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SORCERERS OF INTELLEC
Pearl 2010Prelims
Alok Singh, Abhijit Kane, Anurag Roy, Soha
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1. What term refers to the
constitutional right thatforbids a defendant frombeing tried for
the same
crime twice?
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2. Graham Chapman
John CleeseTerry Gilliam
Eric IdleTerry Jones
Michael Palin.Name this popular British
comedy group.
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3.six by nine.X
According to The HitchhikersGuide to the Galaxy, what is X?
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4. Fill in the blanks: Theyrecreepy and theyre kooky,mysterious
and spooky; theyrealtogether ooky, ________!
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5.
Identify this popular nursery
rhyme.
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6. My name is Ishmael.
Which classic novel starts withthis line?
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7. Born in 1938, he is a prolificEnglish author. He became
the
youngest pilot in the RAF at age19. In 1967, he served as
acorrespondent covering the
Nigerian Civil War. Who?
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8. ________ is a Mesopotamianmonarch mentioned in the Bible.
He is depicted as a mighty rulerand nation-builder. His
reputationwas tarnished by his association
with the Tower of Babel. __________is also a high-level
systemprogramming language and the
name of a Green Day album.
(Both blanks are the same)
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9. The iPad is the secondtablet platform developed byapple.
Which is the first??
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10. Expand WIMAX.
(please dont try
W I M A X)
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11. After Charles Darwin proposed the theory of evolution,
anumber of scientists calculated the age of the earth usingFouriers
theory of heat conduction. Lord Kelvin came up withan age between
24 and 400 million years, Helmholtz
calculated it to be 22 million years. This gave ammunition
tocritics of evolution, even 400 million years not being enoughfor
evolution by natural selection. The age of the earth is
nowestimated to be atleast 4.5 billion years. What
physicalphenomenon not known in 1862, caused the
miscalculation?
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12. Scientist and Pulitzer Prize winning authorJared Diamond
calls it the biggest mistake inhistory. In his book Guns, Germs and
Steel, he
argues that along with this practice came thegross social and
sexual inequality, the diseaseand despotism that curse our
existence.
What practice?
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13. Identify
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14. Name this book
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15. Which African nationalcapital is named after a
USpresident?
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16. What is the island in SriLanka that is linked to Indiaby the
Ram Setu?
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17. ____ ________ ___ ____ is
the first singlefrom "Weird Al" Yankovic's12th studio
album Straight OuttaLynwood. The song wasreleased exclusively
on
August 21, 2006 as adigital download. It is astyle parody of "We
Are
" "
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18. Whose school of martial
arts is Chun Kuk Do?
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19.Wazzis?
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20. This Scandinavian entitytakes its name from a word inWilbur
Smith's novel TheSunbird.
Which entity?
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21. What was Operation
Polo?
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22. In the 1955 BandungConference between Asianand African
states hosted byIndonesian President
Sukarno, the attendingnations declared their desirenot to become
involved in
the Cold War. This conferencelater led to the establishmentof
which International
organisation??
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23. He is a theoreticalphysicist from Caltech, isfluent in
Klingon, and has anIQ of 187.
He always sits on the samespot on his sofa, and is ahuge Star
Trek fan.
Who?
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24. What is the name of thenew non-stop train
servicesinaugurated by MamataBanerjee recently?
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25. In which city in Australia is
cricket played at the Gabba?
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26. This international
organisation was founded in1993. It comprises over 500million
people, and is
responsible for about 30% ofthe world's GDP. It isheadquartered
in Belgium.Name it.
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27. Released in 2007, this isthe only Indian movie thatfeatures
in the IMDBs
bottom 20 list.
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28. Where in human body would
you find a labyrinth?
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29. Created by Leon HarrisonGross, he is the firstsuperhero to
wear a skin-
tight costume and a maskwith no visible pupils. Who ishe??
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Click to edit Master text stylesSecond level Third level Fourth
level Fifth level
30.Identify:
__________ went on sale on 10 March 2010 inIndia for Rs 3.5
lakhs .It is built only in Chennai,
Tamil Nadu to be sold worldwide. It gets its name
from an Italian expression which is similar tocolloquial English
expression 'cool'.
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Answers
1. Double Jeopardy
2. Monty Python
3. 424. The Addams Family
5. Sing a Song of
Sixpence
6. Moby Dick,Herman Melville
7. Frederick Fors th
16.Mannar Island17.Dont Download This Song18.Chuck
Norris19.Sodium thiopental (Truth Serum)20.Opeth21.The military
operation to consolidateNizams Hyderabad into Indian territory.
22.The NAM (Non Aligned Movement)23.Dr. Sheldon Cooper (from The
Big Bang
Theory)24.Duronto Express25.Brisbane26.The European Union27.RGV
ki Aag28.Ear29.Phantom30.Ford Figo
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Finals
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Round 1
1. This round is infinite bounce. Thequestion will go to the
team adjacent
to the team that answered the
previous question.
1. +10 points for the correct answer, +5for a passed question.
