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Write • PRINT ADS • None of the answers are ‘absolut’ • Id the brand/company being advertised for +2 each. • 8 in all.

Together we welcome the day of victory. Happy Idul Fitri 1427H

Answers 1. SPORE 2. HARLEY DAVIDSON 3. WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER 4. BOSE 5. LEVI'S 6. WIKIPEDIA 7. HARD ROCK CAFE 8. NUMBERS

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BOUNCE • CLOCKWISE • +2 for each.

____ ___ ______ is a colloquialism used to refer to a moment in a film series that is so incredible that it lessens the excitement of subsequent scenes that rely on more understated action or suspense, and it becomes apparent that a certain installment is not as good as previous installments, due to ridiculous or low quality storylines, events or characters. It is the cinematic equivalent of the TV term "jump the shark.“ and is based upon the latest installment in a famous film franchise.

Term and Film?

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The first ____ was designed by Harry Beck in 1931, who based his design on the principle that "only the topology, and not the physical location were relevant." His approach is similar to that of electrical circuit diagrams; but also based on sewage systems. His employers were initially skeptical, and it was tentatively introduced to the public in a small pamphlet in 1933. It immediately became popular, and today it is regarded as the greatest British design icon.

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________ has about 5.5 million users per month,and encourages its readers to read the articles linked to in the summary. This leads to a sudden upsurge in people visiting any website linked to, a phenomenon known as the “_______ effect". Sometimes the website's server is unable to cope with the level of traffic, and the site becomes unresponsive: the site is said to be “________-ted". The demand on the servers is reduced as the story is moved down or off the front page from new stories being posted.

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These two dudes contested the 1982 election for the Governor of California. The dude on the right won. Why was this election frequently alluded to in 2008?

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Tom Bradley, (left) and The Bradley effect.

X was an Italian immigrant who arrived in Boston in 1903. In 1920, he went from anonymity to becoming a millionaire in 6 months. On his deathbed, in 1948, he granted one last interview, in which he said about the Boston public – "Even if they never got anything for it, it was cheap at that price. Without malice aforethought I had given them the best show that was ever staged in their territory since the landing of the Pilgrims! It was easily worth fifteen million bucks to watch me put the thing over."

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Charles Ponzi and the Ponzi scheme (scam),

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The phrase "Better Living _______ _________" is a variant of X’s advertising slogan, adopted it in 1935 and was their slogan until 1982 when the “_______ _________” part was dropped. Since 1999, their slogan has been "The miracles of science". This phrase became popular as culture shifted from mod to hippie in the later half of the 1960s. Protesters would show up for a rally, perhaps to protest a chemical plant, wearing X propaganda buttons, which bore this slogan.

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The Battle of ________ ______, 1066, between Harold the Saxon, ruler of England, and Harald Hadraade, King of Norway, ended in victory for Harold the Saxon. His victory was short lived, however, as he fell in the Battle Of Hastings, to William the Conqueror, of Normandy, just a few weeks later. Today, ________ _______ is the name of a famous landmark in London, that opened in 1877.

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John Anthony Gillis, started a business called Third Man Upholstery, in his late teens. While Third Man Upholstery never lacked business, Gillis claimed that it was not profitable, due to his complacency about money and his business practices that were perceived as unprofessional, including making bills out in crayon and writing poetry inside the furniture. He closed the business soon after. He married Megan Martha ______ in 1996, a fellow Detroit native. In his characteristically unorthodox fashion, Gillis took her last name for his own.

So how do we better know John Anthony Gillis?

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CHICKEN WINGS CAT AND GIRL FLINTLOCKE’S guide to azeroth SOMETHING POSITIVE SNAFU HOMESTAR RUNNER PENNY ARCADE MEGATOKYO CTRL+ALT+DELETE PHD DINOSAUR COMICS XKCD

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Write again • Promethea by Alan Moore, and J.H.Williams III. • For the majority of the series, each issue's cover features an imitation of a particular artist or style. These imitations were often explicitly credited by Williams on the inner side of the cover. • +2 for identifying the artist being imitated • 8 in all

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M C Escher

William Morris’ Illustrations

Dali

Starry night

J C Leyendecker

Monty Python’s opening animation sequences

Maxfield Parrish

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___ _______ _ is a 1992 novel by David James Duncan. It is based around a family of 4 sons and 2 daughters, a deeply religious novel about love and family and spiritual growth and the difference between church and religion. The third word in the title is a reference to a strikeout in baseball. Both the novel’s title and themes are similar to a much more famous novel, the first two words of both novels being the same. Id both.

