O-week quiz - Nag

7/27/2019 O-week quiz - Nag

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The Oppa Something Style QuizIll find something to put here

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Prohas was a prolific cartoonist in Cuba and known for political satire. Prohas'parodies of newly-installed Cuban dictator Fidel Castro attracted criticism, andfaced with the loss of work, possible arrest and threats of execution, he fled to theUnited States on May 1, 1960 3 days before Castro took over the last of theCuban free press. Prohas sought work in his profession and travelled to the officesofX in New York City on July 12, 1960. After a successful showing of his work and

a prototype cartoon for Y, Prohas was hired.

He said ofY,

Their antics are almost as funny as the CIA's...When it comes to intrigue, these

guys make it way outtrigue.

ID X &Y.

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Spy vs. Spy

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After completing his schooling from the Sailendra Sircar Vidyalaya in Kolkata, heearned his bachelors of science degree in 1975 from the Presidency College underthe University of Calcutta, and his masters three years later from the IndianInstitute of Technology Kanpur. He did his doctoral work in physics at Stony Brook

University.

He currently works at the Harish Chandra Institute (HRI) at Allahabad. Last year hereceived the Milner award (who some argue is more credible a prize in theoreticalphysics than the Nobel) for fundamental contributions to theoretical physics,

particularly string theory. ID.

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Ashoke Sen

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In 1884, theMignonette, a yacht, set sail from Southampton, England, for Australia. She had a crew of four.In the South Atlantic, the seas were heavy. Wave after wave struck the vessel. Suddenly, she broke apartand sank. Captain, mate, hand, and cabin boy managed to scramble aboard a dinghy--but without wateror provisions except for two cans of turnips. After 19 days adrift, starving and desperate, the captainkilled the cabin boy, who was unconscious and had no dependents, and the three remaining survivors ate

him. The cabin boy's name was X. His fate, in itself, is not particularly noteworthy. Cannibalism on thehigh seas was surprisingly common at the time. The reason X--or, more accurately, "the case of theMignonette"--has gone down in history, at least in knowledgeable legal circles, is that upon their return toEngland, the survivors were tried for murder, a first. Up till then, murder committed under duress,

because of severe necessity, was informally accepted as justifiable. But with the Mignonette, the powers-that-be decided to examine the question more closely. The case went all the way to the Lords and set a

legal precedent. The captain was found guilty of murder. To this day, the only excuse for murder remainsself-defense, and any British legal team that tries to argue otherwise will get a lecture from the judgeabout theMignonette.

Fifty years earlier, in 1837, Edgar Allan Poe published his only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Itwas a commission that quickly lost Poe's interest. He finished it with a mix of reluctance and slapdashhurry that is not a recipe for great literature. Pym is a sloppy work that would have vanished without atrace if weren't for its author's fame. In the story, the ship upon which Pym and a friend set sail fromNantucket overturns in a storm. Survivors cling to the hull. After several days, hunger and despair pushPym and his friend to eat a third man. His name is X. Remember, Poe wrote Pym 50 years before thesinking of the Mignonette .

And then there was the Francis Speight , a ship that foundered in 1846. There were deaths and

cannibalism aboard. One of the victims was a X.

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Richard Parker

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Paleontologists have announced the discovery of a meat-eating dinosauras big asa Tyrannosaurus rexthat roamed North Africa 95 million years ago. 3D models of

this dinosaur were created from the fossilized eye socket that these paleontologistsfound.

But this predator isn't notable just for its singular sizeit's also got unusual nameto match. Put fundae.

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Sauroniops pachytholus

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Legislation was enacted by the US Congress in 1997 to help a certain group ofAmericans to vote in elections. This involved giving them a digitized version of the

ballot emailed to them from Texas which is filled and emailed directly to electionofficials in their respective constituencies.

Who are these Americans for whom special legislation had to be drafted to avoiddisenfranchising them?

