UTPT 2011 Lit-Ent Quiz Finals

8/7/2019 UTPT 2011 Lit-Ent Quiz Finals

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7 questions written.+5 for each


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1. Whose new logo?


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2. Album Cover spoofing what?


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3. Whichfamous moviedialogue isbeingrepresentedhere?


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4. What is this letter about?


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5. Mash up of twomovies. Name both.


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Which character s first appearance?


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1. Comedy Central.2. Madonna s L ike a V irgin

3. Of all the Gin joints in the world she had towalk into mine from Casablanca4. Sex Pistols rejecting their introduction to

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.5. Being John Malkovitch, Spartacus.6. Twist7. L ittle L ulu


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Dry+10 for each

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X is a series of 10 short films directed by Y for television in1989 . The movies were each based on one of the tencommandments. One of the movies featuring the theme of adultery called A short film about love was later expandedinto a feature film. The story of the movie involved arelationship between a teenager and an older woman. Themovie was also later adapted into an infamous hindi movie Z

in 2002.

X,Y,Z?


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_________ is a 198 0 pulitzer award winning book. The authorhas rubbished that his book is about mathematics or art ormusic but rather about how cognition and thinking emerge

from well-hidden neurological mechanisms.

Hans Zimmer read this book before he started working onsoundtrack for Inception as the book combined music withmathematics.The book?


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The place in the pictures is Nola art house in L ouisiana. It was a famousplace according to many handbooks in the olden days. What was itknownas?


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Jerry the king L awler and Andy Kaufmann


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Kent State Shootout.


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X first heard about Y in 1970 while sitting in on sessions forGeorge Harrison s album All things must pass . He heardPete Drake with Y and it reminded X of something he had

heard before. He eventually got one as a gift in 1974 and fortwo weeks, he practiced and mastered it. X then came outwith two highly successful eponymous albums using Y andnow he has become somewhat synonymous withY.Some of other songs that used Y are Sweet Emotion, It s mylife, Pigs by Pink Floyd.XandY.


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The term X was first used by Bill Cardoso of The BostonGlobe in 1970 in connection with the person Y. Cardosoclaimed that X was an Irish slang to describe the last man

standing after an all-night drinking marathon. He alsoclaimed that X was a corruption of the French word --------meaning shining path .

Another theory of the origin of X is that a 1960 song by R&B

pianist James Booker was called X which may have in turnbeen inspired by the name of a character in the 1956 novelcalledThe Pusher by Evan Hunter.X?


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What is la k t a ho is the a tho r?


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The book is a fictional book which waswritten by Kilgore Trout mentioned in KurtV

onnegaut s God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.

It was then written by Phillip Jose Farmer asKilgore Trout.


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She got her pen-name accidentally when one of her friendscommented that she had enough hair for three plaits andshe had always had two plaits of hair.

She then stuck and she gained popularity over the years forbeing progressive not to mention prolific.

who?


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Anasuya Shankar AKA Triveni


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Makmende is a Kenyan superherowho was featured in the video of the song Ha-He by the Kenyangroup Just A Band. The video was

also the first ever viral videooriginating from Kenya.

Makmende is a Swahili slang forhero . However, it is believed that

it is a mispronunciation of a famousdialogue of a 198 3 movie. Whichmovie and the dialogue.


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Go ahead, make my day from SuddenImpact from the Dirty Harry series.


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Delia Smith is a majorityshare holder in NorwichF.C. She is most famous for

her cookery skills and is afamous British cook andpresenter mainlyconcentrating in basicskills.She is also credited for having created something which wasan inspiration to a piece of art. Identify this piece of art?


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As a guitar player, X has recorded a solo album,played slide guitar on the Oasis song "Fade In-Out"(from Be Here Now, 199 7), as well as on "Fade Away(Warchild Version )" (b-side of the "Don't Go Away" single ).He also played acoustic guitar in some of his movies . He isa friend of The Pogues' Shane MacGowan, and performedon MacGowan's first solo album. He was also a memberof P, a group featuring Butthole Surfers singer GibbyHaynes and Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea. He hasappeared in Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' music video"Into the Great Wide Open".

