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1.
‘Our American Cousin’ is a play in three acts by Tom Taylor.
The play is a farcical comedy whose plot is based on the
introduction of an awkward, boorish American to his
aristocratic English relatives. The play's most famous
performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April
14, 1865.
Halfway through Act III, Scene 2, the character Asa Trenchard
(the title role), played that night by Harry Hawk, utters one of
the play's funniest lines, "Don't know the manners of good
society, eh? Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside
out, old gal—you sockdologizing old man-trap..."
As expected there was a huge raucous laughter from the
audience for this line.
What happens next?
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John Wilkes Booth jumps out
and shoots Abraham Lincoln.

He was waiting for the laughter
to come so that people wont
hear the gunshot

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A way used by Steven Holt of
Surbiton Clothing to bypass the
strict rules related to advertising
during the London Olympics.
When sponsors pay millions to be the "official soft
drink/clothier/wart remover/whatever" of the
London Olympics, the Games' organizers are going to
vigilantly protect their brand's exclusivity.

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3.
According to the Mahabharata when Bhrigu's wife Puloma was
pregnant, a Rakshasa fell in love with her and carried her off.
Puloma's child slipped from her womb, called a 'chyut' child in
Sanskrit, (early delivery) and thus received his name X.
Many years later King Sharyati offered his daughter Sukanya
for marriage to X, who was now a Rishi, so that she could take
care of the revered saint.
Later, the Ashvins came to his Ashram and tried to seduce
Sukanya. Sukanya who refused to leave her husband, instead
asked the Ashvins to restore X's youth. Following their advice,
X's youth was restored by a combination of three treatments.
Certain herbs were put in to a pond and the Rishi was asked to
have a dip in the pond, called 'Chandra Koop’. A herbal paste
was prepared for application on the body of Rishi, which was
part of 'Kayakalp'. And a special herbal paste, Y was prepared
for Rishi to take as medicine.
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Rishi Chyawan - Chyawanprash

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4.
X worked as an asst. personnel manager for the
Chicago Cartoon Company and then as a promotion
copywriter for Esquire magazine. When the
company moved to New York they refused the five
dollar raise he/she requested. He/She quit and
tried to raise enough money to launch a new
Chicago Magazine. After failing he/she worked as a
news stand promotions director of Publisher’s
Development Corporation. While working, he/she
found that there was a demand for a gentleman's
magazine.

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5.
Z graduated in mechanical engineering from
the Birla Institute of Technology and Science,
Pilani, and holds a Master of Science degree
from the University of California, Berkeley. He
wrote articles on computer science;
engineering design; and also contribution to
research in computerization of Indian
languages in his early days before entering
the political arena. He is currently the chief
minister of a state.
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Prithviraj Chavan

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6.
The XY effect is based on the commonly accepted
perception that you get what you pay for. In the 1950s,
Coca Cola was twice as expensive as Pepsi. Yet, Pepsi sales
increased after they raised the price of the soda. In 2010,
consumers pay more for brand-name bottled water,
believing it is of better quality even though water is
colorless, tasteless and odorless. The Effect usually refers
to the cost of tuition at private colleges and universities.
Many parents assume that a higher-priced education is a
better education.

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Chivas Regal was once an obscure brand of Scotch
whiskey.
By raising its prices, it not only increased sales but
also taught marketers that people associate price
with quality.
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7.
Erin Everly, who is the daughter of Everly Brothers legend
Don, met ____ at a Los Angeles party in 1986. Then only 19
years old, she was embarking on a modeling career in New
York City; he was 24 and still largely unknown—his first
album would not be released until the following year. The
pair quickly fell for each other and Everly relocated to L.A.
"It was the first relationship I had had," she told People in
1994. "I felt like we were two people who didn't have much
but who had found each other."
Y cast Everly in the iconic video for “X," along with the other
band members' girlfriends. The clip was hugely successful
and nominated for two VMAs in 1989.

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Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine

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8.
Isabella Eugenie Boyer (1841–1904) was born in
Paris to French and English parents. Isabella
married Isaac Merritt Singer, the founder of the
Singer Sewing Machine Co. After Isaac's death, she
married a Belgian musician, Victor Reubsaet. That
was when she met the Sculptor Bartholdi.

What happens next?

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Bartholdi asked her to model for
the Statue of Liberty which he was
building.

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9.
The lesser known of the 12 are:

Pallas (Female)
Judith (Female)
Rachel (Female)
Argine (Female)
Ogier the Dane (Male)
La Hire (Male)
Hector (Male)
Judas Maccabeus, or Lancelot (Male)

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These are the Jacks and the Queens
of a Pack of Playing Cards

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10.
Sir James, writing in September 1938, was led to
remark:
...... s tree is all right but his tiger looks too like some
species of dog, and I am afraid that a design of a
dog and a tree would arouse derision among the
irreverent. .....'s tiger is distinctly good but the tree
has spoiled it. The stem is too long and the branches
too spidery, but I should have thought that by
putting a firm line under the feet of his tiger and
making his tree stronger and lower we could get
quite a good result from his design.
What was he talking about?
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Reserve Bank of India logo

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It is often claimed these animals were chosen
because neither animal can move backward,
only forward - i.e. progress.

