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The ONTI-THOLA Quiz.


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1. Put funda.

Some hyper-active _______ chuth acting off too

much at a quiz.

Akshath : X!!!! (shouts at _____ chuth)

Homo : Relax da.

Babu : Dude Didnt read newspaper

yesterday? He can file a case against you in______ if you call him X.


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_______= Chennai; X =Bitch

Madras High court ruling the usage of BITCH

word to be a case of sexual harrasment


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2. Novel and Author


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1984 by George Orwell


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3. What term?

It is an idea, behavior or style that spreads

from person to person within a culture.

It acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas,

symbols or practices, which can be

transmitted from one mind to another

through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or

other imitable phenomena.

Supporters of the concept regard it as cultural

analogues to genes in that they self-replicate,

mutate and respond to selective pressures


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MEME


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4. What book title did the

etymology of this symbols inspire?


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5. Whats blanked out?


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Day light saving time


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6. Who?

_________ is an English recording artist and

songwriter. She was offered a recording

contract from XL Recordings after a friend

posted her demo on MySpace in 2006. The

next year she received the Brit Awards "Critics'

Choice" and won the BBC Sound of 2008.


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ADELE


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7. Put funda


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9. Put funda.


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10. ID the guy or the company.


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Justin Frankel of Winamp fame


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11. FITB

Despite his obvious allegiance to the Red

Raiders, Texas Tech sports information director

Ralph Carpenter was the picture of

professional objectivity when

the Aggies rallied for a 72-72 tie late in

the SWC tournament finals. "Hey, Ralph,"

said Bill Morgan, "this... is going to be a tightone after all." "Right," said Ralph. "The opera

________________."


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It aint over until until the fat lady sings


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12. Connect


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Stadia of Light


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13. Connect


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14. Whats the good word?

It is derived from the Urdu words for tyingand binding, and meaning organizationor arrangement is often used in relation to

certain duties of Indian police forces.


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Bandobast


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15. X:?

The book The Best of Time:XWristwatches: An Unauthorized

Historyby Jeffrey P. Hess and James Dowling says that the name

was just made up.One story, never confirmed by the founder, is

that the name came from the French phrase horlogerie exquise,

meaning "exquisite clockworkor as a contraction of

"horological excellence". The founder was said to want his

watch brand's name to be easily pronounceable in any

language. He also thought that the name X" was

onomatopoeic, sounding like a watch being wound. It is easily

pronounceable in many languages and, as all letters have the

same size, allows to be written symmetrically. It was also short

enough to fit on the face of a watch.


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16. What?

Polycarbonate designs of these usually consist ofproducts such as Armormax, Makroclear, Cyrolon,Lexan or Tuffak, which are often sandwiched betweenlayers of regular _____.The ability to withstand shock

is improved by the process of tempering. When treatedwith heating and cooling or with chemical processes.The polycarbonate usually has one of two types ofcoating to resist abrasion: a soft coating that heals

after being scratched (such as elastomeric carbon-based polymers) or a hard coating that preventsscratching (such as silicon-based polymers)


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Bulletproof Glass


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17. What's the Indian connection?


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Ma and Maatha becoming Mother


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18. Connect


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Jockey


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19. Connect (specific)


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20. What?

This communication system was invented by Alfred J. Gross in

1938. His fascination in radio transmission began as a young

boy growing up in Cleveland, Ohio. This allure became a

lifelong career, establishing himself as wireless

communications pioneer.

In 1941, Alfred Gross helped lead the way with the invention

of a "two-way air-to-ground communications system" used by

the United States in the Second World War. This technology

allowed communication with high-flying pilots behind enemylines. The ground communication device, nicknamed "Joan",

and the airborne device, "Eleanor", communicated over radio

waves. This communication system was kept classified by the

U.S. Government until 1976.


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Walkie talkie


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21. FITB

An _______ is a trait or an organ that appears similar in twounrelated organisms. The cladistic term for the same phenomenon

is Homoplasy, from Greek for same form. Biological ______ are

often the result of convergent evolution.

The classical example of an ________ is the ability to fly

in birds and bats. Both groups can move by powered flight, but

flight has evolved independently in the two groups. The ability to

fly does not make birds and bats close relatives. The opposite of

_______ is homology, where the ability or organ in question has

been inherited from a common ancestor. The Britishanatomist Richard Owen was the first scientist to recognise the

fundamental difference between the two, and name them.

Its a term more commonly used in literature.


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Analogy


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22. Whose workspace?


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Dilbert


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23. FITB

A _________ is a person who shifts allegiance

from one loyalty or ideal to another, betraying

or deserting an original cause by switching to

the opposing side or party. In political andsocial history, this is distinct from being

a traitor.

The first written use of the term meaning"One who changes his principles or party; a

renegade; an apostate" was by J. Foxe inActes

& Monumentes in 1570


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Turncoat


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In the middle ages, the accounts of churches

and other public institutions would be read

out loud to the public so that any interested

person could listen and verify the accounts.

This practice or profession got its name from

this habit of listening to the accounts being

read out loud.


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Audit


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Latin for 'calling together', (translating

the Greek ecclesia)

It is a group of people formally assembled for

a special purpose.

In some universities, this term refers

specifically to the entirety of the alumni of a

college which function as one of theuniversity's representative bodies.


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Convocation

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