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Finals

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ROUND 1INFINITE BOUNCE - CLOCKWISE

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Q1.

Following a split and the beginning of a great rivalry, the enmity split the town of Herzogenaurach into two, leading to the nickname “the town of bent necks.”

Give the funda in 2 words or many.

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Q2.

How do you cope with losing your status as a child star once you're too big to be called cute? The strength of his brand is said to be worth €5m. He has been used to advertise sofas, electric razors and engine oil, and has boosted the shares his employer by 60%. He has been photographed by Annie Leibovitz for the cover of Vanity Fair and both Leonardo Di Caprio and Katie Holmes have taken appointments to meet him.

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Knut the Polar bear

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Q3.

The legend associated with the pagoda is that the Buddha, on one of his many visits, gave a strand of his hair to Taik Tha, a hermit. The hermit, who had tucked it in the tuft of his hair safely, in turn gave the strand to the King, with the wish that the hair be enshrined in a boulder shaped like the hermit's head. The King, had inherited super natural powers from his father who was well known as Zawgyi (a proficient alchemist) and the mother was a naga (serpent dragon) princess. They had found the rock at the bottom of the sea. With the help of the Thagyamin, the king of Tawadeintha Heaven in Buddhist cosmology, they found the perfect place to place it.

Identify this famous site.

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Kyaiktiyo (Golden Rock), Myanmar

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Q4.

The then president ordered the construction of _______, fulfilling an article of the country's constitution dating back to 1891 stating that the capital should be moved to a place close to the centroid of the country. The plan was originally conceived in 1827 by José Bonifácio, an advisor to Emperor Dom Pedro I. He presented a plan to the General Assembly for a new city called _________, with the idea of moving the capital westward from the heavily populated southeastern corridor. The bill was not enacted because Emperor Dom Pedro I dissolved the Assembly.

Identify the city.

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Q5.

The characteristic "double flash" was detected on September 22, 1979, at 00:53 GMT, The satellite reported the characteristic double flash of an atmospheric nuclear explosion of two to three kilotons, in the Indian Ocean between The Crozet Islands (a very small, sparsely inhabited French possession) and the Prince Edward Islands. There was, and remains, much doubt as to whether the satellite's observations were accurate, but many observers site this as evidence of what? Alternately give me the name of the incident.

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Vela Incident – South Africa Nuclear weapons programme

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Q6.

“...he has no ambition and no energy. He will not even go out of his way to verify his own solutions, and would rather be considered wrong than take the trouble to prove himself right. Again and again I have taken a problem to him, and have received an explanation which has afterwards proved to be the correct one. And yet he was absolutely incapable of working out the practical points...”

Identify the described individual as well as the narrator.

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Sherlock on Mycroft Holmes

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Q7.

Significance?

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Q8.

Both Germany (before World War I) and Belgium ruled the area in a colonial capacity. Like most Europeans before them, the Belgians believed that the X were originally not from sub-Saharan Africa but had migrated from Europe via northern Africa or from the Middle East, due to what they characterized as physical features they associated as Caucasian. As a result, they allowed only the X to be educated and only they could participate in the colonial government. Since the Y were the majority, such discriminatory policies engendered resentment. When the Belgians assumed control following World War I, they asked for advice from the Germans, who told them to continue promoting the X.

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X- Tutsi Y- Hutu

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Q9.

__ is an expression used to describe the apparent loss of certain fine motor skills seemingly without explanation in one of a number of different sports.Professional or leading amateur sportsmen affected by the __sometimes recover their ability, sometimes compensate by changing technique, or may be forced to abandon their sport at the highest level. Although the exact cause of the __ has yet to be determined, one possibility is that, in some golfers, the condition may result from biochemical changes in the brain that accompany aging. Excessive use of the involved muscles and intense demands of coordination and concentration may make the problem worse. Focal dystonia is mentioned as another possibility for the real cause of __.

In cricket, the __ applies mostly to bowlers and seems predominantly to affect left-arm spinners. The affliction seems to involve bowlers having trouble releasing the ball at the end of their action Ex: Harbhajan Singh, Colins Obuya, Gavin Hamilton

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Yips

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This map of the Mississippi river system in drawn in the style created by an engineering draftsman named Harry Beck in the 1930s. Beck replaced the existing geographical layout and made it into a non-geographic liner diagram. What is Harry Beck more famous for?

