No Brainstorm

Somethings in life may look pretty easy, pretty obvious.

Here is one example of quiz, that might make you think that you know it all. Probably if you just use your common sense, this would look to be the most easy question and answers of all. But is it really so? There is only one way to find out….

I am putting all the questions and then followed by the answers. Just go through the questions one by one, if possible write down your answer and then cross check with the answers that i have written. Afterwards…. I hope you will be honest to yourself and won’t cheat.

Besides, this is going to be a fun game. Try yourself and then let your friends know about it.

Alrighty, Good luck to everyone. Here we go:

Questions:

1. How long did the hundred years war last for?
2. From which of the animals, do we get cat gut?
3. What is Camel’s hair brush made of?
4. What is the color of black box in a commercial plan?
5. Which country produces the Chinese gooseberry?
6. The Canary Islands in The Pacific are named after which animal?
7. In which month do the Russians celebrate October Revolution?
8. Which country makes the Panama hats?
9. What was King George VI’s first name?
10. What color is a purple finch?

That’s it. I hope you have written down all your answers.

Pretty simple right? I mean, seems like most of the solutions are answered in the question itself. This is just common sense game and if i am right, you might be thinking you have scored 10 out of 10. A perfect score.

Well, let’s see the answers now…..

Answers:

1. Hundred years war lasted for 116 years actually.
2. Catgut is a type of cord and we get it from sheep and horses.
3. Definitely not from camel’s hair. It’s made out of squirrel’s fur.
4. Black? well no… It’s orange. Atleast i got this one right.
5. Not in China. New Zealand is the place you were looking for.
6. Sorry, it’s not the sweet canary birds. It’s actually Islands of Dogs.
7. October Revolution is actually celebrated in November. I don’t know why.
8. Ecuador in South America is the answer to your Panama hats.
9. I hope you didn’t answer “King” and instead answered “George”. Well it’s “Albert” .
10. Purple finch is crimson in color. Sorry.

Okay, so how many did you get? Honestly, i knew Black Box in an airplane is Orange in color. But for the rest of it, i guess used my common sense more than my intelligence.

Lesson learned: You might just think that you’re doing the right thing, just because the path in front of you appears easy and obvious. But still think before you leap, as it may not be the right path to chose. Hope i made some sense here. If not, then i hope you had fun with the puzzle. Do let me know how many correct answers you had in there.

17th December’2007. That was the actual date, the day when “Blogging” or “Blog” celebrated it’s 10th birthday.

10 years back, of course there did exist, many online journals and message boards, but nothing like blogs were thought of, until one day, “Jorn Barger” coined the term “Weblog” which described the process of “logging the web” as he surfed. Weblog was combination of words “web” and “logs”. But us, the online community in those years, were quick to shorten the word “Weblog” into “blog”. And thus was born what i think most of the internet users, know of, early in their childhood.

It is amazing how, Jorn Barger, in December’1997, started posting comments and links, etc on his website “Robot Wisdom”, thus pioneering the weblog. Today, we all do the same thing. Most of us own a blog and we keep blogging the same way. So let’s give credits to the pioneer himself, who changed the internet world, forever. Thanks Jorn, and Happy Birthday “Blog” or “Weblog” or “Blogging”