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12. Connect
1. Cashmere and silk Turtleneck
2. Levi’s 501
3. New Balance 992

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13.
“My father was a lawyer by training, had an MA LLB degree, but
he did various things in life except practise law. Mom was also
highly educated, went to Oxford, but eventually took to social
work. She was very active in Delhi. In my childhood I remember
she was involved with various Trans-Yamuna projects. He was a
freedom fighter, a classmate of General Shahnawaz Khan (of INA
fame) and Mohammad Yunus.

They belonged to Peshawar but his family blacklisted him because
he joined the freedom movement and stayed on in India. His
family, including my own uncles, is still there. I visited Pakistan
twice as a child with my father. He got into various businesses in
Delhi and ran a bottling factory. Incidentally, he designed the
Diplomat whisky bottle and they still sell it the same way. But he
died very young.
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14.
"Hitler had a certain time to come to the stadium and a certain time to
leave". "It happened he had to leave before the victory ceremony after
the 100 meters. But before he left I was on my way to a broadcast and
passed near his box. He waved at me and I waved back. I think it was
'bad taste' to criticize the man of the hour in another country".

"When I came back to my native country, after all the stories about
Hitler, I couldn't ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door.
I couldn't live where I wanted. I wasn't invited to shake hands with
Hitler, but I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the
President, either."

“Hitler didn’t snub me – it was FDR who snubbed me. The president
didn’t even send me a telegram.”
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15.
Jim Wesley was a drummer who worked with X in his club
gigging days.
But he later quit the band to go and sell carpets because there
was no money to be made as a musician back then.
Jody Perpick is a Canadian former musician and current Sound
Engineer for X He got married almost at the same time when
Jim Wesley had quit the band. Perpick was once a part of X's
group during his early days but quit to concentrate on the
Sound Equipment for X as he achieved success.

You needn’t tell me who X is, just connect A and B.

Clue: Read read read again.

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JIMMY QUIT,JODY GOT
MARRIED..
Shud’ve known we’d never get
far…
……………..
……………..
Back in the Summer of ‘69

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16.
X is a nickname for a broad sub-
genre of films that emerged in the mid-
1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's
film-making style and international box-
office success. It was used by critics in
USA and other countries because most
of these were produced and directed by
Italians.

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Spaghetti Westerns

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17.
“It was intended as a 1 hour photo booth, similar to a
Fotomat booth, which were a very common sight in the late
80′s when we were first developing Photoshop. It’s meant to
be a person manning the booth and a cash register inside
the booth. At that time, application icons were 32×32 pixels,
1 bit per pixel. The “128” is the resource ID number. That
image is a screen snapshot from ResEdit, the common
resourse editor at the time. Whether you like it or not, it’s
much more representative of a “________” that the eyeball
icon that Y finally chose. There were other icons that went
with that. The re was a document icon that looked like a
roll of film, and a plugin icon that looked like a “rectabular
extrusion bracket”

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John Knoll speaking about the
first Photoshop icon

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18.
“By that time -- the early '70s -- Y was a fairly successful
textile brand. So everybody expected me to do textile
engineering. I shocked them by saying that I would go to IIT.
Interestingly, 4-5 of us friends studying together for Inter-
science were all among the top 10. Ajay Parekh, who runs
Pidilite, topped Bombay University. I stood fifth or sixth.
Since Inter-science results were announced after the IIT
entrance, I joined IIT, Bombay. After the Inter-science results
a few weeks later, I left and joined University Department of
Chemical Technology (UDCT) along with my friends.”

Who is speaking here?

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Mukesh Ambani, Y is Vimal

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19.
The X can be traced back to the 1st century A.D. and the
Old Roman cursive, in which the letters E and T
occasionally were written together to form a ligature .

However, during the development of the Latin script,
while the use of ligatures in general diminished, the et-
ligature continued to be used and gradually became more
stylized and less revealing of its origin.

The modern italic type X is a kind of et-ligature that goes
back to the cursive scripts developed during
the Renaissance.

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5 wicket hauls in all 3
formats of the game

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21.

X is a director/producer whose
documentary film was nominated for an
Oscar in the year 1978. His half brother Y
was a director/producer in his own
right. Id X and Y.

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X is Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Y is
Ramanand Sagar

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22.
In 1865, on the very day he was assassinated at Ford's
Theatre, Lincoln green-lighted the X Division to suppress
counterfeit currency. In 1901, Congress informally requested
X for Presidential protection following the assassination of
President William McKinley. From 1902 onwards, The X
assumed full-time responsibility for protection of the
President.

It wasn't until 1951--after a failed attempt on President Harry
Truman's life--that Congress codified the agency's permanent
protection of the First Family. Its duties also now include
candidates for high office and visiting dignitaries.

