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From: Iftikar, Ahamath (IE10) [SMTP:iftikar.ahamath@honeywell.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 1:14 PM
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Subject: [quiznet] Answers to Yet Another Gen Quiz Gen Quiz

5:
Suresh Ramasubramanian [1, 2, 6, 8, 9]

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Padmanabhan, Sriram [4,9]

1:
Mohit Puthuraya [1]
Manjula S [1]
Anindya S.Ray [3]
Sultans of Swing [6]
R Venkatramanan [8]
S.V.Sriram [9]

1. In a letter to newspaper editors announcing his retirement, he stated: "This is not a recent or easy decision, and I leave with some sadness. My interests have shifted, however, and I believe I've done what I can do within the constraints of daily deadlines and small panels. I am eager to work at a more thoughtful pace, with fewer artistic compromises. I have not yet decided on future projects, but my relationship with Universal Press Syndicate will continue."
He was nominated for the 1992 Reuben Award for "Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year" by the National Cartoonists Society, and won the 1986 and 1988 Reuben Awards. In 1986, he was the youngest recipient to ever win the award. Who?

## Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes)

2. (This biography was published in "The Hacker's Dictionary".) I was built at a laboratory in Manhattan around 1953, and moved to the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1971. My hobbies include affection, international folk dance, flying, cooking, physics, recorder, puns, science fiction fandom, and programming; I magically get paid for doing the last one. About a year ago I split up with the PDP-10 computer to which I was married for ten years. We still love each other, but the world is taking us in different directions. For the moment I still live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, among our old memories. "_________" is just my mundane name; you can call me "RMS". Who?

## Richard M Stallman. It was great listening to him about the GNU philosophy at Banginux. His personal home page @ http://www.gnu.org/people/rms.html

3. This song title ________, is from a book of poems called Grape fruit, where each poem begins with ________. Tunafish Sandwich Piece: "________ thousand suns in the sky at the same time..."
Rubber Piece: "________ your body spreading rapidly all over the world like a thin tissue...". All the blanks are one and the same. Fill in the blank.

## Song: Imagine. The poetess: Yoko "Plastic" Ono

4. At the Moscow Olympics, only the team manager of this country's contingent participated in the opening day parade. He also did not carry the country's flag as a sign of protest against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Which country?

## Great Britain, the team manager didn't carry the Union Jack.

5. At the age of 2, a 78 year old neighbour complained that he had tried to bite off his ear. The same winter police called home to tell that he was torturing a cat. He had also developed a very hybrid world of his own - an imagined one. He invented an invisible friend called Boodah, a very interesting being with whom he'd take long walks on the banks of the river that flowed past his town. Who is he? Clue: If you get the name of the river you'll get his name.

## Kurt Cobain. The river in question was Wishkah, which flows by Kurt town, Aberdeen, WA. Sorry if the Clue: was misleading. I was refering to his ablum - From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah.

6. This multimillionaire was found guilty of murder of an Olympic wrestler whim he shot fatally. Doctors testified that he has schizophrenia. He has fancied himself as the Dalai Lama, Christ Child, the president of Bulgaria, etc. Who?

## John Du pont

7. Why did Cubans nickname Guevara as "Che"?

## Because he use to used to use "Che" frequently, which is an Argentine colloquial exclamation meaning 'Hey'.

8. Deng Xiaping's increasing unpopularity was indicated by a gesture during and even after Tianmanen Square. What gesture?

## Breaking little bottles (Xiaoping translates as small bottle)

9. When the Spanish came they called it Canyon Del Oro. When the Americans came they called it Lost Adams and then in 1874 they called it ________. Cloze Test.

##Mackenna's Gold. I picked this up from the opening narrative in the movie.

10. This late President's full name translates into " The invisible warrior who, because of his endurance and his indomitable will to win, goes from conquest to conquest leaving a trail of fire in his wake". Kaun?

##Mobutu Sese Seko Kukuk Ngbendu Wa Za Banga. Favourite answer to Q10 Fakruddin Ali Ahmed

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Iftikhar Ahamath B.
Honeywell India Software Operation Pvt. Ltd.

Once the impossible has been eliminated, whatever remains however improbable must be the Truth - S. Holmes
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