Friday, July 3, 2009

    Summer Bonanza #9

    This is a Long Connect with 5 Questions:---

    1) As an only child, X, nicknamed Y, is very pampered as an extra treasure because his parents are already elderly when he is born. At school, X is a brilliant student, appointed as Head Boy without being a prefect, and said to have been a talented player of Quidditch.In the film version, X's name is listed on a plaque as a Seeker on his Quidditch team; however, he was intended in the book to be a Chaser. Y is the connect.

    2) It is a small carnivorous mammal.Its range in the wild originally extended through European Russia to Poland and Scandinavia.While hunting of them is still common in Russia, most fur in the market is now commercially farmed. Which mammal?

    3) X is a subsidiary of Y, both of which manufactures similar commodities. X was originally named after its founders in 1895 but was renamed in 1958. The company's founders found the name in a dictionary won in a race by one of them as a boy; the dictionary was a South African edition, hence the spelling. X is the connect.

    4) Orange uses a variation of a philosophy in their motto, "I am who I am because of everyone". Which philosophy?

    5) They are a percussion instrument consisting of the hembra (female) and macho (male) parts. It is associated with a steady patter of eighth-notes known as the hammer. Which instrument?

    4 points for each of the questions and 20 points for the connect.

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