Prelims of the Thomasonian lone wolf quiz

1. The Thomsonian
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LONE WOLF

2. 1
• Which famous news channel’s name literally
means ‘The Island’?

3. • Al-Jazeera

4. 2
• 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?

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

6. 3
• 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.

7. • Bogarting from Humphry Bogart

8. 4
• 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.

9. • Mastermind

10. 5
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.

11. • Microsoft Kinect

12. 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."

13. • Jeep

14. 7
• 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.

15. • Con-air

16. 8
• 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?

17. • He is PSY’s father

18. 9
• 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.

19. • 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?

20. • Lone wolf

21. 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.

22. • Carla Bruni

23. 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?

24. • Laff-a-lympics

25. 12
• “I sometimes feel like the Kurt Cobain of my
generation, but people just don't understand
me.” Which ‘prolific’ musician’s words are
these?

26. • Justin Bieber

27. 13
• "Vespertilio“
• "Eptesicus“
• "Myotis“
• "Barbastella
• "Artibeus“
• "Tadarida“
• "Macrotus“
• "Antrozous“
• "Nycteris“
• Molossus“
• "Corynorhinus“
• Which movie’s soundtrack? Tracks in order and exhaustive.

28. • Batman begins

29. 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?

30. • Fibonacci series

31. 15.
• 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?

32. • lol

33. 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?

34. • John F Kennedy

35. 17.
• 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.

36. • Rumali roti

37. 18
• 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.

38. • Beer bottles

39. 19.
• 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."

40. • 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.

41. • 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?

42. • Water

43. 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

44. • Sardar