[Ranjitha]

Originally Posted by thyisthyname

3Which Friends actor starred in a Heinze ketchup commercial that won a golden lion at the 1987 cannes advertising awards ?

Matt Le Blanc

[thyisthyname]

Originally Posted by Ranjitha

Matt Le Blanc

yup thats rite...... all 6 of them also appeared in a commercial in their second season.... do not know that answer though

[thyisthyname]

Originally Posted by thyisthyname

2Long before Ronald, Mc donalds relied on on another icon... What is the name of this hamburger headed character

me thought the answer would be Meatie

but it is Speedee

[QuintEssence]

here is a mail that i got today..som interesting questions..some easy ones and some obligatory tough questions. i've deleted the needlessly stupid questions.

1. A cartoon character by Al Capp could cast a spell on someone by aiming at them with one finger and with one eye open. When he aimed with both eyes open, he called it a _____________


2. State the expression that came out of the scenario described below - During the war of 1812, in America, an American soldier shot a bird during a ceasefire. He was complimented by a British officer who then asked to see his gun. On receiving the gun, the British soldier turned it upon its owner, and forced him to eat part of the bird as a punishment for trespassing.


3. During the 13th to 17th centuries, paper of specific size was folded in two to form two leaves. These large sheets of paper had watermarks of a jester with a cap and bells. Name the type of paper.


4. An extremely poor girl MS Goody who had only one shoe, attained wealth and prosperity upon being gifted 2 shoes. The expression that comes out of this is?


5. This expression is derived from the story of how Draco met his death, supposedly by being smothered and suffocated by caps and cloaks thrown onto him at the theatre of Aegina, from spectators showing their appreciation of him, 590 BC


6. The origins of this expression can be traced to the book of Daniel, which tells the story of the King of Belshazzar who sees the words of warning 'mene, mene, tekel, upharsin' written on the wall of the temple of Jesusalemen, following his feasting in the temple using its sacred vessels.


7. In ancient Roman days the slaves or prisoners who were given a capital punishment had none but one chance to escape. If they could escape from the prison in central Rome and reach the sacred grove outside the city they were pardoned. Then they could lead a free life. This gave rise to a phrase much in use even today.


8. Jonathan Swift was the first to coin this name. His book Gulliver's Travels was first published in 1726 and described the ________ as a race of brutish men.


9. This phrase evolved from a middle English expression for blow for blow or trading verbal insults. According to James Rogers dictionary of quotes and cliches, John Heywood used the ' ----- ----- ----- -' expression in 'The Spider and the Flie' 1556.


10 Gangsters with contracts on their lives used to hire persons who looked similar to them to appear in a public places. The lookalike would often be convincing enough to fool the contracted killers…and hence were called ---- ------.


“You’re a ---- ------ for Dilbert.”

11 This originated in a boast of confidence from a racetrack tipster.

I got it “------- ---- --- ------ -----“
12 When someone was court marshaled, in the British Military, there would be a military drum squad playing.

"It's time to ---- --- -----."

13 The phrase comes from gestures attributed to the ancient Romans, and the Gladiators who fought in the Coliseum. When one Gladiator had emerged victorious in a fight, the spectators would get to decide if the loser should live or die. If they felt the loser had fought bravely enough, his life would be spared, otherwise he would be killed.

They indicated this by hand gestures.

14 Here is how the character Will Boniface describes her: "My ? ? is one of the best of women. Her late husband, Sir Charles Bountiful, left her with £1000 a year; and I believe she lays out one-half on't in charitable uses for the good of her neighbours. In short, she has cured more people in and about Lichfield within ten years than the doctors have killed in twenty; and that's a bold word." What expression came from this female character from the 1707 comedy Beaux' Stratagem by the playwright George Farquhar (1678-1707)??


15 What word was derived after the three monstrous sisters Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa in Greek mythology, who had snakes for hair and they turned into stone anyone who looked into their eyes??