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Who’s on the cover of this new yorker issue? Explanation will do..

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Phillipe Petit, a french tightrope walker who illegally orchestrated a high-wire walk without safety equipment across the two (then unfinished) towers of WTC on Aug 7, 1974.

For a long time, _______ had neither an official flag nor logo. Proposals for adopting an official symbol were made during _______'s beginning in 1921, but the members never reached agreement. However, _______’s sub-organizations used varying logos and flags (or none at all) in their own operations. An international contest was held in 1929 to find a design, which again failed to produce a symbol. One of the reasons for this failure may have been the fear by the members that the power of the super-national organization might supersede them. Finally, in 1939, a semi-official emblem emerged: two fivepointed stars within a blue pentagon, symbolizing the five continents and the five races of mankind. In a bow on top and at the bottom, the flag had the names in English and French.

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The concept of this sport was envisioned in 1992 by cartoonist Enki Bilal, and was a major plot point of his graphic novel Froid Équateur. Iepe Rubingh, a Dutch artist, was inspired by Bilal's book and brought the concept to life in the spring of 2001. Other sources of inspiration include a 1979 Anime 'Ninja Checkmate‘ which served as inspiration for Wu-tang clan’s song “Da mysteries of _____ ______” In july 2008, A 19-year old Russian Mathematics student Nikolai Sahzin became the first ever "World Champion" by defeating Frank Stoldt in Berlin

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___X__ is a minor science fiction genre characterized by an attempt to explain Biblical concepts with science fiction tropes. In its original sense a __X____ story features a heterosexual pair of astronauts landing on a lush and virgin world and in the last line their names are revealed as Adam and Eve. The term itself is a pun on the term Y, which is an extremely long-winded tale featuring extensive narration of typically irrelevant incidents, usually resulting in a pointless or absurd punchline.

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Y = shaggy dog story X = shaggy ‘god’ story

A quote by Yoshi Ono, to IGN, Sept 26 2008. “If you think about chess for instance, a kid and a grandfather can play the same game, with the same rule-set, and understand what's going on. I think through our competitive spirit back then; we were always out to out-complicate each other, and make our systems deeper and deeper. It was ok then because there was a wide player base who understood, but that's not true anymore. What we're trying to do with _____ is bring them back in.” _____ is the fourth of a famous Japanese product line.

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The Mars Climate Orbiter (1998) was intended to orbit Mars at about 150 kilometers (93 mi) altitude, but descended instead to about 57 kilometers (35 mi), burning up in the Martian atmosphere. The reason why this error happened was that NASA specified the usage of the _____ in the contract, but one subcontractor, Lockheed Martin, did not use the _____ to provide thrust force performance data to the team. Consequently the computer controlling the spacecraft thrusters underestimated their effect by a factor of 4.45. What is the blank? Extremely weird clue available--

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Lockheed specified in imperial units, while NASA required the metric system.

Jules: They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with Cheese? Vincent: Nah, man, they got the metric system.

The Oxford English Dictionary claims that the origin of the term _____ _____ dates back to an article published in 1900, in the New York Sun, referring to “…the sound of geese, which led an unsuspecting group of cowboys to the flock instead of to the variety show they expected.” _____ _____ were rough establishments, mostly in the Deep South and Southwest, that served alcoholic beverages to working class clientele. They sometimes also offered dancing to piano players or small bands, and were sometimes also centers of prostitution. The name itself became synonymous with a style of music. Related to the classic blues in tonal structure, _____ _____ has a tempo that is slightly stepped up, rhythmically suited for many African-American dance routines.

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WW2 military operations Link up (German Anschluss) – German invasion of Austria, 1938 Weser-exercise – German invasion of Denmark and Norway, April 1940 Dynamo – Evacuation at Dunkirk, 1940 Sea Lion – Planned invasion of Britain by Germany, 1940 Vietnam expedition – Japanese invasion of French Indochina 1940 Compass – first major Allied operation in Africa, 1940/41. Sunflower – Deployment of the Afrika Corps, 1941. Barbarossa – German invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941 Crusader – Allied Invasion of Tobruk, 1941. First and Second Happy Time – battle of the Atlantic, 1940/41/42.

