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My Second QFI Quiz

Sanandan“Ob”

Q1

A fair was held during the year of the 100th anniversary of what is shown in <picture 1>. It included a reconstruction of the place shown in <picture 1> and its surrounding neighborhood.

In the same fair, something happened in the place marked by the red circle in <picture 2>.

What?

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The Exposition Universelle of 1889 was a World's Fair held in Paris, France from 6 May to 31 October 1889

The main symbol of the Fair was the Eiffel Tower, which was completed in 1889, and served as the entrance arch to the Fair

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_________ was an enormous public address system designed specifically for the this band’s live performances by audio engineer Owsley "Bear" Stanley. Used in 1974, it fulfilled the band's desire for a distortion-free sound system that could also serve as its own monitoring system. It was the largest concert sound system built at that time.

Identify the device and the band

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Wall of Sound

Grateful Dead

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Q3

This is a 1993 American live-action film directed by Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel.

What is the movie loosely based on?

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Super Mario Bros

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It is known as Horeb or Gabal Musa and is located in Saint Katherine city in Egypt

There are two principal routes to reach this place - the longer and shallower route, Siket El Bashait, takes about 2.5 hours on foot, though camels can be used. The steeper, more direct route, Siket Sayidna Musa is up the 3,750 "steps of penitence"

The summit has a mosque and a Greek Orthodox chapel neither of which are open to the public. Which place am I talking about?

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Mount Sinai

The chapel supposedly encloses the rock from which God made the Tablets of the Law. At the summit also is "Moses' cave" where Moses waited to receive the Ten Commandments.

Q5

This word means “self-boiler” in Russian. They come in different body shapes: urn- or crater-shaped, barrel, cylindrical, spherical.

A typical ______ consists of a body, base and chimney, cover and steam vent, handles, faucet and key, crown and ring, chimney extension and cap, drip-bowl, and teapots

A traditional ______ consists of a large metal container with a faucet near the bottom and a metal pipe running vertically through the middle. They are typically crafted out of copper, brass, bronze, silver, gold, tin or nickel. The pipe is filled with solid fuel to heat the water in the surrounding container.

Name it

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Samovar

Q6

The Silent World (translated title) is a 1956 documentary film co-directed by X and Louis Malle. Its original title derives from X's 1953 book.

It won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film also won the Palme d'Or award at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival, being the only documentary film to win the award until Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 repeated the feat in 2004.

Who’s X?

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Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Q7

_______ is a filtering structure in the mouth of most whales, which they use to feed by sieving small animals from large mouthfuls of seawater. Instead of teeth, these whales have rows of ______ plates in the upper jaw – flat, flexible plates with frayed edges, arranged in two parallel rows, looking like combs with thick hair at the end of each comb tooth

In order to feed, a _____ whale opens its mouth widely and scoops in dense shoals of prey, together with large volumes of water. It then partly shuts its mouth and presses its tongue against its upper jaw, forcing the water to pass out sideways through the _____, thus sieving out the prey which it then swallows.

Name it

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Baleen


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_____, a Life in the Woods, is a 1923 Austrian novel written by Felix Salten.

It is considered to be one of the first environmental novels published. The novel has since been translated and published in over 20 languages around the world

It was adapted into a widely acclaimed and loved movie in 1942

Just name it.


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Bambi

Q9

A native of Los Angeles, she is the daughter of Joyce Summers and Hank Summers. She is a high school cheerleader who learns that she is the _____, a Chosen One gifted with the strength and skills to fight the forces of darkness.

The character was conceived by Joss Whedon as a way of subverting the cliché of "the little blonde girl who goes into a dark alley and gets killed in every horror movie”.

When asked how he came up with the name, Whedon states "It was the name that I could think of that I could take the least seriously. There is no way you could hear the name _____ and think, "This is an important person.“

Who are we talking about?


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Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Q10

Code names are assigned to these places. This practice helps ensure secrecy during the confidential pre-sale phase, and later provides convenient names for casual reference rather than the often similar-sounding official lease names

Names in a given year or area might follow a theme such as beverages (e.g., Cognac), heavenly bodies (e.g., Mars), or even cartoon characters (e.g., Bullwinkle), but usually have no geographical significance.

The name ______ is the same name as the fictitious cursed town in the novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Colombian Nobel-prize winning writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez

This place was in the news in April 2010. Fill in the blank.

