[Ranjitha]

Originally Posted by shrijitp @ Tue Nov 30, 2004 12:09 am

The Scarborough Fair ? The T & J fits in too...



-Shri

Shri, right again

Vishal: Thanks



Ranjitha

[QuintEssence]

Originally Posted by Gwaihir @ Tue Nov 30, 2004 3:07 am

Einstein died in the last century, so he couldn't have written this riddle this century; unless it's some other Einstein of course, not apna Albert

ok boss..correction coming right up.

Einstein wrote it in the last century..blah blah

i hope it makes it a bit clearer.anyways, best of luck for it..n plz do not come up with an insufficient data answer.

best of luck

(hope u are awake !!)

[Gwaihir]

Originally Posted by FooGuy @ 30/11/2004, 09:27

Gwaihir, i m not sure abt the etymology u gave. but will check on dat buddy.

Reading that, first I doubted whether I'd read the word root wrongly when I first came upon it a few months ago, while looking through the dictionary for some weighty CAT word. Then, I thought I'll confirm it, and cleared the mounds of CAT-prep material from over the top of the XXXXL sized "New Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus of the English Language" (1991 Edition), and risking a wrist sprain, brought it to the Comp table.
Heaving it open, I turn to page 48 (archer - arenicolous) and peruse. There it is:
Arctic .... <meaning> ... [Old French artique fr. Latin fr. Greek arktikos, northern]
So my etymology is not wrong (Apart from the mistake of spelling arktikos as arctikos ) but I think your etym is also right. It may very well be that the name arktikos was given to the direction because of the presence of arktos/bears in the north of Greece. Or it may be the other way round (arktos because they were arktikos/northern bears). Etym is hard to derive 2500 years after the word was coined. Certainly, neither of us is wrong.
(For true trivia buffs, who won't be able to sleep till they know the meaning of arenicolous , it means sand-dweller, and fits in with the meaning of arena as sand.)

[Gwaihir]

Originally Posted by QuintEssence @ 1/12/2004, 17:01

ok boss..correction coming right up.

Einstein wrote it in the last century..blah blah

i hope it makes it a bit clearer.anyways, best of luck for it..n plz do not come up with an insufficient data answer.

best of luck

(hope u are awake !!)

My first reaction on reading this was one of confusion (Along with the smile coz of the sleep comment ). Why was QuintEssence clarifying trakru_anks' question? Then I went back a page and trakru_anks had done a vanishing act. Then I understood you'd changed your nick; this is the first time I've seen it happening on PG (I'm still a newbie here). Your new nick's better than the old one for sure.
And now for a blow-by-blow account of the massive solution effort. First of all, it has 5^5 possible arrangements, not 4^5, as I'd earlier said. Looking at the way my LR went in this CAT, I wasn't very enthu about taking up a biggie like this one, but considering the witticisms I'd poured on the question, I knew I had to make a decent attempt at it, or face some sarcastic wit myself. So I whipped out pencil & paper and started. Soon, with the no. of relations and all the arrows and rearrangements, the page began to look like a battle-plan more than anything else. It became too complicated to make any sense of. Then I decided to bring in the heavy artillery, and fired up MS Excel, where I could drag around values easily without crossing-out anything. Still, there were too many conditions to keep track of. Then, I had a brilliant idea (Not too self-effacing, am I ), and color-coded the values according to the constraint, e.g. the Swede keeps Dogs, so both of them were colored same in the table. After this, it became a question of arranging the different colored pairs so the table could be filled, more like a jigsaw puzzle. I tried various combinations, by now, more than an hour had been spent. Still, couldn't find one that fulfilled all conditions, and patience ran out. I had made a decent effort, all that I had to do. I saved the Excel worksheet, with several tables and valued strewn around, for proof.
Then I noticed Pendyal's solution, and it satisfies all constraints. Dunno why you haven't said anything about it in your later post, haven't you noticed it? It does satisfy all constraints, I've checked & rechecked, the German keeps the fish.

[Gwaihir]

Originally Posted by FooGuy @ 30/11/2004, 09:27

[B] wasnt she the first sportsperson to be charged for doping. this was in the Olympics rt?

Love, peace, empathy and *

Yep, answer to [B.] is right, FooGuy & Pendyal. He was a Swedish pentathlete in the '68 Mexico City Olympics, drank a coupla beers before the pistol-shooting event, and the whole Swedish Men's Team was disqualified because of that.

Originally Posted by shrijitp @ 30/11/2004, 16:51

arbit guess... butterflies ?

