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Quiz
Suyash
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Answer
• Apple
• Old logos of each one.
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• Hunting for
– Chamois eggs
– Wolpertingers
– Savage jackelope
– Rattlesnake eggs
• “X hunting”: A single phrase describing all of
them.
• X is also the origin of a term related to
shooting.
Answer
• Snipe hunting
• Gives rise to “sniper”
• A snipe is a difficult-to-catch family of
shorebirds.
Q - Connect
Against Idleness And Mischief
Isaac Watts
How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!
The Old Man's Comforts
And How He Gained Them
Robert Southey
'You are old, Father William,' the young man said,
'And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head Do you think, at your age, it is right?'
The Star
Jane Taylor
Speak Gently
G. W. Langford
Twinkle, twinkle, little bat
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly
Like a tea-tray in the sky.
Speak roughly to your little boy,
And beat him when he sneezes:
He only does it to annoy,
Because he knows it teases.
Answer
• Alice in wonderland/ Through the looking
glass
• All poems parodied
• True title/authors, parodied content.
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• Why is this building famous?
A
• Giant functional metronome in Prague.
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• Alan Smithee (1967-2000) , Director
– First film “Death of a Gunfighter” (1969)
– Directed only certain “genres” of films, for eg.
Many movies shown on planes.
– Credited with making movies, tv series, music
videos etc.
– Last movie “An Alan Smithee Film: Burn
Hollywood Burn “ (1998)
– Name is an anagram of “The Alias Men”.
A
• Not a real director
• Name used when director is not given creative
control, and does not want to take
responsibility for the film
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A
• Sri Mahila Griha Udyog.
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• Controversy in 1999 about X carrying a woman’s
handbag.
• X was claimed to be a gay symbol due to
– His color, which is the gay pride color.
– Triangular antenna, the gay pride symbol.
• Comment:”X is neither gay nor straight”.
• Polish Ombudsman- “The opinion of a leading
sexologist, who maintains that this series has no
negative effects on a child's psychology, is
perfectly credible.”
A
• Teletubbies
– Tinky Winky
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• Shirley Mason suffered from multiple personality
disorder with reportedly up to 16 co-existing
personalities.
• Her case gave rise to a computer security term, X
• X describes a way wherein a reputation system is
subverted by forging identities in peer-to-peer
networks by creating a large number of
pseudonymous entities, using them to gain a
disproportionately large influence.
A
• More famous as Sybil.
• Called a Sybil attack.
Q
• X was first used in print by Mark Twain (1872).
• In modern communication, X is credited to
Thomas Edison.
• X is now used as a loanword in many
languages all over the world.
• In 1997, a Texas county changed X to ____ due
to the negative connotations of part of X.
However, X does not have linguistic or historic
connections to evil.
A
• Hello
Q
Connect to a
feature newly
introduced in
Windows Vista.
A
• Protest against landmines
• Minesweeper changed accordingly.