WW2 military operations Herkules – German invasion of Malta, 1942 Watchtower – Battle of Guadalcanal, 1942-43 Uranus – Battle Of Stalingrad, 1942 Supercharge – Second Battle of El Alamein, 1942. Torch – allied invasion of North Africa, 1942 Husky – Allied invasion of Sicily, 1943. U go offensive – Japanese offensive in Assam and Manipur, 1944 Avalanche – Allied invasion of Mainland Italy, 1944. Operation Overlord – the largest seaborne invasion of all time, Normandy, 1944. Operation Market Garden – the largest airborne operation of all time, Netherlands, 1944.

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Written Exhaustive 4 in all. +2 for each answer Mark down stage 2 as 5th question - +2 for that too. • Specific stage 2 required.

1 - The name _____ _____ appeared when a chip included the processor, memory, I/O and non-volatile program storage (flash memory or small hard disk(s)). This allowed manufacturers to package a complete server, with its operating system and applications, on a single card / board. These could then operate independently within a common chassis, doing the work of multiple separate server boxes more efficiently, yielding greater advantages in space consumption, cooling, power management and network interfaces. The major players in the _____ _____ market are HP and IBM.

2 - ____Y___ is a Hawaiian word, defined as "Priest, sorcerer, magician, wizard, minister, expert in any profession." The use of the term in reference to surfing can be traced back to the 1959 film Gidget, in which "The _X__ ___Y___", played by Cliff Robertson, was the leader of a group of surfers. The term then became commonplace in Beach Party films of the 1960s such as Beach Blanket Bingo, where the “__X__ __Y__" was the best surfer on the beach.

3 - Scholars who believe that the Book of Revelation refers to historical people and events argue that _____ represents Nero. In Hebrew gematria (a technique in numerology/astrology of assigning numbers to alphabets) , every letter has a corresponding number. The Greek spelling, “Nerōn Kaisar,” transliterates into Hebrew as “‫” נרון קסר‬or “nrwn qsr”.

Aleister Crowley claimed that ______ referred to him specifically and took the name “Το μεγα θηριον” ("To Mega Therion"), which he arrived at using Greek gematria.

4 - Patent diagram for..?

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Stage 2 BLADE server Big KAHUNA 666 the number of the BEAST ICE cube machine

Kookaburra bats

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It has been noted that the character X physically resembled both his voice actor Alan Reed, and also Y. Later it was revealed that Alan Reed did base his voice of X upon Y’s character in The Honeymooners. In a playboy magazine interview in the 1980s, Y considered filing a lawsuit for copying The Honeymooners but decided to let it pass – “Y’s lawyers told him that he could probably have X’s show pulled right off the air. But they also told him, “Do you want to be known as the guy who yanked X off the air? The guy who took away a show that so many kids love, and so many parents love, too?”

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X = Fred Flintsone

Y = Jackie Gleason

Soda maker Dr. Pepper entered a dare of sorts with Y, stating that if Y released Z in 2008, they would give everyone in America a free soda. Z which was in the works for 14 years, and costing over $13 million to make, was finally released on Nov 23, 2008. Dr Pepper confirmed that it would uphold its pledge, but their online coupon distribution didn’t work out efficiently. Y sued Dr.Pepper, blaming their coupon distribution method for Z’s lower-than-expected sales. Retail store chain Best Buy is the exclusive retailer of Z in the United States. Y and Z

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The first ____ appeared in the late 1860s, and were produced by Peck & Snyder, a New York manufacturer of sporting equipment. They were later adopted by a variety of companies to promote their businesses. Typically, a ____ of the time featured an image and information advertising the business. By the turn of the century, most _____ were produced by confectionery companies and tobacco companies. This is today a very large industry in the US.

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Italy's top-selling popular paper, La Gazzetta dello Sport, turned its trademark pink pages green on Dec 12 2004, for a unique promotional campaign. As a result United International Pictures donated 120,000 euros to a child cancer charity. What were they promoting?

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____ is a parodic holiday invented in 1995, and celebrated on Sept 19 by John “Cap’n Slappy” Baur and Mark “Ol’ Chumbucket” Summers . The day is probably the only holiday to come into being as a result of a sports injury. Baur has stated that during a racquetball game between Summers and Baur, one of them reacted to the pain with an outburst of “_____!, and the idea was born”. They sent a letter about their invented holiday to the American syndicated humor columnist Dave Barry in 2002. Barry liked the idea and promoted the day. Growing media coverage of the holiday after Barry's column has ensured that this event is now celebrated internationally, and Baur and Summers now sell books and T-shirts on their website related to the theme.

