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The General Quiz

Anushrut Gupta & Debjit Tripathy

Quizzing, IIT Roorkee & Thomso, 2017 present

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Prelims+10/0Part points applicable.Teams of 3 or less.Top 8 teams qualify for the Mains.Marks will carry forward to the Mains.

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“The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations. They are wrong. It is a soft

‘G,’ pronounced ‘_________’. End of story.” says Steve Wilhite, the creator of

_________.

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GIFs

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• While it might be convenient to use for the users, not having to page through so many ________, this button feature cost X $110 million a year as 1% of all ________ bypass all advertising.

• What button?

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I’m feeling lucky by Google

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• A Diamond Crossing in railway terminology is the point where two railway lines cross. A lot has been said about this particular point which might not be factually correct but is anyway widely propagated.

• But this monument here is evidence that part of the rumour was true for some part of history.

• Where would you find these?

• (Images)

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Geographical centre of colonial India in the city of Nagpur

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• The company was founded by Nick Woodman in 2002. He was motivated while on a surfing trip to Australia in which he was hoping to capture quality action photos, but could not because amateur photographers could not get close enough or buy quality equipment at reasonable prices. Founded as Woodman Labs, Inc, the company eventually focused on the connected sports genre, developing its line of action cameras and, later, video editing software. It also developed a quadcopter drone, Karma, released in October 2016.

• What company?

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GoPro

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• A X is the basic unit of information. Regardless of its physical realization, it has two possible states.

• A Y is a unit of quantum information. It is a two-state quantum-mechanical system.

• In a classical system, a X would have to be in one state or the other. However, quantum mechanics allows the Y to be in a superposition of both states at the same time.

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X- BitY- Qubit

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• MyCoke was formerly known as __________, and was an online chat game used for marketing the Coca-Cola brand and products. The main focus of the game was to socialize, mix music, and decorate various interiors. The in-game currency was decibels, and was rewarded for doing various activities. There were various locations based on real-life cities where the user could perform music, such as San Francisco or Mexico.

• __________ had sponsored several high-profile films and television show, in which events and promotions would happen on the website or the client.

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Coke Studios

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7• Following is a 1998 British neo-noir crime drama film written and

directed by X. It tells the story of a young man who follows strangers around the streets of London and is drawn into a criminal underworld when he fails to keep his distance.

• As X's debut feature, it was designed to be as inexpensive as possible to make. Scenes were heavily rehearsed so that just one or two takes were needed to economise on 16mm film stock, the production's greatest expense, and for which X was paying from his salary. Unable to afford expensive professional lighting equipment, he mostly used available light. Along with writing, directing, and photographing the film, X also helped in editing and production. The movie uses a certain mode of story telling that X again used in his subsequent films.

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Christopher Nolan

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• Kishore Kumar and his brother Anoop lived in one of the 60 rooms of the century-old hostel of Indore Christian College. While there, Kishore owed the canteen owner a certain amount and of course the canteen owner always kept bugging him for the same. Of what amount was Kishore's indebtedness?

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Paanch rupaiyya bara aana

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9. Save The Lazy Smiley Face from Doom

The game has an underlying humanitarian plot by including a face that just sits there making faces at you the whole time. While you're in the process of clicking,it has a surprised, scared look on his face. He doesn't know whether his ass is about to be grass or whether he'll be alive and kicking when you let go of your mouse button. If he's still breathing, he'll go back to smiling, but if not, he'll frown and his eyes will go from being two circular dots to being two X's. Seeing that nobody planned a funeral for his dead face, he just waits patiently for you to start a new game.

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Minesweeper

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10. Straight Outta Wikipedia

X was a country in Southeast Europe during most of the 20th century. It came into existence after World War I in 1918 under the name of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes by the merger of the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (itself formed from territories of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire) with the formerly independent Kingdom of Serbia. The Serbian royal House of Karađorđević became the Y royal dynasty. X gained international recognition on 13 July 1922 at the Conference of Ambassadors in Paris. The country was named after the South Slavic peoples and constituted their first union, following centuries in which the territories had been part of the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary.

