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• W. B. Yeats wrote the introduction to this

famous literary work. Yeats often described

this as his personal best. Which work?

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• Whose quote – Outside a dog, books are

man’s best friend. Inside a dog it is too dark

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• the wind of Mt. Fuji I've brought on my fan!

a gift from Edo

- Basho

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• *X was also known as the convenor of

"Monday Club”, a weekly gathering of

likeminded people at the residence, where

the members were free to express their

irreverent opinions about the world at large.

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• At the height of his fame and success, while

his masterpiece, The Importance of Being

Earnest (1895), was still on stage in

London, Wilde sued the Marquess of

Queensberry the father of, Lord Alfred

Douglas, for libel. The trial unearthed

evidence that caused Wilde to drop his

charges and led to his own arrest. What was

the charge against Oscar Wilde?

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• In England, we can still see glasses marked

at ½ pint with a crown over it. This is

because ½ pint was the unit of taxation .

You may expect to find the next measure at

¼ pint. Which nursery rhyme celebrates

these pints and their rise and falls as the

taxation rules changes in England?

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• The term was coined by Ludwig August

von Rochau, a German writer and politician

in the 19th century, following Klemens

Metternich's lead in finding ways to balance

the power of European empires. refers to

politics or diplomacy based primarily on

practical considerations, rather than

ideological notions. The term is often used

pejoratively to imply politics that are

coercive, amoral, or Machiavellian

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• *The life in the 1780s of Edinburgh city

councillor Deacon William Brodie, master

craftsman by day, burglar by night. Hanged

till death on the gallows that he had

commissioned.

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• This famous author recently was involved

in a tussle with Facebook over reclaiming

his first name. Who?

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• The singer and her mother have penned a

book “A mother’s gift” that was made into a

melodramatic TV series sharing the same

name as one of her songs. Who is she?

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• The semi-autobiographical novel describing

the author’s escape from prison in

Australia, living his life among the slum-

dwellers and the mafia of Bombay. The

book was slated to be adapted into a movie

starring Johny Depp as the protagonist.

Identify.

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• *Her first cookbook Easy Exotic was

awarded Best First Book at the 1999

Gourmand World Cookbook Awards at

Versailles. She also hosted two one-hour

specials on South India and Spain for the

British culinary tourism show Planet

Food, broadcast on the Food Network in the

U.S. and internationally on the Discovery

Channels.Her second

cookbook, Tangy, Tart, Hot and Sweet, was

released October 2, 2007

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• Which city lists Scrooge McDuck in the list

of its famous citizens?

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Which Hindi movie is an adaptation of the

Russian short story- White Nights

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The best-selling author of memoir of

Geisha. Holds a degree in Japanese art from

Harvard and a M.A. in Japanese history

from Columbia. He has worked extensively

in Tokyo and spent a summer in Peking

University, China

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