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3 gadgets/techs that generated a lot of internet buzz in 2008. The source of inspiration is the same for all 3.

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In November 2008, a British Royal family spokesman said that ____X_____ was honored as part of independence day celebrations of ____Y_____ 2006, the ceremony was attended by the Earl of Wessex, but the ceremony itself was conducted by the President of Y. Therefore Buckingham palace has disavowed any role in the ceremony. X was a divisive figure in Y, and critics claim that he was not vetted (as required by law) before the honor was bestowed upon him. X and Y.

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Allen Stanford’s knighthood.

On 10 December 1868, the first ______ were installed outside the British Houses of Parliament in London, by the railway engineer J. P. Knight. Unfortunately, it exploded on 2 January 1869, injuring the policeman who was operating it. The modern electric _______ is an American invention. As early as 1912 in Salt Lake City, Utah, policeman Lester Wire invented the first ______, and the first ever interconnected _____ system was introduced in 1917.

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Two maps depicting the same thing – June 08, 2004.

June 05/06, 2012.

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There’s a belief that the film _____ was a curse to the companies whose logos were displayed prominently in some scenes. While they were market leaders at the time, many of them experienced disastrous setbacks over the next decade and hardly exist today. Eg – Atari dominated the videogame market, but suffered a lot in the industry downturn the next year. Cuisinart went bankrupt in 1989. Bell System broke up that same year, the resulting Regional Bell operating companies have since changed their names and merged with each other or other companies. Pan Am went bankrupt in 1991.

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Excerpt from ________’s official website – What’s going on? Monday 16th Feb 2009 --*At 0815 (NEW TIME!), the bus S23K arrives at Flemingsgatan 14. Please be there and cheer for the crew. * At 0900, Proceedings begin. There will be both bloggers and media blogging from inside, and both the national television and radio will be streaming the audio. Hopefully, the Bambuser team will broadcast a translated and commentated stream. * At 1130, a spontaneous gathering will take place... Speeches will be held, cheers will be shouted and people will find new friends. * At 1600, Proceedings ends for the day.

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If the eye receives light of more than one wavelength, the colour generated in the brain is formed from the sum of the input responses on the retina. when our eyes detect wavelengths from both ends of the light spectrum at once (i.e. red and violet light), it has two options for interpreting the input data: a) Sum the input responses to produce a colour halfway between red and violet in the spectrum (which would in this case produce green) b) Superimpose to a colour between red and violet Evidence suggests option b) is always taken, and this is why a certain phenomenon is observed.

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Magenta/Pink doesn’t actually exist Magenta is the evidence that the brain takes option b – it has apparently constructed a colour to bridge the gap between red and violet, because such a colour does not exist in the light spectrum. Magenta has no wavelength attributed to it, unlike all the other spectrum colours.

In April 2009, an extraordinary auction will take place, directed by Darren Julien, a Los Angeles-based auctioneer of celebrity merchandise. Julien was recently invited to visit a property owned by Sycamore Valley Ranch LLC – where over 2000 items stored inside would be up for auction. "It seemed as if everything he owned was made of bronze and marble and gold," says Michael Doyle, who catalogued the sale items, Some of the items to be auctioned include suits of armour, display cases of custom-made crowns and an ornately carved throne with red velvet upholstering, vintage video game machines, books about Disney, the Three Stooges, Peter Pan and Alfred Hitchcock, as well as a collection of black history books, customised military jackets, and more.

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Michael Jackson leaves Neverland ranch

The first records of ______ _______ performances were from watch makers who were demonstrating their metal working skills. _____ ______ were first advertised as early as 1833 in England, and were a main carnival attraction until 1930. Some persisted in very small venues in the United States as late as the 1960s. Some of the tools/techniques used in a _____ _____ include thin gold wires as harnesses, camphor balls as repellants, and glue.

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Some of the more common urban legends associated with a particular day of the year in the US – –

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Every year on this day the water systems of big cities all across the country verge on collapsing because of so many simultaneous toilet flushings. (EXAGGERATED) There are more pizza deliveries made during this day than on any other day of the year. (TRUE) The stock market predictably fluctuates up or down the Monday after. (TRUE) Disneyland becomes a veritable ghost town on this day because so many Americans are at home. (FALSE)

Which very specific day?

