This document contains trivia questions from various topics including astronomy, geography, history, literature, and more. It asks about the moons of various planets, characters from TV shows and books, inventions that changed publishing, and terms used for different literary forms and devices. The questions cover numerous famous authors and their works from centuries ago to recent decades.
1. The document contains a list of 50 trivia questions from various topics including films, literature, history, science and pop culture. It tests knowledge about famous people, places, events, inventions and more. The questions are in multiple choice or fill in the blank format and range from easy to more challenging.
The document provides information about several people through multiple short passages:
- Noor Inayat Khan was the first female radio operator sent from Britain into occupied France to aid the resistance.
- Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics to the Star Spangled Banner, the national anthem of the United States.
- Liza Minnelli is the only Oscar winner whose parents both earned Oscars - her mother Judy Garland and father Vincente Minnelli.
This document discusses various speculations and theories about Shakespeare's life and works, including Delia Bacon's theory about the true authors of the plays, references to Shakespeare in Robert Greene's writings, allusions to myths and stories in several of Shakespeare's plays, and theories about Shakespeare's lost years.
This document provides clues and questions for a quiz across multiple rounds. The first round includes clues about topics like movies, books, inventions and pop culture. The second round lists the name of rollercoasters and poems to be identified. The third round lists dance forms and Batman villains. The fourth round asks about the origin and meaning of the word "quiz" and identifies a famous long tennis match at Wimbledon between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut.
This document contains information about various English authors and literary works. It provides the names of authors such as William Wordsworth, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge alongside the titles of their famous works. It also mentions time periods in English literature like the Renaissance and Augustan Age, as well as literary terms like ballad, fantasy, and allegory.
1. The document contains a list of 50 trivia questions from various topics including films, literature, history, science and pop culture. It tests knowledge about famous people, places, events, inventions and more. The questions are in multiple choice or fill in the blank format and range from easy to more challenging.
The document provides information about several people through multiple short passages:
- Noor Inayat Khan was the first female radio operator sent from Britain into occupied France to aid the resistance.
- Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics to the Star Spangled Banner, the national anthem of the United States.
- Liza Minnelli is the only Oscar winner whose parents both earned Oscars - her mother Judy Garland and father Vincente Minnelli.
This document discusses various speculations and theories about Shakespeare's life and works, including Delia Bacon's theory about the true authors of the plays, references to Shakespeare in Robert Greene's writings, allusions to myths and stories in several of Shakespeare's plays, and theories about Shakespeare's lost years.
This document provides clues and questions for a quiz across multiple rounds. The first round includes clues about topics like movies, books, inventions and pop culture. The second round lists the name of rollercoasters and poems to be identified. The third round lists dance forms and Batman villains. The fourth round asks about the origin and meaning of the word "quiz" and identifies a famous long tennis match at Wimbledon between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut.
This document contains information about various English authors and literary works. It provides the names of authors such as William Wordsworth, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge alongside the titles of their famous works. It also mentions time periods in English literature like the Renaissance and Augustan Age, as well as literary terms like ballad, fantasy, and allegory.
NIT Silchar Quiz Fest 2015 - Maut ka Kuan - The MELA Quiz - FinalsSandipan Goswami
Held on 3rd April 2015 at K.V. Auditorium NIT Silchar.
Winners:
1st - Anam Hilaly, Amlan Phukan, Nikhil Agarwal
2nd - Bedanga Kashyap Das, Aveek Baruah, Amit Oli
3rd - Tameem Salman, Ashish Dutta, Shrutimoy Das
The document provides a 30 question quiz with some questions having multiple parts worth 0.5 points each. Some sample questions are about identifying the capital considered by the Adyghe people, the material Kenya burned in 1989 to protest the ivory trade, and the actress who revealed she was paid $25 to have her leg photographed for a famous poster instead of another actress as commonly believed. The questions cover topics in history, geography, current events, arts, and general knowledge.
2006's Brain of BITS by Jayendran Srinivasan, BOB' '05. Won by CBK.
Apologize for not having answers, but one of the best Pilani quizzes ever. Google the answers up.
The document summarizes the rules for 3 phases of a quiz competition - an Infinite Bounce Phase with no negative marking, a Theme Connect Phase, and a Closed Loop Theme Connect Phase. It provides details on scoring and the ability for participants to connect to the theme for additional points. Sample questions are provided for the different phases relating to literature, inventions, and world history.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- Three gunslingers - Blondie, Tuco, and Angel Eyes - compete to find hidden Confederate gold during the American Civil War.
- Blondie forms an uneasy alliance with Tuco to find the treasure, while being hunted by the merciless assassin Angel Eyes.
- In the climax, Blondie leaves Tuco hanging from a noose to get the upper hand and locate the gold first, in one of the most famous scenes in cinema history.
This document contains 22 multiple choice questions testing knowledge of literature, authors, and literary terms. It includes questions about Premendra Mitra, Mahasweta Devi, Pablo Neruda, J.K. Rowling, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson/Lewis Carroll, Virginia Woolf, and Mamata Banerjee among others. The questions cover topics such as fictional characters like Feluda and Draupadi, literary devices like "tilting at windmills", famous novels like Dracula and works like Beowulf.
