•Uses of this phrase (A) dating back to the 1930s and 1940s have been found, but the phrase's first appearance is unknown. • The ‘____ _____’ (B) in the saying refers to the nineteenth century practice in American bars of offering a ‘____ _____’(B) as a way to entice drinking customers. •The phrase and its acronym are central to Robert Heinlein's 1966 novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, which popularized it. •The free-market economist Milton Friedman also popularized the phrase by using it as the title of a 1975 book, and it often appears in economics textbooks.

Id the phrase (A).

1.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch

• ______ journalism presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers. •The term ______ journalism came from a popular a comic published in Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World called "Hogan's Alley," which featured a character named the "the ______ kid." Determined to compete with Pulitzer's World in every way, rival New York Journal owner William Randolph Hearst copied Pulitzer's sensationalist style of reporting and even hired "Hogan's Alley" artist R.F. Outcault away from the World. In response, Pulitzer commissioned another cartoonist to create a second ______ kid. •Soon, the sensationalist press of the 1890s became a competition between the “______ kids“ and thus the term.

2.

Yellow Journalism

• Ask the people of a certain segment of researchers why this thing is possible, and the first response you get is, “The Berlin Patient”.•That patient is a wiry, 46-year-old American from Seattle named Timothy Ray Brown and is something of a rock star for those researchers as he has made himself completely available to them and they regularly bleed and biopsy him to learn as much as possible  from him. "Ihave sort of a guilt feeling about being the only person in the world…," Brown said in an interview with NPR and said that he did so to dispel this guilt.What happened to Timothy Brown, while living in Berlin, that has made him so famous in scientific circles?

3.

 The first person to apparently go from HIV+ to HIV-

•Named for a cephalopod, this technique was used extensively in a 1996 drama that starred Vincent d’Onofrio as the creator of Conan the Barbarian, The Whole Wide World. •Krzysztof Kieślowski’s The Double Life of Véronique, Lars von Trier’s The Element of Crime, and Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire are three of the most famous movies to employ it. Haskell Wexler made use of it in Bound for Glory, as did Conrad Hall in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. •Picasso’s Guernica can also be said to have used this technique to some extent. What ?

4.

Sepia toning

According to the Urban Dictionary, this is defined as ‘A phenomenon where, in a landscape of office cubicles, a number of people stand up to look around over the tops of the cube walls. Usually an unexpected/loud noise or verbal exchange will cause the curious to rise like ______out of their holes’. What is this that takes it’s name from an animal which displays similar behaviour ?

5.

Prairie Dogging

“As he told her that he loved her she gazed into his eyes, wondering, as she noted the infestation of eyelash mites, the tiny deodicids burrowing into his follicles to eat the greasy sebum therein, each female laying up to 25 eggs in a single follicle, causing inflammation, whether the eyes are truly the windows of the soul; and, if so, his soul needed regrouting.”

What?

6.

The Bulwer-Lytton Prize that celebrates the worst in fiction. Previous winners :

•Cheryl’s mind turned like the vanes of a wind-powered turbine, chopping her sparrow-like thoughts into bloody pieces that fell onto a growing pile of forgotten memories.•For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity’s affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss – a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity’s mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world’s thirstiest gerbil. 

•_______ ____ is a Latin phrase loosely translated as "Remember your mortality”. It refers to a genre of artworks that vary widely but which all share the same purpose: to remind people of their mortality. •Popular belief says the phrase originated in ancient Rome: As a Roman general was parading through the streets during a victory triumph, standing behind him was his slave, who reminded the general that, although at his peak today, tomorrow he could fall, or — more likely — be brought down with the warning, " _______ ____ ". • However, this phrase entered popular consciousness in the early 2000s for entirely different reasons.

What phrase ?

7.

Memento Mori

Abstruse Goose comic. What is being described here?

8.

1.Breathe2.Time

The ________Cup was a club competition contested annually by the most recent winners of all European domestic cup competitions. The first competition was held in 1960–61 but it was not recognised by UEFA until two years later. The final tournament was held in 1998–99, after which it was absorbed by the UEFA Cup. Prior to its abolition, it was regarded as the second most prestigious European club competition behind the UEFA Champions League. Barcelona hold the record for the maximum number of wins (4). FITB, naturally.

9.

UEFA Cup Winners’Cup

•____ ______ is a village in the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County, New York, United States. As of the 2000 census, the village had a population of 2,638. •It is best known as the two-time site of the Winter Olympics which it first hosted in 1932 and again 48 years later in 1980. The village is especially remembered as the site of the 1980 USA–USSR hockey game, the so-called "Miracle on Ice“. •Some people, however, would associate the place with a UTV-Action style movie that has spawned sequels and prequels galore with the latest having released in September this year. What is the name of this villlage ?

10.

Lake Placid

11. Identify the instrument. Where would you find its most prominent use?11.

Zither, The Third Man theme (Anton Karas)

House of Cards  is an upcoming American political drama television series created by Kevin Spacey and David Fincher. The series stars Kevin Spacey in the lead and will be based on a BBC miniseries of the same name. The reboot will take place in the United States and will be produced by Media Rights Capital. The original BBC version was based on a novel from British author Michael Dobbs, exploring the "ruthless underside of British politics at the end of the Thatcher era.”

What is special about this upcoming show?

12.

