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• PRINT ADS
• None of the answers are ‘absolut’
• Id the brand/company being advertised for
+2 each.
• 8 in all.
Together
we
welcome
the day of
victory.
Happy
Idul Fitri
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1. SPORE
2. HARLEY DAVIDSON
3. WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER
4. BOSE
5. LEVI'S
6. WIKIPEDIA
7. HARD ROCK CAFE
8. NUMBERS
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 BOUNCE
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• +2 for each.
____ ___ ______ is a colloquialism used to refer to a moment in
a film series that is so incredible that it lessens the excitement of
subsequent scenes that rely on more understated action or
suspense, and it becomes apparent that a certain installment is
not as good as previous installments, due to ridiculous or low
quality storylines, events or characters.
It is the cinematic equivalent of the TV term "jump the shark.“
and is based upon the latest installment in a famous film
franchise.

Term and Film?

How did I get here?
The first ____ was designed by Harry Beck in 1931, who
based his design on the principle that "only the topology,
and not the physical location were relevant."
His approach is similar to that of electrical circuit
diagrams; but also based on sewage systems.
His employers were initially skeptical, and it was
tentatively introduced to the public in a small pamphlet in
1933.
It immediately became popular, and today it is regarded
as the greatest British design icon.
How did I get here?
________ has about 5.5 million users per month,and
encourages its readers to read the articles linked to in the
summary. This leads to a sudden upsurge in people
visiting any website linked to, a phenomenon known as
the “_______ effect". Sometimes the website's server is
unable to cope with the level of traffic, and the site
becomes unresponsive: the site is said to be
“________-ted".
The demand on the servers is reduced as the story is
moved down or off the front page from new stories being
posted.
How did I get here?
These two dudes contested the 1982 election for the Governor
of California. The dude on the right won.
Why was this election frequently alluded to in 2008?
How did I get here?
Tom Bradley, (left) and The Bradley effect.
X was an Italian immigrant who
arrived in Boston in 1903.
In 1920, he went from anonymity to
becoming a millionaire in 6 months.
On his deathbed, in 1948, he
granted one last interview, in which
he said about the Boston public –
"Even if they never got anything for
it, it was cheap at that price.
Without malice aforethought I had
given them the best show that was
ever staged in their territory since
the landing of the Pilgrims! It was
easily worth fifteen million bucks to
watch me put the thing over."
How did I get here?
Charles Ponzi and the Ponzi scheme (scam),
Connect
How did I get here?
The phrase "Better Living _______ _________" is a
variant of X’s advertising slogan, adopted it in
1935 and was their slogan until 1982 when the
“_______ _________” part was dropped. Since
1999, their slogan has been "The miracles of
science".
This phrase became popular as culture shifted from
mod to hippie in the later half of the 1960s.
Protesters would show up for a rally, perhaps to
protest a chemical plant, wearing X propaganda
buttons, which bore this slogan.
How did I get here?
The Battle of ________ ______, 1066, between Harold the
Saxon, ruler of England, and Harald Hadraade, King of
Norway, ended in victory for Harold the Saxon.
His victory was short lived, however, as he fell in the Battle
Of Hastings, to William the Conqueror, of Normandy, just a
few weeks later.
Today, ________ _______ is the name of a famous
landmark in London, that opened in 1877.
How did I get here?
John Anthony Gillis, started a business called Third Man
Upholstery, in his late teens.
While Third Man Upholstery never lacked business, Gillis
claimed that it was not profitable, due to his complacency about
money and his business practices that were perceived as
unprofessional, including making bills out in crayon and writing
poetry inside the furniture. He closed the business soon after.
He married Megan Martha ______ in 1996, a fellow Detroit
native. In his characteristically unorthodox fashion, Gillis took
her last name for his own.

So how do we better know John Anthony Gillis?

How did I get here?
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 Visual Connect
• 12 SLIDES

• Each team has one attempt per set of 4.

