F.L.A.M.E. Quiz

1.
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Mr. Tushar read an article in the Times of India in 1995 that something
(X) which rightfully belongs to his family was stored in a bank vault in
the Bank of Orissa and had been there for 49 years then.
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The bank managers and government contested for months that it was
a hoax, blocking his access to the vault. After months of court hearings
and a hunger strike the Supreme Court finally ruled that X was
authentic, and authorized their release to the Mr. Tushar’s family.
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What am I referring to ?
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The incident inspired a movie called Road To Sangam(2009) starring
Paresh Rawal, Om Puri and Pawan Malhotra.

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X-Gandhiji’s Ashes.
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Mr. Tushar is Tushar Gandhi, the leader’s
great-grandson.
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When Gandhiji died, his ashes were kept in urns
and sent all over India to be immersed. One urn
however was kept in the Bank of Orissa branch
and was forgotten.

3.
Described as Britain’s Andy Warhol, he is not only the most
celebrated graffiti artist of the country but also the most elusive
criminal because graffiti is illegal in Britain.
He is so secretive that even his agent is not sure who he is. He claims
to have been inspired from the French graffiti legend Blek le Rat. A
few of his creations follow.

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4.Whose bust is Nitish Kumar bowing to in the picture?

5.
The lady and the gentleman (images next slide)were seated next to each
other on a flight from Paris to London in 1981. The lady had just placed
her straw bag in the overhead compartment of her seat, but the contents
fell to the floor, leaving her to scramble to replace the contents. The lady
then complained about something and sat down.
This incident inspired the man to create something and three years later
he came up with the product which was named after the lady. What am I
talking about?

Hermes Birkin Bag
One of the most recognized bags in the
fashion industry and by the public it is highly
coveted and, for several years, was reputed
for having a waiting list of up to six years –
the longest wait for any bag in history.
The lady btw is actress Jane Birkin

6.
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X would sometimes be portrayed as an ancient organisation. This was
essentially a myth, In one generally discounted legend it arose out of
the Sicilian Vespers(uprising against the king Charles 1) in 1282 when
the natives rose up and and murdered French troops, supposedly
shouting “Morte alla Francia Italia anela” (Death to the French is Italy's
cry).
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This cannot possibly be true because the Sicilians of the time would
not have considered themselves Italians(Kingdom of Italy came about
way later in 1861) or spoken the dialect in which the phrase is written.
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Da faq?

MAFIA
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Morte alla Francia Italia anela

7.
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The protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
X is among the first and most important female protagonists
in American literature. The adultery she committed when
her husband was thought lost at sea leads Boston's Puritan
authorities to brand her with the bright red "A" of the title.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Updike says the book still
makes him cry. The novelist has written a trilogy of novels
based on characters from The Scarlet Letter.
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Id X

8.
First published (although privately) in 1928 this book has
been as controversial in the past as The Satanic Verses
has been in the 90’s, if not more.
It is about the story of the physical relationship between a
working class man and an upper class woman with explicit
descriptions of sex and its use of then unprintable words.
Penguin Books was prosecuted for publishing an unedited
version of the book in 1960. The verdict however was in
Penguin’s favour and was a crucial step towards the
freedom of the written word. Identify

9.
X is one of the 25 local government districts that make up the city of
Seoul in South Korea. The word X literally means ‘South of the (Han)
River’.
It is considered as the national capital of education, which is one of the
decisive factors to make it the most attractive destination in South
Korea.
Widely known for its heavily concentrated wealth and high standard of
living, it has been compared to cities such as Beverly Hills, California.
The city inspired something that became world famous recently. What?

12.
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"Cooking food and presenting it beautifully is an act of
servitude. It is a way of expressing affection through a gift...
That we should aspire to produce perfectly finished and
presented food is a symbol of a willing and enjoyable
participation in servicing others. Food Y exactly sustains these
meanings relating to the preparation of food. The kinds of
picture used always repress the process of production of a
meal. They are always beautifully lit, often touched up."
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Origin of which term?

13.
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In the Kindle Library there are 29,526 free e-books with
most of them being in the public domain. They are
divided into many categories with only one being in
the 'Gay and Lesbian' category. Which one?