The document discusses various literature and history related trivia questions. It includes questions about a tallow candle discovered in a scrapbook, terms in the Mahabharata, Swami Vivekananda's gift to Rabindranath Tagore, the meaning of SPEW in Harry Potter, a fatal British bank note, an emperor who wanted to be a librarian, Fred Flintstone's underground town, and the three parts of Dante's Divine Comedy.
The document provides definitions for various literary terms in English literature and their Bangla translations. It includes the names of authors and their works, time periods of literary ages, definitions of concepts like plot, genre, protagonist, and translations of Latin phrases.
This document provides an overview of major British authors and literary movements from the early 20th century to present day. It discusses modernism in early decades and how authors like Arthur Conan Doyle with Sherlock Holmes stories and Agatha Christie with detective novels defined the Golden Age of detective fiction between the 1920s-1930s. The document also profiles several influential 20th century British authors like Virginia Woolf, J.R.R. Tolkien, and their notable works, before concluding with an overview of two prominent 21st century authors, J.K. Rowling and her Harry Potter series, as well as Kazuo Ishiguro.
1. The document describes how Irish artist Jim Fitzpatrick created a political poster image in the 1970s depicting a yellow star on a red background to represent Irish nationalism.
2. Fitzpatrick printed thousands of copies by hand and distributed them freely wanting the image to spread widely. Political groups in Ireland and other countries began requesting copies.
3. Fitzpatrick never copyrighted the image so it could be mass produced without restriction.
This document contains a quiz with multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions. The quiz covers topics like geography, history, literature, science, and movies. It tests knowledge of places, inventions, artistic works, scientific concepts, and more. The questions require identifying connections between pieces of information or filling in missing words.
I couldn't come up with a name - Gen Quiz (Prelims)Supreeth Raveesh
This document contains 26 questions for a prelims exam. It begins with an introductory section noting that the exam contains 26 questions and that starred questions are marked with an asterisk. It then lists the first 9 questions which cover topics ranging from individuals nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize to literary works and figures.
The history of horror films began in the late 1890s with short silent films created by Georges Méliès. In the 1930s, Universal Pictures popularized Gothic horror films such as Dracula and Frankenstein. Subgenres that emerged included sci-fi horror in the 1950s reflecting Cold War fears, slasher films in the 1960s-1980s like Halloween and A Nightmare on Elm Street, and adaptations of Stephen King's novels in the 1970s-1980s. While many horror films were financially successful, critics argued the genre became oversaturated with gore and needed new creative directions by the 1990s.
The passage describes the format of a quiz competition consisting of 5 rounds - 2 written rounds with questions, 2 rounds of infinite bounce questions, and a theme round. The first sample question provides context about Claude Martin, an army officer who established schools in Lucknow that still exist today bearing his name.
John Galsworthy was a famous English novelist and playwright of the early 20th century who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932. He wrote 20 novels, 27 plays, and over 170 short stories and other works, portraying the British upper middle class and providing social satire. Key sources of information about his life and works include his author page on silksoundbooks.com, Wikipedia, and the Macau University of Science and Technology.
The document summarizes the major literary works and authors of the Age of Chaucer in England from 1340-1400. This was a period defined by war, the Black Death pandemic, and social upheaval. The three most prominent authors were Geoffrey Chaucer, known best for Canterbury Tales; William Langland, who wrote the allegorical Vision of Piers Plowman; and John Gower, a poet and politician. Their works explored social and religious issues through allegory, narrative poetry, and prose, helping to establish English as a literary language.
1. The document discusses a book titled "Persiflage" by authors Suresh Ramasubramanian and Rajeev Chakravarthi.
2. It provides an excerpt from the book introducing a 30 question quiz with 6 starred questions where getting a starred question correct would break any ties.
3. The quiz questions cover topics ranging from books, authors, and works of literature testing the reader's knowledge of details and references found in various novels, essays and other written works.
This document contains trivia questions from various topics including astronomy, geography, history, literature, and more. It asks about the moons of various planets, characters from TV shows and books, inventions that changed publishing, and terms used for different literary forms and devices. The questions cover numerous famous authors and their works from centuries past to recent decades.
What happens when the digital tools and platforms we make and use for communication and entertainment are hijacked for terrorism, violence against the vulnerable and nefarious transactions? What role do designers and developers play? Are we complicit as creators of these technologies and products? Should we police them or fight back? As Portfolio Lead for Northern Lab, Northern Trust's internal innovation startup focused on client and partner experience, Antonio will share a mix of provocative scenarios torn from today's headlines and compelling stories where activism and technology facilitated peace—and war.
As a call-to-action for designers and developers to engage in projects capable of transformational change, he'll explore the question: How might technology foster new experiences to better accelerate social activism and make the world a smarter, safer place?
This document summarizes upcoming CSS features like Box Alignment Level 3, CSS Grid Layout, CSS Shapes, CSS Feature Queries, and CSS Custom Properties. It explains what each feature does at a high level and provides example code snippets. The document also encourages developers to get involved by filing issues on browser bug trackers, requesting new features, and creating blog posts/demos to help drive adoption of these new CSS specifications.
NIT Silchar Quiz Fest 2015 - Maut ka Kuan - The MELA Quiz - FinalsSandipan Goswami
Held on 3rd April 2015 at K.V. Auditorium NIT Silchar.
