All - Aug 2019

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Empedocles (everything is wind, fire, water and earth) thought he was immortal and threw himself into Mt Etna

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Question 2

The Upanishads are a collection of texts of religious and philosophical nature, written in India probably between c. 800 BCE and c. 500 BCE, during a time when Indian society started to question the traditional Vedic religious order.

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Question 3

Scorpio

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The Scorpion

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Word “intersectionality” coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw, 1989 legal article “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex” - for the people who experience both racism and sexism, the phenomena don’t feel distinct at all.

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Americans often mistakenly use ___ as a symbol of medicine. Whose symbol is it?

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The Caduceus. It’s the symbol of Hermes

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Bhuna = Cooking process where spices are gently fried in plenty of oil to bring out their flavour. The dish “bhuna” is an extension of that process where meat is added to the spices and then cooked in its own juices which results in deep strong flavours but very little sauce

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the son of Odysseus and Penelope

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Telemachus

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A million seconds is less than twelve days; a billion is

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almost thirty-two years.

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The Madhi was Muhammad al-Muntazar (al Mahdi). He was the 12th Shia Imam and he was hdden in a cave by his father. Will return in the Major Occulation.

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Question 10

Kalimantan

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Another name for island of Borneo

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Bronze is a mix of

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copper and tin

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Moksha

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salvation (Hinduism)

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Solar flares like Carrington Event of 1859 that took out telegraph wires. (Telegraph systems all over Europe and North America failed, in some cases giving telegraph operators electric shocks.Telegraph pylons threw sparks.[18] Some telegraph operators could continue to send and receive messages despite having disconnected their power supplies.)

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Question 14

Rostra

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Platform in the forum where the people were addressed from

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What’s the difference between Continent vs Island
Continents sit on continental lithosphere, which is part of tectonic plates floating high on Earth’s mantle. Islands are either extensions of the oceanic crust (e.g. volcanic islands) or geologically they are part of some continent sitting on continental lithosphere (e.g. Greenland).

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Question 16

___ = a Persian legendary creature similar to the Egyptian sphinx. It has the head of a human, body of a lion and a tail of venomous spines similar to porcupine quills, while other depictions have it with the tail of a scorpion

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Manticore

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Queen of the Amazons

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Hippolyta

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Main river in Ghana

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Volta

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“hearts and minds” strategy first used to counter the Black Flags rebellion along the Indochina-Chinese border in 1895.

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Question 20

Sagittarius

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The (Centaur) Archer

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Who is the main character of Ulysses?

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Leopold Bloom

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Mother goddess, aka Shakti, Durga, Kali, Maha Devi, Chamunda, lakshmi, river Ganges…

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Devi

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Capricorn

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“Goat Mountain” or “Goat-horned” (The Sea-Goat)

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Tamir Rice = 2014, Ohio - 12-year-old boy waving around a toy gun - an airsoft replica that lacked the orange safety feature marking it as a toy

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What does the “al” prefix mean in Arabic?
“The”. In names, it means the place where someone’s from. E.g. “Saddam al-Tikriti” means “Saddam, the guy from Tikrit.” El is an alternative spelling

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Maitreya

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Future bodhisattva

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4 physical aspects of Buddha

Webbed feet; long ear lobes; ‘thighs of a royal stag’ and blue eyes. All number amongst the 32 marks of a great man.

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Question 28

We used to believe Eels spontaneously come from mud; Ostriches can digest iron; Hyenas change sex with the season

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Question 29

Khanda is the name of the double edged sword Sikh symbol - symbolises the two sides of the Sikh: saint and soldier

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Question 30

Brass is a mix of

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copper and zinc

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Voice of the plebs

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Tribune

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Egyptian cat goddess = Bast or Bastet

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Question 33

Benfords law is a mathematical law which says in many types of random data the number 1 appears 30% of the time

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Morning star; Venus

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Lucifer

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Moksha = release from Samsara. One can escape (“marga”) in 3 ways: knowledge and insight (“Jnana Marga”), right behaviour (“karma-marga”) and devotion to the gods.

