The document provides clues in A-Z format with the answers relating to history, movies, sports, science and more. It includes clues about the Alma Mater statue, Boston Tea Party, cigarette manufacturing history, Domino's Pizza founder, Ebola virus discoverer, Gillette mansion, Hocus Pocus term origins, Idi Amin biography, Jeopardy! clues, Kai Po Che! film details, Libertarian Party history, Marilyn Monroe's debut role, Neel Mukherjee's novel winner, Omicron letter properties, Frank Zappa band name origin, Quentin Tarantino's Sin City scene, Raymond Soneira's retina display research, Uno card

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The answers are in A-Z Format.

2. This is a 13-feet tall bronze sculpture in Illinois,
by Lorado Taft, depicts a mother-figure wearing
academic robes and flanked by two attendants
Learning and Labor.
This is basically a term that originates from
ancient Rome as a title for mother goddesses
like Ceres, later the term was used in
Christianity for Virgin Mary. Identify the statue.

3. ALMA MATER

4. Jeopardy! is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin.
The show features a quiz competition in which contestants are
presented with general knowledge clues in the form of answers, In a
show of April 19, 2011 B(a political party) was a clue for $2000 in a
category called “Mad Tea Party”.
B was founded in objection to new policy changes by the Libertarian
Party announced at its Oregon convention in 2006 by a group of
former Libertarian Party (LP) members, Thomas L Knapp was its founder,
however the party dissolved in July 22, 2012. The party focused on
Ronald Paul’s campaign for Liberty i.e. Educate Americans in freedom,
sound money, non-interventionism, free markets, and related positions
of candidates at all levels of government.

5. BOSTON TEA PARTY

6. C is a French word which appear to have had antecedents in Mexico and Central
America around the 9th century, in North America they were using plants but in
Spain they introduced fine paper in 17th century and the product was called
papelate, in 1830 when it crossed France it took the name in which we know it
today, manually 27 of them could be made in a minute before Bonsack built this
machine which increased its production to nearly 8times with 200/minute, he
took the patent in 1880 and his invention revolutionized the industry.

7. CIGARETTE

8. Tom sums up his life as a "great Horatio Alger story," his father died on
Christmas Eve when he was 4. His mother sent him to a Michigan
orphanage run by Polish nuns, after being a college dropout he joined
Marine Corps before supervising newspaper boys for the out-of-town
papers. One day in 1960, his brother told him about a shop in Ypsilanti,
Mich that a friend of his was running, having financial problems he
joined the shop. ”The plan was for me to work half the night and my
brother to work the other half. But it didn't work because he didn't want
to leave his full-time job as a mailman. Within about eight months he
wanted out, and I bought him out by giving him the Volkswagen we
used for deliveries. I bought another place and then another. All three
were in the same county, and I wanted to get them all under the same
name, I decided we'd put three dots on the logo because we had three
stores, and every time we added one, we'd add a dot.”

9. DOMINOS

10. The deadly Ebola virus is no joking matter in today's
circumstances, but in 1995 it was apparently a different
story. Few people knew or cared about Ebola, with one
exception being Pierre, who for some reason had a
fascination with the virus. When Pierre launched E in
1995, it wasn't a site we know it today. It was mostly an
assortment of information on things that interested
him, with Ebola being high on the list, an "offbeat
tribute to the Ebola virus", including a photo of the virus
and links to news stories on outbreaks. How do we
better know the site?

12. He Suffered from
asthma, earaches and sinus problems. A
doctor treated his sinusitis by inserting a pellet
of radium into each of his nostrils. Nasal
imagery and references appear in his music
and lyrics, childhood diseases may have been
due to exposure to mustard gas, released by
the nearby chemical warfare facility.
Introduced by Vachlav Havel was one of the
special ambassadors of culture and tourism in
Czechkoslovakia, a band PPU in Prague took its
name from one of his songs.
When he was asked to fill in the Fathers
religion in his sons birth certificate, the atheist
wrote “MUSICIAN”

13. FRANK ZAPPA, The Plastic People of the
Universe(PPU) took its name from Zappa’s
Plastic People

14. The Biggest Loser is an American competition reality show that debuted
on NBC October 19, 2004. The show features obese people competing
to win a cash prize by losing the highest percentage of weight relative to
their initial weight.
In September 2012 they used a mansion named after an American
businessman G(surname) purchased in 1926 based on Spanish Colonial
Revival Architecture, after G’s death it was successively sold to director
Clarence Brown, Bob Hope, Elizabeth Clare Prophet before it was
opened to the public for Park in 2007, G is famous for a major discovery
in 1901 and forming his own company in 28 September, 1901

16. Gillette/Gillette mansion

17. Hocus Pocus is a term currently used by magicians, usually the magic
words spoken when bringing about some sort of change. It was once
a common term for a magician, juggler, or other similar entertainer. It
is believed the word H was coined in the late 18th century as a
contraction of the verb hocus, which means "to cheat", The term is
occasionally used in reference to urban legends and rumours.

