Ragam Lone Wolf:Round 2
1.X has a cousin named George who's scared of Y, and a lover named Toodles.He parties with friends called Butch and pals.
Y has a guitar playing uncle named Pecos,an apprentice/ward named Tuffy(nibbles) and a strong cousin named muscles.Identify X and Y
2.Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) — the Ittihad ve Terakki jemiyeti in local parlance was a secret society whose leaders led a rebellion against Sultan Abdul Hamid II. Mehmed Talat Pasha, Ismail Enver, Ahmed Djemal were some of its leaders who usurped power and were later involved in violent genocide.How do we better know this society?
3.Scholars have argued that he was a spy working for Sir Francis Walsingham's intelligence service. He was once arrested in Holland on counterfeiting" charges but was pardoned by the British, which led credence to the theory that he was a spy. According to a coroner's report uncovered in 1925,he died in a house and not in a tavern as was previously believed. According to the report, he had assaulted a man named Ingram Frizer, and in the ensuing struggle Frizer stabbed him above the right eye, killing him instantly. Recent conspiracy theories argue that he faked his death and assumed an all together different identity. Identify this renowned personality
4.Visual1.Map of??
5.It was founded in 1886 by workers of the Woolwich Armaments company and was originally named Dial Square.In 1913 it shifted fromWoolwich to London.During the period 1949 to 2002,its emblemfeatured a cannon and the motto "Victoria Concordia Crescit" (meaning "victory comes from harmony").They modernised this logo in 2002.How do we know them these days?
6.Visual 2 Identify this personality. One of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), He also co-directed one film, TARZAN AND HIS MATE (1934), and was married to actress Dolores del Rio from 1930 to 1941.He was nominated for Oscars more than 30 times out of whch he won 11 awards.
7.On April 26, 1933, a decree was issued creating this organisation. It underwent many name changes.But its most popular name was supposedly created by a postal official who wanted a name that would fit on a regulation-sized postal rubber stamp. It was headquartered at No.8,Prinz Albrecht Strasse. Identify.
8.Visual3.Identify the guy who’s been caricatured.
9.He uses the profession of a fashion photographer as a cover for his secret identity.In reality he's a secret agent who was frozen in the 1960's and revived in the 1990's to fight his arch rival Dr.Evil.He gets his briefings from Basil Exposition.Who are we talking about?
10.Kambei, Kikuchiyo, Gorobei, Kyuzo, Heihachi, Shichiroji, Katsuhiro.What were they together called?
11.According to Virgil this city was founded by Dido. when Dido and her party were encamped at Byrsa, the local Berber chieftain offered them as much land as could be covered with a single ox hide. So, Dido cut an ox hide into tiny strips and set them on the ground end to end until she had completely encircled Byrsa. This story is considered apocryphal, and was most likely invented because Byrsa sounds similar to the Greek word meaning ox hide.The citadel dominated the city below and formed its principal military installation . The city was besieged and destroyed in 146 BC.Which city?
12.Complete the poem written by Goethe
"Wouldst thou the young year's blossoms and the fruits of its decline
And all by which the soul is charmed, enraptured, feasted, fed,
Wouldst thou the earth and heaven itself in one sole name combine?
I name thee, O ___________ ! and all at once is said. "
13.In 335 B.C.When Alexander was emperor, a serious revolt broke out in Thebes, a city in Greece. Alexander who was just 20 years of age, and his army marched against Thebes and burned it to the ground. Over thirty thousand Thebans were sold into slavery. In the entire city, Alexander spared only one house -Whose?
14.Michelangelo Merisi - street brawler, gang member, murderer and the great painter. What we know of his activities and associates comes, largely from "police reports, legal depositions, court transcripts and contracts for commissions". He once threw rocks at police officers - according to the Roman police logs. And one of his tennis games ended with the murder of his opponent. The celebrated artist, arguably the most famous painter of his age died at the ripe age of 39.Who?
15.This place was originally an extensive, shallow embayment called Wai Momi or Pu‘uloa by the Hawaiians. Pu‘uloa was regarded as the home of the shark goddess Ka‘ahupahau and her brother, Kahi‘uka. The harbor was teeming with oysters until the late 1800's.In the years following the arrival of Captain James Cook, it was not considered a suitable port due to the shallowness of the water. In 1887, this place was leased to the US by Hawai in return for exclusive rights to allow Hawaiian sugar to enter the United States duty free. Which place?
