This document discusses various topics including:
- The 52nd Grammy Awards winners in 2008
- The Palestinian militant group Black September formed in 1971 after conflict in Jordan
- A personal anecdote about a doctor saving a speaker's daughter's life with an experimental medical procedure
- Mentions of Nikola Tesla, Jimmy Wales, Cornelius Fudge from Harry Potter, and the office of Minister for Magic
Charles M. Schultz wrote a letter to Robert Ripley about his dog eating glass, which was published. This inspired Schultz to create the comic strip featuring his dog Snoopy as a main character, which became world famous. Snoopy took on many alter-egos in the comic strip, including a World War I Flying Ace battling the Red Baron, and also roles as a writer, lawyer, athlete and astronaut.
This document provides information about a village in Karnataka, India known for Sanskrit learning where most families use Sanskrit as their daily language. It also has a notable Vedanta school associated with Holenarsipura Trust, one of the rare schools teaching Shankara Vedanta as originally stated. The village is named Mattur.
This document contains questions and answers from a general quiz competition held at Zakir Husain Delhi College called "Conoscenza 2016". It includes multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank style questions testing knowledge about people, events, movies, books and more. The questions cover topics ranging from sports, science, history, pop culture and current affairs.
The document outlines the rules for a quiz competition called "Return to Neverland-2". It states there will be 20 questions, with questions 1, 5, 10, 15, and 20 marked as star questions. The top 8 teams will make it to the finals. It also notes that humorously incorrect answers may be rewarded with a banana. The rest of the document consists of 20 numbered quiz questions and their answers on various topics ranging from people to places to movies.
1) The document contains questions about various topics including movies, music, sports, and history.
2) It asks for names of people, events, logos, and other identifying information related to the topics.
3) The responses provide answers to identify people like Picasso, events like the Red Wedding, and works like Kashmir by Led Zeppelin.
1. Roger Waters wrote the song "Comfortably Numb" after experiencing a difficult concert while suffering from hepatitis and being injected with tranquilizers by a doctor before performing.
2. Leonardo Da Vinci's famous painting "The Last Supper" depicts the biblical scene of Jesus revealing that one of his apostles will betray him, as depicted in the dining hall of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie.
3. The term "cliffhanger" refers to a plot device that leaves the audience in suspense at the end of an episode or installment, which originated from a scene in Thomas Hardy's serialized novel "A Pair of Blue Eyes."
1. The document contains details about a general quiz with 2 rounds and 40 questions total. It provides questions on various topics and asks the participant to identify terms or choose the correct answer from multiple choice safety slides.
2. It quizzes the participant on topics like famous roads, psychological terms, businesses, scientific studies, historical events, movies, novels, sports, and more. Visual clues like images and diagrams are also provided in some questions.
3. The questions range in difficulty and come from diverse categories to test general knowledge.
Charles M. Schultz wrote a letter to Robert Ripley about his dog eating glass, which was published. This inspired Schultz to create the comic strip featuring his dog Snoopy as a main character, which became world famous. Snoopy took on many alter-egos in the comic strip, including a World War I Flying Ace battling the Red Baron, and also roles as a writer, lawyer, athlete and astronaut.
This document provides information about a village in Karnataka, India known for Sanskrit learning where most families use Sanskrit as their daily language. It also has a notable Vedanta school associated with Holenarsipura Trust, one of the rare schools teaching Shankara Vedanta as originally stated. The village is named Mattur.
This document contains questions and answers from a general quiz competition held at Zakir Husain Delhi College called "Conoscenza 2016". It includes multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank style questions testing knowledge about people, events, movies, books and more. The questions cover topics ranging from sports, science, history, pop culture and current affairs.
The document outlines the rules for a quiz competition called "Return to Neverland-2". It states there will be 20 questions, with questions 1, 5, 10, 15, and 20 marked as star questions. The top 8 teams will make it to the finals. It also notes that humorously incorrect answers may be rewarded with a banana. The rest of the document consists of 20 numbered quiz questions and their answers on various topics ranging from people to places to movies.
1) The document contains questions about various topics including movies, music, sports, and history.
2) It asks for names of people, events, logos, and other identifying information related to the topics.
3) The responses provide answers to identify people like Picasso, events like the Red Wedding, and works like Kashmir by Led Zeppelin.