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Macondo prospect

This was the site of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion in April 2010 that led to a major, ongoing oil spill in the region


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Q11

The Common ____ or Eurasian ____ (Anas crecca) is a common and widespread duck which breeds in temperate Eurasia and migrates south in winter.

The Common ____ is often called simply "the ____" due to being the only one of these small dabbling ducks in much of its range. The bird gives its name to the colour _____.

Name the bird or the color

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Teal


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_______ stone is a limestone from the Tithonian stage of the Jurassic period quarried on the Isle of _______, Dorset. It has been used extensively as a building stone throughout the British Isles, notably in major public buildings in London such as St Paul's Cathedral and Buckingham Palace. It is also exported to many countries - _________ stone is used in the United Nations headquarters building in New York City, for example. All gravestones for British personnel killed in the First and Second World Wars are made out of _______stone

Just name it.

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Portland stone

Q13

In Greek mythology, X meaning "she viper” was called the "Mother of All Monsters“. This is because most of the monsters in Greek myth including Nemean Lion, Lycian Chimera, etc were the offspring of X and her husband Typhon

X has the face and torso of a beautiful woman and the body of a serpent, sometimes having two serpent's tails

A mammal found in Australia and New Guinea was named after this mythological monster. They are also known as spiny anteaters. Identify them.

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Echidna

Q14

_______ is sacred to the Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara, the Aboriginal people of the area. It is listed as a World Heritage Site.

On 19 July 1873, the surveyor William Gosse discovered the landmark and named it _____ _____in honor of the then Chief Secretary of this place, Sir Henry _____

In 1993, a dual naming policy was adopted that allowed official names that consist of both the traditional Aboriginal name and the English name. On 15 December 1993, it was renamed “X/Y”.

Name this place

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Uluru /Ayers Rock


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Q15

He served as an operative for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency from 1915 to 1922, with time off to serve in World War I.

During World War I, he enlisted in the United States Army and served in the Motor Ambulance Corps. However, he became ill with Spanish flu and later contracted tuberculosis

Though he was a disabled veteran of World War I, and a victim of tuberculosis, he pulled strings in order to be admitted to serve WW II. He spent most of World War II as an Army sergeant in the Aleutian Islands

On January 10, 1961, he died in New York City's Lenox Hill Hospital of lung cancer. As a veteran of two World Wars, he was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

Who is this person who is very well known for other reasons?

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Samuel Dashiell Hammett

Q16

The person on the far right was a sound director in Goldwyn Studios and is a 3 time Academy Award winner. What is now named in his honor?

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The Gordon E. Sawyer Award is an accolade given each year by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to "an individual in the motion picture industry whose technological contributions have brought credit to the industry."

Q17

He was born Francesco della Rovere and served as a Pope from 1471 to 1484. His main accomplishments as Pope included: Establishing the Vatican archives and annulling the decrees of the Council of Constance. He was famed for his nepotism and was personally involved in the infamous Pazzi Conspiracy.

Upon election to pope he adopted the name _____ - a name that had not been used since the 5th Century. He is known today for restoring the old Cappella Magna between 1477 and 1480. Due to this, it was renamed in his honour. How do we know it today?

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Pope Sixtus IV

Sistine Chapel


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Q18

One of the most famous cartographic errors in history, this was propagated on many maps during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, despite contradictory evidence from various explorers. The legend was initially infused with the idea that _______ was not part of the mainland and was a terrestrial paradise, like the Garden of Eden or Atlantis. Just name this place.

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Island of California

Q19 – Who connects?

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James "Jim" Jannard is an American designer and businessman, and founder of eyewear and apparel company Oakley, Inc. and RED Digital Cinema

The movie Achamundu! Achamundu! was shot entirely with the Red One camera.

Oakley is the sole company that has a lifetime deal with Lance Armstrong

Q20

____ ________ is an Irish artist famous for Irish Celtic Art. In 1978, he wrote and lavishly illustrated a book called The Book of Conquests, the retelling of a cycle of Irish myths, the Lebor Gabála Érenn.

The book retells the legends of the coming of the Tuatha dé Dannan to Ireland and their fight with the Fir Bolg, interrelated with a linear story via a series of exceptionally detailed illustrations matched with text of the deeds of might and valor contained in the myth. It is replete with intricate Celtic scrollwork and knot work.

For designing what illustration based on a photo in 1968 did he become world famous?