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Moksha

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Virgo

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The Maiden

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Under the mental health act we detain almost 4 times as many black people as white people

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Tiro

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Tiro = Cicero’s secretary

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Mahabodhi tree - temple in Bihar, where Buddha attained enlightenment

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Carcer

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Rome’s prison

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People thought church bells would help stop the plague

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Question 42

What is Socrates favourite TV programme?

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The only way is ethics

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Arab Jews. From the Hebrew and Arabic words meaning “those of the East”.

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Mizrahim

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Verdigris

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bright bluish-green encrustation or patina formed on copper or brass by atmospheric oxidation, consisting of basic copper carbonate

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Burundi flag: The three stars represent the three ethnic groups that live in the country; the Hutu, Tutsi and the Twa. The red in the flag stands for the independence struggle, the green for hope and the white for peace.

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Question 46

___ goods. Expensive wines, jewelry, fashion-designer handbags, and luxury cars which are in demand because of, rather than in spite of, the high prices asked for them.

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Positional goods

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Samsara

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Cycle of birth and rebirth of the soul (“atman”)

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Calibre

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the internal diameter or bore of a gun barrel.

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Kraft-Ebing - author of the foundational work Psychopathia Sexualis (1886) … little known source of homo, hetero, necrophilia, exhibitionism, sadism, masochism

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Question 50

What date is the events of Ulysses set on?

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1629

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Queen Anne was so fat at Windsor Castle she had to be lowered through a trap door

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Question 52

Tymans law

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If a statistic or polling result looks particularly interesting it’s probably wrong

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Cassia & Myrhh = 2 Perfumes associated with death

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A cope is an ornate cape-like garment worn by a bishop. In the ancient Church, bishops were generally elderly men who needed a cope to keep warm. The bishop removes the cope and puts on a chasuble to celebrate the Eucharist.

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Question 55

___ was a moderate and he did not agree with the extreme views of the Jacobins and consequently left the Jacobin party

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Mirabeau

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Chemical that causes sleep pressure

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Adenezine

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People want to see what they want to see, explains Astrology

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PT Barnum effect

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Marlene Pinnock = Beaten by California Highway Patrol, walking barefoot

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Servilia

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Caesar’s mistress

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Velux windows solved not only the problem of putting light in an attic, but the problem of air.

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Stainless steel =

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Chromium + iron

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Modern napalm is a mix of benzene and polystyrene

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Question 63

Lloyd Park is named after the newspaper publisher Edward Lloyd. He bought the house and surrounding land in 1857 and lived in the house with his family until 1885. The house was uninhabited for a while and then rented, until in 1898 Frank Lloyd, a son of Edward, offered the house and gardens on behalf of the family, to the Walthamstow Urban District Council.

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Question 64

Duverger’s law = The tendency for two-party systems to develop, as voters coalesce around potential winning candidates

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Question 65

Short little cape that just covers the shoulders - in RC church

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Mozzeta

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To go from celcius to farenheit -

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double and add 30

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The Indian Rebellion happened in ___

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1857

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Anguilla gets its name from the Italian anguilla meaning “eel”

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Sicily was Rome’s first province

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Question 70

Left wing dates from the French Revolution, as radical Montagnard and Jacobin deputies from the Third Estate generally sat to the left of the president’s chair.

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Stanislav Petrov = man who saved the world. 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident - the system mistook the sun’s reflection off clouds for a missile

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Brahmanas

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Commentaries on the four Vedas

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Oldest book in new testament

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James

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Cao Dai is a religion dreamed up by a Vietnamese civil servant who have saints including Joan of Arc and Julius Ceasar.

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silver ore

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Acanthite

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Silver is actually the best conductor

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Question 77

2014 - died in NYPD headlock; repeated “I can’t breathe” eleven times while lying facedown on the sidewalk; Pantaleo = cop who wasn’t indicted

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Eric Garner

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Aspirin comes from willow bark

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Question 79

Michael Brown = 2014, Ferguson Missouri - shot by Darren Wilson - Wilson said that an altercation ensued when Brown attacked Wilson in his police vehicle for control of Wilson’s gun until it was fired. Brown and Johnson then fled, with Wilson in pursuit of Brown. Wilson stated that Brown stopped and charged him after a short pursuit.

