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EPIPHANY ’08
QUIZ.O8.MANIA
• X is a type of male fairy said to inhabit the island of Ireland. • They usually take the form of old men who enjoy making mischief. They are cobblers by trade and are said to be very rich. According to legend, if anyone keeps an eye fixed upon one, he cannot escape, but the moment the eye is withdrawn he vanishes.
Leprechaun
Connect the 3 pictures
• An easy way to visually tell them apart is that one has a small black nose and one centered protruding tooth, whereas the other has a big red nose and his two prominent canines exposed.
Chippendale • The Male Strippers • The furniture maker • Chip & Dale - Disney
• Legend has it that this Scandinavian king, X, had grown tired of flattery from his courtiers. When one such flatterer gushed that X was so great that he might even command the sea itself, he was angry. X then proved his courtier wrong with a demonstration. When the waves did not turn back as he commanded, X said that even a king's powers have limits. At his failure to command the waves, he removed his crown, refusing to wear it again, claiming that there was no true king except Jesus.
King Canute
Connect (non-exhaustive): • • • • •
Mr. Wilson from Home Improvement Charles Townsend in Charlie’s Angels Kenny McCormick from South Park Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget Mammy Two Shoes in Tom and Jerry
Unseen faces
• X’s choice is basically the ‘take it or leave it’ choice. Perhaps the most famous X’s choice is Henry Ford’s “any colour, as long as it’s black”. The phrase is said to originate from Thomas X, a stable owner at Cambridge, who, in order to rotate the use of his horses, offered customers the choice of either taking the horse in the stall nearest the door—or taking none at all.
Hobson’s Choice
• In 1543, Copernicus wrote a book on the heliocentric theory. It received mild responses until 60 years later when Galilio Galilei endorsed it ( it was declared to be blasphemous, etc). A certain word, which had no military connotations until then, was suddenly used to describe socio-political change, or a major change in a culture or economy. Which word? (The word is part of the title of Copernicus’ book.)
Revolution • Copernicus’ book On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres, is often considered the starting point of modern astronomy
This Tokyo-based company was founded in1934 by Tadao Yoshida. In the early years, Mr. Yoshida's company carried his name; later it was changed to Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha (English: “Yoshida Company Limited.”) Which company? What is it’s major product?
YKK- Zippers
• X claims that a photograph of actor Conrad Veidt wearing make-up for the silent film The Man Who Laughs inspired him to conceive this character. • However X’s colleague Y says that X had nothing to do with it. It just so happened that X came to Y with a playing card and that inspired Y to create this character. • Which character? (X, Y are not required)
Joker (Batman Series)
Conrad Veidt in “The man who laughs”
An Apocryphal Story: • Admiral Horatio Nelson is supposed to have said this when willfully disobeying a signal to withdraw during the battle of Copenhagen. • He and his commander disagreed over strategies. At one point his commander sent a signal (with flags) for him to disengage. Nelson ignored it and he persisted. That's when he said/did this.
He turned a blind eye • Admiral Nelson had a glass eye • His exact word were: "You know, …., I have only one eye and I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really did not see the signal."
• In mediaeval England, there was a practice of allowing peasants to take any deadwood from the royal forest that they could reach with a shepherd's crook or a reaper's billhook. • What is the significance of this?
• It is (apparently) the origin of the phrase “By hook or by crook”
• A system of merits and demerits was introduced in Fall Brook Railroad in New York State by Superintendent G. R. Brown in 1886. The system was well-used and widely known on the US and Canadian railroads in the 19th century. Meritorious practices were given certain marks and the employees had to maximize their scores. • What were these marks called?
Brownie Points • (Apparently)
Who said this? • “No bastard ever won a war dying for his country. He made the other poor bastard die for his country”
General Patton
Connect? • A policy or practice of limited inclusion of members of a minority group, usually creating a false appearance of inclusive practices, intentional or not.
Token (Black)
The similarities to Sherlock Holmes include: The plot, including _________’s reliance on psychology to solve cases, his reluctance to accept cases he doesn’t find interesting, his drug addiction, his home address, his relationship with a colleague (a reference to Dr John Watson) and his encounter with a gunman called Moriarty.
The most obvious reference is probably his name, which is meant to be a “subtle homage” to Sherlock Holmes.