Q20 - The Book of Conquests

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Jim Fitzpatrick

Q21

______ is a genus in the order Fucales. Numerous species are distributed throughout the temperate and tropical oceans of the world, where they generally inhabit shallow water and coral reefs. However, the genus is best known for its planktonic species

Portuguese sailors were among the first to discover this region in the 15th century, naming it after the _____ seaweed growing there. The ocean water in this place is distinctive for its deep blue colour and exceptional clarity. Name this place

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Sargasso Sea


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Q22

________ bands are found to be an optical illusion and is named after a physicist.

The illusion consists of light or dark stripes that are perceived next to the boundary between two regions of an image that have different lightness gradients

Identify the physicist

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Ernst Mach

Mach bands

Q23

Manganese Bronze Holdings PLC is a specialty automotive products and services group.

The group is comprised of the following businesses:

X - manufactures the renowned ______ ______

Mann & Overton - provides high quality support, repairs and servicing for _____ ______.

Fill ‘er up!

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London Black Taxis


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Q24

X is a tool used in rope work by sailors for tasks such as unlaying rope for splicing, untying knots, or forming a makeshift handle. It is a polished cone tapered to a rounded or flattened point, usually 6 to 12 inches long

The Château de Cheverny is located at Cheverny, in the département of Loir-et-Cher in the Loire Valley in France. This was used as a model for something by an author.

Connect both

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X – Marlinspike

Marlinspike Hall - is Captain Haddock's country house in Hergé's comic book series The Adventures of Tintin


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Q25

_____ le Fay, is a powerful sorceress in Arthurian legend. Early works featuring her do not elaborate her character beyond her role as a fay or magician. Connect her with the two pictures shown in the next slide

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A Fata Morgana is an unusual and very complex form of mirage, a form of superior mirage, which, like many other kinds of superior mirages, is seen in a narrow band right above the horizon

This optical phenomenon occurs because rays of light are strongly bent when they pass through air layers of different temperatures in a steep thermal inversion where an atmospheric duct has formed

It is named after Morgan Le Fey

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Answer

Notable named nebulae

Boomerang Nebula

Cat's Eye Nebula

Helix Nebula

Crab Nebula

Eagle Nebula

Hourglass Nebula

Horsehead Nebula

Ring Nebula

Tarantula Nebula

Q26

Stibnite is a sulfide mineral. It was known and used in Biblical times as a medication and as a cosmetic.

How do we know it better from the periodic table?

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Stibnite is also called Antimonite and is the most important source for the metalloid Antimony

The abbreviation for Antimony, Sb, is taken from Stibnite

Q27

The Valsalva maneuver can be used either in medical examination as a test of cardiac function or autonomic nervous control of the heart.

The technique is named after Antonio Maria Valsalva, the 17th Century physician and anatomist from Bologna, whose principal scientific interest was the human ear.

The normal physiological response consists of 4 phases:

Initial pressure rise, Reduced venous return and compensation, Pressure release and Return of cardiac output. Deviation from this response pattern signifies either abnormal heart function or abnormal autonomic nervous control of the heart.

How can a normal person perform this maneuver?

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It is usually done by closing one's mouth and pinching one's nose shut

Q28

Vitus Jonassen ______ was a Danish navigator in the service of the Russian Navy, a captain known among the Russian sailors as Ivan Ivanovich. He is noted for being the first European to discover Alaska and its Aleutian Islands. In honor of his services, an island, a glacier, a sea have been named.

Who is he?

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Vitus Bering

Q29

______ is the term commonly used for a loudspeaker driver designed to produce low frequency sounds, typically from around 40 hertz up to about a kilohertz or higher. The name is from the onomatopoeic English word for a common animal’s sound.

The most common design for a _____ is the electrodynamic driver, which typically uses a stiff paper cone, driven by a voice coil which is surrounded by a magnetic field.

What are we talking about?

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Woofer - from “Woof”

Q30 - Connect

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Out of Africa

Karen Blixen

Out of Africa is a memoir by Isak Dinesen, a nom de plume used by the Danish author Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke. The book, first published in 1937, recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya, then British East Africa. The book is a lyrical meditation on Blixen’s life on her coffee plantation, as well as a tribute to some of the people who touched her life there.

Q31

They occur as a series on the River Aar in Bern canton in central Switzerland. Tourists visit this place by climbing the path to the top and then crossing a bridge and following a trail down the hill which leads to the actual ledge. The actual place is marked by a plaque written in English, German and French which explains the event that occurred there.

