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Moby (born Richard M. Hall on September 11, 1965 in Harlem, New York City) is an American electronic musician.
From where does he take his performing name?

Moby takes his performing name from the title 'Moby Dick', written by his relative Herman Melville. Richard M. Hall is Richard Melville Hall.
Z is a 1979 film directed by X and based on his novel of the same name. The story is loosely based on the true story of Edward Pierce, who engineered the theft of a train-load of gold being shipped to the British Army during the Crimean War. The film features many picturesque characters and scenes of the Victorian era. The film starred Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland.
Name Z and X.

Z: The Great Train Robbery, X: Michael Crichton
A large crater covering the Moon's south pole is named X Crater after him. The Norwegian Navy is building a class of Aegis frigates, one of which, the HNoMS...X, will be named after him.

X: Amundsen
The ship's name is actually HNoMs Roald Amundsen.
"Harlot, yes. But traitoress? Never!"
Attributed to Y, on trial. There are numerous rumours surrounding her execution. One story is that during the execution the squad members had to be blindfolded so as not to succumb to her charms. However, one would wonder how they managed to shoot her accurately if that was true. Another rumour claims she blew a kiss to her killers before the firing began. A third tale claims that she then flung open her long coat and died exposing her naked body.
Y is also known as Lady McLeod.

Y: Mata Hari.
What is in the foreground of this picture?

Crick and Watson DNA model built in 1953, currently on display at the National Science Museum in London.
What is the agenda behind Arthur Miller's play, 'The Crucible'? This is also a movie starring Winona Ryder and Daniel Day-Lewis.

It's an artistic indictment of McCarthyism.
In 1956, the Suez Crisis began: Israel invaded the Sinai Peninsula and pushed Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal. To further their own interests, Britain and France offered to reoccupy the area and separate the warring armies. Following threats by the Soviet Union to assist Egypt, the British and French were forced to withdraw from the conflict by the USA.
Before the withdrawal, Lester Pearson, Canada's acting cabinet minister for external affairs, had gone to the UN and suggested creating a United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) in the Suez to "keep the borders at peace while a political settlement is being worked out."
The United Nations eagerly accepted this suggestion, and the force was sent, greatly improving conditions in the area.
What was the ultimate result of this action?

The formation of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force.
Lester Pearson was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for his efforts.
In 1998, after more than three decades, 77-year old John Glenn returned to space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-95.
What was the motivation for this space mission?

To study the effects of space flight on the elderly.
The Munich massacre occurred at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage by the Palestinian terrorist organization Black September, assumed to be an operational cover for Yasser Arafat's Fatah group. The attack led directly to the deaths of 11 Israeli athletes, five of the eight kidnappers, and one German police officer.
During the memorial service held by the IOC on Sep 6th, 1972, what demand/objection did the Arab nations make?

The Olympic Flag flew at half-mast, along with most of the competing nations' national flags, but the Arab nations participating at the Games demanded that their flags remain flying at full-mast. This was seen as an active endorsement by the Arab nations of the terrorists.
Malayan Tiger (Panthera tigris jacksoni), Royal Bengal Tiger (Panthera tigris tigris), Sumatran Tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae), Indochinese Tiger (Panthera tigris _______), The South China Tiger (Panthera tigris amoyensis). The Siberian Tiger (Panthera tigris altaica).
Fill in the blank.

Corbetti.
The Indochinese tiger Panthera tigris corbetti is named after Jim Corbett.
Where have these lines been taken from?

These are from the first stanza of the poem 'Jhansi Ki Rani' by Subhadra Kumari Chauhan.
The last line of every stanza is 'Khoob Ladi Mardani Woh to Jhansi Wali Rani Thi'.
X was born on March 24, 1874 in Budapest, Hungary, of Jewish background. In 1878, his family emigrated to the United States. His last performance was at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan on October 24, 1926. The next day he was hospitalized at Detroit's Grace Hospital.
He was a member of a Scientific American committee which offered a cash prize to any medium who could successfully demonstrate supernatural abilities.
Who was X?

Houdini, or Ehrich Weiss.
Thanks to Houdini's contributions, the prize was never collected.
A peace activist, Y took a keen interest in women's rights, becoming a member of the Comité National de l'Union des Femmes Françaises and of the World Peace Council. She was the Chair of Nuclear Physics at the Sorbonne, and in 1936 the government of France appointed her as the Undersecretary of State for Scientific Research and ultimately she was named an Officer of the Legion of Honour.
Name Y.

Irene Joliot-Curie, daughter of Marie Curie.
She died in Paris from leukemia contracted in the course of her work.
The _________ Trial of 1925 pitted lawyers William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow against each other in an American court case that tested a law passed on March 13, 1925, which forbade the teaching, in any state-funded educational establishment in Tennessee, of "any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals."
It has often been called the "_________ Monkey Trial".
Fill in the Blank.

The Scopes Trial of 1925; where Darrow represented teacher John T. Scopes against the state of Tennessee.
The questioning involved issues such as:
Whether Eve was actually created from Adam's rib,
Where Cain got his wife,
How many people lived in Ancient Egypt.
X was imprisoned in the infamous "Chateau d'If" from 1797 to 1808. X was a colourful Indo-Portuguese monk who was one of the pioneers of the scientific study of hypnotism, following on from the work of Franz Anton Mesmer.
Name X.

