1) ________  is a business model by which a product or service (typically a digital offering such as software, media, games or web services) is provided free of charge, but a premium is charged for advanced features, functionality, or virtual goods. The word ________ is essentially a portmanteau combining the two aspects of this business model. FITB.

Freemium

2) This band was formed in Birmingham in 1978, where they would become the resident band at the city's Rum Runner nightclub. At the club the founders were doing jobs such as working the door and deejaying for £10 a night. They began rehearsing and regularly playing at the venue. There were many nearby nightclubs, and the one "significant" one, where bands such as The Sex Pistols and The Clash played gigs, was called Barbarella's. They would go on to name the band after the villain from Barbarella, a French science-fiction film starring Jane Fonda. The villain, played by Milo O'Shea, is named "Dr. __________".

Story of which band ?

Duran Duran

3)The _________ uses 4 motorized winches positioned at each corner at the base of the covered area, each of which controls a Kevlar cable connected to a dolly. By controlling the winding and unwinding of the cables, the system allows the dolly to reach any position in the three dimensional space. The inputs of _________’s pilot are processed by software which forwards the commands to the winches via fiber optic cables. Two of the Kevlar cables also have fiber optic cables woven into them to carry commands to the device and the remote head, and bring the device's HD signal back to the control station. What is described here ?

Spidercam

4) Connect the following elements :

• Randal Flagg - A recurrent character in several Stephen King books including The Stand, Eyes of the Dragon and The Dark Tower series.

Man In Black

5) This is a theorem from Principia Mathematica  written by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell. PM is an attempt to derive all mathematical truths from a well-defined set of axioms and inference rules in symbolic logic. So what mathematical truth follows from this theorem?

1 + 1 = 2

6) The Scunthorpe problem was named after an incident in 1996 in which residents of the town of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England were prevented from creating accounts with AOL. Years later, Google's filters apparently made the same mistake, preventing residents from searching for local businesses that included Scunthorpe in their names. What is the Scunthorpe problem?

The Scunthorpe problem occurs when a spam filter blocks something because the text contains a string of letters that are shared with an obscene word.

7) X refused to attend the Booker Prize ceremony unless it was confirmed to him in advance whether he had won for his work A. He was one of two considered likely to win, the other being Y for his book B. The judges decided only 30 minutes before the ceremony, giving the prize to Y. Both novels had been seen as favourites to win leading up to the prize and the dramatic literary battle between two established and reputed authors made front page news. Id X and Y.

Anthony Burgess, Earthly PowersWilliam Golding, Rites of Passage

8) There were 3 inaugural inductees into the comic-book hall of fame. 2 of them were Jack Kirby (inventor of Captain America) and Carl Barks (Duckburg and its inhabitants). Who was the third?

Will Eisner (Eisner Awards/ Will Eisner Hall of Fame)

9) These are 2 paintings by German romantic landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich. These are have said to inspired the setting for something. What?

Waiting for Godot

10) These are the 4 lesser known faces. Who is the 5th and the most famous person that completes this list?

11) This is Gregory Maguire, an American novelist for both children and adults. His more popular novels include titles such as Wicked (made into a musical which is the 12th longest running show on Broadway), Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Mirror Mirror and Lost. What are these and Maguire’s other works about?

Revisionist retellings of popular children’s classics

12) Poster for something that was first in a way but is generally disregarded and something else is considered to be the first. Spin a tale.

The credit of being the first Indian movie which is generally given to Raja

Harishchandra since Shree Pundalik was a photographic recording of a

popular Marathi play, and because the cameraman was a British national and

the film was processed in London.

13) These 3 gentlemen saw a British horror film called Dead of Night together in 1946. The movie has a circular structure so that after four parts the end was identical to the start. The central character of the story wakes up from a nightmare only to find that the experiences from his dream are real.  In the midst of the mayhem, he wakes up relieved to find that it was all a dream.  Later in the day the experiences from the dream start to happen again in real life.   In other words, the story evolves over time, but ends up exactly where it started. Their discussions about the movie led to the development of what?

The Steady State Theory

14) ________’s (B) regular golfing partner was a businessman called John Blackwell. One day Blackwell mentioned that his cousin’s husband was the architect Ernö _______ (A). Ernö _______ (A) was one of post-war Britain’s most prominent and notorious architects and designers. A Jewish-Hungarian émigré, he was one of the leaders of the so-called ‘Brutalist’ movement. He was a highly flamboyant character with a love of fast cars, cigars and young women, and was thought by some to be rather a bully: there were stories that he was given to frog-marching uncooperative clients out of his offices. _______ (B) liked the name ‘_______’ (A) and thought he might be able to use it. Such character traits, one might have thought, would have made him a hero. Instead he ended up as a villain.FITB

A – GoldfingerB- Ian Fleming

15) ‘________ (a Movie) ’ (1979) by William Burroughs is not a movie. Nor is it a screenplay for a movie, at least in the usual sense. It is a book – a novella, in fact – and one unconnected with the film ________, which came three years later. Neither did Burroughs’ book deal with any of the themes of the film. ’________ (a Movie)’  in fact took its title and theme from an earlier book, ’The _______’, by Alan E Nourse. Both books dealt with a crisis in medical care leading to the sale of black-market supplies (such as scalpels, or blades). ‘_______’, the film, took its title from the Nourse and Burroughs books, after the director had bought the rights to the title (for a pittance) and then took the project in a completely different direction.

All identical blanks. Fill em’ up.

Blade Runner

16) Unlike most other proper names in _____’s (A) works, which often tended toward the onomatopoeic and parodic , _______ (B) had a concrete starting-point. He was named after _______ (B), a village in Hampshire, and more specifically after a prep school in the town, _______ (B) House, where _______ (A) stayed as a guest on and off from 1903. _______ (A) liked _______ (B) so much that in 1910 he bought a house in the village called _______ (C). _______ (C) became _______ (B)’s family name. _______ (B) House thus supplied the dynastic title, and _______ (C), _______ (A)’s more modest accommodation, the humbler family name.

Identify A and the character B.

A – P. G. WodehouseB – Emsworth

C - Threepwood

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