QUIZ Event Questions

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pls mail me @> kajermail@gmail.com a number of real characters were portrayed in the movie, including:

• what is a the meaning of the term "bureau report" in newspaper terminology? This means the report is written from the office desk ,not from the place where the real event takes place.



• In the movie Titanic there is a scene where jack is drawing a nude potrait of Rose.Actually who drew the sketch? Director James cameron himself



• what is the name of the famous blue jewel worn by Rose in the movie titanic? "Heart of the ocean". In the movie the treasure hunter team entered the ship wreck to find this blue diamond.



• The Great Escape is a 1963 American film about an escape by Allied prisoners of war from a German POW camp during World War II.here three tunnels are dug by prisoner to escape.the tunnels have interesting codenames.what are those? TOM ,DICK & HARRY



• why yellow kid is famous in comics history? it is the first ever comics to be published in newspaper

• In titanic there are some name of real passengers and crew present in the movie also. the real characters were portrayed in the movie are

Thomas Andrews: the builder of the Titanic.
•Molly Brown: 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown", in real life she took control of her lifeboat and rescued several survivors out of the water.
•John Smith: the captain of the Titanic.
•John Jacob Astor: a first-class passenger.
•Wallace Hartley: the Titanic's band leader who's band kept on playing music during the sinking.

more to b added later.

LIST OF PHOBIAS

Ablutophobia – fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning.
Acrophobia, Altophobia – fear of heights.
Agoraphobia, Agoraphobia Without History of Panic Disorder – fear of places or events where escape is impossible or when help is unavailable.
Agraphobia – fear of sexual abuse.
Aichmophobia – fear of sharp or pointed objects (as a needle, knife or a pointing finger).
Algophobia – fear of pain.
Agyrophobia – fear of crossing roads.
Androphobia – fear of men.
Anthropophobia – fear of people or being in a company, a form of social phobia.
Anthophobia – fear of flowers.
Aquaphobia – fear of water.
Astraphobia, Astrapophobia, Brontophobia, Keraunophobia – fear of thunder, lightning and storms; especially common in young children.
Aviophobia, Aviatophobia – fear of flying.
Bacillophobia, Bacteriophobia, Microbiophobia – fear of microbes and bacteria.
Blood-injection-injury type phobia – a DSM-IV subtype of specific phobias
Catoptrophobia - fear of mirrors or of one's own reflection.
Chorophobia - fear of dancing.
Cibophobia, Sitophobia – aversion to food, synonymous to Anorexia nervosa.
Claustrophobia – fear of confined spaces.
Coulrophobia – fear of clowns (not restricted to evil clowns).
Decidophobia – fear of making decisions.
Dental phobia, Dentophobia, Odontophobia – fear of dentists and dental procedures
Dysmorphophobia, or body dysmorphic disorder – a phobic obsession with a real or imaginary body defect.
Emetophobia – fear of vomiting.
Ergasiophobia, Ergophobia – fear of work or functioning, or a surgeon's fear of operating.
Ergophobia – fear of work or functioning.
Erotophobia – fear of sexual love or sexual questions.
Erythrophobia – pathological blushing.
Gelotophobia - fear of being laughed at.
Gephyrophobia – fear of bridges.
Genophobia, Coitophobia – fear of sexual intercourse.
Gerascophobia – fear of growing old or ageing.
Gerontophobia – fear of growing old, or a hatred or fear of the elderly.
Glossophobia – fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
Gymnophobia – fear of nudity.
Gynophobia – fear of women.
Haptephobia – fear of being touched.
Heliophobia – fear of sunlight.
Hemophobia, Haemophobia – fear of blood.
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia – fear of the number 666.
Hoplophobia – fear of weapons, specifically firearms (Generally a political term but the clinical phobia is also documented).
Ligyrophobia – fear of loud noises.
Lipophobia – fear/avoidance of fats in food.
Medication phobia - fear of medications
Megalophobia - fear of large/oversized objects.
Mysophobia – fear of germs, contamination or dirt.
Necrophobia – fear of death, the dead.
Neophobia, Cainophobia, Cainotophobia, Cenophobia, Centophobia, Kainolophobia, Kainophobia – fear of newness, novelty.
Nomophobia – fear of being out of mobile phone contact.
Nosophobia – fear of contracting a disease.
Nosocomephobia - fear of hospitals.
Nyctophobia, Achluophobia, Lygophobia, Scotophobia – fear of darkness.
Osmophobia, Olfactophobia – fear of smells.
Paraskavedekatriaphobia, Paraskevidekatriaphobia, Friggatriskaidekaphobia – fear of Friday the 13th.
Panphobia – fear of everything or constantly afraid without knowing what is causing it.
Phasmophobia - fear of ghosts, spectres or phantasms.
Phagophobia – fear of swallowing.
Pharmacophobia – same as medication phobia
Phobophobia – fear of having a phobia.
Phonophobia – fear of loud sounds.
Pyrophobia – fear of fire.
Radiophobia – fear of radioactivity or X-rays.
Sociophobia – fear of people or social situations
Scopophobia – fear of being looked at or stared at.
Somniphobia – fear of sleep.
Spectrophobia – fear of mirrors and one's own reflections.
Taphophobia – fear of the grave, or fear of being placed in a grave while still alive.
Technophobia – fear of technology (see also Luddite).
Telephone phobia, fear or reluctance of making or taking phone calls.
Tetraphobia – fear of the number 4.
Tokophobia – fear of childbirth.
Tomophobia – fear or anxiety of surgeries/surgical operations.
Traumatophobia – a synonym for injury phobia, a fear of having an injury
Triskaidekaphobia, Terdekaphobia – fear of the number 13.
Trypanophobia, Belonephobia, Enetophobia – fear of needles or injections.
Workplace phobia – fear of the work place.
Xenophobia – fear of strangers, foreigners, or aliens.
Animal phobias
Ailurophobia – fear/dislike of cats.
Animal phobia - fear of certain animals, a category of specific phobias.
Apiphobia – fear/dislike of bees (also known as Melissophobia).
Arachnophobia – fear/dislike of spiders.
Chiroptophobia – fear/dislike of bats.
Cynophobia – fear/dislike of dogs.
Entomophobia – fear/dislike of insects.
Equinophobia – fear/dislike of horses (also known as Hippophobia).
Herpetophobia - fear/dislike of reptiles.
Ichthyophobia – fear/dislike of fish.
Musophobia – fear/dislike of mice and/or rats.
Ophidiophobia – fear/dislike of snakes.
Ornithophobia – fear/dislike of birds.
Scoleciphobia – fear of worms.
Zoophobia – a generic term for animal phobias.
Non-psychological conditions
Hydrophobia – fear of water (a symptom of rabies).
Photophobia – hypersensitivity to light causing aversion to light
Phonophobia – hypersensitivity to sound causing aversion to sounds.
Osmophobia – hypersensitivity to smells causing aversion to odors.
Biology, chemistry
Biologists use a number of -phobia/-phobic terms to describe predispositions by plants and animals against certain conditions. For antonyms, see here.