1. Roger Waters wrote the song "Comfortably Numb" after experiencing a difficult concert while suffering from hepatitis and being injected with tranquilizers by a doctor before performing.
2. Leonardo Da Vinci's famous painting "The Last Supper" depicts the biblical scene of Jesus revealing that one of his apostles will betray him, as depicted in the dining hall of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie.
3. The term "cliffhanger" refers to a plot device that leaves the audience in suspense at the end of an episode or installment, which originated from a scene in Thomas Hardy's serialized novel "A Pair of Blue Eyes."
1. The document contains details about a general quiz with 2 rounds and 40 questions total. It provides questions on various topics and asks the participant to identify terms or choose the correct answer from multiple choice safety slides.
2. It quizzes the participant on topics like famous roads, psychological terms, businesses, scientific studies, historical events, movies, novels, sports, and more. Visual clues like images and diagrams are also provided in some questions.
3. The questions range in difficulty and come from diverse categories to test general knowledge.
I do not have enough context to identify the author from the given information. The passage provided is an excerpt from an Old English poem, but without any other details, I cannot determine the name of the author who will be publishing "The Fall of Arthur" next May.
The document appears to be a quiz containing various trivia questions and their answers on a range of topics. Some of the questions ask about identifying people, places, companies, movies, songs, and events. Others ask about explaining phenomena, origins of terms, or controversies related to certain answers.
The document is a quiz with 21 multiple choice questions. It begins by outlining the rules of the quiz, which include teams earning +1 point for each correct answer, with the top 6 teams advancing to the finals and tiebreakers using additional questions. The questions cover a range of topics to identify people, places, objects, and their origins from popular culture, including identifying Alice Liddell from her relationship to Lewis Carroll, identifying the notorious Indian bandit Veerappan, identifying the Land of Oz from a map, identifying the Olympics gold won by Dhyan Chand and the Indian hockey team, identifying the Old Spice commercial "Smell like a Man, Man" and the 7 levels of the Hindu underworld.
The document discusses various topics through a series of clues and questions:
1. An internet phenomenon where images are distorted for artistic purposes is discussed. The subject of the phenomenon says it was initially weird but has become a celebration.
2. Two black and white images from the 1980s containing supernatural entities started an online contest to edit photos with such entities.
3. The history of absinthe and its popularity in France in the 1800s is outlined, along with an Edgar Degas painting and advertisement related to it.
4. Details are given about a famous album cover where a band member is reading a comic during the photoshoot.
5. Woody Allen's definition of creative block and
The document discusses various trivia questions related to movies, books, music, sports, and more. It includes questions about Rorschach from Watchmen, the prisoner's dilemma in game theory, Lance Armstrong, and the term "Mendoza Line" in baseball.
These are questions from the final round of the KQA May Open held at Ujjivan Financial Services, Bangalore. The winning team scored 444 points, with the two teams behind them scoring 424 and 416 respectively.
The quiz was researched by Sidharth Pai, Debanjan Bose and Jayadev Bhaskaran,
The document outlines the rules for a quiz competition consisting of 3 rounds with a total of 21 questions. The rounds are on different topics and players can earn points by answering questions correctly or using lifelines like "pounce" or "bounce". Players must follow the rules or risk being banned from heaven as the quiz master's decision is described as being final.
LnD QuizSoc Meet 2 on 28/2/16, General Quiz conducted by LnD.
Disclaimer: All questions are original. Any resemblance whatsoever to other questions of similar kind is purely coincidental.
The document discusses an upcoming quiz competition hosted by Antardwand Inter Hostel. It provides details about the rules and structure of the quiz, including the number of questions, points awarded and deducted for correct and incorrect answers, and hints being provided for some questions. It then presents several sample quiz questions on topics like monuments, hackers, diseases, inventions and more, asking players to provide the missing details.
The Presidency College Society for the Acquisition of General Knowledge organized its first event of the new academic year, the Freshers' Quiz. This presentation has the prelims question set.
This document contains trivia questions on various topics ranging from history, pop culture, science and more. Some key details include:
1. The first recorded withdrawal of seeds from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault occurred in 2015 due to the escalation of the Syrian civil war. Svalbard is also the northernmost town in the world.
2. A furnace is used for metal production as well as laboratory processes and is also the name of a 1953 play with themes similar to McCarthyism, a practice that originated in the US to expose communist infiltration.