• 1-4 +9
5-8 +6
9-12 +3
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Answers
 Web Comics
• CHICKEN WINGS
• CAT AND GIRL
• FLINTLOCKE’S guide to azeroth
• SOMETHING POSITIVE
• SNAFU
• HOMESTAR RUNNER
• PENNY ARCADE
• MEGATOKYO
• CTRL+ALT+DELETE
• PHD
• DINOSAUR COMICS
• XKCD
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 Write again
• Promethea by Alan Moore, and J.H.Williams III.
• For the majority of the series, each issue's cover
features an imitation of a particular artist or style.
These imitations were often explicitly credited by
Williams on the inner side of the cover.
• +2 for identifying the artist being imitated
• 8 in all
Answers
M C Escher
William Morris’
Illustrations
Dali
Starry night
J C Leyendecker
Monty Python’s opening
animation sequences
Maxfield Parrish
Lettering

Art
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• +2 each
___ _______ _ is a 1992 novel by David James Duncan. It is
based around a family of 4 sons and 2 daughters, a deeply
religious novel about love and family and spiritual growth
and the difference between church and religion.
The third word in the title is a reference to a strikeout in
baseball.
Both the novel’s title and themes are similar to a much more
famous novel, the first two words of both novels being the
same.
Id both.
How did I get here?
Who’s on the cover of this new
yorker issue?
Explanation will do..
How did I get here?
Phillipe Petit, a french tightrope walker who illegally
orchestrated a high-wire walk without safety equipment
across the two (then unfinished) towers of WTC on Aug 7,
1974.
For a long time, _______ had neither an official flag nor
logo. Proposals for adopting an official symbol were made
during _______'s beginning in 1921, but the members never
reached agreement.
However, _______’s sub-organizations used varying logos
and flags (or none at all) in their own operations.
An international contest was held in 1929 to find a design,
which again failed to produce a symbol. One of the reasons
for this failure may have been the fear by the members that
the power of the super-national organization might
supersede them.
Finally, in 1939, a semi-official emblem emerged: two five-
pointed stars within a blue pentagon, symbolizing the five
continents and the five races of mankind. In a bow on top
and at the bottom, the flag had the names in English and
French.
How did I get here?
The concept of this sport was envisioned in 1992 by
cartoonist Enki Bilal, and was a major plot point of
his graphic novel Froid Équateur.
Iepe Rubingh, a Dutch artist, was inspired by Bilal's
book and brought the concept to life in the spring of
2001.
Other sources of inspiration include a 1979 Anime
'Ninja Checkmate‘ which served as inspiration for
Wu-tang clan’s song “Da mysteries of _____
______”
In july 2008, A 19-year old Russian Mathematics
student Nikolai Sahzin became the first ever
"World Champion" by defeating Frank Stoldt in
Berlin
How did I get here?
___X__ is a minor science fiction genre characterized
by an attempt to explain Biblical concepts with science
fiction tropes. In its original sense a __X____ story
features a heterosexual pair of astronauts landing on a
lush and virgin world and in the last line their names
are revealed as Adam and Eve.
The term itself is a pun on the term Y, which is an
extremely long-winded tale featuring extensive
narration of typically irrelevant incidents, usually
resulting in a pointless or absurd punchline.
How did I get here?
Y = shaggy dog story
X = shaggy ‘god’ story
A quote by Yoshi Ono, to IGN, Sept 26 2008.
“If you think about chess for instance, a kid and a grandfather can
play the same game, with the same rule-set, and understand what's
going on. I think through our competitive spirit back then; we were
always out to out-complicate each other, and make our systems
deeper and deeper.
It was ok then because there was a wide player base who
understood, but that's not true anymore. What we're trying to do
with _____ is bring them back in.”
_____ is the fourth of a famous Japanese product line.
How did I get here?
The Mars Climate Orbiter (1998) was intended to
orbit Mars at about 150 kilometers (93 mi)
altitude, but descended instead to about
57 kilometers (35 mi), burning up in the Martian
atmosphere.
The reason why this error happened was that NASA
specified the usage of the _____ in the contract,
but one subcontractor, Lockheed Martin, did not
use the _____ to provide thrust force performance
data to the team.
Consequently the computer controlling the
spacecraft thrusters underestimated their effect by
a factor of 4.45.
What is the blank? Extremely weird clue available--
How did I get here?
Lockheed specified in imperial units, while
NASA required the metric system.

Jules: They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with Cheese?

