"42"(continued...) with answers
Please find answers for the next 21 questions at the bottom of this post
22. .He acted as a go-between for the drug barons Pablo Escobar and Carlos Molina when the latter’s daughter was kidnapped by the former. He was largely responsible for securing the release of Molina's daughter by delivering the ransom money. He received $64,000 for his services, which broke the national law, as it is an offence to profit from a kidnapping. He was incarcerated for 7 months before being released without charge. Who?
23. Leon Harrison Gross was an American playwright and theatrical producer. How do we better know him in literature?
24. The earliest settlers in the Valley of the Sun were the Hohokam Indian people, who lived there as early as 300 BC and later, disappeared mysteriously. In 1867, Jack Swilling of Wickenburg founded a small farming colony here. The town that grew out was named _____, memorializing the birth of a new civilization from the ruins left by the Hohokam. It is now the 6th largest city in the US, largest capital city by population, and the third-largest capital city by area in the U.S.
25. He died at the early age of thirty-four, and his body was buried under the riverbed of the Busento. The stream was temporarily turned aside from its course while the grave was dug .The king was buried with some of his treasures and when the work was finished the river was turned back into its usual channel. The captives who did the work were put to death so that none might learn their secret. The greatest accomplishment of the dead man was the sacking of Rome in AD 410.Who?
26. As a lawyer, X participated in the military commission trying the Lincoln assassination conspirators. X was also a Major General in the Union Army during the Civil War. While serving as governor of New Mexico (1878-81) he made the statement ``All calculations based on our experiences elsewhere fail in New Mexico.” This has been called the "The Curse of X". His greatest claim to fame is writing a novel during his gubernatorial stint. It was one of the best selling novels of the 19th century. Who?
27. This battle was fought on June 4, 1859 during the Austro-Sardinian War, resulting in a French-Sardinian victory under Napoleon III against the Austrians under Marshal Ferencz Gyulai. The Sardinians regard this as a great victory, which later paved the way for Italian unification under Garibaldi and Victor Emmanuel. How has this battle been immortalized?
28. In the movie "From Russia with Love”, James bond almost got killed by Rosa Klebb as a result of a mistake he made. He spent 6 months in a hospital. M disapproved of Bond’s action saying that, the casualty rates of double O agents had gone down 40% during his tenure and he wanted it to remain so. What did Bond finally do on M's insistence to prevent such an accident again?
29. Where do they appear together or connect:
John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, Sam Houston, Edmund G. Ross, Lucius Lamar, George Norris, Robert A. Taft.
30. Who was killed by a man named Khalid Islambouli who shouted "Death to the Pharaoh!” as he shot him?
31. He was the child of Sarek, a diplomat, and Amanda Grayson, a schoolteacher.
He often relaxed by playing tri-dimensional chess and was also skilled at playing the lute. He had green blood, of the group T-negative. Who?
32. It was originally constructed in June 1869 to commemorate the victims of the Boshin War. Originally named Shōkonsha, it was renamed in 1879. In October 1979, 14 controversial figures were declared as martyrs, at this place.Since then it has been a center of controversy. Which site?
33. X is a marker used in poker. It is placed in front of the player who is to deal the next hand. Which popular phrase/phrases originate from this marker?
34.
“Out of love for the truth and the desire to bring it to light, the following propositions will be discussed at ________, under the presidency of the Reverend Father ______, Master of Arts and of Sacred Theology, and Lecturer in Ordinary on the same at that place. Wherefore he requests that those who are unable to be present and debate orally with us, may do so by letter.In the Name our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.”
Thus started an invitation to discuss a set of propositions.
Proposition 1 states that “Our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, when He said Poenitentiam agite, willed that the whole life of believers should be repentance”. The last one goes like “And thus be confident of entering into heaven rather through many tribulations, than through the assurance of peace.” What propositions are we talking about?
