QUIZ 31

Q1
Little is publicly known of the man's identity or that of the commander of the lead tank. Shortly after the incident, British tabloid the Sunday Express named the man as Wang Weilin, a 19-year-old student; however, the veracity of this claim is dubious. The People's Republic of China government made few statements about the incident or the people involved. In a 1990 interview with Barbara Walters, then-CCP General Secretary Jiang Zemin was asked what became of the man. Jiang replied in English, "I think never killed." Who?

Q2
"Could I forget that the event [Ali Ağca's assassination attempt] in St. Peter’s Square took place on the day and at the hour when the first appearance of the Mother of Christ to the poor little peasants has been remembered for over sixty years at Fátima, Portugal? For in everything that happened to me on that very day, I felt that extraordinary motherly protection and care, which turned out to be stronger than the deadly bullet." Who said this?

Q3
Some of the inventions he theorized included: wall of light, anti-gravity airships, teleportation, time travel, thought photography, Flying Machine (without the use of an airplane engine, wings, ailerons, propellers, or an onboard fuel source). After his death, the FBI was contacted by the War Department, and his papers were declared to be top secret and eventually confiscated. Who?

Q4
Connect: The Mirror Escape, The Milk Can, The Chinese Water Torture Cell, Suspended straitjacket escape, Erik Weisz

Q5
It has since been claimed that acoustic analysis of the recording reveals the presence of the missing "a". A digital audio analysis conducted by Peter Shann Ford, an Australia-based computer programmer, claims that X did, in fact, say "a man", but the "a" was inaudible due to the limitations of communications technology of the time. X has expressed his preference that written quotations include the "a" in parentheses. Identify X.

Q6
Identify the person shown in the above image. (Hint: If he were alive, he would be the owner of NBC.)

The Early Bird: Nikhil Dasgupta, Mumbai

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