Vincent: Nah, man, they got the metric system.
The Oxford English Dictionary claims that the origin of the
term _____ _____ dates back to an article published in 1900,
in the New York Sun, referring to “…the sound of geese, which
led an unsuspecting group of cowboys to the flock instead of to
the variety show they expected.”
_____ _____ were rough establishments, mostly in the Deep
South and Southwest, that served alcoholic beverages to
working class clientele. They sometimes also offered dancing
to piano players or small bands, and were sometimes also
centers of prostitution.
The name itself became synonymous with a style of music.
Related to the classic blues in tonal structure, _____ _____ has
a tempo that is slightly stepped up, rhythmically suited for
many African-American dance routines.
How did I get here?
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 Visual Connect -- ARBIT
• 20 clues
• One attempt per set of 4.
• ALL CLUES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
• 1-4 +10
5-8 +8
9-12 +6
13-16 +4
17-20 +2
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Answers
 WW2 military operations
Link up (German Anschluss) – German invasion of Austria, 1938
Weser-exercise – German invasion of Denmark and Norway, April 1940
Dynamo – Evacuation at Dunkirk, 1940
Sea Lion – Planned invasion of Britain by Germany, 1940
Vietnam expedition – Japanese invasion of French Indochina 1940
Compass – first major Allied operation in Africa, 1940/41.
Sunflower – Deployment of the Afrika Corps, 1941.
Barbarossa – German invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941
Crusader – Allied Invasion of Tobruk, 1941.
First and Second Happy Time – battle of the Atlantic, 1940/41/42.
 WW2 military operations
Herkules – German invasion of Malta, 1942
Watchtower – Battle of Guadalcanal, 1942-43
Uranus – Battle Of Stalingrad, 1942
Supercharge – Second Battle of El Alamein, 1942.
Torch – allied invasion of North Africa, 1942
Husky – Allied invasion of Sicily, 1943.
U go offensive – Japanese offensive in Assam and Manipur, 1944
Avalanche – Allied invasion of Mainland Italy, 1944.
Operation Overlord – the largest seaborne invasion of all time,
Normandy, 1944.
Operation Market Garden – the largest airborne operation of all time,
Netherlands, 1944.
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 Stage 2
• Written
• Exhaustive
• 4 in all. +2 for each answer
• Mark down stage 2 as 5th question - +2 for
that too.
• Specific stage 2 required.
1 - The name _____ _____ appeared when a chip included
the processor, memory, I/O and non-volatile program storage
(flash memory or small hard disk(s)).
This allowed manufacturers to package a complete server,
with its operating system and applications, on a single card /
board.
These could then operate independently within a common
chassis, doing the work of multiple separate server boxes
more efficiently, yielding greater advantages in space
consumption, cooling, power management and network
interfaces.
The major players in the _____ _____ market are HP and
IBM.
2 - ____Y___ is a Hawaiian word, defined as "Priest, sorcerer,
magician, wizard, minister, expert in any profession."
The use of the term in reference to surfing can be traced back to
the 1959 film Gidget, in which "The _X__ ___Y___", played by
Cliff Robertson, was the leader of a group of surfers. The term
then became commonplace in Beach Party films of the 1960s
such as Beach Blanket Bingo, where the “__X__ __Y__" was
the best surfer on the beach.
3 - Scholars who believe that the Book of Revelation refers to
historical people and events argue that _____ represents Nero.
In Hebrew gematria (a technique in numerology/astrology of
assigning numbers to alphabets) , every letter has a
corresponding number. The Greek spelling, “Nerōn Kaisar,”
transliterates into Hebrew as “‫” נרון קסר‬or “nrwn qsr”.

Aleister Crowley claimed that ______ referred to him

specifically and took the name “Το μεγα θηριον” ("To Mega
Therion"), which he arrived at using Greek gematria.
4 - Patent diagram for..?
answers
 Stage 2
BLADE server
Big KAHUNA
666 the number of the BEAST
ICE cube machine
 Kookaburra bats

