Monday, January 14, 2008

5 Questions and connect all the answers

Find answers for 1 to 5 and connect them!

1. Name the only real life character adopted in the Harry Potter series. In real life, he is said to have faked his own death, and there are many books under his name long after he was supposedly dead. When his tomb was unearthed, there was no trace of a corpse!

2. Who is being praised here by a biographist?
In the normal course of events many men and women are born with remarkable talents; but occasionally, in a way that transcends nature, a single person is marvellously endowed by Heaven with beauty, grace and talent in such abundance that he leaves other men far behind, all his actions seem inspired and indeed everything he does clearly comes from God rather than from human skill. Everyone acknowledged that this was true of X, an artist of outstanding physical beauty, who displayed infinite grace in everything that he did and who cultivated his genius so brilliantly that all problems he studied he solved with ease.

3. X's Law is named after the Irish natural philosopher who was the first to publish it in 1662. The relationship between the factors involved was brought to the attention of X by two friends and amateur scientists, Richard Towneley and Henry Power, who discovered it. X confirmed their discovery through experiments and published the results. According to Robert Gunther and other authorities, X's assistant Robert Hooke, who built the experimental apparatus, may well have helped to quantify the law; Hooke also developed the improved vacuum pumps necessary for the experiments. The French physicist Edme Mariotte (1620-1684) discovered the same law independently of X in 1676, so this law may be referred to as Mariotte's or the Mariotte-X law.


4. He lives in the bell tower of the cathedral and rings the bells, which have made him become deaf. When he was a hideous and abandoned baby, he was taken in by Claude Frollo. His life within the confines of the cathedral and his only two outlets - ringing the bells and his love and devotion for Frollo - are described. It is revealed in the story that he was left as a baby by the gypsies in place of Esmeralda, who they abducted. Who's he? [Another clue would be that his name means -"half formed"]


5. X was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel he is considered the most prominent figure working within the style commonly referred to as Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions. X was not only among the most important of all French composers but also a central figure in all European music at the turn of the twentieth century.

X's music virtually defines the transition from late-Romantic music to twentieth century modernist music. In French literary circles, the style of this period was known as Symbolism, a movement that directly inspired X both as a composer and as an active cultural participant.

He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. His harmonies, considered radical in his day, were influential to almost every major composer of the 20th century, especially the music of Igor Stravinsky, Olivier Messiaen, Bela Bartok, Pierre Boulez, Henri Dutilleux, and the minimalist music of Steve Reich and Philip Glass as well as the influential Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu. He also influenced many important figures in Jazz, most notably Bill Evans,Thelonious Monk,Duke Ellington, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Jimmy Giuffre and Brad Mehldau.

2 comments:

Sooraj said...

1.Nicolas Flamel:-)

Sooraj said...

3. Boyle's law and 4. Hunchback of Notre-Dame. No other question got any idea bro:-(