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Some questions compiled from the finals of the LitSoc Buzzer Quiz 2014-15 at IIT Madras, conducted on the 22nd of September 2014 by Shankar Narayanan, Nithin Ramesan and Vishal Katariya

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LitSoc Buzzer Quiz 2014-15Questions from the Finals

Shankar Narayanan, Nithin Ramesan & Vishal Katariya

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Rules

All questions on the buzzer Once a team buzzes, they have to

answer in 10 seconds If they get it right, +10. If wrong, -

10. If no team buzzes, both teams can

write down the answer for a chance to get +5, with no negatives if its wrong.

Overall 8-9 questions in each set.

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For this question, I want you to connect the list of entities on the next slide. The list is a non-exhaustive, finite one.

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2005 – podcast 2009 – unfriend 2012 – GIF (verb) 2013 - selfie

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Answer

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US Word of the Year

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Following is a quote by PG Wodehouse. I want you to identify what X is.

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If it were not for quotations, conversation between gentlemen would consist of an endless succession of X’s.

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Answer

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What Ho!

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3.

The next slide shows an image of the formative stages of the mascot of a world-famous company.

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The mascot, now too, is world famous and is known simply as the _____ Man. Which company?

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Answer

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The Michelin Man

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4.

The next slide contains the origin of a phrase, now commonly used in daily life. What is the phrase?

The phrase is X, not a single word.

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Sudanese player Manute Bol, playing basketball in the United States, didn’t have very good English. Every time he threw a bad pass, he would say X instead of the grammatically correct __ _____. This stuck, and eventually, most of his teammates started using X too.

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Answer

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“My bad” instead of “my fault”

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5.

All of these are prefixed to a single word Y to specify the different types of Y.

Give us Y.

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Green, red, anti-, X-, blue, white, red-green, gold, silver, jewel, red-green-blue-gold, bizarro red, red-gold, magno-, slow, black, orange, pink, periwinkle.

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Answer

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Kryptonite

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6.

What is being talked about?

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6.

An X is a shortening of unterseeboat.

These were used by the country of its origin as efficient fleet weapons.

However, their most effective use was in the implementation of an economic blockade during the Second World War.

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Answer

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U-boat

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7.

This is the explanation for a famous festival. I want the name of the festival, and also the name of something that will be in bold in the next slide, which is used symbolically.

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7.

A farmer traps the devil each time the devil tries to make him his slave. Each time the devil promised the farmer all the comforts in life, if he agreed to be his slave after 7 years.

Each time the devil returned, the farmer traps the devil with a trick, till the devil again promised him 7 years of comforts. After this happened for the 3rd time, the devil begged him to release him on the condition that he would provide a life of luxury.

Now, after this farmer died, the doors of heaven were closed to him as he had lived his entire life off the devil. When he turned to hell, the devil gave a howl of terror and barred the door. As the farmer was in darkness, the devil

contemptuously throws him a lamp.

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Answer

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7.

Halloween Jack ‘O Lantern

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8.

Question follows.

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8.

The Saltire of St. Andrew. The Cross of St. George. The Saltire of St. Patrick.

Together, these make up something that was recently in danger of vanishing from a certain region of the world. What?

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8.

Answer

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8.

The Union Jack

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Set 2

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1.

This company’s German subsidiary, known as Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft, or Dehomag, helped the Nazis during the Holocaust by supplying its punched card technology to keep track of prisoners in concentration camps. It is also alleged that they helped the Nazis out during the initial nationwide census that they used to identify Jews, Gypsies and other “undesirable” ethnic groups.

The company has since distanced itself from the actions of its subsidiary.

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Answer

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IBM

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2.

The next slide describes a museum. I want the name of the museum.

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2.

Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the cylindrical building, wider at the top than at the bottom was conceived as a “temple of the spirit”. It moved into these premises in 1959, and is considered to be a landmark work of 20th century architecture. If no one is buzzing, image on the next slide.

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2.

No one buzzing?

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2.

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Answer

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The Guggenheim Museum, New York City

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3.

What currently stands at this site? The site has changed hands many

times, but it has always retained the name given by a certain Count Peter, who derived it from his place of origin.

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Count Peter of Maurienne, a province in Sabudia, France was given the land between the Strand and river Thames to stay. Count Peter left the place to St. Bernard, and the place became “Hospital of St. Bernard”. Many centuries later, Henry VII built an enormous hospital on the site, which was misused by loiterers and vagabonds.

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Answer

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3.

Savoy Hotel

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4.

What position am I talking about?

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4.