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Yugoslavia

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Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova, born 6 March 1937), is a retired Russian ________ , engineer, and politician. She is the first ______________________________ , having been selected from more than 400 applicants and five finalists to ____________ on 16 June 1963.

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Cosmonaut

woman to have flown in space

pilot Vostok 6

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12. 100 years of...

The XYZ was an international men's association football tournament that was hosted in the United States in 2016. The competition was a celebration of the centenary of CONMEBOL and the XY, and was the first XY hosted outside of South America.

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XYZ: Copa América Centenario

XY: Copa América

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13. … is ...

On becoming a _____ (becoming baptized), the ____ undertakes the obligation to wear the physical symbols of this status (the Five Ks) and takes the name "lion", usually romanized as X, if a man, or "princess", usually romanized as Y, if a woman. These names reflect the strong egalitarianism of the ____ religion. The adopting of the ____ name is symbolic for being a member of a larger family or faith. These names were originally intended to replace the ____’s original surname, which was often a caste name.

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X: Singh

Y: Kaur

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14. Commit

X mascot, Octocat, is an anthropomorphized female cat with five octopus-like arms. The character was created by graphic designer Simon Oxley as clip art to sell on iStock, a website that enables designers to market royalty-free digital images.

X became interested in Oxley's work after Y selected a bird that he designed for their own logo. The illustration GitHub chose was a character that Oxley had named Octopuss. Since GitHub wanted Octopuss for their logo (a use that the iStock license disallows), they negotiated with Oxley to buy exclusive rights to the image.

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X: GitHub

Y: Twitter

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15. Back to the pavilion

In cricket, the term X refers to an opening batsman who is not dismissed ("not out") when the team innings is closed.

The term is mainly used when the innings closes after all 10 wickets have fallen; that is, the other 10 players in the team have all been dismissed ("out"). It may also be used in situations where one or more of these players retire out or are unable to bat through injury or illness, and the remaining players are all dismissed normally. It is not used, however, in any other situation where the innings closes before all 10 wickets have fallen, such as when it is declared closed, or when the team successfully chases a set run target to win the match.

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Carry the bat

Carry one’s bat accepted

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16. Xs and Trumps

The X website home page has been used to commemorate, or pay tribute to, milestones and events outside of X product offerings:

2010: Jerome B. York (board member)

2007: Al Gore (board member in honor of his Nobel Peace Prize)

2005: Rosa Parks

2003: Gregory Hines

2001: George Harrison

2016: Muhammad Ali

2016: Bill Campbell (board member and friend)

2016: Martin Luther King, Jr.

2014: Robin Williams

2013: Nelson Mandela

2011: Steve Jobs

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Apple

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The X Y is a GSM mobile phone announced on September 1, 2000, and released in the fourth quarter of the year, replacing the popular X Z. It sold very well, being one of the most successful phones with 126 million units sold worldwide. The phone is still widely acclaimed and has gained a cult status due to its _________. It is one of X’s most iconic devices.

An updated model was launched in 2017. The new X Y (2017) model will have a comprehensive update over its predecessor and come with a 2.4" color display, a 2MP rear camera and a microSD slot. Like the original, the new phone will be GSM-based on launch, and will require 2G or 2.5G network coverage for use on any phone network.

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X: Nokia

Y: 3310

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18. Unlike Ford

X met real estate mogul Y at a party thrown by Zampolli at the Times Square nightclub the Kit Kat Club (now the Stephen Sondheim Theatre), in September 1998 at a New York Fashion Week. Y had been separated from Marla Maples since May 1997, and attended the party with Norwegian cosmetics heiress Celina Midelfart. When Midelfart went off to use the bathroom, Y approached Knauss and asked for her number. She took his number instead, and subsequently they attended the 1990s Greenwich Village hot spot Moomba, and began a relationship. While they were dating, Y relocated her family to New York, where her parents now live for most of the year. The couple gained attention after a 1999 interview on The Howard Stern Show. In 2000, she appeared with Y while he campaigned for that year's Reform Party presidential nomination.

