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PRINT ADS None of the answers are absolut Id the brand/company being advertised for

+2 each. 8 in all.

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Answers -1. SPORE

2. HARLEY DAVIDSON3. WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER4. BOSE5. LEVI'S

6. WIKIPEDIA7. HARD ROCK CAFE8. NUMBERS

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____ ___ ______ is a colloquialism used to refer to a moment ina film series that is so incredible that it lessens the excitement of

subsequent scenes that rely on more understated action orsuspense, and it becomes apparent that a certain installment isnot as good as previous installments, due to ridiculous or lowquality 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 filmfranchise.

Term and Film?

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The first ____ was designed by Harry Beck in 1931, whobased his design on the principle that "only the topology,and not the physical location were relevant."

His approach is similar to that of electrical circuitdiagrams; but also based on sewage systems.

His employers were initially skeptical, and it wastentatively introduced to the public in a small pamphlet in1933.

It immediately became popular, and today it is regarded

as the greatest British design icon.

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These two dudes contested the 1982 election for the Governorof California. The dude on the right won.

Why was this election frequently alluded to in 2008?

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Tom Bradley, (left) and The Bradley effect.

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X was an Italian immigrant whoarrived in Boston in 1903.

In 1920, he went from anonymity to

becoming a millionaire in 6 months.On his deathbed, in 1948, hegranted one last interview, in whichhe said about the Boston public

"Even if they never got anything forit, it was cheap at that price.Without malice aforethought I hadgiven them the best show that was

ever staged in their territory sincethe landing of the Pilgrims! It waseasily worth fifteen million bucks towatch me put the thing over."

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Charles Ponzi and the Ponzi scheme (scam),

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Connect

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The phrase "Better Living _______ _________" is avariant of Xs advertising slogan, adopted it in1935 and was their slogan until 1982 when the

_______ _________ part was dropped. Since1999, their slogan has been "The miracles ofscience".

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 propagandabuttons, which bore this slogan.

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John Anthony Gillis, started a business called Third ManUpholstery, in his late teens.

While Third Man Upholstery never lacked business, Gillisclaimed that it was not profitable, due to his complacency aboutmoney and his business practices that were perceived asunprofessional, 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 Detroitnative. In his characteristically unorthodox fashion, Gillis tookher last name for his own.

So how do we better know John Anthony Gillis?

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Visual Connect

12 SLIDES

Each team has one attempt per set of 4.

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Web Comics

CHICKEN WINGS CAT AND GIRL FLINTLOCKES guide to azeroth

SOMETHING POSITIVE SNAFU HOMESTAR RUNNER PENNY ARCADE MEGATOKYO

CTRL+ALT+DELETE PHD DINOSAUR COMICS XKCD

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Write again

Prometheaby 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 byWilliams on the inner side of the cover.

+2 for identifying the artist being imitated

8 in all

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William MorrisIllustrations

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Dali

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Maxfield Parrish

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___ _______ _ is a 1992 novel by David James Duncan. It isbased around a family of 4 sons and 2 daughters, a deeplyreligious novel about love and family and spiritual growthand the difference between church and religion.The third word in the title is a reference to a strikeout in

baseball.

Both the novels title and themes are similar to a much morefamous novel, the first two words of both novels being thesame.Id both.

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Whos on the cover of this new

yorker issue?Explanation will do..

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Phillipe Petit, a french tightrope walker who illegally

orchestrated a high-wire walk without safety equipmentacross the two (then unfinished) towers of WTC on Aug 7,1974.

For a long time, _______ had neither an official flag nor

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logo. Proposals for adopting an official symbol were madeduring _______'s beginning in 1921, but the members neverreached agreement.

However, _______s sub-organizations used varying logosand 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 reasonsfor this failure may have been the fear by the members thatthe power of the super-national organization mightsupersede them.

Finally, in 1939, a semi-official emblem emerged: two five-pointed stars within a blue pentagon, symbolizing the fivecontinents and the five races of mankind. In a bow on topand at the bottom, the flag had the names in English and

French.

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The concept of this sport was envisioned in 1992 bycartoonist Enki Bilal, and was a major plot point ofhis graphic novel Froid quateur.

Iepe Rubingh, a Dutch artist, was inspired by Bilal'sbook and brought the concept to life in the spring of2001.

