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Also known as the Bogorad’s Syndrome, this condition derives it’s name from an ancient and popular
English idiom. The medical condition usually appears during recovery from Bell’s Palsy and affects the
function of the facial nerve network. As a result, a person suffering from this syndrome may
_________________ while eating. The reason the syndrome derives it’s name from the idiom is the
fact that both the subject of the idiom and the suffering patient exhibit the same traits.

Mention the idiom/syndrome.

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Crocodile Tears / The Crocodile Tears Syndrome

The medical condition usually appears during recovery from Bell’s Palsy and affects the function of the facial nerve
network. As a result, a person suffering from this syndrome may shed tears while eating. A crocodile also sheds tears,
fake though to lure or deceive its prey

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Launched by Rajasthan Breweries, Stroh’s Beer made its entry into the Indian markets in 1995.
However, the launch strategy adopted was rather unconventional in those times in India, whereby
Stroh’s associated with something for its launch. This something went on to become a cult itself owing
to which Stroh’s also caught the eye of the consumer and became a well known name in India
overnight coupled with extensive marketing events and promotions held by Rajasthan Breweries all
over the country.

What is being discussed here ?

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The product placement of Strohs Beer in Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaayenge marked the
launch of the brand in India in 1995.

(In on of the celebration scenes, Raj (SRK) meets Kuljeet (Parmeet Sethi) and his friends and they drink Stroh's beer.
When Kuljeet asks Raj the reason for his visit to India, he concocts a story about planning to start a factory in Punjab
to produce Strohs Beer)

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Shown here is the DC Comics super-heroine Wonder Woman wielding a fictional weapon, both created
by William Moulton Marston. William had earlier earned a PhD at the Harvard University in 1921 and
this fictional weapon was the direct result of his research and was modeled upon what today is an
accepted practice & technique. Also , Marston's wife apparently played a key role in this research and
suggested to him the premise that when she got mad or excited, her blood pressure seemed to climb.

What modern day technique/device has been referred to above ?

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Polygraph Testing / Lie Detector

The fictional weapon shown is Lasso of Truth. It was usually referred to as the Magic Lasso or Golden Lasso and forces
anyone it captures to obey and tell the truth.

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• official biographers claim that his birth at Baekdu Mountain was foretold by a swallow, and
heralded by the appearance of a double rainbow across the sky over the mountain and a new star in
the heavens

• he ate with special spoons & chopsticks that could detect poison

• his official biography on his state web site, which has since been taken down, claimed that he did
not defecate

• In the 1950s he built an entire city known in his region as the Peace Village, and which to this day
has had no residents

• he hoped to solve the famine in his country by breeding giant rabbits. An east German farmer who
bred rabbits the size of dogs was apparently asked to help set up a big bunny farm to alleviate food
shortages. To get things going, the farmer sent a batch of 12 giant rabbits, but was shocked to hear
they were eaten at his birthday banquet that year

• according to his official biography, all of his operas are “better than any in the history of music."
Also, it claims that the first time he picked up a golf club, he shot a 38-under par round including 11
holes-in-one

Name the incredible gentleman being discussed here.

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Kim Jong-il

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A number of reports have indicated that how X , a global leading figure in his times was attempted to
be murdered and eliminated by a rival nation/organization. So much so that X survived almost 600
assassination attempts during 1960 & 1970. At other points, there were attempts of discrediting him
and maligning his image before his huge number of followers. Some of such interesting/bizarre
attempts include:

• aerosol attack on radio station to contaminate the air of the radio station from where X used to
broadcast his speeches with a chemical that produces reactions similar to LSD. This would result in X
losing sanity and freaking out live on the air which would make people think X had lost his mind and
stop trusting X.

• a vague scheme involving a box of cigars treated with a chemical intended to produce temporary
personality disorientation

• a scheme involving thallium salt, a chemical used by women as a depilatory, placed in X shoes. The
idea was to cause X beard to fall out, thus damaging his image as they believed that that the loss of
the beard would show people that X was weak and fallible

Identify X.

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X: Fidel Castro
The CIA attempts of eliminating/discrediting him.

