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ROUND 1

• DRY AS A BONE

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Question 1

• Whose diary starts as follows?
• Blessed be God, at the end of the
  last year I was in very good health, without any
  sense of my old pain but upon taking of cold. I
  lived in Axe yard, having my wife and servant
  Jane, and no more in family than us three. My
  wife, after the absence of her terms for seven
  weeks, gave me hopes of her being with child, but
  on the last day of the year she hath them again.

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Question 2

• Count Louis Zborowski was an eccentric
  English-American. He envisioned a large airplane
  engine stuffed into a motorcar that would
  distinguish itself from any other vehicle in the
  world. With a surplus of airplane parts left over
  from WWI, Zborowski took a 23 liter Mayback
  engine from a German Gotha bomber, and
  commissioned Clive Gallop to build a car around
  it. 
• What was the name of the car he built?

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Question 3

• Fill in the blanks.
• In A.D. 2101War was beginning.Captain
  What happen?Mechanic Somebody set up us the
  bomb.Operator We get signal.Captain
  What!!Operator Main screen turn on.Captain
  It's you!!Cats How are you gentlemen!!Cats
  _____________________________________Cats You
  are on the way to destruction.Captain What you
  say!!Cats You have no chance to survive make
  your time.Cats Ha ha ha...Operator
  Captain!!Captain Take off every
  'Zig'!!Captain You know what you
  doing.Captain Move 'Zig'.Captain For great
  justice.

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Question 4

• This vehicle was initially called a landship.
  However, to preserve secrecy, it was colloquially
  referred to as a water carrier to preserve
  secrecy. Later on, this name was replaced by a
  synonym, which was used to give the workers the
  impression they were constructing tracked water
  containers for the British army in Mesopotamia.
  The first prototype was called Little Willie.
• Which vehicle?

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Question 5

• This term dates from old calendars in which high
  days and holidays were marked out in colour. This
  practice was originally used in the First Book of
  Common Prayer (1549) in which every Sunday,
  festival like Christmas, Easter, Ascension and
  Whitsun and important Saint's day was marked
  out. The tradition continued in the 1662 Book of
  Common Prayer. Thus, it has come to mean a date
  of great significance.
• Identify the term.

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Question 6

• This term comes from the Latin for a leader of
  "ten". Monks in medieval monasteries were
  organized into groups of ten for administrative
  purposes, along the lines of military platoons,
  headed by a senior monk, the _______. The term
  was later used to denote the head of a community
  of priests. When universities grew out of the
  cathedral and monastery schools, the title of
  ____ was used for officials with various
  administrative duties.
• Give the term.

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Question 7

• ______ ______ was an unusually
  large cannon which was mounted on the protective
  wall of St. Mary's Wall Church in Colchester,
  England. It was intended to protect the
  Parliamentarian stronghold of Colchester which
  was in the temporarily in control of the
  Royalists during the English Civil War.
• A shot from a Parliamentary
  cannon succeeded in damaging the wall underneath
  ______ ______ causing the cannon to fall to the
  ground. The kings men (the Royalists) tried to
  raise ______ ______ on to another part of the
  wall but even with the help of all the horses in
  the Kings stables, they failed in their task and
  Colchester fell to the Parliamentarians after a
  siege lasting eleven weeks. Fill in the
  blanks.

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Question 8

• The American company Universal Tube and
  Rollerform Equipment Corporation filed suit in
  federal court in November 2006, saying the cost
  of hosting its site had grown significantly since
  August, and that it had lost business because
  customers have had trouble accessing its site,
  which could not handle a large volume of traffic
  and hence kept crashing.
• Who did it file the case against?

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Question 9

• While ____________ was campaigning in Milwaukee,
  a would-be assassin fired a bullet into the right
  side of his chest. Much of the slug's force was
  absorbed by his eyeglasses case and the 50-page
  speech he was carrying double-folded in his
  breast pocket. Nevertheless, the bullet lodged
  itself just short of his lung, and, dripping in
  blood, _________ pulled himself up to the podium.
  He asked the horrified crowd to please "...be
  very quiet and excuse me from making a long
  speech. I'll do the best I can, but there's a
  bullet in my body. . . I have a message to
  deliver, and I will deliver it as long as there
  is life in my body." He spoke for 90 minutes, but
  was unable to refer to his text because of the
  gaping hole torn by the bullet. Fill in the
  blank.

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Question 10

• ______________ was among the oldest merchant
  banking companies in England, having been founded
  in 1762 as the 'John and Francis _________
  Company'.
  ______________
  collapsed on February 26, 1995, due to the
  activities of one trader, Nick Leeson, who lost
  1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore
  International Monetary Exchange, primarily using
  futures contracts. Fill in the blanks.

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Question 11

• The 1954 short film Greek Mirthology depicts the
  fictional origin of a certain practice. Identify
  the practice.
• ______'s Greek ancestor, Hercules,
  originally sniffed garlic to gain his
  supernatural powers. When the evil Brutus removed
  the scent of the garlic using chlorophyll (!),
  Hercules ended up getting punched into a _______
  field and, found that the substance grown in the
  field empowered him many times more than garlic.

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Question 12

• In the 13th century, one of the earliest English
  statutes was instituted during the reign of
  Henry. It was called the Assize of Bread and Ale.
  
• Bakers who were found to have
  shortchanged customers could be liable to severe
  punishment. To guard against this punishment of
  losing a hand to an axe, a baker would always
  give one more loaf than was paid for (usually
  twelve loaves), to be certain of not being called
  a cheat.
• From this practice, a phrase has
  entered the English language. Identify it.