16. This word was got from Alfred, Lord Tennyson's 1830 poem Lilian whose opening lines are: Airy, Fairy Lilian, Flitting, fairy Lilian, When I ask her if she love me, Claps her tiny hands above me, Laughing all she can.


17. The US presidential elections take place on the first Tuesday in November. The idea of it stems from the belief that a significant event taking place just before the election would influence the voters and change the result. The term originated in the 1980 US presidential elections. US embassy personnel were held hostage in Tehran, leading to speculation that the incumbent president would secure their release just before the election, in order to boost his prospects for re-election. This gave rise to which term??


18. This word was derived from the policy of neutrality of a country under the influence of another more powerful one without being formally allied to it, similar to the neutralization of a European country with respect to the Soviet Union after 1944.


19. In Greek mythology, the Phoenician prince Cadmus killed a dragon and sowed its teeth. From those teeth sprang an army of men who fought each other until only five were left. What phrase did this give rise to?


20. All fiction has a grain of truth, but ‘this’ has it by the bushel. ‘This’ dates back to seventeenth century France. In the beginning, this really did have a key that was published separately. In these times, you can simply go on the Internet and search using Google. An example of ‘this’ is Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. Guess the word that describes this kind of novel?


21. This term/word is named after an author whose novels depicted an impoverished youth who achieved success and great wealth through hard work, honesty, and virtue.


22. Name the term derived from the fanciful idea of a catastrophic nuclear accident in the US resulting in its superheated core sinking in the earth, melting a hole all the way to the other side - to China.


23. Some people in this Irish town enjoyed tying the tails of two cats and watching them fight till only their tale was left behind. Most likely the story is a parable of a contest between two municipalities which fought about their boundaries till little more than their tails were left. What originated from this story?


24. The story is that she was the beautiful wife of Leofric III (968 – 1057), Earl of Mercia and lord of Coventry. The people of that city were suffering grievously under the earl's oppressive taxation. Lady Godiva appealed again and again to her husband, who obstinately refused to remit the tolls. At last, weary of her entreaties, he said he would grant her request if she would ride naked through the streets of the town. Lady Godiva took him at his word, and after issuing a proclamation that all persons should keep within doors or shut their windows, she rode through, clothed only in her long hair. One person disobeyed her proclamation, a tailor, ever afterwards known as X .He bored a hole in his shutters that he might see Godiva pass, and is said to have been struck blind. Her husband kept his word and abolished the onerous taxes.



25. Today, this term refers to lurid publications that emphasize the sensational side of news stories. In the 1890s, a bitter circulation war erupted between Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal. In a spiraling contest of outrageous journalism, the newspapers used all means to attract readers—heavy doses of murder and sex, banner headlines and colored supplements.


26. X was a short-lived name used by some in the United States for french fries. The affair was an unusual example of anti-French sentiment in the United States. On March 11, 2003, Representatives Robert W. Ney and Walter B. Jones, Jr. declared that all references to "french fries" and "French toast" on the menus of the restaurants and snack bars run by the House of Representatives would be removed. House cafeterias were ordered to re-name french fries as X.


27. The story goes that a Dublin theatre proprietor by the name of Richard Daly made a bet that he could, within forty-eight hours, make a nonsense word known throughout the city, and that the public would give a meaning to it. After the performance one evening, he gave his staff cards with the word X written on them, and told them to write the word on walls around the city. The next day the strange word was the talk of the town, and within a short time it had become part of the language.


28. According to an ancient fable, two friends went bathing in a river. After their bath, one of them stole the other’s clothes and left. The friend, who was left naked, refused to use to take the other’s clothes and remained naked. Which famous expression was derived from this story?

[Ranjitha]

Originally Posted by QuintEssence

2. State the expression that came out of the scenario described below - During the war of 1812, in America, an American soldier shot a bird during a ceasefire. He was complimented by a British officer who then asked to see his gun. On receiving the gun, the British soldier turned it upon its owner, and forced him to eat part of the bird as a punishment for trespassing.