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Question 80

Aristippus’s philosophy = Extract joy from all circumstances

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Question 81

Town Hall is an example of Nordic Classicism designed by Phillip Dalton Hepworth

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Question 82

Dunning Kruger effect, where unskilled individuals believe themselves to be more adept than they are.

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2nd most senior magistrate, oversaw various courts - 8 elected each year

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Praetor

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Phlegethon

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River of fire (one of the 5 rivers of Hades)

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Alhazen or Ibn al-Haytham was the father of Optics - lived 10th Century. (Alhazen read about the flooding of the Nile and audaciously wrote to the Caliph offering to build a dam. But when he got there he realised it was too big so he faked madness until the Caliph died some ten years later!)

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Question 86

Metal work involves quenching that makes it harder but also brittle, tempering makes it more flexible but softer

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Question 87

One study from 1975 reported that signs of conscious awareness persisted for between nine and 18 seconds after the animals were beheaded. This timeframe has since been demonstrated in other animals too, so it could be a reasonable proxy for humans.

The problem with the ‘long drop’ is that the method requires scrupulous calculation. If the drop is too long, the person’s head will come clean off. If it’s too short, they’ll choke to death.

The electric chair was first invented as a more humane alternative to hanging. …started with a chilling report commissioned by the State of New York in 1887, which evaluated 34 ways to kill a human.

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Question 88

Egyptians removed brain through nostrils with an iron hook in the mummification process

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Nandi

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Shivas bull

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_ _ gives you browning. Combo of sugar and protein.

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Mayard reaction

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Studies on online dating show that enough money can compensate for being short, but it’s expensive.

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Question 92

Aquarius

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The Water-Bearer

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When Hipassus proved that the square root of 2 is an irrational number Pythagoras committed suicide. (Why were you working out the square root of two? Because if you want to find the hypotenuse of a triangle 1 x 1)

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Hippasus.

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More than one Roman emperor married a man, until same-sex marriage was outlawed in AD 342

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Question 95

St Lawrence is the patron saint of cooks because he was put in a grid iron and roasted alive. Apparently after sometime he cheerfully said, “I’m well done. Turn me over!”

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Question 96

The ___ Party - an Egyptian nationalist movement that came into existence in the aftermath of World War I

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Wafd

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amorphous clayey rock that is the chief commercial ore of aluminium

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bauxite

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Spain complaint about Gibraltar but what about their possession of the north African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla which upset Morocco

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Secessio plebis = Latin name for the plebian strike

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Road into Rome where Crassus crucified so many

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Appian way

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Acheron

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River of sorrow (one of the 5 rivers of Hades)

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Sir Andre Geim of the University of Manchester won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the revolutionary material graphene — but not before receiving the Ig Nobel Prize for levitating a live frog

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Question 103

The Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees wrote a book titled Our Final Century, warning of the existential threats arising from complex, interconnected modern systems. The book was renamed Our Final Hour in the US, perhaps because a century seemed like too much time to kill.

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Ahimsa

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(in the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jainist tradition) respect for all living things and avoidance of violence towards others.

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Destroyer

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Shiva

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Assumption

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the taking up of the Virgin Mary into heaven

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Distributionism favoured by GK Chesterton- - favors economic mechanisms such as small-scale cooperatives and family businesses, and large-scale anti-trust regulations.

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Question 108

Stanislaw Ulam once challenged Samuelson to name one theory in all of the social sciences which is both true and nontrivial. Several years later, Samuelson responded with

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David Ricardo’s theory of comparative advantage

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Mahavira

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founder of Jainism

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Annuciation

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announcement by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive and become the mother of Jesus

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Themis

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Lady Justice

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Annuit coeptis (latin motto on the dollar bill)

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he approves the undertaking

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Edward I’s Parliament of 1295 is usually counted as the start of the regular summoning of the commons, as well as lords and prelates.

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Question 114

What fight were Hera and Zeus having? What was Hera’s punishment? What was Zeus’ compensation?