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Last year, ______ tapped the Arnell Group, to handle the redesign of their logo, which experts estimated cost more than $1 million to create and hundreds of millions more to plaster on packaging, signs and promotions. Arnell wrote a lofty treatise designed to sell _____ on the idea, which was leaked onto the web, littered with historical, philosophical, scientific and mathematical ideas dating back to 3000 BC. It references the Golden Ratio, Feng Shui and Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. At one point, the leaked pdf compares "Planet _____" to the Earth's magnetic pull, with diagrams showing _____ as the gravitational force between the end of the aisle and the checkout stand.

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In 1957, Dr. Ernest Wright, Head of the English Department at Columbia University, posed a question in the Scientific American, asking a question that none of the Nobel Laureates in residence at Columbia at the time could answer either. “With the luck of a layman, I have had the novel experience of seeing several of the men who have plucked the heart out of the atom's mystery scratch their heads in vain for the solution of ... why ___________ (some phenomenon) occurs twice on land but once on water surfaces.” It was finally resolved in 1967 by a high school student Kirston Koths, who explained that the _____ (some object) tilts forward on sand, but backward on water. What phenomenon?

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Stone Skipping When a rock skips on a dry surface (top), the trailing edge strikes first, and then the leading edge. On water, the rock does not tip.

Two were destroyed by bombs during World War II. Two others were later demolished by the Russians and replaced by a modern highway. One was rebuilt by the Germans in 1935. Three still remain. What? (Clue -- Currently a solution is possible, but it is impractical for tourists)

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The seven bridges of Konigsberg

Pafko at the Wall, subtitled "The Shot Heard Round the World", was originally published as a folio in the October 1992 issue of Harper's Magazine. It was written by famous American author X. It reassembles in fiction the famous 1951 walk-off home run hit by Bobby Thompson for the New York Giants against the Brooklyn Dodgers to win the National League pennant after coming from 13 1/2 games behind the Dodgers. In 1997, X incorporated this story as the prologue to his 1997 book, Y, in which the home-run baseball plays a significant role in the plot. Y is regarded as one of the best works of fiction of the last 20 years.

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Because of a controversial translation of “______” as wormwood, some believe that the infamous events at ______was foretold in the Bible: And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as if it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; and the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. — Book of Revelation 8:10-11

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Chernobyl

Throughout the study of geometric construction using compass and ruler, 3 are considered to be impossible. 2. Squaring the circle 3. Doubling the cube 4. Trisecting the angle

However, the 2nd and 3rd can be solved using the art of _______. Straight-edge-and-compass construction is equivalent to solving quadratic equations, but ______ can be used to solve equations of up to 4th degree.

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double a cube by solving the equation x3-2=0.

trisect an angle by solving the equation x3+3tx2-3x-t=0, where t=1/tanθ and x=tan(θ/3-π/2).

This is the Brighton and Howe Albion F.C team. For one particular game against Sheffield United, 2nd October 2004, the stadium was temporarily renamed Palookaville, which was also featured on the shirts, instead of the usual shirt sponsor, Skint. Why?

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Fatboy Slim’s Palookavile, released on Skint Records.

X said that he wrote Y as a way to sort out his own beliefs about God and Christ. The story germinated after a chance meeting with fellow Civil War Union veteran, Robert G. Ingersoll. He wrote the book while serving as territorial governor of New Mexico. X also stated in his memoirs that he wrote the climax after returning from a dramatic encounter with Billy The Kid. Y was the biggest-selling American novel from 1880 to 1936.

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Noel Godin, a Belgian writer, is responsible for the entry of the word ‘entarteur’ into English. He came into prominence in 1998 for entarting _________ in Brussels, and got away with it. Godin claims his goal has long been to ‘entarte’ as many as possible – people he feels are particularly self-important and lacking a sense of humor. Godin told the New York Times he chooses “to function in the service of the capitalist status quo, without really using his intelligence or his imagination.” He says his sworn enemies are "authority, depressing laws, the return of the moral order, nuclear power, any form of political power." Other victims apart from _______include Jean-Luc Goddard and Nikolas Sarkozy.

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Pie-flinging

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This 1996 film features a large number of celebrity cameos. Gerard Depardieu as Reynaldo, Charlton Heston as the First Player, Robin Williams as Osric, Richard Attenborough as the English ambassador, Judi Dench, Jack Lemmon, Billy Crystal, Brian Blessed, Kate Winslet, and others. It is also the first unabridged film adaptation of the source material in history, running at nearly four hours, and the director plays the titular character. Director, and Film?