• House (Gregory House of the series) • House analogous to Holmes (“homes”, duh)
• This term was applied most notably to John Osbourne due to comments about his play Look Back in Anger (1956). Often applied to the British 'kitchen sink' playwrights of the 1950s. Also used to describe anyone who rails against the establishment. John Osbourne in Look Back in Anger
Angry Young Man
CVN -69 Dwight D Eisenhower CV-46 Iwo Jima CVB-42 Franklin D Roosevelt CVN-77 George H W Bush CVN-73 George Washington CVN-68 _____________ CV-67 John F Kennedy CVN-75 Harry S Truman
• Nimitz • Names of US Nimitz class Aircraft carriers
• This phrase is a commonly used hyperbolic means of praising an invention or other society-advancing development. The invention has existed only since 1928, and it appears to be something of an arbitrary selection as the benchmark against which later inventions should be judged. It has been said that "the phrase is the ultimate depiction of innovative achievement and American know-how“
‘Greatest thing since sliced bread’
• X is a Polish word popularized by its use as a running gag in the early issues of MAD circa 1952. A typical appearance of the word is in the Mad version of Canterbury Tales, which begins: •
"Whon thot Aprille swithin ____X_____ "The burgid prillie gives one heebie-jeebie.
• Mad editor Harvey Kurtzman spotted the word printed in the "Instructions for Use" sheet accompanying a bottle of aspirin
Potrzebie
Connect The Following: • Orson Welles' famous film Citizen Kane • Douglas Adams' novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. • A song in The Canadian band ‘Rush’s 1977 album, A Farewell to Kings • The title track to the 1984 album by the band Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Poem • In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
• A general during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), said this on the radio as four of his army formations moved into Madrid. He referred to his militant supporters within the capital as his “____ _______," , intent on undermining the loyalist government from within. • Fill in the Blanks
Fifth Column • Fifth column is a group of secret sympathizers or supporters of an enemy that engage in espionage or sabotage within defense lines or national borders.
Halfway through
The Story goes as follows.. X using the threat of revealing Y’s "biggest secret". X proclaimed that Y was a murderer, who as a child had burned down the family funeral home business (where X worked), killing his parents and his younger brother. Y claimed there was no way for X to have that information, but X said that he was told this by Y’s brother Z ,who was still alive but horribly burned and scarred. X raised Z after the fire, having him institutionalized. Now, Z was waiting for revenge after all these years…. Identify X,Y,Z..
Ans: X:Paul Bearer Y: Undertaker Z: Kane
•
He has led several crucial projects: • He was responsible for the first set of Public Private Partnership (PPP) roads in Bangalore: A. Connecting Airport to Saibaba Ashram via Whitefield & Marthahalli Bridge (8.27 km) B. Banneraghatta Road starting JP Nagar junction to Meenakshi Temple (5 km) C. Sarjapur Road from Iblur junction to railway crossing (9 km) · He single - handedly oversaw the execution of 19 IT/ BT roads across Bangalore which has survived 3 monsoons :) · He is working with Rajasthan Govt on a vocational training & rural employment scheme where annually 20,000 people are expected to get employment. · He is in discussion with UP government for PPP projects in infrastructure and the mid day meal scheme for kids which a huge success in Karnataka/Rajasthan. · He is the member of govt's high powered task force for creating access infrastructure from Bangalore city to the new international airport.
R K Misra recently won TOI’s Lead India
On December 4th 1971, Frank Zappa and “The Mothers of Invention” were playing at the concert hall in Montreaux, Switzerland. In the middle of the synthesizer solo, the place suddenly caught fire.Somebody from the audience had fired a flare gun onto the stage due to which the rattan-covering started burning.The resulting fire burned the entire casino and the equipment. How do we know this incident better??
Ans:The incident is immortalized in the song “Smoke on Water” by Deep Purple.
Which is the only African nation to have “The” prefixed before its name??
Ans: The Gambia.
4.”__” has the looks of James Dean and Fonzie( from “Happy Days”) and the voice of Elvis Presley and resides in Aron City. (The director says that the name “__” was inspired from the episode of the Brady Bunch wherein Greg Brady wants to be a rockstar.) Many Celebrity guests on the show include Mick Jagger, Weird Al Yankovic, Farah Fawcett, Capt. America,Velma Dinkley etc.
