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From: Iftikar, Ahamath (IE10) [SMTP:iftikar.ahamath@honeywell.com]
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 2:43 PM
To: quiznet@egroups.com
Subject: [quiznet] Answers to "Of Directors and Minutiae"

Hi,

The scores and answers to The Of Directors and Minutiae Quiz follow. My next quiz will take time, coz I'm relocating, so don't hold your breath ;-)

Regards,
Ifti.
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5:
Maneesh Dharmarajan [1, 2, 3, 7, 8]
Seema Ramnarayan S [2, 7, 8, 9, 10]

4.5
Vivek Iyer [1, 2, 7, 8, 10]

4:
Madhav Nair [1, 2, 8, 9]

3:
Arun Hiregange [1, 2, 8]

2:
Bhushan J [1, 2]

1:
Vikas Mehra [8]
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1) What is album would you associate Sri Yukteswar Giri, Sri Mahavatara Babaji, Sri Paramhamsa Yagananda and Sri Lahiri Mahasaya with?

## The only Indians on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

2) He was born March 11, 1952, in Cambridge, UK. He is one of the principals of a multimedia company formed a few years ago called The Digital Village, at TDV they call him DNA for short. His reply to a MFAQ is: "The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden, and thought '_____ will do'. I typed it out. End of story." Who is this person, who has also authored computer games like Starship Titanic and Bureaucracy? Get the number (blank), you get the person and vice versa.

## Douglas Noel Adams. The number: 42.
http://www.netins.net/showcase/benssite/afdafaq/shell.htm
http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/

3) There is a tradition in hackerdom of informally tagging important textbooks and standards documents with the dominant color of their covers or with some other conspicuous feature of the cover. How do we know these books better: Cinderella Book, Devil Book, Dragon Book, Pink Shirt Book, Bible? Scoring: 1 point for any/all books.

## This is from http://www.pmms.cam.ac.uk/~gjm11/jargon/jargB.html#book_titles
Cinderella Book - Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation, by Hopcroft & Ullman. So called because the cover depicts a girl (putatively Cinderella) sitting in front of a Rube Goldberg device and holding a rope coming out of it. Devil / Daemon Book - The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System by Leffler et al. The cover has a picture depicting a little devil (a visual play on Daemon) in sneakers, holding a pitchfork (referring to one of the characteristic features of UNIX, the `fork(2)' system call). Dragon Book - Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools by Aho, Ullman & Sethi. The cover design featuring a dragon labeled `complexity of compiler design' and a knight bearing the lance `LALR parser generator' among his other trappings. Pink Shirt Book - The Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC". The cover features a picture of Peter Norton with a silly smirk on his face, wearing a pink shirt, Bible - One of a small number of fundamental source books by Don Knuth or K & R

4) Which sporting event would you associate these terms: Isis, Goldie, Orisis and Blondie and Hammersmith and Barnes?

## The Oxford-Cambridge University Boat Race. Isis, Goldie are the Men's reserve teams and Orisis, Blondie are the Women's reserve teams which compete before the main event. Hammersmith and Barnes (Bridges) are the starting and ending points of the race.
http://archive.comlab.ox.ac.uk/other/rowing/ox-cam.html

5) The company started by brothers who migrated in the early 1900s from Italy to California, made strides in aviation by inventing the first enclosed cabin, high-wing monoplane, which carried mail for the U.S. postal service as well as passengers. Incorporating their hydraulic insight, the Brothers later made great advancements in the agricultural pump industry, which proved to be a mainstay for the company even today. The company has 250 world-wide patents for advancements in pump systems, jet technology, air controls and product design.

## Jacuzzi. http://www.jacuzzi.com/history/index.html

6) Loudcloud refers to an outsourced, managed, intelligent network, a term borrowed from the telecom world. To the old Ma Bell, the "cloud" was the same concept as the "power grid" to the electric company. "If you're going to have a cloud, you want it to be a big cloud, a loud cloud!". Whosz "" words?

## Marc Andressen, Loud Cloud is this 29 year old's 6th start-up! http://www.loudcloud.com/

Director's Special Q7- 10: Thanx to Arul Mani for the cue
7) He was born 25 May 1944, Hereford, England, UK. He gave Yoda's voice in The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and The Phantom Menace. He has made guest appearances in The Blues Brothers and Blues Brothers 2000. He has directed movies such as Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Indian in the Cupboard and Bowfinger. Who is he?

## Frank Oz

8) He was born 3rd August 1950, Chicago. He has directed movies such as Trading Places, Coming to America, Oscar and MJ's music video Thriller. The trademark he often uses in his films is the inclusion in some form of the phrase "See you next Wednesday". Supposedly, the phrase is the title of a film that he had an idea for at the age of 15. Who is he?

## John Landis

9) He was born 26 July, 1928. Hoping to find something to interest his 114, his father Jack introduced him to Chess, with the desired result. 114 took to the game passionately, and quickly became a skilled player. Chess would become an important device for him in later years, often as tool for dealing with recalcitrant actors, but also as an artistic motif in his films. He wanted to make a film based on Umberto Eco's novel "Foucault's Pendulum" which appeared in 1988. Unfortunately, Eco refused dissatisfied with the filming of his earlier novel Der Name der Rose and also because the director wasn't willing to let him write the screenplay himself. Having turned down directing a sequel to The Exorcist, 114 made his own horror film in 1980.Who is 114? Please don't get misled by 114. I've used the number as the director uses 114 often as serial numbers in his movies!

## Stanley Kubrick :-o

10) "Connect answer of Q#7 to answer of Q#8 and answer of Q#8 to answer of Q#9"

## 7:8 :: Frank Oz appeared in many of Landis' films, as a good luck charm of sorts. 8:9 :: Landis' trademark phrase "See you next Wednesday" is from 2001: Space Odyssey For more info on the connections look up http://www.imdb.com

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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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