[CATCALL]

Originally Posted by CATCALL

went to a quiz on saturday ........some real good 1's:
1. When Queen Mary's 80th birthday was approaching on the 26th of May 1947, the BBC wanted to do a special radio broadcast as a tribute and made inquiries as to what she would like. The reply was "An Agatha Christie play." Agatha Christie wrote the play initially called Three Blind Mice, which was eventually enlarged into The Mousetrap. When The Mousetrap first opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in London on 25th November 1952, who played the role of Detective Sergeant Trotter ? (He later became a famous movie personality in his own right).

2.Which famous theatre personality owns The Really Useful Company ?

3.Which word in the English language, meaning a complete failure comes from the Italian word for "flask", is used by glassblowers in Venice to describe bad workmanship and alludes to the breaking of a bottle?

4.On the advice of Ian Fleming, a poultry breeding and health food company set up a division called Authors to take advantage of a loophole in the British tax code. What annual prize is awarded by this organisation?

5.Shildon Glashow, Gerald Weinberg and Steven Feinberg are all Nobel laureates in Physics. When they were schoolmates in the Bronx High School for Science, they regularly wrote for a science fiction magazine called ETAOINSHRDLU. What is the origin of this rather weird name?

cheers !!!
vishu.

1.richard attenborough.....(kool)
2.andrew lloyd webber......(deba)
3.fiasco..............................(apprentice, deba)
4.bookers prize...................( " )
5. the name consists of the most commonly used alphabets of english in the decreasing order...............................waz surprised dat no1 got it ryt !!!!

cheers !!!
vishu

[shrikanthk]

Originally Posted by shrikanthk

1. Yasser Arafat:Abu Ammar::Mahmoud Abbas:---------

2. Mary Westmacott:Agatha Christie::George Orwell:-----------

3. This one is for bloggers:
India Uncut: Amit Varma :: The Examined Life:---------

4. Perry Mason : Della Street :: Nero Wolfe : ------------

5. Sharad : Rahul Dravid :: -------- : Mark Waugh

Answers:

1. Abu Mazen(Abbas's nickname)

2. Eric Blair(deba)

3. Ravikiran Rao (both of them are members of the libertarian bloggers' cartel)

4. Archie Goodwin

5. Edward(deba)

[brat]

Originally Posted by catparanoid

1) Can anyone tell me who actually got the travellers cheques started. ( if you have any additonal info regardin this you are very much welcome :smile: )

2) This person, Werner von _________ founded a telegraph company in 1847. The company installed the first long-distance telegraph system in Europe and also built the world's first electric railway.
Name the company or Fill the Blank .

3) What is the claim to fame of the Aga Cooker with reference to the advertising world ? ( Hint :- First ...... of ...........)

4) Claim to fame of Nellie Thornton.

1) Thomas Cook
4) she inspired the "spirit of ecstasy" (it is modelled on her)

[eddy]

) This person, Werner von _________ founded a telegraph company in 1847. The company installed the first long-distance telegraph system in Europe and also built the world's first electric railway.
Name the company or Fill the Blank .

me thinks it is SIEMENS

[QuintEssence]

long time since i saw a question i could actually attempt

..still searching though

a simple query from my side:

Science Fiction fans will know about "douglas adams"..the HHGTTG writer

now..DA has written a novel which is still not attributed to him...can u tell the name??

[Ranjitha]

Originally Posted by QuintEssence

Science Fiction fans will know about "douglas adams"..the HHGTTG writer

now..DA has written a novel which is still not attributed to him...can u tell the name??

:whatthat: :whatthat:

Last Chance to See ???

But that's technically not a novel, so...

PS- this better not be a PJ...OR ELSE

[prakash]

Hi guys,
I am curious to know the significace of 42 dots in Sony symbol?
If any oe of u know it, plz let me know.
Cheers

[catparanoid]

Hi guys,

First of all I am extremely sorry for posting a wrong info on the thread
saying that the tata Crucible quiz ( Mumbai Elims ) was on Feb 14 , whereas the quiz is on Feb 16 and the last date for registration was 14th.

Once again I apologize for any inconvenience regarding the same to all of you.

Coming to the answers
1) Can anyone tell me who actually got the travellers cheques started. ( if you have any additonal info regardin this you are very much welcome :smile: )


Answer:- I think it is AMEX but everyone has said it as Thomas Cook . The reason I asked for additional info was to get some additonal input to this.

If anyone can throw some light on who excatly started it , would really appreciate.

2) This person, Werner von _________ founded a telegraph company in 1847. The company installed the first long-distance telegraph system in Europe and also built the world's first electric railway.
Name the company or Fill the Blank .

Bang on Guys :-) Siemens

3) What is the claim to fame of the Aga Cooker with reference to the advertising world ? ( Hint :- First ...... of ...........)

Well this was the First ad of Guru of Advertising DAVID OGILVY

4) Claim to fame of Nellie Thornton

Rolls Royce Spirit of Ecstasy



Regards

[QuintEssence]

Originally Posted by Ranjitha

:whatthat: :whatthat:

Last Chance to See ???

But that's technically not a novel, so...

PS- this better not be a PJ...OR ELSE

first off...some explanation...i should have asked which "brainchild" of DA was not attributed to him...not the novel...apologies!!

thanks to ranjhita for pointing this out !

the answer is "starship titanic" written by terry adams...but the theme was of DA

ranjhita got it right (bt not on the forum...Y! messenger rools )

[deba022]

Originally Posted by catparanoid

1) Can anyone tell me who actually got the travellers cheques started. ( if you have any additonal info regardin this you are very much welcome :smile: )

Answer:- I think it is AMEX but everyone has said it as Thomas Cook . The reason I asked for additional info was to get some additonal input to this.
If anyone can throw some light on who excatly started it , would really appreciate.

You are right. It was American Express who started it. Even I knew it to be Amex and not Thomas Cook. So checked wikipedia and here is what they have to tell about it.

American Express was founded in 1850 by Henry Wells, William Fargo, and John Butterfield as an express business. In 1882, American Express launched its money order business to compete with the US Post Office's money orders. This product quickly spread to Europe where no such financial product existed. Sometime between 1888 and 1890, J. C. Fargo took a trip to Europe and returned frustrated and infuriated. Despite the fact that he was president of American Express and that he carried with him traditional letters of credit, he found it difficult to obtain cash anywhere except in major cities. Mr. Fargo went to Marcellus Flemming Berry and asked him to create a better solution than the traditional letter of credit. Mr. Berry created the American Express Travelers Cheque which was launched in 1891 in denominations of $10, $20, $50, and $100.The Travelers Cheque established American Express as a truly international company and in 1915 they announced the establishment of a Travel Department and soon established its first travel agencies.

On the other hand, the wikipedia entry for Thomas Cook does not even mention Travellers Cheques. So I assume Amex is the correct answer.

Deba