 A is shown to be stubborn, yet a shy and kind-hearted person. A
  loves books and prefers to keep to herself. She is also a virgin in
  the beginning of the series before meeting her boyfriend, who
  calls himself as “__________ __________ of fucked up." Despite this,
  she falls in love with him and finds herself in a complicated yet
  passionate relationship with him.
 A describes herself as a "pale, brown-haired" young woman with
  blue eyes "too big for her face." She is shown to be rather
  insecure about being slim, pale, and scruffy. She classifies herself
  as a "t-shirt and Converse shoes" type of girl.
 A has a small frame and a delicate profile, upturned nose, and
  soft full lips. She has a nice body and is slender and petite, as her
  boyfriend towers over her, and she can easily curl up into his lap.
  Being immensely shy, she blushes pink easily which he finds
  alluring.
Who is A? and fill in the blanks.
“During the Colonial period, tavern keepers
 stored their spirits in casks. When the casks
 got near empty, the dregs, or ____________,
 would be mixed together into one barrel
 and sold at a reduced price, poured from
 the spigot, which was referred to as the
 _______. Patrons wanting this cheaper
 alcohol would come in asking for C.”
One of the many disputed origins of which
word?
  D was, according to ancient Greek and Roman sources,
   a princess of Tyre and the founder and first Queen of
   Carthage (in modern-day Tunisia). According to the
   Aeneid of Virgil, she died for the love of Aeneas, when
   he abandoned her.
 D is also the first name of singer Florian Cloud de
   Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong. She attained
   international success with her debut album No Angel
   that sold over 21 million copies worldwide, and won
   several awards, including the MTV Europe Music
   Award for Best New Act, two NRJ Awards for Best New
   Act and Best Album, and two Brit Awards for Best British
   Female and Best Album. She has collaborated with A.R.
   Rahman for a song in a Danny Boyle movie.
ID D.
This is the Great Seal of the State of New York. What is the one word motto,
meaning “Ever Upward” in Latin, and used extensively in a 2012 movie, that
has been blanked out?
 While it’s difficult to trace back
  when and which manga was the
  first to use the expression F, one of
  the earliest online transcriptions of
  the expression can be found in
  the Sexy Losers web comic.
 According to the author, he was
  inspired by a panel in Masahiko
  Kikuni’s Heartbroken Angels comic
  strip (picture right) to use the
  expression to denote the sound of
  something.
Which expression?
In 1992, a 21-year old Matthew Hayden
 playing for Greenmount, shared a 200
 run partnership with a 17-year old G
 known and famous for a different sport
 altogether. Both Hayden and G went on
 to score centuries. This was G's maiden
 first team ton after a previous best of 49.
Who is G?
   H is a large neighborhood within the northern section of the New York
    City borough of Manhattan. Since the 1920s, H has been known as a
    major African-American residential, cultural and business center.
    Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658, it is named after a
    city in the Netherlands.
 Black residents began to arrive in masses in 1905, with numbers fed by
    the Great Migration. In the 1920s and 1930s, it was the focus of the “H
    Renaissance", an outpouring of artistic work in the American black
    community. However, with job losses in the time of the Great
    Depression and the deindustrialization of New York City after World War
    II, rates of crime and poverty increased significantly.
 Since New York City's revival in the late 20th century, H has been
    experiencing social and economic gentrification. However, H still suffers
    from many social problems. Large portions of the population receive a
    form of income support from the government.
ID H.
 “In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor,
  _________ _________, is drawn into a harrowing
  world centered on one of history's most enduring
  and mysterious literary masterpieces : I. Against
  this backdrop, _________ _________, battles a
  chilling adversary and grapples with an
  ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape
  of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic
  science. Drawing from the dark epic poem I,
  _________ _________, races to find answers
  and decide whom to trust, before the world is
  irrevocably altered.”
Synopsis of which book? And the author?
 Founded by Lakshmi Potluri, Arun Chandra Mohan, Praveen
  Sinha, Manu Jain & Mukul Bafana, J is a fashion and lifestyle
  e-commerce portal, owned by Rocket Internet. It retails
  apparel, footwear, accessories, beauty products, fragrances,
  home accessories and other fashion and lifestyle products.
  The site started operations in January, 2012.
