HELL Quiz

Prelims

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• Abu Abdullah Md Al Musa al Khwarizmiu wrote a book called “kitab al jabr wa al muqablah”. This roughly translates to rules of reintegration and reduction. This was one of the most notable works in the subject. The Europeans ultimately used the name for the subject from the book which more or less means the reunion of broken parts. What is the subject about which I am talking about?

• Algebra

2This is one of the earliest inspirations for one very famous literary work .

London bridge is falling down

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The VJ Day Kiss

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• “Here lies one who spared neither man nor God/ Waste not your tears on him, he was a sod/ Writing nasty things he regarded as great fun/ Thank the Lord he is dead, this son of a gun.” This is a self written epitaph of which famous personality .

Khuswant Singh

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• The original sense of the word is the point on the earth’s surface at or directly below a nuclear detonation. The term dates to 1946. From the Chicago Daily Tribune of 30 June of that year: Within a radius of one kilometer (.62 of a mile) from ______(the point beneath the blast center), men and animals died almost instantaneously from the tremendous blast pressue and heat; houses and other structures were smashed, crushed, and scattered; and fires broke out.

• Ground Zero

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• The term dates to 1712 and first appears as a character in John Arbuthnot’s satire The Law Is a Bottomless Pit. By the end of the 18th century, this was being used as a metaphor for England. The familiar appearance as a top-hatted, paunchy, Victorian gentleman dates to the nineteenth century and the cartoons by John Tenniel. This is termed as the English equivalent of uncle sam.

• John Bull

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• Charles Dickens

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X is derived from fishing, dragging a lure that a fish might bite on.

It appears to have originated in 1992 in the Usenet group, alt.folklore.urban (AFU) in the phrase X for newbies or suckers.

A ___ deliberately asks a question which has been answered over and over, thus only a complete neophyte would consider getting excited about it and answering it

• Troll

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• The Map on the next slide was an after effect of something what ?

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• Treaty Of Versallies

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• The ___ Wars were a series of military conflicts in the middle of the 18th century on the Indian subcontinent.

• The conflicts involved many independent Indian rulers and also included a series of battles between the French East India Company and the British East India Company. They were mainly fought on the territories which were dominated by the Nizam of Hyderabad up to the Godavari delta.

• The French company lost and was confined primarily to Pondichéry. These wars ultimately led to the establishment of the British Raj.

• Carnatic Wars

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• An excerpt from an 1877 English classic about a “bearing reign”:

• “it is dreadful… your neck aching until you don’t know how to bear it… its hurt my tongue and my jaw and the blood from my tongue covered the froth that kept flying from my lips”.

• This depiction spurred so much outrage and empathy from readers that its use was not only abolished in Victorian England, but public interest in anti-cruelty legislation in the United States also grew significantly.

• Incidentally, this book was banned in South Africa as the title was deemed “racist”.

• Black Beauty

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• An excerpt from Sir Winston Churchill's “Sinews of Peace” address at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri in 1946:

• “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an "___ ___" has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia; all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and in some cases increasing measure of control from Moscow.”

• What has been blanked out?

• Iron Curtain

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• ___ is an actual type of light once used in theaters and concert halls. It relied on the light given off by a hot cylinder filled with chemicals. It has a very high melting point, so it can get very hot, and give off an enormous amount of light, without being in danger of melting.

• Obviously, this rather incendiary (it had hydrogen gas and an open flame in close proximity) system was replaced by electric lighting, but it lives on in name.

• Lime Light

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• A recipe from the 1500s:• Take 10 gallons of ale and a large cock, the older the better;

parboil the cock, flay him, and stamp him in a stone mortar until his bones are broken (you must gut him when you flaw him). Then, put the cock into two quarts of sack, and put to it five pounds of raisins of the sun-stoned; some blades of mace, and a few cloves. Put all these into a canvas bag, and a little before you find the ale has been working, put the bag and ale together in vessel. In a week or nine days bottle it up, fill the bottle just above the neck and give it the same time to ripen as other ale.

• A popular theory for the origin of which word?

• Cocktail

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• As a tribute to the author, fans celebrate May 25 as ___ Day by carrying a ___ with them the entire day. The commemoration was first held in 2001, two weeks after the author's death on 11 May 2001.

• Apparently, "to know where one's ___ is" means to be in control of one's own life.

• Towel Day

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• From a poem, written sometime before 1466, by Charles, Duke of Orleans (he wrote a series of poems in English during his captivity following the battle of Agincourt):As strokis grete not tippe, nor tapp, do way The rewdisshe child so best lo shall he wynne.(As strokes great, not tip, nor tap, do the best for the uncouth child, lo he shall win.) What common phrase has been derived from this ?

• Tit for Tat

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• The root words of the language serve as both nouns and verbs, further reducing the total number of words; for example, "think" is both a noun and verb, so the word thought is not required and can be abolished. The party also intends that language be spoken in staccato rhythms with syllables that are easy to pronounce. This will make speech more automatic and unconscious and reduce the likelihood of thought. It is possible that author modeled aspects of language on Esperanto.

• Newspeak from 1984

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• Anne Frank

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• X is a word which is said to be got from the Hindi word Chedda (hole), and it means a small piece of paper generated from punching holes in a paper. X is also the name of a region .

• Chad

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• Name this song