KAHUNA BLADE BEAST ICE

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• Clockwise
• +2 for each
It has been noted that the character X physically resembled both his
voice actor Alan Reed, and also Y.
Later it was revealed that Alan Reed did base his voice of X upon Y’s
character in The Honeymooners.
In a playboy magazine interview in the 1980s, Y considered filing a
lawsuit for copying The Honeymooners but decided to let it pass –
“Y’s lawyers told him that he could probably have X’s show pulled right
off the air. But they also told him, “Do you want to be known as the guy
who yanked X off the air? The guy who took away a show that so many
kids love, and so many parents love, too?”
same as it ever was
X = Fred Flintsone Y = Jackie
Gleason
Soda maker Dr. Pepper entered a dare of sorts with Y,
stating that if Y released Z in 2008, they would give
everyone in America a free soda.
Z which was in the works for 14 years, and costing over
$13 million to make, was finally released on Nov 23, 2008.
Dr Pepper confirmed that it would uphold its pledge, but
their online coupon distribution didn’t work out efficiently.
Y sued Dr.Pepper, blaming their coupon distribution method
for Z’s lower-than-expected sales.
Retail store chain Best Buy is the exclusive retailer of Z in
the United States.
Y and Z
same as it ever was
The first ____ appeared in the late 1860s, and were produced by
Peck & Snyder, a New York manufacturer of sporting
equipment. They were later adopted by a variety of companies to
promote their businesses.
Typically, a ____ of the time featured an image and information
advertising the business. By the turn of the century, most _____
were produced by confectionery companies and tobacco
companies.
This is today a very large industry in the US.
same as it ever was
Italy's top-selling popular
paper, La Gazzetta dello
Sport, turned its
trademark pink pages
green on Dec 12 2004,
for a unique promotional
campaign.
As a result United
International Pictures
donated 120,000 euros to
a child cancer charity.
What were they
promoting?
same as it ever was
____ is a parodic holiday invented in 1995, and celebrated on
Sept 19 by John “Cap’n Slappy” Baur and Mark “Ol’
Chumbucket” Summers .
The day is probably the only holiday to come into being as a
result of a sports injury. Baur has stated that during a
racquetball game between Summers and Baur, one of them
reacted to the pain with an outburst of “_____!, and the idea
was born”.
They sent a letter about their invented holiday to the
American syndicated humor columnist Dave Barry in 2002.
Barry liked the idea and promoted the day. Growing media
coverage of the holiday after Barry's column has ensured that
this event is now celebrated internationally, and Baur and
Summers now sell books and T-shirts on their website related
to the theme.
same as it ever was
3 gadgets/techs that
generated a lot of
internet buzz in 2008.
The source of
inspiration is the
same for all 3.
same as it ever was
In November 2008, a British Royal family spokesman said that
____X_____ was honored as part of independence day celebrations
of ____Y_____ 2006, the ceremony was attended by the Earl of
Wessex, but the ceremony itself was conducted by the President of
Y. Therefore Buckingham palace has disavowed any role in the
ceremony.
X was a divisive figure in Y, and critics claim that he was not vetted
(as required by law) before the honor was bestowed upon him.
X and Y.
same as it ever was
Allen Stanford’s
knighthood.
On 10 December 1868, the first ______ were installed
outside the British Houses of Parliament in London,
by the railway engineer J. P. Knight. Unfortunately, it
exploded on 2 January 1869, injuring the policeman
who was operating it.
The modern electric _______ is an American
invention. As early as 1912 in Salt Lake City, Utah,
policeman Lester Wire invented the first ______, and
the first ever interconnected _____ system was
introduced in 1917.
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Two maps depicting the same thing –
June 08, 2004.
June 05/06, 2012.
same as it ever was
There’s a belief that the film _____ was a curse to the
companies whose logos were displayed prominently in some
scenes. While they were market leaders at the time, many of
them experienced disastrous setbacks over the next decade
and hardly exist today.
Eg – Atari dominated the videogame market, but suffered a
lot in the industry downturn the next year. Cuisinart went
bankrupt in 1989. Bell System broke up that same year, the
resulting Regional Bell operating companies have since
changed their names and merged with each other or other
companies. Pan Am went bankrupt in 1991.
same as it ever was
Excerpt from ________’s official website – What’s going
on?
Monday 16th Feb 2009 ---
*At 0815 (NEW TIME!), the bus S23K arrives at
Flemingsgatan 14. Please be there and cheer for the crew.
* At 0900, Proceedings begin. There will be both
bloggers and media blogging from inside, and both the
national television and radio will be streaming the audio.
Hopefully, the Bambuser team will broadcast a translated
and commentated stream.
* At 1130, a spontaneous gathering will take place...
Speeches will be held, cheers will be shouted and people
will find new friends.
* At 1600, Proceedings ends for the day.
same as it ever was
If the eye receives light of more than one wavelength, the colour
generated in the brain is formed from the sum of the input
responses on the retina.
when our eyes detect wavelengths from both ends of the light
spectrum at once (i.e. red and violet light), it has two options for
interpreting the input data:
a) Sum the input responses to produce a colour halfway between
red and violet in the spectrum (which would in this case produce
green)
b) Superimpose to a colour between red and violet
Evidence suggests option b) is always taken, and this is why a
certain phenomenon is observed.
same as it ever was
Magenta/Pink doesn’t actually exist