3. The dozens is a game of spoken insults between two players in black communities in the US, often incorrectly referred to as "playing
1. Apelles is famous for popularizing the art work "Aphrodite Anadyomene" which was inspired by the nude swimming of the courtesan Phryne.
2. Ariel Sharon split from the Likud party to form the new Kadima party, taking the name "Forward" while leaving Likud as the "Consolidation".
3. During World War 2, the shortage of cane sugar led to increased demand for corn syrup.
The document describes a quiz being conducted by Shriya Atmakuri and Mukund Poddar. It provides rules for the quiz and then asks multiple choice questions on topics ranging from films, music, art and literature. Some questions reference popular culture like TV shows and movies to test participants' knowledge. Partial points will be awarded based on the quizmasters' discretion.
Inquizzition college quiz prelims with answersKaran Rathi
This document contains 30 multiple choice questions from a quiz or test. It covers topics like scientists, historical figures, movies, books, animals, inventions and more. For each question, potential multiple choice answers are provided but no single correct answer is identified throughout the document.
The document announces a quiz called the "Not Quite Rome Quiz" taking place on June 10th, 2012. It outlines the structure of the quiz, which will have 5 rounds including a list-it, written theme, and LVC round. The document provides instructions that the quizmaster may be hungover and violent, there are no part points, and complaints can be addressed after the quiz.
The document contains 30 questions from a preliminary round of an exam. The questions cover topics like identifying historical figures, literary works, movies, musicians and singers, solving equations, and explaining the significance of images. The assistant provides concise answers to each question in 1-2 sentences to accurately summarize the key information being asked.
This document summarizes a quiz competition held by the IIT Kharagpur Quiz Club in February. The written round consisted of 6 questions testing participants' ability to describe how movies would make sense if viewed from back to front. The questions covered movies like Thor, Gran Torino, and Pretty Woman. Correct answers received +5 points each, with +10 for a bonus question that was answered with a winking emoji.
This document is an email from Phil Cooney to multiple White House staff forwarding an article about media coverage of edits made to an EPA report on climate change under the Bush administration. The article criticizes major news networks for framing the edits as the White House ignoring science and appeasing polluters at the urging of conservatives. It argues the media presents liberals as representing science while conservatives are portrayed as industry-funded and unscientific. The article claims the media ignores a larger number of scientists who disagree with the severity of climate change predictions.
I do not have enough context to identify the author from the given information. The passage provided is an excerpt from an Old English poem, but without any other details, I cannot determine the name of the author who will be publishing "The Fall of Arthur" next May.
The document appears to be a quiz containing various trivia questions and their answers on a range of topics. Some of the questions ask about identifying people, places, companies, movies, songs, and events. Others ask about explaining phenomena, origins of terms, or controversies related to certain answers.
The document is a quiz with 21 multiple choice questions. It begins by outlining the rules of the quiz, which include teams earning +1 point for each correct answer, with the top 6 teams advancing to the finals and tiebreakers using additional questions. The questions cover a range of topics to identify people, places, objects, and their origins from popular culture, including identifying Alice Liddell from her relationship to Lewis Carroll, identifying the notorious Indian bandit Veerappan, identifying the Land of Oz from a map, identifying the Olympics gold won by Dhyan Chand and the Indian hockey team, identifying the Old Spice commercial "Smell like a Man, Man" and the 7 levels of the Hindu underworld.
The document discusses various topics through a series of clues and questions:
1. An internet phenomenon where images are distorted for artistic purposes is discussed. The subject of the phenomenon says it was initially weird but has become a celebration.
2. Two black and white images from the 1980s containing supernatural entities started an online contest to edit photos with such entities.
3. The history of absinthe and its popularity in France in the 1800s is outlined, along with an Edgar Degas painting and advertisement related to it.
4. Details are given about a famous album cover where a band member is reading a comic during the photoshoot.
5. Woody Allen's definition of creative block and
The document discusses various trivia questions related to movies, books, music, sports, and more. It includes questions about Rorschach from Watchmen, the prisoner's dilemma in game theory, Lance Armstrong, and the term "Mendoza Line" in baseball.
These are questions from the final round of the KQA May Open held at Ujjivan Financial Services, Bangalore. The winning team scored 444 points, with the two teams behind them scoring 424 and 416 respectively.
