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1. In the movie twister there is a small discussion on the intensity of twisters and how they are graded.

the group discussing it talks about a scale called the FP scale which starts off from FP1 at the bottom of the rung and FP5 being a twister with max. intensity. Question. What does FP stand for? Answer : Fujita-Pearson An interesting connection crops up. When Bill Paxton (the hero in the movie) goes to buy pepsi cans from a store, the TV at the background has a movie playing. The movie is "The Shining". 2. Origin of the phrase "Back to square one" please. Fund: BBC-> football commentry-> Field divided into squares--> Squares were given names so people could follow play--> When the ball returned to square no. 1 the commentators would say "Back to square one. 3. If a journalist was talking about a "Sarajevo Shuffle"what would he be reffering to? Answer: Another though one. When journalists go out to cover wars they have to take protection from bullets and the on going shooting. They have to therefore keep "shuffling" from one side of the road to another to avoid being hit by bullets. They decided to give the whole thing a name. 4. In aviation parlance what are "Primary" and "Secondary"stacks ? Answer : . In really busy airports the number of planes that arrive for landing are more than the airport can handle. The planes therefore form some kind of a stack where the plane that is awaiting its orders first starts cruising at a particular altitude. The planes that arrive after this plane keep cruising above this plane thereby forming a stack. When he plane at the bottom of the stack gets its clearence it proceeds to land the planes above it then all fall by a particular height (the plane just above the plane that landed takes its place). When there are too many planes in this stack another similar stack is formed. The first one is the Primary stack the second one is the secondary stack. 5. During the wonder years of rock 'n roll four very famous rock musicians came to gether to form a group. Two of these gods were Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker. They released an album which bore the picture of a topless teenager on the cover. Due to public outcry this cover had to be modified. The album was given its name for a specific reason. what and why? Answer: Blind faith and the blind faith (placed on supergroups and big names by the junta)

6. What is common to the Black Prince's Ruby (which is the name of the jewel on the british state crown), the flying fox, prairie dogs, and shooting stars? Answers : All of these are misnomers Black Price's Ruby is not a Ruby, a flying fox does not fly, Prairie dogs are rodents and shooting stars, I guess I don't have to elaborate. 7. Easiest question in the quiz.. What is Russia's ISD code? Answer: the question number-007. 8. It was a name given by writer H. L. Mencken in the 1920's to rural areas inhabited by evangelical Protestants who believe in a strict interpretation of the Bible. It was later used to refer to some of the southern and lower mid western states of the U.S. However it is today famous for something else. What is "it"? Answer : It's the Bible Belt 9. Among the lesser famous novels of this writer are "Valperga (1823)", a historical romance that acording to cirtics is her best literary work and "The Last Man", a piece of science fiction which was a popular book for many years. Her middle name was Wollstonecraft. She was the second wife of a very famous Englishman who was still married to his first wife when he eloped with her. Who is the lady in the question? Answer : Mary Shelly 10. The Final Question. What is exclusively special about the movies "Gigi" and "The Last Emperor" with regard to the Oscars? Answer : They won Oscars for all the categories they were nominated in ( More than one nomination of course).

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