Acidophobia/Acidophobic – preference for non-acidic conditions.
Heliophobia/Heliophobic – aversion to sunlight.
Hydrophobia/Hydrophobic – a property of being repelled by water.
Lipophobicity – a property of fat rejection
Ombrophobia – avoidance of rain
Photophobia (biology) a negative phototaxis or phototropism response, or a tendency to stay out of the light
Superhydrophobe – the property given to materials that are extremely difficult to get wet.
Thermophobia – aversion to heat.
Prejudices and discrimination
See also: List of anti-ethnic terms
The suffix -phobia is used to coin terms that denote a particular anti-ethnic or anti-demographic sentiment, such as Europhobia, Francophobia, Hispanophobia, and Indophobia. Often a synonym with the prefix "anti-" already exists (e.g., Polonophobia vs. anti-Polonism). Anti-religious sentiments are expressed in terms such as Christianophobia and Islamophobia.

Other prejudices include:

Biphobia – dislike of bisexuals.
Chemophobia – prejudice against artificial substances in favour of 'natural' substances.
Ephebiphobia – fear/dislike of youth.
Gerontophobia, Gerascophobia – fear of growing old or a hatred of the elderly.
Heterophobia – fear/dislike of heterosexuals.
Homophobia – aversion to homosexuality or fear of homosexuals.
Hoplophobia – aversion to firearms or firearms owners. This word has also gained a certain political notoriety as a dysphemism for "gun control advocate".
Judeophobia – fear/dislike of Jews.
Lesbophobia – fear/dislike of lesbian women.
Pedophobia, Pediophobia – fear/dislike of children.
Psychophobia – fear/dislike of mentally ill.
Transphobia – fear or dislike of transgender or transsexual people.
Xenophobia – fear or dislike of foreigners.