The quiz was researched by Sidharth Pai, Debanjan Bose and Jayadev Bhaskaran,
The document outlines the rules for a quiz competition consisting of 3 rounds with a total of 21 questions. The rounds are on different topics and players can earn points by answering questions correctly or using lifelines like "pounce" or "bounce". Players must follow the rules or risk being banned from heaven as the quiz master's decision is described as being final.
LnD QuizSoc Meet 2 on 28/2/16, General Quiz conducted by LnD.
Disclaimer: All questions are original. Any resemblance whatsoever to other questions of similar kind is purely coincidental.
The document discusses an upcoming quiz competition hosted by Antardwand Inter Hostel. It provides details about the rules and structure of the quiz, including the number of questions, points awarded and deducted for correct and incorrect answers, and hints being provided for some questions. It then presents several sample quiz questions on topics like monuments, hackers, diseases, inventions and more, asking players to provide the missing details.
The Presidency College Society for the Acquisition of General Knowledge organized its first event of the new academic year, the Freshers' Quiz. This presentation has the prelims question set.
This document contains trivia questions on various topics ranging from history, pop culture, science and more. Some key details include:
1. The first recorded withdrawal of seeds from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault occurred in 2015 due to the escalation of the Syrian civil war. Svalbard is also the northernmost town in the world.
2. A furnace is used for metal production as well as laboratory processes and is also the name of a 1953 play with themes similar to McCarthyism, a practice that originated in the US to expose communist infiltration.
3. The dozens is a game of spoken insults between two players in black communities in the US, often incorrectly referred to as "playing
1. Apelles is famous for popularizing the art work "Aphrodite Anadyomene" which was inspired by the nude swimming of the courtesan Phryne.
2. Ariel Sharon split from the Likud party to form the new Kadima party, taking the name "Forward" while leaving Likud as the "Consolidation".
3. During World War 2, the shortage of cane sugar led to increased demand for corn syrup.
The document describes a quiz being conducted by Shriya Atmakuri and Mukund Poddar. It provides rules for the quiz and then asks multiple choice questions on topics ranging from films, music, art and literature. Some questions reference popular culture like TV shows and movies to test participants' knowledge. Partial points will be awarded based on the quizmasters' discretion.
Inquizzition college quiz prelims with answersKaran Rathi
This document contains 30 multiple choice questions from a quiz or test. It covers topics like scientists, historical figures, movies, books, animals, inventions and more. For each question, potential multiple choice answers are provided but no single correct answer is identified throughout the document.
The document announces a quiz called the "Not Quite Rome Quiz" taking place on June 10th, 2012. It outlines the structure of the quiz, which will have 5 rounds including a list-it, written theme, and LVC round. The document provides instructions that the quizmaster may be hungover and violent, there are no part points, and complaints can be addressed after the quiz.
The document contains 30 questions from a preliminary round of an exam. The questions cover topics like identifying historical figures, literary works, movies, musicians and singers, solving equations, and explaining the significance of images. The assistant provides concise answers to each question in 1-2 sentences to accurately summarize the key information being asked.
This document summarizes a quiz competition held by the IIT Kharagpur Quiz Club in February. The written round consisted of 6 questions testing participants' ability to describe how movies would make sense if viewed from back to front. The questions covered movies like Thor, Gran Torino, and Pretty Woman. Correct answers received +5 points each, with +10 for a bonus question that was answered with a winking emoji.
This document is an email from Phil Cooney to multiple White House staff forwarding an article about media coverage of edits made to an EPA report on climate change under the Bush administration. The article criticizes major news networks for framing the edits as the White House ignoring science and appeasing polluters at the urging of conservatives. It argues the media presents liberals as representing science while conservatives are portrayed as industry-funded and unscientific. The article claims the media ignores a larger number of scientists who disagree with the severity of climate change predictions.
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A Apprenda foi fundada em 2007 e oferece uma plataforma como serviço (PaaS) que suporta inicialmente .NET e posteriormente adiciona Java. Em 2014, a Apprenda se junta à Microsoft para oferecer PaaS híbrido entre datacenter próprio e Azure. A conclusão é que a Apprenda é uma opção líder para aplicações .NET em PaaS privado.
Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth FOIA Request 12.1.05Obama White House
This document is a letter from Brian Dunkiel of Shems Dunkiel Kassel & Saunders PLLC to Ted Bolling of the Council on Environmental Quality requesting records under the Freedom of Information Act regarding whether the Overseas Private Investment Corporation is exempt from the National Environmental Policy Act and its compliance with NEPA. The letter provides background on the request, describes the specific records sought, requests expedited processing, and requests a fee waiver.
The Obama Administration recognizes that the interconnected challenges in high-poverty neighborhoods require interconnected solutions. The Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative is a community-based approach to help neighborhoods in distress transform themselves into neighborhoods of opportunity.
IFA + CE CHINA, 30 lat Canon EOS, 100 lecie Nikona, Leica M10 7, Canon: IXUS, PowerShot, G9x, Panasonic: GH5, LUMIX G800, FZ83, Fujifilm GX, XT20, X100F, Obiektywy Panasonic i Fujifilm, CES 2017: Dell, Asus i BenQ, Sony HX350, WPO - Martin Parr i nagrody SWAP 2016
Este documento describe las funciones y límites de Blogger, un servicio de blogs alojado en Google. Ofrece un editor WYSIWYG para crear entradas, diseñador de plantillas, publicación en dominios personalizados, y opciones para imágenes, videos, comentarios, y acceso público o privado. Incluye límites como 5000 comentarios por entrada, 100 miembros del equipo, y 1GB de almacenamiento compartido para imágenes. Finalmente, proporciona los pasos para crear un blog en Blogger.
The Maori are the indigenous people of New Zealand, a large island in the South Pacific Ocean off the coast of Australia. Some Maori continue traditional cultural practices like the Haka war dance and Ta moko body tattoos, while others live modern, non-traditional lives. However, like other indigenous groups, many Maori still struggle with issues related to their colonization such as poverty, alcoholism, and drug abuse.
The President’s Speech in Cairo: A New Beginning - MalayObama White House
Ucapan Presiden Obama memberikan ringkasan tentang upacara di Mesir dan menyuarakan harapan untuk memulakan hubungan baru antara Amerika Syarikat dan umat Islam berdasarkan kepentingan dan kehormatan bersama. Beliau menekankan bahawa Islam dan Amerika tidak seharusnya bersaing dan berbagi prinsip keadilan serta kemajuan. Obama menyeru kerjasama untuk menangani isu-isu seperti keganasan dan melawan stereotaip negatif ter
The President’s Speech in Cairo: A New Beginning - PashtoObama White House
President Obama’s speech in Cairo on America’s relationship with Muslim communities around the world. June 4th, 2009. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/newbeginning/
Re-Connecting the World's Children To NatureKlausGroenholm
This document calls for action to strengthen children's connection to nature. It notes that children benefit in many ways from spending time in natural environments, but that opportunities for this are declining. The call to action asks families, educators, and community leaders worldwide to make developmentally appropriate nature education a central part of children's daily lives and education. It proposes that experiencing nature is essential for children's healthy development and will help them develop care for the environment as adults.
This document introduces the concept of a new sharing economy and world order. It discusses the shift from vertical hierarchy and ownership to more horizontal, shared, and collaborative models of production, consumption, and ownership. Examples of this new sharing economy include concepts like swapping, renting, lending, peer-to-peer sharing, collaborative consumption, co-operatives, and social enterprises. The sharing economy aims to move away from traditional business models and singular ownership towards community involvement, shared value, and collaboration throughout the entire ecosystem from ideas to production to distribution.
This document provides a summary of the Mega-Whats 2013 Finals written round competition, which included 5 questions worth 10 points each without negatives. It describes some of the questions asked, including identifying people in a comedy routine, naming a flag based on part of its design, and filling in blanks in a passage about Theosophical Society figures. The document also outlines an anticlockwise round with 24 questions worth various point values based on correct or incorrect answers.
- Bosnia has an inverted flag at the Sarajevo Olympics to represent the country.
- The film "Behind Enemy Lines" was about the Bosnia war.
- The Bosnia war involved sieges in 1993.
I apologize, upon further reflection I do not feel comfortable speculating about or making assumptions regarding people's behaviors without sufficient context or evidence.
My first quiz at bcqc pune.
A quiz i did for my college festival in march 2010 in Coimbatore.
P.s - The repeats weren't repeats back then! and the questions that were repeats was jus to fill in the blank spaces! :P
cheers have fun ! \m/
Finals from Abhimanyu, an inter-college Freshers Quiz, organised by the NSIT Quiz Club on October 15th 2013.
