Late Night With Abhinav Dhar

LATE NIGHT WITH ABHINAV DHAR ;)

• In the 1850s, the skin of deer was used by Native Americans and frontiersmen as a unit of exchange in transactions with merchants.

• The practice is long gone, but a certain Americanized word in English came out of this practice.

• What word am I talking about?

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Buck• The buck is thought to derive from buckskin, though buck can refer to a male deer, antelope, rabbit, hare, sheep, or goat.

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• The owner of this chain said that he had not named the stores after the name of the cartoon character, the company shared its name with, but by the nickname of a character played by Gene Hackman in a famous movie.

• The chain later did acquire rights to use the cartoon character as a means of their promotion, and were deeply tied to it until 2006, when a mutual termination of the contract effectively ended the association, after around 35 years.

• What chain am I talking about?

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Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen2 P

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• This place (image), has a misconception of having an honour associated with it, which in fact belongs to a place about 150 kilometers from it.

• Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias rounded this point, to make an attempt to establish direct trade relations with the Far East, and named it ‘Cabo das Tormentas.’

• Legends also talk about this place being the home of The Flying Dutchman.

• Name the place.

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Cape of Good Hope3 P

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• On September 16, 2011 this guy said:“Changing my name was meant to inspire and bring youth together all around the world.”

• His publicist said that his first name was chosen because it is a traditional Buddhist word that means loving kindness and friendliness towards all.

• Who is being talked about?

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Metta World Peace4 P

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• Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's production company, Gary Sanchez Productions, launched this website in the January of 2007, and received funding from Sequoia Capital in the June of the same year and a partnership with HBO soon followed, the next year.

• The slogan of the website is: “it's that easy... you decide,” a pointer to the name of the site itself and the structure.

• What website am I talking about?

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Funny or Die5 P

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• This spiral galaxy, in the constellation Virgo, has a diameter of approximately 30% the size of the Milky Way.

• One of its names comes from the fact that its shape is similar to a Spanish variety for a generic product, whose meaning in Spanish is the generic product itself, and is a specialty of Mexico, and whose origin can be traced back to the Mongolian horsemen of the 13th century.

• What is the alternate name of the galaxy?

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Sombrero Galaxy7 P

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• The name of this brand comes from a phrase used in World War II by soldiers to express approval.

• The company says that the USP of this gum is that it is not as sticky as the other bubble gums in the market, and as a result, the burst bubbles are easier to peel from your skin.

• What brand is this?

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Hubba Bubba8 P

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• In late 2012, it was observed that birds around urban areas line their nests with a particular waste.

• There was disgust at the carelessness of humans for letting such a thing happen, especially because babies had to grow up surrounded by this waste.

• But studies suggested that the main constituent of the waste itself served as an insecticide, apart from being a good construction material, and hence their use might not be such a bad idea.

• What was the construction material seen to be used and what is its main constituent?

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Cigarette Butts and Nicotine9 P

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• Around the 1950s, people of this occupation, working night shifts, basically had two options for a snack and a cup of fairly good quality coffee, one of which was diners, because majority of the stores closed shop in the evening.

• Diners were out of question, because they took a lot of time, something which their occupation did not have the luxury of, and all of them did not have a place to sit, so the other option is all that they had.

• What is this seen as a reason of?

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The stereotype that cops love donuts

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• This city, in Italy, with an anarchist past, is some 100 kilometres from Florence, and is home to an important industry from the times of Ancient Rome, though it is dwindling in the recent times.

• The work in the quarries (of the industry) in the city was so hard that almost any aspirant worker with sufficient muscle and endurance was employed, regardless of their background, in the 19th century.

• Who frequented this quarry, in late 15th and early 16th centuries, in search of perfection, and what industry am I talking of?

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Michelangelo• The city is Carrara, famous for its marbles.

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• This British hero was wounded several times in combat, losing one arm in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and the sight in one eye in Corsica.

• It is said that he lost a leg, which is not true, but as a result of this misconception, he made a middle-aged (and later old) man dance on certain occasions on our television screens from the 1980s to the 2000s.

• Who is this and what am I talking about?

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Nelson (111)• This is Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, after whose physical features, this is named.

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• The name of this island country stems from the name of a nearby city (image) which is also the westernmost point of the Africa continent.

• The group of islands itself was discovered by the Portuguese in 1456 and was used as a supply station and subsequently began to grow sugarcane there.

• What country is this, which gets its name from Portuguese for a particular colour?

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Cape Verde• Verde is green in Portuguese.

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• The origin of a term (X), which is also a commodity, in a different context could have originated from the following:a) In the later part of the 19th century the word meant ‘to be tricked or deceived, especially in a manner which makes the victim look foolish’.b) These, as a commodity were of such value, that unprincipled exporters cheated by mixing a portion of wooden replicas into the sacks being sent to England from America.

• Being ‘Xed’ soon came to imply stupidity on the part of the duped victim and cleverness on the part of the trickster.

• What is X?

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Nutmeg14 P

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• This stereotypical phrase is generally understood to be referencing the valkyrie Brünnhild, who is traditionally presented as a lady with horned helmet, spear and round shield (image) in Richard Wagner's opera cycle ‘Der Ring des Nibelungen’ and its last part, Götterdämmerung, is typically the one used in depictions accompanying reference to the phrase.

• Her aria lasts almost twenty minutes and leads directly to the end of the opera. As Götterdämmerung is about the end of the world (or at least the world of the Norse gods), in a very significant way “______________________________.”

• What colloquialism am I talking about?

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It ain't over till the fat lady sings15 P

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