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Created by German cartoonist Reinhard Beuthien as a filler on June 24, 1952 for the newspaper
Bild-Zeitung in Hamburg, Germany, this comic strip later became a regular & a popular feature.

Which popular entity draws it’s inspiration from this comic strip ?

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Barbie Doll

The character was calle Lilli and the Bild Lilli doll were modeled on here, which in turn inspired Barbie

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During World War I, names of many places in Australia were changed because of something. This was
done through an Act of Parliament, as well as by petition. The change to newer names was seen as a
boost to the war efforts, and to the sensibilities of many in the Australian population at the time.

Some of the many examples of such name changes include

Engelsburg changed to Kalbar

Hessenburg changed to Ingoldsby
Grunberg changed to Karalta
Mount Bismarck changed to Mount Kitchener

In South Australia, the Nomenclature Act of 1935 restored the former names of a number of towns,
the names of which had been changed in 1917. However, most of the towns still retain the changed
name.

Why did the name change occur ?

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During World War I, many German-sounding place names in Australia were changed
because of Anti-German sentiment. The new names were often Anglicized
(Peterborough), given Aboriginal names (Kobandilla, Karawirra), names of famous
people (Kitchener and Holbrook), or battlefields (Verdun, The Somme).

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Shown here is the original cover of Dream

Theater live album Live Scenes from New York
recorded on August 30, 2000, at the Roseland
Ballroom in New York City. After the album
was released on a later date, there were
demands of recalling the album cover and
changing it owing to something. Initially the
album producers mentioned their point of this
something being nothing but a very strong co-
incidence, but later accepted the demands &
changed it.

What co-incidence ? / What change is being talked about ?

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The 9/11 Attack

Coincidentally, the album was originally released on September 11, 2001, but when it was noticed that the cover
artwork depicted the skyline of New York, including the twin towers of the World Trade Center, in flames, it was
recalled and re-released a short time later. Some copies with the original artwork still exist, and are now a rare
collectors item

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X is a business jargon used for a private telephone number that is handled at a higher priority
than a public line. The number is only given to selected people, gets answered outside of working
hours, does not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through cumbersome voice menus etc.

X is derived from a Detective Comic Series and television show whereby one of the characters uses
a secure line to pass messages.

Identify X.

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X: Batphone

The name derives from Commissioner Gordon's secure line to the "Batphone" in the Batman television show of
1966–68. In the modern Batman comic book continuity, the Batphone made its debut in Detective Comics #786
(November, 2003), in the form of an encrypted cellphone that allowed Gordon to securely contact Batman.

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Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore is the seventeenth episode of the seventeenth season of The Simpsons.
The episode has Homer Simpson travelling to India after the nuclear power plant he works at is shut
down and outsourced to India. In India, Homer is taken as a God and is almost worshipped by his
followers in the nuclear plant there.

From whom was Homer's God-like appearance, as shown in this image was inspired ?

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Mola Ram from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

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Sikligar is a small community living in the remote tribal areas of Madhya Pradesh in the Satpura Hills.
Of lately , the community has come under the scanner of intelligence and security agencies for their
unique profession and only means of livelihood –manufacturing weapons.

While the security agencies allege that the community has been supplying country made arms to
smugglers and terrorists groups, the community asserts that all of the community members are
uneducated, dismally poor and this is their only source of livelihood which they took up some 300
years ago after being ordered/commissioned
by someone .

Who’s orders ?

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Guru Gobind Singh

Sikligar is a small Sikh community who according to some accounts, took to weapons manufacturing on the
order of the 10th Sikh guru, Guru Gobind Singh, in order to defend the country. Even three centuries later, they
are longing to return to the mainstream

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Of lately, China is facing a socio-cultural issue, what is known as the Little Emperors Syndrome.
Primarily an urban phenomenon, the Little Emperors Syndrome is said to have resulted in stunting
of social and emotional growth of those affected. Described as a problem "so acute that it's
changing how society functions, the Little Emperor effect has grown beyond a side effect that
modern China could never have foreseen“ into a "behavioral time-bomb."

What is/the cause of The Little Emperors Syndrome ?

