[Answers] Beautiful Minds

... and here it is folks, some Beautiful answers to the quiz on Beautiful Minds :). Hope u guys had fun solving the quiz or maybe it was too easy. Ok, time for you to be introduced to the legends.

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2. Author : Agatha Christie. The play : ' The MouseTrap'

The '3 Blind Mice' must have been an ample clue :)). Its still running in some theatre in West London. Oh, my!!

Based on a true story, Agatha Christie requested that the book-version not be published not a film adaptation be done until the theatre version runs and hence the historical run... The name 'MouseTrap' incidentally came to Agatha Christie based on a character's answer to a kind in the Shakespeare's play of Hamlet.

3. Ah, some more info before the answer. In the 1920s a lot of movies and animations were silent and this person was tryign to introduce sound into his movies as the next big thing. Although he was beaten in the race to introduce sound, he became one among the first to introduce sound in aninmations movies. Yes, u guessed it , it was 'Walt Disney'

His pet project was the musical 'Fantasia' - Disney's successfull attempt to bring back the popularity of his favorite character Mickey Mouse after his popularity went down in the late 1930s to other characters like Donald Duck, Goofy.



There are no dialogues in this movie, and the sound effects used were called 'Fanta sound'. Hence the Oscilattors from HP :)

4. Here are the answers to the algaebraic equation. This was a sitter, once u identified that the monument built to commemorate soldiers of WW I was India Gate. If u didnt, u need to redo ur history books!!

A = Edwin Lutyens (Architect of Chandigarh / Rashtrapathi Bhavan)
X = Rashtrapathi Bhavan, ofcourse!
Y = India Gate

5. X = Charles Darwin.

Charles Darwin had the chance to visit the now popular 'Galapagos Islands' where his scientific observations and measurements led to the defining 'Theory of Evolution'. Galapagos is famous for its rich diversity in fauna.

Also, supposedly the only place on the equator where u can find penguins!

6. Ok, this is a good one.

While the World War victory parade was scheduled to be made the first televised Color program in the world, a few days before the parade the inventor of Television : John Logie Baird passed away. To honor him for his lovely invention, they decided to televise his funeral as the first ever color television program :).. nice, eh!

7. The Florence Nightingale Oath.

"The Lady with the Lamp", who gave up her riches and upper class status to go and work with the poor and served as a nurse in the Crimean War tending to the injured. She also co-wrote the Royal Commission on the health of the army and brought about changes to medical amenities to soldiers. France honored by naming a city after her - "Florence". Her work 'Notes on Nursing' went on to inspire many women to take to a career of nursing.

Here is an illustration..



8. Ok, Story Time!!

President Theodore Roosevelt was on a hunting expedition and he was unable to hunt down any deer or other animal. Just before the end of the day , his troops caught hold of an harmless , unprotected bear cub whose mother had died and tied it , for Roosevelt to shoot. Roosevelt immedietely ordered the Bear to be released taking pity on its situation.

This made news praising Roosevelt's show of kindness. Well, now President Roosevelt was called 'Teddy' (simplified name for Theodore, i guess!). In a few days a particualr paper came out with this cartoon which depicted the president's refusal to hunt the bear cub.

The paper named it 'Teddy's Bear'! And thats how the 'Teddy Bear' first got its name. Soon after A shop owner in Brooklyn , got the idea of a new toy and based it on the paper's illustration and called it the 'Teddy Bear Toy'.......and then for generations children have been troubling their parents to get them one.


The picture put up in the quiz was the later-modified. Here is the original

9. Another sitter.

"Harry Houdini" the world's greatest escape artist and an inspiration for all magicians of the current era [ David Copperfield / PC Sirkar / Chris Angel etc..]. His 'Chinese Water torture cell' made news all over the world. Arthur Conan Doyle believed that he was a medium , who can dematerialize in 1 place and materialize in another.

Here is a classic pic of him bound in chains:



10. We had to end with the Most Beautiful Mind the world has seen in the last few centuries..

- None other than Mahatma Gandhi!!
- F.D. Roosevelt was the other runner up.

Hope u had fun going through the answers. Please be the "Beautiful hands" and send us feedback :).

Another quiz coming up in 4 days!! Till then, chao..