Friday, March 03, 2006

Ragam Lone Wolf: Round 4

STAGE II
All the answers are connected by a common theme.

1.Shadow V, which had just set off from the fishing village of Mullaghmore was blown up by a bomb on 27 August, 1979.Two boys Nicholas, 14, and Paul Maxwell, 15, a local employed as a boat boy, died in the explosion. Another passenger on the boat, the Dowager Lady Brabourne, 82, died the day after the attack.But who was the most famous person who was killed in the attack?(Nicholas was his/her grandson)

2. What was surrendered by Governor Peter Stuyvesant to Captain Richard Nicholls by a treaty signed on December 9,1672?

3. Which famous incident would you associate the picture with?

4.Vis1 is the building where a famous incident took place.vis 2 is a monument that commemorates the event.vis 3 is a close up.Which event?






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5.In early 1887 when, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, resigned because of illness, Lord Salisbury,the British PM appointed his nephew in his place. The selection took the political world by surprise, and was much criticized, possibly leading to the British phrase "Bob's your uncle!"The nephew went on to make a great reputation as an administrator and became the 33rd PM of Britain in 1902.He also served as First Lord of the Admirality(replacing Churchill) and as Foreign Secretary in Lloyd George's war cabinet.But his greatest claim to fame is a letter written to Lord Rothschild in 1917.What was this letter better known as?

6. According to the Book of Revelations,the last book of the Bible,they appeared when the first 4 seals of a scroll with seven seals were opened.Revelations Chapter 6:1-8 describe them in details.They are supposed to symbolize four elements of destruction: Famine, Pestilence, War and Death. Legend has it that, they are closely followed by a fifth which represents Hades or hell.They are depicted in a classic painting by renaissance artist Albrecht Durer.What are we talking about?

7. Which famous question was supposedly asked to General Dietrich von Choltitz on August 23/24 of 1944?

THEME????


3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

the image for the third question is not clear enuf .. no way to get a higher resolution image?

7:21 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

the image for the third question is not clear enuf .. no way to get a higher resolution image?

7:22 AM  
Blogger manjith said...

sorry folks!we dont have a better visual.try saving it and zooming on adobe!there r clues in there

10:13 PM  

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