2. Question 1 Id the poem: He took his vorpal sword in hand:Long time the manxome foe he sought— So rested he by the Tumtum tree,And stood awhile in thought
3. Question 2 Give full funda behind this pic recently in the news.
4. Question 3 Alexander Sawchuk estimates that it was in June or July of 1973 when he, along with a graduate student and the lab manager, was hurriedly searching the lab for a good image to scan for a colleague's conference paper. They wanted something glossy to ensure good output dynamic range, and they wanted a human face. Just then, somebody happened to walk in with a recent issue of ____. The engineers tore away the top third of the centerfold so they could wrap it around the drum of their scanner. The scanner had a fixed resolution of 100 lines per inch and the engineers wanted a 512 × 512 image, so they limited the scan to the top 5.12 inches of the picture, effectively cropping it at the subject's shoulders. Which famous image are we talking about?
5. Question 4 The Beatles were actually not the only musicians to use _______ as a radio single. Elton John released a cover version in 1974. John Lennon provided backing vocals for the Elton John version, under the fake name of Dr. Winston O'Boogie. Which song?
6. Question 5 The tower's standard night-time lighting since New Year's Eve in 1985 has been orange-gold. Why was there a shift to blue?
8. Question 7 X was born Maria Ann Sherwood. At 19, she married Thomas Smith, a farm labourer.The Smiths were primarily orchardists. The earliest account of Y appeared in the Farmer and Settler of 25 June 1924, in an article by Herbert Rumsey, a Dundas orchardist and local historian. He interviewed local fruit-grower Edwin Small who recalled that in 1868 he and his father had been invited by Maria to examine a seedling growing by a creek on her farm. She explained that the seedling had developed from the remains of some French crab apples grown in Tasmania. Y is today recognised as a fixed mutation or 'sport'. Find X and Y.
9. Question 8 A celebrated pimp, thief, and confidence man operating in New York City in the 1840s, ____ Hoag, along with his wife Melinda and an accomplice known as "French Jack", operated a con called the "panel game", a method by which prostitutes and their pimps robbed customers. Which phrase did Hoag give rise to?
10. Question 9 This ad was a huge hit when launched and greatly boosted the name of the Company, which was doing dull in its field. The ad had its share of controversies, with a 11yr old claiming compensation from the Company because his friends harassed him after seeing the ad. However, the Company decided not to pull it off air and issued a atatement that "extensive research had been done using google search and phone books to minimise causing offense. ________ is in no way responsible or liable for the fact that Master _____ Bhanot is being teased by his friends."Recently, a second ad (26 seconds long), was brought on. It showed some profanities written on a door: Hernia, allergy, ring worm, insane, swine, acidity, dandruff, underwear and so on.