35. In 1884 the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions, inspired by labor's 1872 success in Canada, demanded an eight-hour workday in the United States to come in effect. This resulted in a general strike and the riot in Chicago of 1886, but eventually also in the official sanction of the eight-hour workday. In 1889, the first congress of the Second International called for international demonstrations on the 1890 anniversary of the Chicago riot. These were so successful that it was formally recognized as an annual event at the International's second congress in 1891.What originated as a result?
36. He was in love with a girl called Rosaline and was heartbroken when he learnt that she had taken a chastity vow and wouldnot be able to return his love. He then went to a party hoping to meet her again and met another girl whom he found to be better than Rosaline.The new girl was actually being courted by Paris and was only 14 years of age.Who are we talking about?
37. A man named Eustache Dauger was arrested in Dunkirk and sent to prison on July 1, 1669. He died on November 19, 1703, and was buried the next day under the name of Marchioly. What is his claim to fame?
38. . In March 1967, a tribal youth named Wimal Kesan went to plough his field after obtaining a judicial order. The goons of the local landlord beat him up. The incidents that followed soon brought global attention to this village and contributed a new word to the English language. Which village/word?
39. Pierre Laval, the French foreign minister in 1935 requested X to go easy on religion so as to enlist all round support for WWII. Laval was worried that X's intolerance could alienate religious heads. X's response is now legendary. Identify X and his quote.
40.This author spent three or four years writing copy for a St.Louis advertising agency. It was in this job that he received inspiration for the name of a new character in his strip. While mulling over a pile of trade papers on his desk, he came across one from the National Association of Retail Druggists.He immediately decided on the name of his character.Which character?
41. The operation was assigned to the Raider Brigade, which was part of the 4th infantry division. It involved over 600 soldiers Colonel James Hickey of the 4th Infantry Division. The two main check points were named as wolverine1 and wolverine2. The operation itself was named after a 1984 movie which featured groups called wolverines. Which operation?
42. In 1948, The Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded to any one although they were awarded in other disciplines. What was the official reason stated for the non-awarding of prizes?
Answers:
22. Rene Higuitta of Columbia.(The name "Escobar" should have led you to Columbia courtesy Andres Escobar.Pablo Escobar, incidentally was the head of the Medellin drug cartel in Columbia)
23. Lee Falk
24. Phoenix, Arizona (" memorializing the birth of a new civilization from the ruins..")
25. Alaric, King of Visigoths
26. Lew Wallace, the author of Ben Hur.
27. This was the Battle of Magenta, which inspired somebody to name a newly discovered color in its honour.
28. He replaced his Berratta, which had got stuck while drawing, with a Walther PPK.This was how the gun became part of Bond folklore.
29. They are the 8 case studies presented in “Profiles in Courage”, the Pulitzer winning work
by John F Kennedy.
30. Anwar Saadat of Egypt.("Pharaoh" was the clue)
31. Spock in Startrek.
32. Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo, where the ‘kamis’ (spirits) of the war dead are kept. Hidekki Tojo (Japanese Premier during WWII) and many other war criminals were declared as martyrs by the shrine authorities, which makes it controversial. China, South Korea etc raise formal protests whenever a Japanese premier visits the sacred Shinto shrine.
33. Buck as in “passing the buck”, “the buck stops here “, ”making a buck (money)” etc.
34. Martin Luther’s 95 theses against the sale of indulgence put up first at Wittemberg church.
35. May Day celebrations.
36. Romeo and Juliet.
37. The Man in the Iron Mask.
38. Naxalbari.
39. “How many divisions has the Pope?” X was Joseph Stalin. Laval had asked Stalin to tone down his actions against the Catholics when he received this response.
40. NARDA in Mandrake. Lee Falk apparently liked the abbreviation NARD.
41. Operation Red Dawn, which led to the arrest of Saddam Hussein.
42. “There are no suitable living candidates.” This was an obvious reference to Mahatma
Gandhi even though the Nobel committee has never acknowledged this.