To eat crow

3. During the 13th to 17th centuries, paper of specific size was folded in two to form two leaves. These large sheets of paper had watermarks of a jester with a cap and bells. Name the type of paper.

Foolscap paper

4. An extremely poor girl MS Goody who had only one shoe, attained wealth and prosperity upon being gifted 2 shoes. The expression that comes out of this is?

Miss Goody-Two-Shoes

6. The origins of this expression can be traced to the book of Daniel, which tells the story of the King of Belshazzar who sees the words of warning 'mene, mene, tekel, upharsin' written on the wall of the temple of Jesusalemen, following his feasting in the temple using its sacred vessels.

Writing on the wall?

8. Jonathan Swift was the first to coin this name. His book Gulliver's Travels was first published in 1726 and described the ________ as a race of brutish men.

Yahoo/ Yahooligan?

9. This phrase evolved from a middle English expression for blow for blow or trading verbal insults. According to James Rogers dictionary of quotes and cliches, John Heywood used the ' ----- ----- ----- -' expression in 'The Spider and the Flie' 1556.

Tit for tat

10 Gangsters with contracts on their lives used to hire persons who looked similar to them to appear in a public places. The lookalike would often be convincing enough to fool the contracted killers…and hence were called ---- ------.


“You’re a ---- ------ for Dilbert.”

alter ego? doppelganger?

12 When someone was court marshaled, in the British Military, there would be a military drum squad playing.

"It's time to ---- --- -----."

Face the music!

14 Here is how the character Will Boniface describes her: "My ? ? is one of the best of women. Her late husband, Sir Charles Bountiful, left her with £1000 a year; and I believe she lays out one-half on't in charitable uses for the good of her neighbours. In short, she has cured more people in and about Lichfield within ten years than the doctors have killed in twenty; and that's a bold word." What expression came from this female character from the 1707 comedy Beaux' Stratagem by the playwright George Farquhar (1678-1707)??

Lady Bountiful

15 What word was derived after the three monstrous sisters Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa in Greek mythology, who had snakes for hair and they turned into stone anyone who looked into their eyes??

The Gorgons, Gorgonize?

16. This word was got from Alfred, Lord Tennyson's 1830 poem Lilian whose opening lines are: Airy, Fairy Lilian, Flitting, fairy Lilian, When I ask her if she love me, Claps her tiny hands above me, Laughing all she can.

Fairy?

18. This word was derived from the policy of neutrality of a country under the influence of another more powerful one without being formally allied to it, similar to the neutralization of a European country with respect to the Soviet Union after 1944.

Detante

24. The story is that she was the beautiful wife of Leofric III (968 – 1057), Earl of Mercia and lord of Coventry. The people of that city were suffering grievously under the earl's oppressive taxation. Lady Godiva appealed again and again to her husband, who obstinately refused to remit the tolls. At last, weary of her entreaties, he said he would grant her request if she would ride naked through the streets of the town. Lady Godiva took him at his word, and after issuing a proclamation that all persons should keep within doors or shut their windows, she rode through, clothed only in her long hair. One person disobeyed her proclamation, a tailor, ever afterwards known as X .He bored a hole in his shutters that he might see Godiva pass, and is said to have been struck blind. Her husband kept his word and abolished the onerous taxes.

The guy was Peeping Tom, is that the answer you're looking for?

25. Today, this term refers to lurid publications that emphasize the sensational side of news stories. In the 1890s, a bitter circulation war erupted between Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal. In a spiraling contest of outrageous journalism, the newspapers used all means to attract readers—heavy doses of murder and sex, banner headlines and colored supplements.

Yellow Journalism

26. X was a short-lived name used by some in the United States for french fries. The affair was an unusual example of anti-French sentiment in the United States. On March 11, 2003, Representatives Robert W. Ney and Walter B. Jones, Jr. declared that all references to "french fries" and "French toast" on the menus of the restaurants and snack bars run by the House of Representatives would be removed. House cafeterias were ordered to re-name french fries as X.