 The company headquarters is in Gurgaon, Haryana. They
  have a 1,00,000 square feet warehouse in Pataudi, Manesar.
 In December 2012, J held an Alexa Traffic ranking of 46 in
  India. The cash-on-delivery payment model allows buyers to
  see the product before making a purchase. Customers can
  open the box and check the contents before accepting
  delivery.
Which website?
  The product K was created by Rowntree's of
   York, England, and is now produced worldwide
   by ________, which acquired Rowntree's in
   1988, except in the United States where it is
   made under license by The Hershey Company.
   When ________ took over this company, they
   changed K's packing from foil and paper to
   plastic. This did not go well with the customers.
   It prompted several campaigns to change its
   packing to the original foil and paper, which
   the company eventually did.
ID K and the blank.
 According to Google, the most
  searched “What is” queries in 2012 were :
 What is L?
 What is iCloud?
 What is 3G?
 What is Scientology?
So, um, what indeed is L?
 Aftermath is a 1994 short horror film written and
  directed by Nacho Cerdà. The film is part of a
  trilogy of short films, revolving about the
  subjects of birth (The Awakening, 1990), death
  (Aftermath, 1994) and rebirth (Genesis, 1998).
 The film begins with the dead body of a young
  female, killed in a car crash, being brought to
  a morgue. And the film ends with the dog of
  the mortician feeding on the dead lady’s
  heart.
 Whatever happens in between forms the main
  theme of the movie.
What is the theme of the movie?
 Anthem         :   “The O Spangled Banner”
 Capital        :   Emerald City
 Govt.          :   Monarchy
 Population     :   5,00,000
 Currency       :   None
Which country?
   Soon after the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s death, there
    was a tour organized for the press to visit the inside of his palace.
    After the visit, Spike.com created a list called “The Eight
    Creepiest Things Found in Muammar Gaddafi’s Palace”. It’s
    contents were :
8. Lots of Gold Guns.
7. Pet Lions.
6. A Massive Poster of P.
5. His Own Neverland-style Amusement Park.
4. Gay Porn.
3. A Mermaid Couch With His Daughter's Face.
2. An Underground Lair.
1. A Scrapbook of Pictures of Former Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice.

What is P?
 The first part of Q’s name, combines her parents' first names, while
  her mother has stated that the second part means "fairy" in Swahili.
 Q, at age five, had to lie about her age to audition for her very first
  acting job, the starring role in ___ _____ _______ ______ ____,
  because the minimum age to be considered was six. She eventually
  beat out some 4,000 contenders for the role. The director told 'The
  Daily Beast' that when he auditioned Q, he immediately realized he
  had discovered what he was looking for, and changed the script to
  accommodate her strong-willed personality. Her reading ability,
  loud scream and the skill of burping on command impressed the
  director and won her the part. The film premiered at Sundance Film
  Festival to rave reviews, winning the Grand Jury Prize.
 She has signed on to star in Steve McQueen's upcoming film 12
  Years a Slave alongside Michael Fassbender, Benedict
  Cumberbatch, and Brad Pitt. In February 2013, Q was cast as the
  title character in a new film version of Annie.
Who is Q? And fill in the blanks.
  R was a Swiss psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. R was born
   in Zürich and spent his childhood and youth
   in Schaffhausen, in northern Switzerland. He became known
   to his high school friends as Klecks, or “Inkblot” since, like
   many other young people in his native country, he enjoyed
   Klecksography, the making of fanciful inkblot “pictures”.
   Unlike his classmates, however, R would go on to make
   inkblots his life's work by designing a psychological test,
   called R test, in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are
   recorded and then analyzed using psychological
   interpretation, complex algorithms, or both. Some
   psychologists use this test to examine a person's personality
   characteristics and emotional functioning. It has been
   employed to detect underlying thought disorder, especially
   in cases where patients are reluctant to describe their
   thinking processes openly.
ID R.
  S, a physician and oncologist in the US,
  wrote this book as a response to the
  demand of a patient, “I’m willing to go
  on fighting, but I need to know what it is
  that I’m battling.”
 “And the Band Played On” by Randy
  Shilts and “The Making of the Atomic
  Bomb” by Richard Rhodes were his other
  two inspirations.
Who is S and what book did he write?
ID this now cult 1990 TV show, that ran
for two seasons, from this opening
sequence score and the minimalist
poster.
