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Whose Session Is It Anyway?
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Whose Session Is It Anyway?
- 1. Whose Session isit Anyway? All Qs are made up and the points don't matter. ‘TREACHERY OF IMAGES-THIS IS NOT A Q” Seeing as the world is gripped by GOT, name the cat owned by Tommen of House Baratheon.
- 2. With Ser Pounce’sblessing here’s hoping for an ample number of Pounces.
- 3. 1. The Olympicstoday are definitely a far cry from what they started out as in 776 BC. However what tradition started out as a method to enforce a certain rule after in 404 BC, a widow called Kallipateira broke the rule against female spectators and dressed up as a trainer to watch her son compete. However when her son won, she jumped over a barrier to congratulate him and all was revealed. This tradition died out eventually however it might have helped increase the popularity of the Olympics were it enforced today. What is this tradition?
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- 5. Athletes were toparticipate in the nude.
- 6. 2. This simpletask, one which every man is supposed to be able to perform as per TV tropes, is banned in certain parts of Australia, particularly Victoria and NSW. The reason for this is officially cited to be safety, but the real reason is the powerful labour union of a particular profession X, who lobbied for the passing of the law. It is often the subject of jokes which question the number of people required to successfully carry out the task in question. What is this task? ID the profession X.
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- 8. Change a lightbulb.Electricians.
- 9. 3. This Olympicathlete from India has been struggling with Epilepsy since CWG 2014 and has undertaken a very commendable line of treatment avoiding all drugs not permitted by the WADA. Coming in 4th in Rio 2016 by a whisker, he famously quipped that it was him not being good enough that cost him the medal and not his condition. When asked about his successes, he also quipped that he didn't have any real talent but his only talent was to get up everyday and prepare and practice with full determination for his events.
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- 12. 4. Minefields werelaid in the Falkland Islands by Argentine Marines during the war against the British in 1982 so as to slow down their landing. These minefields are intact till this day, however as per the Ottawa Convention, the British are legally obliged to clear them. However the locals and environmentalists are against this, owing to an indigenous population of D. These creatures are unaffected by the mines thanks to their low weight. ID D. Interestingly enough, this article is the first Google result when one googles D.
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- 15. 5. Now theirflag features a lobster, a conch and a flowering cactus, but until 1968, the flag of the tropical Turks and Caicos Islands contained a badge which appeared to feature two igloos. The artist had mistaken two piles of X (an important export) on an earlier version of the flag for a dwelling, and drawn a doorway since the version of the flag he saw had poor shading effects in it. What is X?
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- 19. 6. ID thisSpanish Cyclist who is one of 6 riders to have won all 3 grand tours of cycling i.e. Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and X. He has announced his retirement after competing in the upcoming tour of X next month.
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- 23. 7. In themovie series Star Wars, Jedi Master Qui Gon Jinn uses a communicator quite frequently in The Phantom Menace. As with most Sci Fi props, it is a modified device from present day that doesn't help in communication of any kind. In fact it is a modified product designed for female use. What was modified by George Lucas and Co. to resemble a communicator?
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- 27. 8. . Whatdo the following words have in common? An umpire. A nickname. Pea. Cherry. An apron.
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- 29. All words cameabout due to exasperating distortions, misinterpretations, misrepresentations… Mainly wrong division of words 1. Umpire comes from Noumpere from French and Middle English. It finally became ‘An Umpire” 2. An eke name became nickname 3. Pease was thought to mean plural and thus pea was chosen 4. Similarly Cherise became cherries(plural) and cherry for singular 5.Naperon became an apron
- 30. 9. “Tormented byblisters, illness and injuries, ultra marathoner Samir Singh got within 36 km of his goal of running 10,000 km in 100 days when pain and exhaustion beat him. Mr Singh dubbed the ‘Faith Runner’ …spent nearly 3 months running between Mumbai’s slums and business district using donated clothes and living on just 200 rs a day.” Thus reads the only article on the last page of the Hindu Mumbai edition of Aug 8 2017. Due to his efforts, to which pop culture icon does he get compared to in the headline? “India’s X falters on final stretch”
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- 33. 10. The GoaEducation Department has undertaken a drastic step. Director of Education GP Bhat issued a circular requesting all heads of schools to reschedule the first term exams to conclude on or before October 7. Why the urgency?
