Gregory Roberts was once a heroin addict and wanted criminal in Australia. He was caught and sentenced to a 19 year imprisonment. He escaped prison in 1980 becoming one of Australia’s most wanted criminal.
The story which follows is a mix of fiction and real life events, and become the plot for which book?
Category: Literature
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In this novel, there are 3 superpowers which are fighting a perpetual war and contesting for territories.
Which novel is this from?
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‘The ________ _________: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice’ is a book about Mother Teresa’s life and work, written by Christopher Hitchens. The book became controversial both for the double entendre in the title as well as for criticizing Teresa as a political opportunist who adopted the guise of a saint in order to raise money to spread Catholicism. Fill in the blanks.
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While it started more than 100 years ago, this publication still continues to stay relevant in today’s time.
Over the years, they have popularized words like “socialite”, “guesstimate”, “televangelist”, “pundit”, and “tycoon”.
In fact they’re also credited with introducing the names “World War I” and “World War II”, as opposed to older forms like “First World War” and “World War No. 2”.
Id the publication.
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In May 1789, Louis XVI summoned to Versailles a great meeting calling the following groups. The first consisted of three hundred nobles. The second, three hundred clergy. The third, six hundred commoners. Some years later, after the French Revolution, Edmund Burke, looking up at the Press Gallery of the House of Commons, said, “Yonder sits _________ and they are more important than them all.”
Fill in the blanks.
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“Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice” was the original name for an auto biography by a famous leader. It was later changed to “My Struggle”.
How do we know the book as?
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X is mentioned as Claude Frollo’s scientific inspiration in Victor Hugo’s novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
He has been alleged to be the eighth Grand Master of the Priory of Sion.
His name has been mentioned in the pseudohistory book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, Umberto Eco’s novel Foucault’s Pendulum, and Dan Brown’s novel, The Da Vinci Code.
He is also a significant part of a Harry Potter book.
Identify X.
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This word was coined by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976). It has been described as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices, that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures or rituals.
Which word am I talking about which once became one of the biggest rage on the internet?
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The English word X comes from the Hindi word chāmpo चाँपो (more familiarly known as champi चंपी).
Which itself ultimately comes from the Sanskrit word chapati (चपति), meaning to press, knead, sooth.
X was introduced in Britain by Sake Dean Mahomed in 1815 and has now become ubiquitous the world over.
Can you identify X?
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X is a word of Venetian origin.
It was practiced by European sailors in 14-15th century.
Earlier supposed to be 30 days long, it was extended by 10 days, which where its name is derived from.
Identify X.
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The Bene Gesserit is a psuedo-religious group from the Dune anthology. They are know for their training their bodies to gain superior combat skills, precise physiological control, and are highly skilled in hand-to-hand combat.
They went on to become an inspiration for another similar group seen in a movie launched in 1977. This group became so popular that people across the world identify this as their own religion. Which group am I talking about?
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This word is constructed from Greek words meaning ‘rock’ & ‘blood of Gods’.
The phenomena occurs when plant oils & bacteria in the ground get activated after a dry spell.
Can you identify the good word?
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On December 21, 1913, Arthur Wynne published X in the New York World newspaper. By 1925, the craze for X was in full force, with people both criticizing the irrelevant mental gymnastics, and also addicted to the hobby.
The word X became part of the Oxford English Dictionary in 1933 and still finds a place in our current world.
What is X?
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PB Shelley was a British writer who is considered one of the major English Romantic poets. However, the writer’s second wife X was also a serious writer and wrote multiple novels.
X’s most famous work is Y, a concept which emerged to her after a nightmare. The novel explores man playing God & creating life and is considered one of the earliest example of science fiction.
Id the writer X & her famous novel Y.
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Dungaree fabric is a coarse thick fabric which was used to make hard work trousers or overalls or jumpsuits.
Can you guess where did the garment get its name from?
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X is a concept in physics which talks about the chaotic interaction interaction between bodies. It was especially used to describe the movement of the Sun, Earth & Moon.
X is also the title of a science fiction series by Chinese author Liu Cixin. The series was recently adapted into a series by Netflix.
Identify X.
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Rather than counting days of the month individually, early Romans had 3 principle days in a month & used to measure days from there. These were:
Kalends – beginning of the month
Nones – roughly one week into the month
“X” – middle of the month
While the first two are obscure, the third “X” is widely popular in a particular context which is regarded as a day of tragedy.
Identify X & why it might be popular?
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Connect.
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The word X meaning ‘a walled area’ or ‘enclosure’ in Old Iranian was mentioned in the work Anabasis by the Greek soldier and writer Xenophon in which it is described as a ‘park for animals’. However, its meaning has evolved into many languages including English to describe a certain, special place.
Identify X.
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Which dreaded word commonly used today originally meant ‘a line drawn within or around a prison that a prisoner passes at the risk of being shot’.