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Hera and Zeus were having an argument about whether men or women enjoy sex more and asked him. Teresias said women, and Hera struck him blind in anger. Zeus gave him the power of prophecy in compensation.

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The drug qat turns people’s faces ___

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green

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___ the first President of Indonesia, serving from 1945 to 1967. Overthrown by Foreign Office dirty tricks in 1966

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Sukarno

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Moonstone =

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A beautiful stone which the Romans believed captured rays of the moon

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Prelate

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a bishop or other high ecclesiastical dignitary.

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Chief magistrate - 2 people held it at the same time

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Consul

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Treaty of Tordesillas, 1494 = Treaty where the pope divided the world between spain & portugal

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Capital of the Assyrian Empire destroyed by Babylonians & Medes in 612 BC. Jonah preaches to the people of the city warning of the coming destruction. On the Tigris, opposite modern city of Mosul

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Nineveh

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a city and former royal capital in northern Myanmar (formerly Burma) on the Irrawaddy River

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Mandalay

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Zhou Enlai impressed many in 1972 when as Chinese premier he said that it was “too early to tell” about the consequences of the French Revolution. He was under the impression that the question was about the student uprising in Paris in 1968.

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Question 124

Edward I in royal decree of 1290 = English king who expelled Jews from England

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Sephardi literally means =

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Lit. “The Jews of Spain”

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Cannae = Biggest military disaster, against Hannibal

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River of Rome

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Tiber

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Bhakti movement of Buddhism urged move away from Vedic. Emphasised love, personal relationship not temple ceremony, gets you to God. Like Islamic sufism. They taught that people could cast aside the heavy burdens of ritual and caste, and the subtle complexities of philosophy, and simply express their overwhelming love for God

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Question 129

Rubies and Emeralds owe their colour to chromium oxide

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Diogenes =

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One of the founders of Cynic philosophy. Slept in a barrel

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port or region mentioned in the Bible, famous for its wealth.

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Ophir

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What many don’t know about astrology: There’s a 13th sign because the earth has tilted since the zodiac was developed

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Azan

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Muslim call to prayer =

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___ appears as Nataraja god of the dance carrying fire (destruction) and drum (creation)

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Shiva

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Studies in strip clubs have found that dancers’ tips plunge 45% when they are menstruating.

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Question 136

White vestment worn by bishops (or in RC canons & cardinals too); similar to surplice but with baggy sleeves…

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Rochet

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Never ever write “the Rev Brown” or (even worse) “Rev Brown”; instead…

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“the Rev Joseph Brown”, thereafter Mr Brown.

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William Morris lived in the Water House from 1848 to 1856

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Question 139

Until The Rhubarb Triangle started in the 1870s, most rhubarb came from China. In 1839, the imperial Chinese commissioner Lin Zexu wrote a letter to Queen Victoria warning that, unless the British stopped supplying opium to China, he would cut off rhubarb supplies to Britain, killing everyone through mass constipation. It seems that the Queen never had the letter translated, and so remained unaware of the danger. In the event, the British sent an army from India to force the Chinese to accept British opium imports

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Question 140

11 plants account for 93% of all we eat (out of an estimated 30,000 estimated edible plants) Corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava (staple for 500m people), sorghum, millet, beans, rye and oats.

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Why was Teresias turned into a woman for 7 years?

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He hit some fornicating snakes with a stick which pissed Hera off for some reason.

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On boats you have the plimsoll line showing whether it’s overloaded.

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Question 143

The “miracle fruit” from West Africa is a plant known for its berry that, when eaten, causes sour foods (such as lemons and limes) subsequently consumed to taste sweet. This effect is due to miraculin.

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Question 144

Prebend = the portion of the revenues of a cathedral or collegiate church formerly granted to a canon or member of the chapter as his stipend

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Prebend

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Royal Welsh regiment includes a goat, presented by the monarch. It’s not a mascot but a ranking soldier.

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the wife of Odysseus, who is known for her fidelity to Odysseus while he was absent, despite having many suitors

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Penelope

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E pluribus unum =

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out of many, one’ - from 13 states came 1 (13 letters)

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Country with no army

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Costa Rica

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Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved

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Ancient prophetess who sold books to Tarquin the proud

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The Sibyl

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Daily Mail is read by upper classes too…. Its 4.3 million daily readers include more from the top three social classes (A, B and C1) than the Times, Guardian, Independent and Financial Times combined.

