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1. The Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto once made a curious statistical observation regarding the distribution of wealth in the Italian society. To his amazement, he found that the same rule held true in a variety of fields/situations. His observation is now a well known (also fairly disputed) principle/rule in the field of economic mathematics. What observation did he make?
2. "Lord" Timothy Dexter was an eccentric American businessman, was peculiarly lucky . He was successful enough to attract a wife, a rich widow Elizabeth Frothingham, and buy a big house. He was considered a lackwit by his social contemporaries, and they gave him bad business advice in order to discredit him and make him lose his fortune. But somehow, all these resulted in enormous gains for him. He is well known for being the only man to defy a well known idiom in English language, by actually embarking on a mad venture, taking the advice of rival merchants plotting to ruin him, and, much to their shock, making a huge profit. What is this well known idiom?
(Hint : there are very well known versions of this in Malayalam, using, for example, words like "Dubai"..."Rajasthan"...etc )
3. In 1913, he went to University College Dublin to study law, but was expelled from Ireland in 1916 after becoming involved with the Sinn Féin movement. This involvement had brought him into close contact with Eamon de Valera, Michael Collins, Patrick Pearse, Desmond FitzGerald, Eoin MacNeil, James Connolly and others. He then returned to his country, and became heavily involved in the labour movement, becoming the general secretary and then president of the Railwaymen's Federation and twice serving as president of the Trade Union Congress in his country. He became a member of the Imperial Legislative Assembly in 1934. He also served as the 4th President of his country, from 1969-1974. Who?
4. He was considered one of the foremost art historians of his time. In 1945, he was given the esteemed position of Surveyor of the King’s, and later the Queen’s, Pictures, one of the largest private collections in the world. He held the position for 27 years, and was vital in the expansion and cataloguing of the Queen’s Gallery, which opened in 1962.As World War II was ending, he successfully undertook a special mission to the defeated Germany on behalf of the British Royal Family, to recover incriminating letters written by the Duke of Windsor to Adolf Hitler. In 1979, when some of his 'other' activities became known, Queen Elizabeth II stripped him of his knighthood, and he was removed as an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College. Who is this infamous Englishman?
5. __________________ traces four generations of the narrator's family, ranging from the beginnings in the Jew Street of Mattancherry in Fort Kochi, to his later life in Mumbai, and the ultimate effects upon the narrator. The narrator is an exceptional character, who’s physical body ages twice as fast as a normal person's does and also has a deformed hand. He leads an interesting life, especially in his relationships with women, including his mother Aurora, who is a famous national artist, his first female tutor, and a charismatic, demented sculptress named Uma. Name this very famous book.
6. His ancestry can be traced to Malik Bin Dinar, the legendary Islamic missionary who came to India in the 8th Century .He spent his youthful years in Sri Lanka, Malayasia and Singapore, toiling for the betterment of his family. He later became the owner of twenty six cashew factories and twenty five thousand workers working directly under him - a fact that led Fortune magazine to rate him as the largest single employer (individual) in the world. Which Malayali?
7. Canadian Captain Arthur "Roy" Brown is generally credited with this 'feat'. Yet, after 90 years of controversy and contradictory hypotheses, exactly who fired the fatal shot remains uncertain. Many sources, including a 1998 article by Dr. Geoffrey Miller, a physician and historian of military medicine, and also a U.S. Public Broadcasting Service documentary made in 2003, have suggested that Sergeant Cedric Popkin was the person most likely to have killed __________. Who is the subject of all these speculations?
8. For what specific reason did Britain annex the islands of Tristan Da Cunha in 1816?
9. The title of this work literally translates to “For ____”. The scholars are not entirely certain who "_______" was. The most reasonable theory is that name originally used was "Therese", Therese being Therese Malfatti von Rohrenbach zu Dezza (1792-1851), When the work was published in 1865, the discoverer of the work, Ludwig Nohl, mistranscribed the illegible title as "____". It might also have been a nickname for Therese. Another theory is that '_____' was used to describe a sweetheart in those days. What/Who is being talked about? (all blanks contain the same word)
10. He devised a scale to measure certain ability and assigned himself a modest 25 on this scale. His friend John Edensor _________ received a 30. To the eminent David Hilbert, he assigned an 80.Whom did he give a 100? What was he measuring?
1. The Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto once made a curious statistical observation regarding the distribution of wealth in the Italian society. To his amazement, he found that the same rule held true in a variety of fields/situations. His observation is now a well known (also fairly disputed) principle/rule in the field of economic mathematics. What observation did he make?