22. .He acted as a go-between for the drug barons Pablo Escobar and Carlos Molina when the latter’s daughter was kidnapped by the former. He was largely responsible for securing the release of Molina's daughter by delivering the ransom money. He received $64,000 for his services, which broke the national law, as it is an offence to profit from a kidnapping. He was incarcerated for 7 months before being released without charge. Who?
23. Leon Harrison Gross was an American playwright and theatrical producer. How do we better know him in literature?
24. The earliest settlers in the Valley of the Sun were the Hohokam Indian people, who lived there as early as 300 BC and later, disappeared mysteriously. In 1867, Jack Swilling of Wickenburg founded a small farming colony here. The town that grew out was named _____, memorializing the birth of a new civilization from the ruins left by the Hohokam. It is now the 6th largest city in the US, largest capital city by population, and the third-largest capital city by area in the U.S.
25. He died at the early age of thirty-four, and his body was buried under the riverbed of the Busento. The stream was temporarily turned aside from its course while the grave was dug .The king was buried with some of his treasures and when the work was finished the river was turned back into its usual channel. The captives who did the work were put to death so that none might learn their secret. The greatest accomplishment of the dead man was the sacking of Rome in AD 410.Who?
26. As a lawyer, X participated in the military commission trying the Lincoln assassination conspirators. X was also a Major General in the Union Army during the Civil War. While serving as governor of New Mexico (1878-81) he made the statement ``All calculations based on our experiences elsewhere fail in New Mexico.” This has been called the "The Curse of X". His greatest claim to fame is writing a novel during his gubernatorial stint. It was one of the best selling novels of the 19th century. Who?
27. This battle was fought on June 4, 1859 during the Austro-Sardinian War, resulting in a French-Sardinian victory under Napoleon III against the Austrians under Marshal Ferencz Gyulai. The Sardinians regard this as a great victory, which later paved the way for Italian unification under Garibaldi and Victor Emmanuel. How has this battle been immortalized?
28. In the movie "From Russia with Love”, James bond almost got killed by Rosa Klebb as a result of a mistake he made. He spent 6 months in a hospital. M disapproved of Bond’s action saying that, the casualty rates of double O agents had gone down 40% during his tenure and he wanted it to remain so. What did Bond finally do on M's insistence to prevent such an accident again?
29. Where do they appear together or connect:
John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, Sam Houston, Edmund G. Ross, Lucius Lamar, George Norris, Robert A. Taft.
30. Who was killed by a man named Khalid Islambouli who shouted "Death to the Pharaoh!” as he shot him?
31. He was the child of Sarek, a diplomat, and Amanda Grayson, a schoolteacher.
He often relaxed by playing tri-dimensional chess and was also skilled at playing the lute. He had green blood, of the group T-negative. Who?
32. It was originally constructed in June 1869 to commemorate the victims of the Boshin War. Originally named Shōkonsha, it was renamed in 1879. In October 1979, 14 controversial figures were declared as martyrs, at this place.Since then it has been a center of controversy. Which site?
33. X is a marker used in poker. It is placed in front of the player who is to deal the next hand. Which popular phrase/phrases originate from this marker?
34.
“Out of love for the truth and the desire to bring it to light, the following propositions will be discussed at ________, under the presidency of the Reverend Father ______, Master of Arts and of Sacred Theology, and Lecturer in Ordinary on the same at that place. Wherefore he requests that those who are unable to be present and debate orally with us, may do so by letter.In the Name our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.”
Thus started an invitation to discuss a set of propositions.
Proposition 1 states that “Our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, when He said Poenitentiam agite, willed that the whole life of believers should be repentance”. The last one goes like “And thus be confident of entering into heaven rather through many tribulations, than through the assurance of peace.” What propositions are we talking about?