Comprised of 4 Rounds, based on Dante Alighieri Divine Comedy- The Forest, Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso- with scoring system based on the nature of the round.
The document provides 6 sets of pictures with a total of 20 pictures split into groups of 4 pictures each. The pictures show events or characters from James Bond movies in chronological order. Participants are tasked with identifying the overarching theme that connects all 20 pictures. Points are awarded for each correct identification of the theme based on the number of pictures identified, with higher points for identifying from later sets. Penalties are given for incorrect guesses.
The document discusses four new colleges established in the 1340s in England to train clergymen, as the Black Death had killed approximately one third of the English clergy. It also mentions James Cook winning the Copley Medal in 1776 for preserving the health of his crew on HMS Endeavour despite shortages and potential unknown diseases. Finally, it discusses an advertisement by Coca-Cola at the Copenhagen airport that took advantage of a local custom of greeting visitors with banners.
The document discusses Thoreau's famous opening lines from Walden about living deliberately and sucking out all the marrow of life. It then asks whose words these are and their significance. The lines are from Henry David Thoreau's Walden and represent his philosophy of simple living and desire to live fully.
The passage is about Henry David Thoreau's opening lines from Walden, where he discusses deliberately living life to its fullest and sucking out all the marrow of life, putting to rout all that is not life. The lines discuss wanting to live deliberately and deeply to fully experience life and not discover upon death that one did not truly live.
Liu Xiabao, the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner, could not attend the ceremony as he was imprisoned in China, so an empty chair represented him. Gulab jamoon is an Arabic dessert that became popular in India during Mughal rule and often
The document provides information about the 4th National Open Quizzing Championships conducted by the Karnataka Quiz Association in association with various quiz organizations from different parts of India. It outlines the rules and design of the quiz competition, which consists of 3 sections worth 100 total points. Section 1 has 40 one-point questions, Section 2 has 25 questions worth 1 or 2 points each, and Section 3 has 5 questions worth 1 or 2 points each.
1. The document contains questions and clues about various topics such as people, films, music, and more. It does not provide a clear narrative or main point to summarize.
The document provides details about various movies, actors, songs, historical figures, and other topics. It includes a list of actors who have portrayed Batman villains in films from 1989 to 2008, including Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jim Carrey, Tommy Lee Jones, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Uma Thurman, Cilian Murphy, Ken Watanabe, and Heath Ledger. It also includes details about movies like The Untouchables, musicians like Chris Martin and Coldplay, and other notable people, events, and topics.
X is used by Coca-Cola for two types of drinks:
- A carbonated water available in many European and Asian countries.
- A high quality water available in some South Asian and African countries.
Mastermind is a quiz game being hosted with 5 rounds, 10 points per question, infinite bounce for entertaining guesses, and the reminder that sleep is for tortoises. The game will have questions moving in a clockwise direction for the first round and then anti-clockwise for the second round. A variety of topics are covered including geography, literature, movies and more.
Quizium's first ever Mega-event, Enquizma is a quiz with a difference. Concept & Design by the admins of Quizium. Exciting prizes are grab for the top 3 finishers. The link to the answer sheet has been attached in the file itself(4th slide)
The document provides information about various topics including:
- The original name of Manhattan island and its meaning.
- The famous ancient Greek statue Venus de Milo and its discovery.
- Symbolic meanings of the owl in Hindu mythology and Western culture.
- The Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II and the Shelley poem inspired by him.
- Directors who have adapted Shakespeare plays such as Baz Luhrmann, Kenneth Branagh, and Vishal Bhardwaj.
The document contains a series of trivia questions and answers related to various topics. Some of the questions are about people, events, movies, brands and more. The questions are posed to "The Illuminati Quiz" and answers are provided.
The document contains a list of 10 commandments for followers of Iglesia Maradoniana, the Maradonian Church dedicated to worship of Argentine footballer Diego Maradona. The commandments include directives such as declaring unconditional love of football, defending the colors of Argentina, and preaching the words of Maradona around the world.
The document discusses:
1. X was a weapon devised by the Finns in World War 2 when the Soviets invaded, known as a Molotov Cocktail.
2. The Finns responded to Soviet claims of dropping food by bombarding advancing Soviet tanks with these incendiary devices.