Magenta is the evidence that the brain takes option b – it has apparently
constructed a colour to bridge the gap between red and violet, because such a
colour does not exist in the light spectrum. Magenta has no wavelength
attributed to it, unlike all the other spectrum colours.
In April 2009, an extraordinary auction will take place, directed
by Darren Julien, a Los Angeles-based auctioneer of celebrity
merchandise.
Julien was recently invited to visit a property owned by
Sycamore Valley Ranch LLC – where over 2000 items stored
inside would be up for auction.
"It seemed as if everything he owned was made of bronze and
marble and gold," says Michael Doyle, who catalogued the sale
items,
Some of the items to be auctioned include suits of armour,
display cases of custom-made crowns and an ornately carved
throne with red velvet upholstering, vintage video game
machines, books about Disney, the Three Stooges, Peter Pan and
Alfred Hitchcock, as well as a collection of black history books,
customised military jackets, and more.
same as it ever was
Michael Jackson leaves Neverland ranch
The first records of ______ _______
performances were from watch makers who
were demonstrating their metal working
skills. _____ ______ were first advertised
as early as 1833 in England, and were a
main carnival attraction until 1930. Some
persisted in very small venues in the United
States as late as the 1960s.
Some of the tools/techniques used in a
_____ _____ include thin gold wires as
harnesses, camphor balls as repellants, and
glue.
same as it ever was
Some of the more common urban legends
associated with a particular day of the year in the
US –
– Every year on this day the water systems of big cities
all across the country verge on collapsing because of
so many simultaneous toilet flushings.
(EXAGGERATED)
– There are more pizza deliveries made during this day
than on any other day of the year. (TRUE)
– The stock market predictably fluctuates up or down
the Monday after. (TRUE)
– Disneyland becomes a veritable ghost town on this
day because so many Americans are at home.
(FALSE)
Which very specific day?
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Last year, ______ tapped the Arnell Group, to handle the
redesign of their logo, which experts estimated cost more
than $1 million to create and hundreds of millions more to
plaster on packaging, signs and promotions.
Arnell wrote a lofty treatise designed to sell _____ on the
idea, which was leaked onto the web, littered with historical,
philosophical, scientific and mathematical ideas dating back
to 3000 BC. It references the Golden Ratio, Feng Shui and
Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity.
At one point, the leaked pdf compares "Planet _____" to the
Earth's magnetic pull, with diagrams showing _____ as the
gravitational force between the end of the aisle and the
checkout stand.
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In 1957, Dr. Ernest Wright, Head of the English Department at
Columbia University, posed a question in the Scientific
American, asking a question that none of the Nobel Laureates
in residence at Columbia at the time could answer either.
“With the luck of a layman, I have had the novel experience of
seeing several of the men who have plucked the heart out of
the atom's mystery scratch their heads in vain for the solution
of ... why ___________ (some phenomenon) occurs twice on
land but once on water surfaces.”
It was finally resolved in 1967 by a high school student
Kirston Koths, who explained that the _____ (some object)
tilts forward on sand, but backward on water.
What phenomenon?
same as it ever was
Stone Skipping
When a rock skips on a dry surface (top), the trailing
edge strikes first, and then the leading edge. On
water, the rock does not tip.
Two were destroyed by bombs during World War II. Two
others were later demolished by the Russians and replaced
by a modern highway. One was rebuilt by the Germans in
1935. Three still remain.
What?
(Clue -- Currently a solution is possible, but it is
impractical for tourists)
same as it ever was
The seven bridges of Konigsberg
 Pafko at the Wall, subtitled "The Shot Heard Round the
World", was originally published as a folio in the October
1992 issue of Harper's Magazine. It was written by
famous American author X.
It reassembles in fiction the famous 1951 walk-off home
run hit by Bobby Thompson for the New York Giants
against the Brooklyn Dodgers to win the National League
pennant after coming from 13 1/2 games behind the
Dodgers.
In 1997, X incorporated this story as the prologue to his
1997 book, Y, in which the home-run baseball plays a
significant role in the plot.
Y is regarded as one of the best works of fiction of the last
20 years.
same as it ever was
 Because of a controversial translation of “______” as
wormwood, some believe that the infamous events at
______was foretold in the Bible:
And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from
heaven, burning as if it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third
part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; and the
name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of
the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the
waters, because they were made bitter. — Book of
Revelation 8:10-11
same as it ever was
Chernobyl
 Throughout the study of geometric construction using
compass and ruler, 3 are considered to be impossible.
2. Squaring the circle
3. Doubling the cube
4. Trisecting the angle