This is certainly too arbit, dunno how it came in your mind. The correct answer is 'Colony'.
In ancient Rome, a farmer was called a 'colonus'. Thus the word 'colonia' first meant an agricultural settlement, which slowly came to mean any settlement, then any distant settlement.
1. is Cologne, as FooGuy said. The word Cologne comes from 'colonia', as it started as a colony (Though pretty much every city started as a colony. This name stuck for Cologne).
2. Colonus
3. India being a British Colony, and Hastings & Clive the Brit's officers/rulers in India.

Originally Posted by shrijitp @ 30/11/2004, 16:51

gwaihir : things r jsut as strenuous in all colleges, maybe a a bit less in IIMC <hearsay>. Its much better everywhere in the 2nd yr. But u wont b choosing a b school based on how good the quizzing is over there
-Shri

Shri, thanks for the info. I dunno where I'll end up, but it doesn't hurt to know about the extra-curric scene in the place beforehand.

It's hard for a question-setter to think objectively about his/her questions; though I think the etym ques were pretty good, many ppl might not think so, and may be sick to their tonsils of etymology (PG Wodehouse phrase), so I'll stick to non-etym. questions for the next few posts.

[Gwaihir]

For History buffs:

[1.] What's common to: Mannerheim, Siegfried, Gustav, Gothic
[This is not an exhaustive list. One item in particular is missing, which would've made it very easy.]

[2.] Who was the sole German Field Marshal in WWII who was not demoted or executed by Hitler till the end of the war? i.e. Who remained a FM till the very end.

[3.] What's common to:
Lake Placid (US), St Moritz (Switzerland), Oslo (Norway), Calgary (Canada), and Grenoble (France)
[Again, not an exhaustive list. In fact, less than a third of the full list. Hints when necessary.]

[4.] What's the full name of Picasso? [This is more a frivolous ques than anything else. It can't be answered unless you've read it and memorized it. The name was given in an old issue of the wonderful Target magazine ~9 years ago. I mean the whole name, with the family name, dad's name etc. etc. The answer is surprisingly long.]

[pendyal]

Originally Posted by Gwaihir @ Thu 02 Dec, 2004 01:54

For History buffs:

[3.] What's common to:
Lake Placid (US), St Moritz (Switzerland), Oslo (Norway), Calgary (Canada), and Grenoble (France)
[Again, not an exhaustive list. In fact, less than a third of the full list. Hints when necessary.]

just read it in the time material
they are all venues of the winter olympics.

[supervish]

Originally Posted by Gwaihir @ Thu Dec 02, 2004 1:54 am

For History buffs:

[1.] What's common to: Mannerheim, Siegfried, Gustav, Gothic
[This is not an exhaustive list. One item in particular is missing, which would've made it very easy.]

[2.] Who was the sole German Field Marshal in WWII who was not demoted or executed by Hitler till the end of the war? i.e. Who remained a FM till the very end.

[4.] What's the full name of Picasso? [This is more a frivolous ques than anything else. It can't be answered unless you've read it and memorized it. The name was given in an old issue of the wonderful Target magazine ~9 years ago. I mean the whole name, with the family name, dad's name etc. etc. The answer is surprisingly long.]

1 ... heard of gustav line and mannerheim line. frontier lines ?

2.... See.. Reich Marshall Hermann Goering was stripped of his powers by Hitler from his bunker, even as the Russians were closing in. FM Keitel then, i think he was still around.

4.... Know just the Pablo part

Vish

[QuintEssence]

Originally Posted by Gwaihir @ Thu Dec 02, 2004 1:26 am

My first reaction on reading this was one of confusion (Along with the smile coz of the sleep comment ). Why was QuintEssence clarifying trakru_anks' question? Then I went back a page and trakru_anks had done a vanishing act. Then I understood you'd changed your nick; this is the first time I've seen it happening on PG (I'm still a newbie here). Your new nick's better than the old one for sure.

should i say thanks? i must.

[glow=red:b54a3752ae] the German keeps the fish[/glow:b54a3752ae].

correct friend. damn ! u are a part of 2% of the world's population gr8 !!

actually one of the 50 million people who can solve the problem

jokes apart..good solution..but it does take time. i was hoping someone cud tell me a short cut..

[QuintEssence]

Originally Posted by pendyal @ Tue Nov 30, 2004 9:23 am

is it the german?

came up with this possibility:
norwegian---yellow house,water,cats,dunhill
dane---blue house,tea,horses,blends
brit---red house,milk,birds,pall mall
german---green house,coffee,fish,prince
swede---white house,beer,dogs,bluemaster


bye.

very very sorry pendyal. i missed ur solution.

its correct...gets u an applause (read karma) from me.