7Q7D July 8 06

1. Inspector Thomas Byrnes was Chief of Detectives for the New York police from
1880 till 1895, when he was fired for corruption by Teddy Roosevelt (who was,
at that time, the president of the NY City Police Commission). Byrnes coined
two terms that are used by policemen even to this day. The first was a "Rogues
Gallery" photo album of arrested suspects. What was the other term he coined?
[specific term pls - definition wont get points]

a. "Third Degree" - torture of suspects to extract a confession.

Quite a few people (including at least one intrepid googler) gave me "Mulberry
Street Morning Parade" for this. Sorry - that was connected to his Rogues
Gallery - have those rogues gallery members not in Jail parade themselves
before police HQ every morning so he knows if anybody is missing and presumably
engaged in a crime. Byrnes' concept of third degree was not always the usual
"tie him to a chair and bash him up" stuff - he managed to scare a confession
out of one killer by convincing him that the ghost of the girl he'd murdered
was coming back to get him ...

2. Cremona is a city in Italy, on the banks of the River Po. In western

classical music, it has a similar status to that of Thiruvaiyaru in Carnatic
Music. Why?

a. Home to Nicolo Amati, Andrea Guarnieri, Antonio Stradivari - the finest

violins and other stringed instruments (Violas, Cellos etc).

3. Visual. See http://www.hserus.net/7q7d-july-8-06/vis3.jpg

This is a belt of low pressure around the equator, often known as the
Intertropical Convergence Zone. Early sailors, in sailing ships, could not
steer or navigate in that region due to the complete lack of winds caused by
the low pressure, and so their name for this region came to be used as a word
meaning mental depression. What word?

a. Doldrums

4. Visual. See http://www.hserus.net/7q7d-july-8-06/vis4.jpg

Identify - quite rare shot, 3 famous authors when they were serving together
in the Naval Air Experimental Station in Philadelphia during World War II

a. from l to r -- Robert Heinlein, L (Lyon) Sprague deCamp, Isaac Asimov

5. This was called a "river", till it got renamed to a "mountain" in 1730,

after it changed owners. What?

a. The Koh-i-noor diamond. Earlier name Darya-i-noor (river of light), then

koh = mountain.

6. The insigna of a magistrate in ancient Rome was symbolic of the fact that
he had the power to order criminals to be flogged and beheaded. The name
given to this insigna became quite well known in the 20th century. What?

a. Fasces (a bundle of rods bound to an axe) so Fascist

7. It is the largest town in the far south of Tunisia, with a lot of

historical artifacts, from a French Foreign Legion prison to roman ruins and
caveman dwellings. Two famous movies are connected with / shot in the town.
Name the town (and if you get the town you'll get the movies too)

a. Foum Tatahouine (Tattoine = Luke Skywalker's planet, and Lucas shot most of
the star wars desert scenes in Tunisia, and the location of the X-Files movie
climax, with an alien virus lab)