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Q10.

London Tube

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Q11.

The frenzy began after a Costa Rican newspaper asked Edén Pastora, a former Sandinista commander now in charge of dredging the river that divides the two countries, why 50 Nicaraguan soldiers had crossed the international frontier and taken up positions on a Costa Rican island.The ex-guerrilla invoked the ______ defense: pointing out that anyone who_______,the border could see that the island in the river delta was clearly on Nicaragua’s side.

This controversy sent _____ scrambling to fix the error.

Identify the blanks.

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Google Maps

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Q12.

The British Shorthair is a domesticated cat whose features make it a popular breed in cat shows. It has been the most popular breed of cat registered by the UK's Governing Council of the Cat Fancy (GCCF) since 2001, when it overtook the Persian breed. British Shorthairs are an easygoing breed of cat, and are know for their happy temperament. Rose to prominence recently. How?

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LOLCAT

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CLOSED LOOP CONNECT

10 points for every question answered, points for the connect are as follows:

1. +25/-202. +20/-153. +15/-104. +10/-55. +5

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Identify

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“We start by not ascribing to either Universal Declaration of Human Rights or the Costa Rica [Convention on Human Rights], but we have used their legal devices to unmask and denounce the old _____ state. . . . For us, human rights are contradictory to the rights of the people, because we base rights in man as a social product, not man as an abstract with innate rights. "Human rights" do not exist except for the bourgeois man, a position that was at the forefront of feudalism, like liberty, equality, and fraternity were advanced for the bourgeoisie of the past....

...with the experience of triumphant revolutions, with the construction of socialism, new democracy and the dictatorship of the proletariat, it has been proven that human rights serve the oppressor class and the exploiters who run the imperialist and landowner-bureaucratic states. Bourgeois states in general. . . . Our position is very clear. We reject and condemn human rights because they are bourgeois, reactionary, counterrevolutionary rights, and are today a weapon of revisionists and imperialists, principally Yankee imperialists.”

Who on what?

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Connect these 2 gentlemen

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Propoganda posters from which era?

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THE KEY COMPONENTS OF WHAT? People's war: The armed branch of the party must not be distinct from the

masses. To conduct a successful revolution the needs and demands of the masses must be the most important issues.

New Democracy: In backward countries, socialism cannot be introduced before the country has gone through a period in which the material conditions are improved. This cannot be done by the bourgeoisie, as its progressive character is long since replaced by a regressive character.

Contradictions: as the most important feature of society: Society is dominated by a wide range of contradictions. As these are different in nature, they must also be handled in different ways.

Cultural revolution: Bourgeois ideology is not wiped out by the revolution; the class-struggle continues, and even intensifies, during socialism. Therefore an instant struggle against these ideologies and their social roots must be conducted.

Three Worlds Theory: During the Cold War, two imperialist states formed the “first world”; the United States and the Soviet Union. The second world consisted of the other imperialist states in their spheres of influence. The third world consisted of the non-imperialist countries. Both the first and the second world exploit the third world, but the first world is the most aggressive part. The workers in the first and second world are “bought up” by imperialism, preventing socialist revolution. The people of the third world, on the other hand, have not even a short-sighted interest in the prevailing circumstances. Hence revolution is most likely to appear in third world countries, which again will weaken imperialism opening up for revolutions in other countries too.

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ANSWERS

1. Prachananda – Communist Party of Nepal 2. Alberto Guzman on Shining Light3. Charu Mazumdar and Kanu Sanyal – CPI

Peoples War 4. Great Leap Forward5. Maoism

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THEME

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EXPLORERS AND ADVENTURERSWRITTEN ROUND – 10 POINTS FOR

EACH CORRECT ANSWER

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His service life was filled with various escapades, including an occasion when offended by the construction of an ugly concrete dam built by 20th Century Fox for the production of the film Doctor Dolittle in the Wiltshire village of Castle Combe — reputedly the prettiest village in England — _____ planned to demolish the dam. He used explosives which he later claimed to have accumulated from leftovers on training exercises. Using skills from a recently completed training course on evading search dogs by night, he escaped capture, but he and a guilty colleague were both subsequently traced.

