The Thomsonian Prelims

Answers

LONE WOLF

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• Which famous news channel’s name literally means ‘The Island’?

• Al-Jazeera

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• In the fall of 1979,the school children of Islington Green in London officially went on a one day study tour. They did something that has now been immortalized as the battle cry of a lazy ass generation. What?

• They sang the chorus “We don’t need no education”.

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• X is a slang that means to keep something all for oneself, thus depriving anyone else of having any. It is often used by marijuana users who share joints or bongs. The word X is derived from the last name of famous actor Y because he often kept a cigarette in the corner of his mouth, seemingly never actually drawing on it or smoking it.

• Bogarting from Humphry Bogart

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• X was a TV series devised by Bill Wright.• Wright drew inspiration from his experiences of being interrogated by the Gestapo during World War II.• The atmosphere is helped by Xs famously ominous theme music, "Approaching Menace" by the British composer Neil Richardson.

• Mastermind

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After selling a total of 8 million units in its first 60days, X holds the Guinness World Record of being the "fastest selling consumer electronics device".10 million units of X have been shipped as of March 9, 2011.

• Microsoft Kinect

6• Many explanations of the origin of the word X have proven

difficult to verify. The most widely-held theory is that the military designation (for Government Purposes or General Purpose) was slurred into the word X.

• An alternative view launched by R. Lee Ermey, suggests that soldiers at the time were so impressed with the new vehicles that they informally named it after Y, a character in the Popeye comic strip and cartoons created by E. C. Segar, as early as mid-March of 1936. Y was Popeye's "jungle pet" and was "small, able to move between dimensions and could solve seemingly impossible problems."

• Jeep

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• The Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System(JPATS), nicknamed “X",[1] is an agency of the federal government of the United States charged with the transportation of persons in legal custody between prisons, detaining centers, courthouses, and other locations. It is the largest prison transport network in the world.[2] Though primarily used by the Federal Bureau of Prisons or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, JPATS also assists military and state law enforcement. Gimme X.

• Con-air

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• A mid-sized Korean semiconductor firm named DI Corp that makes products named “Monitoring Burn-in Tester” and “Wafer Test Board” had consistently lost money for four quarters in 2011-12. In a few weeks around October 2012 however, the firm, headed by Park Won-ho saw its share price shoot up nearly three times its original value, from 2,000 to 5,700 Korean won. Why?

• He is PSY’s father

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• In psychology this term(X) is used to refer an individual possessing the traits of introversion and a strong preference for independence. This trait can also be found in the animal kingdom, most famously in the Ys. Xs are generally are alpha males or young adults in search of new territory.

• In literature, Xs are aloof and emotionally unable or unwilling to directly interact with other characters in the story. A stereotypical X will be dark or serious in personality; they are often taciturn, and will distinguish themselves through their reserved nature.

• In military or security groups, such Xs frequently act on their own accord, insist on working alone, refuse to work with most of if not all members of the group and/or go against the plans of missions/operations and attempt to complete said task alone. What is X?

• Lone wolf

10• X is heiress to the fortune created by the Italian tire

manufacturing company CEAT, founded in the 1920s by her legal grandfather, Virginio Tedeschi. The company was sold in the 1970s to Pirelli (the brand lives on via its former subsidiary in India, founded in 1958).[5] The family moved from Italy to France in 1975,[2] reportedly to escape the threat of kidnapping by the Red Brigades, a Marxist-Leninist Revolutionary group active in Italy in the 1970s. X grew up in France from age seven, and attended boarding school in Switzerland. She went to Paris to study art and architecture, but left school at 19. She became famous in a completely different field later on. Give me X.

• Carla Bruni

11• The sporting competitions that the characters would be called

upon to perform in would often be comical and offbeat versions of Olympic sports, races, and scavenger hunts. Each segment took place in a different location around the world. That event occurred on the moon as a climactic ending, which followed a rocket race to the moon that was held as the previous event. Each episode was presented in a format similar to an Olympic television broadcast, with announcing/voice-over duties handled by an unnamed/unseen Announcer character. Hosting duties and commentary were provided by Snagglepuss and Mildew Wolf . What event am I talking about?