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X was long thought to have died from a bladder infection afterpoliteness kept him from excusing himself to use the bathroom during aroyal banquet in October 1601, causing his bladder to rupture.However, scientists who opened Brahe's grave in 1901 to mark the300th anniversary of his death claimed to find mercury in his remains,fueling rumors that the astronomer was poisoned. Some even accused a

jealousY of the crime.

But new results (after Xs remains were exhumed) don't point to anysuch intrigue. While analyses ofXs teeth are not yet complete, tests onhis bones and beard hairs show that mercury concentrations in hisbody were not high enough to have killed him, the team of Danish and

Czech researchers said. Xs mercury levels even dropped to the lowend of normal in the weeks leading up to his death, tests on Xs beardrevealed. ID X &Y.

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B's song "The A" (A stands for something) is a song inspired by a short story byRay Bradbury about a technologically advanced family whose children play in avirtual African A (same word as the name of the song).

The track merges Bs interpretation of African rhythms with his signature synthsounds. Chris James offered his vocal part, also inspired by Ray Bradburys story, viaTwitter, impressing B so much that he decided to use the vocals on the finalversion.

Identify A and B.

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deadmau5 - The VeldtSunday, 5 May 13


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The word ________ has old English and Latin origins. The first known use of theword was around the 12th century.

________ were originally used by wealthy men in Asia. They were also found inAncient Egyptian tombs. Highly decorated _______ were a prized commodity first

in China and Persia and later in Medieval Europe.

In Medieval England, it was believed that only women giving birth and weak menshould use _______.

________ can be made of cotton, silk, porcelain, plastic, rubber, rubber, stone,grass, wood etc. What?

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ID dame and campaign/brand

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A X worm is an extremely rapidly propagating computer worm thatspreads as fast as physically possible, infecting all vulnerable machines

on the entire Internet in 15 minutes or less. The SQL Slammer wormwas the first observed example of a X worm. The mechanism of SQLSlammer's spread used a pseudo-random number generator seededfrom a system variable to determine which IP addresses to attacknext. In spite of deficiencies in its implementation, the randomized

attack was highly effective.

The term is based on X's famous remark about the nature of fame.

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Slate magazine carried an article recently, saying how, contrary to popular wisdom,theYs are richer than the Xs.

In order to illustrate their point, they used this paragraph from Warren Buffett inlast years letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders:

Today the worlds gold stock is about 170,000 metric tons. If all of this goldwere melded together, it would form a cube of about 68 feet per side. (Picture it

fitting comfortably within a baseball infield.) At $1,750 per ounce golds price asI write this its value would be $9.6 trillion. Call this cube pile A.

Lets now create a pile B costing an equal amount. For that, we could buy all U.S.cropland (400 million acres with output of about $200 billion annually), plus 16Exxon Mobils (the worlds most profitable company, one earning more than $40billion annually). After these purchases, we would have about $1 trillion left overfor walking-around money (no sense feeling strapped after this buying binge).Can you imagine an investor with $9.6 trillion selecting pile A over pile B?

Whore X andY?

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It aims "to take part in a severe contest betweenintelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timidignorance obstructing our progress."

What?

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As Watergate is to the Washington Post, and thalidomide tothe Sunday Times, so phone-hacking will surely be to the X:a defining moment in its history.

What?

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X features regular and semi-regular columns such asExplainer, Moneybox, Spectator, Transport, and Dear

Prudence. Many of the articles are short (under 2,000words) and argument-driven. In recent years, the magazinehas also begun running long-form journalism. Many of thelonger stories are an outgrowth of the "FrescaFellowships," so-called because editor Plotz likes the softdrink Fresca. "The idea is that every writer and editor onstaff has to spend a month or six weeks a year not doing

their regular job, but instead working on a long, ambitiousproject of some sort," Plotz said in an interview.

What?

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The X is the most widely read daily newspaper in acertain community.