Freedom Fries

27. The story goes that a Dublin theatre proprietor by the name of Richard Daly made a bet that he could, within forty-eight hours, make a nonsense word known throughout the city, and that the public would give a meaning to it. After the performance one evening, he gave his staff cards with the word X written on them, and told them to write the word on walls around the city. The next day the strange word was the talk of the town, and within a short time it had become part of the language.

The word Quiz

[EuPhOrIa]

Originally Posted by QuintEssence

2. State the expression that came out of the scenario described below - During the war of 1812, in America, an American soldier shot a bird during a ceasefire. He was complimented by a British officer who then asked to see his gun. On receiving the gun, the British soldier turned it upon its owner, and forced him to eat part of the bird as a punishment for trespassing.

is that "eating a crow"??

I would love to see all the answers...juss don't know almost any of them

[maddevil]

Originally Posted by QuintEssence

here is a mail that i got today..som interesting questions..some easy ones and some obligatory tough questions. i've deleted the needlessly stupid questions.



5. This expression is derived from the story of how Draco met his death, supposedly by being smothered and suffocated by caps and cloaks thrown onto him at the theatre of Aegina, from spectators showing their appreciation of him, 590 BC

5 kill with kindness

D.M.

[Apprentice]

1. A cartoon character by Al Capp could cast a spell on someone by aiming at them with one finger and with one eye open. When he aimed with both eyes open, he called it a _____________

Killing two birds with one stone...a wild guess???



7. In ancient Roman days the slaves or prisoners who were given a capital punishment had none but one chance to escape. If they could escape from the prison in central Rome and reach the sacred grove outside the city they were pardoned. Then they could lead a free life. This gave rise to a phrase much in use even today.

Moment of truth???


8. Jonathan Swift was the first to coin this name. His book Gulliver's Travels was first published in 1726 and described the ________ as a race of brutish men.

Yahooligan


9. This phrase evolved from a middle English expression for blow for blow or trading verbal insults. According to James Rogers dictionary of quotes and cliches, John Heywood used the ' ----- ----- ----- -' expression in 'The Spider and the Flie' 1556.

Tit for tat



21. This term/word is named after an author whose novels depicted an impoverished youth who achieved success and great wealth through hard work, honesty, and virtue.

Rags to riches???


22. Name the term derived from the fanciful idea of a catastrophic nuclear accident in the US resulting in its superheated core sinking in the earth, melting a hole all the way to the other side - to China.

Global warming....again a wild guess??


24. The story is that she was the beautiful wife of Leofric III (968 – 1057), Earl of Mercia and lord of Coventry. The people of that city were suffering grievously under the earl's oppressive taxation. Lady Godiva appealed again and again to her husband, who obstinately refused to remit the tolls. At last, weary of her entreaties, he said he would grant her request if she would ride naked through the streets of the town. Lady Godiva took him at his word, and after issuing a proclamation that all persons should keep within doors or shut their windows, she rode through, clothed only in her long hair. One person disobeyed her proclamation, a tailor, ever afterwards known as X .He bored a hole in his shutters that he might see Godiva pass, and is said to have been struck blind. Her husband kept his word and abolished the onerous taxes.

Peeping tom


25. Today, this term refers to lurid publications that emphasize the sensational side of news stories. In the 1890s, a bitter circulation war erupted between Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal. In a spiraling contest of outrageous journalism, the newspapers used all means to attract readers—heavy doses of murder and sex, banner headlines and colored supplements.

Tabloid????...


28. According to an ancient fable, two friends went bathing in a river. After their bath, one of them stole the other’s clothes and left. The friend, who was left naked, refused to use to take the other’s clothes and remained naked. Which famous expression was derived from this story?

Borrowed garments never fit welll

cool quiz QE...

[maddevil]

Originally Posted by QuintEssence

here is a mail that i got today..som interesting questions..some easy ones and some obligatory tough questions. i've deleted the needlessly stupid questions.

