Tuesday, March 20, 2007

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Encrypt with rot13.com. Answers in a week.

1. Which novel starts thus?
"If youth, throughout all history, had a champion to stand upfor it; to show a doubting world that a child can think; and,possibly, do it practically; you wouldn't constantly run across folkstoday who claim that "a child don't know anything." A child's brainstarts functioning at birth; and has, amongst its many infantconvolutions, thousands of dormant atoms, into which God has put amystic possibility for noticing an adult's act, and figuring out its purport."

(This is workable. Hint - Even if you don't know the book's name, guess the funda. The book itself is not famous)

2. Why did Mike Whitney, the Australian cricketer, once say that he was the only man to have taken a hattrick with two balls?

3. Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum shared the title of Overseer of the Manicurists in the Palace of King Niussere during the Fifth Dynasty ofEgyptian pharaohs, circa 2400 B.C., and are listed as "royal confidantes" in their joint tomb.
Niankhkhnum means "joined to life" and Khnumhotep means "joined to'the blessed state of the dead'" and together the names can betranslated as "joined in life and joined in death". What is special about Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum?

-Vaibhav

6 comments:

Snaggletooth said...

1. Nyernql guebja ng zr ol invouni
2. Qvq guerr jbzra va bar avtug :Q
3. cvbarre ubzbfrkhnyf :Q

~surdy

Unknown said...

1.ab r'f ???
3.svefg tnl pbhcyr

~lath

Vaibhav Devanathan said...

@ Fheql - Uvf jvsr unq gevcyrgf. Nyy bguref pbeerpg

@ Yngu - nyy pbeerpg rkprcg sbe gur frpbaq.

Indian Sociologist said...
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Indian Sociologist said...

What is the Indian connection with the 20 franc Swiss currency note...?

Vaibhav Devanathan said...

Answers :

1. Gadsby, by EV Wright. Funda - the letter 'e' is not used in the entire novel
2. His wife had triplets
3. First recorded homosexual couple