More famous for his adventures after his “illustrious” army career. He is also remembered for an incident where after sustaining severe frostbite to his fingers,

his surgeon insisted the necrotic fingertips be retained for several months (to allow regrowth of the remaining healthy tissue) before amputation. Impatient at the pain the dying fingertips caused, ____attempted to remove them himself (in his garden shed) with a fretsaw; this didn't work so he picked up a Black & Decker in the "village" with a micro blade and cut them off just above where the blood & the soreness were.

Identify the gentleman.

Q1.

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Q2. Identify this legendary

“object”.

Only precise answers will be accepted

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Q3.

A ________traditionally refers to a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire or such a site where a camp may be built. It is also commonly used to describe a variety of improvised camp sites such as those used in scouting and mountain climbing. It may often refer to sleeping in the open with a _____sack, but it may also refer to a shelter constructed of natural materials like a structure of branches to form frame may be utilized, which is then covered with leaves, ferns and similar for waterproofing and duff (also known as leaflitter) for insulation.

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Q4.A list of some of his achievements (non-exhaustive) are as follows:

1. First ascent of the then Unclimbed Rupal face of Nanga Parbat

2. Solo ascent of Diamir face of Nanga Parbat

3. First person to ascend all 8000 metre peaks (all peaks were without the use of supplemental oxygen)

4. First winter ascent of Cho Oyu

5. Crossing of Greenland (diagonal crossing) on foot (2200 km.)

His landmark high-altitude alpine-style climbs liberated both the individual climber, by showing alternatives to the hugely encumbered and expensive classic expeditions, as well as the mountains themselves.

Identify this legendary mountaineer.

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__________ explored most of the unknown territories of the Central Asia and Tibet beyond theGreat Himalayas. His collected scientific information about the geography of these regions provided amajor contribution in the mapping of the Central Asia. He mapped the trade route through Nepal to Tibet, determined for the first time the location and altitude of Lhasa, and mapped a large section of the Brahmaputra (or Tsangpo).

Colonel Yule, addressing the Royal Geographic Society at the time of its presentation of the Society'sGold Medal to ________, said, "It is not a topographical automaton, or merely one of a great multitude of native employees with an average qualification. His observations have added a larger amount of important knowledge to the map of Asia than those of any other living man!"

___________ was a man of strong character – where others admitted defeat, he persisted. Due to theclandestine nature of his work and because he was a ‘Spy Explorer’, his great and important discoveries never gained the proper recognition. As he worked for the British, after independence his work and contribution was not given due recognition by the Indian government.

Identify this legendary explorer.

Q5.

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Q6.

The _____ consisted of a float chamber filled with gasoline for buoyancy, with a separate pressure sphere. This configuration, allowed for a free dive, rather than the previous designs in which a sphere was lowered to depth and raised from a ship by cable.

At the time of Project Nekton, the _______ was more than 15 m (50 ft) long. The majority of this was a series of floats filled with 85,000 liters (22,500 gallons) of gasoline, and water ballast tanks were included at either end of the vessel, as well as releasable iron ballast in two conical hoppers along the bottom, fore and aft of the crew sphere. The crew occupied the 2.16 m (7.09 ft) pressure sphere, attached to the underside of the float and accessed from the deck of the vessel by a vertical shaft that penetrated the float and continued down to the sphere hatch.

Identify and what was this used for?

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ANSWERS

Ranulph Fiennes North Face of Eiger Bivouac Reinhold Meisner Nain Singh Rawat Trieste - Bathyscape used to explore the

Mariana Trench

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ROUND 4 INFINITE BOUNCE – ANTI-CLOCKWISE

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Q1.

As the incident was transpiring, X(‘s) brother (Y) who was commentating, instinctively reacted by saying “No X! You can’t do that.” After the incident too he remained critical of X.

Identify X, Y and the incident (NO PART POINTS).

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X- Greg Chappell Y- Ian Chappell Underarm bowling incident

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A classic poem of that era, along with its hidden meaning is given below. Which famous even is it referring to?

Poem:

Awoken from sleep

of a peaceful quiet world

by Jokisen tea;

with only four cups of it

one can't sleep even at night.

Hidden meaning:

The steam-powered ships

break the halcyon slumber

of the Pacific;

a mere four boats are enough

to make us lose sleep at night.

