8. Originally designed by N.G. Pansare under
the supervision of Times of India's art director
Walter Langhammer, it is generally made of
bronze, its height is 46.5 cm and it weighs
around five kgs .To celebrate the 25th year of
the awards, the statues were made
in silver and to celebrate the 50th year the
statues were made in gold.
10. AdityaChopra wanted to cast X in “Y ” as he
wanted it to be an Indo-American affair.
But Aditya Chopra had to re-work on his story
asYash Chopra didn't want to make it with
foreign star.
ID X AND Y
12. Shiamak Davar has been zeroed in on as the
choreographer for NDTV Imagine's upcoming
reality show "Knights & Angels“
The programme will be hosted byVJ-turned-
actor Purab Kohli
It will be judged by SOURAV GANGULY
Talent show is based on ?
13. KKR cheerleaders
KKR were the first team in IPL to select their
cheerleaders by a talent hunt show
called Knights and Angels
14. Front cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts
Club Band, "the most famous cover of any
music album, and one of the most imitated
images in the world.“WhichAlbum
15.
16.
17. Company was founded in 1891 by Gerard and his
father Frederik. Frederik, a banker based
in Zaltbommel, financed the purchase and setup of a
modest, empty factory building in Eindhoven, where the
company started the production of carbon-filament lamps
and other electro-technical products in 1892.This first
factory has been adapted and is used as a Museum devoted
to light sculpture
In the 1920s, the company started to manufacture other
products, such as vacuum tubes. In 1939 they introduced
their electric razor, the Philishave (marketed in the USA using
the Norelco brand name).The "Chapel" is a radio with built-
in loudspeaker, which was designed during the early 1930s.
18.
19. Over a Century old a tiny Sweetmeat Shop existed on
a land owned by Raja Kamala Prasad Mukherjee. Our
forefather Late X Chaurasia came from a remote
village inVaranasi, Uttar Pradesh to Kolkata in the
1880's. He was a skilled Halwai and could make mouth
watering Sweets. He took up a job in the shop owned
by the Mr. Raja and used to supply Sweets to the
Rajbari. However, when the Government decided to
evict the shop in order to construct a road, the
Raja, pleased with his service, allotted him a small
plot of land near Maniktola north Kolkata, where our
forefather set up a small sweetmeat shop in 1885.
Which present day company ?
20.
21.
22. Famous cricket umpire Dickie Bird chooses
hisWorld XI - Sunny in, Sachin out
23. X is a Pashtun Hindkowan family, which
migrated from the banks of Kabul river in the 5th
and 6th century BC, to Peshawar.Y, the first of
the family to pursue acting, was born in 1901 in
the town of Samundri near Faisalabad, in the
Punjab province of then British
India now Pakistan. His father, a policeman, was
posted at Peshawar, and his grandfather was
aTehsildar in Samundri.Y's first lead role was
in Cinema Girl in 1929.
25. In 1952, the songs of Baiju Bawra established
X as the number one playback singer of Hindi
Cinema. It is said thatY was the Naushad’s
favorite singer and once he foundY smoking
in recording room, so he irritated and hired X
to sing for Baiju Bawra.
ID X andY
28. SUNIL GAVASKAR
. He played the lead role in the Marathi movie
"Savli Premachi". The movie did not receive
much appreciation though. After many years
he appeared in a guest role in a Hindi movie
"Maalamal".He has sung a Marathi song "Ya
DuniyemadhyeThambayaalaVel Konala"
which was written by noted Marathi lyricist
Shantaram Nandgaonkar.
29. X was one of the most gifted pioneering athletes of India. He
not only represented India in cricket and tennis, but was also
proficient in field hockey, soccer, table
tennis, chess, and polo. He was nicknamed "Rainbow X"
because of his expertise in these seven sports.
Denied the captaincy of the Cambridge team because he was
an Indian, he vindicated his claim by representing India at
the Davis Cup in 1924 and 1925. He also represented India
atWimbledon for five years and in 1926 reached the quarter
finals in doubles. He was one of the first Indians to compete
as a tennis player at the Olympics (1924 SummerOlympics).
30. We know him for his achievement in indian
cricket .What ?
31. X-Syed Mohammad Hadi
He is the first person to hit a century in Ranji
Trophy
32. WASHINGTHE LIONS INTHETOWER
Tower of (royal arms) London.
Admit the Bearer and Friends
To view the
Annual Ceremony
of
Washing the Lions
OnTuesday April the 1st 1856
HERBERT DE GRASSE, SeniorWarden.
Admitted only at theWhite Gate.
“It is requested that no Gratuities will be given to
theWardens on any account.”
35. X were found emanating from Crookes
tubes, experimental discharge tubes invented
around 1875, by scientists investigating
the cathode rays, that is energetic
electron beams, that were first created in the
tubes. Crookes tubes created free electrons
by ionization of the residual air in the tube by a
high DC voltage of anywhere between a few
kilovolts and 100 kV.This voltage accelerated
the electrons coming from the cathode to a high
enough velocity that they created X when they
struck the anode or the glass wall of the tube.
37. This work culminated with a U.S. patent in 1883
and a product that was originally called
"Diastoid," . At Racine in 1876 around the same
time,William began working on it
X came to India with British Army, end ofWorld
War I saw Indian soldiers of British Indian Army
bringing it back with them as a diet supplement.
Punjab, Bengal and Madras Presidencies
became early adopters
The first flavour available in India, as in Britain,
was malt. of X .Which present product ?
38.
