UTPT '10 General Quiz Finals - 1

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The Major Quiz


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Finals


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Oct 2nd

has come early!!

Dry Round


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1.

This is someone who gained prominence for

being the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan

References have been mad to him in a movie

from the mid-90s. Who he? (pics in next slide)


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Nathaniel Bedford Forrest


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2.

Whats so special about her win?


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Anna Rogowska Beating Yelena Isinbayeva

thus ending her winning streak


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3.

Yousuf Karsh was one of the most famous and accomplished

portrait photographers of all time.One of his most famous

photographs was that of X. X marched into the room scowling,

"regarding my camera as he might regard the enemy." His

expression suited Karsh perfectly, but something seemedincompatible with such a solemn and formal occasion, and Karsh

instinctively made appropriate changes. At this X's scowl deepened,

the head was thrust forward belligerently, and the hand placed on

the hip in an attitude of anger."X later said to him, "You can even

make a roaring lion stand still to be photographed." As such, Karshtitled the photograph, The Roaring Lion. Who X? Put fundae on the

changes made.


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Anybody got a Cigar??


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4.

In the match vs England,X came in the order

and, with his side comfortably in control,

started playing his shots from the word go.As

the inning progressed , Ian Chappell, sitting in

the commentary box, sent a text message to

Warne with the news. A panic reply came

back: Tell Chris (Tremlett), to bounce him. Hecant take short-pitched stuff. Put Funda


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Anil Kumble was on his way to his maiden

century


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5.

This is one of the healthiest things you can usefor your skin. The reason why this is so isbecause the salt and minerals which are

already present in high amounts in the waterget absorbed into the mud at the bottom asthe water goes on evaporating. Another verypowerful effect of using this mud is the fact

that as it dries, it pulls out any toxins that maybe present in your skin cells from youreveryday diet. (Pic)


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Dead Sea Mud


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6.

Origins of X

The area, said to have previously been a slave market, wasfirst settled in 1787 by 400 freed slaves and blackAmericans sent from England, under the auspices ofBritish

abolitionist, Granville Sharp.

Origins of Y

Y was named in imitation of X. The area was inhabited by the

Mpongw tribe long before the French acquired the landin 1839. In 1846, L'Elizia, a Brazilian ship carrying slaves forsale, was captured by the French navy near Loango. Theslaves were freed and founded Y


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X- Freetown, Sierra Leone

Y-Liberville,Gabon


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7.

Whats being parodied?


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8.

It certainly was a special moment for both

Gordon Richards(jockey) and Jack

Hobbs(Cricketer) when they were

knighted. It was a momentous occasion as it is

quite rare that people are knighted in that

manner. What was so special about the

occasion?


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They were on the Coronation Honours List of

Queen Elizabeth II


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Audience

In the first week of February 2009, Nisha

Susan, a journalist working for Tehelka

magazine started a Facebook group in protest

to something that happened in the state.

What happened over the next week became

an unprecedented movement, one of the

most effective nonviolent movements incontemporary India. Lets give them some

Love one message said. What was this

campaign?


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Write Maadi


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Answers


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2.

In essence, x is the idea that y is able to convince himself and othersto believe almost anything with a mix ofcharm, charisma, bluster,exaggeration, marketing and persistence. x is said to distort anaudience's sense of proportion or scale. Small advances areapplauded as breakthroughs. Interesting developments become

turning points, or huge leaps forward.

Impossible-seemingschedules, requirements or specifications are acceded to.

Snap judgments about technical merits of approaches aresometimes reversed without acknowledgment. Those who use theterm x contend that it is not an example of outright deception but

more a case of warping the powers of judgment. The term"audience" may refer to an individual whose attitudes y is intendingto affect.


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Reality distortion field, Steve Jobs


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3.

X has both currency and potential longevity, ChristineLindberg, senior lexicographer for Oxfords U.S. dictionaryprogram, said in the NOAD blog. In the online socialnetworking context, its meaning is understood, so itsadoption as a modern verb form makes this an interestingchoice for Word of the Year.