• Laff-a-lympics

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• “I sometimes feel like the Kurt Cobain of my generation, but people just don't understand me.” Which ‘prolific’ musician’s words are these?

• Justin Bieber

13• "Vespertilio“• "Eptesicus“• "Myotis“• "Barbastella• "Artibeus“• "Tadarida“• "Macrotus“• "Antrozous“• "Nycteris“• Molossus“• "Corynorhinus“• Which movie’s soundtrack? Tracks in order and exhaustive.

• Batman begins

14. The Da Pisa Code• _______ ______ first appears in the book Liber Abaci

(1202) by Leonardo of Pisa, known as X.[4] He considers the growth of an idealized (biologically unrealistic) rabbit population, assuming that: a newly born pair of rabbits, one male, one female, are put in a field; rabbits are able to mate at the age of one month so that at the end of its second month a female can produce another pair of rabbits; rabbits never die and a mating pair always produces one new pair (one male, one female) every month from the second month on. The puzzle that he posed was: how many pairs will there be in one year?

• Fibonacci series

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• The earliest recorded use of this word was to address a little old lady. The oldest written record of the use of this word in the contemporary meaning was from a message typed by Wayne Pearson in the 1980s on usenet. It was officially inducted into the Oxford English dictionary in March 2011.what word am I talking about?

• lol

16. Not a sitter

• Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was "civis Romanus sum". Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is "Ich bin ein Berliner".

• All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner". Whose words are these?

• John F Kennedy

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• The X was a very popular food item during the Mughal period and occupied a unique place in the emblem of the royalty of Oudh under the control of Mughals. During the period, X was also used like a cloth to wipe off the excess oil off the hands after the completion of an oil-rich food laden with meat and fat and hence gets its name.

• Rumali roti

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• X were green in color until the 1930s before it was realised that the colour brown filtered out visible and ultraviolet light that caused adverse reactions. It was found that if you expose ____ to enough sunlight, it becomes ‘skunky’. Chemists at the University of North Carolina and Ghent University in Belgium found that sunlight breaks down alpha acids in hops that react with sulfur to make a chemical that is nearly identical to the smelly chemical that skunks spray. Nowadays, X that are green in colour are of high quality and are never exposed to sunlight. Id X.

• Beer bottles

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• Nathan Zohner, a 14-year-old student, gathered petitions to ban "DHMO" as the basis of his science project, titled "How Gullible Are We? He gathered 43 votes to ban the chemical, out of 50 people surveyed among his classmates. Zohner received the first prize at Greater Idaho Falls Science Fair for analysis of the results of his survey.[6] In recognition of his experiment, journalist James K. Glassman coined the term "Zohnerism" to refer to "the use of a true fact to lead a scientifically and mathematically ignorant public to a false conclusion."

• DHMO effects:• is called "hydroxyl acid", the substance is the major component

of acid rain.• contributes to the "greenhouse effect".• may cause severe burns.• is fatal if inhaled.• contributes to the erosion of our natural landscape.• accelerates corrosion and rusting of many metals.• may cause electrical failures and decreased effectiveness of

automobile brakes.• has been found in excised tumors of terminal cancer patients.

• Despite the danger, DHMO is often used:as an industrial solvent and coolant.

• in nuclear power plants.• in the production of Styrofoam.• as a fire retardant.• in many forms of cruel animal research.• in the distribution of pesticides. Even after washing, produce

remains contaminated by this chemical.• as an additive in certain "junk-foods" and other food products. What is DHMO?

• Water

20.• Wiki Disambiguation of what:• X means army chieftain• X may also refer to • a 1955 film by Gyan Mukherjee• a 1993 film by Ketan Mehta• Jacqueline Kennedy’s horse• a title of nobility in India and Iran• a city in Azerbaijan• A province in Iran• a leader of Sherpa guides

• Sardar