However, the 2nd and 3rd can be solved using the art of
_______. Straight-edge-and-compass construction is
equivalent to solving quadratic equations, but ______
can be used to solve equations of up to 4th degree.
same as it ever was
O
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double a cube by solving the equation x3-2=0.
I

trisect an angle by solving the equation x3+3tx2-3x-t=0,

where t=1/tanθ and x=tan(θ/3-π/2).
This is the Brighton and Howe Albion F.C team. For one particular game against
Sheffield United, 2nd October 2004, the stadium was temporarily renamed
Palookaville, which was also featured on the shirts, instead of the usual shirt
sponsor, Skint. Why?
same as it ever was
Fatboy Slim’s Palookavile,
released on Skint Records.
 X said that he wrote Y as a way to sort out his own
beliefs about God and Christ. The story germinated
after a chance meeting with fellow Civil War Union
veteran, Robert G. Ingersoll. He wrote the book
while serving as territorial governor of New Mexico.
X also stated in his memoirs that he wrote the climax
after returning from a dramatic encounter with Billy
The Kid. Y was the biggest-selling American novel
from 1880 to 1936.
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Noel Godin, a Belgian writer, is responsible for the entry of the word
‘entarteur’ into English. He came into prominence in 1998 for entarting
_________ in Brussels, and got away with it.
Godin claims his goal has long been to ‘entarte’ as many as possible – people
he feels are particularly self-important and lacking a sense of humor. Godin
told the New York Times he chooses “to function in the service of the
capitalist status quo, without really using his intelligence or his imagination.”
He says his sworn enemies are "authority, depressing laws, the return of the
moral order, nuclear power, any form of political power."
Other victims apart from _______include Jean-Luc Goddard and Nikolas
Sarkozy.
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Pie-flinging
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 Stage 2
• 9 questions. Bounce anticlockwise.
• The 9th question is written.
• *** questions indicate that the clue is in the
question, not in the answer.
• +2 for each question
• Stage 2 scoring – one attempt per set of 3.
1-3 +9
4-6 +6
7-9 +3
This 1996 film features a large number of celebrity cameos. Gerard
Depardieu as Reynaldo, Charlton Heston as the First Player, Robin
Williams as Osric, Richard Attenborough as the English
ambassador, Judi Dench, Jack Lemmon, Billy Crystal, Brian
Blessed, Kate Winslet, and others.
It is also the first unabridged film adaptation of the source material
in history, running at nearly four hours, and the director plays the
titular character. Director, and Film?
X originally intended to title his famous book _____
_____ _____, a chronicle of the “Jazz Age”, as
“Trimalchio” or “Trimalchio in West Egg”; A reference
to Satyricon by Petronius.
X characterizes the titular character as Trimalchio in the
novel, notably in the first paragraph of Chapter VII: “It
was when curiosity about _______ was at its highest that
the lights in his house failed to go on one Saturday night--
and, as obscurely as it had begun, his career as Trimalchio
was over”.
An early version of the novel, still titled "Trimalchio" is
still in print by the Cambridge University Press.
This diagram is called Acid1. What is the significance of this in
the computer world?
Depicting what?
Scene from the opening scenes of Frank Darabont’s The Mist.
The subject matter of the painting is the climax of a 7-book series,
written by the same author as The Mist.
JJ Abrams, has optioned the rights to make a film franchise of the
series, with a payment to the author of $19. Series.
The following slide shows an email sent in sept 1999,
The first in a series of cryptic emails, all sent to
various web-based journalists, as a viral marketing
promotion for one of this decade’s biggest pop-culture
behemoths.
From: “ ” <_______@bungie.com>
To: <hamish.sinclair@tcd.ie>
Subject: Closure
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999
I have walked the edge of the Abyss.
I have governed the unwilling.
I have witnessed countless empires break before me.
I have seen the most courageous soldiers fall away in fear.
[I was there with the Angel at the tomb]
I have seen your future.
And I have learned.
There will be no more Sadness. No more Anger. No more Envy.
I HAVE WON.
THIS is the way the world ends..

