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Wednesday, December 8, 2010

92.JACKIE HAS IT ALL....

Trying a theme question again. Connect the answers as you crack the questions.

1. What is this temple famous for?

2. How is he depicted in the Christeon Panteon?

3.In a poll conducted by Animal Planet, X was voted World's favourite animal, narrowly beating the Dog. X received 21 percent votes, beating dogs, whales,elephants,snakes and chimps. Callum Ankine, officer of WWF, said that his hope of saving X has improved after this survey. Identify X.

4. A paradox given by Zeno appearing second in his list of paradoxes has Achilles competing in a race with a Tortoise. He allows the tortoise a head start. The paradox says that even if Achilles runs faster than the tortoise he would never be able to beat it as whenever he arrives at a point the tortoise started , it would have moved forward. This is considered to be a representation of which famous Aesop's fable?

5. The Y variety of games originated with the arcade game Blockade released by Gremlin Industries in 1976. In 1977, Atari released as an unofficial port, the first home console version of Y named Surround. Y can even be played in Youtube videos using 2010 version of the player. Identify Y.

6. Clever Hans was a Z that was said have performed arithmetic calculations and intellectual tasks. But in 1907, a psychologist Oscar Pfungst discovered that Hans was not performing the tasks, but observing the reaction of the human watchers. This was found in research methodology and trainer, unknowingly, provided Hans with clues that led to the answer. Identify Z.

7. This was used extensively in ancient battlefields. Identify

8.This is a sanctuary protecting the species of what?