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“I came in with _____ _____in 1835. It is coming again
next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the
greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out
with _____ _____. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now
here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in
together, they must go out together.‘” A few months
later, in his 76th year, Mark Twain died.
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What was he talking about?

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Which was the first Indian film to be adapted from a Stephen King
novel? According to the director of the film, the film failed because, it
was considered much ahead of its time, courtesy of its dark and
unusual storyline comprising with elements of surrealism, fantasy,
dream, reality, horror and dark humour which left critics and the
cinema-goers baffled, this was frowned upon by Indian audiences, as it
was unconventional, pretentious and they had never seen anything like
it.
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The film went on to garner a cult following and remains the only
Bollywood film which can have multiple interpretations. As a matter of
fact, the story has nothing to do with the title according to the director.

17.
The name of this Hindustani Classical music Gharana
is often mistaken to have its origins from an
occupation. In reality it is named after a town in the
Shamli district of Uttar Pradesh. Id.

20.
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Claude Van Damme/Volvo

21.
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Most Interesting Man in the
World

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Name all the Indian films in the latest IMDB top-250
list.
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Two films, though having Indian subjects and Indian
actors were foreign productions. Name them as well.

Top 250
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Swades
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Slumdog Millionnaire
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Lagaan
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Gandhi
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Rang de basanti
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3 Idiots
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Taare Zameen Par

Many people from different walks of life are featured in X.
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Movie stars Brando, Monroe, Weissmuller etc.
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Writers Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde etc.
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Psychiatrist Carl Jung, Physicist Einstein.
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Musician Bob Dylan, Comedian Lenny Bruce.
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A few inanimate objects including a garden gnome, idol of Goddess Lakshmi
were also present.
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Figures that were removed included Adolf Hitler and quite conversely Gandhi.
Also excluded was Jesus Christ because of something that happened a few
year earlier.

In the 2005 series of Big Brother (UK), a housemate
was required to enter a Room 101 to complete
tedious and unpleasant tasks.
This is one of the many examples of the name Room
101 being used to represent unpleasant things.
From which famous fictional work did this place
originate

1984 by George Orwell.
It is a torture chamber in the Ministry of Love in
which the Party attempts to subject a prisoner to his
or her own worst nightmare, fear or phobia.

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On December 2006 a dress was auctioned at Christie's which described it
as "a sleeveless, floor-length gown with fitted bodice embellished at the
back with distinctive cut-out décolleté, the skirt slightly gathered at the
waist and slit to the thigh on one side, labelled inside on the waistband
Givenchy; accompanied by a pair of black elbow-length gloves". The sale
price was estimated by the auction house to have ended somewhere
between 50K-70K Pounds, but the final price was 467,200
Pounds($923,187). The money raised in the auction of the black dress
ended in helping the poor people of Calcutta to build a school. It so
happened that Givenchy, the designer of the dress, had donated the dress
to Dominique Lapierre, the author of the book City of Joy, and his wife for
raising funds for the charity. Da Faq?

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The X effect is a term that has been used by a number of different
scholars, journalists and film critics to refer to contradictory
interpretations of the same events by different persons, a problem
that arises in the process of uncovering truth. The phrase derives
from the movie X, where four witnesses' accounts of a rape and
murder are all different. The Simpsons,Spongebob,South
Park,HIMYM,Grey's Anatomy, Arrested Development, Vantage
Point(the movie) have all used the effect.
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The term was in news recently in relation to the missing Malaysian
Airline flight MH370. Id

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The Imagine Peace Tower(image next slide) located on Viðey
Island in Kollafjörður Bay near Reykjavík, Iceland. It consists of a
tall tower of light, projected from a white stone monument that
has the words "Imagine Peace" carved into it in 24 languages.
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The Tower consists of 15 searchlights with prisms that act as
mirrors, reflecting the column of light vertically into the sky from a
10-metre wide wishing well.It often reaches cloudbase and indeed
can be seen penetrating the cloud cover. On a clear night it
appears to reach an altitude of at least 4000m.
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Who dedicated this to whom?