Who is the fourth person who will make this list exhaustive?
 V is a word in Punjabi used to describe a
  person who is free, jobless and is just roaming
  around. The word is mostly used in lighter sense,
  as in, it's not exactly a replacement for
  “unemployed”.
 Recently used in a Bollywood song, some of
  whose lyrics roughly translate in English as :
      “We are free, all are free, come (with us),
      be free.”
      “They call us jobless, but how does it
      matter to us?”
Which word?
   Which institution that came into
    existence on August 5, 2000, has the
    motto “In pursuit of knowledge and
    excellence.”?
  X was a professional American football league, founded
   by ___________ ___________, that failed to find an
   audience and ceased operation after its debut season in
   2001.
 The X was originally conceived to build on the success of
   the NFL and professional wrestling. It combined the scoring
   system of the NFL with the stunts of professional wrestling. It
   was hyped as "real" football without penalties for
   roughness and with fewer rules in general. The loud games
   featured players and coaches with microphones and
   cameras in the huddle and in the locker rooms. Stadiums
   featured trash-talking public address announcers and
   scantily-clad cheerleaders. Instead of a pre-game coin
   toss, officials put the ball on the ground and let a player
   from each team scramble for it to determine who
   received the kickoff option.
ID X and the founder.
 Y, a two-word term, refers to the institution of radical,
  revolutionary change. This usage dates from the time of
  the French Revolution. After the official abolition of the
  French monarchy on 21 September 1792, the National
  Convention instituted the new French Revolutionary
  Calendar. It declared the day after abolition, 22
  September, as 1 Vendémiaire – to be the first day
  of the Republic and the beginning of Y.
 Frank Miller adopted this term for his DC Comics comic-
  book story arc Batman : Y (Batman #404–407), retelling
  the Batman origin story in the “Post-Crisis” DC Universe.
  This comic established the expression DC later used in
  other comic books.
Which term?
  Z is a Colombian dance fitness program created by
   dancer and choreographer Alberto “Beto” Perez during
   the 1990s.
 Z involves dance and aerobic elements. Z's choreography
   incorporates hip-hop, soca, samba, salsa, merengue,
   mambo, martial arts, Bollywood and belly dance moves.
   Squats and lunges are also included. Approximately 14
   million people take weekly Z classes in over 1,40, 000
   locations across more than 150 countries.
 Jennifer Lopez, Jackie Chan, Eva LaRue, Jennifer Love
   Hewitt, Natalie Portman, Emma Watson, Victoria
   Beckham, Halle Berry, Toni Braxton, Nicky Hilton and
   Wyclef Jean are known to take Z classes as part of their
   workout routines.
ID Z.
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  • 3.
     A isshown to be stubborn, yet a shy and kind-hearted person. A loves books and prefers to keep to herself. She is also a virgin in the beginning of the series before meeting her boyfriend, who calls himself as “__________ __________ of fucked up." Despite this, she falls in love with him and finds herself in a complicated yet passionate relationship with him.  A describes herself as a "pale, brown-haired" young woman with blue eyes "too big for her face." She is shown to be rather insecure about being slim, pale, and scruffy. She classifies herself as a "t-shirt and Converse shoes" type of girl.  A has a small frame and a delicate profile, upturned nose, and soft full lips. She has a nice body and is slender and petite, as her boyfriend towers over her, and she can easily curl up into his lap. Being immensely shy, she blushes pink easily which he finds alluring. Who is A? and fill in the blanks.
  • 7.
    “During the Colonialperiod, tavern keepers stored their spirits in casks. When the casks got near empty, the dregs, or ____________, would be mixed together into one barrel and sold at a reduced price, poured from the spigot, which was referred to as the _______. Patrons wanting this cheaper alcohol would come in asking for C.” One of the many disputed origins of which word?
  • 9.
     Dwas, according to ancient Greek and Roman sources, a princess of Tyre and the founder and first Queen of Carthage (in modern-day Tunisia). According to the Aeneid of Virgil, she died for the love of Aeneas, when he abandoned her.  D is also the first name of singer Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong. She attained international success with her debut album No Angel that sold over 21 million copies worldwide, and won several awards, including the MTV Europe Music Award for Best New Act, two NRJ Awards for Best New Act and Best Album, and two Brit Awards for Best British Female and Best Album. She has collaborated with A.R. Rahman for a song in a Danny Boyle movie. ID D.