Other sources of inspiration include a 1979 Anime'Ninja Checkmate which served as inspiration forWu-tang clans song Da mysteries of _____

______

In july 2008, A 19-year old Russian Mathematicsstudent Nikolai Sahzin became the first ever"World Champion" by defeating Frank Stoldt inBerlin

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___X__ is a minor science fiction genre characterized

by an attempt to explain Biblical concepts with sciencefiction tropes. In its original sense a __X____ storyfeatures a heterosexual pair of astronauts landing on alush 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 anextremely long-winded tale featuring extensivenarration of typically irrelevant incidents, usually

resulting in a pointless or absurd punchline.

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Y = shaggy dog story

X = shaggy god story

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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'sgoing on. I think through our competitive spirit back then; we werealways out to out-complicate each other, and make our systemsdeeper and deeper.

It was ok then because there was a wide player base whounderstood, but that's not true anymore. What we're trying to dowith _____ is bring them back in.

_____ is the fourth of a famous Japanese product line.

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( )orbit Mars at about 150 kilometers (93 mi)altitude, but descended instead to about

57 kilometers (35 mi), burning up in the Martianatmosphere.The reason why this error happened was that NASA

specified the usage of the _____ in the contract,

but one subcontractor, Lockheed Martin, did notuse the _____ to provide thrust force performancedata to the team.

Consequently the computer controlling the

spacecraft thrusters underestimated their effect bya factor of 4.45.

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Lockheed specified in imperial units, whileNASA required the metric system.

Jules: They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with Cheese?Vincent: Nah, man, they got the metric system.

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term _____ _____ dates back to an article published in 1900,in theNew York Sun, referring to the sound of geese, which

led an unsuspecting group of cowboys to the flock instead of tothe variety show they expected.

_____ _____ were rough establishments, mostly in the DeepSouth and Southwest, that served alcoholic beverages to

working class clientele. They sometimes also offered dancingto piano players or small bands, and were sometimes alsocenters of prostitution.

The name itself became synonymous with a style of music.

Related to the classic blues in tonal structure, _____ _____ hasa tempo that is slightly stepped up, rhythmically suited formany African-American dance routines.

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Visual Connect -- ARBIT

20 clues One attempt per set of 4.

ALL CLUES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER 1-4 +10

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WW2 military operationsLink up (GermanAnschluss) 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 1940Compass 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.

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WW2 military operations

Herkules German invasion of Malta, 1942Watchtower Battle of Guadalcanal, 1942-43Uranus Battle Of Stalingrad, 1942Supercharge Second Battle of El Alamein, 1942.Torch allied invasion of North Africa, 1942Husky Allied invasion of Sicily, 1943.U go offensive Japanese offensive in Assam and Manipur, 1944Avalanche 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 includedthe processor memory I/O and non volatile program storage

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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 commonchassis, doing the work of multiple separate server boxesmore efficiently, yielding greater advantages in spaceconsumption, cooling, power management and networkinterfaces.

The major players in the _____ _____ market are HP andIBM.

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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 tothe 1959 film Gidget, in which "The _X__ ___Y___", played byCliff Robertson, was the leader of a group of surfers. The termthen became commonplace in Beach Party films of the 1960s

such asBeach Blanket Bingo, where the __X__ __Y__" wasthe best surfer on the beach.

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3 - Scholars who believe that the Book of Revelation refers tohistorical people and events argue that _____ represents Nero.

In Hebrew gematria (a technique in numerology/astrology ofassigning numbers to alphabets) , every letter has acorresponding number. The Greek spelling, Nern Kaisar,transliterates into Hebrew as or nrwn qsr.

Aleister Crowley claimed that ______ referred to himspecifically and took the name ("To MegaTherion"), which he arrived at using Greek gematria.

4 - Patent diagram for..?

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BLADE server

Big KAHUNA

666 the number of the BEASTICE cube machine

K k b b

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It has been noted that the character X physically resembled both hisvoice actor Alan Reed, and also Y.Later it was revealed that Alan Reed did base his voice of X upon Yscharacter in The Honeymooners.

In a playboy magazine interview in the 1980s, Y considered filing alawsuit for copying The Honeymooners but decided to let it pass Ys lawyers told him that he could probably have Xs 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 manykids love, and so many parents love, too?

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Soda maker Dr. Pepper entered a dare of sorts with Y,

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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 didnt work out efficiently.Y sued Dr.Pepper, blaming their coupon distribution methodfor Zs lower-than-expected sales.

Retail store chain Best Buy is the exclusive retailer of Z in

the United States.Y and Z

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The first ____ appeared in the late 1860s, and were produced byPeck & Snyder, a New York manufacturer of sporting

equipment. They were later adopted by a variety of companies topromote their businesses.