list of auto biography

By author
Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, 397
Peter Abelard, Historia Calamitatum, 12th century
Leonor López de Córdoba, Memorias, early 15th century
Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, c1570, published 1728
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions (Les Confessions), 1770, published 1782
Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1821
Giacomo Casanova, Histoire de ma vie, published posthumously in 1826.
Cornelio Saavedra, Memoria autógrafa, 1829
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, 1845
Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom, 1855
Frederick Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, 1881; expanded and revised, 1892
Jackie Chan, I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action, 1998
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1861
Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1869
Ion Creangă, Memories of Boyhood, 1883
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, 1885
Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882, published posthumously in 1887.
Joaquim Nabuco, Minha formação, 1900
Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery, 1901
Helen Keller, The Story of My Life, 1903
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907
Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Autobiography, posthumous, 1907
Manfred von Richthofen (The Red Baron), The Red Fighter Pilot, 1917
Nikola Tesla, My Inventions, c. 1919
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (My Struggle), 1925
Isadora Duncan, My Life. 1927
Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, 1927 and 1929
Black Elk and John J. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks, 1931
Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, 1933
Jawaharlal Nehru, An Autobiography, 1936
Richard Wright, Black Boy, 1945
Nirad C. Chaudhuri, The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian , 1951
Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 1965
Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory, 1966
Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1966-76
Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire, 1968
Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969
Roald Dahl, Boy & Going Solo, 1986
Annie Dillard, An American Childhood, 1987
Ronald Reagan, An American Life, 1990
Nelson Mandela, Long Walk To Freedom, 1995
Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father, 1996
A P J Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire, 1999
Craig Thompson, Blankets, 2003
Chelsea Handler, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands, 2005
Fidel Castro, My Life - A Spoken Autobiography, 2006
Ronald Reagan, The Reagan Diaries, 2007
Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, 2007
Eminem, The Way I Am, 2008
Chelsea Handler, Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea, 2008
Robert Wagner, Pieces of My Heart, 2008
Jesse Lee Kercheval, Space
Emanuel Derman, "My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance", 2004
By name
Peter Abelard, Historia Calamitatum, 12th century
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907
Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope, 1970
Maya Angelou, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, 1969
Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, 397
Black Elk and John J. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks, 1931
Giacomo Casanova, Histoire de ma vie, published posthumously in 1826.
Fidel Castro, My Life - A Spoken Autobiography, 2006
Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, c1570, published 1728
Bill Clinton,My Life, 2004
Jackie Chan, I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action, 1998
Nirad C. Chaudhuri,The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian 1951
Roald Dahl, Boy & Going Solo, 1986
Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882, published posthumously in 1887.
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written By Himself, 1845
Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom, 1855
Frederick Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, 1881; revised and expanded, 1892
Alexandre Dumas, père, Mes Mémoires, 1852 - 1856
Isadora Duncan, My Life, 1927
Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1869
Stephen Fry, Moab is my Washpot, 1997
Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, 1927 and 1929
Al-Ghazali, The Deliverer from Error, 12th century
Dizzy Gillespie, Dizzy: To be or not to bop : the autobiography of Dizzy Gillespie with Al Fraser
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, 1885
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, The Autobiography Of Goethe: Truth And Poetry, From My Own Life, 1848
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1925
Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on the Road, 1942
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1861
Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography
Helen Keller, The Story of My Life, 1903
Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place, 1988
Alphonse de Lamartine, Les Confidences, 1849, Nouvelles confidences, 1851, Mémoires Politiques, 1963, etc
C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
Leonor López de Córdoba, Memorias, early 15th century
Claude McKay, A Long Way From Home, 1937
John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1873
Yehudi Menuhin, Unfinished Journey: Twenty Years Later, 1999
Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory, 1966
Joaquim Nabuco, Minha formação, 1900
Jawaharlal Nehru, Autobiography, 1936
Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1966-76
Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1821
Ronald Reagan, An American Life, 1990 & The Reagan Diaries, 2007
Manfred von Richthofen (The Red Baron), Der rote Kampfflieger (The Red Battle Flier), 1917
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Les Confessions), 1770, published 1782
Bertrand Russell, Autobiography, 1967, 1969
Jean-Paul Sartre, The Words, 1964
Albert Schweitzer, Out of My Life and Thought, 1933
George Bernard Shaw, Shaw: An Autobiography, 1898-1950; the Playwright Years
Alan Sillitoe, Life Without Armour, 1995
Horace Silver, Let's Get to the Nitty Gritty: The Autobiography of Horace Silver, 2007
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Love and Exile: An Autobiographical Trilogy , 1984, In My Father's Court, 1966, etc
Lincoln Steffens, Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, 1931
Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, 1933
Nikola Tesla, My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla, 1919
Leo Tolstoy, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth, 1852 – 1856
Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1917
Giambattista Vico, The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico, 1735-1741
Voltaire, Mémoires pour servir à la vie de M. de Voltaire, écrits par lui-même, 1759, published 1784
Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery, 1901
Julie Walters, Thats Another Story 2008
H. G. Wells, An Experiment in Autobiography, 1934
Frank Lloyd Wright, Autobiography, 1943
Richard Wright, Black Boy, 1945
Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 1965
William Butler Yeats, Autobiography, 1936
Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi
Miley Cyrus, "Miles To Go", 2008
Jacqueline Wilson, Jacky Daydream & My Secret Diary

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