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Question 152

Two ravens of Odin = Hugin and Munin (“thought” and “memory”)

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Question 153

Rousseau’s 2 loves:
Armour de soi-même = self regard
Armour propre = Love of self fueled by pride in relation to others

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Question 154

Turkish Shia are called Alevi . They drink wine, and don’t go to Mosque because Ali was murdered in a mosque.

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The Queen is NOT head of the Church of England. She is the ____

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Supreme Governor of the Church of England,

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Renisha McBride = 2013, Detroit - crashed her car at a street in Detroit, and then walked to a neighborhood in Dearborn Heights where she knocked on the door of a house. The homeowner, Theodore Wafer, shot McBride with a shotgun; received a sentence of 17 to 32 years in prison

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Question 157

just 4% of 1,100 top Hollywood movies were directed by women in the past decade

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Tajikistan - girls wear uni brows, langusge is very close to persian

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Dragons with 2 legs

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Wyvern

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Where the voting took place

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Field of Mars

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Changyu raptor = Dinosaur with 4 wings

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Benefice = group of parishes served by one incumbent (member of clergy)

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Although John F. Kennedy’s tan was often described as a sign of vigor, it was caused by Addison’s disease, an endocrine disorder, which Kennedy and his aides hid for decades, and which left him dependent on multiple medications.

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The most frequent 100 words account for 60% of all conversations

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Taurus

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The Bull

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___ = Title given to the archbishop of a province. The Archbishop of Canterbury is ____ of All England. The Archbishop of York is ___ of England.

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Primate

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Native people of Borneo

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Dayaks

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The Queen is head of state in

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16 countries

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What happens when you get a killer-byte?

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It megahertz

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Anglican bishops usually wear a purple cassock. Over this, instead of the surplice, they wear the rochet with red or black chimere and matching cuffs, black tippet, and sometimes an academic hood.

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Yoda and Miss Piggy were both voiced by the same person.

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____ lead processions in the church as well as being involved in the day to day running of the church. They are voluntary roles.

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Vergers

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Cocytus

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River of lamentation (one of the 5 rivers of Hades)

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Leo

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The Lion

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Trimcomalee

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Port in Sri Lanka

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Preserver

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Vishnu

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Mencius = Chinese philosopher who has often been described as the “second Sage”, that is after only Confucius himself

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The pink colour of wild flamingos is due to ___ which they absorb from their diet of Brine shrimp.

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canthaxanthin

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The backless chair sat on by magistrates

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Curule chair

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Raymond Dart’s theories about how primitive man was violent inspired the opening scene of Space Odyssey 2001

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Who was the Trojan prince, who was the Julians traced their heritage to? A grandson of Venus

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Aeneas

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SPQR

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Senatus Populusque Romanus (“The Roman Senate and People”)

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New Testament mentions _ different Herods.

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Six

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a person who leads people in singing, or sometimes in prayer

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Cantor

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Purim celebrates when ___

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when Esther of Persia rescued Jews from death

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Although statistically men commit more violent crimes than women, more than twice as many men are victims of violence.

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Origin of Afghan canals: The Lashkar Gar canals were built by the same US company that built the San Francisco bridge. When the fur trade left Germany because of the holocaust it went to Afghanistan which put the money into modernization. Canals with the increase in yields they brought were seen as an attraction alternative to socialist land redistribution.

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Who was the ‘last Mughal’?

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Shah Zafar II

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Verres = Corrupt man who robbed Siciliy and who Cicero prosecuted

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The Jacquerie was a popular revolt by peasants that took place in northern France in the early summer of 1358 during the Hundred Years’ War.