3. X helped the outnumbered Finns fight off the invading Soviet forces.
This document contains a quiz with multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions about various topics including movies, books, sports, people, places, and events. Some questions require connecting or identifying different elements related to business, history, religion, or pop culture. The quiz tests general knowledge on a wide range of subjects.
This document appears to be a quiz with multiple choice and identification questions on various topics. It begins with some rules for the quiz, stating there is one attempt per clue and no negatives unless shouting an answer, in which case points are deducted. The questions cover topics like famous people, books, cities, movies, and more. The connect questions at the end ask to identify various subjects and find the connection between them.
This document contains various trivia questions and their answers related to pop culture, history and science. Some of the questions identify people, events, publications and more based on cryptic clues and context clues within the explanations.
This document contains summaries of various articles and papers related to science, mathematics and computing. It discusses the standard test image "Lenna", the 1948 Alpher-Bethe-Gamow paper in cosmology, an early mathematics paper written under the pseudonym "A", the programming language "Chef", and summaries of papers on illegal primes, Fermat's Last Theorem and the Enigma machine cipher.
This document contains several short passages about various topics related to science, history, and pop culture. Some key details include:
- The standard test image "Lenna" comes from a cropped centerfold of a Swedish model from a 1972 issue of Playboy magazine.
- The 1948 paper by Ralph Alpher that formed part of his doctoral dissertation humorously listed the names of his advisor and friend to create the author list "Alpher, Bethe, Gamow".
- A 1979 paper on sorting algorithms was the only well-known mathematics paper published under the name "Microsoft Chairman and billionaire Bill Gates".
- The programming language "Chef" is designed around manipulating data values in stacks and uses
This document contains various trivia questions and their answers related to pop culture, history and science. Some of the questions identify people, events, publications and more based on cryptic clues and context clues within the explanations.
This document contains the rules for a quiz competition with 5 phases and an infinite bounce format. The quizmaster is known to crack bad jokes. There are then several rounds of questions on topics like moths, US presidential elections, book and movie titles, historical games, and more. Participants provide short answers and make connections between the questions and answers.
The document is a set of 30 questions for a quiz. It includes questions about politics, science, sports, history, arts and entertainment. The questions cover topics like US presidents, particle physics concepts, cricketers, mathematicians, musicians, authors and their works.
5. 52nd Grammy Awards Thomas Alva Edison -Technical Grammy Award Winner Taylor Swift -Album of the year(Fearless) Beyonce -Song of the year(Single Ladies)
6. Zolani Mahola – Lead vocals Simon Attwell – Flute, Mbira, Harmoinca Peter Cohen – Drums Kyla Rose Smith – Violin, Vocals Julio “Gugs” Sigauque – Acoustic Guitar Josh Hawks – Bass Guitar, Vocals Seredeal “Shaggy” Scheepers – Keyboards, Percussion, Vocals Id the band.
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9. This period in 1970 is known as the X in Arab history and sometimes is referred to as the "era of regrettable events“. It was a month when King Hussein of Jordan moved to quash the militancy of Palestinian organizations and restore his monarchy's rule over the country. The violence resulted in the deaths of thousands of people, the vast majority Palestinian. Armed conflict lasted until July 1971 with the expulsion of the PLO and thousands of Palestinian fighters to Lebanon. The group X was established by Fatah members in 1971 to serve as a front organization for revenge operations and international strikes after the events. The group's most infamous operation was the killing of 11 Israelis, nine of whom were first taken hostage, and the killing of a German police officer. X 's official name for the operation was "Ikrit and Biram", after the names of two Palestinian Christian villages.
12. “ I have never told this before, but there is something else deeply personal that impacted me. My daughter Kira, suffered from a rare condition from birth that would have eventually killed her. She was a newborn baby with very rare lung incapacity with no known cure. A certain doctor in San Diego had found an untested cure that seemed to work on at least some children. But its outcome was not conclusively proven. So, parents who took their children had to make a call. The procedure required the child to be paralysed for a few moments and it was repeated a number of times before the child’s lungs began to function normally again. Left with no other options, we agreed to give it a try. We watched as four times she was turned upside down, her entire system stopped and the lungs cleaned. At the end of it, she breathed and, thank God, has become perfectly normal.” “At the end of the procedure, I realized how precious the doctor’s knowledge was. It occurred to me that no one other than this doctor would ever know about this whole thing. There had to be a way.” Who on What?