Q2.

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Commodore Perry and the blockade of Japan

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Q3.

The story of its origins lies with a man named Kundan Lal Gujral, who ran a restaurant called _____ _____in Peshawar before the partition of British India. Trying out new recipes to keep his patrons interested, Gujral tried cooking chicken in tandoors used by locals until then to cook naan. The rest we can safely say is history. Identify this legendary restaurant.

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Moti Mahal

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Q4.

Identify, exact answers please

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Battle of the Bulge

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Q5.

The Royals also gave ______ a $33,000 signing bonus, a far cry from his childhood days when he was too poor to afford a basketball. _______ soon proved worthy of their trust, continuing to dominate his opposition on the professional level. In his rookie season, ______finished with incredible all-around stats of 30.5 points, 10.1 rebounds and 9.7 assists (leading the league), almost averaging a triple-double for the entire season. For his spectacular performance, he was named NBA Rookie of the Year. In the 1961–62 season, ________wrote NBA history. In that season, he became the only player in NBA history to average a triple-double for the entire season, averaging 30.8 points, 11.4 assists and 12.5 rebounds per game. Other than his achievements “on the court” _____is also famous for his achievements “in the court.” Identify this legend, also commonly known as “Mr. Triple Double”

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Oscar Robertson

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Q6.

The flag of X, is derived from the taijitu symbol and has three parts: a white background; a red and blue taegeuk in the centre; and four black trigrams, one in each corner of the flag.The white background symbolises "cleanliness of the people." The Taegeuk represents the origin of all things in the universe; holding the two principles of yin and yang in perfect balance.

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South Korea

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Q7.

This bird is a restricted-range endemic found locally in India in the Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh. It was first recorded in the mid 19th century; it was then considered to be extinct for more than 80 years, until it was rediscovered in 1986 at Cuddapah District, Andhra Pradesh. It was rediscovered by Bharat Bhushan, an ornithologist at the Bombay Natural History Society

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Jerdons Courser

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Q8.

Flag of?

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Orange Free State

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Q9.

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Cathedral – Mosque of Cordoba or Mezquita

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Q10.

It consisted of six dhow "sails" projecting up to the sky, which came together to hold a _____ at the top. The six sails designated the Gulf Cooperation Council's six member nations, while the _____ symbolized their united heritage and the country's famous history of _____ cultivation. At the base of the monument was a dodecagonal pool with fountain jets.

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Pearl Monument - Bahrain

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Q11.

________was born in Allahabad. His father was a wrestler. His mother died when he was four. He had to learn music without his father's knowledge, for his father wanted him to become a wrestler. He did go to the Akhada and train with his father for some time, although he also started learning music, and practicing at his friend's house. He often credits his wrestling training for giving him the immense stamina that are the hallmarks of his style, stating that,

“ I was not any good at wrestling. I went there only to please my father. But maybe because of the strength and stamina I built up then, I'm able to play.”

Identify the musician.

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Q12.

According to the legend of Ala-ud-din’s war exploits, the name _____ given to the Fort was because the foundation of the fort was built on the severed heads of about 8,000 Mongol soldiers killed in the war.

Another version of the legend refers to the war crimes committed by Allauddin when the Mongol army was defeated and the captured soldiers were brought to ______and trampled by elephants, then their severed heads were hung on the walls of the ______Fort.

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Sirri fort (Delhi)

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ROUND 5INFINITE BOUNCE - CLOCKWISE

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Explain the funda

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A means peace B means war During a visit to the UN by the President of

the Phillipines, the US government mistakenly flew the flag upside down behind the president of the Phillipines

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Q2.

Identify

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Nick Park –Wallace and Gromit

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Q3.

____, shocked a Trinidad audience when he pulled an underage girl on stage and simulated sexual intercourse during a concert performance. ___ got the girl and several others to dance with him onstage by claiming that he was hosting a contest for best dancer, and that the winner would receive a trip to Africa. The singer later admitted that the contest was in fact fake. In order to apologize for his misdemeanour, ____ then wrote a chart topping song. Name the artist and the song

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Akon Sorry, Blame it on me

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Q4.

