Mohammad Ismail Khan (2-2-17)
- 1. Straight to it. 21 QUESTIONS (NO LVC) +10/0 (BOUNCE), +10/-10 (CIVILIZED POUNCE),0/-10(UNCIVILIZED)
- 2. 1)ID the song If you’re an immigrant you left somewhere and most of the time you fled a war. Gun sounds are a part of our culture as an everyday thing. If you’ve been exposed to gunfights and violence and bombs and war then I can use those sounds backing my thoughts, ya know? You can either apply it on a street level and go, oh, you’re talking about somebody robbing you and saying I’m going to take your money. But, really, it could be a much bigger idea: someone's selling you guns and making money. Selling weapons and the companies that manufacture guns – that's probably the biggest money-maker in the world. The song is also used in the opening intro of Far Cry 3.
- 3. Bonus points for full name.
- 4. 2)Connect
- 5. Due to its durability and reliability, the Hilux along with the larger Land Cruiser, has become popular among militant groups in war-torn regions as Technical. According to terrorism analyst Andrew Exum, the car is "the vehicular equivalent of the AK-47. It's ubiquitous to insurgent warfare." U.S. counter-terror officials have inquired with Toyota how the Salafi jihadist extremist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has apparently acquired large numbers of Hilux and Land Cruisers. Mark Wallace, the CEO of the Counter Extremism Project said, "Regrettably, the Land Cruiser and Hilux have effectively become almost part of the ISIS brand.“ The durability of the Hilux was highlighted in Top Gear(Season 3, episode 5,6) where they subjected the 1988 model to extraordinary abuse. The vehicle became one of the background decorations in the Top Gear studio.
- 6. 3) X has beaten out “halal snack pack” to be named Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year for 2016. Macquarie’s decision echoes the choice for word of the year made by Oxford Dictionaries in November: “post-truth” ID the word.
- 7. Fake News
- 8. 4) A: Spanish(Origin), Italian(Parents-immigrants),Portugese,German, French, Intermediate English and 3 written languages B: German(Origin),Italian, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese C: Polish(Origin), Italian , Spanish, Portuguese, French, Slovak, Russian, Tagalog, Ukrainian, Japanese and some more. This is the list of languages spoken by 3 persons. Who are they?
- 9. Popes
- 10. 5) The phrase was extensively described as Orwellian; by Thursday, January 26, 2017, sales of the book Nineteen Eighty-Four had increased by 9,500 percent, becoming the number one best seller on Amazon.com. Information and the truth are not partisan. They are the bedrock of our democracy. And you are either with them, with us, with our Constitution, our history, and the future of our nation, or you are against it. Everyone must answer that question.
- 12. Other Players' Winnings 6) ID Libratus and what does it do?
- 13. Computer Algorithm that plays poker.
- 14. 7) Middle East and North Africa: Arabic and English Hong Kong: Cantonese, English Denmark: Danish, English India: Hindi, English Karnataka: Kannada, Hindi Kerala: Malayalam Serbia: Serbian, Spanish USA: English, Spanish Turkey: Turkish, English, Spanish Thailand: Thai, English
- 16. 8)ID the game and art piece.
- 17. Creation of Adam
- 18. 9)What is the play about? Photograph 51 is an award-winning play by Anna Ziegler. Photograph 51 opened in the West End of London in September 2015. The setting is in King’s College, London. Paul Taylor of The Independent wrote that "In her compelling and subtle performance, Kidman beautifully captures the prickly defensiveness, the lonely dedication, and the suppressed emotional longings of the scientist.... Michael Grandage's superb 91-minute production expertly balances its energies as detective thriller and as interactive speculation about the hovering moments where her life could have taken a different turning."
- 19. Rosalind Franklin and the DNA Helix
- 20. 10) May,2015: a jury in Valence, in the Drôme department, sentenced Laurent Rambaud, a 37-year old farmer from Grignan, to eight years in prison for shooting dead a man he thought was stealing his X. Dec,2012: Officers of the paramilitary force are patrolling in the Drôme, south-east France, and have also reportedly set up roadblocks to search cars for the stolen food item. The origin of the word appears to be the Latin term tūber, meaning "swelling" or "lump“.
- 21. Truffles
- 22. 11) The name of the art is also the name of the character. It depicts the character singing before she drowns. Where else is this character found?
- 23. Hamlet
- 24. 12) HMD Global has been recently in the news regarding the launch of a product. The product will be manufactured in conjunction with a Chinese manufacturing giant. The product being launched is bound to revive nostalgic memories for many millennials and has received much media coverage. The company has announced that it will be selling two models at different price points. What is HMD Global going to launch?
