Sunday, February 7, 2010
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Friday, February 5, 2010
QUESTION 146
X WORKED IN THE HOSPITAL DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR, AND STARTED HIS/HER LITERARY CAREER. X'S MASTERPIECE CAME OUT IN 1926, PUBLISHED BY (2). THIS AUTHOR-PUBLISHER RELATIONSHIP LASTED FOR 50 YEARS UNTIL X'S DEATH. X ALSO WROTE (1)
EASY ONE.. WHO AM I TALKING ABOUT?
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Thursday, February 4, 2010
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
QUESTION 143
X WAS WORKING ON SOMETHING WHICH HE MEANT TO DEDICATE TO Y. EVEN THOUGH HE WASN'T BOUND TO RECEIVE ANY MAJOR FINANCIAL RETURN BY DEDICATING IT, HE PROCEEDED. BUT WHEN Y DID SOMETHING WHICH INFURIATED X, X SCRATCHED OUT Y'S NAME FROM THE DEDICATION SO HARD THAT A HOLE IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN MADE ON THE PAPER. WHAT DID X PLAN TO DEDICATE?
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
QUESTION 142
IN 1911, TWO RESEARCHERS NAMED STUMPT AND PFUNGST CONDUCTED AN EXPERIMENT ON A HORSE NAMED "CLEVER HANS"( DER KLUGE HANS).
HANS WAS SUPPOSEDLY ABLE TO ADD,SUBTRACT AND SOLVE PROBLEMS INVOLVING MUSICAL HARMONY. HANS WOULD SIGNAL(TAP HIS FOOT) THE CORRECT ANSWER EVEN IN THE ABSENCE OF HIS MASTER. THIS RULED OUT THE QUESTION OF FRAUD. IT WAS LATER OBSERVED THAT HANS WASN'T INTELLIGENT AT ALL! IF THE QUESTIONER DID NOT KNOW THE ANSWER, HANS COULDN'T ANSWER IT EITHER. HANS WOULD START TAPPING WHEN THE QUESTIONER MADE ANY GESTURE. EVEN THE INCLINATION OF A HEAD WAS ENOUGH FOR THE HORSE TO STOP. IN OTHER WORDS, PEOPLE WERE GIVING THE HORSE THE ANSWERS DUE TO THEIR EXPECTATIONS OF IT(VIA PHYSICAL SIGNS). WHAT EFFECT DOES THE INCIDENT DEMONSTRATE?
QUESTION 140


WHAT IS SPECIAL ABOUT THIS PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE IN 1960?
ANSWER- DEBATE BETWEEN KENNEDY AND RICHARD NIXON. FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE TO BE TELEVISED.
KAUSHIK PARTLY GOT IT WITH "TELEVISED"
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