What happened here on 4 May 1891?

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Reichenbach Falls

The town and the falls are known worldwide as the setting for an entirely fictional event: it is the location where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's hero, Sherlock Holmes, apparently dies at the end of "The Adventure of the Final Problem" locked in mortal combat with his arch nemesis, Professor Moriarty

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_______ _____ was established on December 11, 1958, as a self-governing colony within the French Community. Before attaining autonomy, it was a part of the French Union. On August 5, 1960 it attained full independence from France.

The name of the country indicates that it contains a part of the river ______. The river is divided into three parts and the colors of the national flag corresponds to the parts of the river.

Which country?

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Upper Volta

Q33

Line-Up for Yesterday: An ABC of Baseball Immortals is a poem written by X for the January 1949 issue of SPORT Magazine. In the poem, X dedicates each letter of the alphabet to an iconic Major League Baseball player. Altogether, the poem pays tribute to 24 players.

For example:

G is for Gehrig,

The Pride of the Stadium;

His record pure gold,

His courage, pure radium

He also wrote about himself under the alphabet ‘I’

I is for Me,

Not a hard-hitting man,

But an outstanding all-time

Incurable fan.

Who is X?

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Ogden Nash

Q34

Jacob ______ is buried in Sydney's Rookwood Necropolis, in Australia. His epitaph is given below. He is the brother of Isaac ______ who developed and popularized something. What is it?

IN MUVING MEMERI OV JACOB ______, BORN NOV. 28, 1810 TROWBRIDGE ENGLAND, SETELD IN ADELAIDE 1838 DEID 12TH MARCH 1890 ARKITEKT INTRODIUST FONETIK ________ AND WOZ THE FERST MINISTER IN THEEZ KOLONIZ OV THE DOKTRINZ OV THE SEKOND OR NIU KRISTIAN CHURCH WHICH AKNOLEJEZ THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IN HIZ DEVEIN HIUMANITI AZ THE KREATER OV THE YUNIVERS THE REDEEMER AND REJENERATER OV MEN GOD OVER AUL BLESED FOR EVER

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Jacob Pitman

Shorthand

He introduced shorthand in Australia. He is the brother of Sir Isaac Pitman who actually developed the shorthand

Q35

_______ is a funeral receptacle for a corpse, most commonly carved or cut from stone. The word ________ comes from Greek meaning "flesh-eating“. The word came to refer to the limestone that was thought to decompose the flesh of corpses interred within it.

They were most often designed to remain above ground, hence were often ornately carved, decorated or elaborately constructed. Some were built to be freestanding, as a part of an elaborate tomb or series of tombs, while others were intended for placement in crypts.

What am I talking about?

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Sarcophagus

Q36

_______ is the personal representative of a head of state of government who prepares an international summit, particularly the annual G8 Summit.

The name is specifically used in the context of the G8 summit, but the designation can be used for different regular conferences where the participation of the respective head of state is required. They are generally quite influential, although they generally lack the authority to independently make the final decision about any given agreement.

The name is a metaphor indicating that the _____ clears the way for a head of state at a major summit.

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Sherpa

Q37

The Adventures of ______: Breaking Free is an anarchist parody of the popular _____ series of comics. The book was written under the pseudonym J. Daniels and published by Attack International in April of 1988

The story features a number of characters based on those from the original series notably _____ himself but not the original themes or plot. The story tracks ______'s development from a disaffected, shoplifting youth to a revolutionary leader

What is it a parody of? Who is the original author?

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Herge

Tintin

Q38

The Fairtrade Foundation is a charity based in the United Kingdom that works to empower disadvantaged producers in developing countries by tackling injustice in conventional trade, in particular by promoting and licensing the Fairtrade Mark, a guarantee that products retailed in the UK have been produced in accordance with internationally agreed Fairtrade standards

_______ _______ is a soft drink certified by The Fairtrade Foundation. Made with Fairtrade sugar from Malawi and Zambia, it is the first UK product of this kind to be Fairtrade certified.

It is available for sale in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, Belgium, France, Italy, Switzerland, and online. Name it.

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Ubuntu Cola

Q39

Use Your Illusion I is the third studio album by hard rock band Guns N' Roses. It was the first of two albums released in conjunction with the Use Your Illusion Tour, the other being Use Your Illusion II. The two are thus sometimes seen together as a double album

Which famous painting has been used to create the cover art for the albums?

