July 10, 2009
Five-question theme round
PlayAlright folks.
It’s been a while since we deviated from the bog-standard question-a-day format, so here’s something slightly different.
The next five questions form a theme round. i.e., all their answers are connected by a common theme.(e.g, if the five answers were to be Jimmy Page, John Bonham, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and Ahmet Ertegun, the theme would be Led Zeppelin).
Point scoring rules:
- For answering each question, you get one point, as usual.
- If you guess the theme after the first question, you get five additional points. Second question: four points. Third question: three points. Fourth question: two points. Fifth question: one point.
- Please post your answer to each question, and the guesses to the theme if any, as separate posts.
- One theme attempt per question, only.
- Our decisions are final :)
So here’s the first question of the set.
Question 1: Identify the object being demonstrated in this audio clip.
Please note that this set is exhaustive (i.e. these are the only 5 related to this particular theme)
Cracked by Shrey Goyal , Kaiser Soze , Higgers , udupendra , Raghuvansh , Rogi , lordmaldy , krudebox and Johny Walker.
A few attempts, but no-one cracked the theme yet.
Answer:
Quoth Krudebox: “VODER (Voice Operating DEmonstratoR), an electronic speaking instrument, which was unveiled at the New York World’s Fair 1939-40.”
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July 11th, 2009 at 1:36 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1247319388 )
July 11th, 2009 at 1:41 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1247319691 )
I am going for the connect at the first question itself:
The New York World’s Fair
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July 11th, 2009 at 2:34 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1247322883 )
July 11th, 2009 at 2:42 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1247323376 )
Is the theme Michael Jackson???
Use of Vocoder in his song \’P.Y.T\’
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July 11th, 2009 at 8:21 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1247343706 )
Is this the DEC talk speech synthesiser that Hawking uses
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July 11th, 2009 at 9:36 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1247348203 )
July 11th, 2009 at 9:37 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1247348251 )
Guess for the theme – Exhibits at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.
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July 11th, 2009 at 10:26 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1247351166 )
Speech Synthesizer
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July 11th, 2009 at 10:26 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1247351209 )
Theme – Stephen Hawking
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July 12th, 2009 at 12:55 am, GMT +0000 ( 1247360111 )
July 12th, 2009 at 1:00 am, GMT +0000 ( 1247360456 )
July 12th, 2009 at 1:21 am, GMT +0000 ( 1247361691 )
July 12th, 2009 at 2:53 am, GMT +0000 ( 1247367230 )
Some Ghost communication instrument associated with Arthur Conan Doyle in some way. He was a major paranormal freak, and a spiritualist.
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July 12th, 2009 at 2:54 am, GMT +0000 ( 1247367262 )
Theme is Arthur Conan Doyle.
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July 12th, 2009 at 3:13 am, GMT +0000 ( 1247368423 )
July 12th, 2009 at 4:14 am, GMT +0000 ( 1247372079 )
July 12th, 2009 at 4:42 am, GMT +0000 ( 1247373760 )
July 16th, 2009 at 8:23 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1247775794 )
Re-posting the comment-Vocoder
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