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This can be called a precursor to the denial of service
attacks though its versions still exist today. Instead of
computers, fax machines were "attacked". The attack
was a very simple one and it could be slightly modified
to run an infinite loop. What was the attack called?
Give funda

Black Fax Attack
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The term black fax refers to a
prank fax transmission,
consisting of one or more
pages entirely filled with a
uniform black tone. The
sender's intention is typically
to consume as much of the
recipient's fax ink, toner, or
thermal paper as possible, thus
costing the recipient money
and/or denying the recipient
the use of their machine.

Dear X :
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It’s a bit odd writing someone whom I’ve never met but with whom I’ve
already recorded a record. I really enjoyed the opportunity to do the
record—it’s a great honor to be pictured alongside you on the back cover.
I am writing you now regarding the possibility of your appearing alongside
my band (Nirvana) in the first video from our new album, “In Utero.”
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….............................................. Most importantly, I wanted you to know
that this request is not based on a desire to exploit you in any way. I
realize that stories in the press regarding my drug use may make you
think that this request comes from a desire to parallel our lives. Let
me assure you that this is not the case. As a fan and student of your
work, I would cherish the opportunity to work directly with
you............Having said that, let me reiterate how much I would like to
make this happen......... I am available to discuss this with you at your
convenience.Thank you very much for your consideration.
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Best regards,
Kurt Cobain

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For a crime of this magnitude six months was a notoriously small
sentence.
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Put on trial, the court agreed to some extent that Vincenzo Peruggia
committed his crime for patriotic reasons and gave him a lenient
sentence. He was sent to jail for one year and fifteen days, but was
hailed as a great patriot in Italy and served only seven months in jail.
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However many at the time did not realise that the 'patriot' argument
was invalid because the thing he 'stole back' was not actually stolen
in the first place.
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What crime?

Stealing the Mona Lisa
Bonus
Question

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In 1943, Hitler created the Sonderauftrag Linz (Special
Assignment Linz) to set up an X for the Austrian city of the same
name on the banks of the Danube river. It was almost exclusively
financed by funds earned through sales of Hitler's book "Mein
Kampf" and from special stamps showing his portrait.
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Thoug it never came to fruition, the Nazi efforts to set up X
caused unimaginable damage. The Allied armies set up a group Y
to try and undo some of the damage. In 2014 a movie based on
the lives of the members of Y was made, though it failed to make
an impact. Id.

X-Führermuseum(Art Museum) Y-The Monuments Men

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Approximately 20% of the art in Europe was looted by
the Nazis, and there are well over 100,000 items that
have not been returned to their rightful owners.[38]
The majority of what is still missing includes everyday
objects such as china, crystal or silver.

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Designed and built by sculptor Douglas Hollis from
1982–83, X(image next slide) features 12 steel tower
structures, inside of which hang organ pipes of varying
lengths that produce low tones when the wind blows
around and through them. At the top of the towers,
horizontal steel vanes catch the wind and rotate the
pipes. X is in Seattle, Washington and attracts many
tourists because it lends its name to something famous
from Seattle. What?

Which movie would complete the list?

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In 1978, in large part because of the public campaign to restore the
landmark by Hugh Hefner, the organisation maintaining it set out to replace
its severely deteriorated 'parts' with a more permanent structures. There
were 9 parts in all and finally 9 donors gave $27,777 each to restore each
of the parts. The donors were
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Terrence Donnelly(a newspaper publisher),Giovanni Mazza(Italian movie
producer),Les Kelley – originator of the Kelley Blue Book,Gene Autry –
actor,Hugh Hefner,Andy Williams – singer,Warner Bros. Records,Alice Cooper
– singer, who donated in memory of close friend and comedian Groucho
Marx,Thomas Pooley — donated in the name of Matthew Williams.
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What was thus restored?

In India which great piece of art can be found only at
the folowing three locations
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In the Sri Venkateswara University campus, Tirupati,
Andhra Pradesh
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In the Thinker's Park at Jawaharlal Institute of
Postgraduate Medical Education and Research,
Pondicherry, Puducherry
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at Nalsar University of Law.