16.This town is located in the German state of Bavaria on the Danube and Schutter rivers about 45 miles north of Munich. The history of the town dates to the 9th century. Its University was founded in 1472 and is best known as the University where Luther's opponent Johann Eck taught. It later became well known as the center for the Catholic(A.K.A.Counter) Reformation.
The University did house a prestigious medical school and in 1722 the University acquired a site for an anatomy theater, botanical garden and chemistry lab. By 1755 the anatomy theater was considered among the best in Europe. It consisted of a two-story anatomical theater with a dissecting table on the ground floor, a gallery for student observers above and a glass ceiling allowing overhead illumination.
From 1818,the university achieved international fame on account of a student who studied under the Proffessors, Kempe and Waldman. Who was the student?
17.X was the son of Harihar and Sarbhaya. He had a sister named Durga, who died of an illness after dancing in the rain. The family then shifted to Benares where Harihar made a living by reciting scriptures. After Harihar died, mother and son returned to her village. He convinced his mother to send him to school and later earned a scholarship to study in Calcutta where he also found a job in a press. He married Aparna, Who later dies while giving birth to their son Kajal. Grief struck, he wandered for many years before finally coming back and convincing his son to accept him back. Whose life story?
18.It contains the fifth of several known types of the protein hemagglutinin and the first of several known types of the protein neuraminidase. What are we talking about?
19.Cryolophosaurus ellioti (cry-oh-LOAF-oh-SORE-us, meaning "cold crested lizard") is a large bipedal dinosaur with a bizarre crest running across its head that looks like a Spanish comb. It was discovered in 1991 by Dr. William Hammer, Augustana College paleontologist. It was the first carnivorous dinosaur to be discovered in Antarctica, and the first dinosaur of any kind from the continent to be officially named. Dating from the early Jurassic, it is also the earliest tetanuran theropod yet discovered, though it is not the most primitive.What is it more popularly known as ? (see artist's depiction below.Big Clue!!)
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1.“O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick.- Thus with a kiss I die.”
2.“O, happy dagger!This is thy sheath; there rest, and let me die. “
Connect these two sentences
Y has a guitar playing uncle named Pecos,an apprentice/ward named Tuffy(nibbles) and a strong cousin named muscles.Identify X and Y
2.Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) — the Ittihad ve Terakki jemiyeti in local parlance was a secret society whose leaders led a rebellion against Sultan Abdul Hamid II. Mehmed Talat Pasha, Ismail Enver, Ahmed Djemal were some of its leaders who usurped power and were later involved in violent genocide.How do we better know this society?
3.Scholars have argued that he was a spy working for Sir Francis Walsingham's intelligence service. He was once arrested in Holland on counterfeiting" charges but was pardoned by the British, which led credence to the theory that he was a spy. According to a coroner's report uncovered in 1925,he died in a house and not in a tavern as was previously believed. According to the report, he had assaulted a man named Ingram Frizer, and in the ensuing struggle Frizer stabbed him above the right eye, killing him instantly. Recent conspiracy theories argue that he faked his death and assumed an all together different identity. Identify this renowned personality
4.Visual1.Map of??
5.It was founded in 1886 by workers of the Woolwich Armaments company and was originally named Dial Square.In 1913 it shifted fromWoolwich to London.During the period 1949 to 2002,its emblemfeatured a cannon and the motto "Victoria Concordia Crescit" (meaning "victory comes from harmony").They modernised this logo in 2002.How do we know them these days?
6.Visual 2 Identify this personality. One of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), He also co-directed one film, TARZAN AND HIS MATE (1934), and was married to actress Dolores del Rio from 1930 to 1941.He was nominated for Oscars more than 30 times out of whch he won 11 awards.
7.On April 26, 1933, a decree was issued creating this organisation. It underwent many name changes.But its most popular name was supposedly created by a postal official who wanted a name that would fit on a regulation-sized postal rubber stamp. It was headquartered at No.8,Prinz Albrecht Strasse. Identify.
8.Visual3.Identify the guy who’s been caricatured.
9.He uses the profession of a fashion photographer as a cover for his secret identity.In reality he's a secret agent who was frozen in the 1960's and revived in the 1990's to fight his arch rival Dr.Evil.He gets his briefings from Basil Exposition.Who are we talking about?