Winners:
1st - Anam Hilaly, Amlan Phukan, Nikhil Agarwal
2nd - Bedanga Kashyap Das, Aveek Baruah, Amit Oli
3rd - Tameem Salman, Ashish Dutta, Shrutimoy Das
The document provides a 30 question quiz with some questions having multiple parts worth 0.5 points each. Some sample questions are about identifying the capital considered by the Adyghe people, the material Kenya burned in 1989 to protest the ivory trade, and the actress who revealed she was paid $25 to have her leg photographed for a famous poster instead of another actress as commonly believed. The questions cover topics in history, geography, current events, arts, and general knowledge.
2006's Brain of BITS by Jayendran Srinivasan, BOB' '05. Won by CBK.
Apologize for not having answers, but one of the best Pilani quizzes ever. Google the answers up.
The document summarizes the rules for 3 phases of a quiz competition - an Infinite Bounce Phase with no negative marking, a Theme Connect Phase, and a Closed Loop Theme Connect Phase. It provides details on scoring and the ability for participants to connect to the theme for additional points. Sample questions are provided for the different phases relating to literature, inventions, and world history.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- Three gunslingers - Blondie, Tuco, and Angel Eyes - compete to find hidden Confederate gold during the American Civil War.
- Blondie forms an uneasy alliance with Tuco to find the treasure, while being hunted by the merciless assassin Angel Eyes.
- In the climax, Blondie leaves Tuco hanging from a noose to get the upper hand and locate the gold first, in one of the most famous scenes in cinema history.
This document contains 22 multiple choice questions testing knowledge of literature, authors, and literary terms. It includes questions about Premendra Mitra, Mahasweta Devi, Pablo Neruda, J.K. Rowling, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson/Lewis Carroll, Virginia Woolf, and Mamata Banerjee among others. The questions cover topics such as fictional characters like Feluda and Draupadi, literary devices like "tilting at windmills", famous novels like Dracula and works like Beowulf.
The document discusses various literature and history related trivia questions. It includes questions about a tallow candle discovered in a scrapbook, terms in the Mahabharata, Swami Vivekananda's gift to Rabindranath Tagore, the meaning of SPEW in Harry Potter, a fatal British bank note, an emperor who wanted to be a librarian, Fred Flintstone's underground town, and the three parts of Dante's Divine Comedy.
The document provides definitions for various literary terms in English literature and their Bangla translations. It includes the names of authors and their works, time periods of literary ages, definitions of concepts like plot, genre, protagonist, and translations of Latin phrases.
This document provides an overview of major British authors and literary movements from the early 20th century to present day. It discusses modernism in early decades and how authors like Arthur Conan Doyle with Sherlock Holmes stories and Agatha Christie with detective novels defined the Golden Age of detective fiction between the 1920s-1930s. The document also profiles several influential 20th century British authors like Virginia Woolf, J.R.R. Tolkien, and their notable works, before concluding with an overview of two prominent 21st century authors, J.K. Rowling and her Harry Potter series, as well as Kazuo Ishiguro.
1. The document describes how Irish artist Jim Fitzpatrick created a political poster image in the 1970s depicting a yellow star on a red background to represent Irish nationalism.
2. Fitzpatrick printed thousands of copies by hand and distributed them freely wanting the image to spread widely. Political groups in Ireland and other countries began requesting copies.
3. Fitzpatrick never copyrighted the image so it could be mass produced without restriction.
This document contains a quiz with multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions. The quiz covers topics like geography, history, literature, science, and movies. It tests knowledge of places, inventions, artistic works, scientific concepts, and more. The questions require identifying connections between pieces of information or filling in missing words.
I couldn't come up with a name - Gen Quiz (Prelims)Supreeth Raveesh
This document contains 26 questions for a prelims exam. It begins with an introductory section noting that the exam contains 26 questions and that starred questions are marked with an asterisk. It then lists the first 9 questions which cover topics ranging from individuals nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize to literary works and figures.
The history of horror films began in the late 1890s with short silent films created by Georges Méliès. In the 1930s, Universal Pictures popularized Gothic horror films such as Dracula and Frankenstein. Subgenres that emerged included sci-fi horror in the 1950s reflecting Cold War fears, slasher films in the 1960s-1980s like Halloween and A Nightmare on Elm Street, and adaptations of Stephen King's novels in the 1970s-1980s. While many horror films were financially successful, critics argued the genre became oversaturated with gore and needed new creative directions by the 1990s.
The passage describes the format of a quiz competition consisting of 5 rounds - 2 written rounds with questions, 2 rounds of infinite bounce questions, and a theme round. The first sample question provides context about Claude Martin, an army officer who established schools in Lucknow that still exist today bearing his name.
John Galsworthy was a famous English novelist and playwright of the early 20th century who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932. He wrote 20 novels, 27 plays, and over 170 short stories and other works, portraying the British upper middle class and providing social satire. Key sources of information about his life and works include his author page on silksoundbooks.com, Wikipedia, and the Macau University of Science and Technology.
The document summarizes the major literary works and authors of the Age of Chaucer in England from 1340-1400. This was a period defined by war, the Black Death pandemic, and social upheaval. The three most prominent authors were Geoffrey Chaucer, known best for Canterbury Tales; William Langland, who wrote the allegorical Vision of Piers Plowman; and John Gower, a poet and politician. Their works explored social and religious issues through allegory, narrative poetry, and prose, helping to establish English as a literary language.