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What did the man to to become the
smartest person in the world? Only three or
four people have previously done what he
did and described in this book.

Read the entire Encyclopaedia
Britannica

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On the left are two
possible programs to
check if a number is
prime. The second pic
is the program to
display the first 100
Fibonacci Numbers
while the one on the
below is the Hello
World program. Which
programming
language?
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Natir Puja was a play by Tagore that was first
performed in 1927. A movie version of the play came
out in 1932 when B. N. Sircar, an Indian film producer
and the founder of New Theatres Calcutta sought
Tagore's permission to transform the play into cinema
under his New Theatres banner. Which legendary
Indian did the transformation and was credited as the
director of the film making this the only film where he's
credited as the director.

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X and Y are world renowened authors and were once best
friends. Both have towered over the Latin American literary
world for decades yet they sit at opposite ends of the
ideological spectrum, but that is not the reason why Y
punched X one night in 1976 at a Mexican cinema. The feud
arose because X advised Y's wife to leave her husband. X and
Y would not speak to each other for the next three decades.
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Six years after the incident X would go on to win the Nobel
Prize while in 2007 Y received his Nobel Prize.

X-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Y-Mario Vargas Llosa

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A X cup is a form of drinking cup that forces its user to
drink only in moderation. Credited to X, it allows the
user to fill the cup with wine or any other drink for that
matter up to a certain level. If he fills the cup only to
that level, the imbiber may enjoy a drink in peace. If he
exhibits gluttony, however, the cup spills its entire
contents out of the bottom (onto the lap of the
immodest drinker).

When the first copy of Don was out, Salim Khan (of the
Salim-Javed duo) decided to show the film to Manoj
Kumar.Manoj though impressed with the film, felt that
the second half was very fast and needed some kind of
a break. Even Salim-Javed felt that it was a valid point
that he made.
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What 'break' was added to the film's second half?
(Question Courtsey-Prateek Jain)

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We saw this in Memento's box art.
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Every year, ESPN The Magazine has an issue called
"Revenge of the Jocks" where a famous athlete takes
over as editor for that issue. The front cover features
the athlete being a part of this.
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Stephen Colbert's portrait on The Colbert Report is
slowly becoming an example of this.
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“When I was in England, I had seen advertisements about
typing agents; I had learnt that if you really want to make a
good impression, you should have your anuscript well typed.
So, foolishly,from igeria, I parceled my manuscript-handwritten,
by the way , and the only copy in the whole world-wrapped it
up and posted it to this typing agency that advertised in the
Spectator.“
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Which landmark work was almost lost this way had it not been
for the author's boss who, while visiting London made sure that
the agency send the typed copy back?

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In 1966, restaurant owner and chef Alain Zick committed suicide becase
of this.
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In 2003 another great chef Bernard Loiseau committed suicide because he
feared this would happen. (It eventually did not)
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Both were counted among the world's best chefs during their time. So
what was it that prompted both to commit suicide?
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Some say that the reason could not possibly be true. But a similar case,
predating the latter suicide by almost 250 years only proves how serious
the French are about their food.Francois Vatel fell on his sword when he
was told the fish wouldn't arrive in time for the feast he prepared for King
Louis XIV.

Losing the Michelin 3-Star status

“I’ve become more and more convinced that [Stan Lee] knowingly
stole The X-Men from X. Over the years I learned that an awful lot of
writers and artists were working surreptitiously between [Marvel and
DC]. Therefore from when I first brought the idea into [DC editor]
Murray Boltinoff’s office, it would’ve been easy for someone to walk
over and hear that [I was] working on a story about a bunch of
reluctant superheroes who are led by a man in a wheelchair. So over
the years I began to feel that Stan had more lead time than I realized.
He may well have had four, five or even six months.“-Arnold
Drake(Series writer for X)
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What is X?

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The Garden of the Hesperides is Hera's orchard in the west, where
either a single tree or a grove of immortality-giving golden apples
grew. (In Greek mythology Hera is Zeus's wife.)
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X was a term used to refer to a an unnamed fruit in a very famous
biblical tale. However because of the influence of the story of golden
apples from the Garden of Hesperides, the fruit became an apple.
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In later years it was thought that the "golden apples" might have
actually been Y. Under this assumption, the Greek botanical name
chosen for all fruits similar to Y was Hesperidoeidē ("hesperidoids").
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X and Y?