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Mr. and Mrs.

Donald and Melania Trump

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A biscuit company congratulated X's birthday with this on twitter. X?

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Bill Gates

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20. Who is following them?

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KFC

11 Herbs & Spices

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MainsPounce/Bounce

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• Raja Harishchandra is the first full-length Indian feature film and Dadasaheb Phalke the first director. What is Annasaheb Salunke credited as the first in Indian cinema?

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First person to perform as a heroine

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• The West Indian cricket team in England in 1984, won 5-0 in the Test series, which to date remains the first and only time any touring side to England has achieved this feat. It was dubbed _________ series as the West Indies team led by Clive Lloyd humiliated David Gower's England side. (Image)

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• Surrogate advertising is a form of advertising which is used to promote certain category of products, in the disguise of another product. This type of advertising uses a product of a fairly close category, or products of a completely different category to hammer the brand name into the heads of consumers. The actual product may not be projected directly to consumers but rather masked under another product under the same brand name, so that whenever there is mention of that brand, people start associating it with its main product.

• What products are promoted this way?

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Alcohol or Cigarettes - Banned Products

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• During the 1924, George Mallory and his partner, Andrew Irvine, disappeared during their attempt to ________. Mallory's ultimate fate was unknown for 75 years, until his body was discovered on 1 May 1999. Whether Mallory and Irvine had achieved the feat before they died remains a subject of speculation and continuing research, which if proved might require a serious change of records.

• What feat?

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First ascent of Mount Everest

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• Sadako Sasaki, a Japanese girl who was 24 months old when she was exposed to radiation from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, developed leukaemia. At age 12 after spending a significant amount of time in a hospital, began making ________ with the goal of making ______ , inspired by a legend.

• There is a statue of Sadako holding a _______ in Hiroshima Peace Park, and every year on Obon day, people leave ______ at the statue in memory of the departed spirits of their ancestors.

• Funda?

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One thousand origami cranes

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• Why are the walls stained Prussian Blue?

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The chemical reaction of Zyklon B (Hydrogen cyanide gas {HCN} -used in Holocaust- with iron oxide {Fe2O3· xH2O} to produce Fe4[Fe(CN)6].yH2O {Prussian blue/Ferric ferrocyanide}

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Small written (+2 each, +4 for all correct)

Expand (all Latin):

1. eg.

2. i.e.

3. A.D.

4. LL.B.

5. A.M. and P.M.

6. M.A.

7. P.S.

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1. eg.: exempli gratia

2. i.e.: id est

3. A.D.: Anno Domini

4. LL.B.: Legum Baccalaureus

5. A.M./P.M.: Ante Meridiem, Post Meridiem

6. M.A.: Magister Artium (Master of Arts)

7. P.S.: Post Scriptum

8. R.I.P: requiescat in pace

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• X started his career as a professor in Sindh before partition. He started his own law firm in Karachi with his friend Y who was seven years senior to him.

• In February 1948, when the riots broke out in Karachi, he fled to India on the advice of his friend Y, who later turned to be the Law Minister of Pakistan. And as fate would have it, X himself turned out to be the Minister of Law and Justice in the Government of India!

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X- Ram JethmalaniY- A.K. Brohi

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• There has been a popular saying that they are hard to kill and keep coming back for more. X was trying to have people believe that their products would similarly outlast things that killed other competitors’ products, maybe by even 9 times. It was of course, a marketing exaggeration but an effective and memorable one.

• What company thus had its logo devised?

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• According to the ancient Greek legend by Euripedes, there was a general who buried a large treasure in his tent when he was defeated in battle in 477 BC. When the conquering general and his troops could not find the treasure, they consulted the Oracle of Delphi, who advised them to __________ for the treasure. Then, the conquering general went back to the site and searched _________. Of course, he found the hidden treasure.