Typically, a ____ of the time featured an image and informationadvertising the business. By the turn of the century, most _____

were produced by confectionery companies and tobaccocompanies.

This is today a very large industry in the US.

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paper, La Gazzetta delloSport, turned itstrademark pink pagesgreen on Dec 12 2004,for a unique promotionalcampaign.

As a result UnitedInternational Picturesdonated 120,000 euros toa child cancer charity.

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____ is a parodic holiday invented in 1995, and celebrated onSept 19 by John Capn Slappy Baur and Mark Ol

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Sept 19 by John Cap n Slappy Baur and Mark OlChumbucket Summers .

The day is probably the only holiday to come into being as aresult of a sports injury. Baur has stated that during aracquetball game between Summers and Baur, one of themreacted to the pain with an outburst of _____!, and the idea

was born.

They sent a letter about their invented holiday to theAmerican 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 thatthis event is now celebrated internationally, and Baur andSummers now sell books and T-shirts on their website relatedto the theme.

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generated a lot ofinternet buzz in 2008.

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____X_____ was honored as part of independence day celebrations

of ____Y_____ 2006, the ceremony was attended by the Earl ofWessex, but the ceremony itself was conducted by the President ofY. Therefore Buckingham palace has disavowed any role in theceremony.

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.

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Allen Stanfords

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knighthood.

On 10 December 1868, the first ______ were installedt id th B iti h H f P li t i L d

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outside the British Houses of Parliament in London,by the railway engineer J. P. Knight. Unfortunately, itexploded on 2 January 1869, injuring the policemanwho was operating it.

The modern electric _______ is an Americaninvention. As early as 1912 in Salt Lake City, Utah,

policeman Lester Wire invented the first ______, andthe first ever interconnected _____ system wasintroduced in 1917.

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June 08, 2004.

June 05/06, 2012.

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There s a belief that the film _____ was a curse to thecompanies whose logos were displayed prominently in some

scenes. While they were market leaders at the time, many ofthem experienced disastrous setbacks over the next decadeand hardly exist today.

Eg Atari dominated the videogame market, but suffered a

lot in the industry downturn the next year. Cuisinart wentbankrupt in 1989. Bell System broke up that same year, theresulting Regional Bell operating companies have sincechanged their names and merged with each other or other

companies. Pan Am went bankrupt in 1991.

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Excerpt from ________s official website Whats goingon?

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Monday 16th Feb 2009 ---

*At 0815 (NEW TIME!), the bus S23K arrives atFlemingsgatan 14. Please be there and cheer for the crew.

* At 0900, Proceedings begin. There will be bothbloggers and media blogging from inside, and both the

national television and radio will be streaming the audio.Hopefully, the Bambuser team will broadcast a translatedand commentated stream.

* At 1130, a spontaneous gathering will take place...

Speeches will be held, cheers will be shouted and peoplewill find new friends.

* At 1600, Proceedings ends for the day.

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If the eye receives light of more than one wavelength, the colourgenerated in the brain is formed from the sum of the input

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responses on the retina.

when our eyes detect wavelengths from both ends of the lightspectrum at once (i.e. red and violet light), it has two options forinterpreting 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 producegreen)

b) Superimpose to a colour between red and violet

Evidence suggests option b) is always taken, and this is why acertain phenomenon is observed.

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Magenta is the evidence that the brain takes option b it has apparentlyconstructed a colour to bridge the gap between red and violet, because such acolour 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, directedby Darren Julien, a Los Angeles-based auctioneer of celebritymerchandise.

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Julien was recently invited to visit a property owned bySycamore Valley Ranch LLC where over 2000 items storedinside 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 saleitems,

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 gamemachines, books about Disney, the Three Stooges, Peter Pan andAlfred Hitchcock, as well as a collection of black history books,customised military jackets, and more.

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were demonstrating their metal workingskills. _____ ______ were first advertisedas early as 1833 in England, and were amain carnival attraction until 1930. Some

persisted in very small venues in the UnitedStates as late as the 1960s.

Some of the tools/techniques used in a

_____ _____ include thin gold wires asharnesses, camphor balls as repellants, andglue.

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Last year, ______ tapped the Arnell Group, to handle theredesign of their logo, which experts estimated cost morethan $1 million to create and hundreds of millions more to

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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 theidea, 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 andEinstein's Special Theory of Relativity.