NO NEGATIVE
MARKING
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1. The Zapata Corporation traces its origins to ZapataOil,
founded in 1953 by ________________________, alongwith his business
partners John Overbey, Hugh
Liedtke, Bill Liedtke, and Thomas J. Devine. On January8, 2007,
newly released internal CIA documentsrevealed that Zapata had in
fact emerged from_________________'s collaboration with a covert
CIAofficer in the 1950s. According to a CIA internal memo
dated November 29, 1975, Zapata Petroleum began in1953 through
________________'s joint efforts withThomas J. Devine, a CIA
staffer who had resigned hisagency position that same year to go
into privatebusiness, but who continued to work for the CIA
undercommercial cover.
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George H W Bush, the 41st USPresident.
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2. Coined by Paul Harvey, and alsoknown as Trickle-down
economics
and Voodoo economics, this termrefers to the economic
policiesadopted by the 40th US President
during 1980s.What is the term?
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Reaganomics
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3. Identify
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Kansas City Public LIbrary
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4. There is a well-known mythabout the word
"_______________",
which says that in 1791 a Dublintheater owner named James
Dalymade a bet that he could introducea word into the language
withintwenty-four hours. He then wentout and hired a group of
streeturchins to write the word
"________________", which was anonsense word, on walls aroundthe
city of Dublin. Within a day,
the word was common currency
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Quiz
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5. On 26 May 1991,Flight 004 ofLauda Air (an Austrian
tourist
airline company), a Boeing 767-3Z9ER
named_________________________, was lost
over Thailand shortly after take-off from Bangkok due to
thedeployment of an un-commandedreverser, with the loss of 223
passengers and crew.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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6. She is best known for leadingan all-woman ascent of
Annapurna
(), . . . ;
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Arlene Blum
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7. This art form gets its namefrom the name of a princess in
north Indian folklore possessingincomparable beauty but
verydelicate and weighing only as
much as a flower. The namemetaphorically implies that
theprincess weighs only 36 grams.Identify the art form.
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Nautanki
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8. Also known as Foffie, this fastbowler from Barbados, had
played
only 4 test matches, but each ofthese matches was under
adifferent captain. He has alsorepresented Barbados in soccer.
He
is best remembered for a whirlwindinnings (72 runs) he played
againstEngland in Jan,1948, during which he
registered the fastest fifty in testsfor West Indies. What's his
realname??
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Ernest Albert Vivian Williams
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9. What is funambulism morecommonly known as?
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Tight-rope walking
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10. I am ready to meet my Maker.Whether my Maker is prepared
for
the great ordealof meeting me isanother matter.
These lines form the epitaph ofwhich famous man in WWII
history?
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Winston Churchill
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11. Shii-Cho, Makashi, Soresu,Ataru, Shien/Djem So, Niman,
Juyo/Vaapad- what are these types of ???
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The seven classical forms oflightsaber combat in the StarWars
extended Universe.
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12. According to an urban legendthe "F-word", one of the
most
widely used words in modernspoken English, evolved from
thephrase
"_______________ ______________Consent of King" .
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E t t i t
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Entertainment
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1. The original climax of this filmhad the protagonist killing
thevillain himself. But the CensorBoard couldnt bear an ex-cop
taking the law in his own hands.So the director shot a
differentclimax, where the thoroughly
beaten villain is taken away in apolice van at the end.
Name the film.
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Sholay
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2. The english title of the Italianhorror film "I Tre volti
della paura"
inspired the name of a Britishband. What was the english
title??
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Black Sabbath
3 Wh i thi ???
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3. Who is this???
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Peter Jackson, in his cameoappearances in LOTR.
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4. Hesitating to act because thewhole vision might not be
achieved or because others do notyet share it, is an attitude
thatonly hinders progress.- Mahatma
Gandhi.Whats the filmi connection?
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Opening line of Swades
Literature
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Literature
After writing this novel the author said that he
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After writing this novel the author said that hehad "put in so
many enigmas and puzzles that itwill keep the professors busy for
centuries
arguing over what I meant", which would earnthe novel
"immortality".
Considered to be one of the most importantworks of Modernist
literature, this novel wasranked by the Modern Library in 1999, as
the
first on its list of the 100 best English-languagenovels of the
20th century.
Identify both the author and the novel.
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James Joyce ; Ulysses
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Fifteen birds in five fir trees,
their feathers were fanned in afiery breeze!
But, funny little birds, they had nowings!
O what shall we do with the funnylittle things?
Roast 'em alive, or stew them in apot;
fry them, boil them and eat themhot?
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Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf and their13 dwarf companions in the
book
'The Hobbit' by JRR Tolkien.
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The Divine Comedy is an epic poem writtenby Dante Alighieri
between 1308 and his
death in 1321. It is widely considered thepreeminent work of
Italian literature, and isseen as one of the greatest works of
worldliterature. The poem's imaginative andallegorical vision of
the Christian afterlife is
a culmination of the medieval world-view asit had developed in
the Western Church.
In which dialect was it written?
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Tuscan Dialect, which was theofficial language of the KingdomOf
Italy.