  • 11.
    This is theGreat Seal of the State of New York. What is the one word motto, meaning “Ever Upward” in Latin, and used extensively in a 2012 movie, that has been blanked out?
  • 13.
     While it’sdifficult to trace back when and which manga was the first to use the expression F, one of the earliest online transcriptions of the expression can be found in the Sexy Losers web comic.  According to the author, he was inspired by a panel in Masahiko Kikuni’s Heartbroken Angels comic strip (picture right) to use the expression to denote the sound of something. Which expression?
  • 15.
    In 1992, a21-year old Matthew Hayden playing for Greenmount, shared a 200 run partnership with a 17-year old G known and famous for a different sport altogether. Both Hayden and G went on to score centuries. This was G's maiden first team ton after a previous best of 49. Who is G?
  • 17.
    H is a large neighborhood within the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan. Since the 1920s, H has been known as a major African-American residential, cultural and business center. Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658, it is named after a city in the Netherlands.  Black residents began to arrive in masses in 1905, with numbers fed by the Great Migration. In the 1920s and 1930s, it was the focus of the “H Renaissance", an outpouring of artistic work in the American black community. However, with job losses in the time of the Great Depression and the deindustrialization of New York City after World War II, rates of crime and poverty increased significantly.  Since New York City's revival in the late 20th century, H has been experiencing social and economic gentrification. However, H still suffers from many social problems. Large portions of the population receive a form of income support from the government. ID H.
  • 19.
     “In theheart of Italy, Harvard professor, _________ _________, is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces : I. Against this backdrop, _________ _________, battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science. Drawing from the dark epic poem I, _________ _________, races to find answers and decide whom to trust, before the world is irrevocably altered.” Synopsis of which book? And the author?
  • 21.
     Founded byLakshmi Potluri, Arun Chandra Mohan, Praveen Sinha, Manu Jain & Mukul Bafana, J is a fashion and lifestyle e-commerce portal, owned by Rocket Internet. It retails apparel, footwear, accessories, beauty products, fragrances, home accessories and other fashion and lifestyle products. The site started operations in January, 2012.  The company headquarters is in Gurgaon, Haryana. They have a 1,00,000 square feet warehouse in Pataudi, Manesar.  In December 2012, J held an Alexa Traffic ranking of 46 in India. The cash-on-delivery payment model allows buyers to see the product before making a purchase. Customers can open the box and check the contents before accepting delivery. Which website?
  • 23.
     Theproduct K was created by Rowntree's of York, England, and is now produced worldwide by ________, which acquired Rowntree's in 1988, except in the United States where it is made under license by The Hershey Company. When ________ took over this company, they changed K's packing from foil and paper to plastic. This did not go well with the customers. It prompted several campaigns to change its packing to the original foil and paper, which the company eventually did. ID K and the blank.
  • 25.
     According toGoogle, the most searched “What is” queries in 2012 were :  What is L?  What is iCloud?  What is 3G?  What is Scientology? So, um, what indeed is L?
  • 29.
     Aftermath isa 1994 short horror film written and directed by Nacho Cerdà. The film is part of a trilogy of short films, revolving about the subjects of birth (The Awakening, 1990), death (Aftermath, 1994) and rebirth (Genesis, 1998).  The film begins with the dead body of a young female, killed in a car crash, being brought to a morgue. And the film ends with the dog of the mortician feeding on the dead lady’s heart.  Whatever happens in between forms the main theme of the movie. What is the theme of the movie?
  • 32.
     Anthem : “The O Spangled Banner”  Capital : Emerald City  Govt. : Monarchy  Population : 5,00,000  Currency : None Which country?
  • 34.
    Soon after the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s death, there was a tour organized for the press to visit the inside of his palace. After the visit, Spike.com created a list called “The Eight Creepiest Things Found in Muammar Gaddafi’s Palace”. It’s contents were : 8. Lots of Gold Guns. 7. Pet Lions. 6. A Massive Poster of P. 5. His Own Neverland-style Amusement Park. 4. Gay Porn. 3. A Mermaid Couch With His Daughter's Face. 2. An Underground Lair. 1. A Scrapbook of Pictures of Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. What is P?
  • 37.
