The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy is a 20th century history book by Nicholas Lemann ISBN 0-374-52751-2.

Bands such as Figgy Duff, Wonderful Grand Band and Spirit of the West were early pioneers in the Canadian tradition of Celtic-influenced rock, and were later followed by acts such as Crash Test Dummies, Great Big Sea, The Mahones, The Dukhs, Jimmy George, Rawlins Cross, Captain Tractor, Mudmen, and Michou.

Test cricket resumed in the 1920 / 21 season in Australia with a touring English team, captained by Johnny Douglas losing all five Tests to Australia, captained by the " Big Ship " Warwick Armstrong.

* Appears in: " Toodle Fucking-Oo ", " Big Girls Don't Cry ", " The Happy Wanderer ", " D-Girl ", " Full Leather Jacket ", " From Where to Eternity ", " Bust Out ", " House Arrest ", " The Knight in White Satin Armor ", " The Test Dream ".

Tom Wolfe describes the LSD-influenced music of The Doors, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Pink Floyd, Iron Butterfly, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Cream, Vanilla Fudge, Jefferson Airplane, Ultimate Spinach, Blue Cheer, Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Great Society, Stone Garden and the Grateful Dead as " acid rock " in his book about Ken Kesey and the Acid Tests, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

Shows regularly distributed by APT include The Open Mind, Rick Steves ' Europe, Simply Ming, America's Test Kitchen From Cook's Illustrated, Yan Can Cook, The Big Comfy Couch, Net Cafe, Computer Chronicles, Richard Bangs ’ Adventures with Purpose, Globe Trekker ( aka Pilot Guides in other countries ), Doc Martin, Rudy Maxa ’ s World, Sara ’ s Weeknight Meals and Scully: The World Show.

At Judgment Day 2000, Shane defeated Wight in a Falls Count Anywhere match following interference from Big Boss Man, Bull Buchanan, Test, and Albert.

* Der Große IQ-Test ( The Big IQ Test )

# The Big Entertainment Test ( 12 March 2005 )

In May, Shamrock, The Big Show, Mankind and Test formed The Union, a stable of wrestlers in opposition to the Corporate Ministry.

It served as the basis for the Islamic Legion .< ref >" US Officials Regard Chad Conflict As Big Test Of Wills With Khadafy.

He also started to form tag teams with the likes of Rob Van Dam and The Sandman to face Test, The Big Show, Paul Heyman and his ally Matt Striker.

At Survivor Series, Sabu teamed up with John Cena, Bobby Lashley, Rob Van Dam and Kane to face the team of The Big Show, Test, Montel Vontavious Porter, Finlay and Umaga.

Sabu eliminated Test following a Tornado DDT, but he was later eliminated by Big Show via pinfall after receiving a chokeslam.

At December to Dismember Sabu was originally set to appear in the main event, an extreme elimination chamber match against The Big Show, Test, Rob Van Dam, CM Punk and Bobby Lashley, but was " taken out " and replaced by Hardcore Holly.

Too Big To Fail: The traditional analysis for assessing the risk of required government intervention is the " Too Big to Fail " Test ( TBTF ).

Among his books are the novels Test Tube Baby ( 1936 ), Make Up and Kiss ( 1938 ) and The Dark Page ( 1944 ); novelizations of his films The Naked Kiss ( 1964 ) and The Big Red One ( 1980 ; reissued 2005 ); and 144 Piccadilly ( 1971 ) and Quint's World ( 1988 ).

In 1949, the Department of the Army ordered the organization of the Arctic Test Branch at Big Delta Air Force Base, Alaska ( now known as Fort Greely ).

Big Os, probably overcome with emotion at the thought of his last Test match for South Africa, forgot to pack the cuddly toy, much to the horror of his skipper, John Smit.

Others such as Big Show, Test, Rikishi, Kane, Chris Benoit ( an on and off ally of the faction ), Funaki and Too Cool, and Edge and Christian ( before the duo turned heel ) were also targets of the faction.

Velcra also released single CDs for the songs " Big Brother " and " Test Animals ".

Mock The Week ( BBC2 ), Have I Got News For You ( BBC1 ), Michael McIntyre ’ s Comedy Roadshow ( BBC1 ), Never Mind The Buzzcocks ( BBC2 ) Argumental ( Dave UKTV ), The Comedy Store ( Comedy Central ), The Politics Show ( BBC1 ), Sex Bombs ( BBC2 Northern Ireland ), Strictly Dancing: It Takes Two ( BBC2 ), Most Annoying People 2009 ( BBC3 ), Most Annoying People 2008 ( BBC3 ), The ONE Show ( BBC1 ), World Rally: Portugal 2009 ( Dave UKTV ), Saturday Night Live ( ITV1 ), Girls Who Do Comedy ( BBC1 ), The Bigger Picture ( BBC1 ), Mock The Week ( Dave UKTV ), The Blame Game ( BBC N. Ireland ), World ’ s Greatest Stand Up ( Ch4 ), The Stand Up Show ( BBC1 ), The World Stands Up ( Comedy Central ), Comic Side Of 7 Days ( BBC3 ), That ’ s So Last Week ( Ch5 ), Stitch Up ( BBC1 ), Best Of The Comedy Store ( Ch5 ), The Comedy Store-series 2, 4 & 6 ( Ch5 ), So Graham Norton ( Ch4 ), Music Hall Meltdown ( BBC4 ), And Then You Die ( Dave UKTV ), Test The Nation ( BBC1 ), Big Brothers Little Brother ( Ch4 ), Back In The Day ( Ch4 ), Bridget Jones Cultural Icon ( ITV ), 100 Greatest Tearjerkers ( Ch4 ), 100 Greatest Christmas Moments ( Ch4 ), The Comedian ’ s Comedian ( Ch4 ), Who Stole Bob Monkhouse ’ s Jokes ( BBC ), Take The Mike ( ITV ), Life ’ s A Pitch ( BBC1 ), Ladies & Gentlemen ( BBC ), The Loafers ( BBC North ), Notes From The Ditch ( BBC South ), The Jack Docherty Show ( Ch5 ), Don ’ t Drink The Water ( BBC Challenge ), You ’ re Not Yourself Today ( BBC ), Five ’ s Company ( Ch5 ),

