1. Just as humans have distinct fingerprints, many animals have unique markings by which they are identified. What creature’s most distinguishing feature is what's called its saddle patch, a white marking on a largely black body? Conservationists studying populations can tell individuals apart based on these saddle patches.
2. RZA and Riot, born in 2022 and 2023, respectively are to get a third sibling soon, a fact confirmed by their father on the Met Gala red carpet in May this year.
(a) Name the famous parents of these kids. If you spell the father's name exactly as he does, an extra point to you.
(b) The first-born RZA is named after the de facto leader of which hip hop group?
3. Though the title of this show (poster above) is a 3-word alliterative phrase with 3 Ps, 2 of which are related to business, none of them expand to the terms used in the 4 Ps of Marketing.
(a) Name the show, based on the Durjoy Datta book 'Now That You're Rich... Let's Fall in Love'.
(b) What unusual connect does the answer (a) of this question have with the answer (a) of the previous question?
4. The man in the collage above is Joshua Haldeman, a Canadian chiropractor, writer and conspiracy theorist who wrote in his book 'The International Conspiracy in Health', published in the mid-1960s: “An ‘Invisible Government,’ working to carry out the objectives of the International Conspiracy, is operating in every country.” In the book, he also said that the conspiracy was pushing for the fluoridation of water supplies, mandatory milk pasteurization and mass vaccination programs. He also wrote in favour of South Africa's apartheid policy. Haldeman thought government was being badly mismanaged and at one point in his career, he embraced the solution proposed by a movement called Technocracy: that government should be run by scientists and engineers, not politicians. The woman is his daughter Maye, who carried forward his philosophy. Cropped out of the second photo are Maye's son and grandson. Name either.
5. One of the walls in the lobby of the headquarters of network services and cybersecurity company Cloudflare is lined with these objects (photo above), with a camera pointing at them.
[A] What are these?
[B] What does Cloudflare use them for?
6. Created in 1502, this [image above] is considered the first-ever bird's-eye view map of a town, how we are used to seeing maps in the modern day.
[A] Who was its creator, who envisioned it using precise measurements on the ground?
[B] Which town is it, at the time home to three great personages – Machiavelli, [A] of course, and his patron Cesare Borgia? What the map obviously doesn't show is the famous sporting venue built in the 1950s that has held annual competitions in a certain sport since 1980. The name of the town (it's now a city) is probably best known because of that annual event.
7. [X] is touted as having died most often in Hollywood movies, stemming from the fact that he insists in his contracts that if he plays a criminal in the movie (which he usually does), his character must die by the end of the film. He does this to get across the message to kids who watch his movies that crime doesn't pay. Who?
8. The men with the dragon tattoos. Both the men in this photo, who were cousins, had dragon tattoos made on their arms – the one on the left while in Japan with his country's navy in the 1880s; the other while on a official tour of Japan in 1891. Name them both.
9. The biologist Eugene F. Stoermer is credited with first coining and using the term [A] informally in the 1980s; Paul J. Crutzen re-invented and popularised the term in the 1990s. Geologists have proposed that the start point for the proposed [A] timeline should be the mid-1950s, when the fallout of nuclear explosions first became noticeable in the earth's geological strata. What is [A]?
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10. [A] The video above shows American designer Chris Costello talking about what font designed by him in 1982 that has gained the moniker of 'the second-most hated font in the world', especially since it was the subject of a 2017 SNL skit making fun of its use for the title of a 2009 movie.
[B] Which movie?