10.Kambei, Kikuchiyo, Gorobei, Kyuzo, Heihachi, Shichiroji, Katsuhiro.What were they together called?
11.According to Virgil this city was founded by Dido. when Dido and her party were encamped at Byrsa, the local Berber chieftain offered them as much land as could be covered with a single ox hide. So, Dido cut an ox hide into tiny strips and set them on the ground end to end until she had completely encircled Byrsa. This story is considered apocryphal, and was most likely invented because Byrsa sounds similar to the Greek word meaning ox hide.The citadel dominated the city below and formed its principal military installation . The city was besieged and destroyed in 146 BC.Which city?
12.Complete the poem written by Goethe
"Wouldst thou the young year's blossoms and the fruits of its decline
And all by which the soul is charmed, enraptured, feasted, fed,
Wouldst thou the earth and heaven itself in one sole name combine?
I name thee, O ___________ ! and all at once is said. "
13.In 335 B.C.When Alexander was emperor, a serious revolt broke out in Thebes, a city in Greece. Alexander who was just 20 years of age, and his army marched against Thebes and burned it to the ground. Over thirty thousand Thebans were sold into slavery. In the entire city, Alexander spared only one house -Whose?
14.Michelangelo Merisi - street brawler, gang member, murderer and the great painter. What we know of his activities and associates comes, largely from "police reports, legal depositions, court transcripts and contracts for commissions". He once threw rocks at police officers - according to the Roman police logs. And one of his tennis games ended with the murder of his opponent. The celebrated artist, arguably the most famous painter of his age died at the ripe age of 39.Who?
15.This place was originally an extensive, shallow embayment called Wai Momi or Pu‘uloa by the Hawaiians. Pu‘uloa was regarded as the home of the shark goddess Ka‘ahupahau and her brother, Kahi‘uka. The harbor was teeming with oysters until the late 1800's.In the years following the arrival of Captain James Cook, it was not considered a suitable port due to the shallowness of the water. In 1887, this place was leased to the US by Hawai in return for exclusive rights to allow Hawaiian sugar to enter the United States duty free. Which place?
16.This town is located in the German state of Bavaria on the Danube and Schutter rivers about 45 miles north of Munich. The history of the town dates to the 9th century. Its University was founded in 1472 and is best known as the University where Luther's opponent Johann Eck taught. It later became well known as the center for the Catholic(A.K.A.Counter) Reformation.
The University did house a prestigious medical school and in 1722 the University acquired a site for an anatomy theater, botanical garden and chemistry lab. By 1755 the anatomy theater was considered among the best in Europe. It consisted of a two-story anatomical theater with a dissecting table on the ground floor, a gallery for student observers above and a glass ceiling allowing overhead illumination.
From 1818,the university achieved international fame on account of a student who studied under the Proffessors, Kempe and Waldman. Who was the student?
17.X was the son of Harihar and Sarbhaya. He had a sister named Durga, who died of an illness after dancing in the rain. The family then shifted to Benares where Harihar made a living by reciting scriptures. After Harihar died, mother and son returned to her village. He convinced his mother to send him to school and later earned a scholarship to study in Calcutta where he also found a job in a press. He married Aparna, Who later dies while giving birth to their son Kajal. Grief struck, he wandered for many years before finally coming back and convincing his son to accept him back. Whose life story?
18.It contains the fifth of several known types of the protein hemagglutinin and the first of several known types of the protein neuraminidase. What are we talking about?
19.Cryolophosaurus ellioti (cry-oh-LOAF-oh-SORE-us, meaning "cold crested lizard") is a large bipedal dinosaur with a bizarre crest running across its head that looks like a Spanish comb. It was discovered in 1991 by Dr. William Hammer, Augustana College paleontologist. It was the first carnivorous dinosaur to be discovered in Antarctica, and the first dinosaur of any kind from the continent to be officially named. Dating from the early Jurassic, it is also the earliest tetanuran theropod yet discovered, though it is not the most primitive.What is it more popularly known as ? (see artist's depiction below.Big Clue!!)
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1.“O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick.- Thus with a kiss I die.”
2.“O, happy dagger!This is thy sheath; there rest, and let me die. “
Connect these two sentences
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