Former Corporation members Mankind, Ken Shamrock, Big Show and Test joined together to form The Union.

The first-ever version of Big Brother was broadcast in 1999 on Veronica in the Netherlands.

* Blue's Big Treasure Hunt ( 1999 ) – Little Miss Muffet ( voice )

The Boilermaker women have one National Championship ( 1999 ), one national runner-up finish ( 2001 to Notre Dame ), seven Big Ten Championships, and have won six of the thirteen women's Big Ten Tournaments.

* 1974 – Big L, American rapper ( Children of the Corn and Diggin ' in the Crates Crew ) ( d. 1999 )

On July 14, 1999, the three men lost their lives when the Lampson " Big Blue " crane, one of the largest in the world, collapsed while trying to lift a 400 ton right field roof panel.

Three of the antagonists in the 1998 movie The Big Lebowski are explicitly described as " nihilists ;" and the 1999 film The Matrix portrays the character Thomas A. Anderson with a hollowed out copy of Baudrillard's treatise, Simulacra and Simulation, in which he stores contraband data files under the chapter " On Nihilism.

* Zentonedada ( sampler from Ninja Tune, Ntone and Big Dada ) ( 1999, ZENTONEDADA 001 )

It was re-released in 1999, with a bonus track, Crow's cover of the Guns N ' Roses song " Sweet Child o ' Mine ," which was included on the soundtrack of the film Big Daddy.

** Big L, American rapper ( d. 1999 )

The genre exploded as a phenomenon around 1999 – 2000 with the success of such television series as Big Brother and Survivor.

Sunrise is especially known for their mecha anime series ( including Gundam ) such as Invincible Steel Man Daitarn 3 ( 1978 ), Fang of the Sun Dougram ( 1981 ), the Armored Trooper Votoms and Aura Battler Dunbine series ( 1983 ), Blue Comet SPT Layzner ( 1985 ), Patlabor ( 1989 ), The Vision of Escaflowne ( 1996 ), The Big O ( 1999 / 2003 ), Overman King Gainer ( 2002 ), Zegapain ( 2007 ), and Code Geass ( 2006 / 2008 ).

Recent examples include Under the Net ( 1954 ) by Iris Murdoch, Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird ( 1965 ), Thomas Berger's Little Big Man ( 1964 ), Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle ( 1973 ), John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces ( 1980 ), Isabel Allende's Eva Luna ( 1987 ), Edward Abbey's The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel ( 1988 ), Robert Clark Young's One of the Guys ( 1999 ), Helen Zahavi's Dirty Weekend ( 1991 ), C. D. Payne's Youth in Revolt ( 1993 ), Christian Kracht's Faserland ( 1995 ), Umberto Eco's Baudolino ( 2000 ), Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver ( 2003 ), and Aravind Adiga's " The White Tiger " ( Booker Prize 2008 )

* The Return of Little Big Man ( 1999 ), in which novelist Thomas Berger's wandering protagonist Jack Crabb becomes a witness to the event.

Near the town is the home of world show jumping champion Ian Millar and Millar Brooke Farm where his great horse Big Ben ( 1976 – 1999 ) is buried.

Since 1999, the Broncos ' record is 93-17 with nine conference titles ( Big West Conference 1999 & 2000, Western Athletic Conference ( WAC ) 2002 – 06, 2008 – 09 ), and eight wins in eleven bowl appearances.

* The Big Brass Ring ( 1999 ) … Kim Mennaker

He is best known for his comedic roles, such as in the films Billy Madison ( 1995 ), Happy Gilmore ( 1996 ), The Waterboy ( 1998 ), Big Daddy ( 1999 ), and Mr. Deeds ( 2002 ), though he has ventured into more dramatic territory.

In 1999 it was moved to its present location in the town's center, at the northeast corner of Clovis Avenue and Fourth Street, and was restored by the Clovis Big Dry Creek Historical Society in with financing, labor, and materials donated by local businesses and contractors.

The town is also home to the Big Bear Lake International Film Festival, in operation since 1999.

Big Stone Gap is home to Wallens Ridge State Prison, a state prison that has been a part of the Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Corrections since 1999.

* In the 1999 movie Big Daddy, the main character Sonny ( played by Adam Sandler ) chats with his date about how they both like Styx, while " Babe " plays on the radio.

In the following years, she made several moderately successful American films, including Incognito ( 1997 ); U. S. Marshals ( 1998 ), starring opposite Wesley Snipes and Tommy Lee Jones ; The Big Brass Ring ( 1999 ), with William Hurt ; and the entertaining History Is Made at Night ( 1999 ), with Bill Pullman and Bruno Kirby.