 The first Netflix original television series

 In the 400m heats in London 1908, Scottish athlete Wyndham Halswelle won through to the final, setting a new Olympic record of 48.4 seconds in his heat, where he lined up against three American runners. As Halswelle moved to pass the race leader it appeared that another of the Americans blocked the Scot, running diagonally and forcing him to the edge of the track. Although the practice of blocking was permitted by the American athletics federation, it was most definitely not allowed in the Olympics. The line judge cried foul and the finishing tape was removed by the finishing judge just before Carpenter crossed it. After an hour of deliberation, Carpenter was disqualified and the race was scheduled to be rerun the following day. This led to 2 things – one was an infamous record. What record? What was the other thing this led to?

13.

Wyndham Halswelle became the only athlete in Olympic history to win a medal by a walkover. Also, the disparity in rules led to the establishment of the IAAF.

•This word originates from the German for ‘novel of education’ or ‘novel of formation’ and is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood (coming-of-age story), and in which character change is thus extremely important. •The birth of the this genre is normally dated to the publication of Goethe’s The Apprenticeship of Wilhelm Meister in 1795–96 and David Copperfield, Great Expectations, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Jane Eyre are examples of it.

WTGW?

14.

Bildungsroman

15.15.

Tesseract

•The name of this activity originates from West Country dialect of English language, meaning "Anything thick and squat", as defined by James Jennings in his book "Observations of Some of the Dialects in The West of England" published 1825. •Around 1930, the name became used for a rubber eraser.• This activity took its modern form on 1 April 1979 at the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol and the people involved ended up getting themselves arrested. •The commercial form began with the New Zealander, A J Hackett, at Auckland's Greenhithe Bridge in 1986.

What activity?

16.

Bungee Jumping

17.

a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, you.

What is this?

17.

The entire vocabulary of ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ by Dr Seuss. The vocabulary of the text consists of just fifty different words and was the result of a bet between Seuss and his publisher that Seuss could not complete an entire book using so few words.

•‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ recently overtook the Harry Potter books to become Britain’s fastest selling book but the worldwide record is still held by the HP books. Uptil 1981, this record was held by ‘Lady Chatterly’s Lovers’.• The book that held the record in between these two established works was titled ‘You Can Do The X’ and was written by a 13 year old called Patrick Bossert based on his own experiences with something at the age of 12. The book sold 1.5 million copies world-wide in 17 editions, ranked as number 1 on the London Times and New York Times bestseller lists for the entire 1981.

What is X, or what was the book all about?

18.

Rubik’s Cube

•X defended the America’s Cup title thrice (1930, 1934, 1937). He was posthumously elected to the America's Cup Hall of Fame in 1993.• He was also a card game enthusiast who helped develop the scoring system by which contract bridge supplanted auction bridge in popularity. Three years later, he heavily endowed the X Trophy for bridge. As if that wasn’t enough he also invented the first forcing club bidding system which has perennially dominated world championship play ever since. In 1969, the World Bridge Federation made him its first honorary member. When the American Contract Bridge League Hall of Fame was inaugurated in 1964, he was one of the first three persons elected. ID.

19.

Harold Vanderbilt

Both green and colorless  have figurative meanings, which allow colorless to be interpreted as "nondescript" and green as "immature". The sentence can therefore be construed as "nondescript immature ideas have violent nightmares", a phrase with less oblique semantics. In particular, the phrase can have legitimate meaning too, if green is understood to mean "newly-formed" and sleep can be used to figuratively express mental or verbal dormancy. An equivalent sentence would be "Newly formed bland ideas are inexpressible in an infuriating way.”

This is an attempt to make sense out of something that is semantically nonsensical. What? Who ‘composed’ the something that this paragraph is trying to explain?

20.

“Colourless green ideas sleep furiously”.

Composed by Noam Chomsky to show the distinction between syntax and semantics.

‘Zero Dark Thirty’ is a military term used to denote 0030 hours or, loosely, a very early starting time. Why, in the near future, would you expect this term to enter popular consciousness ?

21.

Katheryn Bigelow’s movie on the Bin Laden manhunt.

•He was born as Keith Furman in 1954 and as a child was very non-athletic. That all changed when, as a teenager, Furman became interested in spirituality and in 1970 became a devout follower of the mystic Sri Chinmoy. Chinmoy inspired Furman to participate in a 24-hour bicycle race in New York City's Central Park in 1978. With only two weeks' training, Furman tied for third place, cycling 405 miles.• Around this time, Furman changed his first name to Ashrita (Sanskrit for protected by god). He started doing something in 1979 that has earned him worldwide fame and a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.•What did he start doing? Alternatively, what is his claim to fame ?

22.

Breaking World Records.He has the official record for "The most current Guinness World Records held at the same time by an individual”

What is this and who published it ?

23.

Mad Magazine, Parodying New Yorker’s ‘How a New Yorker sees the world’ after Apple maps fiasco.

This name literally means "don't speak" in the local language. In a public speech that he delivered, he said that the name was chosen when he wrote his first novel. Because he was well known to be frank in his speech, he chose the name to remind himself not to speak too much.

Who / what name?

24.

Mo Yan – Nobel Laureate Literature 2012

25.

While places that are associated with this term existed before, this term has its origins between 1830 and 1850 as a specific type of workshop in which a certain type of middleman, the sweater, directed others in garment making(the process of producing clothing), under arduous conditions and at starvation wages.

Etymology of what term?

Sweatshop

26.

“Arthur eastward in arms purposedhis war to wage on the wild marches,over seas sailing to Saxon lands,from the Roman realm ruin defending.Thus the tides of time to turn backward and the heathen to humble, his hope urged him,that with harrying ships they should hunt no moreon the shining shores and shallow watersof South Britain, booty seeking.”

The opening lines from a poem (epic?) titled ‘The Fall of Arthur’ to be published next May. Who is the author ?

J. R. R. Tolkien