As in, One of the many ways to b**** slap someone on'Teh Interweb, as defined by Urban Dictionary, the officialWeb site of unofficial language where many a new wordmakes its debut long before Oxford and the othergatekeepers of the English language acknowledgenomenclature that comes to stay.


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unfriend


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Editor Carlo Antonelli said the 73-year-old had been chosen unanimously

for the unlikely honour in the Rolling Stone magazine.

'This year the choice was unanimous, for his obvious merits due to a

lifestyle for which the words "rock 'n roll" fall short. Rod Stewart, Brian

Jones, Keith Richards in their prime were schoolboys compared to him.

' The cover was designed by Shepard Farey, made famous for his posters for

Barack Obama in last years U.S. presidential elections.

The plaudit caps a tumultuous year for Ys personal life. A wave of

allegations followed claims he had attended model Noemi Letizia's 18th

birthday, reportedly buying her a golden necklace studded with diamonds

as a present.

Y has not directly commented, but has publicly acknowledged he is 'no

saint'.

Who y??


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5.

Y begins with a brief biography and timeline of Xs life with few causes forcomplaint. Unfortunately on page 9 the breathtaking inanity begins.

According to Comfort's website, "Nothing has been removed from Xsoriginal work. Anthropologist and executive director of the National

Center for Science Education, Dr.

Eugenie C.

Scott, reviewed the book andnoted that Comfort deleted four chapters by X that described theevidence for evolution.

She wrote that Y is "a hopeless mess of long-ago-refuted creationistarguments, teeming with misinformation about the science of evolution,populated by legions of straw men, and exhibiting what can be charitably

described as muddled thinking."Put funda


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In November 2009, Ray Comfort released a

creationist-edited version of Charles Darwin's

On the Origin of Species,(as the copyright

expired after 150 years) with a lengthy

foreword including his evangelical musings,

which include creationist arguments.


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zeppelin-inna-reggae-style


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7.

It was a donkey that made Raghu Rai want tobecome a photographer. He trained as a civilengineer in the early 1960s, but did the job for

a year in Delhi and hated it. His elder brotherwas already earning a living taking picturesand suggested Rai accompany a friend on ashoot to take photographs ofchildren in a

local village. When he got there, Rai's interestwas sparked not by the children but by adonkey foal in a nearby field.


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Was Rai thinking of his own four childrenwhen he was taking it? "No, I don't becomesentimental. At the time you see a tragedy, if

you worry about your own children, you getcarried away and it's not a good idea." But ishe never troubled by his role as a detachedwitness? "It is important to be a witness and

at times it's very painful. At times, you feelvery inadequate that you can only do so muchand no more."


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Bhopal Gas tragedy


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Observe and tell me what's being referenced?

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Audience


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LVC


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Negs of half the positives. No negs on the lastset


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Audience


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Still no thanni!


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1.

This passage is an example of an early form of

what?

The thyrde temptation that the deuyl maketh

to theym that deye. is by Impacyence: that is

ayenste charyte/ For by charyte ben holden

to loue god abouve alle thynges


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Punctuation.

The stroke (/) was used for marking word groups, the colon (:) for

marking distinct syntactic pauses, and the period (.) for marking

the ends of sentencesandbrief pauses.

