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11/11/2017

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Question 0

○ In the summer of 1998, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Anthony Kiedis and ‘Sporty Spice’ Melanie C dated for a short time.

○ From this relationship experience, Kiedis penned down the song Emit Remmus, which was included in the band’s 7th studio album, Californication.

○ What is (possible) meaning behind the naming of the song?

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○ The song title is “Summer Time” spelled backwards, which could be a reference to how different London and California are.

Question 1 ○ Un-gerund a famous person’s name and give me the

name of this scientist from the 22nd episode of Season 2 in Dexter’s Laboratory.

○ Also tell me on whomhis facial features arebased?

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Professor Hawk and Bill Gates

Question 2

○ This slang term is used to refer to the excess body fat that peeks out of from above the waistline in tight clothes (like Will Ferrell in this image).

○ A mid-2003 Australian invention, it got its name due to the resemblance to something with a top wider than its base, it is hence called a ------ top.

○ What 6-lettered term?

Question 2

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Muffin Top

Question 3 ○ Starting in 2004 and ending in 2012 due to the creator’s

ill health, what took its name from this type of a dead end in a street?

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Cul-de-sac

Question 4

○ According to the ladies who make the Indian National Flag at the Khadi Gram Udyog, Hubli, Karnataka, after the flag is completed, firstly white is always folded on the inside, followed by saffron and finally green on top.

○ Why not saffron on the outside?

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○ Saffron fades in direct light pretty quickly, and as a means to protect it.

Question 5○ Just like his character in the ongoing TV show from 2013, he is

athletic and a good artist. He sometimes combines the two of them and creates art like the ones you see in the images below.

○ And when earlier this year, the company Bernhardt Design approached him to create his own line of furniture, he designed something inspired from the lilypads from the Egyptian floodplains and Horus, and created a chair on a table, which according to him is something no one had done before.

○ Who created these?

Question 5

Question 5

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Terry Crews

Question 6

○ What agnomen (nickname) did this dude get after defeating Hannibal at the battle at Zama in 202 BC, during the 2nd Punic War?

○ Looking for one word.

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Africanus (This is Scipio Africanus)

Question 7

○ Half brother of the Wijnaldum brothers, this Dutch national presently plays for Huddersfield Town in the English Premier League.

○ Born 4 June 1991, he is named after whom?

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Rajiv Gandhi (This is Rajiv van La Parra)

Question 8 ○ Koi Shui Ji (口水鸡) is a Chinese chicken dish cooked

with Sichuan Chilli Oil Sauce.○ It seems like the want to give it

an appetizing name backfired,or possibly just lost in translation.

○ What does the name of thedish translate to (6)?

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Saliva Chicken

Question 9

○ Apparently the young group had spent so much time preparing to play live that they hadn’t thought of what to call themselves.

○ And with a show scheduled in a few days time, Bill Rutsey, the brother of the drummer, seeing their hurry to find a name suggested something which stuck.

○ Which band?

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Question 10○ In the 1960s, a Stanford professor named Walter Mischel began

conducting a series of psychological studies. His experiment lasting for close to 4 decades started with him testing children around the ages of 4 and 5. All this to find what made people successful.

○ One of the most famous results out of this research came from The Marshmallow Experiment conducted in 1972 and it came down to how success of these individuals can directly correspond to one particular character trait.

○ What trait was seen as responsible for the success of these individuals more than any other?

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Delaying Gratification

Question 11○ The photo you see here is of a

ferret named “Nibbler”.○ He had a particular job during

the setting up of the Large Hadron Collider, which was similar to Boeing making these ferrets use in 1960s, and at the Buckingham Palace for the 1981 nuptials of Prince Charles and Lady Diana.

○ Meat was used as bait for the purpose humans themselves couldn’t have done.

○ How did these ferrets help?

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○ The ferrets were encouraged to scamper through the tunnels with bits of meat baiting them at the other end.With wires tied to them, when they came out on the other side, they had run the wire through an area humans couldn’t reach.

Question 12○ This 2012 British indie song talks about the reunion in the afterlife of

the first female war photojournalist Gerda and her husband Robert Capa. While Gerda died in 1937 at the Battle of Brunete with a tank colliding with the car she was on, Robert died in 1954 when he stepped on a landmine. The lead singer said that the 4-minute song is about the 2 seconds before and 2 seconds after he steps on the landmine.

○ The music video incorporates scenes from Godfrey Reggio’s Powaqqatsi, whose trailer you see here.

○ Named for the surname of the lady photographer, name this song and the band.

○ (Here's the trailer: http://www.nospoiler.com/y/sNVTmWRcUbY)

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Taro by Alt-J (∆)

Question 13

○ Running in its 30th year, this is the logo of an annual event which gets its name as a polar play on a 1959 movie’s name.

○ What is the name of this event?

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South by Southwest

Question 14

○ Opened in 1997, this building has become a Bangkok landmark, with the design looking to honour the history of the country.

○ Tapping into your knowledge of global alcoholic beverage brands and their motifs, give me the 5-lettered Thai name of this building.

Question 14

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Chang Building

Question 15 ○ Li'l Abner was a satirical American comic strip which ran from

1934 to 1977. In it there is a character called Sadie Hawkins, said to be the homeliest gal in them hills.

○ Panicked by the thought of no one courting his daughter, Sadie’s father decreed a Sadie Hawkins day, in which all the town’s unmarried ladies chased after bachelors with the motive of holy matrimony.

○ High-schools and colleges across the US and Canada drew inspiration from this odd holiday, and came up with an idea which reversed an existing norm.

○ Name after Sadie Hawkins again, what is this and how does it defer from the traditional practice?

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○ Contrary to the popular custom, in a Sadie Hawkins dance, a female invites over a male for a dance.

Sadie Hawkins Dance

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