1. The document discusses a book titled "Persiflage" by authors Suresh Ramasubramanian and Rajeev Chakravarthi.
2. It provides an excerpt from the book introducing a 30 question quiz with 6 starred questions where getting a starred question correct would break any ties.
3. The quiz questions cover topics ranging from books, authors, and works of literature testing the reader's knowledge of details and references found in various novels, essays and other written works.
This document contains trivia questions from various topics including astronomy, geography, history, literature, and more. It asks about the moons of various planets, characters from TV shows and books, inventions that changed publishing, and terms used for different literary forms and devices. The questions cover numerous famous authors and their works from centuries past to recent decades.
What happens when the digital tools and platforms we make and use for communication and entertainment are hijacked for terrorism, violence against the vulnerable and nefarious transactions? What role do designers and developers play? Are we complicit as creators of these technologies and products? Should we police them or fight back? As Portfolio Lead for Northern Lab, Northern Trust's internal innovation startup focused on client and partner experience, Antonio will share a mix of provocative scenarios torn from today's headlines and compelling stories where activism and technology facilitated peace—and war.
As a call-to-action for designers and developers to engage in projects capable of transformational change, he'll explore the question: How might technology foster new experiences to better accelerate social activism and make the world a smarter, safer place?
This document summarizes upcoming CSS features like Box Alignment Level 3, CSS Grid Layout, CSS Shapes, CSS Feature Queries, and CSS Custom Properties. It explains what each feature does at a high level and provides example code snippets. The document also encourages developers to get involved by filing issues on browser bug trackers, requesting new features, and creating blog posts/demos to help drive adoption of these new CSS specifications.
My books- Hacking Digital Learning Strategies http://hackingdls.com & Learning to Go https://gum.co/learn2go
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The reality for companies that are trying to figure out their blogging or content strategy is that there's a lot of content to write beyond just the "buy now" page.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
This document contains a quiz with 22 multiple choice questions covering topics like songs, movies, authors, historical figures, phrases and their origins, and more. The questions require identifying songs, movies, books, people, places, and concepts based on contextual clues and descriptions provided.
A.E. Housman was an English poet and scholar born in 1859 in Worcestershire, England. He wrote two poetry volumes, A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems, the latter of which was successful. As a scholar he is respected for his annotated editions of Roman astronomer Marcus Manilius. Housman died in 1936 in Cambridge, England.
This document provides information about the Finals FAQ 2018, including:
1) It contains 6 written and 17 clockwise/anti-clockwise dry questions.
2) There are 6 visual questions worth 10 points each about identifying people, artworks, discoveries and films.
3) The answers to the visual questions include identifying Leni Reifenstahl behind a camera at the 1972 Munich Olympics and two artists depicted by Andy Warhol.
The document provides details about 26 trivia questions related to literature, authors, and works. It includes the questions, answers, and in some cases additional context about the works or authors mentioned. The questions cover topics like famous poems, novels, authors, and literary terms from different time periods.
This document provides summaries of several novels and works of literature from the early 20th century in London:
1. It summarizes Joseph Conrad's 1904 novel Nostromo, set in a fictional South American country.
2. It briefly describes D.H. Lawrence's 1915 novel The Rainbow, which focuses on family dynamics and sexuality.
3. It summarizes Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World, set in a dystopian future London.
The document outlines an English literature class discussing the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson and his poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade." It also covers a lecture on Charles Dickens and his novella A Christmas Carol, with a focus on Dickens' use of literature for social commentary. Students are assigned readings from Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Coventry Patmore for homework.
This document provides information about various authors and literary terms through a series of questions and answers. It identifies Arthur Miller as the author of 'Death of a Salesman', William Shakespeare as the author of 'Othello', and E.M. Forster as the author of 'A Passage to India'. It also defines terms like 'bill of fare', 'heptagon', 'razzmatazz', and provides information on authors and time periods of literature.
This document provides a summary of literary movements and authors in the early 20th century. It describes how Modernism started at the beginning of the 20th century as writers felt the need for a new form of writing in response to disillusionment with Victorian ideas. Major movements included Imagism and Symbolism, which rejected Victorian techniques. Important Modernist authors mentioned are T.S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and William Somerset Maugham. The document also discusses the rise of the psychological novel and stream of consciousness writing style.
Dr. K. Ayyappa Paniker Memorial Intercollegiate Literary Quiz 2019Sambhu Ramachandran
Finsls of Dr. K. Ayyappa Paniker Memorial Quiz conducted by Prof. Sambhu Ramachandran under the auspices of the PG Department of English, NSS College, Pandalam, Kerala.
The document contains a quiz on speculative fiction with questions about authors, works, concepts, and characters. It includes questions about Philip K. Dick's Solar Lottery, Damon Knight who founded the SFWA, George R. R. Martin's first novel Dying of the Light, constructed languages and the Tower of Babel symbol, Iain M. Banks' novel Excession, Gary Brandner's horror classic The Howling adapted into a film by Joe Dante, Michael Moorcock's science fiction works and music career, Stephen King's The Shining and the announced sequel Doctor Sleep, Arthur C. Clarke's quote about advanced technology indistinguishable from magic, and the fictional universe described in Ursula K. Le
The non-fiction quiz conducted by Rajagopal and Yours truly, on 4th May 2014, for the Karnataka Quiz Association at IAT, Queen's Road, Bangalore.
