Thursday, June 21, 2007

Tartarus 4

CONNECT TO TARTARUS 4



Clue 1 :









Clue 2 :








Clue 3 :








Clue 4 :





These four clues will help u find out the link between persons A,B,C and D...

Hint : Look at person C's picture very carefully...........

Tartarus 4.4

Clue 1 :







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Clue 3 :





Clue 4 :

Cadabra.com




Clue 5 :




The answer to this question is person D.

Tartarus 4.3


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(If u cannot guess him from the above 3 clues..well here it goes...the man in this pic is person C...)

Tartarus 4.2

Clue 1 :





Clue 2 :



Ramayan 3392 A.D.
Devi
The Sadhu
The Asura Analogues
India Authentic
The Master Blaster
Snakewoman
Seven Brothers
The Gamekeeper
Walk-In Voodoo Child
Kama Sutra
The Life of Buddha



Clue 3 :




Clue 4 :

Beef Island
Cooper Island
Ginger Island
Great Camanoe
Great Thatch
Guana Island
Mosquito Island
Necker Island
Norman Island
Peter Island
Salt Island



Clue 5 :






The answer to this question is person B...

Taratarus 4

There are four questions in tartarus 4.0 The answer to each question is a famous personality. In order to figure out the personalities..several clues have been given....Furthermore, all the answers(all the persons) are connected. You have to give me the answers to the four questions and the CONNECT....

Tartarus 4.1


Clue 1 :



Clue 2 :

......"The Octopus" ........




Clue 3 :






Clue 4 :




Clue 5 :



The answer to this question is Person A

Thursday, June 7, 2007

Tartarus 3.4




Situated on the banks of the River Clyde, the Ibrox stadium, or Ibrox Park houses one of the most famous and oldest football clubs of United Kingdom. The stadium witnessed a record crowd of 118,567 in January 1939 against their arch rivals .This remains the record attendance for a league match in Britain.


The stadium is one of 28 European stadiums which have UEFA's 5-star rating, enabling it to host finals of the UEFA Champions League and the European Championship. Along this stadium there are only two other stadiums in the UK which have UEFA's 5 star rating,namely the Hampden Park and Old Trafford.

The stadium has also witnessed tragedy when 25 spectators died as a stand collapsed during the 1902 British Championship tournament.


Although the current players and fans are multinational and multi-ethnic, the club has traditionally been identified with the Protestant Community of the UK. The club has always faced bitter rivalry with another club, nicknamed the Bhoys (from the same city). This rivalry, known as the Old Firm, continues to be one of the most competitive in modern day sports. This rivalry was initiated perhaps because of the fact that the rival club was preominantly formed from Catholic Christian roots......


Nicknamed as the Teddy Bears and also the Bluenoses, the club has won the European Cup Winner's Cup title once and

the League Cup(UEFA cup) a whopping 24 times. Some of the prominent players who have played in this club include Argentinian Claudio Caniggia, Italian Gennaro Gattuso, Paul Gascoigne of England and Giovanni Van Bronckhorst of the Netherlands.


(the 1st pic shows the club's emblem and the other two pics show the club's stadium (ibrox park))

What is the name of this famous british club......?


Tartarus 3.3




The Great Western, a small town in the region of Victoria, Australia was popular for its gold mines in the 1840s. Due to the guld rush at that time, many settlers came to this area and in pursuit of gold they dug out an extensive system of tunnels and labyrinths.




However from the early 1900s this geographical area is being used for entirely different purposes. The mines of the Great Western are currently owned by a famous Australian Company. The labyrinthine caves suit them perfectly for their job.
This famous Australian company was conceptualized in 1886 by two American Brothers William and Ralph of New York who happened to own a refrigeration plant in Australia. However after two years they sold their venture and went back to America. From then on, the company came to be known as the Elders Group. But in 1990 the company's name was changed to the current name(named after their world famous product.....which itself is named after the two american brothers)

The pic shows the company's logo and punchline.....
For what purpose are the mines being used and what is the name of the company....?

Monday, June 4, 2007

Tartarus 3.2






the 1st pic shows the material supporting 15 kg of stone. the second pic shows the material's extreme heat-insulating property.
This material holds the most number of Guinness Book of Records ( 15 in total)for material properties, including best insulator and lowest-density solid. Deveolped in NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in pasadena, california, this material is evn stronger than kevlar......


Taraturs 3.1

Which famous person's epitaph reads :

"Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear,
To dig the dust enclosèd here.
Blest be the man that spares these stones,
And cursed be he that moves my bones."


hint : One of his not so famous works includes : The phoenix and the turtle

Sunday, June 3, 2007

Tartarus 3.0

(this is a still from the video)


This is a song by a famous American rock band . Written by Krist Novoselic, and Dave Grohl and the band's lead singer and produced by Butch Vig, the song uses a verse-chorus form where the main four-chord riff is used during the intro and chorus to create an alternating loud and quiet dynamic.

The unexpected success of the song propelled the album to the top of the charts at the start of 1992, often marked as the point where alternative rock entered the mainstream.


In the words of the band's lead singer,

" I was trying to write the ultimate pop song. I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies. I have to admit it. When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily that I should have been in that band — or at least a Pixies cover band. We used their sense of dynamics, being soft and quiet and then loud and hard. "


The video won the band the "Best New Artist" and "Best Alternative Group" awards at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards,[48] and in 2000 the Guinness World Records named the song the Most Played Video on MTV Europe


A snippet of the song was also performed in a cabaret style in the 2001 movie Moulin Rouge!.



The song talks about the confused youth of the 1980s and 1990s and although it has no central idea, many of its lines sarcastic and contradict each other.