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The One Child Policy issues

Little Emperors is a name that refers to only children in the People's Republic of China after the one-child policy
was implemented. Attributed most frequently to increased spending power within the family unit and the parents'
desire for their child to experience the benefits they were denied, the syndrome results from the children's sole
command of the attention of their parents and grandparents.

The combination of the immense pressure to excel within their education and the extreme pampering is reported
to have resulted in a stunting of social and emotional growth. The perceived maladjustment of the Little Emperors
is an exaggerated subject within the media; "the government has [tried] to cope with the Little Emperor problem
through frequent cautionary stories in the press.“ These stories depict children hanging themselves after being
denied sweets, and cases of matricide in retribution for a scolding or late dinner

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Quite a ground breaking advertisement of

it’s time.

Identify the advertiser.

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Bhartiya Jan Sangh (later became BJP)

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Which common phrase prevalent with respect to corporate & business meetings
originates from the Dilbert comic strip shown above ?

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Powerpoint Poisoning / Death by Powerpoint

The criticism of slide-based presentations referring to a state of boredom and fatigue induced by information
overload during presentations such as those created by the Microsoft application PowerPoint

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In software and business parlance, what is the term used to describe the state of a small,
independent company after a bigger, well known company in the business launches a product which
offers the same features as offered by the product of the smaller company launched earlier hence
rendering the smaller company out of competition.

The term derives it’s name from a cult figure in English literature and was also the name of a feature
offered by an iconic company X, the launch of which actually coined this term. The company X was in
new again for doing something similar to the existing small time players.

Name the term.

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Sherlocked

The term was coined in the early 2000s, after Apple (X) updated the Sherlock search tool on its desktop
operating system (OS) to do what had just months before been offered by an external application called
Watson, created by Karelia Software to complement the Apple tool's earlier version.

At its recent Worldwide Developers' Conference Apple (X) said it would provide new data for the Maps app,
which had hitherto relied on Google's cartography. It would also add turn-by-turn satellite navigation
(satnav), upsetting Garmin, Navigon and other makers of kit and software for drivers.

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• the term Googlewhack first appeared on the web at UnBlinking on 8 January 2002;the term was
coined by Gary Stock

•Googlewhack is a kind of a unique something. Interestingly, identified Googlewhacks tend to stop

being Googlewhacks as soon as they are published (with them being mentioned as Googlewhacks
in the published article)

• Stock created The Whack Stack, at googlewhack.com, to allow the verification and collection of
user-submitted Googlewhacks. Some of the examples include

 megalomaniacal dipsomaniac
 unmerciless politician
 panfish interrogation
 bamboozle guzzler

What are Googlewhacks ?

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Googlewhack is a Google search query consisting of exactly two words without

quotation marks, that returns exactly one search result. A Googlewhack must consist
of two actual words found in a dictionary. A Googlewhack is considered legitimate if
both of the searched-for words appear in the result page.

Published googlewhacks are short-lived, since when published to a web site, the new
number of hits will become at least two, one to the original hit found, and one to the
publishing site

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The author Larry Niven, in a 1973 English language novella written by him describes a free transfer
booth that could take any one anywhere on Earth in milliseconds. The plot centers around a
television journalist who, after being fired for his inadvertent role in inciting a post-robbery riot in
Los Angeles, seeks to independently investigate the teleportation system for the flaws in its design
allowing for such spontaneous riots to occur.

The free transfer booth and the incidents that occur have served as the originating source of a
phenomenon which of lately has increasingly gained popularity in India & abroad.

What ?

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Flash Mobs

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• The Power Failure at the K.L Saigal show in Amritsar

• Talat Mehmood caught smoking by Naushad in the recording studios

Both the above mentioned events are related to a single person and in an interesting manner.

Mention both the fundae.

