Weekly quiz that I conducted.

1. The Weekly Quiz
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2. Q1 Winning what?
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3. The Nobel Prize
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4. Q2
This word if from graphic designer and filmmaker John Koenig's
“Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows,” a blog project in which he names
emotions that otherwise leave us speechless.
X
n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid
and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions,
friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story
that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep
underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other
lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only
once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of
traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.
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5. Sonder
Some say this is a portmanteau of sublime and
wonder
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6. Q3. What are these called ?
The X was conceptualized by the European
design duo kawamura-ganjavian, who wanted
to find a creative way to provide people with
the health and productivity benefits commonly
associated with ________.
When in action, it looks similar to what a/an Y
does during “troubled” times Hence the name
X.
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8. Ostrich Pillows
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9. Q4. Welcome to Nollywood
Excerpts from a guardian article from 2006:
______ is home to one of the world's youngest film industries, but it's
booming. In just 13 years it has gone from nothing to estimated
earnings of US$200m (£114m) a year - making it the world's third
biggest film industry after that of America and India. The films are made
on the cheap, but they are big box office.
Except that there is no box-office. Movies are shot on video and copied
straight on to tapes or DVDs and then sold on from thousands of street
stalls and hole-in-the-wall shops, not just in X but across the continent.
PS: This film industry still continues to be there amongst the top ones.
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10. Nigeria
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11. Q5
X is a series of public art installations started by Maya Barkai, a
photographic collage of ______ icons assembled from around
the world, presented in humane scale. The project was
conceived as a collaborative effort of international
photographers, each adding a piece to the collage.
In January 2010, the project made its debut on 99 Church
Street in Manhattan.
The project explores various representations of the universally
rendered ‘man’, and attempts to examine its inherent
conundrum; why is it that while we all consider these icons to
be typologically identical, they appear to add such a unique
character to our urban identity. (pics on next slide)
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13. Pedestrian Traffic Icons
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14. Q6
The term occurred to me when we started out on a tour of Karnataka, from
Mysore, through Hunsur and Hassan, and returning to Mysore nearly one
week later, having continuously journeyed up and down the ghats, the
Konkan coast and Coorg, and never seeing a dry patch anywhere. Green
of several shades we saw, mountainsides lightly coated with verdure and
fern, the dark foliage of trees rising hundreds of feet from the valley, light
green, dark green, pale green, evergreen, and every kind of green shade,
were offered for our delectation all through our circular tour of
approximately a thousand kilometres.
X is a travelogue by Y which was published by Indian Thought
Publications in 1980. The book was commissioned by the Government of
Karnataka, and the initial non-commercial version was published in 1977
as part of a government publication.
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15. The Emerald Route
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16. Q7
The earliest known appearance of the phrase is from The
Michigan School Moderator, a journal that provided teachers
with education-related news and suggestions for lessons.
The first message sent on the Moscow–Washington hotline was
the test phrase "________ 1234567890". Later, during testing,
the Russian translators sent a message asking their American
counterparts "What does it mean when your people say
'_________'?
Due to the ubiquitous popularity of the phrase, numerous
passing references to the phrase have occurred in movies,
television, books, advertising, websites, and graphic arts.
Microsoft Word has a command to auto-type the sentence, in
versions up to Office 2003, using the command =rand(), and in
Office 2007 and later using the command =rand.old().
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17. The quick brown fox jumps over the
lazy dog
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18. Q8
X is a philosophy and lifestyle inspired by the modern-day
fictional character Jeffrey "The ____" Lebowski, as portrayed
by Jeff Bridges in the film The Big Lebowski.
Founded in 2005 by Oliver Benjamin, a journalist based in
Chiang Mai, Thailand, X official organizational name is The
Church of the Latter-Day _____. At least 160,000 "____ist
Priests" have been ordained as of August 2012.
X's stated primary objective is to promote a modern form of
Chinese Taoism, , blended with concepts by the Ancient
Greek philosopher Epicurus , and presented in a style as
personified by the character of "The _____".
(contd)
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They list individuals such
as Laozi, Epicurus,
Heraclitus, Buddha, and
the pre-ecclesiastical
Jesus Christ as examples
of ancient prophets of the
religion. More recent
antecedents include Ralph
Waldo Emerson and Walt
Whitman and humanists
such as Kurt Vonnegut
and Mark Twain.
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20. Dudeism
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21. Q9
The "scalloped" shape of the now-familiar ____ symbol, with a
dent in its base, first arises in the early 14th century, at first only
lightly dented, as in the miniatures in Francesco Barberino's
Documenti d'amore. A slightly later example with a more
pronounced dent is found in a manuscript from the Cistercian
monastery in Brussels . The convention of showing a dent at the
base of the _____ thus spread at about the same time as the
convention of showing the _____ with its point downward.
There are several mathematical descriptions that result in
approximate _____ curves. The best-known of these is the X,
which is an epicycloid with one cusp.Other curves, such as the
implicit curve (x2+y2−1)3−x2y3=0, may produce better
approximations of the shape.
