AFOVA Newletters of Year 2000

Page 9 of 22 Col N Viswanathan 441 6720 Wg Cdr Ravi Mani 491 6705 (after 1800 hrs) (after 1900 hrs) There is nothing in politeness but wind; neither is there in pneumatic tyres; yet it eases the jolts along life’s highway Quiz Time 13. Here are a few teasers- prizes will be given at the next meeting to those who can send in the first three all/most correct entries. Responses must be mailed to Brig VA Subramanyam at T L Oyster Operaa, Gangai Street, Kalakshetra Colony, Chennai 600 090 as soon as you can shoot off the answers! (a) With how few assistants can an intrepid explorer make a six day crossing on foot of an absolutely barren desert, if he and the available assistants can each carry only enough food and water to last one man four days. Your solution must be a humane one! (b) Two friends went down the descending escalator at one of London’s underground tube railway stations. John walked down, taking 50 steps to reach the bottom; Peter ran down, taking 75. If you are told that Peter ran three steps in the time that John walked one, can you say how many steps are visible when the escalator is stopped for the night. (c) A river police patrol sets out on its usual ‘beat’, a journey that takes it upstream and then downstream and finally upstream again to it’s starting point. On this particular day the river is running faster than usual. Will this make any difference to the time taken to complete the journey? (d) This lucky ship took part in the battle of the River Plate that resulted in the scuttling of the battleship Graf Spee and the suicide of it’s captain. Identify her in her previous and later avatars. (e) He was the first Indian to be awarded the DFC(Distinguished Flying Cross)- who was he? (f) This famous, if eccentric, military leader of a guerilla force that operated against the Japanese swore by the beneficial properties of raw onions- who was he? Name the force that he led. Why is a room packed with married people like an empty room? There is not a single person in it! MS Sajun