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The Viz Quiz : Remember Remember the 5th of November!

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1.

• The word comes from the Anglo-French meaning "farm hand”, in the sense of someone who is bound to the soil of a ____, which is to say, worked on the equivalent of a plantation in Italy or Gaul. The word has been corrupted into the present usage form largely by fiction.Word?Blank?

Villain

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• What in the world of symbols/code did this inspire?

Venus symbol

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• The name is ultimately Portuguese meaning "wine of garlic." Portuguese sailors brought their garlic-flavoured vinegar stew to Goa and this resulted. Although we have corrupted the name somewhat and included potatoes as a result, still it remains one of the spiciest in the country

Answer

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Who?• He had five career wins over Jimmy Connors in their 11

matches• He reached his career high ranking in singles of World

No. 16 in July 1980• He beat the best, including John McEnroe at his peak in

1984• In 1973, at the US Open, lost to Ken Rosewall after

having beaten Rod Laver two rounds earlier• has been a judge at the Miss Universe pageant

Ever seen him Eh?

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• Movie?1:48 secs

• Shares the name with a novel

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answer

7.• Dendrobates X is a type

of poison dart frog found in the forests of Suriname and northern to central Brazil. It is widely known as the Blue Poison Dart Frog and is one of the most poisonous creatures in the planet. X is a company and recently changed its name to V.

V’s current logo is the frog Give me V (X would not

account for marks)

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• There are varied meanings in the internet for V , but basically it means: 'flight from death', 'theft of death' or 'flight of death‘ basing on French, German and Danish roots

• V is also a distributed data store(under development) by LinkedIn

British labor party politician, Peter Mandelson is nicknamed V

Now, don’t say that U never saw him

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• ______ Yajna includes Ashwamedha, Rajsuya and Gayatri Yajnas. _______is regarded as particularly important. When its yajaman(a) (sacrificer) comes after having had his ritual bath (avabhrtha snana) at the conclusion of the sacrifice, the king himself holds up a white umbrella for him. Indian history study reveals that Sawai Jai Singh performed at least two yajnas namely _____ and ashwamedha.Hence he ascended to the titular ‘Samrat’. FIB

answer

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Print ad :o

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• Latin for ‘Shaggy hair’, V are primarily classified into 3 types- Intestinal, Chorionic(outermost membrane of the fetus ) and Arachnoid (a brain membrane). In the intestines these help in the release of enzymes for digestion, increase the surface area on the intestines for more absorption.

• That was a tough 1

Villi/Vilus is the answer

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answer

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• Claim to fame of a Sailor named Carl Muscarello and a nurse named Edith Cullen Shain about 66 years prior?Just give me the occasion(It starts with V..no gas allowed)

V J(victory over Japan day)

14.connect

Viper

15. What on earth?

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• The following are 2 print ads targeted at New Zealand 2008. Note that this was a very successful campaign launched by Saatchi and Saatchi

next slide… 2 pics

Answer

17**.

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• These are the 4 basic ‘Vagaries’words like humour/moods/emotions have made it obsolete

18.*1 Term

answer

• Velocipede (fast + foot)

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• John ____(1834 – 1923), was a British Logician and philosopher. He is famous for introducing the ______, which is used in many fields, including Number theory, probability, Engineering, logic, statistics, management and computer science. ____ also had a rare skill in building machines. He used his skill to build a machine for bowling cricket balls, which was so good that when the Australian Cricket team visited Cambridge in 1909, ____’s machine clean bowled one of its top stars four times. Now which V is he ?

John Venn

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Versace

• He was killed by Andrew Phillip Cunanan, a serial killer who murdered at least five people, including fashion designer Gianni Versace, during a three-month period in 1997, ending with Cunanan's suicide, at age 27.

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• The ____ logo also represents the integration of analog and digital technology with the 1st 2 characters representing an analog wave and the latter 2 characters representing a digital binary code- aiming for a perfect integrated audio and video output.What ?

Clue: its surely here, in the room

Answer

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23.

Vincent Van Gogh

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• Which city/place’s etymology?Earliest scriptures: Ankottaka300-600 AD: Vadapatraka600-900 AD: Vatpatrak(Leaf of Banyan)1000 AD: Virakshetra1500’s: BrodeyraHint: it’s sobriquet is ‘Sanskari Nagari’ or Cultured City

Answer

• Vadodara

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• V is one among relatively few Hindi films that is not a musical, instead the soundtrack is primarily used as background. The highlight of the film’s mahurat, was the presence of celebrities who have actually made an attempt to fight against the establishment or the system successfully. These include Medha Patkar, T N Seshan, Anna Hazare, Tarun Tejpal and Sundarlal Bahuguna. Which V, of the year 2005?

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• Video_4(1 min 30 secs)

• Voodoovoodoo-by Black SabbathVoodoo child-By Jimi HendrixVoodoo economics- referred to Regan’s economics policies

27*1st Patent of ?

Some things changed.. didn’t they?

28.connect

• Connect the person to the left named David Lloyd and to the right(U know him eh?)with the poster of the civil disobedience activist group named ‘anonymous’

pics follow..

V mask

30*.Endorsing what?

Vye Vye