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• The Power Failure at the K.L Saigal show in Amritsar

Mohammad Rafi was present in the crowd with his brother-in-law Abdul Hameed who forced him to go to the
stage while the power failure happened. Rafi sang for the first time and was spotted by Shyam Sunder

• Talat Mehmood caught smoking by Naushad in the recording studios

Naushad was annoyed and hired Rafi to sing all the songs of the movie Baiju Bawra. This was Rafi’s first major
break and the rest is history

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Shown above is Paolo Uccello's depiction of Saint George and the Dragon, c. 1470. The painting is
regarded as a classic illustration of a situation X. X has also entered colloquial English and is a
commonly used phrase to describe a certain case/situation.

What ?

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Damsel in Distress

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Which term popular in sports/competitions originates from the sporting practice

shown above ?

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Underdog

The use of the term is believed to have come from the blood-sport known as bear-baiting where the "top-dog"
was trained to attack the bear's throat and head, and the "underdog" was trained to attack the bear's
underside. The top-dog had a better chance of surviving and of beating the bear, whereas the underdog was
more likely to die.

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This popular cocktail was created by the head bartender, Joe Gilmore, at the legendary American
Bar in London’s Savoy Hotel in 1969 marking a tribute to the event X which happened that very
year . According to legend, it was the first drink which was served after X finished. The tasters
were so impressed that one of them wrote a letter of thanks to Joe for creating the drink.

The cocktail derives it’s name from the event X itself.

Name the cocktail.

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The Moonwalk

The Moonwalk was created by the head bartender, Joe Gilmore, at the legendary American Bar in London’s
Savoy Hotel in 1969 as a tribute to the achievements of the Apollo 11 mission. According to legend, it was the
first drink the astronauts sampled on their return to earth and Neil Armstrong was so impressed that he wrote a
letter of thanks to Joe for creating the drink.

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X is a fictional mysterious extraterrestrial vessel that is the subject and setting of the science fiction
novel Rendezvous with X by Arthur C. Clarke, and the later sequel trilogy. It exists in a fictional future
timeline of our own world. It is essentially a dark, featureless metallic cylinder, but is distinguished by
its size: 54 km long and 20 km in diameter. If the cylinder were unfolded, its internal area would be 50
km long and 50 km wide, giving a surface area of 2500 km sq. Although it qualifies as a vessel, carrying
an advanced propulsion system capable of interstellar travel, it is better described as a mobile
"worldlet”

When asked about choosing an unusual name X, Clarke said that name of all other Greek & Roman
counterparts of X had already been used in fiction. Hence, he took up the name X.

Identify X.

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X: Rama

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X has been regarded as an organized religion by its founders and

proponents while a majority debunks and mocks it. Most of the
principles and ideas of which X talks about come from the
philosophy of the famous scholar shown on left .

X became increasingly known after a 1998 Hollywood release.

What is X ?

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Dudeism

The school of thought became increasingly popular after the film The Big Lebowski which had the character
The Dude

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The lady in the image on the left was first noticed

when she appeared in one of the Playboy
magazine issues in the early seventies. This
particular image is of the occasion some thirty
years later when she was invited and honored by
an American association as they believed that
she has played (and is still playing) an
indispensible role in a field which is completely
unrelated

Name the lady / How is she popularly

known as ?

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Lena Soderberg / Lenna

As per an IEEE newsletter,

“Alexander Sawchuk estimates that it was in June or July of 1973 when he, then an
assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California
Signal and Image Processing Institute (SIPI), along with a graduate student and the SIPI
lab manager, was hurriedly searching the lab for a good image to scan for a colleague's
conference paper. They got tired of their stock of usual test images, dull stuff dating back
to television standards work in the early 1960s. They wanted something glossy to ensure
good output dynamic range, and they wanted a human face. Just then, somebody
happened to walk in with a recent issue of Playboy.

The engineers tore away the top third of the centerfold so they could wrap it around the
drum of their Muirhead wirephoto scanner, which they had outfitted with analog-to-
digital converters (one each for the red, green, and blue channels) and a Hewlett
Packard 2100 minicomputer. The Muirhead had a fixed resolution of 100 lines per inch
and the engineers wanted a 512×512 image, so they limited the scan to the top 5.12
inches of the picture, effectively cropping it at the subject's shoulders.”

