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________ is a method of carving, or an object such as an engraved gem, item of jewellery or vessel made in this manner. It nearly always features a raised (positive) relief image; contrast with intaglio, which has a negative image. Originally, and still in discussing historical work, _________ only referred to works where the relief image was of a contrasting colour to the background; this was achieved by carefully carving a piece of material with a flat plane where two contrasting colours met, removing all the first colour except for the image to leave a contrasting background.

However, today the word is used more frequently in a different way altogether.
The blank?

1)What is the significance of the words "Pater Noster"?

First words of the prayer ("Our Father" in English)

2)X pops into a chair in a swakn night club. He's wearing a tuxedo. The woman across the table from him is also X, but in a gown. He looks around the restaurant. Everyone is X in different clothes. X is panicked. The girl X across the table looks at him seductively, winks and talks.

GIRL X:X X X X....

X looks confused. The X waiter approaches, pen and pad in hand, ready to take their orders.

WAITER X:X X X?
GIRL X:X X X X
WAITER X: X X.(Turning over to X) X?

Please explain whats going on.

Scene from Being John Malkovich when the John Malkovich character enters his own portal.

3)According to TIME's recently article, which is the best cram school in Asia?

Super 30

4)Zabalon Simintov has obtained special permission from the a rabbi, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, to slaughter his own meat in the kosher way that can normally only be done by a special rabbi. Simintov lives alone in a small room next to a crumbling synagogue in Kabul and receives donations from Jewish groups abroad and sympathetic Muslim locals. Why do people help him so much?

He is the last surviving Jew in Afghanistan

5)Colonel Leslie Skimmer and X knew that explosives could be shaped to concentrate their effects and were thinking of ways to do so. X stumbled upon a pile of scrap and found a tube that was as big as the explosives they were handling. And so was born Y. Id X and Y.

Edward Uhl, Bazooka

6)Abu Bakr was Prophet Muhammad's closest companion and his father-in-law too. He was also the first person to do something. What?

First person to convert to Islam

7)Thomas Geissler while unveiling what?
"You put cash in and you take your gold out." (Its the first of its kind in the world)

First gold giving ATM in the world

8)There is no way a user can add this person on Facebook because his Add as Friend button is disabled. Who?

Mark Zuckerberg

1)Derived from the French and German words for 'YES', this object can talk and is sold by Parker Brothers.Sylvia Plath has a poem written on her experiments with this object along with Ted Hughes.What?

Ouija

2)"I called ______ and asked,What can I do And she replied,You be my champion now... be my 9 pm call." Who are the two people involved and about what?

Leander Paes on Martina Navratilova, when the latter was diagnosed with breast cancer. Navratilova had earlier called Paes at 9 every night when he was diagnosed with lesion in the brain to keep a tab on his health.



3)Simple one... Recently in the new for all the worng reasons, known as India's Mata Hari. Who?

Madhuri Gupta

4)Connect



Virginia. The woman is Virginia Woolf. The five people are the alleged terrorists known as the Viriginia Five. The third pic - Virginia Tech shootout accused Seung Hui Cho.

5)According to ______ slow bending and breaking of fingers can generate 9.5 Dols of pain.Who?

Ian Fleming

6) The largest _____________ celebration is held in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania where crowds as large as 40,000 have gathered to celebrate the holiday since at least 1886. In popular culture, the phrase _____________ has come to represent going through a phenomenon over and over until one spiritually transcends it. Fill the blank.

Groundhog Day