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From: Iftikar, Ahamath (IE10) [SMTP:iftikar.ahamath@honeywell.com]
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 3:19 PM
To: quiznet@egroups.com
Subject: [quiznet] Scores of GnAnQ

7:
Avinash Mudaliar [1,4,6,7,8,9,10]

5:
Balakrishnan [1,2,4,9,10]

4:
Ramanan V.V [1,2,4,7]
Anurag Garg [1,7,9,10]
Movin Miranda [1,2,4,10]
Susanth Nair [2,4,9,10]
Gaurav Lochan [1,3,9,10]

2:
Shivakumar B.K [2,7]
Sunil Lakshman [1,6]

1:
Abhijeet Naik [1]

1) Why is Benjamin Franklin Pierce nicknamed "Hawkeye" in MASH 4077?

## Hawkeye was named after the character in his father's favourite book - The Last of the Mohicans.

2) A village is named after this athlete in USA and a statute was erected bearing "Sir you are the most wonderful athlete in the world". Who is the athlete in question and what is the significance of the inscription.

##The inscription was what King Gustav V told Jim Francis Thorpe during the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. Visit http://www.alphacdc.com/necona/jimthorp.html for more info on JFT

3) Issue 121 of Mad featured caricatures of the Beatles. Who was Alfred E Newman dressed as?

## Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

4) What's common to Donatien Alphose Francois, John Montague, John Sholto Douglas?

## Donatien Alphose Francois - Marquis de Sade, John Montague - IV Earl of Sandwich, John Sholto Douglas - Marquis of Queensbury. All gave rise to words/phrases taken from the place they hailed from. Sorry for the loosely worded question.

5) The Linux Kernel keeps track of time passing in the global ______ variable. You may consider this the kernel's heartbeat, since every timer tick that goes by ______ is incremented by one. Cloze Test. Pretty workoutable.

## Jiffies

6) Connect Timothy McVeigh and John Wilkes Booth.

## When Timothy McVeigh was caught he was wearing a T - shirt with Sic Temper Tyrannis (Thus Always to Tyrants) painted on it. For Booth's Appearances at Ford's Theatre - http://www.nps.gov/foth/booth_appearances.htm

7) He insisted on storing his urine in large glass bottles in a garage near his house. He employed an assistant to count and look after them. His assistants once left the AC in an empty house for 8yrs because he didn't tell them to turn it off. He instructed his driver to drive in the middle of the road so that leaves do not stick to the tyres. Who? Clue: A sofware company in Gurgaon

## Howard Hughes. Hughes Aircraft Co. was renamed as Hughes Electronics Co, which is the parent company of Hughes Software Systems, Gurgaon/Bangalore

8) Who played the role of the night watchman in the movie, "All The President's Men"?

## Frank Wills, the night watchman who discovered the Watergate break-in played the role himself.

9) Alfred Matthew Y. was born October 23, 1959 in Lynwood, California. A.M.Y's grandparents on his father's side were Yugoslavian, and on his mother's side they were Italian and English. An only child, he began playing the accordion at age seven, following in the tradition of polka star Frank Y. (no relation); in his early teens he became an avid fan of the Dr. Demento. In 1973 Demento spoke at A.M.Y's school, where the 13-year-old passed the radio host a demo tape of home recordings; three years later, Demento played A.M.Y's "Belvedere Crusing" -- an accordion-driven pop song written about the family's Plymouth -- on the air, and his career was launched. How do we better know A.M.Y?

## Weird Al Yankovic http://www.weirdal.com

10) He was born Brian Warner in Canton, Ohio; at the age of 18, he relocated to Tampa Bay, Florida, working there as a music journalist. In 1989, he became friends with guitarist Scott Mitchell; they decided to form a band, with Mitchell rechristening himself Daisy Berkowitz and Warner adopting the name ___________. In October 1994, he arranged a meeting with Dr. Anton Szandor LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, who bestowed upon Him the title of "Reverend." How do we know Brian Warner better? Clue: Work on the names of the band members.

Band lineup: Daisy Berkowitz (guitarist) replaced by Zim Zum and in turn by John "John 5" Lowery, Madonna Wayne-Gacy (keyboardist), Gidget Gein (bassist) - later replaced by Twiggy Ramirez, Sara Lee Lucas (drummer) - later replaced by Ginger Fish,

## Marilyn Manson
Marilyn Manson - Marilyn Monroe and Charles Manson
Daisy Berkowitz - Daisy Duke and Son of Sam killer David Berkowitz
Twiggy Ramirez- Twiggy and Carlos "Jackal" Ramirez
Haven't been able to find out about the name origins of the other band-members.

Regards,
Ifti.
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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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