"I actually didn't realise it until someone pointed out that I really like guys that are green. I have no idea why that is. Maybe it’s that Hollywood is struggling to have an affinity to guys of any other colour. It’s not my fault. I’m just making the movies they’re making!”

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Cameron Diaz – The Mask, Shrek, Green Hornet

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Q5.

Biblical nickname of the sportsperson below inspired Nike to make special T-Shirt with this logo for him, to go with the nickname. Who? Give nickname.

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King James

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The name for these moths is said to come from 2 possible sources- A Titan of Greek Mythology- The resemblance of the patterns on their wings to something.

They are the largest members of the moth family and are cultivated in India for their silk.

Name please.

Q6.

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Atlas Moth

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ROUND 6INFINITE BOUNCE – ANTI-CLOCKWISE

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Q1.

Because of shortages of buses, trains, spare parts and fuel, Cuba’s transit system only accommodates 14 percent of the passengers it moved in the 1980s, before Soviet subsidies dried up.

Under the _________ system more than 2,200 transportation inspectors are assigned to 1,034 designated stands or rest stops across Cuba

The service costs only 3 pesos (15 cents) for the longest trips.

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hitchhikers

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Q2 Follows a description of the mouth of a creature Y by X

...the Y has what we may call its head and mouth down below, and a place for the issue of the residuum up above. The Y has, also, five hollow teeth inside, and in the middle of these teeth a fleshy substance serving the office of a tongue. Next to this comes the esophagus, and then the stomach, divided into five parts, and filled with excretion, all the five parts uniting at the anal vent, where the shell is perforated for an outlet... In reality the mouth-apparatus is continuous from one end to the other, but to outward appearance it is not so, but looks like a horn lantern with the panes of horn left out.

The creature Y is named after the old English for spiny hedgehogs which they resemble and due to the accuracy of the above description, its mouth is also called X’s Lantern

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X: Aristotle Y: Sea Urchin

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Q3.

All these can be seen merged into the beliefs of X. The chain the X wear comes from the Rudraksha chain of the Shaivites. The strict fasting, penance and continence is taken out of the beliefs of the Vaishnavites. Ahimsa is taken from the Jainists. The constant and repeated utterance of prayers reminds one of the Buddhists. The offering of tobacco to _______ can be considered to be taken from the Shaktists

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Sabrimala

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Q4.

X was born in Zürich and spent his childhood and youth in Schaffhausen. He became known to his high school friends as Klecks, or "_____" since, like many other young people in his native country, he enjoyed Klecksography, the making of fanciful ______ "pictures." Unlike his classmates, however, X would go on to make _____ his life's work.

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Roscharch

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Q5. The voluntarily unfinished aspect of the 60m high tower

carries heavy symbolism, as it is oriented eastwards of the continent, from which by the time of the completion of the building no one participated.

Urban legends and Internet memes have long alleged that its design consciously mirrors the X by Y (the Vienna version), and although unfounded, the rumor has entered mainstream media.

It is alleged that the Z is clearly saying symbolically that their goal is a defiant reversal of an act of God. The prophecy of Daniel chapter 2 tells us that this end-time attempt at unification will ultimately fail as an unfinished work, that it will soon be replaced by the Kingdom of God.

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European Seat of Parliament in Strasbourg

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X: Tower of Babel Y: Bruegel Z: European Union

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Q6. A X is a passage situated below or behind a tier of seats

in an amphitheatre, through which crowds can exit at the end of a performance. Despite their association with Ancient Rome, X are still found in some theatres, and many sports stadiums. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, for instance, has X in two of its theatres.

According to Cicero, Julius Caesar escaped an assassination attempt because he felt sick after dinner; instead of going to the latrine, where his assassins were waiting, he went to his bedroom and so avoided assassination on that occasion. However, the term X does not appear until the 4th century AD, about 400 years after Caesar and Cicero.

Probably X is the reason why this misconception arose.

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Vomatorium

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CLOSED LOOP CONNECT

10 points for every question answered, points for the connect are as follows:

1. +30/-252. +25/-203. +20/-154. +15/-105. +10/-56. +5

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ANSWERS

Conrad "Nicky" Hilton Michael Wilding Michael Todd Eddie Fisher Ardeshir Zahedi Richard Burton

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THEME

Husbands of Elizabeth Taylor

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