Question 506: One's company, Eleven's a crowd.

What's blanked out?


When you walk through a storm
Hold your head up high
And don't be afraid of the dark

At the end of the storm
Is a golden sky
And the sweet silver song of a lark

Walk on through the wind
Walk on through the rain
Though your dreams be tossed and blown

Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart
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Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart
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Question 505: 4th Hungarian Magik!

WHAT IS THIS??

Question DIV: Find me If you Can

"Many people have asked about the meaning of our name. '__X__' was inspired by a poem written more than 800 years ago during the Song Dynasty. The poem compares the search for a retreating beauty amid chaotic glamour with the search for one's dream while confronted by life's many obstacles. '...hundreds and thousands of times, for her I searched in chaos, suddenly, I turned by chance, to where the lights were waning, and there she stood.' __X__, whose literal meaning is hundreds of times, represents persistent search for the ideal."


This site, overtook another famous site __Y__ in China, since it complied with all Chinese Government Directives. This lead to a famous Line "__Y__, __Z__", of which __Z__ was part of __X__'s name, when __Y__ decided to leave China based on those rules.


Question:
1) ID X,Y and Z
2) ID the phrase

Question 503 : The Quizzard( Yes, I know, weird Title)

Origin of?


The earliest printed reference to the origin of this proverb is attributed to the Ben Johnson in his 1598 play, Every Man in his Humour, which was performed first by Shakespeare.


'Helter skelter, hang sorrow, care will _______, up-tails all, and a pox on the hangman.'


Shakespeare used in Much Ado About Nothing.


'What, courage man! what though care _______, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care'


The Washington Post, 1916.


'On Wednesday the _____, __________ unsatisfied, tried to climb higher—and fell to the first floor. His cries could still be heard by Miss Godfrey; who, to effect Blackie's rescue, communicated with the following departments:
1. Police department.
2. Fire department.
3. Health department.
4. Building department.
5. Washington Heights court.

Question DII: Can't dance your way around this

A happy Republic Day to all.

“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”

Edward Abbey

Now on to the question

The picture below shows the extent of the kingdom of __X__, who is said to have unified the subcontinent under one kingdom.

In the Vedas, __X__ is described as follows

abhūtir eṣā kas tyajyāj jīvañ jīvantam ātmajam

śākuntalaṃ mahātmānaṃ dauḥṣantiṃ bhara paurava

bhartavyo 'yaṃ tvayā yasmād asmākaṃ vacanād api

tasmād bhavatv ayaṃ nāmnā bharato nāma te sutaḥ

Therefore, O thou of Puru's race, cherish thy high-souled son born of __Y__

and because this child is to be cherished by thee even at our word,

therefore shall this thy son be known by the name of ___X___.

 But others argue that the __X__ race, an Ayan tribe mentioned in the Rigveda were successful against other Aryan and Non-Aryan tribes. Thus in the post Vedic tradition, they were deemed as conquerors of all, and hence all was known as __X__.

Question:

1) ID X

2) ID its contribution to the world today (exact answer required).

3) Brownie points for explaining the connection to the title

A picture says a 1000 words, and takes a 1000 tries to get right

THE QUIZZARD FINALLY HAS A LOGO.

Thanks to help of a Graphic Designer, Anjana (who can be contacted via the quizzard email id, for any matters), we finally hit upon the right logo for the blog.

Took 2 hours just to get the dimensions right
So a huge thank you to Anjana for her gracious help.

Thats the reason the blog seemed to be in a state fo quiescence, and the logo kept changing.
But the scoreboard never did
(Thats coz i was busy, and Nihar, as usual, lazy
Lol)

WE'LL BE STARTING WITH A NEW THEME ROUND THIS EVENING.
UNTIL THEN, TRY ANSWERING ALL THE OPEN QUESTIONS.

The Evolution of the logo was as such:

Please leave your comments on the logo under this post
Regards
Pai.

Question DI: Play it again

____X___ is a 1942 Hollywood film, touted as amongst the most famous films that defined an entire generation and whose lines have become stuff of legend.

It follows the story of a person who has choose between love for a woman and helping her husband escape a place (blotted out on the map), in order to continue his crusade against the Nazis.

The movie barb wire, is a spoof of __X__ (it can't be considered anything but)

However, on the map, there are 2 locations blanked out

Question:

1) ID Both locations blanked out

2) ID the connection with X

The map

FOr the hell of it, to distract everyone BACK TO THE QUESTION
smirk.

Old Wine in a new bottle

We're still mooting a logo, or rather the proper dimensions for it
etc etc
So we haven't been able to post any questions today.
Tomorrow, on republic day, we'll be starting a new theme round.
Watch this space for more news.
Regards
Pai

Check out the unanswered questions in the mean time

Question 500: Start of a new era

Although the ____________ are now written with letters of the ____________, they were originally independent symbols. The Etruscans, for example, used I, Λ, X, ⋔, 8, ⊕, for I, V, X, L, C, and M, of which only I and X happened to be letters in their alphabet. One folk etymology has it that the V represented a hand, and that the X was made by placing two Vs on top of each other, one inverted. However, the _______ actually appear to derive from notches on tally sticks, which continued to be used by Italian and Dalmatian shepherds into the 19th century.

Thus, 'I' descends not from the letter 'I' but from a notch scored across the stick. Every fifth notch was double cut (i.e. ⋀, ⋁, ⋋, ⋌, etc.), and every tenth was cross cut (X), IIIIΛIIIIXIIIIΛIIIIXII..., much like European tally marks today. This produced a positional system: Eight on a counting stick was eight tallies, IIIIΛIII, or the eighth of a longer series of tallies; either way, it could be abbreviated ΛIII (or VIII), as the existence of a Λ implies four prior notches. By extension, eighteen was the eighth tally after the first ten, which could be abbreviated X, and so was XΛIII. Likewise, number fouron the stick was the I-notch that could be felt just before the cut of the Λ (V), so it could be written as either IIII or IΛ (IV). Thus the system was neither additive nor subtractive in its conception, but ordinal. When the tallies were transferred to writing, the marks were easily identified with the existing ______

WHAR IS BEING TALKED ABOUT?

Question 499: Justice is Justice, and

Rouget de Lisle was born in Montaigu. He entered the army as an engineerand attained the rank of captain. The song that has immortalised him, ___X___ (based on Piano COncerto no. 25), was composed at Strasbourg, where Rouget de Lisle was quartered in April 1792. He wrote the words in a fit of patriotic excitement after a public dinner. The piece was at first called Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin ("War Song for the Army o the Rhine") and only received its name of _____ from its adoption by the provencial volunteers whom Barbaroux introduced into Paris and who were prominent in the storming of the Tuileries. Rouget de Lisle was a royalist and was cashiered and thrown into prison in 1793, narrowly escaping the guillotine. He was freed during the Thermidorian Reaction