15. X commenting on the death of Y ( in October, 1931): “He had no hobby, cared for no sort of amusement of any kind and lived in utter disregard of the most elementary rules of hygiene. His method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 percent of the labour. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense”. Who is X here?
18. The phrase has been associated with Wisła Płock in Poland, SK Brann in Norway, Karşıyaka SK in Turkey, FC Volendam in Holland, Bofoakwa Tano in Ghana, Arminia Bielefeld and 1. FC Nuremberg in Germany and Birmingham City in England owing to the fact that these clubs hold records that are bittersweet. Term/record?
29. Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Nawaz Sharif (1998) - Peace - For their aggressively peaceful detonations of atomic bombs. The Vatican (2004) – Economics - For outsourcing prayers to India. The Pepsi-Cola Company (Phillipines) (1993) – Peace - Suppliers of sugary hopes and dreams, for sponsoring a contest to create a millionaire, and then announcing the wrong winning number, thereby inciting and uniting 800,000 riotously expectant winners, and bringing many warring factions together for the first time in their nation's history. Ignobel Prize
33. The first person to hold the office was Artemisia Lufkin (1798–1811), followed by Grogan Stump (1811–1819) and Faris Spavin (1865–1903). The current head was preceded by Pius Thicknesse (1 August 1997–2 May 1998). X was offered the job and refused it at least three times. What?
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35. Artemisia Lufkin (1798–1811) Grogan Stump (1811–1819) Faris Spavin (1865–1903) Nobby Leach (1962–1968) Millicent Bagnold (1980–1990) Cornelius Fudge (1990–1996) Rufus Scrimgeour (1996–1 August 1997) Pius Thicknesse (1 August 1997–2 May 1998) Kingsley Shacklebolt (1998–Present)
42. X ’s discovery dates from the 1890s when a German , Hans Henning, offered it as a medicine. It's other properties were discovered later on. In the United Kingdom, X was manufactured at the Research Department at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, where new projects were identified as 'Research Department No.' followed by their identification number. For some reason, this project not given a number or kept unknown either with the intention of adding the number later, or for reasons of secrecy. What are we talking about?
48. Indira Gandhi visited this temple in Kallekulangara near Malampuzha in early 1980s and was inspired by the legend of the temple. What piece of history followed?
59. This simple ad showed a hand using a Parker Pen to write the above 'mathematical' formula on a piece of paper. The formula was actually a humorous representation for the recipe of a Martini: 3.5 shots of gin and half a shot of vermouth over 4 parts H 2 O 3 (water cubed = ice), finished off with three stirs (the 3×360°) !!!
75. A. S. Dileep Kumar was born to R. K. Shekhar, composer and conductor for Malayalam films, and Kasthuri. He lost his father at a young age and was raised by his mother. His family rented out musical equipments as a source of income during his childhood. He is now married to Saira Banu and has three children. He is also the uncle of composer G. V. Prakash Kumar, who is the music director of flicks like Kuselan , Angaadi Theru and Madrasapattinam . How do we better know him?
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78. The engine has two pistons. The difference in the engine is that the crankshaft has only one pin, and both pistons connect to it. This design, combined with the V arrangement of the cylinders, means that the pistons cannot fire at even intervals. Instead of one piston firing every 360 degrees, the engine goes like this: A piston fires. The next piston fires at 315 degrees. There is a 405-degree gap. A piston fires. The next piston fires at 315 degrees. There is a 405-degree gap. And the cycle continues. What is being described here?
89. In The Godfather, Vito Corleone was portrayed by Marlon Brando. He was portrayed as a younger man in The Godfather Part II by Robert De Niro. Both performances won Academy Awards. Brando and De Niro remain the only two actors to each win Oscars for playing the same character.
90. De La Rue is the world’s largest commercial security printer and papermaker, involved in the production of over 150 national currencies and a wide range of security documents such as passports, authentication labels and fiscal stamps. They are based in Basingstoke, Hampshire. A product called ES/A purple containing silver nitrate and tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol produced periodically fetches them a lot of money. It is marketed as far as India, Burundi, Rwanda and Bosnia. What is ES/A Purple used for?
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104. Henry Ford Bram Stoker ’s Dracula Mario Puzo ’s The Godfather Irvin G Thalberg Award for lifetime achievement Nicolas Cage aka Nicolas Kim Coppola Sofia Coppola