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1.This movie was an unauthorised adaptataion of bram stoker’s Dracula. After florence stoker sued for copyright infringement and won, she ordered all the existing copies of this movie to be burned but one copy was saved and then duplicated and distributed.Which movie is this?

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Well, here is the pop culture and general quiz conducted by the quizmasters 1. Shikhar Dwivedi(3rd IT) 2. Neelesh Tripathi (3rd PL) this is the 2nd of the weekly quiz series as conducted by Q-Frat in HBTI , Kanpur.

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1.This movie was an unauthorised adaptataion of bram stoker’s Dracula. After florence stoker sued for copyright infringement and won, she

ordered all the existing copies of this movie to be burned but one copy was saved and then duplicated and distributed.Which movie is this?

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2.Identify this superhero.

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3.What is this man’s achievement?

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4.X imagined many characters and plot concepts, but eventually settled on a love triangle between a gorilla, a

carpenter, and a girl. He meant to mirror the rivalry between comic characters Bluto and Popeye for the woman Olive Oyl. Bluto evolved into an ape, a form

Miyamoto claimed was "nothing too evil or repulsive". This ape would be the pet of the main character, "a

funny, hang-loose kind of guy.“ he also named "Beauty and the Beast" and the 1933 film King Kong as

influences.Who is X and what did he make?

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5.Identify this con movie which was remaked by soderbergh

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6.Name the world’s biggest tyre manufacturing company according

to BusinessWeek magazine.with 306 million tyres a year.

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7.X was a natural resource used to make Y. Now with the advent of

technology X is no longer extracted from its natural source but rather

produced. X was shipped from countries lying inside arctic circle and

stored in underground caverns to prevent it from being spoiled. Give me

X and if possible Y

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8.This man is a mobster in boston,Masachussets he served as an informant for the FBI since 1975 for the information regarding Italian American Patriarca crime family and so they ignored his criminal activities he was arrested in july this year by the FBI. He was the

inspiration for what ??

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9.Which tradition, whose first pick was Charles Lindbergh, began in 1927 with some magazine editors contemplating

newsworthy stories during a slow week? This was also an attempt to

remedy the fault that magazine had made by not having Lindbergh on its

cover for his transatlantic flight.

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10.Connect

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11.This company makes products that work in air, land and water . How is this incorporated in its logo? What company is

this?

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• 12.On March 24 1958 ,Fort Chaffe in Arkansas received sudden media attention, a lot of people and media personnel came to this place because a new inductee of the US army was joining there. Who was this new Inductee whose fans followed him everywhere , which also later led to the formation of his famous catchphrase?

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13.Identify this famous painting

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14.THIS ACTOR X PLAYING HAD THE MIDDLE NAME Y IN THIS FILM WHICH WAS A HOMAGE TO THE MAIN PROTAGONIST P OF CLASSIC BOOK Z.

GIVE ME X,Y,P,Z.

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15."Remember that ___ __ ____. He can earn Ten Shillings a Day by his Labour, and goes abroad, or sits idle one half of that Day, tho' he spends but Sixpence during his Diversion or Idleness, ought not to reckon That the only Expence; he has really spent or rather

thrown away Five Shillings besides."

The above is an extract from a letter that Benjamin Franklin wrote, and shows the earliest documented use

of a common idiom or adage. Fill in the blanks.

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16.During an audience interview at the Edinburgh Book Festival (15 April 2004) the

author X said: "Does anyone know where Y came from? It is an ancient spell in

Aramaic, and it is the original of Z, which means 'let the thing be destroyed.' Originally, it was used to cure illness and the 'thing' was the

illness, but I decided to make it the 'thing' as in the person standing in front of me. I take a lot of liberties with things like that. I twist them round

and make them mine.“Give me the variables.

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17.Ad for what ?

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18.We spend most of our waking hours there but how much do we know ?Whats being described ? ,“Precise Answer” needed.

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19.What are the circumstances under which he sustained this injury and

‘what’ is it known as today ?

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20."Other kids' games are all such a bore!They've gotta have rules and they gotta keep score!

_____________ is better by far!It's never the same! It's always bizarre!

You don't need a team or a referee!You know that it's great, 'cause it's named after me!“

What goes in the blank ?

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21.And finally 1 from Google……Id the doodle and occasion……

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• A lot confusion has been caused on twitter because there was someone using an author’s name(let say A) for his profile or that is what it seems, now another person has come along who uses the username A1 for his profile and says he is the real guy. One of his followers, just to verify, asked him "Where did Faiz hide from a mob in 1947?”to which he replied. "Under my aunt Begum Majeed Malik's carpet, in her cellar in Karachi. Now stop it everyone. It's becoming dull," Who is this famous personality?