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Chad’s brother Mike worked at Starbucks. Coffee was $1.95, which meant every customer who paid two bucks got a ‘nickel back’

AC/DC

Reo Speedwagon

King Crimson Their original lyricist, Peter Sinfield, thought of it as a synonym for Beelzebub

Steely Dan

Silk Route

Aldus Huxely – The Doors

Jethro Tull

Savage Garden

Opet – the fictional city in The Sunbird = Opeth

Pink Anderson and Floyd Council = Pink Floyd

Duran Duran – after the villain in Barbarella

Uriah Heep

Velvet Underground

Black Sabbath

Steppenwolf

Soundgarden

Lake Bodom – Children of Bodom

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Who is speaking, and on what occasion?

Stephen Fry’s “Happy Birthday GNU” speech

X is considered one of the most influential writers in modern Latin American literature. Major themes in X's work are the limitless power of fantasy, the dilemma of national identity, and the promise and failure of the Mexican revolution. His first novel has a metropolis (Mexico City) as it’s main character. Due to his political views X was persona non grata in the United States and was forbidden to enter Puerto Rico. He describes himself as a pre-modern writer, using only pens, ink and paper. X is known to use experimental narrative styles, such as first, second and third person narratives in the same book. X?

Carlos Fuentes

This is an exhaustive list of 39 “activities”. The list is about? Planting, Plowing, Reaping, Binding sheaves, Threshing, Winnowing, Selecting, Grinding, Sifting, Kneading, Baking, Shearing wool, Washing wool, Beating wool, Dyeing, Spinning, Weaving, Making two loops, Weaving at least two threads, Separating two threads, Tying, Untying, Sewing at least two stitches, Tearing for the purpose of sewing, Trapping, Slaughtering, Flaying, Salting meat, Curing hide, Scraping hide, Cutting hide into pieces, Writing two or more letters, Erasing, Building, Tearing something down, Extinguishing a fire, Igniting a fire, Applying the finishing touch, Transferring between domains (carrying).

The list of activities prohibited on Shabbath

It literally means "Waves Of Beauty“. It eulogizes the beauty, grace and munificence of Goddess Parvathi, consort of Lord Shiva. It is not only a poem, but also a tantra textbook, giving instructions on puja and offerings, many yantras - almost one to each shloka; it describes tantric ways of performing devotion connected to each specific shloka, and details the results ensuing therefrom. Verses 1 - 41 describe the mystical experience of the union of Shiva and Shakti and related phenomena. In fact, it opens with the assertion that ”Only when Shiva is united with Shakti does he have the power to create.” Verses 42 to 100 are more straightforward---they describe the physical beauty of the Goddess Parvathi. Which work?

Soundarya Lahari

The _________ is a collection of 30 stanzas in Tamil written by a Brahmin girl, Andal, in praise of Lord Vishnu, and are considered an important part of Tamil literature. Tamil Vaishnavas sing these songs to bring peace, prosperity and Divine Grace. Andal assumes the guise of a cowherd in these 30 verses. Although initially appearing to express her wishes to marry the Lord, the ending suggests that she only requests the pleasure of the Lord’s service forever. The last two stanzas (of the 30 verses) are recited in Tamil during coronation of the King of Thailand. Fill in the blank.

Thirupaavai

The Church of what? Also, inspired by what?

Dudeism, inspried by “The Big Lebowsky”

English Department at San Jose State University started a tongue-in cheek-award in honour of English novelist and playwright X, author of the much-quoted first line "It was a dark and stormy night” from his novel Paul Clifford. "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.“ Entrants are invited "to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels" — that is, deliberately bad. Which award is this?

Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

X plays himself in Andrzej Wajda's 1981 fictional film about Solidarity, Man of Iron and footage of him appears in Michael Jackson's music video "Man In The Mirror". In the late 1990s he was offered $1,000,000 to shave off his trademark moustache in a Gillette commercial, but he refused. A couple of years later though, to a big public surprise, X did shave off his moustache for a brief period 'just for fun'. He inspired U2's song "New Year's Day" on the album War, and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983. Who be X?

Lech Walesa

What is this song a dedic to? Also, give me the band

“Girl called Sandoz” by the Smashing Pumpkins. Dedic to Sandoz Laboratories, where Hoffman chanced upon LSD.

X was notably a fictitious place ruled by Beelzebub, in the book Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan. Earlier editions of magazine, also named X, achieved great popularity under editor Frank Crowninshield. In the 1920s, it competed with The New Yorker as the American establishment's top culture chronicle. It contained writing by Thomas Wolfe,  P. G. Wodehouse, T.S. Elliot, Aldus Huxley, theatre criticisms by Dorothy Parker and so on. The British version of the magazine was famous for its full page caricature of dignitaries and famous people from all walks of life. Both versions were victims of the great depression until it was revived by Condé Nast Publications, and is still under publication. X?

