2. 1
• Abu Abdullah Md Al Musa al Khwarizmiu
wrote a book called “kitab al jabr wa al
muqablah”. This roughly translates to rules of
reintegration and reduction. This was one of
the most notable works in the subject. The
Europeans ultimately used the name for the
subject from the book which more or less
means the reunion of broken parts. What is
the subject about which I am talking about?
8. 4
• “Here lies one who spared neither man nor
God/ Waste not your tears on him, he was a
sod/ Writing nasty things he regarded as great
fun/ Thank the Lord he is dead, this son of a
gun.” This is a self written epitaph of which
famous personality .
10. 5
• The original sense of the word is the point on the
earth’s surface at or directly below a nuclear
detonation. The term dates to 1946. From
the Chicago Daily Tribune of 30 June of that year:
Within a radius of one kilometer (.62 of a mile)
from ______(the point beneath the blast center),
men and animals died almost instantaneously
from the tremendous blast pressue and heat;
houses and other structures were smashed,
crushed, and scattered; and fires broke out.
12. 6
• The term dates to 1712 and first appears as a
character in John Arbuthnot’s satire The Law
Is a Bottomless Pit. By the end of the 18th
century, this was being used as a metaphor for
England. The familiar appearance as a top-
hatted, paunchy, Victorian gentleman dates to
the nineteenth century and the cartoons by
John Tenniel. This is termed as the English
equivalent of uncle sam.
17. 8
X is derived from fishing, dragging a lure that a
fish might bite on.
It appears to have originated in 1992 in the
Usenet group, alt.folklore.urban (AFU) in the
phrase X for newbies or suckers.
A ___ deliberately asks a question which has
been answered over and over, thus only a
complete neophyte would consider getting
excited about it and answering it
22. 10
• The ___ Wars were a series of military conflicts in the
middle of the 18th century on the Indian subcontinent.
• The conflicts involved many independent Indian rulers
and also included a series of battles between the
French East India Company and the British East India
Company. They were mainly fought on the territories
which were dominated by the Nizam of Hyderabad up
to the Godavari delta.
• The French company lost and was confined primarily to
Pondichéry. These wars ultimately led to the
establishment of the British Raj.
24. 11
• An excerpt from an 1877 English classic about a
“bearing reign”:
• “it is dreadful… your neck aching until you don’t know
how to bear it… its hurt my tongue and my jaw and the
blood from my tongue covered the froth that kept
flying from my lips”.
• This depiction spurred so much outrage and empathy
from readers that its use was not only abolished in
Victorian England, but public interest in anti-cruelty
legislation in the United States also grew significantly.
• Incidentally, this book was banned in South Africa as
the title was deemed “racist”.
26. 12
• An excerpt from Sir Winston Churchill's “Sinews of Peace”
address at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri in 1946:
• “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an "___
___" has descended across the Continent. Behind that line
lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and
Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest,
Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia; all these famous cities and
the populations around them lie in what I must call the
Soviet sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another,
not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and in some
cases increasing measure of control from Moscow.”
• What has been blanked out?
28. 13
• ___ is an actual type of light once used in
theaters and concert halls. It relied on the light
given off by a hot cylinder filled with chemicals. It
has a very high melting point, so it can get very
hot, and give off an enormous amount of light,
without being in danger of melting.
• Obviously, this rather incendiary (it had hydrogen
gas and an open flame in close proximity) system
was replaced by electric lighting, but it lives on in
name.
30. 14
• A recipe from the 1500s:
• Take 10 gallons of ale and a large cock, the older the better;
parboil the cock, flay him, and stamp him in a stone mortar
until his bones are broken (you must gut him when you
flaw him). Then, put the cock into two quarts of sack, and
put to it five pounds of raisins of the sun-stoned; some
blades of mace, and a few cloves. Put all these into a canvas
bag, and a little before you find the ale has been working,
put the bag and ale together in vessel. In a week or nine
days bottle it up, fill the bottle just above the neck and give
it the same time to ripen as other ale.
• A popular theory for the origin of which word?
32. 15
• As a tribute to the author, fans celebrate May
25 as ___ Day by carrying a ___ with them the
entire day. The commemoration was first held
in 2001, two weeks after the author's death
on 11 May 2001.
• Apparently, "to know where one's ___ is"
means to be in control of one's own life.
35. 16
• From a poem, written sometime before 1466,
by Charles, Duke of Orleans (he wrote a series
of poems in English during his captivity
following the battle of Agincourt):As strokis
grete not tippe, nor tapp, do way The
rewdisshe child so best lo shall he wynne.
(As strokes great, not tip, nor tap, do the best
for the uncouth child, lo he shall win.) What
common phrase has been derived from this ?
37. 17
• The root words of the language serve as both
nouns and verbs, further reducing the total
number of words; for example, "think" is both a
noun and verb, so the word thought is not
required and can be abolished. The party also
intends that language be spoken
in staccato rhythms with syllables that are easy to
pronounce. This will make speech more
automatic and unconscious and reduce the
likelihood of thought. It is possible that author
modeled aspects of language on Esperanto.
41. 19
• X is a word which is said to be got from the
Hindi word Chedda (hole), and it means a
small piece of paper generated from punching
holes in a paper. X is also the name of a region
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