a friend of a friend
Which religious day is being lampooned here?
________ was first shown in London's West End, at the New
London Theatre, on May 11, 1981. It had a troubled
beginning as Judi Dench, cast in the role of Grizabella,
snapped a tendon during rehearsals prior to the London
opening. The role of Grizabella was subsequently taken over
by Elaine Paige; the role was beefed up for Paige and the
song 'Memory' (originally to be sung by Geraldine Gardner)
was given to Paige.
On June 19, 1997, ______ became the longest-running
musical in Broadway history with 6,138 performances.
Today, it is Broadway’s second longest running show in
history, and translated into over 20 languages.
In Buddhism as well as in Hinduism _____ is generally
interpreted as meaning the Threefold Peace in body, speech,
and mind.
“_____” is commonly used in the Pali texts as a synonym for
Buddhist Nirvana.
Answers -

1. HAMLET and KENNETH BRANAGH

2. THE GREAT GATSBY by F.Scott Fitzgerald
3. Acid Test for a web browser – minimum functionality
that a web browser should support.
4. Dante's MOUNT PURGATORIO
5. Stephen King's THE DARK TOWER
6. HALO
7. ASH WEDNESDAY
8. Andrew Lloyd Webber's CATS.
9. SHANTI
Stage 2
The poems of T.S.Eliot
• J.Alfred Prufrock – the narrator believes he is
Prince Hamlet. Also, Dante’s Purgatorio is
frequently alluded to.
• The Waste Land – The poem begins by quoting
Satyricon. The 3rd Book in the Dark Tower series
is titled The Waste Land, and the poem is
frequently referenced. Last line – ‘Shantih Shantih
Shantih’
• Ash Wednesday
• The Hollow Men – Ends with the lines ‘this is the
way the world ends not with a bang but a
whimper’
• Old Possum’s book of Practical Cats – Which
Andrew Lloyd Webber adapted as the musical.
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• Album cover ripoffs/tributes.
• Id original artist and album. +1 for artist, +1
for album.
• 8 in all.
1 2
3 4
5 6
7 8
Answers
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 Bounce.
• Anticlockwise.
• +2 each.
This cartoon has a specific usage within the new yorker.
What?
same as it ever was
Doonesbury, March 7, 2005. The 3rd panel here is a tribute
to?
same as it ever was
Dr. Hunter S Thompson, who committed suicide
shortly before, and upon whom the character Duke
is modeled.
In the UK, during the end of February 2009, Telco providers
Orange and O2 threatened to not support the Nokia N97, because
the handset carries a mobile version of ______.
The providers feared that including _______ will siphon away
profitable cell minutes by allowing users to make free calls.
However, another telco, 3 already offers a handset with ______
capabilities, and T-Mobile has also gotten on board with support
for the service.

Fill in the blank.

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 The movement algorithms used by B,P,I,C are
considered a landmark in the field of Artificial
Intelligence –
B always uses E’s current tile as destination,
P selects an offset four tiles away from E in the direction E is currently
moving,
I needs E’s current tile/orientation and B's current tile to calculate his
final target.
When C is more than eight tiles away, he uses E’s tile as his target. If
C is closer than eight tiles away, he switches to his scatter mode target
instead, and starts heading for his corner until he is far enough away to
target E again.
B,P,I,C (their names start with their corresponding variable), and E (real
name does not start with E) are all characters from the same
‘universe’.
Id E
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Famous actor X died of a heart attack at the age of 73 while
lying on a couch in his Los Angeles home.
One of X's roles was released posthumously – the film Y. It
features footage of X interspersed with a double. The director
had taken a few minutes of silent footage of X, in his
trademark costume, for a planned vampire picture but was
unable to find financing for the project. When he later
conceived Y, he wrote the script to incorporate the X footage.
Pre-ordered copies of Y’s colorized DVD release in 2005
included a limited edition air freshener.
X and Y
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question.
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TOYOTA TRUCKS –
Sienna
Tundra
Highlander
Sequoia
In ancient China coins were circular with a rectangular hole
in the middle. Several coins could be strung together on a
rope. Merchants in China, if they became rich enough, found
that their strings of coins were too heavy to carry around
easily. And so came the earliest version of ________.
During the Spanish siege of the Netherlands of 1574, Over
5000 of the estimated 14,000 residents of Leyden died,
mostly due to starvation. Even leather (often used to create
emergency coins) was boiled and used to feed the people. So
the residents took covers from hymnals and church missives
and created the first ________ in Europe.
same as it ever was
Classic Connect
same as it ever was
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 Scene 14

(TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS)

 A-T
• A thru T.
• Score = no. of right answers * 2.
 Relationship pattern for A-T

A ,B ,C

D ,E ,F ,G H ,I,J ,K ,L M ,N ,O ,P Q ,R ,S ,T
 It is rumored that the song A synchronizes with the film B when played
concurrently with the final segment of B. A was released 3 years after B,
and it is almost the same length as the final segment of B, approximately
23 minutes long.

Although the band C has never declared the synchronization intentional

and the technology to play back film in a recording studio at that time
would have been expensive and difficult for the band to acquire, they are
sometimes quoted as saying that their failure to contribute music on B’s
official score was their "greatest regret".
 The song D was used as the key musical motif in B. A typical
performance of D lasts about half an hour.The title of D was inspired
by a philosophical treatise of the same name by E.
In the treatise E mimics the style of the Bible in order to present ideas
which fundamentally oppose Christian and Jewish morality and
tradition. Fellow philosopher F in his epic History of Western
Philosophy was scathing in his chapter on E, calling his work the
"mere power-phantasies of an invalid" and referring to E as a
“megalomaniac”.
F co-authored a manifesto with G in 1955, highlighting the dangers
posed by nuclear weapons and called for world leaders to seek
peaceful resolutions to international conflict.
G died just days later. At the time of his death at hospital he was
working on a draft of a speech he was preparing for a television
appearance commemorating the State of Israel's seventh anniversary.
 The song A appears on the 1971 album H.
Another song on the album features a recording of I, which has been the
anthem of English football club J, since 1963.
J were the first English football club to have a sponsor's logo on their
shirts, after they agreed to a deal with K in 1979.
K was founded in 1910 as an electrical repair shop. They are a
multinational company specializing in high technology and services.
Their current slogan is ‘Inspire the Next’
J’s current shirt sponsor is known to use the voice of legendary
Hollywood director L as voice over for their ads repeatedly since
1975.
M is the co-author of the screenplay of B, as well as the author of the
novelization of the script. He emigrated to N in 1956 largely to pursue
his interest in scuba diving, and lived there until his death.
One of his books, O, was entirely set in a fictionalized version N, and
won both the Hugo and Nebula awards for Best Novel in 1980.
In O, he describes in detail the construction and working of a P, a
concept initially postulated in 1895 by Konstantin Tsoilkovsky, as a
natural extension of the Eiffel Tower.
Almost every design proposal of a P includes a base station, a cable,
climbers, and a counterweight. It has been theorized that a P is a
cheaper and more efficient alternative to launching payloads by
rocket.
Q is the director of B. He made only thirteen feature films in his life, yet
a number of his films are recognized as seminal classics within their
genre.
Throughout the 1980s and early 90s, Q collaborated with various writers
(including Brian Aldiss, Sara Maitland and Ian Watson) on a project
called by various names, including “Pinocchio”. The name that was
finally chosen was R.
Q died in 1999, and the role of director of R was handed over to
producer S, who re-wrote the screenplay removing various sex scenes
involving T’s character.
T plays a male prostitute who uses songs such as "I Only Have Eyes for
You" and "Bobbie, Walter" to seduce women.

R was finally released in 2001, to gross over $250million worldwide.

answers
A – ECHOES
B – 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
C – PINK FLOYD
D – ALSO SPRACH
ZARATHUSTRA
E – NIETZCHE
F – BERTRAND RUSSELL
G – ALBERT EINSTEIN
H – MEDDLE
I – YOU’LL NEVER WALK ALONE
J – LIVERPOOL FC
K – HITACHI
L – ORSON WELLES
M – ARTHUR C CLARKE
N – SRI LANKA
O – THE FOUNTAINS OF
PARADISE
P – SPACE ELEVATOR
Q – STANLEY KUBRICK
R – A.I ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE
S – STEPHEN SPEILBERG
T – JUDE LAW
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