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Raphael's painting The School of Athens


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An ________ (Literally "ear hat") is a Russian fur cap with ear flaps that can be tied up to the crown of the cap, or tied at the chin to protect the ears, jaw and lower chin from the cold. The thick dense fur also offers some protection against blunt impacts to the head.

During the Russian Civil War, when Aleksandr Kolchak ruled in Siberia, he introduced a winter uniform hat, commonly referred to as kolchakovka, which was basically an ________ with an extra eye-flap

It has become a symbol and media icon of Soviet Russia. Name it.

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Ushanka

Q41

X is a mammal of the family Felidae, native to the Americas. This large, solitary cat has the greatest range of any large wild terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere, extending from Yukon in Canada to the southern Andes of South America

With its vast range, X has dozens of names and various references in the mythology of the indigenous Americans and in contemporary culture. Its names include catamount, mountain screamer, etc

It holds the Guinness record for the animal with the highest number of names, presumably due to its wide distribution across North and South America. It has over 40 names in English alone.

Name this mammal

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Cougar

Q42

Until the mid-19th Century, vessel speed at sea was measured using a chip log. This consisted of a wooden panel, weighted on one edge to float upright, and thus present substantial resistance to moving with respect to the water around it, attached by line to a reel. The chip log was "cast" over the stern of the moving vessel and the line allowed to pay out.

______ placed at a distance of 47 feet 3 inches, passed through a sailor's fingers, while another sailor used a 30 second sand-glass to time the operation. The _____ count would be reported. This method gives a value for the _____ of 1.85166 km/h. Fill up ____

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Knots

Q43

A _____ _____, also known as a wet ____, is a cable-suspended airtight chamber, open at the bottom like a moon pool structure, that is lowered underwater to operate as a base or a means of transport for a small number of divers. The pressure of the water keeps the air trapped inside it.

_____ ______ is used as underwater rescue vessels and by working divers doing underwater work and salvage. The bell is lowered into the water by cables from a crane attached to a ship or dock. The bell is ballasted so as to remain upright in the water and to be negatively buoyant so that it sinks even when completely full of air.

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Diving Bell

Q44

In Greek mythology, Amalthea was a goat who raised Zeus on her breast milk, in a cave, on Mount Ida of Crete. Her horn was accidentally broken off by Zeus while playing together. The god Zeus, in remorse, gave her back her horn with supernatural powers, which would give whoever possessed it whatever they wished for. Basically, the Greek version of Akshaya Patra. What is it called?

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Cornucopia

Q45

What consists of Zarya, Zvezda, Unity, Harmony, Tranquility, Destiny, Columbus, Kibo, Quest, Pirs, Rassvet, Poisk and Cupola?

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These are the different modules/major components of International Space Station


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Q46

Published by Marvel Comics in 1982, this is the comic book adaptation of which movie?

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Blade Runner


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Q47

Rattan is the name for the roughly 600 species of palms in the tribe Calameae, native to tropical regions of Africa, Asia and Australasia

The rest of the world's supply comes from the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Bangladesh.

Rattans are extensively used for making furniture and baskets. Cut into sections, rattan can be used as wood to make furniture

How is it connected to the world of sports?

A chair made out of Rattan

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Sepak Takraw


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Q48

A few weeks back, he was mugged and his watch was stolen.

The watch company promptly released an ad using this marketing strategy and it has worked big time.

Just identify the company

A48

Hublot Watches

Q49

The original idea for this competition has been attributed to Yves Le Cornec in 1985. The rules were defined in 1990.

This trophy is awarded to the challenger who breaks the previous record of voyage under sail. The winner holds the trophy until such time as his/her record has been bettered

The trophy's starting point is defined by an imaginary line between the Créac'h lighthouse on Ouessant Island, France, and the Lizard Lighthouse, UK.

Who is this trophy named after?

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Jules Verne

The Jules Verne Trophy is a prize for the fastest circumnavigation of the world by any type of yacht with no restrictions on the size of the crew provided the vessel has registered with the organization and paid an entry fee

Q50

Hans Beck is often called "The Father of ____." Beck received training as a cabinetmaker but worked simultaneously on model airplanes, a product he pitched to the company Brandstätter. The owner of the company, Horst Brandstätter, asked him to develop toy figures for children instead.

Beck spent three years developing what became _______. Beck conducted research that allowed him to develop a toy that would not be too complex but nevertheless flexible. Name the line of toys.