This scan, nonetheless, became one of the most used images in computer
history, so much that the mysterious Lenna came to be dubbed the "First
Lady of the Internet" . The image is visible in the question image

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Which Indian lady currently making waves completes this (as of now) exhaustive list ?

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Sneha Khanwalkar

Sneha of Oye Lucky,Lucky Oye, Gangs of Wasseypur and Sound Trippin fame is the fourth ever female music director in the male-
dominated industry after Jaddan Bai (mother of Nargis Dutt), Saraswati Devi and Usha Khanna.

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Maidan kay aas paas,

Ek kolahal hota hai,
Hum _______ kay prasanshak hain,
Aap chahe jahan se bhi aayein hon,
Uttar se ya Dakshin se,
Ab hum sab sehmat hain, hum sab sehmat hain,
Yeh ek jhanda humare bhaichaare ko pakka karta hai,
Hawa mein __________,
Ek bahadur chillata hai,
Humara ek naam jo sab jaante hain,
__________________

Where will you find this Hindi poetry written ?

(the same has been written in the english script next to the image)

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The FC Barcelona Museum

The poetry is the FC Barcelona anthem in Hindi, which is placed at the museum along with it’s translation in several other languages

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Shown in the images above is an iconic rock group (only the frontman is visible) during one of
it’s live performances of a song X. The song X is based and borrows it’s name from a certain
historical group X who were invited on stage during the performance of the song as evident in
the image.

Name the song X.

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Mothers of the Disappeared by U2

The Madres de Plaza de Mayo (Mother of the Disappeared) group joined U2 on stage during a performance in Santiago, Chile on the
PopMart Tour in 1998.

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Shown above is an in-exhaustive list of artworks which have a unique credit to their name.

What ?

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Art/Painting Competitions at Olympic Games

Shown were the some of the only gold medal winners in the Best Painting category at Olympics. The art competitions were discontinued
after 1950s

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South African cheerleader Gabriella Pasqualotto became an internet sensation and a mini-celebrity
back home after being kicked out of the IPL for secretly blogging on player behavior in post-match
parties.

Here is one of her blog posts

..Ol' ____________ will flirt with anyone while his girlfriend walks behind him. The Australian
cricketers are naughty, a certain someone played kissing catches with three girls. He told them,
'Come to my room, I want to cuddle'.

Fill in the blank (length of the blank not indicative)

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..Ol' Greame Smith will flirt with anyone while his girlfriend walks behind him. The
Australian cricketers are naughty, a certain someone played kissing catches with three
girls. He told them, 'Come to my room, I want to cuddle'.

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It's kind of creepy that many people have seen me naked. I feel like I'm the world's biggest porn star.

The above statement was made by Spencer Elden in one of his interviews. Off and on, he has made
media appearances in different documentaries & videos.

He was recently in news again for the reason which is linked to his statement mentioned in the
beginning of the question.

What is Spencer Elden’s claim to fame ?

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Spencer Elden was the kid model who appeared on the cover of the band Nirvana’s
most popular album Nevermind.

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This name originally was a reference to a group of friends in New York. The members of this group
were famous celebrities of their times. The name became increasingly famous in the popular media
and continued to be used even after death of some of the members of the group for the other
members who joined in.

Following are the said origins of the name for the group:

• the group's original Den Mother, Lauren Bacall, after seeing her husband and his friends return
from a night in Las Vegas, remarked “You look like a goddamn __________”

• also believed to be a shortened version of Holmby Hills _________, a reference to the home of two
of the members which served as a regular hangout for the group

The name has also been in the colloquial English as a phrase to describe a group of friends.

(All the blanks are the same and are the name in question here. The length of the blank in not
indicative of the length of the actual answer)

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Rat Pack

The group of actors originally comprising of Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. (L-to-R)

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• it's characteristic sound, developed by sound designer Ben Burtt was a combination of the hum of
idling interlock motors in aged movie projectors and interference caused by a television set on an
unshielded microphone.

• it’s original props were constructed by John Stears from old press camera flash battery packs and
other pieces of hardware

• it’s main colors include red, blue and green. At few occasions, it was seen to be in amethyst or
purple

What ?

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Light Sabers in Star Wars Series

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