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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

______ is an annual celebration on 25th of May, when the people are encouraged to take a _____ with them everywhere they go, as a tribute to Douglas Adams. It was chosen because of the "greatness of _____" as explained here,

"...a ______ has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag discovers that a hitchhiker has his _____ with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his _______ is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with."

Towel Day, Towel

The site describes itself as "News for nerds. Stuff that Matters". The name, the creator explains was made to confuse people who tried to pronounce the URL of the site. Occasionally, a story will link to a server causing a large surge of traffic, which can overwhelm some smaller or independent sites. This phenomenon is known as the _________ effect. (dash is the name of the site). ID the site.

Slashdot

1)X's biography describes him as a cambion(half human offspring). He was born of a woman, sired by an incubus, the non-human wellspring from whom he inherits his supernatural powers and abilities. He became a sage in his later life and engineered the birth of Y through magic and intrigue. Later authors have X serve as the king's advisor until he is bewitched and imprisoned by the Lady of the Lake. Z(derived from X) is a common expression in the wizarding world to show surprise. Id X,Y and Z.

X-Merlin Y-Arthur Z-Merlin's Beard

2)Simple one... Connect the two.



Larry/Lana Wachowski

3)"Prior to graduating from high school in 1967, X enlisted in the Air Force Reserve and was allowed to take his finals early, report for duty, then return in time to graduate with his senior class. After training in Texas, X went back to school, enrolling at Cal-Lutheran in the San Fernando Valley, not far from home.

A roommate woke him up one morning with "Do you know you're dead," thrusting a newspaper in his face, carrying the Vietnam account of Private X killed in action. At home, X's mother received a tearful call from a fan offering condolences.

Air Force Sergeant X is still in the Reserve, serving out his time, attending school within 150 miles of his base, performing in My Three Sons and Lassie on the side. He has never seen action in Vietnam. "

This was a piece of newspaper article reporting on the background of what?

The origins of "Jerry "Beaver" Mathers dies in Vietnam" controversy.

4)____ took place on April 26, 2010 as a response to Tehran's Friday Prayer leader Hojatoleslam Kazem Seddiqi 's statement that "Many women who do not dress modestly lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which increases ______" and Iranians should "adapt their lives to Islam’s moral codes” to avoid being "buried under the rubble". Id the first blank.(both are different)

Boobquake. He said Earthquakes are caused.

5) Another easy one.. Connect





V for Vendetta
The first pic shows arrest of Guy Fawkes. The lead character V wears a Guy Fawkes mask. The comic made its debut in the Warrior comic books. The man is David Lloyd, long time illustrator with DC comics who illustrated V for Vendetta.

6) What is special about a beer brand Vores øl which translates to "Our Beer". Now the name has changed to something that more literally portrays the idea of the inventor? It has a Creative Commons license. The beer was created by students at the IT-University in Copenhagen to illustrate how concepts of the ___________ might be applied outside the digital world.

Open source beer

1)What has been censored? Give full funda behind the controversy.


Muhammad. Google "Southpark 200" for funda.

2)Identify the lady in the pic.


Sada Abe. Prostitute who cut her lover's balls after wild sex.

3)The term Iceberg Theory describes which author's distinctive style of writing?

Alexandre Dumas

4)Marketed with the tag,"The greatest break up story ever told", this film was completely made using 2D flash animation by Nina Paley. It uses shadow puppets to narrate the story of _____ and is interspersed with songs of the blues genre. What?

Sita Sings The Blues

5)X means rebellion or revolution.
"Today there begins 'X' in foreign lands, but in our country's tongue, a war against the British Raj. What is our name? X. What is our work? X. Where will be the Revolution? In India. The time will soon come when rifles and blood will take the place of pens and ink." - these were the lines from the first issue of X, published in Berkeley.

Ghadar

Why is this rapper, unknown to many till a few months back, all set to achieve fame?

K'naan, Wavin' Flag (Coke's anthem for FIFA World Cup 2010)