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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

QUIZ 18



Q1
What is paraskavedekatriaphobia?

Q2
He was born and raised in Exeter, New Hampshire, USA. He dabbled with a musical career, creating effects with a synthesizer, and self-producing a children's cassette entitled SynthAnimals which included a collection of tracks such as "Happy Frogs" and "Suzuki Elephants"; it sold a few hundred copies. He then formed his own record company called Dalliance, and in 1990 self-published a CD entitled Perspective, targeted to the adult market, which also sold a few hundred copies. In 1994, while on holiday in Tahiti, he read Sidney Sheldon's novel The Doomsday Conspiracy, and decided that he could do better. His website states that he is a devout Christian. Who?

Q3
Jack Smith and his Indian partner chose the name as it included the letters HTML - the coding used behind all web pages. What did they end up naming?

Q4
What nationality was Christopher Columbus?

Q5
In 1984, she won the Miss Wasilla Pageant, then finished second in the
Miss Alaska pageant, at which she won a college scholarship and the
"Miss Congeniality" award. She admits to smoking marijuana as a youth,
during the time when possession was legal in Alaska, though she says
she did not enjoy it. Her first name is Sarah and she has been in the
news recently. Who are we talking about?

Q6
Connect: Allan Quatermain, Tom Sawyer, Captain Nemo, Mina Harker, Rodney Skinner, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Dorian Gray.

Q7
He is a Malyalee. It was at Edinburgh that he met with Professor
Victor Kiernan, the famed Marxist and became a strident communist. She
is a Bengali. In 1967, she left for London, where she worked with Air
India at Bond Street for four years. While working in London, she
became associated with the anti-imperialist, and anti-war movements
during the Vietnam War and Marxist ideology. She also attributes many
of her political ideals to the economist Devaki Jain, her professor at
Miranda House. Which husband and wife duo are we talking about?

Q8
He gave himself the title "His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor _________ Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular. " Who?

Q9
Identify the poem from which the following lines are taken:
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When the blazing sun is gone,
When he nothing shines upon,
Then you show your little light ....

Then the traveller in the dark,
Thanks you for your tiny spark,
He could not see which way to go,
If you did not twinkle so

In the dark blue sky you keep,
And often through my curtains peep,
For you never shut your eye,
Till the sun is in the sky.

As your bright and tiny spark,
Lights the traveller in the dark ...

Q10
The game of football as played at _______ School between 1750 and 1823 permitted handling of the ball, but no-one was allowed to run with it in their hands towards the opposition's goal. There was no fixed limit to the number of players per side and sometimes there were hundreds taking part in a kind of enormous rolling maul. The innovation of running with the ball was introduced some time between 1820 and 1830, traditionally after William Webb Ellis broke the local rules by running forwards with the ball in a game in 1823. Shortly after this the Victorian mind turned to establishing written rules for the sports which had earlier just involved local agreements, and boys from _______ School produced the first written rules for their version of the sport in 1845. Which school?

Q11
Identify the symbol, or the organisation to which it belongs, shown in the above image.

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