Johnny Bravo
Howard Gould at the meeting of ___ full membership said to a standing ovation: “If you don’t give us what we want on the important thing, we’re gonna come after you for all those other things. But what I heard was, if we give them that thing, they’ll still come after us for all those other things. And in three years it will be “we want to revamp the whole residual system”. And in another three years, it’ll be “y’know what, we don’t really want to fund the health fund the way we’ve been”. And then it will be pension. And then it’ll be credit determination. And there just is that time when everybody has to see- this one where we just gotta stand our ground. Whom was this directed against/Give funda
• WGA=Writers’ Guild of America • Writers’ strike against the AMPTP (Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers)
.A famous Man Utd. Away- kit in 2001-02 included a reversible shirt that was white with black sleeves and gold trim on one side, and gold with black trim on the other side. What is the significance of the jersey?? (specific answer required).
Ans:Celebrating 100 years of changing the club’s name from Newton-Heath to Manchester United.
Marcus _________ Pollio was a Roman architect and writer active in the 1st century BC. __________ is most famous for asserting in his book: De Architectura, that a structure must exhibit three qualities of firmitas, utilitas, venustas- that is it must be strong, durable, useful and beautiful. According to _________ architecture is an imitation of nature, as birds and bees build their nest, so humans constructed housing from natural materials that give them shelter against the elements. When perfecting this art of building, the ancient Greek invented the architectural orders: Doric, Ionic and Corinthian, It gave them a sense of proportion , culminating in the understanding the proportions of the greatest work of art: the human body.
Who?
• Vitruvius
The Land that he went to was covered with flat,shiny rocks. He therefore called it as “Helluland” or “Land of the flat stones”.This was probably Baffin Island. Next he came to a place with long, white sandy beaches and was flat and wooded. He therefore called it “Markland” or “WoodLand”. Who are we talking about??
Ans: Leif Eriksson, son of Erik The Red.
• James BondAgent:007, Enemy: GoldFinger, Boss:Q •
“___”Agent000, Enemy:Yellow Pinkie, Boss:Double-Q
Secret Squirrel
Identify the two men.
• David Livingstone & Henry Morton Stanley
• Ludwig Boltzmann. • S=klogW is Boltzmann’s equation, relating entropy with probability.
• Which Indian household brand name was initiated by Kaka Dandekar in 1930 as a swadeshi product name , and was named after an American cigarette brand??
Camel
What is blanked Out??
American Idol
Identify the Band
The Rat Packs
Donna Wold (nee Johnson). What is her significance in the world of comics?
Inspiration for the Little redhaired girl from Peanuts
• This game was devised by John Jaques II, who is also credited with inventing tiddlywinks, ludo and snakes and ladders, and first published before the Great Exhibition of 1851. Some of the characters include:
• • • • • •
Soot, the Sweep Stamp, the Postman Tape, the Tailor Dose, the Doctor Bacon, the Butcher Block, the Barber
Happy Families • (this pack has been was apparently illustrated by John Teniel, of Alice in wonderland fame)
Which city connects these people? • Preity Zinta , Karan Paul ( Apeejay Surendra Group), Ness Wadia ( Bombay Dyeing), and Dabur’s Mohit Burman??
Mohali
• A show (or series) is said to have ____ _____ ____ when it is past its prime. This is usually seen in the improbable or sometimes downright ridiculous changes in the plotline. • The phrase as a direct metaphor is reported to have been first used in 1997 when the ___________.com website was launched by Jon Hein. • This was a direct reference to the 1977 episode of Happy Days when Fonzie ____________ while water skiing. The scene was so preposterous that many believed it to be an ill-conceived attempt at reviving the declining ratings of the show.
Jumping The Shark (jumptheshark.com)
Two very famous works are missing: • • • • • • • • • •
Pen names and associated writings Geoffrey Crayon Bracebridge Hall The Devil and Tom Walker The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon Tales of a Traveller Diedrich Knickerbocker A History of New York Jonathan Oldstyle Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle
Irving Washington Rip van winkle, The legend of Sleepy Hollow
What is being depicted?
Series of Undersea Cable Cuts in the last week
Excerpted from Milton's Paradise Lost, Book 2: Into this wilde Abyss, The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave, Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire, But all these in thir pregnant causes mixt Confus'dly, and which thus must ever fight, Unless th' Almighty Maker them ordain _______________ to create more Worlds, Into this wilde Abyss the warie fiend Stood on the brink of Hell and look'd a while, Pondering his Voyage; for no narrow frith He had to cross. -lines 910 - 920
His Dark Materials (popular fantasy series by Philip Pullman): 1. The Golden Compass/Northern Lights 2. The Subtle Knife 3. The Amber Spyglass
QUIZ.O8.MANIA
• X is a type of male fairy said to inhabit the island of Ireland. • They usually take the form of old men who enjoy making mischief. They are cobblers by trade and are said to be very rich. According to legend, if anyone keeps an eye fixed upon one, he cannot escape, but the moment the eye is withdrawn he vanishes.