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Playmobil

Thank You!

Mithun's backup qns for Sana's quiz

Connect to a famous human being

And the answer is

RABRI devi

Her sisters are named Rasguliya, Jalebiya and Panya...,

The four sisters were named after the first thing that their mother ate immediately after delivering them!

Back to the old time before radio communication was developed, military used Morse code to communicate.

From the earliest days of wireless communication, the Morse code letter ____(dit-dah-dit) has been used to indicate 'O.K. -- understood.

When radio communication came to replace the old technology, the letter “____" was still used to represent the "yes." However, military faced difficulty to pronouce the letter “___" especially in critical situation.

So they simply chose the equivalent from 'Able, Baker, Charlie' RAF phonetic alphabet code.

And the answer is

ROGER THAT

R was dit-dah-dit

So they took the equivalent of R in RAF Phonetic code, which was Roger

Le Chevalier C. _________ is not a professional detective and his motivations for solving the mysteries throughout the three stories change. Using what the author termed "ratiocination", _________ combines his considerable intellect with creative imagination, even putting himself in the mind of the criminal But the character's name seems to imply duping or deception

The character Porfiry Petrovich in Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment was influence

In the first Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet (1887), Doctor Watson compares Holmes to _________

WHY does it look reflection type?

Le Bateau

Le Bateau is a paper-cut from 1953 by Henri Matisse

Le Bateau caused a minor stir when the Museum of Modern Art, which housed it, hung the print upside-down for 47 days in 1961

This English rock band formed in 1976 in Greater Manchester was initially called Warsaw In reference to the song "Warszawa" by David Bowie.

tHEIR later name they took from 'The House of Dolls' 1955 novella by Ka-tzetnik 135633. The novella describes "Y", which were allegedly groups of Jewish women in the concentration camps during World War II who were kept for the sexual pleasure of Nazi soldiers.

And the answer is

JOY DIVISION

Early name was WARSAW

As his mother Suzanne Brière was French, he spent much of his childhood in France and as a result, French was his first language. He also attended the French Foreign Legion

He then attended the Cathedral and John Connon School, Bombay

He did not continue beyond matriculation as mentioned in his biography Beyond The Last Blue Mountain by R M Lala.

He did not continue beyond matriculation as mentioned in his biography Beyond The Last Blue Mountain by R M Lala.

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JRD Tata

the term "_________" was probably used first by Vuk Karadžić, to describe what happened to the Turks in Belgrade when the city was captured by the Karadjordje's forces in 1806.

As early as 1914, a Carnegie Endowment report on the Balkan Wars points out that village-burning and _________ had traditionally accompanied Balkan wars, regardless of the group in power.

Konstantin Nenadović wrote, in his biography of the famous Serbian leader published in 1883, that after the fighting "the Serbs, in their bitterness (after 500 years of Turkish occupation), slit the throats of the Turks everywhere they found them, sparing neither the wounded, nor the woman, nor the Turkish children

ETHNIC CLEANSING

It one of the longest-running annual cricket fixtures in the world. The first one occured in 1805 and has been an annual event since 1822

It is the last annual match played at Lord's Cricket Ground.

The number of spectators necessitated the first introduction of viewing stands and a boundary rope at Lord's in 1866.

This rivalry is as old and deep as the oxford-cambridge boat race.

X are unbeaten in the last eight years of the historic fixture, although they nearly lost in 2008 but the match was called off due to poor playing conditions.

Lord Byron played for X in the 1805 match so did English cricketer, Stanley Jackson

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Eton Vs Harrow

In baseball, a _____ _____ is a substitute batter. Batters can be substituted at any time while the ball is dead (not in active play); the manager may use any player that has not yet entered the game as a substitute. Unlike basketball, American football, or ice hockey, however, baseball does not have a "free substitution rule" and thus the replaced player in baseball is never allowed back into that game. The _____ _____ assumes the spot in the batting order of the player he replaces. Mainly used by managers in desperate situations with dire need of immediate runs.

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PINCH HITTER

A sher/shayari in Urdu contains 2 lines. SO what is the name given to poetry in Arabic which consists of 4 lines and derives its name from the Arabic 'arbaa' meaning Four

AND THE ANSWER IS

RUBAIYAT

rUBAAI is Arabic for "quatrain", and is used to describe a Persian quatrain, or itsderivative form in English and other languages. The plural form of the word RUBAIYAT describe a collection of such quatrains

Who talking about what?

