostly) abolished by the Real Property Limitation Act of 1833; the fictional characters of X and Y by the Common Law Procedure Act 1852; and the forms of action themselves by the Judicature Acts 1873-75."

The term 'X Injunction' (or X Order) is used in the UK to describe an injunction sought against someone whose identity is not known at the time it is issued:
"8.02 If an unknown person has possession of the confidential personal information and is threatening to disclose it, a X injunction may be sought against that person. The first time this form of injunction was used since 1852 in the United Kingdom was in 2005 when lawyers acting for JK Rowling and her publishers obtained an interim order against an unidentified person who had offered to sell chapters of a stolen copy of an unpublished Harry Potter novel to the media"

There are hundreds of variants and extended analogies of X, in different countries

and legal systems and popular culture. What?

Answer: John Doe/Richard Roe

Question 1459

2013-01-09T09:38:00.000+05:30

This film personality was born in a mill-worker's family in Naigaon in central Mumbai on the auspicious day of Gokulashtami and hence was named Krishna. However, in the film fraternity he was referred to by a title that means 'big brother' in the native language. He also entered in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most number of films (9) that achieved silver jubilee (ran for 25 consecutive weeks). An award in his honour was introduced by the state government to recognise the best regional film every year.

Identify.

Answer: Dada Kondke

Question 1458

2013-01-08T11:26:00.000+05:30

Referring to what did John Adams complain to his wife Abigail that, "My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."?

Answer: On being the US Vice President for 2 terms

Question 1457

2013-01-05T10:39:00.000+05:30

In a review of this film, Mihir Fadnavis, film critic for MidDay wrote:

"The disappointment is hard to mask, and unless the next two films offer something drastically different, I would be forced to believe what I feared: that X is now Y, Z's literature is his precious, and over the years it has consumed him and turned him into a disillusioned and slightly evil creature that feasts by stealing from your pockets."

Simple enough. Identify X, Y and Z.

Answer: X: Peter Jackson, Y: Gollum, Z: JRR Tolkien

Question 1456

2013-01-04T10:36:00.000+05:30

This 2012 South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-duk depicts the mysterious relationship between a brutal man who works for loan sharks and a middle-aged woman who claims that she is his mother, mixing Christian symbolism and highly sexual content. It has received high critical acclaim and won various awards at film festivals.

What is its rather apt name?

Film poster

Answer: Pieta

Question 1455

2013-01-03T10:17:00.005+05:30

This city situated in the Panchmahal district of Gujarat has historical significance. It was the capital of Gujarat for a brief period of time. Founded by Vanraj Chavda of the Chavda Dynasty, he named it after the name of his friend and general Champaraj. The Sultan of Gujarat, Mahmud Begada, attacked it in 1482. After defeating the local army, he spent 23 years rebuilding and embellishing the city, which he renamed Muhammadabad, after which he moved the capital there from Ahmedabad. Currently, it is the site of an archaeological park, designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2004.

Why did this place rise to national fame in 2001?

Answer: Champaner, which featured in Lagaan.

Question 1454

2013-01-02T18:09:00.001+05:30

It is generally accepted that this pattern is the pattern that appears on the body of the Death-Head Hawk moth. However, contrary to popular belief, the pattern is a portrait photograph by Philippe Halsman in collaboration with Salvador Dali, called "In Voluptas Mors". It is a surrealistic portrait of Dali beside a large skull, which is in fact a tableau vivant composed of seven nudes. Halsman took three hours to arrange the models according to a sketch by Dali.

What am I talking about?

In Voluptas Mors

Answer: It is the skull pattern which appears on the moth in The Silence of the Lambs Poster, thought to be the Death-Head Hawk moth. But in fact, it is the "In Voluptas Mors" piece of art.

Question 1453

2013-01-01T17:16:00.001+05:30

Some analysts have argued that "slope" or "hill" would be more appropriate terminology for this phenomenon because while the cumulative effect over all would be substantial, it would not be felt immediately but rather gradually as the weeks and months went by.

What term which was popularized by Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, in February 2012?

Answer: Fiscal cliff.

Question 1452

2012-12-25T11:16:00.000+05:30

Identify.Connect.

[sic]There is a history about an India temple in Kashi Vihswanath which contains a large room with three time-worn posts in it surrounded by 64 golden disks. Brahmin priests, acting out the command of an ancient prophecy, have been moving these disks, in accordance with the immutable rules of the Brahma, since that time. According to the legend, when the last move of the puzzle will be completed, the world will end.

If the legend were true, and if the priests were able to move disks at a rate of one per second, using the smallest number of moves, it would take them 2⁶⁴−1 seconds or roughly 585 billion years or 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 turns to finish, or about 45 times the life span of the sun.

There are many variations on this legend. For instance, in some tellings, the temple is a monastery and the priests are monks. The temple or monastery may be said to be in different parts of the world — including X, and may be associated with any religion. In some versions, other elements are introduced.

Answer: Tower of Hanoi

Question 1451

2012-12-22T15:15:00.001+05:30

OK we're back. Lets start off again with an easy one. Funda?

Answer: Pringles

Question 1450 : No, he did not change it to an F.

2012-12-11T16:00:00.003+05:30

Hey guys, been a long time.

Let's start with an easy one.

What am I talking about?

Red is a chaser, alternately called Macky, Shadow or Blinky.

Pink is an ambusher, also known as Micky,Speedy or Pinky.

Cyan is fickle, nicknamed Mucky, Bashful or Inky.

Orange is stupid, a trait noticable by his slow movement, and is affectionately referred to as Mocky, Pokey or Clyde.

They aren't really very helpful when you meet them, nor are they useful in any way, except four times for about 10 seconds.

Collectively they are also called "ghosts","goblins or "octopi".

Who/what are they?

Answer: The Pacman ghosts.

Question 1449

2012-12-02T20:24:00.001+05:30

Funda?

Answer: Flipkart

Question 1448: A Post per Week

2012-11-01T10:51:00.000+05:30

___X___ was a little disappointed with the album _____Y______ cover art. Although he appreciated the symbolic design, he mentioned in an interview that it would have been more appropriate if the cover art showcased his Native American "Indian" heritage. The British Track records art department had independently chosen to use Indomania- the current fad for all things Indian to create the cover, and thus the album's cover has a photographed copy of a mass-produced religious poster of the Hindu devotional painting known as Viraat Purushan-Vishnuroopam.

Identify the artist ___X___ and the album _____Y______

Answer: X: Jimi Hendrix, Y: Axis - Bold As Love