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ajax nearby (from adjacent?)

basketthe bulge of male genitals through

clothes

bijou small

bona good

butch masculine;

campeffeminate (origin: KAMP = Known As

Male Prostitute)

carts/cartso penis

carsey toilet, also spelt khazi

chicken young boycharper search

charpering

omipoliceman

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cod naff, vile

cottagepublic loo (particularly with

reference to cottaging)

cottaginghaving or looking for sex in a

cottage

crimper hairdresser

dish buttocks

dizzy scatterbrained

dolly pretty, nice, pleasant

drag clothes, esp. women's clothes

fantabulosa wonderful

feele child

gelt money

handbag money


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g y

hoofer dancer

jarry food, also mangarie

kaffies trouserskhazi toilet, also spelt carsey

lallies legs

latty room, house or flat

lills hands

luppers fingers

mangarie food, also jarry

measures money

metzas money

riah/riha hair riah shusher hairdresser

scarper to run off (from Italian scappare, to escape)

sharpy policeman


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naff bad, drab (from Not Available For Fucking)

oglefakes glasses

ogles eyes

omi man

omi-polone effeminate man, or homosexual

palare pipe telephone

_________ chat, talk

polone woman


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shush steal (from client)shush bag holdall

shyker/shyckle wig

slap makeup

strillers piano

thews = thighs

trade sex

troll to walk about (esp. looking for trade)

vada/varda see

willets breasts


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Polari- Gay tongue

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One sad change that has taken place since this books was written. Mon.

Soliva, the husband of Tante Yvonne at Lambesc, has died and the restaurant

has closed. He was a delightful old man and we shall miss him.Otherwise,

life in ______ continues much as I have described it slow, hot and pleasant

in Summer; slow, cold and pleasant in the winter. We have lived here for

three years now without a days regret.

I have mixed feelings about the effects that the book has had on our lives. It

is always wonderful to receive letters from readers, and the letters have

come by the dozen, from places as varied as Beijing and Her MajestysPrison

at Wormwood Scrubs. It is sometimes less wonderful to find the reader on

the doorstep, book in hand and tongue hanging out for a glass or twoflattering, but often so unexpected that I have more than once been caught

literally with my trousers down. Signing books, dripping from the shower

and dressed in a towel, has been a novel experience.

Preface to the paperback edition


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Flags of Antarctica/ Antarctic regions

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John Ellis wrote in 1768, what you would call a cover story:"...and from the beautiful Appearance of its Milk-white flowers, and the

Elegance, thought it well deserved one of the Names of the Goddesses, and

therefore called it Dionaea."

The true reason that _______ is part of this plant's name due to the dirty

minds of the kooky naturalists and nuserymen (such as John & WilliamBartram). When they looked at the plant, they saw in its amazing behavior

and attractive form (two red, glistening lobes, surrounded by hairs, sensitive

to the touch), something that reminded them of female genitalia of their

own species. Indeed!

The two word name was thus awarded as a shady reference to feminine

charm.

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The Venus Flytrap


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The term X is derived from the Latin word______ meaning ______ (lit."rising). The use of the word for "rising" has analogs from many

languages: compare the terms "Levant" (< French levant"rising"),

"Anatolia" (< Greek anatole), "mizrahi" in Hebrew ("zriha" meaning

sunrise). Also, many ancient temples, such as the Jewish Temple in

Jerusalem, and also many pagan temples as well, were built

accordingly. To situate them in such a manner was to X them properly.The opposite term "Y" is derived from the Latin word _______ meaning

"_____" (lit. "setting" < "________" "fall/set"). This term is falling into

disuse in English.


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TheOrient and The Occident


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8.

The place guarded the western branch of a narrow

pass and an ancient trade route which connected the

lands of Egypt and Assyria.Because of its strategic

location at the crossroads of several major

routes,____ and its environs have witnessed several

major battles throughout history. The most notable

being battles fought by Egypt with other forces in the

ancient times, and more recently between the Britishand the Ottoman Empire in 1918. What is this place

which has a signifance of biblical proportions?


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Tel Megiddo , the site of the Armageddon

Audience


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Audience


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LAC


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Zoo Station- U2

Honolulu City Lights - Beamers

All that Jazz Chicago

I left my heart in San FransiscoTony Bennett

Khanabadosh London Dreams

New York, New York - Sinatra

Bombay Theme A R Rahman

Im Shipping up to Boston Dropkick Murphys


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Marathons

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