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Saturday, May 3, 2008

96. Whats in a Name?

This sport is unique as it has different names for the two versions played by men and women. Men use a curved stick whereas their female counterparts use a shorter stick. Initially, the name of the stick used gave the name to the sport. When the Gaelic Athletic Association was founded in 1884 the English-origin name " A " was given to the men's game. On the other hand, when an organisation for women was set up in 1904, it was decided to Anglicize the Irish name to " B ".

Name both the versions A and B.

Thursday, May 1, 2008

95. Sailing to Byzantium...

"Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats describes the metaphorical journey of a man pursuing his own vision of eternal life through a portion of an old man’s journey to Constantinople.


That is __ _____ ___ ___ ___. The young
In one another's arms, birds in the trees
- Those dying generations - at their song,
The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long
Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.
Caught in that sensual music all neglect
Monuments of unageing intellect.


Just fill in the blanks in the first stanza of the poem.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

94. Russian Drama?

The earliest known use of the term is from a short story by Zach Wright in the January 30, 1937, issue of Lee's Magazine. A Russian sergeant in the French Foreign Legion asks the narrator,

“Feldheim… did you ever hear of ______ _____?"

When I said I had not, he told me all about it. When he was with the Russian army in Romania, around 1917, and things were cracking up, so that their officers felt that they were not only losing prestige, money, family, and country, but were being also dishonored before their colleagues of the Allied armies, some officer would suddenly pull out his revolver, anywhere, at the table, in a cafe, at a gathering of friends…

What term?

Monday, April 28, 2008