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22. Heart
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23. Q10
Toward the end of 'The Avengers', Iron Man asks
Captain America, "Have you ever tried X? There's
a X joint about two blocks from here. I don't know
what it is, but I want to try it."
The filmmakers also snuck in a little footage,
following the credits, of the stars hanging out and
digging into some X.
This apparently led to a drastic increase (of about
80%) in the sales of X after the movie opened.
This was also called as the Downey effect in some
circles.
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24. Shawarma
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25. Q11
Homage to whom ?
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26. Tony Greig
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27. Q12 Rejects
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The top green strip portrays in the background the
_____ Mountains of the West and the L's of the
East.The second strip of yellow gold depicts the
growing grain for which X is famous.The third strip
describes untold numbers of rivers and thousands of
lakes...the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Arctic....The
coats of arms of the ten provinces which make up X
are in the shape of an arc and depicts its beginning
and origin. Even the shape of the arc has a meaning freedom, better life and individualism for all those
who want to make X their new country.
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29. Canada
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30. Q13
The U.S. dollar has grown into one of the world's most stable
currencies, but such wasn't always the case. In fact, before it
could grow in value, it had to rein in counterfeiting.
When the colonies first started, it was pretty easy to print; there
were a lot of printers, money wasn't very sophisticated and
there just wasn't a lot of anti-counterfeiting. In order to create
an artificial scarcity they printed the words __ ____________
__ _____.
All 13 colonies printed this on all of their money, which was
eventually replaced by ‘In God We Trust.'
So basically before we had ‘In God We Trust,' it was actually in
the X we trust.
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31. To Counterfeit is DEATH
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32. Q14
Competitive ________ events include:
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Big Day: teams have 24 hours to identify as many
different types as possible.
Big Year: like a big day, but contestants are
individuals, and need to be prepared to invest a great
deal of time and money.
Big Sit or Big Stay: participants must see X from a
circle of prescribed diameter (e.g.: 17-foot). Once X
are spotted, they can leave the circle to confirm the
identity, but new ones seen may not be counted.
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33. Bird Watching / Birding
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34. Q15
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The first _______ Contest was held in 1960, and
it's been played every year since. The contest is
held on Wednesday, the day before the
tournament, and is open to the field for that
year's tournament, plus former champions in
attendance and "Honorary Invitees."
Sam Snead won the first ever contest. The
contest record is 20, held by Art Wall and Gay
Brewer.
It is also interesting to note that no winner of this
contest has gone on to win the main tournament.
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35. Par 3 contest
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36. Q16
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On the left is the cover of The
French Revolution by Matt
Stewart published on Bastille Day
( July 14th) in 2009.
This is what he had to say about
the book:“It’s tremendously
rewarding to see that publishers
are embracing a terrific story–and
innovative ways to connect with
readers
So what was so innovative about
the book ?
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37. First full-length novel to be
published entirely on Twitter.
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38. Q17 Patent time
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Patent filed in 1993
which "allows a user to
simulate a ______ in
celebration of a positive
event, thereby
providing the user with
a convenient outlet for
the release of
excitement.”
What is this a patent
for?
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39. Hi-fi Machine
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40. Q18
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According to a press release by a mental health charity, the formula is:
where weather=W
debt=d,
time since Christmas=T,
time since failing our new year’s resolutions=Q,
low motivational levels=M and
the feeling of a need to take action=Na.
'D' is not defined in the release, nor are units
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41. The date was declared to be
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24 January in 2005,
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23 January in 2006,
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22 January in 2007,
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21 January in 2008,
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19 January in 2009,
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18 January in 2010.
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In 2011 there was confusion about the correct date; some claimed it to be 17
January 2011/24 January 2011.
23 January in 2012.
January 21 in 2013.
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42. Blue Monday
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To calculate the most depressing day of the
year.
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43. Q19
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During World War II, military scientists on both sides of the struggle were actively
searching for ways to get the upper hand. One idea that came from the US was the
_______, codenamed Project X-Ray.
Developed by Lytle S. Adams and actually approved for use by President
Roosevelt, the _____ consisted of a large empty bombshell which was packed full
of ________. At a certain altitude the bombshell would open and the ____, would
jet out by the thousands.
Each ___ had a small charge with seventeen grams of napalm attached to it. When
the ____ landed on the trees and houses of Japan, the tiny bombs would ignite and
set everything on fire. The project was at one point one of America’s main
strategies, and thousands of Mexican free-tailed bats were imported for the cause,
but it was eventually shut down to invest more money in the atomic bomb.
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44. Bat Bombs
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45. Q20
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Savoy Court Hotel (Eastbourne, UK)(pic in next
slide) is a privately owned property. It is not a
public thoroughfare as it leads only to the hotel
itself. There is a very unique tradition that is
followed here.
Apparently this dates back to the old Hackney
Cabs wherein by doing something, the driver
was able to open the backdoor without leaving
the cab, allowing the passengers to alight on the
sidewalk.
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What is so unique about it ?
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47. Only street in Britain where you
must drive on the right
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