Cover image credits: http://trick-of-the-light.com/ by Chaitanya
Due to technical issues on the day of the event, the quiz was compiled in haste. Please pardon typos/grammatical errors
1. The document summarizes Victorian literature from 1850-1901, highlighting several key poets and novelists of the era such as Tennyson, Browning, Dickens, Thackeray, and George Eliot.
2. It also briefly mentions essayists and historians like Macaulay, Carlyle, and Ruskin.
3. The summary identifies five major topics covered in the document: the two greatest poets, selected representative poets, the major novelists and their works, other notable novelists, and essayists and historians of the period.
This document contains a collection of trivia questions spanning various topics including art, literature, entertainment, geography, history, science, sports, and more. The questions cover diverse factual information testing knowledge about famous people, places, events, inventions, and more.
Anarchist Tendencies in Modern English Literature (BA thesis).pdfKatie Naple
This document provides an introduction to and overview of anarchist tendencies in modern English literature. It discusses how anarchism calls for socialism in the political and economic realms while emphasizing individual freedom and rejecting state power. Key authors and works discussed that exhibit anarchist tendencies include William Morris' News from Nowhere, which depicts a libertarian socialist society, and George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, which praised the egalitarian society created by anarchists during the Spanish Civil War in Catalonia. The document argues that anarchism has been overlooked in Britain's academic and Marxist circles due to the lack of social and political rewards for intellectuals who supported it.
The document discusses 12 trivia questions related to literature, history, and politics. It provides clues and context for identifying people, places, events, and works referenced in the questions. Readers are prompted to answer who or what is being referred to in each multiple-part item. The questions cover topics like famous books, court cases, works of art, and more.
13TIME LINE - Contemporary World LiteratureContemporary Worl.docxmoggdede
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TIME LINE - Contemporary World Literature
Contemporary World Literature Authors and their Work
Historical Events Showing the Context of the Writing
1893
Sample Entry:
*Rabindranath Tagore, Punishment
Offered a new voice to Indian expression. He was a short-story writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Tagore introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. He is generally regarded as the outstanding creative artist of modern India. I enjoy the natural quality and the personal tone of his verse: "The carriage stands at the door. It is midday./ The autumn sun is gradually gathering strength." Etc.
1895 Higuchi Ichiyo, Child's Play
Notes:
ca. 1897–1902 Washington Matthews conducts studies of the Navajo "The Night Chant."
1899–1902 Boer War in South Africa.
1900
Boxer uprisings in China protest European presence.
Max Planck proposes quantum theory, the first step in the discovery of the atom.
1902 Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
1903 Henry James, The Ambassadors
1903 Wright brothers invent the powered airplane.
1905
Sigmund Freud, Dora (Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria)
Rubén Darío, Songs of Life and Hope
F. T. Marinetti, Futurist Manifesto
1905
Modern labor movement begins with foundation of International Workers of the World (IWW).
Partition of Bengal based on Hindu and Muslim populations.
1907 August Strindberg, The Ghost Sonata
1907 Japanese immigration to the United States prohibited.
1908
Gertrude Stein, Three Lives
Rainer Maria Rilke, New Poems
1909 Commercial manufacture of plastic begins.
1910
China abolishes slavery.
Mexican Revolution (1910–11).
NAACP founded in United States.
Post-Impressionist Exhibition in London.
1911 Constantine Cavafy, Ithaka
1911 Revolution establishes Chinese Republic after 267 years of Manchu rule.
1912
Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali
Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
1912–1913 Balkan wars.
1913
Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, first volume of Remembrance of Things Past (1913–27) Insert your annotation here:
D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
1914 James Joyce, Dubliners, which includes The Dead
1914–1918 World War I involves Europe, Turkey, and the United States.
1915
Albert Einstein formulates general theory of relativity.
First transcontinental phone call, in America
1916
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis, The Castle (1926)
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
1917 T. S. Eliot, Prufrock and Other Observations
1917 Russian Revolution overthrows Romanov Dynasty.
1918
Lu Xun, Diary of a Madman, the first story in modern Chinese vernacular
Tristan Tzara, Dada Manifesto
1918 Women over 30 given vote in Great Britain.
1918–1920 Global influenza epidemic kills millions.
1919 League of Nations formed (U.S. Senate rejects membership, 1920).
1920 Edith W ...
This document provides the rules and questions for a quiz called "Apropos of Nothing - An Option 44 Quiz". It consists of 16 written questions in two parts, with each question worth points based on how many teams answer correctly. There are also 40 main round questions. The first written question asks for the common name of the European viper. Subsequent questions provide passages of text and ask for identifications, names, or other short answers.
The document contains questions about science fiction works, authors, and characters. It asks the reader to identify titles, authors, and other details from excerpts and images provided.
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Strategies for Effective Upskilling is a presentation by Chinwendu Peace in a Your Skill Boost Masterclass organisation by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan on 08th and 09th June 2024 from 1 PM to 3 PM on each day.
LAND USE LAND COVER AND NDVI OF MIRZAPUR DISTRICT, UPRAHUL
This Dissertation explores the particular circumstances of Mirzapur, a region located in the
core of India. Mirzapur, with its varied terrains and abundant biodiversity, offers an optimal
environment for investigating the changes in vegetation cover dynamics. Our study utilizes
advanced technologies such as GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and Remote sensing to
analyze the transformations that have taken place over the course of a decade.