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In the movie North By Northwest, when the protagonistRoger Thornhill is asked about his initials, he mentions that itstands for nothing. This was director Alfred Hitchcock s way

of paying homage to a beloved personality.

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David O. Selznick

Selznick added O. on a whim and said it stoodfor nothing.


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Jacques Tati was a Frenchdirector and comic actor. He isbest known for his movie MyUncle which won the AcademyAward for Best Foreign Film in1958 .

He also wrote a semi-autobiographical script in 1956which was in the possesion of his daughter. She then gave thescreenplay in 2000 to make itinto a feature film.

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Mac and Jack are two conmen trying sell a magic portion.The salesman Mac asks Jack to try out the magic portion thatwill give him the strength of a raging bull. Jack then arm

wrestles a large man who is also on the con and wins. Thisprompts the crowd to buy the magic portion. Mac and Jacksubsequently donate their earnings to an orphanage,perform at a bar as V audeville artists and leave the town.

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The X effect is a term coined by psychologist James C.Kaufman in 200 1 to refer to the phenomenon thatcreative writers are more susceptible to mental

illness than other people. Kaufman's workdemonstrated that female poets were more likely tosuffer from mental illness than any other class of writers.

The effect is named after the American poet X, whocommitted suicide when she was thirty years old.

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Sylvia Plath


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22 June 189 7 is a 1979 marathi movie written by X and NachiketPatwardhan and was directed by Nachiket Patwardhan and his wife. It isbased on true life events leading up to the assasination of Charles Randwho was the Assistant Collector of Pune by the Chapekar brothers during

the plague outbreak in 189 7.

It won the Silver L otus as well as National Award for National Integrationand Art Direction. It is one of the Indian movies to be included in the USL ibrary ofCongress.

X then became famous later on in his life and has gained a following overthe last few years. X?


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Shankar Nag


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It was first reported in Fort Wayne Journal Gazette in 199 5.This was followed by frenzy where the fans compiled morethan a hundred moments of the perceived synchronicity.

In one of the most iconic concerts of -------------, a bike with abasket on it and a young girl can be seen in the background,thereby, according to many fans confirming the theory.


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Dark side of the rainbow or dark side of oz or the wizard of floyd. It s a theory which says that Dark side of the moon issynchronized with Wizard of Oz.


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Audio connect5 audio clips

Points as shown at each slideNon exhaustive


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Waterloo Adventure of the Six NapoleonsTake a bow His last bow

Orange Crush Five Orange PipsHoundog - Hound of BaskervillesBohemian Rhapsody Scandal in Bohemia

Sherlock Holmes


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A-Z; 26 variables.+2 points for each variable.Bonus:+5 for 20-22 variables right.+10 for 23-25 variables right.+15 for 26 variables right.

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A is a philosophical novel by German philosopher B , composed in four partsbetween 188 3 and 188 5. Described by B himself as "the deepest ever written,"the book is a dense and esoteric treatise on philosophy and morality, featuringas protagonist a fictionalized prophet descending from his recluse tomankind.The book inspired C , a leading German composer of thelate Romantic and early modern eras, to compose the tone poem named after

the book, which he designated "freely based onB

".A is most famously used by director D in the opening sequence of his 1968 sci-fi classic E . Despite initially receiving mixed reviews, E is today recognized bymany critics and audiences as one of the greatest films ever made. It wasnominated for fourAcademy Awards, and received one for visual effects. E isalso a science fiction novel by F , which was developed concurrently with the

film and published after the film's release.F

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were known as "the bigthree" of science fiction. G is a Russian-born American author famous for hisepic H series, which won the one-time Hugo Award for "Best All-Time Series" in1966.


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H was often called the "dean of science fiction writers", winning four Hugoawards for his works and three additional Hugo awards given in retrospect.In his works, H popularized the phrase I, which is a popular adagecommunicating the idea that it is impossible to get something for nothing,which is described by economists as "it is at the core of economics". Thephrase is also used in sciences in the context that the universe as a whole is a

closed system.J is a 2004 sci-fi movie starring K , loosely based on collection short stories byG . K initially gained popularity as a rapper and later by playing a fictionalizedversion of himself in the NBC series L, which ran for 6 seasons between199 0-199 6. K turned down the lead role in the 1999 science fiction movie M ,in favour of N . M went on to become one of the most successful and

influential movies of its genre. The makers of M

adapted theN

, a comic bookseries by critically acclaimed British comic book writer O into a movie aboutdystopian L ondon. O refused to view the film as he was disappointed on howHollywood had treated his previous works. This has not stopped Hollywood,though. Director P adapted another one of O s book into a movie in 2009 ,whose previous work, incidentally, was an adaptation of a graphic novel byauthor Q .