1. A cartoon character by Al Capp could cast a spell on someone by aiming at them with one finger and with one eye open. When he aimed with both eyes open, he called it a _____________


13 The phrase comes from gestures attributed to the ancient Romans, and the Gladiators who fought in the Coliseum. When one Gladiator had emerged victorious in a fight, the spectators would get to decide if the loser should live or die. If they felt the loser had fought bravely enough, his life would be spared, otherwise he would be killed.

They indicated this by hand gestures.

20. All fiction has a grain of truth, but ‘this’ has it by the bushel. ‘This’ dates back to seventeenth century France. In the beginning, this really did have a key that was published separately. In these times, you can simply go on the Internet and search using Google. An example of ‘this’ is Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. Guess the word that describes this kind of novel?


28. According to an ancient fable, two friends went bathing in a river. After their bath, one of them stole the other’s clothes and left. The friend, who was left naked, refused to use to take the other’s clothes and remained naked. Which famous expression was derived from this story?

1- double whammy
13- Rule of thumb (guess)
20- Pinch of Salt???
28- The Naked Truth

D.M.

[simon]

Originally Posted by QuintEssence

2. State the expression that came out of the scenario described below - During the war of 1812, in America, an American soldier shot a bird during a ceasefire. He was complimented by a British officer who then asked to see his gun. On receiving the gun, the British soldier turned it upon its owner, and forced him to eat part of the bird as a punishment for trespassing.


3. During the 13th to 17th centuries, paper of specific size was folded in two to form two leaves. These large sheets of paper had watermarks of a jester with a cap and bells. Name the type of paper.


4. An extremely poor girl MS Goody who had only one shoe, attained wealth and prosperity upon being gifted 2 shoes. The expression that comes out of this is?


6. The origins of this expression can be traced to the book of Daniel, which tells the story of the King of Belshazzar who sees the words of warning 'mene, mene, tekel, upharsin' written on the wall of the temple of Jesusalemen, following his feasting in the temple using its sacred vessels.


8. Jonathan Swift was the first to coin this name. His book Gulliver's Travels was first published in 1726 and described the ________ as a race of brutish men.


11 This originated in a boast of confidence from a racetrack tipster.

I got it “------- ---- --- ------ -----“
12 When someone was court marshaled, in the British Military, there would be a military drum squad playing.

"It's time to ---- --- -----."

13 The phrase comes from gestures attributed to the ancient Romans, and the Gladiators who fought in the Coliseum. When one Gladiator had emerged victorious in a fight, the spectators would get to decide if the loser should live or die. If they felt the loser had fought bravely enough, his life would be spared, otherwise he would be killed.

They indicated this by hand gestures.

15 What word was derived after the three monstrous sisters Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa in Greek mythology, who had snakes for hair and they turned into stone anyone who looked into their eyes??

23. Some people in this Irish town enjoyed tying the tails of two cats and watching them fight till only their tale was left behind. Most likely the story is a parable of a contest between two municipalities which fought about their boundaries till little more than their tails were left. What originated from this story?


26. X was a short-lived name used by some in the United States for french fries. The affair was an unusual example of anti-French sentiment in the United States. On March 11, 2003, Representatives Robert W. Ney and Walter B. Jones, Jr. declared that all references to "french fries" and "French toast" on the menus of the restaurants and snack bars run by the House of Representatives would be removed. House cafeterias were ordered to re-name french fries as X.


27. The story goes that a Dublin theatre proprietor by the name of Richard Daly made a bet that he could, within forty-eight hours, make a nonsense word known throughout the city, and that the public would give a meaning to it. After the performance one evening, he gave his staff cards with the word X written on them, and told them to write the word on walls around the city. The next day the strange word was the talk of the town, and within a short time it had become part of the language.

2. to eat crow

3. foolscap

4. Miss goody-two-shoes

6. the writing is on the wall

8. yahoo

11. straight from the horse's mouth ??

12. face the music

13. to get a bye ??

15. gorgon

23. fight to the finish ??

26. freedom fries

27. quiz