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Ankan Bansal Vijin Venu

February 7, 2015

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A[Arts (Visual),Awards, Antiquity(History), Architec-ture, Astronomy,Anime]

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S[Series(TV), Science(and Tech), Source(Etymology, Origin),Sports, Song (Music)]

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D[Domestic (India),Discourse (Language,Literature), Dance,Drama, Design]

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F[Food, Fashion, Film(Movies), Fresh (Cur-rent)]

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Facts about what?

Lake area: 375,000 square feet, equivalent to three city blocks oreight football fields. The water could fill 2,000 swimming pools andwould take more than a year to fill with a garden hose.

Length of lake: 1,100 feet.

Shooters: 1,214 devices that can shoot higher than a 24-storybuilding.

Maximum water in air at any time: More than 17,000 gallons.

30 different songs on rotation.

Celebrated in countless films, television shows, photographs andarticles.


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Bellagio Fountains

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The earliest surviving record of observation dates from 364BC, based on comments by Chinese astronomer Gan De in a starcatalogue. By 28 BC, Chinese astronomers were regularly recording themin official imperial records.

The first clear mention of it in Western literature, around 300 BC, was bythe ancient Greek scholar Theophrastus, student of Plato and Aristotleand successor to the latter. A more recent observation was made on 17March 807 AD by the Benedictine monk Adelmus however, he incorrectlyconcluded he was observing a transit of Mercury. Many later observationswere also misinterpreted as planetary transits, until Galileo gave thecorrect explanation in 1612.


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Sunspots

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It was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege,Mexican troops under President General Antonio Lopez de Santa Annalaunched an assault on the Mission near San Antonio de Bexar(modern-day San Antonio, Texas, United States), killing all of the Texiandefenders. Santa Anna’s cruelty during the battle inspired manyTexians-both Texas settlers and adventurers from the United States-to jointhe Texian Army. Buoyed by a desire for revenge, the Texians defeated theMexican Army at the Battle of San Jacinto, on April 21, 1836, ending therevolution.

It has been immortalised by numerous works-books, songs, TV,movies-since 1843. However, most people are only familiar with the mythsspread by many of the movie and television adaptations.

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Battle of the Alamo

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She was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator,archaeologist and spy who explored, mapped, and became highlyinfluential to British imperial policy-making due to her skill and contacts.Along with T. E. Lawrence, she helped establish the Hashemite dynastiesin what is today Jordan as well as in Iraq.

She played a major role in establishing and helping administer the modernstate of Iraq, using her unique perspective from her travels and relationswith tribal leaders throughout the Middle East. During her lifetime shewas highly esteemed and trusted by British officials and given an immenseamount of power for a woman at the time. She has been described as“one of the few representatives of His Majesty’s Government rememberedby the Arabs with anything resembling affection”. Who?


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Gertrude Bell

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This work of art has been a subject of controversy for a long time, due tocritics arguing about the creators apparent ignorance of scientific principlesand physical phenomena. But a study in 2000 showed that what creatorhas shown is indeed possible and does not violate scientific principles.What they did is shown in the picture (Next slide). Which work?


A5


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A Bar at the Folies-Bergere


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X is an anime adaptation of a visual novel game of the same name by 5pb.and Nitroplus. It follows a self-proclaimed mad scientist named RintaroOkabe who, along with his friends, manage to invent a microwave that cansend text messages into the past, allowing him to travel between alternateworlds. X makes heavy use of the legend of Y.

Y is the name used on several bulletin boards during 2000 and 2001 by aposter claiming to be a time traveler from 2036. In these posts, Y madenumerous predictions about events in the near future, a number of themvague and some quite specific, starting with events in 2004. He described adrastically changed future in which the United States had broken into fivesmaller regions, the environment and infrastructure had been devastatedby a nuclear attack, and most other world powers had been destroyed.

X,Y-?


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X-Steins;GateY-John Titor

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He was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and physician in Auschwitzconcentration camp during World War II. He was notorious for theselection of victims to be killed in the gas chambers and for performingunscientific and often deadly human experiments on prisoners. He wasparticularly interested in identical twins, people with heterochromia iridum(eyes of two different colours), dwarfs, and people with physicalabnormalities.