The first was Isaac Barrow. The second was Sir Isaac Newton. The current is Michael Green. The previous one was Stephen Hawking. Others include Charles Babbage and Paul Dirac too.

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Answer

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4.

Lucasian Chair for Mathematics, Cambridge

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5.

The next slide shows an image which represents a particular Billboard-topping song in term of a graph/chart.

ID the song. That’s it.

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5.

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Answer

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The Way you Are

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6.

Where in the world of sports would we see this list of occupations?

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6.

Gambler and other "lowlifes", also messengers

City guard or policeman InnkeeperMerchant/MoneychangerDoctorWeaver/ClerkBlacksmithWorker/Farmer

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Answer

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6.

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7.

The picture has prompted criticism that the principles of the owner of the car are being comprised by this particular model.

What does this recently released picture depict? Be specific.

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7.

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Answer

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7.

The Batmobile from Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

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8.

Identify the subject of the portrait.

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8.

This legendary folk hero of Switzerland overthrew the tyrant Gessler of Austria.

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8.

Answer

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8.

William Tell

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Set 3

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I can describe an axe entering a human skull in great explicit detail and no one will blink twice at it. I provide a similar description, just as detailed, of sex, and I get letters about it and people swearing off. To my mind this is kind of frustrating, it’s madness. Ultimately, in the history of the world, sex has given a lot of people a lot of pleasure; axes entering skulls, well, not so much.

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Answer

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G. R. R. Martin, on why there’s so much sex in Game of Thrones.

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2.

Fill in both blanks. If first is right and second wrong, no negs.

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2.

Designed and patented in 1834 by Joseph ________, an architect from Yorkshire, it was made with a low centre of gravity, and was known for its speed and ease of pulling.

They became extremely popular in New York towards the end of the 19th century.

However, their use declined in the 1920s, and the last license to own it was relinquished in 1947.

A surviving one is operated currently by the ________ ________ Museum, and one is on display at the Remington museum.

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2.

Answer

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2.

Hansom Sherlock Holmes

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3.

FITB

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3.

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Answer

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3.

Tarla Dalal

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4.

The next slide shows an image which represents a particular Billboard-topping song in term of a graph/chart.

ID the song. That’s it.

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4.

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Answer

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4.

Apologize, by One Republic

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5.

Identify what I am talking about.

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5.

Steve Wozniak got the inspiration for this from a particular John Draper, also known as Captain Crunch (the mascot of a breakfast cereal at the time). With every box of this cereal, you would get a blue whistle free, which would emit a sound of 2600Hz, which led to the name Cap’n Crunch, for what he originally made.

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Answer

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6.

Identify the monument in the next slide

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6.

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6.

Answer

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6.

Shwedagon Pagoda

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7.

FITB

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7.

A __________ is "an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture." A _________ acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme. Supporters of the concept regard ____________ as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate, and respond to selective pressures.

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7.

Answer

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7.

Meme

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8.

Who’s quotes are these?

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8.

I am the punishment of God...If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.

It is not sufficient that I succeed - all others must fail.

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8.

Answer

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8.

Genghis Khan

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9.

X is a special camera. An image follows on the next slide.

I want to know what it’s special feature is.

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9.

X – Lytro It uses Light

Field Technology, where is captures not only just the pixels, but also the direction from which light strikes it.

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9.

Answer

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9.

You can focus on any part of the image after you take the photo!

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Set 4

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1.

He is legendary. He is reclusive. And like Bigfoot, there is really only one photo of him in existence.

Now if you had asked me the odds of X ever saying that line to me, I’d say it had about the same likelihood as Jimi Hendrix telling me he had a new guitar riff. And yes, I’m aware Hendrix is dead.

But he was. And he had a great sense of humor about the strip I had done, and was very funny, and oh yeah….

…He had a comic strip idea he wanted to run by me.

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1.

Answer

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1.

Bill Watterson. The question is taken from a blog

post of Steve Pastis, who worked with Watterson on Pearls Before Swine briefly.

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2.

Identify the person from the world of films. He is depicted as ‘X’ in the question.

I want the first blank. The second blank is something different.

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2.

His full name is X Horrendous Haddock the Third, the Hope and Heir to the Tribe of the Hairy Hooligans. He is the son of the Chief, thus making him heir to the tribe.

In the first film he is 14 years old, in the series he is 15 years old and 20 in the second film.

He has the most rare and intelligent species of _____ in the film.

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2.

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2.

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3.

FITB

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3.

This is a Latin phrase that means, “with all other things same or held constant”. These clauses are most widely used in economics, where the outcome of a market in response to a certain variable parameter is studied with all other market determinants held constant.