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R is a range of portable media players by the consumer electronics and software giantsS . R 's name is inspired by a dialogue in E where one of the characters instructs thecomputer to open the doors of his spaceship. S , named the most admired company inthe US by the Fortune magazine, was founded in California in 1977. S is currently thelargest shareholder in T , animation giants and the largest media and entertainmentconglomerate in terms of revenue.

T have adapted U 's best known 189 4 book V to a live action animated feature of the same name in 1967. U is a British author who was born in India (which is where thestory V is set ), and was awarded the Nobel Prize in L iterature in 1907. A Hindi dub of aJapanese anime based on V was aired on Indian national television in the early199 0s, which featured the theme song composed by W and lyrics written by X.

U s poemY is often called Britain s favourite poem considering the influence it hashad on Britain s culture. Y has been translated to several languages, notable of which isto the Burmese language, which was done by Nobel Peace Prize winner, Z.


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A Thus Spoke ZarathustraB Freidrich NietzschzeC Richard StraussD Stanley KubrickE 2001: A Space Odyssey

F Arthur C. ClarkeG Isaac AsimovH Robert HeinleinI There is no such thing as a freelunchJ I, RobotK Will SmithL Fresh Prince of Bel-AirM The MatrixN V for Vendetta

O Alan MooreP Zack SnyderQ Frank MillerR iPod

S AppleT DisneyU Rudyard KiplingV Jungle BookW V ishal BhardwajX GulzarY If-Z Aung San Suu Kyi


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X first came into limelight for his series of radio broadcastsduring WW II from L ondon, which was eagerly followed byAmericans and the Canadians.

X was most famous for his catch phrases, one of which wereThis is L ondon . However, his most famous catch phrase

was a phrase used by L ondoners to end their conversationsbecause they might not see each other the next day. ThisPhrase was used in a radio broadcast by princess Elizabethtoo. This prompted X to end one of his broadcasts with thephrase and it stuck.

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Edward MurrowGood night and Good luck


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Perfect Day for Bananafish is a short story first published in in the January 31,1948 edition of the New Yorker.

The story details Seymour's day on the beach, as his wife, Muriel, spends hertime in a hotel room talking to her mother on the phone about clothing andSeymour's behavior. She asks about the location of a book by a German poetwhich Seymour sent her, but which she had never read. Seymour isconcerned about many obscure things, such as people staring at his feet, andwears a bathrobe on the beach to avoid people staring at a tattoo which hedoes not have. While in the water, Seymour tells a story of the bananafish toa young girl named Sybil. The fish, he says, are "very ordinary looking" whenthey swim into a hole, but once in the hole, eat so much they cannot escape

and subsequently die of banana fever. He then returns to his room whereMuriel is sleeping, retrieves a gun from his luggage, sits down in the bed nextto hers and shoots himself in the right temple.

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X follows the life and tragedy of a young boy named Altaaf after his entire family gets killed by police officers. He isadopted by the man who killed them. When Altaaf findsout, he seeks revenge.

The movie deals with the India-Pakistan-conflict andespecially with the tragedy of children suffering from war.Its screenplay was written by Pulitzer Prize finalist SuketuMehta and co-written by V ikram Chandra. The movie wasrated R in America due to violence. The film was screenedat the Stockholm International Film Festival.

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According to ______ , the inspiration for X came when theband manager Robert Wace was dancing all night with ablack woman in a club and when they were about to leave,

_____ asked Wace if he noticed the stubble on the blackwoman.Wace was supposedly too drunk to care.

X was also banned at that time by BBC because of their strictpolicy against product placement.

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X L ola by The Kinks

BBC banned it because its lyrics had Coca Colain it which they had to change to Cherry Colato get airtime.