- 26. 13) ID the metaphor. In 836 the Abbasid Caliph Al-Mu'tasim founded a new capital at the banks of the Tigris. Though the city is famous for its Shi'i holy sites, including the tombs of several Shi'i Imams, the town was traditionally and until very recently, dominated by Sunni Arabs. Tensions arose between Sunnis and the Shi'a during the Iraq War. On February 22, 2006, the golden dome of the al- Askari Mosque was bombed, setting off a period of rioting and reprisal attacks across the country which claimed hundreds of lives. The metaphor is a reference to an ancient Babylonian myth, which was later transcribed by W Somerset Maugham. The title of a popular novel by John O Hara.
- 28. 14) Bhim, who was the chief of the Mahemi tribe, had an interesting ritual whenever he had to assign a difficult task, he would call a meeting at his Mahim fort where warriors used to be given a sumptuous feast. After the feast, a plate containing a betel leaf would be placed in the middle of the gathering and the man who picked the leaf was entrusted with the difficult task. This is a proposed explanation of the origin of a popular term what?
- 30. 15) Issei Sagawa (April 26, 1949) also known as Pang, is a Japanese and reviewer. In 1981. He is currently a minor celebrity in Japan and this is partly due to a taboo act which he carried out while in Paris, 1971. He makes a living from the public attention he received from this. He claims that while residing in "Almost every night I would bring a prostitute home and then try to shoot them, but for some reason fingers froze up and I couldn't pull the trigger." What is Issei infamous for?
- 32. 16) The officer in command of the submarine service branch of the Pakistan Navy and the junior officers and commander of _____ had objected to the plan as it was proposed by the army and naval officers during the briefing session. It was difficult to sustain such naval operations in a distant area of Bay of Bengal, in the total absence of repair, logistics and recreational facilities in the vicinity. At this time, submarine repair facilities were totally absent at Chittagong — the only Pakistani sea port in the east during this period. To her earlier commanders, the mission was considered highly dangerous and impossible to achieve by sending an obsolete submarine behind enemy lines. The commanders at NHQ overruled the objections, and instead planned a reconnaissance operation, which led to launching of the submarine operations in the eastern theater. What happened due to this negligence ?
- 34. 17) This video is linked to the re-launch of a certain product by an iconic company at CES 2016, with many citing it as the era of nostalgia given the relaunch of Nokia. The product uses a particular film(of the same name) and provides a unique character to the video. This is also the name of a critically acclaimed 2011 American science fiction thriller film, directed by someone who grew up with this product.
- 36. Kodak Super-8
- 37. 18) The Old Firm is the collective name for the organizations , who are both based in the same city. It was infused with a series of complex disputes, sometimes centred on religion (Catholic and Protestant), Northern Ireland-related politics (Loyalist and Republican and social ideology (Conservatism and Socialism). While the confrontation between the two was often labelled as 'Sectarianism', 'Native-Immigrant tension' was an equally accurate catalyst for hostility between the two. X‘s traditional support was largely from the Protestant community, while Y's was largely from those of Irish Roman Catholic backgrounds. X’s fans are more likely to wave the Irish tricolour while Y’s fans tend to wave the Union Flag. Identify the rivalry.
- 39. 19) This literary cult is celebrated on 25th May and pays tribute to an iconic personality. More importantly, it has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag discovers that a non-strag has his X with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the non-strag any of these or a dozen other items that the non-strag might accidentally have "lost."
- 40. Towel Day
- 41. 20) Connect
- 42. Among the Rastafari movement, Haile Selassie is revered as the returned messiah of the Bible, God incarnate. Beginning in Jamaica in the 1930s, the Rastafari movement perceives Haile Selassie as a messianic figure who will lead a future golden age of eternal peace, righteousness, and prosperity.
- 43. 21) Musa was a royal advisor to his predecessor. He became king when the previous ruler went on an expedition to cross the ocean and never returned. A devout Muslim, Musa saw it as his duty to make the hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca, in 1324. One of his titles was “Lord of the Mines of Wangara,” and from those mines and many others the Malians derived an almost inconceivable amount of gold. Musa’s pilgrimage caravan included 60,000 companions, 12,000 slaves carrying 4 pounds of gold each, and 80 camels laden with 50 to 300 pounds of gold each. Five hundred of Musa’s servants also rode before him each carrying a 10.5 pound gold staff. Though Musa had more gold than he could have possibly spent on his journey, that didn’t stop him from making an effort. He gave beggars huge ingots, overpaid at bazaars and tipped with fistfuls of gold dust. Musa also reportedly ordered a new mosque built for him to pray at every Friday. In addition, he made formal charitable donations of 20,000 ounces of gold – 1,250 pounds – each at Cairo, Mecca, and Medina. This action affected the region in a catastrophic way. What exactly happened and why?
- 44. The instantaneous and incalculable influx of gold into Cairo, Mecca, and Medina caused hyperinflation Musa made at least 71,000 pounds of gold basically worthless by just plumb giving it away into climates that considered it scarce and valuable. This means in terms of gold devaluation alone the damage Musa’s pilgrimage caused amounted to $1.5 billion in modern money.