For example, economists might say that “higher interest rates will lead to lower inflation, ________________”, which means that they will stand by their prediction about inflation only if nothing else changes apart from the rise in the interest rate.

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3.

Answer

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3.

Ceteris Paribus

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4.

ID

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4.

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4.

Answer

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4.

Richard Attenborough

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5.

Which delicious confection?

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5.

It consists primarily of sugar, honey and almonds. The city of Lubeck in Germany is renowned for the quality of this confection, with about 66% almond content. It is made in the shapes of fruits and animals.

In Germany, it is made in the shape of a certain animal, and these are distributed on New Year’s day for good luck.

The etymology however is unclear, it seems to have originally been called “March bread” in England, now it possesses a more Mediterranean name.

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5.

Answer

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5.

Marzipan

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6.

This was the logo of the company, formed by a candlemaker and a soapmaker, from England and Ireland respectively, who emigrated to the US. They married a pair of sisters and their father-in-law persuaded them to become business partners.

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6.

Answer

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6.

Proctor and Gamble

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7.

Significance of this quote in the world of tech?

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7.

Slowly and steadily we are getting rid of our earthly form and ascending into the next stage, the cloud.

The cloud, or Brahman as the Hindus call it, is the All, surrounding everything. It is everywhere; immaterial, yet very real.

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7.

Answer

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7.

Piratebay’s message to users when it moved onto the cloud.

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8.

Ad for?

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8.

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8.

Answer

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8.

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8.

Levi’s Low Rise Jeans

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9.

The description of the origin of a song is given in the next slide. Give the song.

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9.

Shortly after the song's release, speculation arose that the first letter of each of the title nouns intentionally spelled LSD.

However, the writer clarified that he admired the works of Lewis Carroll and the inspiration for the song reminded him of a passage in Through the Looking Glass where Alice floats in a "boat beneath a sunny sky“.

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9.

Lucy in the Sky with Diamondss

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Set 5

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1.

Which river?

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A set of 4000 islands, known as Si Phan Don in the local dialect appear on this river. The river has the broadest waterfall on Earth, known as the Khone Falls. The terrain of this river made it impossible for any industrial activity, and since it didn’t lead to inner China, the French expedition was unsuccessful in making a ship pass through.

The river is home to the critically endangered Irrawaddy dolphin which inhabits brackish waters, such as the Chilka Lake in Orissa.

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1.

Answer

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1.

Mekong

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2.

Name the painting

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2.

As there are 14 people on board, it is believed that Rembrandt fitted himself in as the man looking at the viewer.

The painting was one of those stolen from the Isabella museum in 1990 and hasn’t been found till date.

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2.

Answer

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2.

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee

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3.

What is this referencing?

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3.

 

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3.

Answer

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3.

Hanging of Ajmal Amir Kasab

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4.

What is being talked about?

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4.

It’s themes include conflict, greed, the passage of time, and mental illness, the latter partly inspired by the deteriorating mental state of one of the members of the group.

It was named temporarily named Eclipse but was renamed to it’s current name after Eclipse (by another group called Medicine Head) was a flop.

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4.

Answer

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4.

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4.

The Dark Side of the Moon

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5.

Give me the phrase whose origin I’m describing.

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5.

English dramatist John Dennis invented a gadget for imitating the sound of _______ and introduced it in a play in the early 1700s. The play flopped. Soon after, Dennis noted that another play in the same theater was using his sound-effects device. He angrily exclaimed, "That is my ______, by God; the villains will play my _______, but not my play." The story got around London, and the phrase grew out of it.

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5.

Answer

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5.

Stealing someone’s thunder

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6.

Two part question

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6.

He stands in front of a big screen with a well-designed presentation that shows off the product. He wears a black shirts and jeans, just like X.

He even copies X’s presentation secrets, such as a slide that says ‘One more thing’ before launching a new product.

He is called China’s X. Which company does he represent, and who is X?

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6.

Answer

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6.

X – Steve Jobs Xiaomi

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7.

ID X

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7.

X was named as Japan’s mascot for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

There is a parallel 11 ______’s, their leader being X.

This partnership between Adidas and the ____ company is part of Adidas’ “Engine Project”, which encourages players in uniform to act as a single Engine and foster unity.

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7.

Answer

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7.

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8.

This is a variation of a very popular logo, released after a particular incident. What incident?

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8.

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8.

Answer

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8.

9/11

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9.

A comedian intended to “make a statement” about his feelings as well as those of the public after a particular incident. What incident?

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9.

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9.

Answer

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9.

He attacked Rupert Murdoch during his trial

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