According to the Auschwitz Museum, he had 1500 sets of twins inAuschwitz. There were only 200 estimated individual survivors. One of thefew survivors of these experiments, Eva Kor, wrote this on Quora: “Dyingin his lab was very easy. I am one of the few I have heard about to be inthe ‘barrack of the living dead’ and get out of there alive”.

Who?


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Josef Mengele

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X is a sculpture by Anna Chromy carved from a single block of whitemarble excavated from the Michelangelo Quarry in Carrara, Italy. X is theculmination of numerous depictions of a faceless figure hooded andshrouded in cloth. It first appeared in Chromy’s painting ’To Be Or NotTo Be’, in 1980, which in turn had been inspired by the play ’Everyman’by Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Don Giovanni by Mozart. In previousiterations, X has been given other names. In Salzburg, it is Pieta, inPrague outside the opera house where Mozart first performed DonGiovanni, it is ’commendatore’. As a result of her work on X, Chromy wasthe first woman to be awarded the Premio Michelangelo, the annual awardfor sculpture, in 2008. (Image on next slide)



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The Cloak of Conscience

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Dadaria is one of various types of folk-songs or field-songs of Chhattisgarh.These songs were very popular and were sung by village men or womenwhile harvesting in paddy fields or during leisure.

A popular version of a famous Dadaria folk song was incorporated into apopular Hindi song. The narrative of the song depict a tyrannical motherin law, a tittering sister-in-law and a pacifying brother-in-law, and how,despite all the goods and the bads, the newly wed girl loves her husband’shome, which she compares to a flower. Which song?


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Sasural Genda Phool

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Programmer Bram Cohen, a former University at Buffalo graduate studentin Computer Science, designed X in April 2001 and released the firstavailable version on 2 July 2001, and the final version in 2008. Theprotocol X is used to distribute large amounts of data over the Internet. Asof February 2013, X was responsible for 3.35% of all worldwide bandwidth.

Y has been in active development since its first release in 2005. Althoughoriginally developed by Ludvig Strigeus, since December 7, 2006, the codeis owned and maintained by X, Inc. Its name refers to the program’s smallmemory footprint: the program was designed to use minimal computerresources while offering functionality comparable to larger programs. Allversions of Y have been written in C++.


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X - BitTorrentY - µTorrent

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Although E. L. Thorndike developed early X, Frederick J. Kelly was thefirst to use such items as part of a large scale assessment. While Directorof the Training School at Kansas State Normal School (now Emporia StateUniversity) in 1915, he developed and administered the Kansas SilentReading Test. Soon after, Kelly became the third Dean of the College ofEducation at the University of Kansas. The first large scale assessmentusing only Xs was the Army Alpha, used to assess the intelligence andmore specifically the aptitudes of World War I military recruits.


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MCQs

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Beginning of what?

velut lunastatu variabilis,semper crescisaut decrescis;vita detestabilisnunc obduratet tunc curat

ludo mentis aciem,egestatem,potestatem

dissolvit ut glaciem.


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O FortunaIt is a medieval Latin Goliardic poem written early in the 13th century,part of the collection known as the Carmina Burana. It is a complaintabout fate and Fortuna, the personification of luck in Roman mythology.

In 1935-36, “O Fortuna” was set to music by German composer Carl Orffas a part of “Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi”, the opening and closingmovement of his cantata Carmina Burana.

This has become immensely popular. It can be heard in numerous moviesand television commercials and has become a staple in popular culture,setting the mood for dramatic or cataclysmic situations. “O Fortuna”topped a list of the most-played classical music of the past 75 years in theUnited Kingdom.

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128036 is a Main belt asteroid discovered in 2003 at theAstronomical Observatory of Mallorca, Spain and named after one of themost famous residents of the Island of Mallorca. FITB.


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Rafael Nadal

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In Bangkok, murals at Wat Phra Kaeo, which was built in 1785, depict theHindu god Hanuman playing this game in a ring with a troop of monkeys.Other historical accounts mention the game earlier during the reign ofKing Naresuan (1590-1605) of Ayutthaya. The game remained in its circleform for hundreds of years, and the modern version began taking shape inThailand sometime during the early 1740s.