35. In 1884 the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions, inspired by labor's 1872 success in Canada, demanded an eight-hour workday in the United States to come in effect. This resulted in a general strike and the riot in Chicago of 1886, but eventually also in the official sanction of the eight-hour workday. In 1889, the first congress of the Second International called for international demonstrations on the 1890 anniversary of the Chicago riot. These were so successful that it was formally recognized as an annual event at the International's second congress in 1891.What originated as a result?
36. He was in love with a girl called Rosaline and was heartbroken when he learnt that she had taken a chastity vow and wouldnot be able to return his love. He then went to a party hoping to meet her again and met another girl whom he found to be better than Rosaline.The new girl was actually being courted by Paris and was only 14 years of age.Who are we talking about?
37. A man named Eustache Dauger was arrested in Dunkirk and sent to prison on July 1, 1669. He died on November 19, 1703, and was buried the next day under the name of Marchioly. What is his claim to fame?
38. . In March 1967, a tribal youth named Wimal Kesan went to plough his field after obtaining a judicial order. The goons of the local landlord beat him up. The incidents that followed soon brought global attention to this village and contributed a new word to the English language. Which village/word?
39. Pierre Laval, the French foreign minister in 1935 requested X to go easy on religion so as to enlist all round support for WWII. Laval was worried that X's intolerance could alienate religious heads. X's response is now legendary. Identify X and his quote.
40.This author spent three or four years writing copy for a St.Louis advertising agency. It was in this job that he received inspiration for the name of a new character in his strip. While mulling over a pile of trade papers on his desk, he came across one from the National Association of Retail Druggists.He immediately decided on the name of his character.Which character?
41. The operation was assigned to the Raider Brigade, which was part of the 4th infantry division. It involved over 600 soldiers Colonel James Hickey of the 4th Infantry Division. The two main check points were named as wolverine1 and wolverine2. The operation itself was named after a 1984 movie which featured groups called wolverines. Which operation?
42. In 1948, The Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded to any one although they were awarded in other disciplines. What was the official reason stated for the non-awarding of prizes?
Answers:
22. Rene Higuitta of Columbia.(The name "Escobar" should have led you to Columbia courtesy Andres Escobar.Pablo Escobar, incidentally was the head of the Medellin drug cartel in Columbia)
23. Lee Falk
24. Phoenix, Arizona (" memorializing the birth of a new civilization from the ruins..")
25. Alaric, King of Visigoths
26. Lew Wallace, the author of Ben Hur.
27. This was the Battle of Magenta, which inspired somebody to name a newly discovered color in its honour.
28. He replaced his Berratta, which had got stuck while drawing, with a Walther PPK.This was how the gun became part of Bond folklore.
29. They are the 8 case studies presented in “Profiles in Courage”, the Pulitzer winning work
by John F Kennedy.
30. Anwar Saadat of Egypt.("Pharaoh" was the clue)
31. Spock in Startrek.
32. Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo, where the ‘kamis’ (spirits) of the war dead are kept. Hidekki Tojo (Japanese Premier during WWII) and many other war criminals were declared as martyrs by the shrine authorities, which makes it controversial. China, South Korea etc raise formal protests whenever a Japanese premier visits the sacred Shinto shrine.
33. Buck as in “passing the buck”, “the buck stops here “, ”making a buck (money)” etc.
34. Martin Luther’s 95 theses against the sale of indulgence put up first at Wittemberg church.
35. May Day celebrations.
36. Romeo and Juliet.
37. The Man in the Iron Mask.
38. Naxalbari.
39. “How many divisions has the Pope?” X was Joseph Stalin. Laval had asked Stalin to tone down his actions against the Catholics when he received this response.
40. NARDA in Mandrake. Lee Falk apparently liked the abbreviation NARD.
41. Operation Red Dawn, which led to the arrest of Saddam Hussein.
42. “There are no suitable living candidates.” This was an obvious reference to Mahatma
Gandhi even though the Nobel committee has never acknowledged this.
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