The complex relationship between human activities and the environment has been the focus
of extensive research and worry. As the global community grapples with swift urbanization,
population expansion, and economic progress, the effects on natural ecosystems are becoming
more evident. A crucial element of this impact is the alteration of vegetation cover, which plays a
significant role in maintaining the ecological equilibrium of our planet.Land serves as the foundation for all human activities and provides the necessary materials for
these activities. As the most crucial natural resource, its utilization by humans results in different
'Land uses,' which are determined by both human activities and the physical characteristics of the
land.
The utilization of land is impacted by human needs and environmental factors. In countries
like India, rapid population growth and the emphasis on extensive resource exploitation can lead
to significant land degradation, adversely affecting the region's land cover.
Therefore, human intervention has significantly influenced land use patterns over many
centuries, evolving its structure over time and space. In the present era, these changes have
accelerated due to factors such as agriculture and urbanization. Information regarding land use and
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1. 1. Titan and Ganymeade are what in our Solar System? Moons (of Saturn and Jupiter)
2. In the first episode of the TV series Dallas which character took his new wife home to
meet his family? Bobby Ewing (Pam was his wife)
3. How many players in total are bound together from both sides in forming a rugby union
scrum? Sixteen
4. Which English county is known locally as Kernow? Cornwall
5. Pogonophobia is a fear of what (usually) male characteristic? Beards
6. What does an arctophilist collect: shrunken heads, teddy bears, tiny boats made from
sugar, or antique door-frames? Teddy bears
7. Who was the last surviving of the literary Bronte sisters? Charlotte
8. Which Guns 'n' Roses song is based on a short story by Del James called Without You?
November Rain
9. In which year was the Wall Street Crash? 1929
10. Lake Van is in which European country? Turkey
11. In a theatre what is the job of a visagiste? Make-up artist
12. Who runs the Greendale post office in the children's TV show Postman Pat? Mrs
Goggins
13. In Greek mythology what is a nymph called who inhabits a wood or a tree? Dryad
14. In cricket what is a batsman's score of nought commonly called? A duck
15. GBJ is the international vehicle registration for where? Jersey
16. What is the fruit of the blackthorn (prunus spinosa)? Sloe
17. What would a silkworm grow to become if permitted to do so? Silkmoth (the worms
are boiled in their silk cocoons before they can emerge as moths, or the threads of the
cocoons would be damaged)
18. The Domesday Book was made by order of which English monarch? William the First
(William the Conqueror, ordered in 1085, published 1086)
19. Who played Dr Who in the 1965 film Dr Who and the Daleks? Peter Cushing
20. What is the medical condition in which a person has an extreme tendency to fall asleep
at inappropriate times? Narcolepsy
21. Which country was previously called Siam? Thailand
22. Who wrote the novel The Murders in the Rue Morgue? Edgar Allan Poe
23. Which singer and winner of the 2002 Mercury Music Prize was born Niomi McLean-
Daley? Ms Dynamite
24. Which retail chain changed their corporate font in 2009 from Futura to Verdana? IKEA
25. What is the standard duration of a chukka in the sport of field polo? Seven minutes
26. What is the title of the first James Bond film? Dr No (1962)
27. Who was the first president of independent Russia (as distinct from USSR, the Soviet
Union)? Boris Yeltsin (1992)
28. What merchant bank collapsed in 1995 due to unauthorised debts accumulated by trader
Nick Leeson? Barings
29. In the US and Canada, Labor Day falls on the first Monday of which month?
September
30. What was the name and call-sign of the Apollo Eleven lunar module? Eagle
1. What word, extended from a more popular term, refers to a fictional book of between
20,000 and 50,000 words? Novella
2. 2. Who wrote the famous 1855 poem The Charge of the Light Brigade? Lord Alfred
Tennyson (1809-92)
3. In 1960 the UK publishing ban was lifted on what 1928 book? Lady Chatterley's
Lover (by D H Lawrence)
4. In bookmaking how many times would an quarto sheet be folded? Twice (to create four
leaves)
5. Who wrote the seminal 1936 self-help book How to Win Friends and Influence People?
Dale Carnegie
6. Who in 1450 invented movable type, thus revolutionising printing? Johannes
Gutenberg
7. Which Polish-born naturalised British novelist's real surname was Korzeniowski?
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924, full name Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski)
8. Which short-lived dramatist is regarded as the first great exponent of blank verse?
Christopher Marlowe (1564-93 - Blank verse traditionally is unrhymed, comprising
ten syllables per line, stressing every second syllable.)
9. Who wrote the maxim 'Cogito, ergo sum' (I think, therefore I am)? René Descartes
(1596-1650, French philosopher and mathematician, in his work Discours de la
Méthode, 1637.)
10. Who was the youngest of the three Brontë writing sisters? Anne Brontë (1820-49 -
other sisters were Emily, 1818-48, and Charlotte, 1816-55, plus a brother, Branwell,
1817-48. The two oldest sisters, Maria and Elizabeth died in childhood.)
11. What is the Old English heroic poem, surviving in a single copy dated around the year
1000, featuring its eponymous 6th century warrior from Geatland in Sweden? Beowulf
12. What relatively modern school of philosophy, popular in literature since the mid 1900s,
broadly embodies the notion of individual freedom of choice within a disorded and
inexplicable universe? Existentialism
13. What was the pen-name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson? Lewis Carroll (1832-98)
14. Who wrote Dr Zhivago? Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960)
15. What term and type of comedy is derived from the French word for stuffing? Farce or
farcical (from the French farcir, to stuff, based on analogy between stuffing in cookery
and the insertion of frivolous material into medieval plays.)