X originally intended to title his famous book _____ _____ _____, a chronicle of the “Jazz Age”, as “Trimalchio” or “Trimalchio in West Egg”; A reference to Satyricon by Petronius. X characterizes the titular character as Trimalchio in the novel, notably in the first paragraph of Chapter VII: “It was when curiosity about _______ was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on one Saturday night-and, as obscurely as it had begun, his career as Trimalchio was over”. An early version of the novel, still titled "Trimalchio" is still in print by the Cambridge University Press.

This diagram is called Acid1. What is the significance of this in the computer world?

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Scene from the opening scenes of Frank Darabont’s The Mist. The subject matter of the painting is the climax of a 7-book series, written by the same author as The Mist. JJ Abrams, has optioned the rights to make a film franchise of the series, with a payment to the author of $19. Series.

The following slide shows an email sent in sept 1999, The first in a series of cryptic emails, all sent to various web-based journalists, as a viral marketing promotion for one of this decade’s biggest pop-culture behemoths.

From: “ ” <[email protected]> To: Subject: Closure Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 I have walked the edge of the Abyss. I have governed the unwilling. I have witnessed countless empires break before me. I have seen the most courageous soldiers fall away in fear. [I was there with the Angel at the tomb] I have seen your future. And I have learned. There will be no more Sadness. No more Anger. No more Envy. I HAVE WON. THIS is the way the world ends.. a friend of a friend

Which religious day is being lampooned here?

________ was first shown in London's West End, at the New London Theatre, on May 11, 1981. It had a troubled beginning as Judi Dench, cast in the role of Grizabella, snapped a tendon during rehearsals prior to the London opening. The role of Grizabella was subsequently taken over by Elaine Paige; the role was beefed up for Paige and the song 'Memory' (originally to be sung by Geraldine Gardner) was given to Paige. On June 19, 1997, ______ became the longest-running musical in Broadway history with 6,138 performances. Today, it is Broadway’s second longest running show in history, and translated into over 20 languages.

In Buddhism as well as in Hinduism _____ is generally interpreted as meaning the Threefold Peace in body, speech, and mind. “_____” is commonly used in the Pali texts as a synonym for Buddhist Nirvana.

Answers 1. HAMLET and KENNETH BRANAGH 2. THE GREAT GATSBY by F.Scott Fitzgerald 3. Acid Test for a web browser – minimum functionality that a web browser should support. 4. Dante's MOUNT PURGATORIO 5. Stephen King's THE DARK TOWER 6. HALO 7. ASH WEDNESDAY 8. Andrew Lloyd Webber's CATS. 9. SHANTI

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The poems of T.S.Eliot

• J.Alfred Prufrock – the narrator believes he is Prince Hamlet. Also, Dante’s Purgatorio is frequently alluded to. • The Waste Land – The poem begins by quoting Satyricon. The 3rd Book in the Dark Tower series is titled The Waste Land, and the poem is frequently referenced. Last line – ‘Shantih Shantih Shantih’ • Ash Wednesday • The Hollow Men – Ends with the lines ‘this is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper’ • Old Possum’s book of Practical Cats – Which Andrew Lloyd Webber adapted as the musical.

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This cartoon has a specific usage within the new yorker. What?

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Doonesbury, March 7, 2005. The 3rd panel here is a tribute to?

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Dr. Hunter S Thompson, who committed suicide shortly before, and upon whom the character Duke is modeled.

In the UK, during the end of February 2009, Telco providers Orange and O2 threatened to not support the Nokia N97, because the handset carries a mobile version of ______. The providers feared that including _______ will siphon away profitable cell minutes by allowing users to make free calls. However, another telco, 3 already offers a handset with ______ capabilities, and T-Mobile has also gotten on board with support for the service.

Fill in the blank.

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The movement algorithms used by B,P,I,C are considered a landmark in the field of Artificial Intelligence – B always uses E’s current tile as destination, P selects an offset four tiles away from E in the direction E is currently moving, I needs E’s current tile/orientation and B's current tile to calculate his final target. When C is more than eight tiles away, he uses E’s tile as his target. If C is closer than eight tiles away, he switches to his scatter mode target instead, and starts heading for his corner until he is far enough away to target E again. B,P,I,C (their names start with their corresponding variable), and E (real name does not start with E) are all characters from the same ‘universe’.