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Sepak Takraw

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S7

The eponymous test, proposed by a famous film critic at the 2011 TEDconference as a challenge to software developers to have a computerizedvoice master the inflections, delivery, timing, and intonations of a speakinghuman, gauges whether a computer-based synthesized voice can tell a jokewith sufficient skill to cause people to laugh. The test is similar to theTuring test proposed by Alan Turing in 1950 as a way to gauge acomputer’s ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour by generatingperformance indistinguishable from a human being. Name the test/critic.


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Ebert Test - Roger Ebert

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X is a British television anthology series created by Charlie Brooker thatfeatures speculative fiction with dark and sometimes satirical themes thatexamine modern society, particularly with regard to the unanticipatedconsequences of new technologies. Each episode has a different cast, adifferent setting and a different reality.

Charlie Brooker explained the series’ title to The Guardian, noting: “Iftechnology is a drug - and it does feel like a drug - then what, precisely,are the side-effects? This area - between delight and discomfort - is whereX, my new drama series, is set. The ’X’ of the title is the one you’ll findon every wall, on every desk, in the palm of every hand: the cold, shinyscreen of a TV, a monitor, a smartphone.”


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Black Mirror

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In 2014 a competition was held through the MyGov Platform forsuggesting the name, logo and tagline for a government scheme. PriyaSharma won the competition for designing the logo. The logo, in thecountry’s tri-colours, depicts six people holding hands around the Rupeesymbol. Which government scheme?


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Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana

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X is a dystopian novel by P. D. James that was published in 1992. Set inEngland in 2021, it centres on the results of mass infertility. Jamesdescribes a United Kingdom that is steadily depopulating and focuses on asmall group of resisters who do not share the disillusionment of the masses.

It received very positive reviews from critics. The academic Alan Jacobssaid, “Of all James’ novels, X is probably the most pointed in its socialcriticism, certainly the deepest in its theological reflection.”

A film adaptation, directed by Alfonso Cuaron and starring Julianne Mooreand Clive Owen, was released in 2006.


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Children of Men

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In June 2014 the UK government unveiled a hand-crafted bronzecommemorative plaque in memory of six Indian Soldiers: Risaldar BadluSingh, Sepoy Chatta Singh, Naik Darwan Singh Negi, Rifleman GabarSingh Negi, Lance-Daffadar Gobind Singh and Lance-Naik Lala. As part ofthe UKs First World War Centenary programme, the Indian plaque forms aset of 11 commissioned in honour of a total of 175 overseas war heroeswho fought for the British during the Great War. What distinction didthese soldiers achieve?


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They were awarded the Victoria Cross for their bravery during theFirst World War. Victoria Cross is Britains highest award for gallantry inthe battlefield.

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He was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director, producer andchoreographer.Best known today for his performances in films such as AnAmerican in Paris (1951) and Singin’ in the Rain (1952), he was adominant force in musical films until they fell out of fashion in the late1950s. He is credited with almost single-handedly making the ballet formcommercially acceptable to film audiences. Who?


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Gene Kelly

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Rongorongo is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century thatappears to be writing or proto-writing. Numerous attempts atdecipherment have been made, none successfully.

As European-introduced diseases and raids by Peruvian slavers, including afinal devastating raid in 1862 and a subsequent smallpox epidemic, hadreduced the language speaking population to under two hundred by the1870s, it is possible that literacy had been wiped out by the time tabletswere discovered in 1866.

If Rongorongo does prove to be writing and proves to be an independentinvention, it would be one of very few independent inventions of writing inhuman history. Which language/What place?


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Rapa Nui - Easter Island

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D6

The title of this upcoming novel comes from Isaiah 21:6: “For thus haththe Lord said unto me, , let him declare what he seeth.”This is Harper Lee’s second novel and was written before her onlypublished novel To Kill a Mockingbird. It is set twenty years after theevents of To Kill a Mockingbird. The title alludes to Scout’s view of herfather, Atticus Finch, as the moral compass of Maycomb.