The famous _____. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my _____? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture "This is a _____," I'd have been lying!

Magritte about Pipe

The Treachery of Images

FADE OUT;DOUBLE TAKE;ROUND HOUSE;FAST PACE;COCKED PISTOL

And the answer is

DEFCON READINESS LEVELS

Qn) The Greek character X is often confused as the origin of the english word Y.In Greek mythology, X are a troop of male companions of Pan and Dionysus.Maybe the confusion is created because the only reference of X so far has been in the plays, called X, performed as a short, lighthearted tailpiece performed after each trilogy of tragedies in Athenian festivals honoring Dionysus.

The word Y comes from the Latin word satur and the subsequent phrase lanx satura. Satur meant "full," but the juxtaposition with lanx shifted the meaning to "miscellany or medley": the expression lanx satura literally means "a full dish of various kinds of fruits.Even though Y is primarily a literary genre or form, in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts -vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement

And the answer is

SATYR and SATIRE

The warden threw a party in the county jail.

The prison band was there and they began to wail.

The band was jumpin' and the joint began to swing.

You should've heard those knocked out jailbirds sing.

Let's rock Everybody, let's rock. Everybody in the whole cell block was dancin' to the _______ _______.

And the answer is

Portrait of queen elizabeth by one andy brown of chelmsford, what is it made of?

TEA BAGS

The large canvases _____ used for his Abstract Expressionist action paintings were usually laid flat on the floor while he painted. _____ was a chain smoker and would frequently paint with a cigarette hanging from his lips. This led to the intriguing incorporation of cigarette ashes into the surface of some of his greatest works.

JACKSON POLLOCK

Considered among the most influential personalities in the Bombay film industry,

this gentleman's name means "new happiness" as his year of birth also saw the conclusion of a major war. Who is being referred to?[hide]

NAUSHAD

Y is an American actress and former fashion model with a career spanning six decades.

Y had been assured by X that mechanical ones would be used. Instead, Y endured five solid days of prop men, protected by thick leather gloves, flinging dozens of ______at her (clamped shut with elastic bands). Cary Grant visited and told Y, "I think you're the bravest lady I've ever met." In a state of exhaustion, when one of them gouged her cheek and narrowly missed her eye, Y sat down on the set and began crying.

Who is X, who is Y, WHAT was happening?

AND THE ANSWER IS

They were shooting last scene of BIRDS by HITCHCOCK

X -Hitchcock

Y- Tippie Hedren

Daughter-Melanie Griffith

wife of actor Antonio

Banderas.

Wat looks like this now?

And the answer is

Cafe Terrace by Van gogh

He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the Australia Day honours in 2002.

He was buried in a orange casket bearing the label Do Not Open".

In November 2008, Qantas named one of their Airbus A380s after him

And the answer is

DAVID WARREN -inventor of BLACK BOX

X are the largest flying land birds in the Western Hemisphere.

What created by the Peruvian composer Daniel Alomía Robles written in 1913 and based on traditional Andean folk tunes literally means 'X flies by'

And the answer is

EL CONDOR PASA

THE CONDOR GOES/FLIES BY

This is a term invented to describe one possible result of a severe nuclear meltdown in which molten reactor core components penetrate their containment vessel and building. The term is misleading, since molten material from such an event could not melt through the crust of the Earth and reach ----------------------

The dangers of such a hypothetical accident were popularized by the 1979 film, ___ ____ _______starring Jane Fonda.

The film was released on 16 March 1979, 12 days before the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania- which helped later in the ticket sales of the film

And the answer is

CHINA SYNDROME

mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and poet. He also wrote treatises on mechanics, geography, and music.

Recognized as the author of one of the most important treatises on algebra before modern times as reflected in his Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra giving a geometric method for solving cubic equations by intersecting a hyperbola with a circle

He is thought to have been born into a family of tent makers and hence his name.

And the answer is

OMAR KHAYYAM

Its formula, which was a closely guarded state secret, whose composition has now been lost. As a result, its ingredients are a much debated topic, with proposals including naphtha, quicklime, sulphur, and niter

The Byzantines typically used it in naval battles to great effect as it could continue burning even under water

What set the Byzantine usage of incendiary mixtures apart was their use of pressurized siphons to project the liquid onto the enemy.

