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Born this day in 1570, Guido Fawkes was an English soldier, who planned to assassinate King James I of England by blowing up the House of Lords. He was captured before he could carry out his plan and his real name entered the English language. What was his name?

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This syndrome is used to describe people, usually children who have a better relationship with animals than humans. Like feral children, who are incapable of normal social interaction. It is named after a character who is raised by wolves, then cared for by a bear and a leopard. Which character?

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Metamorphoses, a Latin epic tells the story of a very talkative girl, who is admired for her voice and how she falls in love with a man who rejects her. Eventually she is cursed to remain just a voice. The mortal man then looks in the river and falls in love with what he sees. If the man is Narcissus, what is the name of the girl doomed to repeating her name?

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“A powerful athletic body clutching a gleaming sword, with half of his head, that part which held the brains, completely sliced off”, is the description of a particular coveted item. Margaret Herrick, a librarian, thought the person resembled her uncle. Soon it was picked up and was used to refer to this item. What was her uncle’s name?

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These are binary systems in which the smaller star sucks material out of the bigger companion star, becoming bigger, hotter and bluer, which gives it the appearance of being young. While the companion burns out and collapses to a stellar remnant. Which fictional character is this star named after?

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This is a process named after a French Scientist who first discovered this method to stop bacteria from spoiling food. The process involves heating the item to 63 degree Celsius, maintaining for 30 minutes or up to 72 degree Celsius for 15 seconds and then cooling it down. Who is this process named after?

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In 1850, during the California gold rush, a German immigrant moved to San Francisco to sell canvas to the miners. It didn’t do well so he made pants out of the material instead. The miners loved them as they were very durable and nicknamed the pants after him. Who was this entrepreneur?

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This is a new type of ice cream that is named after a member of a Germanic people that overran the Roman Empire. The word also refers to people who wear black clothes almost all of the time, and wear makeup regardless of sex. What is this ice cream called as?

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This tech company’s name was chosen to pay homage to the Library of Alexandria, drawing a parallel between the largest repository of knowledge in the ancient world and the potential of the Internet to become a similar store of knowledge. When the parent company introduced a virtual assistant, they chose this name to refer to it. What is the name?

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The ______ principle is named after a children’s story. Used in developmental psychology, biology and astronomy, it refers to the concept of ‘the right amount’. For example, the Earth is neither too hot nor too cold, and hence supports life. What is the name of this principle?