1. In A.D. 2101
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It’s you !!
CATS: How are you gentlemen !!
CATS: _____________________.
CATS: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
CATS: You have no chance to survive make your time.
CATS: Ha ha ha ha….
Operator: Captain !! *
Captain: Take off every ‘ZIG’!!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move ‘ZIG’.
Captain: For great justice.
The text above is taken from the opening cut scene of the 1991 European version of a Japanese video game by Toaplan which was poorly translated to English. Just fill in the blanks with a seven word phrase/sentence
Answer: All your base are belong to us.
Any variation/deviation in the answer will fetch only half a point
2. A part of a famous speech in the Parliament of the United Kingdom given by British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in 1878 has been immortalized by Amitabh Bachchan in one of his films. How?
Answer: The opening line, “sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity”, that is spoken by Anthony when he emerges from the easter egg in the song ‘My name is Anthony Gonzalves’, is an almost exact quotation from a speech in the Parliament of the United Kingdom given by British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in 1878. Disraeli (who was referring to W.E. Gladstone) used the word “inebriated” rather than “intoxicated”.
3. According to Richard M. Sherman, co-writer of the song with his brother, Robert, the word was created by them in two weeks, mostly out of double-talk. The roots of the word have been defined as follows: “above”, “beauty”, “delicate”, “to atone” and “educable”. Put together, it means – “Atoning for educability through delicate beauty.” What word?
Answer: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
4. Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands,
Oh, where hae ye been?
They hae slain the Earl Amurray,
And Lady Mondegreen.
Put Funda
Answer: To quote from Kunal’s answer – Mondegreen is the term used to describe the misinterpretation of song lyrics when you hear the phonetics wrong …
this poem was the origin of the word Mondegreen .. word Coined By Slyvia Wright
Correctamundo
5. * He has thrown a drowning man both ends of the rope.
* He is a man who cannot find his own buttocks with his two hands
* You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.
* He is like a one-legged man in a bum kicking competition
They are examples of what?
Looking for a very specific one word connect
Answer: Sidhuisms
6. __________ is a colloquialism coined by Jon Hein and used by TV critics and fans to denote the point in a television program’s or file series’ history where the plot veers off into absurd story lines or out-of-the-ordinary characterizations. This usually corresponds to the point where a show with falling ratings apparently becomes more desperate to draw in viewers. In the process of undergoing these changes, the TV or movie series loses its original appeal. Shows that have ___________ed are typically deemed to have passed their peak.
Answer: Jumping the Shark.
Taken from an episode of Happy Days where Fonz jumps over a shark while Jet skiing in order to impress a bunch of girls. The term was coined much later during the shows re-runs. The original broadcast of the episode was in fact one of the most watched episodes in the history of the show.
7. ___________ is used to describe someone “going off the deep end” in public in a manner extreme enough to tarnish his or her reputation. It enjoyed a short-lived popularity thanks to a Hollywood star, being chosen by the editors of the Historical Dictionary of American Slang as the “slang term of the year” in 2005. What?
Clue: The phrase in the previous question
Answer: Kunal frames some of the best answers, makes my job whole lot easier.
Here’s his answer – Tom Cruise in Oprah Winfrey Show _ “Jumping the Couch” like an Orangutan – Expressing his Love for Katie Holmes – Spoofed in Scary movie 4
8. Writers have attempted to provide the sentence meaning through context, the first of which was written by Chinese linguist Yuen Ren Chao. A literary competition was held at Stanford University in 1985, in which the contestants were invited to make the sentence meaningful using not more than 100 words of prose or 14 lines of verse. An example entry from the competition is:
” It can only be the thought of verdure to come, which prompts us in the autumn to buy these dormant white lumps of vegetable matter covered by a brown papery skin, and lovingly to plant them and care for them. It is a marvel to me that under this cover they are labouring unseen at such a rate within to give us the sudden awesome beauty of spring flowering bulbs. While winter reigns the earth reposes but these colourless ________________ ”
Fill in the blanks
Answer: Colourless green Ideas sleep furiosly
The famous sentence by Noam Chomsky, constructed to show the limitations of English language
9. In 1977, William S. Doyle, hired advertising agency Wells Rich Greene to develop a marketing campaign for a U.S state. Doyle also recruited Milton Glaser, a productive graphic designer to work on the campaign, and created the design based on Wells Rich Greene’s advertising campaign. Glaser expected the campaign to last only a couple months and did the work pro bono. It was possibly inspired in part by the slogan “Virginia is for Lovers” which had featured a symbol (♥) since 1969. What are we talking about?
Answer: I♥ NY
10. “Neither is there anyone who loves grief itself since it is grief and thus wants to obtain it”
This is the English translation of a sentence in Latin taken from Cicero’s book De finibus bonorum et malorum. What is the claim to fame of the Latin sentence in question.
Clue: This quiz
Answer: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
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