18. HOAX

19. ‘I’ never wrote an autobiography nor did he authorize any official
written account of his life, so there are discrepancies regarding when
and where he was born, he was born to Andreas who converted from
Roman Catholicism to Islam, he was forced to join the British Army in
WWII and served in Burma Campaign, he was an Athlete in the British
Army, 6ft 4 inchs tall he was the light heavyweight boxing champion of
his country from 1951-60, and was also a Swimmer, and with that a
brilliant Rugby Forward, played for Nile RFC. There is a myth that he was
replaced for the East African team in the 1955 Rugby match against
British Lions though his name doesn’t feature the list nor does he
feature in the photograph. He was a huge fan of Hayes Football club.
[A very bad hint: Sourav Ganguly]

20. IDI AMIN DADA

21. Recently Inzamam Ul Haq released his Best XI on
“Greats who never won a World Cup”, Saaed
Anwar, Sourav Ganguly, Lara, Kallis, Dravid, Crowe,
Botham, Kumble, Waqar, Donald, Ambrose.
Who is the 12th man?

22. JONTY RHODES

23. Cricket plays an integral role as both the match &
the film is set in the same time period. The
director had even shot some dummy scenes lest
he wasn’t allowed to use the original footage, but
thankfully, it wasn’t required. The director
confirms, “We’ve got the rights to the famous
match. It was a historic win for the Indian team,
and I’m very thankful to the BCCI.” “We could not
have used the general footage as everyone in India
remembers that match ball-by-ball,” said Manish
Hariprasad, creative director(UTV). Which match?
Which film?

24. KAI PO CHE!, KOLKATA TEST 2001

25. The guy below is a Swedish teacher, aged 23, Jonathan Brack.
"I wanted to place hundreds but my friend told me not to waste my money on such
a stupid thing.
"After he left I placed 80 Kronas (£7) on the bet.“
Jonathan says he now intends to spend some of his winnings travelling to a Premier
League game in England.
"I hope I can get someone to travel with me.
"I've never been to Old Trafford before so that could be nice.“ said the die hard
ManU fan who was one of the 167 people to benefit from the incident. Which
incident is talked about here?

26. LUIZ SUAREZ WILL BITE IN WORLD CUP 2014

27. Miss Grable and Mr. Haymes are neither given nor
deserve a script if the caliber of their performances is a
valid criterion, and several other minor actors behave
ridiculously in silly roles. There is no more voltage in
"The Shocking Miss Pilgrim" than in a badly used dry
cell.- This was a 1947 review of New York Times,
talking about minor actors being silly who made debut
in this movie as a telephone operator?

28. MARILYN MONROE

29. Past Continuous is a 1977 novel originally written
in Hebrew by Israeli novelist Yaakov Shabtai(translated in
English).
Past Continuous happens to be another popular novel
about an orphan called Ritwik Ghosh, who grows up in the
by lanes of south Kolkata amid a crowd of suspicious and
nosy relatives. He escapes to Oxford on a scholarship, but
grows up suddenly as he discovers his true self and chooses
to be an illegal gay wanderer on the streets of London and
in its public toilets. The book was released in a different
name in UK, but this book won the Vodafone Crossword
Prize. Identify the author.

30. NEEL MUKHERJEE

31. (O) is the 15th letter of the greek alphabet, in Greek numericals it has
a value of 70, It is rarely used in mathematics because it is
indistinguishable from the Latin letters O, o and easily confused with
the digit 0. The upper-case letter of (O) was originally used in
mathematics as a symbol for Big O notation . (O) is frequently used to
designate the fifteenth star in a constellation group, the last of these
stars(better known as Atik) is well-known due to its use as a setting
in science fiction, including Star Trek, Mystery Science Theater
3000, Transformers, and Futurama. Just like Omega means Great O,
this is the opposite-“Little O”.

