Infinite Pounce - I

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In 1898, two travelling businessmen were forced to share a room at a crowded hotel in Wisconsin. When they got to talking, they found they had both toyed with the idea of creating an evangelical association for Christian businessmen. Thus this organization was born.  As the group expanded in its first few years, most of the new members were men who frequently traveled for work and spent many of their nights in hotel rooms. They wondered how they might be more effective witnesses for Christ on the road, and hit upon an idea which was quite successful. Name the organization and idea.

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Gideon, distributing bibles to hotels

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Who in his only appearance in movies?

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Bertrand Russell

In an interview conducted by Daniel Radcliffe, author JK Rowling revealed that Lily Potter's maiden name, Evans, was based on the real name of this author. Also, Rowling’s Casual Vacancy is frequently compared to one of this author’s works by many critics. Name the author and work.

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Middlemarch, George Eliot whose real name was Mary Ann Evans

In 1884 this self-taught electrical engineer recast Maxwell's mathematical analysis from its original cumbersome form to its modern vector terminology, thereby reducing twelve of the original twenty equations in twenty unknowns down to the four differential equations in two unknowns we now know as Maxwell's equations. He also invented mathematical techniques to the solution of differential equations, later found to be equivalent to Laplace transforms, among other things. His work was disdained by many in the scientific community during his time because of his lack of formal education and his unorthodox methods. He also devised the step function to model the current in a electric circuit, which is named after him. 

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Oliver Heaviside

The day after the Pearl Harbor attack, US President Franklin Roosevelt was expected to deliver what came to known as the Infamy Speech, calling for declaration of war with Japan. The Secret Service had determined the previous night that a bulletproof car was needed to protect President Roosevelt from possible assassins sympathetic to Japan or Germany. But federal law prohibited purchasing any automobile that cost more than $750, so a seized armored Cadillac, with 3,000 pounds of bulletproof armor was borrowed from the Treasury Department. Whom did the car belong to?

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Al Capone

In Hindu mythology and astrology, the constellation Pleiades is named what, after the wives of six of the Saptarishis, who nursed the god Subrahmanya when he was a baby, a fact which also gives us another name of Subrahmanya?

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Kritthika

This sportsman X was a member of the Imperial Bodyguard of Haille Selassie. In 1960, when Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie was on a state visit, the members of his Imperial Bodyguard staged an unsuccessful coup, briefly proclaiming Selassie's son as Emperor. After the coup, X, was also detained. Most of the surviving Guards were disbanded and dispersed but X was released after it was found out he didn't take part in the uprising. Reacting to this, one newspaper even remarked baldly: "X owes his life to his gold medal."

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Abebe Bikila

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Canada

Each of the seven floors of this hotel in Brussels are dedicated to a different color palette. The beds are topped with backlit abstract photos by Belgian photographer Victor Levy; nearby are three chips that supply, according to hotel representatives, "an analysis of the primary, secondary and tertiary colors of the photo." Which company's project is this hotel?

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Pantone

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Tom Cruise’s reply in this scene from the movie Color of Money inspired the naming of what?

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q9a.avi

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The two archipelagos Azores and Madeira in the Atlantic Ocean are the autonomous regions of which

country?

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Portugal

This word traces its origin to the Sanskrit word kshatriya. It was the name given to the governors of the provinces of the ancient Median and Persian Empires and in several of their successors, including the Hellenistic empires. The word is also often used in modern literature to refer to world leaders or governors who are heavily influenced by larger world superpowers or hegemonies and act as their surrogates.

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Satrap

This 1966 movie’s title is a pun on a song from Walt Disney’s The Three Little Pigs. It is the only movie to be nominated in every eligible category of the Academy Awards and was also the last movie to win the Oscar in a category which was merged with another category from the next year. Which movie and what category?

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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?Black and White Cinematography, merged with Color

Cinematography to form one category.

X's work and its extension appeared to have no engineering uses for a long time. Y was introduced to X's ideas when he attended a philosophy class in college and recognized how this work could form the basis of mechanisms and processes in the real world.In his master's thesis in 1937, he showed how X's work could optimize the design of systems of electromechanical relays then used in telephone routing switches. He also proved that circuits with relays could be used for electrical applications of X's ideas thus laying the foundation for the digital age. Give X and Y.

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X – BooleY – Claude Shannon

Illustrations from MoMA of models of buildings from an Indian city. Identify city and designer.

Tower of Shadows

Assembly Hall

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Chandigarh, Le Corbusier

Questionnaires about one’s personality that reveal the tastes and aspirations of the taker are regularly seen on the back page of various magazines and TV shows and are answered by various celebrities. Its name and modern popularity as a form of interview is owed to the responses given by a French writer, who answered such questionnaires in a confession album twice, once when he was 14 and then when he was 20. On the next slide, we see a rather curt response to such a questionnaire by another writer. Identify both writers.

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Proust questionnaire answered by Arthur Conan Doyle

Red socks from this shop in Rome became very famous online after a French website started selling them online. This shop is again under the spotlight now. Why?

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They are the papal tailors.

Born in Patna in 1759, he was one of the most notable early Indian immigrants to UK. He established vapor bathhouses which offered thereupatic head massages and thus introduced the concept of shampooing to the West. This led to him being appointed as the Shampooing Surgeon for both George IV and William IV. He also opened the first Indian restaurant, the Hindoostanee Coffee House, and also was the first Indian to have written a book in English.

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Sake Dean Mahomet