Thursday, January 26, 2012

Question 163


1


The Xs  were a confederation of Germanic Tribes  first attested in the third century AD as populating a broad strip of land on the right bank of the lower and middle Rhine River. From the third to fifth centuries some Xs raided   Roman territory while other Xs joined the Roman troops in Gaul.In the climate of the collapse of imperial authority in the West, the X tribes were united and conquered all of Gaul except Septimania in the 6th century.
ID X



2

Roman unit

Metric equivalent
uncia
27.4 g 
sescuncia or sescunx
41.1 g 
sextans
54.8 g 
quadrans or teruncius
82.2 g 
triens
109.6 g 
quincunx
137.0 g 
semis or semissis
164.5 g 
septunx
191.9 g 
bes or bessis
219.3 g 
dodrans
246.7 g 
dextans
274.1 g 
deunx
301.5 g 
 X
328.9 g 
ID X



DimensionsColourPortrait


120 × 65 mmOrangeLeopoldo Alas


129 × 70 mmDark blueRosalía de Castro


138 × 75 mmGreenBenito Pérez Galdós


147 × 80 mmRedJuan Ramón Jiménez


156 × 85 mmBrownJuan Carlos I of Spain


165 × 85 mmGrayJuan Carlos I of Spain and Felipe, Prince of Asturias


4

X had been the currency of Y since its original unification in 1871. Before that time, the different Y States issued a variety of different currencies, though most were linked to the Vereinstalher, a silver coin containing 16 2/3 grams of pure silver. Although the X was based on gold rather than silver, a fixed exchange rate between the Vereinsthaler and the X of 3 Xs = 1 Vereinsthaler was used for the conversion

ID X


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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Friday, January 20, 2012

Question 161

Yakov Naumovich Pokhi , better known as Yakov Smirnoff, is a Ukranian born American comedian, painter and teacher. He was popular in the 1980s for comedy performances in which he used irony and word play to contrast life under the Communist regime in his native Soviet Union with life in the United States, delivered in heavily accented English. He has a theatre in Branson, Missouri, where he performs year-round. Smirnoff is also a professor at Missouri State University and Drury University where he teaches "The Business of Laughter."

The question : What extremely popular kind of joke was created by this guy?

Answer : Russian Reversal or 'In Soviet Russia X Y's you'