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• These lines are from Virgils Aeneid. Fill in the
  blanks.
• Laocoon, follow'd by a num'rous crowd,
• Ran from the fort, and cried, from far,
  aloud
• O wretched countrymen! What fury reigns?
• What more than madness has possess'd your
  brains?
• Think you the Grecians from your coasts are
  gone?
• And are Ulysses' arts no better known?
• This hollow fabric either must inclose,
• Within its blind recess, our secret foes
• Or 't is an engine rais'd above the town,
• T' o'erlook the walls, and then to batter
  down.
• Somewhat is sure design'd, by fraud or
  force
• Trust not their presents, nor admit the
  _____.

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• This is an isotope of a silvery metalloid
  originally called Radium-F with the atomic number
  84, named after the discoverers native land. It
  is an alpha emitter that has a half-life of
  138.376 days. It has been used as a lightweight
  heat source to power thermoelectric cells in
  artificial satellites. It has also been used by
  various secret services for smudging currency
  bills so that they can be traced.
• What relevance does this have to
  anything?

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• In 1784, Benjamin Franklin wrote a famous letter
  to his daughter from Paris. Anextract    "For
  my own part I wish the ____ _____ had not been
  chosen. He is a ____ of badmoral character. He
  does not get his Living honestly. You may have
  seen him perched on some dead Tree near the
  River, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he
  watches the Labour of the Fishing Hawk and when
  that diligent Bird has at length taken a Fish,
  and is bearing it to his Nest for the Support of
  his Mate and young Ones, the ____ _____ pursues
  him and takes it from him.   With all this
  Injustice, he is never in good Case but like
  those among Men wholive by Sharping Robbing he
  is generally poor and often very lousy. Besides
  heis a rank Coward. He is therefore by no means
  a proper Symbol . . ."    Fill in the first two
  blanks.

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Round 2

• Audio - Visual

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Question 1

• Identify and connect the pictures and song.

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Question 2

• Connect the text below to the two pictures on the
  next page.
• The quality of paper is
  dependent on its decimation once put in water and
  paper of the lowest quality decimates faster

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Question 3

• Give a one-word connect for the three
  pictures shown.

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Question 4

• Connect.

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Question 5

• Connect.

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Question 6

• Identify and give a specific thing that connects
  the people shown below.

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Question 7

• Give funda.

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Question 8

• Identify and connect.

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Question 9

• Identify and connect.

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Question 10

• Give a personality that connects all these.

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Question 11

• Identify and give a specific connect that links
  all these artists. ltto get-come undonegt

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Question 12

• Identify and connect the various people
  performing the pieces shown in the videos or
  played in the audios.

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ROUND 3

• THEMES

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ROUND 4

• STAGE II

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Question 1

• This person landed in a field near the village of
  Smelovka in the Saratov region of the U.S.S.R
  after a pathbreaking flight. As he crossed the
  field, he met a young woman who had been caring
  for a calf. She screamed when she saw what she
  thought was a strange monster approaching her,
  and cried out, "Who are you?" _______ politely
  doffed his space helmet and said, "A friend, a
  friend.".
• Identify the person.

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Question 2

• Which award is given in six categories as
  follows?
• Government Service
• Public Service
• Community Leadership
• Journalism, Literature and Creative
  Communication arts
• Peace and International Understanding
• Emergent Leadership

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Question 3

• Who wrote about his expedition to the South Pole
  as follows?
• "I may say that this is the greatest
  factor -- the way in which the expedition is
  equipped -- the way in which every difficulty is
  foreseen, and precautions taken for meeting or
  avoiding it. Victory awaits him who has
  everything in order -- luck, people call it.
  Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to
  take the necessary precautions in time this is
  called bad luck."

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Question 4

• The picture is of a 1999 biopic about the only
  undefeated world champion in the history of
  boxing. Who?

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Question 5

• This company was founded in 1894 in Zlín in the
  then Austro-Hungarian Empire, by a person whose
  family had been cobblers for generations. Name
  the person (his surname will do).

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Question 6

• He was the first UN Secretary-General to be
  awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and has widely been
  regarded as the best UN Secretary General ever,
  with his major triumphs being the strengthening
  of relations between Israel and the Arab states,
  the establishment of the United Nations Emergency
  Force (UNEF), and intervention in the Suez
  Crisis.
• Who?

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Question 7

• A famous band formed in the 1950s consisted of
  iconic singer/songwriter _____ _____, drummer
  Jerry Allison, bassist Joe B. Mauldin, and rhythm
  guitarist Niki Sullivan.
• They chose the name of their group
  to cash in on its similarity of the name of the
  then-popular band Bill Haley and His Comets, and
  also because they wanted a name that would sound
  catchy to the audience.
• Fill in the blanks.

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Question 8

• Shown below is a US stamp. Which pioneer does it
  depict?

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Question 9

• Which singer, born Henry J. Deutschendorf, Jr.,
  changed his name in homage to his favourite city?

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Question 10

• Whose ashes are allegedly stored in the Renkoji
  temple in Suginami Ward, Tokyo?

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Question 11

• The term for the group of people shown was coined
  by Manchester Evening News journalist Tom
  Jackson. It refers to players who progressed from
  the club's youth team into the first team under
  the management of the famous Scottish manager
  shown.
• Give the term.

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Question 12

• Who founded Maruti Udyog Ltd. in response to his
  mothers call for a peoples car - an
  affordable and efficient indigenous machine for
  middle-class citizens?