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Go Set a Watchman

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D7

“X, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People” is a play by Y. First performedon 14 February 1895 at the St James’s Theatre in London, it is a farcicalcomedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escapeburdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions oflate Victorian London, the play’s major themes are the triviality with whichit treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire ofVictorian ways. Contemporary reviews all praised the play’s humour,though some were cautious about its explicit lack of social messages, whileothers foresaw the modern consensus that it was the culmination of Y’sartistic career so far. Its high farce and witty dialogue have helped make XY’s most enduringly popular play. It has been adapted several times fortelevision, radio and film.


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X - The Importance of Being EarnestY - Oscar Wilde

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Kesarbai Kerkar (1892-1977) was an Indian classical vocalist of theJaipur-Atrauli gharana. A protege of Ustad Alladiya Khan, the founder ofthe gharana, from age sixteen, she went on to become one of most notedkhayal singer of second half of 20th-century.

Kerkar has the further distinction of having one of her recordings, “JaatKahan Ho” included on which is the only Indian languageentry in it. FITB.


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Voyager Golden Records

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Lob is a hybrid between X and Y. It became extremely famous a few yearsago and was sported by everyone from Heidi Klum, Eva Longoria toGwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Aniston and Anne Hathaway. X,Y?


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X - Long HairY - Bob

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This 2014 Hollywood movie joins films like “Noth by Northwest” ingetting its title from a line in Shakespeare’s works. The book it is basedon was named after the following dialogue spoken by Cassius in “JuliusCaesar”: “ , dear Brutus, is not , / But in ourselves, thatwe are underlings.”

FITB/Name the movie.


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The Fault in our Stars

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The origin of this dish is unknown and controversial. A common theory isthat the dish originated in Egypt, possibly eaten by Copts as areplacement for meat. The dish later migrated northwards to the Levant,where chickpeas replaced the fava beans.

The current widely used Arabic name of this dish is the plural of Arabicword for pepper. This word itself originates from the Sanskrit word pippali,meaning ‘long pepper, spread and being used by other languages such asPersian (pilpil).


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Falafel

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“Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, says the proverb, but ratherthe hero’s heart.Maybe this is true in any battle; it is surely true of a war that is wagedwith bleach and a prayer.” TIME’s managing editor wrote, explaining thechoice of TIME’s Person of the Year 2014.

Who?


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Ebola Fighters


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is the dried latex exuded from the rhizome or tap root ofseveral species of the perennial herb named Ferula.

Its English name is derived from a Latinized Farsi word, aza, meaningresin, and a Latin word meaning “smelling, fetid”, which refers to itsstrong sulfurous odour. Its pungent odour has resulted in it being knownby many unpleasant names. In French it is known as merde du diable,meaning “Devil’s faeces”.


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Asafoetida

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This is a 2007 science fiction film written by Jerome Bixby and directed byRichard Schenkman. It gained recognition in part for being widelydistributed through Internet peer-to-peer networks; its producer publiclythanked users of these networks for this.

The plot focuses on John Oldman, a departing university professor, whoclaims to be a Cro-Magnon that has somehow survived for more than14,000 years. The entire film is set in and around Oldman’s house and iscomposed almost entirely of dialogue. The plot advances throughintellectual arguments between Oldman and his fellow faculty members.

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The Man from Earth

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The current President of Uruguay Jose Mujica is famous for some of therevolutionary decisions made so far. During his term in December 2013after a 16-13 vote in the Senate, Uruguay became the world’s first nationto pass this law in order to fight crimes and health issues associated withit. The government stated that they will ask global leaders to do thesame. Nobel prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa praised the decision as“courageous”. ‘The Economist’ named Uruguay “country of the year” in2013 acknowledging the innovative policy leading Uruguay to be regardedas one of the most liberal nations in the world, and one of the mostsocially developed, outstanding regionally and performing well globally onpersonal rights, tolerance and inclusion issues. What law?


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Legalization of Marijuana

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During her visit to China seeking investment for the recession-hit economy,the Argentine president Cristina Kirchner posted a message on Twittersparking a racial controversy over the alleged mockery of the Chinese inthe Tweet. The tweet can be translated as “More than 1,000 attendees ...All of ‘La Campora’ and came only for rice and petroleum?”

What controversy?


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She intentionally replaced “r” with “l” in the words arroz andpetroleo.

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