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be wise, strain the wine, andscale back your long hopes, to
a
short period. While we speak,envious time will have
{already}fled, Seize the day, trusting as
little as possible in the next.This is the translation of a
Latin
poem by Horace. The Latin form of
the underlined phrase iscommonly used in the context ofmaking
the most of something.
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Carpe diem
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Begin at the beginning, then goon till you come to the end.
This gem of advice was given bywhom to whom?
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The King of Hearts to Alice inAlices Adventures In Wonderlandby
Lewis Caroll.
Comics
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Comics
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According to the OfficialHandbook of the MarvelUniverse
(Alternate Universes) :"It includes every single
literary,television show, movie, urban
legend, universe, realm, etc.ever. It includes everyone
fromPopeye to Rocky Balboa to
Ronald Reagan to Romeo and Juliet to Luke Skywalker toSnoopy to
Jay and Silent Bob,Mickey Mouse, etc.".
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The Omniverse
Though officially called The X Men
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Though officially called The X-Men ,what is this team more
commonly
known as?
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Dark X-men.Presently consisting of Norman
Osbourne (a.k.a Iron Patriot),Daken (a.k.a Dark
Wolverine),Mimic, Mystique, Henry McCoy
(a.k.a Dark Beast) and WeaponOmega.
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__________________________________
Neil GaimanNeil GaimanNeil GaimanNeil Gaiman
___________________________________________________Garth
EinnesKart Busiek__________________________________
Al M Wi B t W it
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Alan Moore. Winner, Best Writercategory of The Will Eisner
Comic
Industry Award. Moore won theaward 9 times.
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Name the creator
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Herge. The comics are
(clockwise from top) QuickAnd Flupke, The AmiableMr. Mopps,
Totor, Fred And
Mile.
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Dan Didio, the Senior Vice-President / Executive Editor ofDC
Comics, hid a coded message
in his DC Nation column in the inback of the 37th episode of
the
52 Comic series. The message isspelled out using the first
letterof every third word. What is themessage?
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The secret of fifty-two isthat the multiverse stillexists.
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First introduced in 1987 by Alan
Moore, Rot Lop Fan is anunorthodox Green Lantern inthe sense
that he comes from aspecies, which had evolved in a
region of absolute darkness andtherefore had no eyes andhence no
concept of light. Thus
Rot Lop Fan didn't call theGreen Lantern Corps the GreenLantern
Corps. What did heused to call the Green Lantern
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The F-Sharp Bell Corps
Mixed Bag
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Mixed Bag
1 Red Knights is a collection of
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1. Red Knights is a collection offinancial figures including
former
Football League chairman KeithHarris and Goldman Sachs
chiefeconomist Jim O'Neill. For whatincident did they come
intoprominence recently?
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Bid to take over ManchesterUnited
2. This famous Irish comedian/writer
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2. This famous Irish comedian/writerwas born in 1918 in
Ahmednagar, Indiato a captain in the British Army. Hewas the author
of several booksincluding Puckoon. His epitaph reads:I told you I
was ill.
Name him.
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Spike Milligan
3 1998
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3. 1998 - _______________
1999 - Glenn McGrath
2000-01 - Steve Waugh
2001-02 - Glenn McGrath
2002-03 - Adam Gilchrist
2003-04 - Ricky Ponting
2004-05 - Darren Lehmann2005-06 - Glenn McGrath
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4 Mithridatism refers to the
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4. Mithridatism refers to thepractice of injecting oneself
with
non-lethal amounts ofpoison/venom in order to developimmunity
against future
poisoning. It is said to have beenpractised by a certain mystic
,who apparently could not bepoisoned.
Name him.
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Rasputin
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Second level Third level Fourth level Fifth level
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Jason with the Golden Fleece
I am a Titan, the daughter of the
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I am a Titan, the daughter of theTitan Lelantos (male equivalent
of
Leto) and Periboia.I used to be a virgin-huntress, andclaimed
that Artemis was toowomanly to be a virgin.
As a result of Artemis's desire topunish me, I bore Dionysus
twinsons on the Dindymon mountains.
In my rage I ate one of them, whilethe other was saved by
Artemis.
Zeus later turned me into streamto stop me from causing more
havoc in m ra e.
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Aura, the goddess of breeze andfresh , cool air of early morning
inGreek Mythology.
Draupadi had five sons, each by
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Draupadi had five sons, each byone of the Pandavas. Who was
her
son by Arjun?
P.S.Aswathama murdered him
alongwith his stepbrothers, whilethey were sleeping.
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Shruthakeerti
According to the Bible, a Serpent
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tempted Eve to eat from the tree of
knowledge, which led tobanishment of Adam and Eve fromGods
garden. Who was the serpentin reality?
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Satan
Death in battle is like a boon for
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them. After their death they
brought to the Valhalla by thevalkyries, where they daily get
tofeast on the meat of the beastSaehrimnir and are brought
theirfill of mead from the udders of thegoat Heiorun, by the
valkyries.They prepare daily for the events
of Ragnarok.What they collectively known as?
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Einherjar
