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• None of the answers are ‘absolut’
• Id the brand/company being advertised for
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• 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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____ ___ ______ 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.
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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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• 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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___ _______ _ 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.
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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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• 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”.
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?
same as it ever was
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.
same as it ever was
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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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G
A
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double a cube by solving the equation x3-2=0.
I
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.
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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.