• What idiom owes its origin to this story?

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Leave no stone unturned

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• Crux is a constellation located in a bright portion of the Milky Way. It is among the most easily distinguished constellations, as all of its four main stars have an apparent visual magnitude above +2.8, even though it is the smallest of all 88 modern constellations. Its name is Latin for cross, and it is dominated by a cross-shaped or kite-like asterism.

• The Crux features on the flags of five nations. If two of them are: Samoa and Papua New Guinea; give me the rest

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I’ve downloaded the Video

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Simpsons intro, using real humans

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17.

It has been speculated that sailors who often went above and below deck might have needed to keep one eye adjusted to the darkness below decks.The strong sunlight while above deck on an oceangoing vessel could require minutes of adaptation to the dim lighting below deck. With virtually no light sources below deck, sailors would have to rely heavily upon their eyes to adjust. In the critical moments of modifying the rigging, navigating, and especially during battle, those minutes were too precious. This is the reason behind a popular culture happening. What am I talking about ?

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Eyepatches worn by Pirates

An Aye For An Aye!

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Exhaustive list of what?

DavidCharlemagneCesarAlexanderPallasJudithRachelArgineOgierLa HireHectorLancelot

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Another counrty

Syldavia is a fictional country in X, the comics series by European cartoonist Y. It is located in the Balkans and has a rivalry with the fictional neighbouring country of Borduria. The Sprodj Atomic Research Centre, seen in P and Q, is located in Syldavia. The sprawling complex is located in the Zymylpathian Mountains of Syldavia (a play on the Carpathian Mountains), located close to rich deposits of uranium. The Centre is secretive and has very tightly-guarded security, including a large number of security checkpoints, helicopter surveillance, anti-aircraft artillery, and a squadron of fighter aircraft based at the facility. Work at the centre, carried out by a large team of international physicists recruited by the Syldavian government, involves research into protection from the effects of nuclear weapons, and is the base for the Syldavian space program. The facility, which seems to be entirely self-sufficient, is administered by the Director, Mr. Baxter. The Sprodj Centre has its own atomic pile for processing uranium into plutonium, and has vast facilities for the research and construction of the rocket-ship which carries R and his colleagues to the moon. The gargantuan complex is last seen at the end of Explorers on the Moon, and is never again seen in the R series. In P, the Sprodj Atomic Research Centre invites S to head its space division, and later R and T to be part of the moon mission. In U, Syldavia's secret agents compete with archrival Bordurian agents to kidnap S and obtain the secrets to develop sound-based weapons.

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X: The Adventures of Tintin

Y: Hergé

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Small Stakes Connect

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+20/-15

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+15/-10

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+10/-5

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+5/0

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New Indian Banknotes

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"Ramble On" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin from their 1969 album Led Zeppelin II. The song's lyrics were influenced by X by Y. The opening line ("Leaves are falling all around") could be a paraphrase of the opening line of Y’s poem "Namárië".

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X references appear later in the song's lyrics:

Mine's a tale that can't be told

My freedom I hold dear

How years ago in days of old

When magic filled the air

'Twas in the darkest depths of ________

I met a girl so fair

But _______, and the evil one crept up

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X: The Lord of the Rings

Y: J. R. R. Tolkien

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In Germany, there is a Bavarian town called Herzogenaurach.

This town came into limelight after two international companies both started in little Herzogenaurach, and their headquarters are still located here today.

Though initially close, the companies soon had their differences and eventually after a bitter spat, split up and an intense rivalry arose.

With time, Herzogenaurach became often called The Town of Bent Necks. Why?

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Hint

The rivalry between these two companies was so fierce that people who wore ______ _____ would talk to only their counterparts and similarly were the ____ fans.