     The firstpart of Q’s name, combines her parents' first names, while her mother has stated that the second part means "fairy" in Swahili.  Q, at age five, had to lie about her age to audition for her very first acting job, the starring role in ___ _____ _______ ______ ____, because the minimum age to be considered was six. She eventually beat out some 4,000 contenders for the role. The director told 'The Daily Beast' that when he auditioned Q, he immediately realized he had discovered what he was looking for, and changed the script to accommodate her strong-willed personality. Her reading ability, loud scream and the skill of burping on command impressed the director and won her the part. The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival to rave reviews, winning the Grand Jury Prize.  She has signed on to star in Steve McQueen's upcoming film 12 Years a Slave alongside Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Brad Pitt. In February 2013, Q was cast as the title character in a new film version of Annie. Who is Q? And fill in the blanks.
  • 39.
     Rwas a Swiss psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. R was born in Zürich and spent his childhood and youth in Schaffhausen, in northern Switzerland. He became known to his high school friends as Klecks, or “Inkblot” since, like many other young people in his native country, he enjoyed Klecksography, the making of fanciful inkblot “pictures”. Unlike his classmates, however, R would go on to make inkblots his life's work by designing a psychological test, called R test, in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both. Some psychologists use this test to examine a person's personality characteristics and emotional functioning. It has been employed to detect underlying thought disorder, especially in cases where patients are reluctant to describe their thinking processes openly. ID R.
  • 42.
     S,a physician and oncologist in the US, wrote this book as a response to the demand of a patient, “I’m willing to go on fighting, but I need to know what it is that I’m battling.”  “And the Band Played On” by Randy Shilts and “The Making of the Atomic Bomb” by Richard Rhodes were his other two inspirations. Who is S and what book did he write?
  • 44.
    ID this nowcult 1990 TV show, that ran for two seasons, from this opening sequence score and the minimalist poster.
  • 46.
    Who is thefourth person who will make this list exhaustive?
  • 48.
     V isa word in Punjabi used to describe a person who is free, jobless and is just roaming around. The word is mostly used in lighter sense, as in, it's not exactly a replacement for “unemployed”.  Recently used in a Bollywood song, some of whose lyrics roughly translate in English as : “We are free, all are free, come (with us), be free.” “They call us jobless, but how does it matter to us?” Which word?
  • 50.
    Which institution that came into existence on August 5, 2000, has the motto “In pursuit of knowledge and excellence.”?
  • 52.
     Xwas a professional American football league, founded by ___________ ___________, that failed to find an audience and ceased operation after its debut season in 2001.  The X was originally conceived to build on the success of the NFL and professional wrestling. It combined the scoring system of the NFL with the stunts of professional wrestling. It was hyped as "real" football without penalties for roughness and with fewer rules in general. The loud games featured players and coaches with microphones and cameras in the huddle and in the locker rooms. Stadiums featured trash-talking public address announcers and scantily-clad cheerleaders. Instead of a pre-game coin toss, officials put the ball on the ground and let a player from each team scramble for it to determine who received the kickoff option. ID X and the founder.
  • 54.
     Y, atwo-word term, refers to the institution of radical, revolutionary change. This usage dates from the time of the French Revolution. After the official abolition of the French monarchy on 21 September 1792, the National Convention instituted the new French Revolutionary Calendar. It declared the day after abolition, 22 September, as 1 Vendémiaire – to be the first day of the Republic and the beginning of Y.  Frank Miller adopted this term for his DC Comics comic- book story arc Batman : Y (Batman #404–407), retelling the Batman origin story in the “Post-Crisis” DC Universe. This comic established the expression DC later used in other comic books. Which term?
  • 56.
     Zis a Colombian dance fitness program created by dancer and choreographer Alberto “Beto” Perez during the 1990s.  Z involves dance and aerobic elements. Z's choreography incorporates hip-hop, soca, samba, salsa, merengue, mambo, martial arts, Bollywood and belly dance moves. Squats and lunges are also included. Approximately 14 million people take weekly Z classes in over 1,40, 000 locations across more than 150 countries.  Jennifer Lopez, Jackie Chan, Eva LaRue, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Natalie Portman, Emma Watson, Victoria Beckham, Halle Berry, Toni Braxton, Nicky Hilton and Wyclef Jean are known to take Z classes as part of their workout routines. ID Z.