Leprechaun
Connect the 3 pictures
• An easy way to visually tell them apart is that one has a small black nose and one centered protruding tooth, whereas the other has a big red nose and his two prominent canines exposed.
Chippendale • The Male Strippers • The furniture maker • Chip & Dale - Disney
• Legend has it that this Scandinavian king, X, had grown tired of flattery from his courtiers. When one such flatterer gushed that X was so great that he might even command the sea itself, he was angry. X then proved his courtier wrong with a demonstration. When the waves did not turn back as he commanded, X said that even a king's powers have limits. At his failure to command the waves, he removed his crown, refusing to wear it again, claiming that there was no true king except Jesus.
King Canute
Connect (non-exhaustive): • • • • •
Mr. Wilson from Home Improvement Charles Townsend in Charlie’s Angels Kenny McCormick from South Park Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget Mammy Two Shoes in Tom and Jerry
Unseen faces
• X’s choice is basically the ‘take it or leave it’ choice. Perhaps the most famous X’s choice is Henry Ford’s “any colour, as long as it’s black”. The phrase is said to originate from Thomas X, a stable owner at Cambridge, who, in order to rotate the use of his horses, offered customers the choice of either taking the horse in the stall nearest the door—or taking none at all.
Hobson’s Choice
• In 1543, Copernicus wrote a book on the heliocentric theory. It received mild responses until 60 years later when Galilio Galilei endorsed it ( it was declared to be blasphemous, etc). A certain word, which had no military connotations until then, was suddenly used to describe socio-political change, or a major change in a culture or economy. Which word? (The word is part of the title of Copernicus’ book.)
Revolution • Copernicus’ book On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres, is often considered the starting point of modern astronomy
This Tokyo-based company was founded in1934 by Tadao Yoshida. In the early years, Mr. Yoshida's company carried his name; later it was changed to Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha (English: “Yoshida Company Limited.”) Which company? What is it’s major product?
YKK- Zippers
• X claims that a photograph of actor Conrad Veidt wearing make-up for the silent film The Man Who Laughs inspired him to conceive this character. • However X’s colleague Y says that X had nothing to do with it. It just so happened that X came to Y with a playing card and that inspired Y to create this character. • Which character? (X, Y are not required)
Joker (Batman Series)
Conrad Veidt in “The man who laughs”
An Apocryphal Story: • Admiral Horatio Nelson is supposed to have said this when willfully disobeying a signal to withdraw during the battle of Copenhagen. • He and his commander disagreed over strategies. At one point his commander sent a signal (with flags) for him to disengage. Nelson ignored it and he persisted. That's when he said/did this.
He turned a blind eye • Admiral Nelson had a glass eye • His exact word were: "You know, …., I have only one eye and I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really did not see the signal."
• In mediaeval England, there was a practice of allowing peasants to take any deadwood from the royal forest that they could reach with a shepherd's crook or a reaper's billhook. • What is the significance of this?
• It is (apparently) the origin of the phrase “By hook or by crook”
• A system of merits and demerits was introduced in Fall Brook Railroad in New York State by Superintendent G. R. Brown in 1886. The system was well-used and widely known on the US and Canadian railroads in the 19th century. Meritorious practices were given certain marks and the employees had to maximize their scores. • What were these marks called?
Brownie Points • (Apparently)
Who said this? • “No bastard ever won a war dying for his country. He made the other poor bastard die for his country”
General Patton
Connect? • A policy or practice of limited inclusion of members of a minority group, usually creating a false appearance of inclusive practices, intentional or not.
Token (Black)
The similarities to Sherlock Holmes include: The plot, including _________’s reliance on psychology to solve cases, his reluctance to accept cases he doesn’t find interesting, his drug addiction, his home address, his relationship with a colleague (a reference to Dr John Watson) and his encounter with a gunman called Moriarty.
The most obvious reference is probably his name, which is meant to be a “subtle homage” to Sherlock Holmes.
