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1. What common word originates from the fact that ancient Greek poetry was usually recited with the music of the lyre ????

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1.

• What common word originates from the fact that ancient Greek poetry was usually recited with the music of the lyre ????

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• Lyrics

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2.Which multi million dollar company did Mark Pincus

started in 2007 and named it after his best

friend an American bulldog

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3.

• Which famous physicist’s epitaph (writing on the grave) reads as follows ????

“He lies somewhere here”

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• Heisenberg

• Heisenberg's uncertainty principle !!

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4.

• When stainless steel was introduced in India, it was marketed under a name which suggested that it would not tarnish, unlike commonly used metals of the day such as brass. This name is still as a synonym for stainless steel in South India. What term?

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• Eversilver

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5.

• X was a song first published in 1744. It almost certainly dates back to the Middle Ages, perhaps to the 13th Century, and relates to a tax forced on _____ . One-third went to the local noble, one-third to the cathedral and approximately a third was for the farmer

• gimme the song X

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• Baa baa black sheep

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6.

• It is believed that the __________ carries with it a curse and only when in the possession of a woman will the curse not work. All the men who owned it have either lost their throne or had other misfortunes befall them. Queen Victoria is the only reigning monarch to have possessed it. According to the legend, if the monarch is a male, it is passed to his spouse.

• The possibility of a curse pertaining to ownership of the _____dates back to a Hindu text relating to the first authenticated appearance of the ______ in 1306: "He who owns this will own the world, but will also know all its misfortunes. Only God, or a woman, can wear it with impunity."

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The Ko-hi-noor diamond

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7.

• Name: Susan Astronomonov

• * Has a noticeably strange laugh which always appears to follow the same pattern of 3 to 5.

• * Claims to be the “Monarch of Darkness”.

• * Has an intelligence approximately equal to that of a nemesis.

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• Mandark

• Haha. HahaHahaha.

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8.

• The 1984 and 1985-86 cricket series in West Indies and England are popularly known as X because of the result instead of Y, a name by which these kind of results are generally known as.West Indies under Lloyd had Richards, Garner, Marshall and Holding. England under the leadership of Gower had Botham, Lamb, Gatting and Emburey.Give me X n Y and the funda.

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• BLACK WASH

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9.

• Mountbatten

• The days in calendar signifies the number of days left before the transition of power

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10.

How do we better know

Maching ____

Egg Beater

Wood Breaker

Glass Jaw

Parabeak

and Kamikaze ____?

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11)

• Ten things you may not know about ____ :• 1. We're not for sale. • 2. Everyone can use our work with a few conditions. • 3. We speak Banyumasan… • 4. You can't actually change anything in _____… • 5. We care deeply about the quality of our work. • 6. We do not expect you to trust us. • 7. We are not alone. • 8. We are only collectors. • 9. We're neither a dictatorship nor any other political

system. • 10. We're in it for the long haul.

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• wikipedia

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12.

• 127 games played, 497 plate appearances, 46 runs scored out of 88 hits batting .202 with 3 home runs, 51 runs batted in, 30 stolen bases, and 11 errors.

• Played for the Birmingham barons and Scottsdale scorpions.

• Whose baseball stats are these?

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Michael Jordan

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13.

• According to popular legend the dish Aviyalwas invented by a character from Indian mythology because he didn’t know how to cook. Which character?

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• Bhima

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14.Who r we ??

• Blinky

• Inky

• Pinky

• Clyde

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The Pac-Man ghosts

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• Just like the English surname of “smith” was derived from the word “blacksmith”, what Italian surname was derived from the Italian word for “blacksmith”

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• Ferrari