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Nick Mason appearing on Top Gear.He is one of the few owners of the car and alsoappeared on the condition that they wouldpromote his new book on Pink Floyd. JeremyClarkson did it in his style.


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The venue at Manhattan borough of New York City, New York providedGraham with a counterpart to his existing one in SanFrancisco, California.Opening on March 8 , 1968 , the it quickly becameknown as "The Church of Rock and Roll," with two-show concertsseveral nights a week. Graham would regularly alternate acts between

the two venues. It was not unusual for a band to be booked to play twoshows both Friday and Saturday nights; nearly all bands werecontracted to play 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. shows until early 1971.Because of changes in the music industry and exponential growth inthe concert industry, Graham closed the venue. Its final concert tookplace on June 2 7, 1971. In 198 0, it became the site of The Saint, a

private gay club. As of 200 7, the former entrance lobby is a branchof Emigrant Savings Bank. The rest of the interior has beendemolished and replaced with an apartment complex.

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_______ was an attack of British cavalry led by L ord Cardigan against Russianforces during the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854 in the Crimean War.The attack was the result of a miscommunication such that it attempted amuch more difficult objective than intended by the overall commander L ordRaglan. Blame for the miscommunication has remained controversial as theoriginal order was vague. The attack produced no decisive gains and resultedin very high casualties.

The British were not completely destroyed, but did suffer terribly, with 118 men killed, 127 wounded and about 60 taken prisoner. After regrouping, only195 men were still with horses. The futility of the action and its recklessbravery prompted the French Marshal Pierre Bosquet to state " C' est magnifique, maisce n ' est pas l a guerre. " ("It is magnificent, but it is not war." ) He continued, in a rarely quoted phrase: " C' est d e l a f ol i e" "it ismadness."The Russian commanders are said to have initially believed thatthe British soldiers must have been drunk.

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Charge of the L ight brigade by AlfredTennyson.


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Th e X Comi c Indus try Awa rd , is a prize given forcreative achievement in American comic books.Established in 198 7 and first conferred in 1988 afterthe Kirby awards were discontinued, it is named inhonor of the pioneering writer and artist X, Eachcategory is nominated by a five-member panel, votedon by comic-book professionals, and presented at theannual Comic-Con International convention held

in San Diego, California. Each category is nominatedby a five-member panel, voted on by comic-bookprofessionals, and presented at the annual Comic-ConInternational convention held in San Diego, California.


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X s movie Y was always billed in America as the SovietUnion s answer to the movie Z. The reason for such a thoughtis that the movies were released at a short span of eachother, one before and one after the height of the Cold Warwas reached. Thus, each movie was supposedly what eachcountry had to say about the human future.

While Z examined the technological progress of manthrough its characters, Y ruthlessly explored the innerpsychology of its protagonist.

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X is a member of the British Socialist Workers Party, aTrotskyist organization, and stoodunsuccessfully for the British House of Commons in the 200 1 General Election as a candidate forthe Socialist Alliance, gaining 459 votes, i. e. 1.2%, in Regent's Park and Kensington North, aL abour constituency. He became a Marxist at university, after becoming unsatisfied with theability of postmodern and feminist theories to explain history and political events.

X's left-wing politics are evident in his writing as well as his theoretical ideas about literature. He

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I m not a leftist trying to smuggle in my evil message by the nefarious means of fantasy novels.I m a science fiction and fantasy geek. I love this stuff. And when I write my novels, I m notwriting them to make political points. I m writing them because I passionately love monsters andthe weird and horror stories and strange situations and surrealism, and what I want to do iscommunicate that. But, because I come at this with a political perspective, the world that I m

creating is embedded with many of the concerns that I have... I m trying to say I ve invented thisworld that I think is really cool and I have these really big stories to tell in it and one of the waysthat I find to make that interesting is to think about it politically. If you want to do that too, that sfantastic. But if not, isn t this a cool monster?

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John L uther ------- was an American railroad engineerfrom Jackson, TN. He died on April 30, 1900 whencannonball express which was a passenger train collidedwith a freight train. He was the only person to die but hisheroic death trying to prevent loss of lives made him a

hero and was then immortalised in a classic. How was heimmortalised?