Its journalistic integrity is lacking; it has been known tobe more concerned about sales than about factualaccuracy and is often a mouthpiece for the

government. As described by it's most popularcorrespondent, "The X exists to sell itself." It's editoris Barnabas Cuffe and its unclear how long he has heldthis position. The newspaper also has a late edition and

a weekend edition.

What?

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The X is a left-leaning Indian magazine published from Mumbai by the Sameeksha Trust, acharitable trust. The magazine was first published in 1949 and in 1966 was re-christened the X. Itwas edited by Krishna Raj for more than three decades. The present editor is Dr.C.Rammanohar Reddy.

The X publishes both scholarly research and information about current events.

One review stated

For keeping up with scholarly research as well as current events, there is no better journalthan the X from Bombay. In addition to news, editorial comment and book reviews, the

Weekly carries academic articles by top scholars, especially in its twice-yearly special issues.

In another instance historian Ramachandra Guha rued that in terms of persuading young scholarin publishing their work in X "....When such a scholar chooses an American journal inpreference to the X, it is not difficult to conclude that for him (or her) India is merely aresource on the road to scholarly advancement."

X is known to take leftist stances on current affairs and its pages have for decades been open towriters who have highlighted the challenges facing the disadvantaged.

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It aims "to take part in a severe contest betweenintelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timidignorance obstructing our progress."

What?

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As Watergate is to the Washington Post, and thalidomide tothe Sunday Times, so phone-hacking will surely be to the X:a defining moment in its history.

What?

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X features regular and semi-regular columns such asExplainer, Moneybox, Spectator, Transport, and Dear

Prudence. Many of the articles are short (under 2,000words) and argument-driven. In recent years, the magazinehas also begun running long-form journalism. Many of thelonger stories are an outgrowth of the "FrescaFellowships," so-called because editor Plotz likes the softdrink Fresca. "The idea is that every writer and editor onstaff has to spend a month or six weeks a year not doing

their regular job, but instead working on a long, ambitiousproject of some sort," Plotz said in an interview.

What?

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The X lured us into its net by being one of the very fewquality newspapers available in the English language that

one could find in Bangkok or Katmandu after emergingfrom a week trekking or hanging out on some semi-tropicalbeach. Daniel Drezner is correct to note, in Foreign Policy,that the X was overpriced and a little slender on thecontent side, but even though it was a small luxury to buy,it was always worth it.

Earlier this year, the publishers of this newspaper decidedto change it's name to much outcry.

X, or the new name.

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The X is the most widely read daily newspaper in acertain community.

Its journalistic integrity is lacking; it has been known tobe more concerned about sales than about factualaccuracy and is often a mouthpiece for the

government. As described by it's most popularcorrespondent, "The X exists to sell itself." It's editoris Barnabas Cuffe and its unclear how long he has heldthis position. The newspaper also has a late edition and

a weekend edition.

What?

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The X is a left leaning Indian magazine published from Mumbai by the Sameeksha Trust a


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The X is a left-leaning Indian magazine published from Mumbai by the Sameeksha Trust, acharitable trust. The magazine was first published in 1949 and in 1966 was re-christened the X. Itwas edited by Krishna Raj for more than three decades. The present editor is Dr.C.Rammanohar Reddy.

The X publishes both scholarly research and information about current events.

One review stated

For keeping up with scholarly research as well as current events, there is no better journalthan the X from Bombay. In addition to news, editorial comment and book reviews, the

Weekly carries academic articles by top scholars, especially in its twice-yearly special issues.

In another instance historian Ramachandra Guha rued that in terms of persuading young scholarin publishing their work in X "....When such a scholar chooses an American journal inpreference to the X, it is not difficult to conclude that for him (or her) India is merely aresource on the road to scholarly advancement."

X is known to take leftist stances on current affairs and its pages have for decades been open towriters who have highlighted the challenges facing the disadvantaged.

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