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- 35. Under 17 FIFAWC Goa hosts Germany Under 17 team which opens against Costa Rica on Oct 7. FUQ: Why were tickets sold when the time read 1911 hrs.
- 36. 11. Who wasbestowed an moniker that most quizzers would associate with the organisation behind Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s Assassination. He very recently joined Carl von Ossietzky on a very lonely list. No more hints, because Sweden Quiz. ;)
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- 38. Liu Xiaobo, giventhe name Black Hand by the CPC. FUQ: What is his wife’s name?
- 39. 12. The residentsof a Muslim Majority village, Marora in Mewat region have undertaken 2 things to further strengthen India US diplomatic ties. They wanted to honour someone who has been making headlines way before Jan 20 2017 by naming their village after him. While the district authorities called this renaming illegal it did not deter its female residents from honouring him on Aug 7 the way most Indians honoured their family members that day. Give me the person honoured and how.
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- 41. Donald Trump. Thewomen dedicated rakhis to him. For the same, they made 1001 rakhis with his photograph. FUQ: Had the village been renamed, it would have been the second village to have been named after a POTUS that too, in the state of Haryana itself. which village was the first? It still bears the cancer surviving POTUS’ name.
- 42. 13. This formerMilanese Football star teamed up with Stefano Landonio and they were once ranked 975 in Doubles. On his professional debut match, he was bested by Polish Tomasz Bednarek and Dutchman David Pel 1-6, 1-6 at the Aspiria Tennis Cup in Milan 2017. He described his debut match “like writing a poem after studying years of math.” ID. Also if scores of 6-0, 6-0 are called bagels in tennis, what are scores of 6-1, 6-1 called?
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- 45. 14. X hasroast lunch – the best joint of lamb or beef, biked over from Harrods – every Sunday, but will only eat one particular cut of meat. “X has to have the end piece, which is always put at the front of the tray to keep X happy,” Every dish goes into the X's menu book, with two options for every course. X puts a line through the one X doesn’t want." This menu book is entirely in French, so chefs need to be proficient in the language. ID X.
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- 48. 15. X developednames to describe the island’s inferno-like rock formations: Devil’s Riding School, Devil’s Ashpit, and Broken Tooth. The island is question is Ascension Island, hailed as the key to colonising Mars. he described it as “an arid treeless island with nothing growing near the coast.” This island is part of the Brit Overseas Territory of ‘Z, Ascension and Tristan de Cunha.” Organised settlement on this island began in 1815 as a precaution after Napoleon was imprisoned in Z to the South East. X's destination wasn't Ascension Island but another island Y. It is said that if Y was X's Eden, then Ascension Island was X's Inferno, as apparent from his nomenclature. ID X,Y and Z.
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- 51. 16. Recently, anewly discovered species of dinosaur by means of fossilised eggs and a closely associated baby dinosaur was ironically and aptly named Beibeilong sinensis, in Henan province, China The flightless dinosaur had feathers, primitive wings and a beak but dwarfed any of its modern avian relatives. When translated it means ‘____ ________ from China. FITB with an ironic yet apt (considering the region) translation of its scientific name.
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- 55. 17. The sweetnessof figs made them a favourite food of Mediterranean geese. And to this day, figs are used for the purpose of readying X. And because of humans developing a taste for X, the word for X in Spanish (Higado), Italian (Fegato) and Portuguese (Figado) all derive from 'Ficus' which is the Latin for fig. What is X?
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- 58. 18. According toscientists from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, the Milky Way might taste like X. Spectrographic analysis of a dust cloud at its heart found ethyl formate, the ester responsible for the dominant flavour of X. What is X which also lends its name to a childish action that in term derives itself from Cockney rhyming slang? Also it smells like something very dear to AFMCites.