Name the song, the band and its very famous vocalist....

Thursday, March 1, 2007

Tartarus 2.0

Given below are five clues pointing to five different movies...but all having something in common....

Gimme the answers to all da five questions and also the connect...



Clue for the connect
All da clues have something in common with this guy
(the connection is very precise.......and not general...)

Clue 1: This is the official poster of a 1988 film based on a controversial novel (of the same name) written by Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis.





The central thesis of the movie was that although the
protagonist was free from sin, he was subject to doubt, depression, reluctance and lust. This results in the book and film depicting the protagonist imagining himself engaged in sexual activities, a notion that has caused outrage from certain religious communities......













Clue 2 : This movie is about the Lucchese crime family (gangsters) of the blue-collar, predominantly
Italian New York City neighborhood of Brooklyn. Based on New York crime reporter Nicholas
Pileggi's book Wiseguy, the movie deals with billion dollar cargo heists from the lufthansa and
ari france terminals of the JFK airport conducted by a wannabe gangster and a close associate of
the Lucchese mob capo.




The movie ends dramatically with the firing of a bullet directly into the camera.







Clue 3 : This is one of those popular sports movies of the 1980s. It stars Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta, a temperamental and paranoid but tenacious boxer who alienates
himself from his friends and family.

By the end of the 1980s, this movie had cemented its reputation as a modern classic, and also gave Robert DeNiro an oscar for the best actor in a leading role.


Clue 4: This movie is about the conflict between the "native" criminal underworld and the immigrant gangs .The film opens in 1846, but most of the action takes place in the early 1860s, when the two principal controversies were the great wave of Irish immigration to the city and the federal government's
prosecution of the American Civil War. The story follows the careers of two persons who rise from crime bosses to political kingmakers.



Clue 5: This famous film which tracks the story of an eccentric movie buff/economic mogul (who made talkies like Scarface and The Outlaw), begins with a nine year old boy being bathed by his mother, who warns him of disease. The movie also details the mogul's romances with Ava Gardner and Katharine Hepburn, obsession with hollywood movies and obviously the spruce goose.







Tartarus 1.0

Q.1) The phrase A has been used as a metasyntactic variable by hackers and as a marker in program sources for known-incorrect or incomplete code.
The A Awards are presented annually to notable works of interactive fiction.
A is also a cheat for some versions of the Microsoft game Minesweeper
A is used to enable cheats in Road Rash.
A is the default password for Apple Computer's Network Assistant. It was also the name of a user interface (client) on the VMS operating system for the EARN/BITNET Relay chat system (the forerunner of IRC). On Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP-11/44 processor, the full (but undocumented) form of the console processor's "X" command is A
On Data General's AOS/VS operating system if you type in the command A you would get back the response "Nothing Happens". On AOS/VS II it returns "Twice as much happens".
The phrase A is now internatonally identified with the computer hacker/geek......one who loves plaing dungeons and dragons............
What is the word A ?

Q.2)Arthur Wynne (1862 - 1945), born Liverpool, England, was a British editor and puzzle constructor in his home country and the United States of America. He invented something famous in 1913.
He worked for the New York World, then one day was asked to invent a new game for the paper. Wynne thought of a game he had played in his childhood called Magic Squares, and soon came up with this, which was first issued in the December 21st, 1913 issue of the World. What did he invent?

Q.3) The motto of the international organization X is In varietate Concordia. Established under the Maastricht Treaty, X’s official anthem was composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. X is estimated to have an annual GDP of 13.4 trillion USD.. If X were to be considered as a separate country it would rank first in the GDP rankings and 22nd on the HDI.
What is X?

Q.4) ‘X’is a very famous work(s) of fiction written by Y. X first appeared in the Le Vingtième Siècle and after that it became a huge success. Released at the time of the Bolshevik uprising in Russia, the Second World War, X ’s plot(s) straddles a variety of genres: swashbuckling adventures with elements of fantasy; mysteries; political thrillers; and science fiction, engulfed in political satire and slapstick humor.
Although Y was believed to be the next charles dickens as his characters were as good as those of dickens, he/she had been criticized for the dirty portrayal of the Africans.
One of the major characters of X, Archibald(one of protagonist’s best friend) owns the Moulinsart Mansion, always favours the Loch Lomond brand of whisky, and is popularly associated with phrases like “troglodytes", "bashi-bazouk", "kleptomaniac", "anacoluthon", and "pockmark".
The other famous characters include Professeur Tryphon Tournesol, Dupont et Dupondand and Milou.
In music, X has been the inspiration to a number of bands and musicians. Stephen Duffy, a former member of Duran Duran, performed the minor hit single "Kiss Me" under the name X; he had to drop the name under pressure of a copyright infringement suit. The protagonist (on whose name the work is based)appeard in the national postage stamp of one country in 1979, in another country in 1999 and in another country in 2002.
On June 1, 2006, the Dalai Lama bestowed the International Campaign for Tibet's Light of Truth award upon the character of X, along with South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The famous president Charles de Gaulle once said "My only international rival is X”.
Name X and Y.



Hint for Q.1) A is taught by math teachers the world around as a mnemonic device to remember how to do cross products. If A = BC, where A, B, and C are the vectors (Ax, Ay, Az),(Bx, By, Bz) and (Cx, Cy, Cz), then: Notice that the second and third equations can be obtained from the first by simply rotating the subscripts, x -> y -> z -> x. The problem, of course, is how to remember the first equation…….

Hint for Q.2) Go and chk out ur newspaper.......

Hint for Q.3) The number 12 has something to do with X ’s flag.....

Hint for Q.4) The author's original name is Georges Remi.....he is a Belgian....