2. "Lord" Timothy Dexter was an eccentric American businessman, was peculiarly lucky . He was successful enough to attract a wife, a rich widow Elizabeth Frothingham, and buy a big house. He was considered a lackwit by his social contemporaries, and they gave him bad business advice in order to discredit him and make him lose his fortune. But somehow, all these resulted in enormous gains for him. He is well known for being the only man to defy a well known idiom in English language, by actually embarking on a mad venture, taking the advice of rival merchants plotting to ruin him, and, much to their shock, making a huge profit. What is this well known idiom?
(Hint : there are very well known versions of this in Malayalam, using, for example, words like "Dubai"..."Rajasthan"...etc )
3. In 1913, he went to University College Dublin to study law, but was expelled from Ireland in 1916 after becoming involved with the Sinn Féin movement. This involvement had brought him into close contact with Eamon de Valera, Michael Collins, Patrick Pearse, Desmond FitzGerald, Eoin MacNeil, James Connolly and others. He then returned to his country, and became heavily involved in the labour movement, becoming the general secretary and then president of the Railwaymen's Federation and twice serving as president of the Trade Union Congress in his country. He became a member of the Imperial Legislative Assembly in 1934. He also served as the 4th President of his country, from 1969-1974. Who?
4. He was considered one of the foremost art historians of his time. In 1945, he was given the esteemed position of Surveyor of the King’s, and later the Queen’s, Pictures, one of the largest private collections in the world. He held the position for 27 years, and was vital in the expansion and cataloguing of the Queen’s Gallery, which opened in 1962.As World War II was ending, he successfully undertook a special mission to the defeated Germany on behalf of the British Royal Family, to recover incriminating letters written by the Duke of Windsor to Adolf Hitler. In 1979, when some of his 'other' activities became known, Queen Elizabeth II stripped him of his knighthood, and he was removed as an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College. Who is this infamous Englishman?
5. __________________ traces four generations of the narrator's family, ranging from the beginnings in the Jew Street of Mattancherry in Fort Kochi, to his later life in Mumbai, and the ultimate effects upon the narrator. The narrator is an exceptional character, who’s physical body ages twice as fast as a normal person's does and also has a deformed hand. He leads an interesting life, especially in his relationships with women, including his mother Aurora, who is a famous national artist, his first female tutor, and a charismatic, demented sculptress named Uma. Name this very famous book.
6. His ancestry can be traced to Malik Bin Dinar, the legendary Islamic missionary who came to India in the 8th Century .He spent his youthful years in Sri Lanka, Malayasia and Singapore, toiling for the betterment of his family. He later became the owner of twenty six cashew factories and twenty five thousand workers working directly under him - a fact that led Fortune magazine to rate him as the largest single employer (individual) in the world. Which Malayali?
7. Canadian Captain Arthur "Roy" Brown is generally credited with this 'feat'. Yet, after 90 years of controversy and contradictory hypotheses, exactly who fired the fatal shot remains uncertain. Many sources, including a 1998 article by Dr. Geoffrey Miller, a physician and historian of military medicine, and also a U.S. Public Broadcasting Service documentary made in 2003, have suggested that Sergeant Cedric Popkin was the person most likely to have killed __________. Who is the subject of all these speculations?
8. For what specific reason did Britain annex the islands of Tristan Da Cunha in 1816?
9. The title of this work literally translates to “For ____”. The scholars are not entirely certain who "_______" was. The most reasonable theory is that name originally used was "Therese", Therese being Therese Malfatti von Rohrenbach zu Dezza (1792-1851), When the work was published in 1865, the discoverer of the work, Ludwig Nohl, mistranscribed the illegible title as "____". It might also have been a nickname for Therese. Another theory is that '_____' was used to describe a sweetheart in those days. What/Who is being talked about? (all blanks contain the same word)
10. He devised a scale to measure certain ability and assigned himself a modest 25 on this scale. His friend John Edensor _________ received a 30. To the eminent David Hilbert, he assigned an 80.Whom did he give a 100? What was he measuring?
