Friday, September 22, 2006

Round 4 - The ongoing challenge continues!

Heya folks! It's been quite a while, but now I have a new thinky-pinky task for you.
This time, it's gonna be more or less simple, answering might just take some time.

This time I'm asking for a phrase. This phrase has four words (punctuation not included), and 14 letters, without the spaces. For every letter, there's a hint.
Of course the letters are not going to be mixed up, but anyway, the phrase is in English (no need to use that old greek-schoolbook of yours again) and so it should be quite easy-piecey lemon sqeezy.

1) The First Letter of the main/most famous work of Laurence Sterne (The common name, not the whole title)

2)The Egyptian hieroglyph 'fence' became that letter

3)The second law of thermodynamics treats a nice word which has caused quite some trouble to some scientifics, well the first letter of the laws subject

4)Famous Movie - title includes fish and a girls name...first letter of the girls name

5)The 'law of silence', believed to be particularly respected in Sicily...First letter

6)A kind of hair color (poetic), also the english non-scientific name of a bird...First letter

7)Famous TV-station based in Quatar with a significant logo. Means translated to english 'The Island'...2nd letter of the first word.

8)The stupidest man of the year 2006...First letter of his First name.

9) The Picture on the right shows a detail of a gate-------->
...the First letter of the name of the gate (Happy hunting:-) )

10)The probably most famous epic movie trilogy which now has 6 parts and the biggest merchandise probably ever plus some of the weirdest, nicest, and most fanatic/frantic fans ever seen...First letter.
Nearly done!!!

11)'cDc' is short for a famous group...2 letter of the last word

12)Introversion did a computer game (great, by the way)...first letter of the name of the game

13)The logo of the enterprise Hoyt is an apple. Incidentally, the stuff hoyt makes (at least one model) was used in a movie which is very famous (and believed to be very violent)...The name of the movie is as well one sort of apples...so pick your poison, first letter of the movie(s) or the apples.

14) Finally!!! The name of the site where you can find informations ( I mean: INFORMATION) about UFOs, Rael and the Raelians, Sasquatch, scapulimancy and lots of other weird stuff...also featuring a professor and quite often, the famous Randi...and it's not the wikipedia! First letter of the name of the site (after the www.)

So, you're done! Please post the correct answer sentence as well as your individual solutions:-) Tell me how you liked it. Have fun and cya soon!

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

1. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

2. H
3. Entropy
4. A fish named Wanda
5. Omerta
6. Red
7. Al Jazeera
8. Donald Thompson – District Judge – a.k.a. Oklahoma Penis Pump Judge.
9. Ishtar Gate
10.Star Wars
11.Cult of the Dead Cow
12.Uplink
13.???
14.www.rathinker.co.kr

The World is ou_r???
Cooles Rätsel, nur das letzte Wort verwirrt mich ein bisschen.

Anonymous said...

The world is...

Raaah, sorry, Ilja. I just can't !

This is really not my cup of tea to google for hours in search of unlikely chinese movies and turkomensho-ostravischer philosophers.

Nice job anyway to write the questions. ;-)

Sami said...

Hello! Here's my answer to the quiz:

1. The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy. The letter T from the commonly used name "Tristram Shandy.

2. The egyptian hieroglyph became the letter H.

3. The second law of thermodynamics deals with Entropy. The law states: "The entropy of an isolated system not at equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value." The letter E, for Entropy.

4. The movie is called "A fish called Wanda", starring John Cleese, Michael Palin, Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Kline. Excellent movie! Especially the scene where Kline starts eating goldfish. The letter W from the name Wanda.

5. The law of silence in the Sicily is called Omerta. Letter O.

6. The bird is Raven, and people can be called raven-haired. The letter R.

7. The tv-station is called Al Jazeera. The letter L.

8. The stupidest man of 2006 is judge Donald Thompson, who used a penis pump during court sessions several times and got caught. Letter D.

9. The picture shows a portion of the Ishtar gate, which was the eighth gate to the inner city of Babylon. The gate is now reconstructed at the Pergamon museum in Berlin. Letter I.

10. The 6 movies are of course Star Wars! Letter S.

11. cDc stands for the "cult of the dead cow", which is a hacker group and a diy media group. Founded in 1984 in Texas. The letter O.

12. British software company Introversion made a computer game named "Uplink" in 2001. The letter U.

13. The company Hoyt makes archery equipment, like bows. Sylvester Stallone uses a Hoyt bow in one of the Rambo movies, and Rambo is also the name of a sort of apples. I actually did a lot of archery when I was younger, and even competed in it. Anyway, letter R from Rambo.

14. This was the trickiest question. I'm going to go with the website www.skepticreport.com, that posts articles and references on all kinds of paranormal, occult and strange things, offering scientific alternatives for explanations for these things. The letter S.

So the sentence reads: "The world is ours".

This was a fun quiz to do! Not so easy to just google yourself to the answer, it actually took some thinking. Fun fun! :)

Jade said...

Cette fois-ci j'abandonne!
Ilja!!!Come on!
Donne-nous une chance!
;)

Jade said...

Écoute Ilja.

J'ai trouvé:
1-T
2-?
3-?
4-W
5-O
6-?
7-J
8-J'aurais dis G...mais...
9-?
10-S
11-?
12-?
13?
14?
Pas fort!

Je propose un quiz sur la musique... ;)

Anonymous said...

and the answer is:

T h e W o r l d is o u r s




Tristram Shanddy
(the letter) H
energy
A Fish Called Wanda
Omertá
Raven
Al-Jazeera
Donald Thompson – District Judge – a.k.a. Oklahoma Penis Pump Judge
Ishtar Gate (the eighth gate to the inner city of Babylon)
STAR WARS !!!
Cult of the dead cow (famous hacker group)
Introversion created several great games: Uplink, Darwnia and just now Defcon (you probably mean Uplink)
Rambo
The Sceptic's Dictionary (www.skepdic.com)

Only took me 20 min., but I didn't have time to do this earlier...

Anonymous said...

1 point less just because I only answered the question!? I was in a hurry and thought the quiz would end soon... Next time be prepared for exhaustive explanations! ;)

Matrixdancer said...

OK, I'm prepared for exhaustive explanations! That's what I want to see in the quiz:-) Try to make it funny, be creative! This will be rewarded in any case. After all, that thing should be fun! And it's only round 4, so ...nothing really bad has happened so far;-)