Practice Quiz 06/09

[Mehul kumar]

1. Which successful actress today owns a business venture called ‘The
Faraway Tree’, well known brand of designer candles?

2. What is searching on Google by typing your own name known as?

3. Resplendent in top hat and tails, his beard neatly trimmed, a 42
year-old mechanic stood on a platform that had been hoisted some 40
feet above ground at a New York fair in 1854. As the crowd gaped, our
bearded friend ordered the rope to be cut The platform dropped a foot
or so and stopped. Doffing his topper, he cried "All safe, gentlemen,
all safe". Who was he?

4. Otis Davis was first, Carl Kaufmann was second, Malcolm Spence was
third. Who very famously was fourth?

5. Give me X
a. X absorbs unconscious mental frequencies and excretes a telepathic
matrix.
b. X is supposed to be the clinching proof of the nonexistence of God.
c. X has caused more wars than anything else in the history of
creation.

6. Gene Roddenberry drafted a proposal for the science fiction series
that would become X. Although he publicly marketed it as a Western in
____—a so-called "Wagon Train to the Stars" ( Wagon Train (1957-62) -
NBC)—he privately told friends that he was modeling it on Jonathan
Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Piece of cake!!

7. X was the first document forced onto an English King by a group of
his subjects, the feudal barons, in an attempt to limit his powers by
law and protect their privileges. It was preceded and directly
influenced by the Charter of Liberties in 1100, in which King Henry I
had specified particular areas wherein his powers would be limited.
The 1297 version, with the long title (originally in Latin) The Great
____ of the Liberties of England, and of the Liberties of the Forest,
still remains on the statute books of England and Wales.

8. The unexpected success of X in late 1991 propelled Y to the top of
the charts at the start of 1992, an event often marked as the point
where alternative rock entered the mainstream. X was Z's first and
biggest hit, reaching number six on the Billboard Hot 100 and placing
high on music industry charts all around the world in 1991 and 1992.X
was often difficult for listeners to decipher, both due to their
nonsensicality and because of A's slurred, guttural singing voice.
This problem was compounded by the fact that the Y album liner notes
did not include any lyrics aside from selected lyrical fragments. A is
rated 12th greatest guitarist and 45th best singer by Rolling Stones.
In 2006, A took the place of Elvis Presley as the top-earning deceased
celebrity.

A review reads like this "The first 20 seconds of X changed the music
industry forever. Sure, it’s a cliche, but that doesn’t mean it’s not
true. In one fell swoop, Z did away with the glam and excess of the
‘80s and shamed the boy-bands of the early ‘90s. Z didn’t invent
grunge (some might say it The Mats or Neil Young), but their ability
to blend in great pop hooks helped launch it into mainstream
America.” Give me X, Y, Z, A.

9. His form was studied by Disney animators to properly animate Tarzan
in the 1999 film. A professional competitor since age 11 who never
finished out of the medals at the X Games Vert competition, this CEO
of Birdhouse Projects, became, in 1998, the first man ever to execute
the 900 twist in competition--for 10 points--name this skateboarder,
name sake of a popular video game series by Activision.

10. The artificial variety of it is created by the Verneuil process
which until 1940 was only performed in Switzerland, France, and
Germany. With chemical formula Al2O3 this colorless mineral is hard
enough to use for grinding optical glass and polishing metal. N this
mineral that becomes ruby with the induction of chromium impurities
and sapphire with the induction of iron and titanium.

11. A recent book, The Jew of Linz, blames the Holocaust on the fact
that Adolf Hitler hated this man when they were in the same first-
grade class. At various times he was a gardener in a monastery and a
schoolteacher in Austria. He withdrew from academic life for years,
returning to Cambridge in 1929 and writing Philosophical
Investigations in 1953. Name this author of 1920's Tractatus Logico-
Philosophicus.

12. Famous quote about a graphical scale of datable girls. Give me X
and Y
X: A girl is allowed to be crazy as long as she is equally hot. Thus,
if she's *this*(on a chart) crazy, she has to be *this* hot. You want
the girl to be above this line. Also known as the Y. This girl I
dated. She played jump rope with that line. She'd shave her head, then
lose 10 pounds. She'd stab me with a fork, then get a boob job.
[pauses]
X: I should give her a call

13. He is supposed to be the first authentic writer on music by
persian and arabic scholars. He was known to be a student of sankhya
philosphy and wrote a comprehensive book on Music in about 500 B.C.
Who?

14. Originally this tune was composed for the broadway version of "A
House for Mr Biswas" but its famous as something else? What am I
talking about?

15. "I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me
to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph." Whose
Quote??

16. She was found wandering in the streets of Moscow and was a Mongrel
female approximately 3 years and about 6Kg? Her other names are
Kudryavka, Zhuchka and Limonchik. What is her claim to fame?