So whenever a visitor from outside would visit, the first thing the townsfolk would do was bend down their necks and stare at his ____ to see which _____ he wore to see which camp he belonged to!

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This is the town where Adolf Dassler and his brother Rudolf started the companies Adidas and Puma respectively.

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04/05/2017

When X was mixing the American Graffiti soundtrack, he used one-letter-prefixes to number the reels of film and the dialog. On one occasion during the production, X had dozed off while working on Y on the side. Sound designer Walter Murch asked X for the second dialogue of the second reel by saying _________. X woke up and stated that it was a "great name" before going back to sleep. _______ was later incorporated into Y. X, Y and FITB.

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X - George Lucas

Y - Star Wars

Blank - Reel two, Dialogue two which abbreviated to R2-D2, a name which surfaced in the Lucas' film.

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From Eros and X came the race of birds

In Greek mythology, X, according to Hesiod, was the first thing to exist: "at first X came to be" (or was) "but next" (possibly out of X) came Gaia, Tartarus, and Eros (elsewhere the son of Aphrodite). Unambiguously born "from X" were Erebus (Darkness) and Nyx (Night).

The Greek word "X", a neuter noun, means "yawning" or "gap", but what, if anything, was located on either side of this chasm is unclear. For Hesiod, X, like Tartarus, though personified enough to have borne children, was also a place, far away, underground and "gloomy", beyond which lived the Titans. And, like the earth, the ocean, and the upper air, it was also capable of being affected by Zeus' thunderbolts.

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Chaos

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Debjit thinks this question is good

Illeism (from Latin ille meaning "he, that") is the act of _____________________________________________.

Illeism is sometimes used in literature as a stylistic device. In real life usage, illeism can reflect a number of different stylistic intentions or involuntary circumstances.

Examples of popular Illeists: Julius Caesar, Narendra Modi, Pelé, Zlatan Ibrahimović, Salvador Dali (once).

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The act of referring to oneself in the third person instead of first person

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Kiska music?

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The Great X-Y Crisis of 1894

• By the late 1800s, large cities all around the world -London and New York in particular- were drowning in X-Y. A staggering total of over 100,000 X were _______________ around the city each day. On average a X will produce between 15 and 35 pounds of Y per day, so you can imagine the sheer scale of the problem.

• In 1894, The Times newspaper predicted… “In 50 years, every street in London will be buried under nine feet of X-Y.” The terrible situation was debated in 1898 at the world’s first international urban planning conference in New York, but no solution could be found. It seemed urban civilisation was doomed.

• However, necessity is the mother of invention, and the invention in this case was that of Z.

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The Great Horse-Manure Crisis of 1894Z-Motor Transport

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Small written (+2 each, +4 for all correct)

More famously known as?

1. _______ Isabel Mebarak Ripoll

2. Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta

3. Allen Konigsberg

4. Krishna Pandit Bhanji

5. Maurice Micklewhite

6. Eric Arthur Blair

7. Norma Jean Mortensen

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1. Shakira

2. Lady Gaga

3. Woody Allen

4. Ben Kingsley

5. Michael Caine

6. George Orwell

7. Marilyn Monroe

8. David Bowie

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• The word X is derived from the Sanskrit word Y. It was used for both the insect (because of their enormous number) and the scarlet resinous secretion it produces. This resin has been used for making traditional and tribal bangles, and still used as sealing wax by the India Post.

• The term Z is used for a liquid made of X dissolved in alcohol, or of synthetic substances, that dries to form a hard protective coating for wood, metal, etc. It is also used as wood finish, skin cosmetic and dye for wool and silk in ancient India and neighbouring areas. X resin was once imported in sizeable quantity into Europe from India along with Eastern woods. (Images)

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X- LacY- lākshā' (लाक्षा)Z-

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List of what?

Next slide.