AND THE ANSWER IS

GREEK FIRE

what in dutch is Het Meisje met de Parel also called as "the Mona Lisa of the North" or "the Dutch Mona Lisa".

Who as what?

Scarlett Johansson as vermeer's Girl with pearl

earring

Set in Manhattan and beginning on April Fools' Day 1989, ____ _____ spans roughly three years in the life of wealthy young investment banker Patrick Bateman.

Bateman, 26 years old when the story begins, narrates his everyday activities, from his daily life among the upper-class elite of New York to his forays into murder by nightfall.

"His mask of sanity appears to slip" as he introduces stories about serial killers into casual conversations, and confesses his murderous activities to his co-workers. People react as if Bateman is joking with them, appear not to hear him, or otherwise completely misunderstand him ("murders and executions" is mistaken for "mergers and acquisitions", for example)

As the book nears its conclusion, Bateman describes incidents such as being stalked by an anthropomorphic park bench, and being ordered by an ATM to feed it a stray cat.

And the answer is

Edgar award and Golden Dagger award are the highest honors on what genre?

And the answer is

DETECTIVE NOVEL writing

Edgar Allan Poe award

He was a British illustrator, graphic humorist and political cartoonist whose work was prominent during the second half of England’s 19th century. Tenniel is considered important to the study of that period’s social, literary, and art histories. Tenniel is most noted for two major accomplishments: he was the principal political cartoonist for England’s Punch magazine for over 50 years,

LESSER KNOWN works are illustrations for:

The Arabian Nights (1863)

Poe's Works (1857)

Aesop's Fables, 100 drawings (1848)

JOHN TENIEL

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

Qn) “National anthem” of what or Fill in the blanks on the lines of a famous Eagles’ song :

On a dark office evening,

Sat down in my chair.

Sharp smell of stale coffee

Circling round in the air.

Suddenly on the webpage

There came a flickering light.

My head grew heavy, and my sight grew dim;

I had to stop for the night.

There it was in the link list:

"Edit page; you'll do well"

And I was thinking to myself

This could be Heaven or this could be Hell!

Then it lit up the quickbar

And it showed me the way.

There were pages begging for clean-up;

I thought I heard them say:

Welcome to the ______ ______

Such a lovely place

So much empty space

Plenty of work at the ______ ______

Any time of year

You can find us here...

Its structure's maze-passage twisted;

No one knows where it ends.

It's got a lot of money mirror sites,

That it calls friends.

And in the dance of the pages

Editors sweat -

Some change to remember,

Some change to forget.

So I chose Contributions,

Tell me, what have I done?

And it said:

This is all that you've been good for, here,

since two thousand and one.

And still those pages beg changes

From far away,

Keep you up in the middle of the night

Just to hear them say...

Welcome to the ______ ______

Such a lovely place

So much empty space

They're typing it in at the ______ ______

Things that you can do—

Revert vandals, too—

Many links in the Portal

Disambigs won't suffice

And users said,

We are all just prisoners here

Of our own device.

And in the Most Requested

The list of pages increased;

They edit with their steely knives

But they just can't kill the beast.

Last thing I remember,

I couldn't take any more.

I had to find the passage back

to the life I had before

Relax, said the Rambot,

We are programmed to receive.

You can log out any time you like

But you can never leave.

What word for a strong cotton working cloth or overalls, comes from a low lyingvillage near Bombay where it was first manufactured

Dungarees

Dungaree Kila

Which Indian temple is so located that there is no piece of land between it and theSouth Pole

somnath

A place falling undisputedly under the dominion of India was "formally" annexed by

India more than 9years after the Independence of India due to an "unusual" reason.

1.Name the place.

2.Give the year in which we annexed it.

3.State the reason for the delay

Minicoy island in 1956. The reason was that the information about the Independence of India had not reached them. Nehru noticed the Union Jack flying on a lighthouse during his visit. The Union Jack was formally unhoisted by a representative of the UK.

This person in Hindu mythology gets his name from earth pot because he was not gestated in a womb, but outside the human body in a earth pot.

Which place in India gets its name from this person since he was born there

Drona and Dehra Dun

Droon (earth pot);

This person was born in two halves in 2 mothers. Each half was dead and were thrown away. A rakshasi named _____collected the 2 pieces and joined those. That's why the name: ____meaning , joined by _____.

JARA-SANDHA

Which Indian revolutionary was a founding member of the Mexican Communist Party?[hide]

BLAKE'S Portrayal of which quizzically important god

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