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What did the Sibyl tell Romans to do after defeat at Cannae

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Burn alive in the market 2 gauls and 2 greeks

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Laid the foundations for Greek democracy

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Solon

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About 80 women a year, in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, are murdered by ___

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Benin = birthplace of voodoo

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Smell bypasses the thalamus - Most senses go through the thalamus - kind of sensory middleman - which goes to sleep (why lights and sounds don’t wake you). Smell bypasses thalamus - why smelling salts work.
Smell is the function of the olfactory bulb and is the most ancient of the senses. Unlike the other senses, smell is located deep in the limbic system, where it works closely with the amygdala and hippocampus—which is why smell is so closely tied to memory and emotion.

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Brahman is the unchanging timeless reality, Brahma is the creator

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Cain (who was a farmer) killed Abel (who was a shepherd) because God preferred his sacrifice. Cain was sent to Land of Nod.

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Origin of ‘square the circle’ = Square the circle (drawing a square the same size as a given circle) is one of three mathematical problems that couldn’t be solved by compasses and a ruler. (Along with trisecting an angle, doubling a cube)

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Old name for Harare, Zimbabwe

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Salisbury

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Baldur

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killed by sprig of mistletoe

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Al Khwarizmi was the father of algebra. The term algebra itself comes from the title of his book (specifically the word al-jabr meaning “completion” or “rejoining”)

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Kyrgystan - the flag has 40 rays, 3 dollar bill

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Lethe

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one of the 5 rivers of Hades, forgetfulness

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Cirque Soleil is a clever combination of Opera and Circus, with the most expensive parts - animals and opera singers - removed.

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Before John Beck invented Ph-balanced shampoo in the 1930s, people didn’t wash their hair very often, because washing your hair with soap doesn’t produce happy results.

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Art form, originating in the Indian subcontinent, in which patterns are created on the floor or the ground using materials such as colored rice, dry flour, colored sand or flower petals.

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Rangoli

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carnifex

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State executioner

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What was the poor people’s hill?

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Avantine

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Current name for what was known as Canton province

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Guangdong Province

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Neturei Karta is a religious group of Haredi Jews who believe Jews should wait for the messiah to form a state

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According to medieval craftsman, the most important ingredient for stain glass paste is the urine of a pre-pubescent red-haired boy.

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Libra

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The Scales

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A 1958 study involved shutting 2- and 5-year-old children in refrigerators to investigate their escape strategies, leading to changes in fridge design that have saved many lives, but the descriptions of the children’s reactions in the original research are disturbing (‘about half were upset but could be comforted easily, and a small group (11%) required some help to become calm’; at follow-up 8 months later ‘a number of children still talked about the tests, some with pleasure, a few with resentment’).

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Middle-class order OR order of knights

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Equestrian order

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Brahma

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supreme creator

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Malawi used to be known as

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Nyasaland

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A type of good that is more lusted after the more expensive it is (think Ferraris)

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In 1899, Thorstein Veblen described a type of good that is more lusted after the more expensive it is (think Ferraris)

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Only 17 nations recognise Taiwan

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Anaximander thought the earth was a cylinder

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Question 220

1953 coup (“Operation Boot”) in Iran overthrew democratically elected leader ____

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Mosaddegh

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The Malayan Emergency was called thus because tin-mining industries had pushed for the use of the term “emergency” since their losses would not have been covered by Lloyd’s insurers if it had been termed a “war”.

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Question 222

Through the Government of India Act 1858 the British Crown assumed direct control of East India Company-held territories in India in the form of the new British Raj.

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Snake staff used by WHO

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Staff of Asclepius

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Bodh Gaya - place of pilgrimage in Mahabodhi Temple. Most holy place on Earth for the followers of the Buddhist faith all over the world

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Question 225

Terentia

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Terentia = Cicero’s wife

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10 days that shook the world = book by John Reed on Russian Revolution

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sunset evening prayer service

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Vespers

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A ___ ____ held the Cure of souls in an area which had not yet been formally or legally constituted as a parish, and received neither greater nor lesser tithes, but only a small stipend in return for his duties. Tended to have a lower social status, and were often quite poorly remunerated…. The title was abolished in 1968.

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Curate (technically perpetual curate)

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Wars with Carthage =

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Punic wars

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What was the posh hill of Rome?

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Palantine

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Unethical experiment: The Red Wing experiments in the 1940s used a strangulation cuff around the neck to investigate why pilots in high-speed aircraft were losing consciousness - participants were prisoners and patients with schizophrenia.

