- He died during the Siege of Syracuse, when he was killed by a Roman soldier despite orders that he should not be harmed. At his request, his tombstone was carved with a sphere circumscribed within a cylinder and inscribed with the ratio of the cylinder's volume to that of the sphere as 3:2. This is because he considered the discovery of this ratio the greatest of all his accomplishments. Identify him.
- This alternative Rock band was founded by John Rzeznik, Robby Takac and George Tutuska in 1986 under the name Sex Maggots. However, when a club owner booked the band, he requested them to change the name, as the local newspaper could not print their current name. The trio picked the current name out of a True Detective newspaper advertisement for a toy called a __________. Which band?
- What is shown in this map? (Pic: 3)
- X is a company privately owned by Bill Gates, who founded it in 1989 under the name Interactive Home Systems. One major reason for starting the company was Gates's belief that people would someday decorate their homes with a revolving display of digital artwork using digital frames. The company's name was changed to Continuum Productions in 1994 and to X a year later. X is a Latin word meaning "wicker basket'. Identify X.
- John Lennon wrote the first line of this song one night in 1967 in response to his wife “going on and on about something. I kept hearing these words over and over, went downstairs and it turned into some sort of cosmic song.” Forty years later, NASA decided to beam it across the universe on 4th February, 2008, which incidently coincided with 50th anniversary of NASA. The music was digitalised and beamed through NASA’s deepspace communications network on a 431-light-year journey to the North Star, Polaris, where it is scheduled to arrive in 2439. The song has an Indian connection since it was created at the time the Beatles were learning Transcendental Meditation from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, which explains the salutation Jai Guru Dev, Om in the chorus of the song. Which song?
- What does this figure represent? (Pic:6)
- In 1938, an architect Alfred Mosher Butts created this game as a variation on an earlier game he invented which he called Lexiko. Butts worked out the scoring system of the game quite meticulously by counting letter usage from various sources including The New York Times. Since then, one hundred million sets of this game have been sold worldwide, and sets are found in one out of every three American homes. Which game?
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