Answers:
1. 80% of wealth is owned by 20% of population, which led to Pareto distribution curve
2. "selling coals to newcastle". He made a profit doing this.the malayalam usages are "gulfilottu petrol export cheyyal" etc
3. V V Giri.
4. Anthony Blunt, who was part of the Cambridge Five
5. The Moor's Last Sigh
6. Tangal Kunju Musaliyar or TKM after whom TKM college etc are named.
7. Shooting down Manfred Richtofen, the Red Baron
8. Tristan de Cunha was the closest island to St Helena. The Brits were worried that French would annex it and try to liberate Napoleon.
9. "Fur Elise" by Beethoven
10. Ramanujan. G. H. Hardy was measuring "originality". The blank was Littlewood.
Scores:
Shrey-10
Harikrishnan-6
Basab-9
Jithin-4
Arun Hiregange-4
Anand-4 (given points for Elba)
Rithwik-7.5
Deepthi Mani-6
Rajesh-2
Manjith-2.5
Sreeram-6.5
9 comments:
1. The Pareto principle or the "80-20 rule" which says that 20% of the population controls 80% of the wealth, or more generally, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.
2.Selling coal to Newcastle
3.V.V.Giri
4.Anthony Blunt, who turned out to be a Soviet spy.
5.The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
6.Thangal Kunju Musaliar
7.The famous German fighter pilot from World War I, Manfred von Richthofen, or "Red Baron"
8.To ensure that the French wouldn't use the islands as a base for a rescue operation to free Napoleon Bonaparte from his prison on Saint Helena.
9. The inspiration for "Für Elise", a musical piece by Ludwig van Beethoven.
10.G.H.Hardy rated mathematicians on the basis of pure talent on a scale from 0 to 100, and rated Srinivasa Ramanujan 100.
1) The 80-20 rule
2) From ur clue looks like " Rajashtanilekk manal Ketti ayakkaruth...
Cant think of an english Idiom...
3)4th Pres in 69-74 .... Looks like V.V.giri
4)
5)Rushdie's Moor's Last Sigh
6)Cashew--> Kerala--> kollam ...
my wild guess would be TKM ....
7)shooting down the red baron ?
8)
9)fur Elise ? Beethoven
10)
1. The 80/20 Rule or Pareto Analysis, stating that a large majority of problems (80%) are produced by a few key causes (20%).
2. Selling Coals to Newcastle
3. V V Giri or Varahagiri Venkata Giri
4. Anothony Blunt
5. The Moors Last Sigh
6. Dr K.A. Retheesh
7. Red Baron
8. So that the French were not able to use it to rescue Napoleon Bonaparte from Saint Helena.
9. 'Fur Elise' by Beethoven
10. G H Hardy's ratings of Mathematicians. He gave Srinivasa Ramanujan 100
1. 20% people do 80% work.
2. Selling oil to Texans.
3. V.V.Giri
4. Some member of the Cambridge Five
6. Rajan Pillai
8. To prevent Napolean escaping from St.Helena
1. 80:20 rule
2. Beware of Greeks bearing gifts
3. Fakruddin Ali Ahmed
4. ??
5. The Moors Last Sigh
6. ??
7. The Red Baron (von Richthofen)
8. To observe the transit of Venus
9. Fur Elise by Beethoven
10. Einstein. Mastery of Physics. Newton was the 100.
1
2
3vv giri
4 anthony blunt
5
6 yusuf ali
7 person who killed red baron
8st elba was near itso prevent napolean from escaping
9
10
1.80/20 rule - 8o% wealth owned by 20%.
3.VV Giri
5. Moors last sigh
8.To prevent from rescuing Napolean
9.Fur Elise/Beethoven
10.Hardy/Math skills/Ramanujan
Deepthi Mani
1.------------
2.Apprentice
3.V V Giri
4.Anthony Blunt
5.The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
6.Thangal Kunju Musaliyar
7.Manfred von Richthofen-Red Baron
8.to free Napoleon Bonaparte from his prison on Saint Helena.
9.Elise
10.Hardy–Littlewood circle method
100 to Ramanujan
Rithwik K
1. His observation about wealth ownership led to a popularly used distribution curve in statistics.
2. The Mallu idiom would be "exporting sand to Dubai". :-)..Think of a similar British idiom.
3. no clues..
4. He became a villain in 1979 after his treasonable activities were known. His group continued to feature in thriller novels for many years.
5. The book takes its title from the actions of a king named Boabdil.
6. More famous by his three initials.
7. no clues..
8. Brits were rather worried abt the French doing something. The year is also significant.
9. A musical work.
10. The man was an ardent cricket lover, but his fame was in a different field.
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