The magazine’s caricature of Charles Darwin

Vanity Fair

__________de Segura (c. 1540 – 1580) was a Spanish priest and later bishop in Segura whose book Libro de la invención liberal y arte del juego del Axedrez was one of the first book on this game in Europe. He is also considered by many to be it’s first unofficial world champion as he won the first modern tournament in Madrid. The methods bearing his name were not given by him however, having been in existence, though not widespread use, in mid-1400s. They were “re-discovered” in mid 1800-s, and have been the among most frequently used methods ever since.

Ruy Lopez

He holds a PhD in Computer Science. He graduated first in his class of seven million at 'Caltech' — Calcutta Technical Institute — going on to earn his doctorate at S.H.I.T. He continues the job he took up to repay his student loan, as he likes it very much. He experiences martial problems due to long hours and a workoholic nature. His first name is a tribute to Satyajit Ray’s movies, and his surname comes from a random Indian schoolboy named Pahasadee Napetilon. Who is ‘he’?

Apu Nahasapeemapetilon

Who is tweet ing?

Marvin the paranoid android

Maroš _______ is a Slovak handball goalkeeper and coach. _________ played 71 national team games for Slovakia. He played with SG Kronau/Östringen (now Rhein-Neckar Löwen) for ten seasons, though he missed most of the 2002–03 and 2003–04 seasons due to a torn anterior cruciate ligament. Why do we remember this guy?

Kolpak of the Kolpak Ruling.

Inspired by an experiment in which a black box with a glass lid is exposed to sunlight and the temperature increases, he proposed in 1824 that gases in the atmosphere might increase the surface temperature of the Earth (which was later named “Greenhouse effect”). He described the phenomenon in 1824 and then again in a very similar paper in 1827 in which he describes how an atmosphere serves to warm a planet. Who is he?

Joseph Fourier

October 29, 2008 @ 9:58 pm EST, Legendary broadcaster Harry Kalas made this call: "One strike away; nothing-and-two, the count to Hinske. Fans on their feet; rally towels are being waved. Brad Lidge stretches. The 0-2 pitch — SWING AND A MISS, STRUCK HIM OUT!” What had just happened?

Phillies had broken the curse of William Penn

______ aimed to become the world’s first carbon neutral television series. It solicited the help of ClearCarbon to calculate its seventh season carbon footprint, address opportunities to reduce its emissions, and purchase carbon offsets where reductions weren’t available. Through the use of energy efficiency and waste reduction initiatives, including hybrid vehicle use, replacing incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent lighting, and using biofuels where possible, the show’s Carbon Footprint was cut by 43% through greener efforts by all on the cast and crew.

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Last home player to win the grand slam

Mark Edmondson – Australian Open Yannick Noah – French Open Fred Perry – Wimbledon Andy Roddick – US Open

Branwell Brontë (brother of Brontë sisters) the took up a tutoring position in 1843 - as the tutor to the Reverend Edmund Robinson's young son, through the influence of his sister Anne. At this time, he wrote to a number of old friends about his increasing infatuation with Robinson's wife Lydia. He was dismissed later on unspecified charges after two years, but the general consensus, fuelled by the Robinson family’s silence on the matter and the gifts Lydia gave her servants, is that Brontë had an affair with Lydia and this was discovered by her husband. How is this affair mirrored in popular culture?

Benjamin Braddock’s affair with Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate.

Shown below are both sides of The English East India company’s ‘2 mohurs’ coin. What is this coin’s contribution to present day Indian economy?

After a lot (!) of research, RBI replaced the lion with the tiger for their logo.

Paduvaaralli Pandavaru is a 1978 kannada movie by Puttanna Kanagal. Said to be a modern take on the Mahabharata, movie highlights the clash between village zamindar and five men. Which 1980 bollywood movie is a remake of this movie?

The movie is controversial for the poet Sahir's satiristic question to the then prime minister Pt Nehru about India, who is reported to have said "Humein naaz hain hind pe". A police case was filed against Sahir for the song, and it was banned on AIR for long time. The lead actress’ role in the movie is inspired by a real life character. Abrar Alvi (the writer) had a conversation with a to a girl in Bombay who called herself Gulabo. Alvi says, about the character: "As I left, she thanked me in a broken voice, saying that it was the first time that she had been treated with respect, in a place where she heard only abuses. I used her exact words in the film." Which movie?

In A.D. 2101 War was beginning Captain: What happen? Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb. Operator: We get signal. Captain: What! Operator: Main screen turn on. Captain: It’s you!! CATS: How are you gentlemen!! CATS: ___________________________________ Fill in the blank

All your base are belong to us

A former IBM employee, in 1970, started a company named after himself that specialized in IBM mainframe-compatible computer products. Since 1997, this Sunnyvale, CA company is whole owned by Fujitsu. The company was a major supplier of large mainframe computers, and later of UNIX and Open systems software and servers, data storage subsystems, data communications products, application development software and so on. However, the founder is more famous for a law is used to find the maximum expected improvement to an overall system when only part of the system is improved. It is often used in parallel computing to predict the theoretical maximum speedup using multiple processors. What was is the name of the founder/company?