• House (Gregory House of the series) • House analogous to Holmes (“homes”, duh)
• This term was applied most notably to John Osbourne due to comments about his play Look Back in Anger (1956). Often applied to the British 'kitchen sink' playwrights of the 1950s. Also used to describe anyone who rails against the establishment. John Osbourne in Look Back in Anger
Angry Young Man
CVN -69 Dwight D Eisenhower CV-46 Iwo Jima CVB-42 Franklin D Roosevelt CVN-77 George H W Bush CVN-73 George Washington CVN-68 _____________ CV-67 John F Kennedy CVN-75 Harry S Truman
• Nimitz • Names of US Nimitz class Aircraft carriers
• This phrase is a commonly used hyperbolic means of praising an invention or other society-advancing development. The invention has existed only since 1928, and it appears to be something of an arbitrary selection as the benchmark against which later inventions should be judged. It has been said that "the phrase is the ultimate depiction of innovative achievement and American know-how“
‘Greatest thing since sliced bread’
• X is a Polish word popularized by its use as a running gag in the early issues of MAD circa 1952. A typical appearance of the word is in the Mad version of Canterbury Tales, which begins: •
"Whon thot Aprille swithin ____X_____ "The burgid prillie gives one heebie-jeebie.
• Mad editor Harvey Kurtzman spotted the word printed in the "Instructions for Use" sheet accompanying a bottle of aspirin
Potrzebie
Connect The Following: • Orson Welles' famous film Citizen Kane • Douglas Adams' novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. • A song in The Canadian band ‘Rush’s 1977 album, A Farewell to Kings • The title track to the 1984 album by the band Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Poem • In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
• A general during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), said this on the radio as four of his army formations moved into Madrid. He referred to his militant supporters within the capital as his “____ _______," , intent on undermining the loyalist government from within. • Fill in the Blanks
Fifth Column • Fifth column is a group of secret sympathizers or supporters of an enemy that engage in espionage or sabotage within defense lines or national borders.
Halfway through
The Story goes as follows.. X using the threat of revealing Y’s "biggest secret". X proclaimed that Y was a murderer, who as a child had burned down the family funeral home business (where X worked), killing his parents and his younger brother. Y claimed there was no way for X to have that information, but X said that he was told this by Y’s brother Z ,who was still alive but horribly burned and scarred. X raised Z after the fire, having him institutionalized. Now, Z was waiting for revenge after all these years…. Identify X,Y,Z..
Ans: X:Paul Bearer Y: Undertaker Z: Kane
•
He has led several crucial projects: • He was responsible for the first set of Public Private Partnership (PPP) roads in Bangalore: A. Connecting Airport to Saibaba Ashram via Whitefield & Marthahalli Bridge (8.27 km) B. Banneraghatta Road starting JP Nagar junction to Meenakshi Temple (5 km) C. Sarjapur Road from Iblur junction to railway crossing (9 km) · He single - handedly oversaw the execution of 19 IT/ BT roads across Bangalore which has survived 3 monsoons :) · He is working with Rajasthan Govt on a vocational training & rural employment scheme where annually 20,000 people are expected to get employment. · He is in discussion with UP government for PPP projects in infrastructure and the mid day meal scheme for kids which a huge success in Karnataka/Rajasthan. · He is the member of govt's high powered task force for creating access infrastructure from Bangalore city to the new international airport.
R K Misra recently won TOI’s Lead India
On December 4th 1971, Frank Zappa and “The Mothers of Invention” were playing at the concert hall in Montreaux, Switzerland. In the middle of the synthesizer solo, the place suddenly caught fire.Somebody from the audience had fired a flare gun onto the stage due to which the rattan-covering started burning.The resulting fire burned the entire casino and the equipment. How do we know this incident better??
Ans:The incident is immortalized in the song “Smoke on Water” by Deep Purple.
Which is the only African nation to have “The” prefixed before its name??
Ans: The Gambia.
4.”__” has the looks of James Dean and Fonzie( from “Happy Days”) and the voice of Elvis Presley and resides in Aron City. (The director says that the name “__” was inspired from the episode of the Brady Bunch wherein Greg Brady wants to be a rockstar.) Many Celebrity guests on the show include Mick Jagger, Weird Al Yankovic, Farah Fawcett, Capt. America,Velma Dinkley etc.