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• X (12 June 1927 – 18 January 2012) was an Indian musical composer, music arranger and teacher. He found his first job as a violinist in the group of the composer Naushad in 1943. He taught R.D. Burman and Ramprasad Sharma (father of music director Pyarelal). A few examples of his work are B.R. Chopra (Naya Daur, Waqt), Naushad(Dillagi), and Chetan Anand (Haqeeqat). Pyarelal's tribute to X, his violin teacher, is what made him a household name.

• X? (Image)

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Anthony Gonsalves

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Straight through the heart

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DPS meetings

(Dead Poets Society)

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What are Grawlixes?

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A string of typographical symbols, especially "@#$%&!", used (especially in comic strips) to represent an obscenity or swearword.

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Who or about what?

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

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Carl Sagan on The Pale Blue Dot

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Kiski aawaz?

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Farrokh Mercury

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List of?

1. Guardians of the Front Page

2. Thanks, Obama.

3. This is Shelia Fredrick, a flight attendant. She noticed a terrified girl accompanied by an older man. She left a note in the bathroom on which the victim wrote that she needed help. The police was alerted & the girl was saved from a human trafficker. We should honor our heroes.

4. 1 dad reflex 2 children

5. Should have been Bernie

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Top Reddit posts

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Elvis

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X?

X (3 December 1884 – 28 February 1963) was the first Y of India, in office from 1950 to 1962. An Indian political leader, and lawyer by training, X joined the Indian National Congress during the Indian Independence Movement and became a major leader from the region of Bihar. A supporter of Mahatma Gandhi, X was imprisoned by British authorities during the Salt Satyagraha of 1931 and the Quit India movement of 1942. X served one term as President of the Indian National Congress from 1934 to 1935. After the 1946 elections, Prasad served as Minister of Food and Agriculture in the central government. Upon independence in 1947, X was elected as President of the Constituent Assembly of India, which prepared the Constitution of India and served as its provisional parliament.

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Rajendra Prasad

Mr. President

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What logo?

“I had the idea of the 3D logo when I was swimming at Ipanema Beach,” says Gelli “I was under the water, and when I came up, I saw Dois Irmãos (Two Brothers Hill, above). And I said, we are in the middle of sculpture city, we need to make a harmonizing logo. All of the curves of the logo shapes come from the mountains in ___ __ ______ — not only the main one Sugarloaf Mountain, but all of the the mountains.”

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Image follows

“This is an archetype. You can find this symbol in caves a million years ago and in children’s schools today. This make the logo so strong because it has a good meaning in all the cultures — with union and force. People see a lot of different meanings in it that we didn’t intentionally put there. The mayor of ___ said he could see ___ in it,” Gelli says with a laugh, “What?”

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Bill Gates

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Rio 2016

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• The name might be shocking at first since they have a coat of bright orange paint for high visibility. One explanation for popularization of the term, comes from the early film-based design of these, which required the inside to be perfectly dark to prevent light leaks from corrupting it.

• Specified to withstand an impact of 3400 g and temperatures of over 1,000 °C, what are these commonly know as?

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A black box/flight recorder

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• Charles G. Barkla noticed that atoms he studied appeared to emit two types of X-rays. Though he originally called the higher energy X-ray something that would seem more sensible now; he later renamed them since he realized that the highest energy X-rays produced in his experiments might not be the highest energy X-ray possible. He wanted to make certain that there was room to add more discoveries.

• But later it turned out, the _____ type X-ray is the highest energy X-ray an atom can emit.

• What am I talking about?

