Sunday, May 10, 2009

Answers:Moving Hand Types 45

Answers:Moving Hand Types 45

1)The central theme for this week.

#Anna Jarvis,Creator Mothers Day

2)This map explains a famous genetics concept?

#Eve Mitochondria, A fact that every human has some gene of the first human - EVE

3)Put fundaes?

#Ada Lovelace, Regarded as Mother of Analytical engine and Charles Babbage's secret crush

4)Connect?

#Mother Teresa,Young Teresa,Kalighat where she built her orphanage and writer Christopher Hitchens who wrote a controversial bookThe Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice

5)Identify this monarch?

#Queen Mother of England

Scores:
Ganapathy 5
Udaibhan Singh 1
KN 1
Sharath 2
Kanmani 1
Nirad 1

9 comments:

Ganapathy said...

1. Anna Jarvis, founder of mother's day holiday in the US of A.

2. This the path of human migration as indicated by the genetic markers in the human mitochondrial DNA. This is infact one of the few answers that I know on my own. I participated in the Genographic project but mapped my Y chromosome markers instead.

http://sammaipethal.blogspot.com/2007/02/my-deep-ancestry.html

3. Analytical Engine of Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace. She wrote potential programs for the as of then unbuilt machine and was even able to foresee abilities beyond number crunching.

4. Mother Teresa in her younger days, a temple in the city of calcutta and the prominent athiest author, Chris Hitchens who strongly criticized the lady in his book, "The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice".

5. no clue as of now.

Ganapathy said...

5. Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, The queen consort and later the queen mother of England. She was a royal and a part of the monarchy, but she wasn't technically a monarch..

Udaibhan singh said...

3. The lady is ada lovelace. the machine is difference engine 2. ADA LOVELACE is credited for writing programs for Charles Babbage/

Karthik Narayan said...

3. lady ada lovelace and her first "computer"

Anonymous said...

1. Marie Curie
2. Out of Africa
3. Ada Lovelace, and the analytical engine
4.
5. queen elizabeth

sharath jose

Kanmani said...

3. Ada Byron and the Differential Engine.. Charles Babbage

Nirad said...

Very tough for me. i don't have a clue to even 1. Nonetheless for the sake of trying:

1. QUEEN MARIE ANTOINETTE

2. ALL HUMANS ORIGINATED IN AFRICA

3. THE GUILLOTINE

4. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

5. i don't know, but doesn't matter what her name is if she's so stupendously stunning!
QUEEN VICTORIA?

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niranjan said...

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