Johnny Bravo
Howard Gould at the meeting of ___ full membership said to a standing ovation: “If you don’t give us what we want on the important thing, we’re gonna come after you for all those other things. But what I heard was, if we give them that thing, they’ll still come after us for all those other things. And in three years it will be “we want to revamp the whole residual system”. And in another three years, it’ll be “y’know what, we don’t really want to fund the health fund the way we’ve been”. And then it will be pension. And then it’ll be credit determination. And there just is that time when everybody has to see- this one where we just gotta stand our ground. Whom was this directed against/Give funda
• WGA=Writers’ Guild of America • Writers’ strike against the AMPTP (Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers)
.A famous Man Utd. Away- kit in 2001-02 included a reversible shirt that was white with black sleeves and gold trim on one side, and gold with black trim on the other side. What is the significance of the jersey?? (specific answer required).
Ans:Celebrating 100 years of changing the club’s name from Newton-Heath to Manchester United.
Marcus _________ Pollio was a Roman architect and writer active in the 1st century BC. __________ is most famous for asserting in his book: De Architectura, that a structure must exhibit three qualities of firmitas, utilitas, venustas- that is it must be strong, durable, useful and beautiful. According to _________ architecture is an imitation of nature, as birds and bees build their nest, so humans constructed housing from natural materials that give them shelter against the elements. When perfecting this art of building, the ancient Greek invented the architectural orders: Doric, Ionic and Corinthian, It gave them a sense of proportion , culminating in the understanding the proportions of the greatest work of art: the human body.
Who?
• Vitruvius
The Land that he went to was covered with flat,shiny rocks. He therefore called it as “Helluland” or “Land of the flat stones”.This was probably Baffin Island. Next he came to a place with long, white sandy beaches and was flat and wooded. He therefore called it “Markland” or “WoodLand”. Who are we talking about??
Ans: Leif Eriksson, son of Erik The Red.
• James BondAgent:007, Enemy: GoldFinger, Boss:Q •
“___”Agent000, Enemy:Yellow Pinkie, Boss:Double-Q
Secret Squirrel
Identify the two men.
• David Livingstone & Henry Morton Stanley
• Ludwig Boltzmann. • S=klogW is Boltzmann’s equation, relating entropy with probability.
• Which Indian household brand name was initiated by Kaka Dandekar in 1930 as a swadeshi product name , and was named after an American cigarette brand??
Camel
What is blanked Out??
American Idol
Identify the Band
The Rat Packs
Donna Wold (nee Johnson). What is her significance in the world of comics?
Inspiration for the Little redhaired girl from Peanuts
• This game was devised by John Jaques II, who is also credited with inventing tiddlywinks, ludo and snakes and ladders, and first published before the Great Exhibition of 1851. Some of the characters include:
• • • • • •
Soot, the Sweep Stamp, the Postman Tape, the Tailor Dose, the Doctor Bacon, the Butcher Block, the Barber
Happy Families • (this pack has been was apparently illustrated by John Teniel, of Alice in wonderland fame)
Which city connects these people? • Preity Zinta , Karan Paul ( Apeejay Surendra Group), Ness Wadia ( Bombay Dyeing), and Dabur’s Mohit Burman??
Mohali
• A show (or series) is said to have ____ _____ ____ when it is past its prime. This is usually seen in the improbable or sometimes downright ridiculous changes in the plotline. • The phrase as a direct metaphor is reported to have been first used in 1997 when the ___________.com website was launched by Jon Hein. • This was a direct reference to the 1977 episode of Happy Days when Fonzie ____________ while water skiing. The scene was so preposterous that many believed it to be an ill-conceived attempt at reviving the declining ratings of the show.
Jumping The Shark (jumptheshark.com)
Two very famous works are missing: • • • • • • • • • •
Pen names and associated writings Geoffrey Crayon Bracebridge Hall The Devil and Tom Walker The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon Tales of a Traveller Diedrich Knickerbocker A History of New York Jonathan Oldstyle Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle
Irving Washington Rip van winkle, The legend of Sleepy Hollow
What is being depicted?
Series of Undersea Cable Cuts in the last week
Excerpted from Milton's Paradise Lost, Book 2: Into this wilde Abyss, The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave, Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire, But all these in thir pregnant causes mixt Confus'dly, and which thus must ever fight, Unless th' Almighty Maker them ordain _______________ to create more Worlds, Into this wilde Abyss the warie fiend Stood on the brink of Hell and look'd a while, Pondering his Voyage; for no narrow frith He had to cross. -lines 910 - 920
His Dark Materials (popular fantasy series by Philip Pullman): 1. The Golden Compass/Northern Lights 2. The Subtle Knife 3. The Amber Spyglass