At one point, the leaked pdf compares "Planet _____" to theEarth's magnetic pull, with diagrams showing _____ as the

gravitational force between the end of the aisle and thecheckout stand.

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In 1957, Dr. Ernest Wright, Head of the English Department atColumbia University, posed a question in the Scientific

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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 ofseeing several of the men who have plucked the heart out ofthe atom's mystery scratch their heads in vain for the solutionof ... why ___________ (some phenomenon) occurs twice onland but once on water surfaces.

It was finally resolved in 1967 by a high school studentKirston Koths, who explained that the _____ (some object)tilts forward on sand, but backward on water.

What phenomenon?

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Stone Skipping

When a rock skips on a dry surface (top), the trailingedge strikes first, and then the leading edge. Onwater, the rock does not tip.

Two were destroyed by bombs during World War II. Twoothers were later demolished by the Russians and replaced

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y p

by a modern highway. One was rebuilt by the Germans in1935. Three still remain.

What?

(Clue -- Currently a solution is possible, but it is

impractical for tourists)

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The seven bridges of Konigsberg

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Pafko at the Wall, subtitled "The Shot Heard Round theWorld", was originally published as a folio in the October

1992 issue ofHarper's Magazine. It was written byf A i th X

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famous American author X.

It reassembles in fiction the famous 1951 walk-off homerun hit by Bobby Thompson for the New York Giants

against the Brooklyn Dodgers to win the National Leaguepennant after coming from 13 1/2 games behind the

Dodgers.In 1997, X incorporated this story as the prologue to his1997 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 last20 years.

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Because of a controversial translation of ______ aswormwood, 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

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Chernobyl

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Throughout the study of geometric construction usingcompass and ruler, 3 are considered to be impossible.

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2. Squaring the circle3. Doubling the cube

4. Trisecting the angle

However, the 2nd and 3rd can be solved using the art of_______. Straight-edge-and-compass construction isequivalent to solving quadratic equations, but ______

can be used to solve equations of up to 4th degree.

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OR

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double a cube by solving the equation x3-2=0.

trisect an angle by solving the equation x3+3tx2-3x-t=0,where t=1/tan and x=tan(/3-/2).

R

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This is the Brighton and Howe Albion F.C team. For one particular game againstSheffield United, 2nd October 2004, the stadium was temporarily renamedPalookaville, which was also featured on the shirts, instead of the usual shirtsponsor, Skint. Why?

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Fatboy SlimsPalookavile,released on Skint Records.

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X id th t h t Y t t t hi

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X said that he wrote Yas a way to sort out his ownbeliefs about God and Christ. The story germinatedafter 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 climaxafter returning from a dramatic encounter with BillyThe 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 wordentarteur into English. He came into prominence in 1998 forentarting_________ in Brussels, and got away with it.

Godin claims his goal has long been to entarte as many as possible peoplehe feels are particularly self-important and lacking a sense of humor. Godintold 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 themoral order, nuclear power, any form of political power."

Other victims apart from _______include Jean-Luc Goddard and NikolasSarkozy.

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Pie-flinging

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Stage 2

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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 +94-6 +67-9 +3

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This diagram is called Acid1. What is the significance of this inthe computer world?

Depicting what?

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Scene from the opening scenes of Frank Darabonts 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 theseries, 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 tovarious web-based journalists as a viral marketing

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various web-based journalists, as a viral marketingpromotion for one of this decades biggest pop-culturebehemoths.

From: To: Subject: ClosureDate: Mon, 15 Feb 1999

I have walked the edge of the Abyss.

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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..

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Which religious day is being lampooned here?

________was first shown in London's West End, at the NewLondon Theatre, on May 11, 1981. It had a troubled

beginning as Judi Dench, cast in the role of Grizabella,

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snapped a tendon during rehearsals prior to the Londonopening. The role of Grizabella was subsequently taken overby Elaine Paige; the role was beefed up for Paige and thesong 'Memory' (originally to be sung by Geraldine Gardner)was given to Paige.

On June 19, 1997,______became the longest-runningmusical in Broadway history with 6,138 performances.Today, it is Broadways second longest running show inhistory, and translated into over 20 languages.

In Buddhism as well as in Hinduism _____ is generallyinterpreted as meaning the Threefold Peace in body, speech,and mind.

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_____ is commonly used in the Pali texts as a synonym forBuddhist Nirvana.