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Famous actor X died of a heart attack at the age of 73 while lying on a couch in his Los Angeles home. One of X's roles was released posthumously – the film Y. It features footage of X interspersed with a double. The director had taken a few minutes of silent footage of X, in his trademark costume, for a planned vampire picture but was unable to find financing for the project. When he later conceived Y, he wrote the script to incorporate the X footage. Pre-ordered copies of Y’s colorized DVD release in 2005 included a limited edition air freshener. X and Y

Clue – The Director in question.

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TOYOTA TRUCKS – Sienna Tundra Highlander Sequoia

In ancient China coins were circular with a rectangular hole in the middle. Several coins could be strung together on a rope. Merchants in China, if they became rich enough, found that their strings of coins were too heavy to carry around easily. And so came the earliest version of ________. During the Spanish siege of the Netherlands of 1574, Over 5000 of the estimated 14,000 residents of Leyden died, mostly due to starvation. Even leather (often used to create emergency coins) was boiled and used to feed the people. So the residents took covers from hymnals and church missives and created the first ________ in Europe.

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It is rumored that the song A synchronizes with the film B when played concurrently with the final segment of B. A was released 3 years after B, and it is almost the same length as the final segment of B, approximately 23 minutes long. Although the band C has never declared the synchronization intentional and the technology to play back film in a recording studio at that time would have been expensive and difficult for the band to acquire, they are sometimes quoted as saying that their failure to contribute music on B’s official score was their "greatest regret".

The song D was used as the key musical motif in B. A typical performance of D lasts about half an hour.The title of D was inspired by a philosophical treatise of the same name by E. In the treatise E mimics the style of the Bible in order to present ideas which fundamentally oppose Christian and Jewish morality and tradition. Fellow philosopher F in his epic History of Western Philosophy was scathing in his chapter on E, calling his work the "mere power-phantasies of an invalid" and referring to E as a “megalomaniac”. F co-authored a manifesto with G in 1955, highlighting the dangers posed by nuclear weapons and called for world leaders to seek peaceful resolutions to international conflict. G died just days later. At the time of his death at hospital he was working on a draft of a speech he was preparing for a television appearance commemorating the State of Israel's seventh anniversary.

The song A appears on the 1971 album H. Another song on the album features a recording of I, which has been the anthem of English football club J, since 1963. J were the first English football club to have a sponsor's logo on their shirts, after they agreed to a deal with K in 1979. K was founded in 1910 as an electrical repair shop. They are a multinational company specializing in high technology and services. Their current slogan is ‘Inspire the Next’ J’s current shirt sponsor is known to use the voice of legendary Hollywood director L as voice over for their ads repeatedly since 1975.

M is the co-author of the screenplay of B, as well as the author of the novelization of the script. He emigrated to N in 1956 largely to pursue his interest in scuba diving, and lived there until his death. One of his books, O, was entirely set in a fictionalized version N, and won both the Hugo and Nebula awards for Best Novel in 1980. In O, he describes in detail the construction and working of a P, a concept initially postulated in 1895 by Konstantin Tsoilkovsky, as a natural extension of the Eiffel Tower. Almost every design proposal of a P includes a base station, a cable, climbers, and a counterweight. It has been theorized that a P is a cheaper and more efficient alternative to launching payloads by rocket.

Q is the director of B. He made only thirteen feature films in his life, yet a number of his films are recognized as seminal classics within their genre. Throughout the 1980s and early 90s, Q collaborated with various writers (including Brian Aldiss, Sara Maitland and Ian Watson) on a project called by various names, including “Pinocchio”. The name that was finally chosen was R. Q died in 1999, and the role of director of R was handed over to producer S, who re-wrote the screenplay removing various sex scenes involving T’s character. T plays a male prostitute who uses songs such as "I Only Have Eyes for You" and "Bobbie, Walter" to seduce women. R was finally released in 2001, to gross over $250million worldwide.

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A – ECHOES B – 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY C – PINK FLOYD D – ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA E – NIETZCHE F – BERTRAND RUSSELL G – ALBERT EINSTEIN H – MEDDLE I – YOU’LL NEVER WALK ALONE J – LIVERPOOL FC K – HITACHI L – ORSON WELLES

M – ARTHUR C CLARKE N – SRI LANKA O – THE FOUNTAINS OF PARADISE P – SPACE ELEVATOR Q – STANLEY KUBRICK R – A.I ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE S – STEPHEN SPEILBERG T – JUDE LAW

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