____________ is a 1975 film by Ken Russell about X. Depicting the flamboyant composer ‘X’ as the first classical pop star,_________ features Roger Daltrey (of The Who) in the lead, as X himself. The title of the movie is derived from a term used to describe the massive public response X’s virtuosic performances. At these performances, there were allegedly screaming women, and the audience was sometimes limited to standing room only. Rick Wakeman, from the progressive rock band Yes, composed the soundtrack, which included synthesizer arrangements of works by X himself. Wakeman also appears in the movie as the Nordic god of thunder, Thor. Ringo Starr, drummer of The Beatles, appears as the Pope. Which movie?

This man started his company in 1984. Their website claims that the company offers broad range of services includes the disciplines civil engineering, architecture as well as electromechanical engineering and electronic engineering. The company was also involved in radical overhauls in Germany and Japan, constructing from scratch in several countries such as Bahrain and China, is due to carry out work in Barcelona, Milan, Germany and England, is undertaking construction projects in South Korea and India, and plans for reconstruction in Brazil. What is the the company famous for/ Who is he?

Hermann Tilke – Constructing Grand Prix / racing circuits

Which literary work (1943) is generally referred to as the Bhagvad Gita in Kannada? This work, generally popular in South Indian households, is a collection of 945 poems of 4 lines each and each poem can be sung.

D V G’s Makutimmana Kagga

Else Lanchester in the 1935 movie “Bride of Frankenstein”. Inspiration for the hairstyle?

Nefertiti

Funda?

Haemophilia in Queen Victoria’s descendents

The same scene, that of a man in a bar burning a letter in which his wife informs him that their relationship is over, can be viewed from six different perspectives: through the eyes of a woman leaning on the wall, or a man with the wallet, or the bartender, or the woman at the bar, or the piano player, or the woman at the jukebox. Where can one see this scene through any of these perspectives?

Led Zeppelin’s “In Through The Out Door”

X is a book by Anthony Burgess, which is both inspired by and a tribute to Y. The book is divided into two parts - the first part is a set of interviews and essays about Y itself, whereas the second part is a story that deals with the increasing power of trade unions.  Trade unions have become so powerful that they exert full control over society; unions exist for every imaginable occupation. Unions start strikes with little reason and a strike by one union usually turns into a general strike. The book X also shares it’s title with an actual sequel to Y, written by György Dalos. X?

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Both movies based on Nanavati case – The last jury case in India.

People at Rocketboom, the youtube channel, claim: “Why ________? Is it the cheesy dance moves? Is it…. that touch of ginger? Is it the fact that the video reached #1 on UK, US and Canadian billboard charts in 1987? Not a small feat – That’s hard to do. Really though, it’s because the video is lame. Super lame. And you probably become more lame just by watching it. And thus it is awesome.” What’s the explanation about?

Rickrolling, and probably why Rick Astley’s “Never gonna give you up” became such a fad.

X is a series of closely related compounds of iron created through a process discovered by the American metallurgist Dr. Myron MacLain during the late 1960s. It is created by mixing several chemical resins together, though the exact formula is a secret. It is astronomically expensive to create, and hence used sparingly. It is said to have thirteen allotropes, all of which are "unstable, and short-lived, but virulently poisonous“. It is highly sturdy and can only be destroyed through very precise molecular rearrangement. X?

Adamantium

The first three adaptations of someguy’s works as movies/ mini-series. Which is the fourth?

Roman Polanski’s ‘The Ghost’. All works of Robert Harris.

Literally meaning Sand of the Eye, equivalent to eye-sore, _____ a  novel by Rabindranath Tagore, set in the period of the freedom struggle. It deals with the story of a young widow who returns to live in her village after her husband’s death, and begins to live in with the family of one of her suitors, who is now married. The story follows the relationship of the widow, her ex-suitor and his wife, and deals with complex emotional issues between them. About the novel itself, Tagore has said “I have always regretted the ending.” Which work?

Of what are the following the properties? It is biographical and usually whimsical, showing the subject from an unusual point of view; it pokes fun at mostly famous people It has four lines of irregular length (for comic effect); the third and fourth lines are usually longer than the first two The rhyme structure is AABB; the subject matter and wording are often humorously contrived in order to achieve a rhyme The first line consists solely (or almost solely) of the subject's name.

Clerihew, after Edmund Clerihew Bentley . Did Descartes Depart With the thought "Therefore I'm not"?

This is the flag of X. It gets it’s name from a pseudonym under which Ludwik Łazarz Zamenhof wrote. X means ‘one who hopes’. X?

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