39. The word “X " is said to be of Kannada or
Tamil origin
The Kannada king and scholar Someshwara
III, reigning in the area now
called Karnataka, included an X recipe in his
encyclopedia, 'Manasollasa', written
in Sanskrit ca. 1130 A.D
WHICH RECIPE ?
43. During the Second OpiumWar, in 1860, the Old
Summer Palace in Beijing was occupied by a
contingent of British and French troops.The
Emperor Xianfeng had fled with all of his court
to Chengde. However, an elderly aunt of the
emperor remained. When the British and French
troops entered, she committed suicide. She was
found with her five X mourning her death.They
were removed by the Allies before the Summer
Palace was burnt to the ground.
Name this that originated in China .
44.
45. Dinkar Balwant X (14 January 1892 – 24 August 1993) was an
Indian cricketer, who played in first class cricket matches during
1911–1948.
He was an aggressive right-hand batsman and also a bowler
known for his legbreaks. He captained the Maharashtra team
in RanjiTrophy regional matches during 1939 – '41.
Like Bill Ashdown, he is one of the few people known to have
played first-class cricket both before the First World War and after
the SecondWorld War, having played in the BombayTriangular in
1911 and the RanjiTrophy in 1946.
He was awarded the Padma Bhushan award in 1991 by the Indian
Government.
47. Georges Remi came up with the character of X, a young
boy reporter, whilst working at the Belgian newspaper Le
XXe Siècle (The 20th Century) The series was an instant
success; sales of theThursday edition of the
newspaper, the day the supplement appeared, were to
increase by 600%. Hergé went on to pen a string of X
, sending his character to real locations such as the Belgian
Congo, the United States, Egypt, India, China, and the
United Kingdom, and also to fictional countries of his own
devising, such as the Latin American republic of San
Theodoros, the East European kingdom of Syldavia, or the
fascist state Borduria—whose leader, Müsstler, was a
combination of Nazi German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian
Fascist leader Benito Mussolini.
51. Among the most precise sundials ever made are
two equatorial bows constructed
of marble found inYantra mandirThis collection
of sundials and other astronomical instruments
was built by X at his then-new capital
of Jaipur, India between 1727 and 1733.The larger
equatorial bow is called the SamratYantra (The
Supreme Instrument); standing at 27 meters, its
shadow moves visibly at 1 mm per second, or
roughly a hand's breadth (6 cm) every minute.
Identify the structureY ?
53. The first known mention of the word was in
the third century AD in a book called Liber
Medicinalis (sometimes known as De Medicina
Praecepta Saluberrima) by Quintus Serenus
Sammonicus, physician to the Roman
emperor Caracalla, who in chapter 51
prescribed that malariasufferers wear an
amulet containing the word written in the
form of a triangle.Which word ?
54. A - B - R - A - C - A - D - A - B - R - A
A - B - R - A - C - A - D - A - B - R
A - B - R - A - C - A - D - A - B
A - B - R - A - C - A - D - A
A - B - R - A - C - A - D
A - B - R - A - C - A
A - B - R - A - C
A - B - R - A
A - B - R
A - B
A
55. Every 48 years, the Mautam bamboo blooms
and its high-protein seeds lead to an explosion in
the Black Rat population in the jungle, a.k.a. rat
flood, which historically has destroyed entire
villages' food supply when the rats move on to
farm fields.The plague "in 1958-59, provoked a
rural uprising that saw the indigenous people
launch a violent 20-year rebellion against the
federal government that was only finally
resolved in 1986.“.Which state ?
59. According to the Chinese zodiac, X was born in
both the hour and the year of the Dragon, which
according to tradition is a strong and fortuitous
omen.
X’s father was a famous Cantonese opera star.
Because of this He was introduced into films at a
very young age and appeared in several films as
a child. He had his first role as a baby who was
carried onto the stage in the film Golden Gate
Girl. By the time he was 18, he had appeared in
twenty films.
61. X found its beginning in the wake ofWorld War
II. In 1946, Masaru Ibuka started an electronics
shop in a bomb-damaged department store
building inTokyo.The company had $530 in
capital and a total of eight employees.The next
year, he was joined by his colleague, Akio
Morita, and they founded a company
called TokyoTsushin Kogyo(Tokyo
Telecommunications Engineering Corporation).
The company built Japan's first tape
recorder, called theType-G. In 1958 the company
name was changed to X ? ID X
62.
63. X has a distinctive burn scar that runs down
his neck from his right ear to his chest. He
was accidentally scalded with boiling water as
a child, which caused third-degree burns and
kept him hospitalised in intensive care for
nearly two months. After joining Boca
Juniors, X refused an offer from the club to
have them cosmetically improved, saying
that “the scars were a part of who he was in
the past and who he is today” .ID footballer X
69. Created byYiying Lu, illustrating eight orange
birds using a net to hoist a whale from the
ocean captioned "Too many ! Please wait a
moment and try again.
What ?
Where ?
70.
71. The gravestone is inscribed with the number
"772.55", his climacteric 1878 measurement of
the mechanical equivalent of heat, in which he
found that this amount of foot-pounds of work
must be expended at sea level to raise the
temperature of one pound of water from 60 to
61 F.There is also a quotation from the Gospel of
John, "I must work the works of him that sent
me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no
man can work“ Who’s grave ?
77. He was named after the American inventor
Thomas Edison. However, his parents decided to
remove the 'i' and call him 'Edson', but there was
a mistake on the birth certificate, leading many
documents to show his name as 'Edison', not
'Edson', as he is actually called. He was originally
nicknamed Dico by his family. He earned extra
money by working in tea shops as a servant.
Taught to play by his father, he could not afford
a proper sport and usually played with either a
sock stuffed with newspaper, tied with a string
or a grapefruit.