Abbé Faria, or José Custódio de Faria, (1756-1819). There is a striking bronze statue of him trying to hypnotize a woman in Panjim, India, next to the Government Secretariat, Goa.
Alexandre Dumas used a fictionalised version of the Abbé in his famous novel "The Count of Monte Cristo". Faria was a prisoner of the Château d'If who taught the main character, Edmond Dantès, mathematics, science and foreign languages, and helped him to escape from the island prison. He told Dantés about a hidden hoard of jewels on Monte Cristo, a small island near the Italian coast.
X died in Peshawar under house arrest in 1988 and was buried in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Although he had been repeatedly imprisoned and persecuted, tens of thousands of mourners attended his funeral. A cease fire was announced in the Afghan war to allow the funeral to take place. He had been awarded the Bharat Ratna — India's highest civilian award — a year before his death.
Name X.

Frontier Gandhi: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan. Also known as Badshah Khan.
The message "Engage the enemy more closely" was Admiral Lord Nelson's final signal, sent before a single English cannon had been fired at the enemy in the Battle of Trafalgar.
What was his second-last message?

"England expects that every man will do his duty."
What is the claim to fame of 'The Wind Done Gone', the first novel written by Alice Randall?

'The Wind Done Gone' is the same story as 'Gone with the Wind', but told from the viewpoint of Scarlett's half-sister Cynara, a mulatto slave on Scarlett's plantation; the title is simply "Gone with the Wind" rendered into Ebonics, a slave's vernacular dialect.
In the United States, Carter lost the November 1980 presidential election to Ronald Reagan. Most analysts believe Carter's inability to solve the Iran hostage crisis played a large role in his decisive defeat. Unproven, controversial allegations persist that the hostage release was delayed until after the election through an illegal deal between the government of Iran and the Reagan kitchen cabinet, which was keen to avoid a pre-election hostage release that would have handed the vote to Carter.
This gave rise to a term for a political phenomenon. What is it?

An October surprise is a stunning news event calculated to influence the outcome of a US election, particularly one for the presidency. Reagan was actually keen to AVOID an October surprise, which would have worked in favour of Carter.
The tagline of this movie is: 'A Comedy Of Trial And Error'. Marisa Tomei won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance in this film.

'My Cousin Vinny'.
In 1922 X attempted to achieve anonymity, joining the Royal Air Force under the name "Ross". His cover was soon blown, however, and he was forced out of the RAF, changed his name to "Shaw", and in 1923 joined the Royal Tank Corps. He was unhappy there and repeatedly petitioned to rejoin the RAF, which finally bore fruit in August 1925.
Name X.

T.E. Lawrence or Lawrence of Arabia.
Connect:
Signs of the zodiac,
The river carrying the largest volume of water in the world
The network authentication protocol used by UofM
Halitosis

The Twelve Labors of Hercules.
Signs of Zodiac connect to twelve labors, for example Nemean Lion refers to Leo.
The Amazon River: (Girdle of Hippolyte).
Kerberos: ( Capture of Cerberus). In Finnish, a strict, angry doorman of a restaurant or nightclub (who is likely not to let you in for some reason) is sometimes jokingly called "Kerberos".
Breath of The Lernaean Hydra. This was an ancient nameless serpent-like chthonic water beast that possessed numerous heads and poisonous breath.
"Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred."
These are the first lines of which poem?

Charge of the Light Brigade, Lord Tennyson
Most famous and oft-quoted lines:
"Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do & die"
"All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." Where is this from?

Lady Macbeth's lament in Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Connect:
Rapunzel Syndrome (also known as Trichobezoar): an extremely rare intestinal condition.

Mercedes Lackey's novel 'The Serpent's Shadow', turning the main character into the Eurasian Doctor Maya Witherspoon, who must suffer the multiple stigmas of being a medically-qualified half-caste female, in turn-of-the-century London.
Freeway, a feature film adaptation, starring Kiefer Sutherland and Reese Witherspoon. It is a modern and realistic, albeit over-the-top, story of an abused teen and a serial killer.

The Brothers Grimm.
Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty (painted by Edward Burne-Jones), Snow-White (most of the protagonist's problems stem from not being white, the 7 dwarves are Hindu deities) and Red Riding Hood.
See the flag of Charles de Gaulle's government in exile during World War II.

What is the significance of the central symbol?

The French Resistance used the cross of Lorraine as a symbolic reference to Joan of Arc.
On 5 January 2004, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (BORI) in Pune was attacked by a bunch of hooligans. There was considerable damage done to the holdings of this significant cultural repository, including to irreplaceable and unique objects of historical and literary importance. While not on the same scale, it was a catastrophe comparable to the recent destruction and looting of libraries in Sarajevo and Iraq.
Who did this and why?

The Sambhaji Brigade, an offshoot of the Shiv Sena. The attack was the preliminary culmination in a series of destructive events that were triggered by the publication of James W. Laine's 'Shivaji: A Hindu King in Islamic India'. The statement in the book that appears to have provoked the greatest outrage is the mention that it has been suggested that Shivaji's father was not Shahaji, Laine writing: "Maharashtrians tell jokes naughtily that Shivaji's biological father was Dadoji Kondeo Kulkarni"
X was kidnapped by Cilician pirates in the Mediterranean Sea. When they demanded a ransom of twenty talents, he laughed at them, saying they did not know whom they had captured. Instead, he ordered them to ask for fifty. They accepted, and X sent his followers to various cities to collect the ransom money. In all he was held for thirty-eight days and would often laughingly threaten to have them all crucified. True to his word, as soon as he was ransomed and released, he organized a naval force, captured the pirates and their island stronghold and put them to death by crucifixion as a warning to other pirates. However, since they had treated him well, he had their throats cut before they were crucified to lessen their suffering.
Name X.

X: Julius Caesar.

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