16. What term originally meaning 'storehouse' referred, and still refers, to a periodical of
various content and imaginative writing? Magazine
17. Who wrote the significant scientific book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica,
published in 1687? Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
18. What 16th century establishment in London's Bread Street was a notable writers' haunt?
The Mermaid Tavern
19. Who wrote the 1845 poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin? Robert Browning (1812-89)
20. Which American poet and humanist wrote and continually revised a collection of
poems called Leaves of Grass? Walt Whitman (1819-92 - the title is apparently a self-
effacing pun, since grass was publishing slang for work of little value, and leaves are
pages.)
21. The period between 1450 and 1600 in European development is known by what term,
initially used by Italian scholars to express the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek
culture? The Renaissance (literally meaning rebirth)
22. What is the main dog character called in Norton Juster's 1961 popular children's/adult-
crossover book The Phantom Tollbooth? Tock
3. 23. Who detailed his experiences before and during World War I in Memoirs of a
Foxhunting Man, and Memoirs of an Infantry Officer? Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
24. What significant law relating to literary and artistic works was first introduced in 1709?
Copyright (prior to which creators had no legal means of protecting their work from
being published or exploited by others)
25. Who wrote the 1891 book Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake Zarathustra)?
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
26. What word, meaning 'measure' in Greek, refers to the rhythm of a line of verse? Metre
(or meter)
27. Cheap literature of the 16-18th centuries was known as 'what' books, based on the old
word for the travelling traders who sold them? Chapbooks (a chapman was a travelling
salesman, from the earlier term cheapman)
28. What was Samuel Langhorne Clemens' pen-name? Mark Twain (1835-1910)
29. Derived from Greek meaning summit or finishing touch, what word refers to the
publisher's logo and historically the publisher's details at the end of the book?
Colophon
30. Japanese three-line verses called Haiku contain how many syllables? Seventeen
31. Stanley Kubrick successfully requested the UK ban of his own film based on what
Anthony Burgess book? A Clockwork Orange
32. The ISBN (International Standard Book Number) code was increased to how many
digits from 1 January 2007? Thirteen
33. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis asserts that people's perceptions and attitudes are affected
particularly by what: book covers, book price, or words and language? Words and
language (the theory applies to all media and language, in that the type of words and
language read and used affects how people react to the world)
34. What is the female term equating to a phallic symbol? Yonic symbol
35. James Carker is a villain in which Charles Dickens novel? Dombey and Son (serialised
1846-8)
36. What famous 1818 novel had the sub-title 'The Modern Prometheus'? Frankenstein (by
Mary Shelley)
37. Who wrote the 1947 book The Fountainhead? Ayn Rand
38. By what name is the writer François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778) better known? Voltaire
39. Which pioneering American poet and story-teller wrote The Fall of the House of
Usher? Edgar Allen Poe (1809-49)
40. According to Matthew 27 in the Bible what prisoner was released by Pontius Pilate
instead of Jesus? Barabbas
41. What was the 1920s arts group centred around Leonard and Virginia Woolf and the
district of London which provided the group's name? The Bloomsbury Group
42. What Japanese term (meaning 'fold' and 'book') refers to a book construction made
using concertina fold, with writing/printing on one side of the paper? Orihon
43. What were the respective family names of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet? Montague
and Capulet
44. Who wrote The Power of Positive Thinking in 1953? Norman Vincent Peale
45. Around 100AD what type of book construction began to replace scrolls? Codex (a
series of folios sewn together)
46. What name for a lyrical work, typically 50-200 lines long, which from the Greek word
for song? Ode
4. 47. Who wrote the 1866 book Crime and Punishment? Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-81)
48. Who wrote the 1513 guide to leadership (titled in English) The Prince? Niccolo
Machiavelli
49. William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey are commonly
referred to as the 'what' Poets? Lake Poets (from around 1800 they lived close to each
other in the Lake District of England)
50. In bookmaking, a sheet folded three times is called by what name? Octavo (creating
eight leaves)
51. What is the parrot's name in Enid Blyton's 'Adventure' series of books? Kiki
52. Who wrote The French Lieutenant's Woman? John Fowles (1969)
53. What word, which in Greek means 'with' or 'after', prefixes many literary and language
terms to denote something in a different position? Meta
54. "Reader, I married him," appears in the conclusion of what novel? Jane Eyre (by
Charlotte Bronte, 1847)
55. Philosopher and writer Jeremy Bentham, 1748-1832, is associated with what school of
thought? Utilitarianism (broadly Utilitarianism argues that society should be organised
to produce the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people)
56. What influential American philosopher and author wrote the book 'Walden, or Life in
the Woods'? Henry David Thoreau (1817-62)
57. The ancient Greek concept of the 'three unities' advocated that a literary work should
use a single plotline, single location, and what other single aspect? Time (or real time)
58. Which statesman won the 1953 Nobel Prize for Literature? Sir Winston Churchill
59. Who is the second oldest of the Pevensie children in C S Lewis's The Lion, the Witch
and the Wardrobe? Susan (bonus points: Peter is the oldest, Edmund is third and Lucy
is youngest. The lion is Aslan. The first edition was published in 1950.)
