2. QUESTION 1
Id the poem:
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought
4. QUESTION 3
Alexander Sawchuk estimates that it was in June or July of
1973 when he, along with a graduate student and the lab
manager, was hurriedly searching the lab for a good image
to scan for a colleague's conference paper. They wanted
something glossy to ensure good output dynamic range,
and they wanted a human face. Just then, somebody
happened to walk in with a recent issue of ____. The
engineers tore away the top third of the centerfold so they
could wrap it around the drum of their scanner. The
scanner had a fixed resolution of 100 lines per inch and the
engineers wanted a 512 × 512 image, so they limited the
scan to the top 5.12 inches of the picture, effectively
cropping it at the subject's shoulders.
Which famous image are we talking about?
5. QUESTION 4
The Beatles were actually not the only
musicians to use _______ as a radio single.
Elton John released a cover version in 1974.
John Lennon provided backing vocals for the
Elton John version, under the fake name of Dr.
Winston O'Boogie.
Which song?
6. QUESTION 5
The tower's standard night-time lighting since
New Year's Eve in 1985 has been orange-gold.
Why was there a shift to blue?
7.
8. QUESTION 7
X was born Maria Ann Sherwood. At 19, she married
Thomas Smith, a farm labourer.
The Smiths were primarily orchardists. The earliest
account of Y appeared in the Farmer and Settler of 25
June 1924, in an article by Herbert Rumsey, a Dundas
orchardist and local historian. He interviewed local fruit-
grower Edwin Small who recalled that in 1868 he and
his father had been invited by Maria to examine a
seedling growing by a creek on her farm. She explained
that the seedling had developed from the remains of
some French crab apples grown in Tasmania. Y is today
recognised as a fixed mutation or 'sport'.
Find X and Y.
9. QUESTION 8
A celebrated pimp, thief, and confidence man
operating in New York City in the 1840s, ____
Hoag, along with his wife Melinda and an
accomplice known as "French Jack", operated
a con called the "panel game", a method by
which prostitutes and their pimps robbed
customers.
Which phrase did Hoag give rise to?
10. QUESTION 9
This ad was a huge hit when launched and greatly
boosted the name of the Company, which was doing dull
in its field. The ad had its share of controversies, with a
11yr old claiming compensation from the Company
because his friends harassed him after seeing the ad.
However, the Company decided not to pull it off air and
issued a atatement that "extensive research had been
done using google search and phone books to minimise
causing offense. ________ is in no way responsible or
liable for the fact that Master _____ Bhanot is being teased
by his friends."
Recently, a second ad (26 seconds long), was brought on.
It showed some profanities written on a door:
Hernia, allergy, ring