32. OMICRON

33. Souram Singh(Hanumanta) is a retired army subedar born in
1959 who presently resides in the Jhansi district of Uttar
Pradesh. His dad too was an Indian soldier who loved having
multi-colored German icecreams, icecreams with gulab
jamun, had fascination for softy icecreams. Height of 6ft
1inch his dad also had a record of reaching a bar of icecream
to a senior officers residence within 5 mins allowing it to not
melt, who was his infamous dad who joined army for Food?

35. Sin City: Video, what is so special about this scene
which many believe had the worst script but best
execution

36. ONLY SCENE DIRECTED BY QUENTIN
TARANTINO

37. When introducing the iPhone 4, Steve Jobs said the number of pixels needed for a R is
about 326 PPI for a device held 10 to 12 inches from the eye. One way of expressing this as
a unit is pixels-per-degree (PPD) which takes into account both the screen resolution and
the distance from which the device is viewed. Based on Jobs' magic number of 326, the
threshold for a R starts at the PPD value of 53 PPD. The distance is calculated by the
formula
Raymond Soneira, president of Display Mate Technologies, has challenged Apple's claim.
He says that the physiology of the human eye is such that there must be at least 477 pixels
per inch in a pixelated display for the pixels to become imperceptible to the human eye at
a distance of 12 inches
The astronomer and science blogger Phil Plait notes, however, that, "if you have [better
than 20/20] eyesight, then at one foot away the iPhone 4S's pixels are resolved. The
picture will look pixelated. If you have average eyesight [20/20 vision], the picture will
look just fine, so in my opinion, what Jobs said was fine. Soneira, while technically
correct, was being picky."

39. Born in 1986 this actor started his life as a bus conductor, met
with an accident in 2015. While adopting his screen name he
used the last 2 letters of his maiden/original name because it
meant silence. On his first trip to Bollywood he was not allowed
to enter the studio, had glimpses of Raju Hirani, Sanjay Leela
Bhansali, Karan Johar and wished to work with them but in vain,
his last movie(yet to be released) is SORRY!

41. He is the dictator of which country?

42. TOMANIA

43. Crazy Eights is a game that originated in Venezuela, pre
extension of Irish Switch or Mau Mau, while playing this
game with his son Merle Robbins(a barber from Ohio)
had a heated argument about the rules, to resolve the
issue he invented a new game, he saved $8000 to create
the first 5000 decks and sold from his barber shop.
Merle Robbins passed away in 1984, but his creation is
now an addiction in classrooms. What did he invent?

44. Uno

45. In the year 1801 Napolean Bonaparte started this Prize(V prize) to
honor a great discovery, demonstrated at the French Academy of
Sciences, the prize was kept in the name of the person who received
it for the first time, in 1880 Alexander Graham Bell invented the
telephone and received this prize, with the prize money he
established the V Laboratory with his V fund, and then the V bureau
presently known as Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf
and Hard of Hearing, a resource, support network and advocate for
listening, learning, talking and living independently with hearing loss

46. VOLTA PRIZE

47. India and Pakistan have met each other on 6 occasions
in World Cups, India winning all 6 times, in these 6
clashes Venkatesh Prasad holds the record for Best
Bowling figures in a match for India(in 1999 World
Cup), who holds the Best Bowling Figures in a match for
Pakistan?

48. WAHAB RIAZ

49. Ground was broken on June 28,
1965, and the building-which stands
444 feet above street level-was fully
occupied by August 1968. This is the
tallest building in Rochester, and
third tallest in New York outside New
York City. Buckingham Properties
took over the property management
in August 2013 and has hired an on-
site manager for the building, Mark
Glickman, who previously worked in
facilities management for the
University of Rochester

50. XEROX TOWER

51. Y is an international celebration held every April 12 to
commemorate milestones in space exploration often
called the "World Space Party“, the first time Y was held
was on April 12, 2001, exactly 40 years after the launch
of Vostok 1. In 2013, Y was celebrated at over 350 events in
57 countries.

52. YURI’S NIGHT

53. The method of Z was a cryptologic technique used by
the Polish Cipher Bureau before and during World War II,
and during the war also by British cryptologists
to decrypt messages enciphered on German Enigma
machines. It was invented in October 1938. Z's device
comprised a set of 26 perforated sheets. The 26 × 26
matrix represented the 676 possible starting positions of
the middle and left. The sheets were punched with holes
in the positions that would allow a "female" to occur.
[NOT REQUIRED: Female means sometimes (about one
message in eight) one of the repeated letters in the
message key enciphered to the same letter on both
occasions]

54. ZYGALSKI SHEETS