60. Who wrote the plays Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard? Anton Pavlovich
Chekhov (1860-1904)
61. What technical word is given usually to the left-side even-numbered page of a book?
Verso
62. Which two writers fought a huge unsuccessful legal action in 2006-7 claiming that Dan
Brown's The Da Vinci Code had plaguarised their work? Michael Baigent and
Richard Leigh
63. What is the pen-name of novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-80)? George Eliot
64. What technical word is given usually to the right-side odd-numbered page of a book?
Recto
65. In what decade was the Oxford English Dictionary first published? 1920s (1928)
66. What simple term, alternatively called Anglo-Saxon, refers to the English language
which was used from the 5th century Germanic invasions, until (loosely) its fusion with
Norman-French around 12-13th centuries? Old English
67. Who wrote Brighton Rock (1938) and Our Man in Havana (1958)? Graham Greene
68. Laurens van der Post's prisoner of war experiences, described in his books The Seed
and the Sower (1963) and The Night of the New Moon (1970) inspired what film?
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
69. With which troubled son are parents Laius and Jocasta associated? Oedipus (The
mythical Greek character unknowingly killed his father King Laius and married his
mother Jocasta. Sigmund Freud's term Oedipus Complex refers to similar feelings
supposedly arising in male infant development.)
5. 70. Which Russian writer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970? Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)
71. The book Eunoia, by Christian Bok, suggests in its title, and features exclusively what,
in turn, in its first five chapters? The vowels a, e, i, o, u. (Each chapter contains words
using only one vowel type. Bok says Eunoia means 'beautiful thinking'. Eunioa is
otherwise a medical term based on the Greek meaning 'well mind'.)
72. Which great thinker collaborated with Sigmund Freud to write the 1933 book Why
War? Albert Einstein
73. Legal action by J K Rowling and Warner Brothers commenced in 2007 against which
company for its plans to publish a Harry Potter Lexicon? RDR Books
74. Who wrote the 1939 book The Big Sleep? Raymond Chandler
75. "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice which I've
been turning over in my mind ever since," is the start of which novel? The Great
Gatsby (F Scott Fitzgerald, 1925)
76. In the early 1900s a thriller was instead more commonly referred to as what sort of
book? Shocker (or shilling shocker)
77. Who wrote the books Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame? Victor
Hugo
78. In what decade were ISBN numbers introduced to the UK? 1960s (1966)
79. In 1969, P H Newby's book Something to Answer For was the first winner of what
prize? Booker Prize (the Man Booker Prize from 2002)
80. Who established Britain's first printing press in 1476? William Caxton
81. The word 'book' is suggested by some etymologists to derive from the ancient practice
of writing on tablets made of what wood? Beech (Boc was an Old English word for
beech wood)
82. What is the name of the first digital library founded by Michael Hart in 1971? Project
Gutenberg
83. French writer Sully Prudhomme was the first winner of what prize in 1901? Nobel
Prize for Literature
84. Who wrote Naked Lunch, (also titled The Naked Lunch)? William Burroughs (1959)
85. In Shakespeare's King Lear, which two daughters benefit initially from their father's
rejection of the third daughter Cordelia? Goneril and Regan
86. What was Christopher Latham Scholes' significant invention of 1868? Typewriter
87. Which novel begins "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in
possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife..."? Pride and Prejudice (by
Jane Austen, 1813)
88. Japanese author and playwrite Yukio Mishima committed what extreme act in 1970
while campaigning for Japan to restore its nationalistic principles? Suicide
89. Which American philosopher, and often-quoted advocate of individualism, published
essays on Self-Reliance, Love, Heroism, Character and Manners in his Collections of
1841 and 1844? Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)
90. Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, printed in Bruges around 1475 is regarded as the
first book to have been what? Printed in the English language (Caxton later printed
Canterbury Tales in Westminster in 1476, which is regarded as the first book printed in
the English language in England.)
6. 91. In what city does Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace begin? Saint Petersburg
(Petrograd and Leningrad are recent alternative and now obsolete names of this city -
the quizmaster/mistress can decide if these answers are correct..)
92. Which French writer declined the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964? Jean-Paul Sartre
(1905-1980 - apparently he declined because he had an aversion to being
'institutionalised', although the real facts of the matter are elusive.)
93. What controversial novel begins: "[a person's name], light of my life, fire of my loins.
My sin, My soul," ? Lolita (by Vladimir Nabokov, 1955)
94. Jonathan Harker's Journal and Dr Seward's Diary feature in what famous 1897 novel?
Dracula (by Bram Stoker)
95. What is the technical name for a fourteen-lined poem in rhymed iambic pentameters?
Sonnet
96. "Make then laugh; make them cry; make them wait..." was a personal maxim of which
novelist? Charles Dickens
97. What is the land of giants called in Gulliver's Travels? Brobdingnag
98. What prolific and highly regarded American author, who became a British subject a
year before his death, wrote The Wings of the Dove; Washington Square, and the
Golden Bowl? Henry James (1843-1916)
99. What term for a short, usually witty, poem or saying derives from the Greek words
'write' and 'on'? Epigram (epi = on, grapheine = write, which evolved into Latin and
French to the modern English word)
100.What was the original title of the book on which the film Schindler's List was based?
Schindler's Ark (by Thomas Keneally, which won the 1982 Booker Prize)