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___ good = types of luxury goods for which the quantity demanded increases as the price increases

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Veblen good. Named after Thorstein Veblen, who first identified conspicuous consumption as a mode of status-seeking in The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)

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The difference in time between when the Tyrannosaurus Rex and the stegosaurus lived is greater than the difference in time between when the Tyrannosaurus rex lived and now (T-Rex = 65m years ago, Steg = 150m years ago)

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Question 234

Scarf like garment, part of choir dress - not worn for Eucharist

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Tippet

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If a test for some disease is 95% accurate, and the disease affects one person in a thousand, and you for a test and it comes back positive, what’s the probability that you have the disease?

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Most respondents say, well the test is accurate, so the probability is 95 per cent. The correct answer is 2 per cent, because if you test 1,000 people, the test will give fifty positives, whereas only one of the population has the illness. The sting in the tale lies in the fact that the respondents were doctors.

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3 types of ordained clergy in Anglican church

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Priest, Bishop and Deacon

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4 city administrators =

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Aediles

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Salafism dates from 19th century… A call to Muslims follow the example of those first three generations, the salaf.

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Novus ordo seclorum (latin motto on the dollar bill)

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new order of the ages

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3 things worn for choir dress (reading homilies etc)

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cassock, surplice and tippet.

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Dharma

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The teaching of Buddha

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Pisces

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The Fish

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Strawberries and raspberries aren’t really berries in the botanical sense. They are derived from a single flower with more than one ovary, making them an aggregate fruit. True berries are simple fruits stemming from one flower with one ovary and typically have several seeds

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Question 244

Does something special happen to the brain when people start group combat?

Joseph Jordania suggested that in human evolutionary history collective identity was crucial for the physical survival of hominids and early humans.[8] As individual hominids were too weak and slow to survive predators on their own,[9] in the moments most critical to survival (predator attacks, combat situations, mortal danger) humans enter the altered state of consciousness where they do not feel fear and pain, do not question the behavior of other members of their group, and are ready to sacrifice their lives for evolution’s more important super-ordinate goals (i.e. survival of the children or the group). Humans sometimes do not have memory of these critical moments. Absence of stressful memories is known as psychogenic amnesia.[10][11] According to Jordania, human ability to follow the rhythm in big groups, to sing together in harmony, to dance for many hours and enter the ecstatic state, as well as the tradition of body painting, were all the parts of the first universal rituals. These were primarily developed as the means to synchronize each individual group-member’s neural activity (through the release of neuro-chemicals), in order to reach the state of collective identity, also known as transcendence. In this state the survival needs of the group can override the instincts of individual survival.

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Question 245

Uzbekistan - Capital is Tashkent, Makes cotton, Has a dried up an Aral sea, mainly Muslim, operates largest gold pit mine in the world, has lots of gas, one of two double land locked countries in the world

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Smartas or Smartism (Hindusim) consider all personal forms of God as equal

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Cincture =

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Rope around the waist

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Dickens character who take her knitting to watch the public beheadings of the French Revolution

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Madame Defarge in Tale of Two Cities

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2 Provinces = Cantebury & York ... 
42 diosceses ...  Diocese of Chelmsford 
Episcopal areas. ...
Archdeaneries 
Deaneries ... Waltham Forest
Parish

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Question 250

Like a big waist coat; bishops get a red one worn as part of choir dress

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Chimere

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River that starts in S Africa, and forms the border with (part of) Zimbabwe and Botswana, before going through Mozambique

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Limpopo

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Azer means “fire”. Azerbaijan is the home of two of the world class chess players – Garry Kasparov and Teymur Rajabov.

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Question 253

The taking of Constantinople in 1453 led scholars to flee to Italy which started the Renaissance, and led to Columbus discovering America as a new way tor reach the East.

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Question 254

vichyssoise (“vishy-swarz”) =

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Cold potato & leak soup

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The Terror was Led by Maximilien Robespierre, the Montagnards unleashed the Reign of Terror in 1793.

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Question 256

Cancer

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The Crab