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K

• Reason why electron shells are called K,L,M…

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What?Top row

(1) Sri Yukteswar Giri (Hindu guru)

(2) Aleister Crowley (occultist)

(3) Mae West (actress)

(4) Lenny Bruce (comedian)

(5) Karlheinz Stockhausen (composer)

(6) W. C. Fields (comedian/actor)

(7) Carl Jung (psychiatrist)

(8) Edgar Allan Poe (writer)

(9) Fred Astaire (actor/dancer)

(10) Richard Merkin (artist)

(11) The Vargas Girl (by artist Alberto Vargas)

(12) (Leo Gorcey, picture was removed)

(12) Huntz Hall (actor)

(14) Simon Rodia (designer and builder of the Watts Towers)

(15) Bob Dylan (singer/songwriter)

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Second row

(16) Aubrey Beardsley (illustrator)

(17) Sir Robert Peel (19th century British Prime Minister)

(18) Aldous Huxley (writer)

(19) Dylan Thomas (poet)

(20) Terry Southern (writer)

(21) Dion DiMucci (singer/songwriter)

(22) Tony Curtis (actor)

(23) Wallace Berman (artist)

(24) Tommy Handley (comedian)

(25) Marilyn Monroe (actress)

(27) Sri Mahavatar Babaji (Hindu guru)

(28) Stan Laurel (actor/comedian)

(29) Richard Lindner (artist)

(30) Oliver Hardy (actor/comedian)

(31) Karl Marx (political philosopher)

(32) H. G. Wells (writer)

(33) Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (Hindu guru)

(34A) James Joyce (Irish poet and novelist) – barely visible below Bob Dylan

(34) Anonymous (hairdresser's wax dummy)

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Third row

(35) Stuart Sutcliffe (artist/former Beatle)

(36) Anonymous (hairdresser's wax dummy)

(37) Max Miller (comedian)

(38) A "Petty Girl" (by artist George Petty)

(39) Marlon Brando (actor)

(40) Tom Mix (actor)

(41) Oscar Wilde (writer)

(42) Tyrone Power (actor)

(43) Larry Bell (artist)

(44) David Livingstone (missionary/explorer)

(45) Johnny Weissmuller (Olympic swimmer/Tarzan actor)

(46) Stephen Crane (writer) – barely visible between Issy Bonn's head and raised arm

(47) Issy Bonn (comedian)

(48) George Bernard Shaw (playwright)

(49) H. C. Westermann (sculptor)

(50) Albert Stubbins (English footballer)

(51) Sri Lahiri Mahasaya (guru)

(52) Lewis Carroll (writer)

(53) T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia")

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Front row

(54) Wax model of Sonny Liston (boxer)

(54A) Unidentified laughing figure -barely visible

(55) A "Petty Girl" (by George Petty)

(56) Wax model of George Harrison

(57) Wax model of John Lennon

(58) Shirley Temple (child actress) – barely visible behind the wax models of John and Ringo, first of three appearances on the cover

(59) Wax model of Ringo Starr

(60) Wax model of Paul McCartney

(61) Albert Einstein (physicist) – largely obscured

(63) Ringo Starr holding a trumpet

(64) Paul McCartney holding a cor anglais

(65) George Harrison holding a piccolo

(65A) Bette Davis (actress) – hair barely visible on top of George's shoulder

(65B) Timothy Carey (actor) – only part of his shoulder is visible

(66) Bobby Breen (singer)

(67) Marlene Dietrich (actress/singer)

(68) (Mohandas Gandhi picture was removed)

(69) An American legionnaire[3]

(70) Wax model of Diana Dors (actress)

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Props on the cover

Cloth grandmother-figure by Jann Haworth

Cloth doll by Haworth of Shirley Temple wearing a sweater that reads "Welcome The Rolling Stones Good Guys" –third and last appearance on the cover

A ceramic Mexican craft known as a Tree of Life from Metepec

A 9-inch Sony television set, apparently owned by Paul McCartney – the receipt, bearing McCartney's signature, is owned by a curator of a museum dedicated to The Beatles in Japan.[4]

A stone figure of a girl

Another stone figure

A statue brought over from John Lennon's house

A trophy

A doll of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi

A drum skin, designed by fairground artist Joe Ephgrave[5]

A hookah (water pipe)

A velvet snake

A Fukusuke, Japanese china figure

A stone figure of Snow White

A garden gnome

A Baritone horn

A three-stringed flower guitar

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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

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Fin. Khatam. Bhago.