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- 61. 19. French spyand firework expert named Amédée-François Frézier (1682-1773) was despatched in 1712 to assess the quality of the Spanish army’s defensive fortifications in Chile, he returned with a new variety of X which had been cultivated for many years by the Chilean Indians. He brought five specimen plants back to France, caring for them throughout his six-month journey home by feeding them his own precious supply of fresh water. From them, all the large, sweet X varieties we enjoy today ultimately derive. Funnily enough, his ancestor was aptly (Inaptly, actually) named Julius de Berry.
- 64. 20. A uniqueidea of the BCCI involves the material used to make the Freedom Trophy for the Bilateral Test Series between the nations of India and South Africa. The materials were sourced from the two places (image follows) to commemorate the historic effort of X and Y. Give me X and Y and the material used to make the trophy which was aptly coloured black.
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- 67. Mahatma Gandhi andNelson Mandela Prison rods were used to make the trophy, sourced from Yerwada and from Robben Island.
- 68. 21. Using agenome editing tool called CRISPR, scientists have inserted a GIF and an image of the human hand onto Bacterial DNA(E. coli). They transferred the image and the frames of the GIF onto nucleotides producing a code that related to individual pixels of the images. To read it back, they sequenced the DNA and used custom code to unscramble the genetic information. What was this GIF that was the result of Eadward Muybridge asking a pertinent question in 1878? The project was carried out in Leland Stanford’s farm, the patron of this project.
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- 70. Horse galloping, doesits hooves ever remain airborne all at once? You tell me.
- 71. 22. ‘Nakusa: ______is My Name is a 22 min Documentary produced by VP Shijith. It chronicles the life of around 292 girls in Satara district with the name Nakusa and attempts to bring their plight out of the shadows. What is the subject of this documentary, referenced in its title itself.
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- 73. Nakusa in Marathimeans Unwanted and the poorer parents name their girl child Nakusa believing it’ll increase their chances of having a male child the next time, dooming the girl child with an ‘unwanted’ name. The richer families have been known to abort the female foetuses.
- 75. 23. What wordwhich recently was on the tip of every AFMCites tongue was coined in 1688 by Dr. Johannes Hofer by combining the Greek words for ‘homecoming’ and ‘pain’. As a medical professional, Dr Hofer described it as a “cerebral disease of essentially demonic causes” at a Basel Conference. Today, it is regarded as a positive thing, abstract and overwhelming in nature.
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- 77. Nostalgia coming fromNostos and Algos
- 78. 24. Serena Williamsfirst met X on May 12, 2015 in Rome at the Cavalieri Hotel where she was playing the Italian Open. Initially frigid, she tried to tell him to go sit somewhere else by telling him there’s a rat nearby when he sat next to her at the pool for breakfast. X, the founder of Reddit and hailing from Brooklyn promptly stated that rats don't bother him. Soon they got to talking and over time, X proposed to Serena on Dec 10 by taking her to the poolside where they met and kept a little plastic rat on the table as a gag. Interestingly, Serena had no idea about Reddit before she met X and X too did not know much about tennis.
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- 81. 25. The FlashTorchMini is a torch made by 'Wicked Lasers' from anodised metal for a body that has an output of 2300 lumens, allowing one to cook an egg using it. For what reason does its maker put on the tag 'Caution: This is not a X, but we still wouldn't recommend trying to cut off someone's hands with it.' ID X or what is the reason that their makers had to put this warning in?
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- 83. Lightsaber. Interestingly, Kevin Feigeof the MCU has incorporated many homages to the Star Wars original Trilogy’s moment where Luke loses his hand in Episode 5. Phase 2 of the MCU sees many characters losing their arms as a homage to Luke notably, Thor, Bucky and Groot(temporarily). Obviously this is beyond the self referential homage of the prequel trilogy wherein Mace Winds, Count Dooku and Anakin lost their arms.