Answers -

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1. HAMLET and KENNETH BRANAGH2. THE GREAT GATSBY by F.Scott Fitzgerald3. Acid Test for a web browser minimum functionalitythat a web browser should support.4. Dante's MOUNT PURGATORIO

5. Stephen King's THE DARK TOWER6. HALO7. ASH WEDNESDAY8. Andrew Lloyd Webber's CATS.

9. SHANTI

Stage 2

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The poems of T.S.Eliot

J.Alfred Prufrock the narrator believes he isPrince Hamlet. Also, Dantes Purgatorio isfrequently alluded to.

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The Waste Land The poem begins by quotingSatyricon. The 3rd Book in the Dark Tower seriesis titled The Waste Land, and the poem isfrequently 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 Possums book of Practical Cats WhichAndrew Lloyd Webber adapted as the musical.

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Scene 12

write

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Album cover ripoffs/tributes. Id original artist and album. +1 for artist, +1

for album. 8 in all.

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1 2

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7 8

Answers

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Scene 13

Bounce.

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Anticlockwise. +2 each.

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This cartoon has a specific usage within the new yorker.What?

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Doonesbury, March 7, 2005. The 3rd panel here is a tributeto?

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Dr. Hunter S Thompson, who committed suicideshortly before, and upon whom the character Duke

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is modeled.

In the UK, during the end of February 2009, Telco providersOrange and O2 threatened to not support the Nokia N97, becausethe handset carries a mobile version of ______.

The providers feared that including _______ will siphon away

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g _______ yprofitable 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 areconsidered a landmark in the field of ArtificialIntelligence B always uses Es current tile as destination,

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P selects an offset four tiles away from E in the direction E is currentlymoving,

I needs Es current tile/orientation and B's current tile to calculate hisfinal target.

When C is more than eight tiles away, he uses Es tile as his target. IfC is closerthan eight tiles away, he switches to his scatter mode targetinstead, and starts heading for his corner until he is far enough away totarget 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 sameuniverse.

Id E

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Clue The Director inquestion.

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connect

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TOYOTA TRUCKS

Sienna

T d

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TundraHighlander

Sequoia

In ancient China coins were circular with a rectangular holein the middle. Several coins could be strung together on arope. Merchants in China, if they became rich enough, foundthat their strings of coins were too heavy to carry aroundeasily. And so came the earliest version of ________.

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During the Spanish siege of the Netherlands of 1574, Over5000 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. Sothe residents took covers from hymnals and church missivesand created the first ________ in Europe.

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Classic Connect

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Google Language Preferences

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Scene 14

(TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS)

A-T

A th T

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A thru T. Score = no. of right answers * 2.

Relationship pattern for A-T

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D , E , F , G H , I , J , K , L M , N , O , P Q , R , S , T

A , B , C

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

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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, approximately23 minutes long.

Although the band C has never declared the synchronization intentionaland 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 aresometimes quoted as saying that their failure to contribute music on Bs

official score was their "greatest regret".

The song D was used as the key musical motif in B. A typicalperformance 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

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which fundamentally oppose Christian and Jewish morality andtradition. Fellow philosopher F in his epicHistory 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 dangersposed 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 wasworking on a draft of a speech he was preparing for a televisionappearance commemorating the State of Israel's seventh anniversary.

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M is the co-author of the screenplay of B, as well as the author of thenovelization of the script. He emigrated to N in 1956 largely to pursue

his interest in scuba diving and lived there until his death

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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 anatural 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 byrocket.

Q is the director of B. He made only thirteen feature films in his life, yeta number of his films are recognized as seminal classics within their

genre.

Throughout the 1980s and early 90s Q collaborated with various writers

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Throughout the 1980s and early 90s, Q collaborated with various writers(including Brian Aldiss, Sara Maitland and Ian Watson) on a projectcalled 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 toproducer S, who re-wrote the screenplay removing various sex scenesinvolving Ts character.

T plays a male prostitute who uses songs such as "I Only Have Eyes forYou" and "Bobbie, Walter" to seduce women.

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

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A ECHOES M ARTHUR C CLARKE

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A ECHOESB 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEYC PINK FLOYDD ALSO SPRACH

ZARATHUSTRAE NIETZCHEF BERTRAND RUSSELLG ALBERT EINSTEINH MEDDLEI YOULL NEVER WALK ALONEJ LIVERPOOL FC

K HITACHIL ORSON WELLES

M ARTHUR C CLARKEN SRI LANKA

O THE FOUNTAINS OFPARADISE

P SPACE ELEVATORQ STANLEY KUBRICK

R A.I ARTIFICIALINTELLIGENCE

S STEPHEN SPEILBERGT JUDE LAW

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