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X's appearance and design is basically just that ofY with ____ make-up.The creator said that "The satirical conceit that I wasgoing for at the time was that th e show was about a kid who hadno respect for his father, but worshiped a _____ who lookedexactly like his father," a theme which became less important as

the show developed. One concept initially saw X being revealed asY's secret identity but the idea was dropped for being too complexand because the writers were too busy developing the series. X was originally just a normal man wearing ____ makeup, but DavidSilverman noted that "at some point, we decided he looked [like a____] all the time." The producers had long discussions aboutwhether or not X would always remain in his _____ make-up buteventually decided that it did not matter.


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What A feared were those who would ban books. What X feared was thatthere would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one whowanted to read one. A feared those who would deprive us of information. X feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced topassivity and egoism. A feared that the truth would be concealed from us. X

feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. A feared we wouldbecome a captive culture. X feared we would become a trivial culture,preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and thecentrifugal bumblepuppy. As X later remarked in a book about Y , the civillibertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny"failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions."In B, A added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. InY , they arecontrolled by inflicting pleasure. In short, A feared that what we fear will ruinus. X feared that our desire will ruin us.

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X is part of Stephen King s fictional Maine topography, and as such serves asthe setting for a number of his novels, novellas, and short stories. X isinfluenced by the works of H. P. L ovecraft, who created a series of fictionalsmall towns in New EnglandcalledArkham, Dunwich, Innsmouthand Kingsport. King has mimicked thisidea of L ovecraft's with the towns of Jerusalem's L ot, X, Derry, and to alesser extent L ittle Tall Island and Haven. Population of Castle Rock was1280 by 1959 and around 1500 as of its final chronological appearancein Needful Things.

X is more famous now after being used as a name for a company co-foundedby Rob Reiner in 1989 .

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Quoting Richard L upoff: "A brilliant young filmmaker namedJonathan Heap made a superb 30-minute version of my shortstory 12:01 PM. It was an Oscar nominee in 199 0, and waslater adapted into a two-hour Fox movie called 12:01. Thestory was also adapted -- actually plagiarized -- into a majortheatrical film in 199 3. Jonathan Heap and I were outragedand tried very hard to go after the rascals who had robbed us,but alas, the Hollywood establishment closed ranks. We wereno Art Buchwald. After half a year of lawyers' conferences andemotional stress, we agreed to put the matter behind us and

get on with our lives.What movie is science fiction, fantasy and mystery author Mr.L upoff talking about?


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William S BurroughsUnisys was named the BurroughsCorporation until 1989 , founded by his great-grandfather.He killed his wife in a drunken game of William Tell.

Song by Steely Dan, who take their namefrom his book, Naked L unch.


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________ is a 2007 movie whose screenplay was written byHarold Pinter. It is a remake of the 1972 movie of the samename which was written by Anthony Schaffer starring X andY. The 200 7 movie starred X along with Jude law but in the2007 movie, Jude law played the role portrayed originally byX in the earlier one and X himself played the role portrayedbyY.

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X is a macaw who can mimic other character s voiceperfectly. X was first picked up in a bazaar and was reared asan accomplice in crime. As X was fed up with being pushed,he switched sides. He only faces danger if a great reward ispromised. X was also shown to have great feelings towardsTundra, a rain bird.

Y is a monkey who has a bad habit of stealing at the wrongtime. X usually convinces Y to be his partner in crime but Ydoes not have the skill or finesse to pull off the con.

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The_____ after serious thought, gave the part this time to Xand Y hoping to garner young viewers who have in the recentpast lost interest. The reason for choosing X and Y is due tothe catastrophe last year as the duo selected last year werequite old and failed miserably to grab interest amongstyouth.

The distinction to have done this most number of times goessolely to Bob Hope.

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1. L ouie L ouie by The Clash2. Baz L uhrmann, directed Romeo Juliet3. V ishal Bharadwaj, connect being be the 4 short movies on

AIDS awareness funded by Bill and Melinda Gatesfoundation.

4. Sleuth, Y- L aurence Oliver5. Iago and Abu6. Anne Hathaway and James Franco, Oscar hosts7. Globe Theatre


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ANSWER was TV show Spinoffs

Maximizer2 points per answer.ID the original shows.


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