X Forbidden Fruit-Apple
Y Orange. the Greek botanical name chosen for all citrus
species was Hesperidoeidē (Ἑσπεριδοειδῆ, "hesperidoids").

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Italian American Joseph Valachi was the first Mafia member to
publicly acknowledge the existence of the Mafia. During his
testimony in 1963 he said that the real name of the Mafia is X.
At the time, it was understood as a proper name, fostered by
the FBI and disseminated by the media. The designation gained
wide popularity in the USA and almost replaced the term Mafia.
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The rest of the English speaking world was introduced to the
term by The Godfather by Mario Puzo.
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Which term meaning 'our thing' is being talked about here?

Australia did it in 1972. India should have done it in
1994 had it not been for this lady(image next slide).
However as fate would have had it, India achieved the
feat only six years later.

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Only time in history when participants from the same
country have won the three biggest beauty pageants,
Miss Universe, Miss World and Miss Asia Pacific
International.
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1994-Rai/Sen
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2000-Dutta/Chopra/Mirza
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The lady is Shweta Menon, actress and model. She
incidently finished fourth in the Miss India Paegant.

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Marcel Duchamp is famous the world over for his
"readymades".(Example next slide)
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They are basically ordinary manufactured objects that the
artist selected and modified, as an antidote to what he called
"retinal art" art that was only visual. One such readymade is
called L.H.O.O.Q. To make this he simply added a goatee and a
moustache to a lady's image who was 'hot in the arse'. The
letters L.H.O.O.Q. when pronounced in French form the
sentence "Elle a chaud au cul", literally "She is hot in the
arse". Which lady?

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Mungerilal Ke Haseen Sapne(image next slide) was a
popular Hindi TV comedy serial directed by Prakash
Jha. It revolved around the life of Mungerilal, played by
Raghubir Yadav. The serial was written by Manohar
Shyam Joshi, who also wrote Hum Log and Buniyaad.
Last year Prakash Jha said that he wanted to make a
movie based on the story and wanted Ranbir Kapoor to
essay the role of Mungerilal. The show was based on a
literary work by a certain James Thurber. Which?

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X is a nickname for the city Y. The term X was popularised
in early 1900s by a John J. Fitz Gerald, a sports writer for a
local newspaper, although the first instance of it being
used for Y is not known.
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Previously there were a number of false
etymologies,including a claim that the term derived from a
brothel in the city whose madam was known as Eve.
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X was used in a promotional campaign in the 1970s by the
city's official tourism organisation.

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The Kochel Catalogue is a complete, chronological
catalogue of compositions by X, which was originally
created by Ludwig von Köchel. It is abbreviated K. or
KV. For example, if a composition was, according to
Köchel's counting, the 626th piece X composed. Thus,
the piece is designated K. 626 or KV 626. Köchel
catalogue numbers are not only an attempt to
establish a chronology of X's works, but also provide a
helpful shorthand to refer to them.

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Where would you find the three gentleman together?

Steven Spielberg/Jeffery Katzenberg/David Geffen

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A X is a short, sometimes sleeveless, loose-fitting
nightgown intended as nightwear for women. It
sometimes has loose-fitting skirt falling in length usually
between the upper thigh and the belly button. Sometimes
it is made of sheer or translucent fabric like nylon or
chiffon or silk. (images next slide)

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In the late 1960s this show started as "Mysteries Five".
To make the concept less scary the a new central
character was included and the show was now called
"Who-s-s-scared?". Initially it as named "Too Much" and
had been the eventual name of the character had it
not been for a song which the producer heard around
the same time. "Too Much" was changed to X and so
was the title "Who-s-s-scared?". X came from the song.

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Fred
Silverman,the
producer fell in
love with the
“doo-be-doo-be
-doo” scat at the
end of the song
and changed the
dogs name to
“Scooby-Doo,”

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