For the love of… quizzing

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Books
Question
Which famous romantic classic written in 1813 begins with the following lines:

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good

fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Question
Which romantic bestseller released on Feb 14, 1970 ends with these lines…

“And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I
cried.”
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Love Story by Erich Segal
Question
Written as part of a work he wrote while imprisoned, these lines were ultimately
chosen for his epitaph.

And alien tears will fill for him,

Pity's long-broken urn,
For his mourners will be outcast men,
And outcasts always mourn.

Who?
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Oscar Wilde
Question
After a woeful camping trip, this author noted that his co-workers would look away
while asking him about the weekend.

“I went back to work the next week with my face completely trashed. My eyes
were just panda-black."

"I would say, 'Look at my face. C'mon people.' If you look terrible enough, no one
will want to know the truth about you."

This reluctance of people to care about his private life was what sparked the idea
for his best-selling novel that would later become a cult film. Author, and book.
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Photography
Question
This is how the photograph was described by a certain individual

…..On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of,
every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy
and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic
doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and
destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every
mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals,
every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and
sinner in the history of our species lived there...
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Pale Blue Dot

….on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam -

Carl Sagan
Question
On the set of the movie The Seven Year Itch in New York City, photographer Sam
Shaw asked the subject to stand on a subway grate as a gust of wind blew due to
the movement of the train below. The subject obliged and exclaimed “Isn’t it
delicious” as Sam took one of the most iconic photos of showbiz.

Identify the subject.

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Marylin Monroe

The flying skirt photo

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A famous photograph by Kevin Carter which first appeared in The New York Times
won him the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 1994.

The image was so sensational that in the words of the editor "It was being used in
posters for raising funds for aid organization. Papers and magazines around the
world had published it, and the immediate public reaction was to send money to
any humanitarian organization that had an operation in Sudan."

Carter took his own life four months after winning the prize. Identify the
photograph.
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The vulture and the little girl, also known as "The Struggling Girl"
Question
Sharbat Gula was living in a refugee camp called Nasir Bagh near Peshawar in
1985. Orphaned at age six, she had trekked on foot to Pakistan. She rose
anonymously to fame around the same time and it was only in 2002 that she was
rediscovered. In 2017, she was finally given residence in her home country.

Who are we talking about?

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The Afghan Girl

Photograph by Steve Mccurry

For June 1985 issue of National Geographic

Question
On June 15 2011, the local favourites Vancouver Canucks lost 4-0 to the Boston Bruins in
the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup Finals. Canadian photographer Richard Lam
became a global sensation when he captured a moment in the aftermath.

The subjects later described what they felt in the following words...

"I was starting to get really frightened because I’d never experienced anything like that
before, and it’s really scary," Thomas said about the moment. "I was upset, and I fell down,
and didn’t really know exactly what was happening."

"I was just trying to calm her down," Jones said.

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The Riot Kiss photo
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Food
Question
The X line is a 10-km long defensive
line made of dragon's teeth that was
built during the second World War in
Switzerland. Their purpose was to stop
tank invasions. Since the line has been
left to nature since its construction, it
was decided to keep these concrete
blocks and to make a hiking trail along
their route.

Identify X?
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Toblerone Lines
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Native to Borneo and Sumatra and often dubbed “King of fruits” in the Indonesian
region, this delicacy has an unusual flavor and odour.

Travel and food writer Richard Sterling says:

“Its odor is best described as pig-shit, turpentine and onions, garnished

with a gym sock. It can be smelled from yards away. Despite its great local
popularity, the raw fruit is forbidden from some establishments such as
hotels, subways and airports, including public transportation in Southeast
Asia.”

Identify the fruit.

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Durian
Question
Identify the drink
being referenced
here.
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Absinthe

The green fairy

Question
The X Club was an early 18th-century English club in London. Meetings often
involved political topics. The first meetings of the club were held at a tavern in
Shire Lane run by a gentleman named Christopher Catt. Chris would often serve
his trademark meat pies at these meatings (heh), which, in fact, is where X derives
its name.

Today, the reason the name X is most famous is neither the club, nor the pies, but
something else entirely. The name X, as well as a slight spelling variant for its use
in this form was trademarked in 1911. What is X?
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Kit-Cat Club

Kit Kat
Question
This tablet is the oldest recipe
ever known. A recipe of K, this
was made in ancient Sumer in
3200 BCE.

K is theorised to be the reason

ancient man settled down in
river valleys and grew a
constant supply of wheat.

Id K.
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Beer
Question: Give Funda
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Burger King proposed ending the
Burger wars on Peace One Day
by combining the Big Mac and the
Big Whopper
The proposed burger would be six parts Big
Mac (top bun, patty, cheese, lettuce, special
sauce, middle bun) and six parts Whopper
(tomato, onion, ketchup, pickles, patty, bottom
bun).