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25.
In San Francisco, he got the chance to see his idols, most
notably B.B. King, perform live. . After several years spent
working as a dishwasher in a diner, X decided to become a
full-time musician. In 1966, he gained prominence by a series
of accidental events all happening on the same day. X was a
frequent spectator at Bill Graham's Fillmore West. During a
Sunday matinee show, Paul Butterfield was slated to perform
there but was unable to do so as a result of being intoxicated.
Bill Graham assembled an impromptu band of musicians he
knew primarily through his connections with the Grateful
Dead, Butterfield's own band and Jefferson Airplane, but he
had not yet picked all of the guitarists at the time. X's
manager, Stan Marcum, immediately suggested to Graham
that X join the impromptu band and Graham assented.
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Carlos Santana

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26.
The original choice for this had been the
Maharajah of Patiala who withdrew because he
couldn’t afford the time away from India, his
substitute the Maharajah of Porbandar never
deserved it on merit, and Porbandar’s brother in
law, Limbdi who would have replaced him was
injured. It was finally decided upon a commoner
from Indore. Tell me who was this person and
what was the controversy about ?

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Colonel C K Naydu.
The controversy is of course
regrding choosing India's first
official test captain

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27.

His first-class career lasted from 1900
to 1907. In all he played 10 matches for
MCC - 18 innings, 6 not-outs, 231 runs,
highest score 43, average 19.25. He
also took one wicket for 50 runs, that of
W G Grace.. Identify him.

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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28.
Bombay to Goa is a 1972 adventure-
comedy Hindi movie starring Amitabh
Bachchan, Shatrughan Sinha, Aruna
Irani and Mehmood. The movie is known particularly
for its catchy tunes.
The film is a remake of a 1966 hit Tamil film Madras
to Pondicherry. It was a 'Semi-Hit' at the box office.
Bombay to Goa was remade in 2007 with an
ensemble cast of comedians.
Mehmood had offered the role of Amitabh Bachchan
to X. Id X.

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29.
In 1944, Japan realized that the Allied Navy was preparing to
claw back the Philippines. Hence, they decided that what their
country lacked in military might, it would make up for in
fervor. That was how the XXXXX was formed, led by Admiral
Takijiro Onishi a ruthless warrior and one of the heroes of the
surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. The first strike came on
October 25, 1944, off the Philippine island of Leyte, and
included 26 fighter planes. It peaked with the start of the
battle of Okinawa in April 1945. Admiral Takijiro Onishi, after
seeing all his desperate attempts to ward off his country’s
imminent defeat fall through and hearing the Emperor’s
decision to capitulate, swam in a pool of blood for a whole 18
hours and died squeezing the hand of a close friend. Identify
XXXXX.
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30. Id this beautiful lass and the
unique distinction she shares with
Jonty Rhodes.

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Dr. X (born December 11, 1970) is an
Indian physician turned leadership
consultant, mythologist and author whose
works focus largely on the areas of
myth, mythology, and also management. He
has written a number of books related
to Hindu mythology, including Myth = Mithya:
A Handbook of Hindu Mythology, a novel, The
Pregnant King, and Jaya: An Illustrated
Retelling of the Mahabharata

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Devdutt Pattnaik

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32.
Set in 1960 by U.S. Air Force Col. Joe
Kittinger, this record has remained unbeaten
even after the recent attempt by Austrian
pilot Felix Baumgartner. Incidentally,
Kittinger was the man on the other end of
Baumgartner’s microphone at Mission
Control in Roswell, N.M. The 84-year-old
retired colonel served as Baumgartner’s
mentor throughout the preparation process
and his adviser throughout the flight.
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Longest freefall duration

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33.
X was originally supposed to be in Barcelona. But
thinking the thing would end up looking like an
eyesore, the city rejected its Designer Y’s plans, and
he was forced to repitch the project elsewhere.
Luckily, Y found a home for his idea, where it could
serve as the main archway for the 1889
International Exposition. Truth be told, the X wasn’t
supposed to stay up for very long. In fact, it was
offered for sale as scrap and was spared only
because it proved useful to the army. (They found
that its 984-foot height worked nicely as a
communications tower.)
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34.
“My father late N Gopal Holla `invented’ the X
in 1949. He was a good cook himself and was
incharge of the food catering the Mutt during
the Paryaya festival where there would be as
many as 25,000 people present for the meal.
That is when he created this munchy. It was
loved so much, that he decided to make it a
regular feature in our hotel”, said Achuth
Holla, proprietor of Mitra Samaj, Udupi. What
are we talking about?
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36.
In common parlance, a X is someone who, given a
certain argument, takes a position he or she does not
necessarily agree with, for the sake of argument. In
taking such position, the individual taking on the role
seeks to engage others in an argumentative discussion
process. The purpose of such process is typically to test
the quality of the original argument and identify
weaknesses in its structure, and to use such information
to either improve or abandon the original, opposing
position. It can also refer to someone who takes a
stance that is seen as unpopular or unconventional, but
is actually another way of arguing a much more
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37.
The X is described as resembling "a small,
thin, flexible lap computer" encased in a
"sturdy plastic cover" with the words "Don't
Panic" inscribed on it "in large, friendly
letters". It is presumably of robust
construction, making it able to withstand
falling through time/space wormholes and
being thrown into swamps, being rescued,
and still operating.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Asterix

The first visual is the first French
satellite launched - Asterix-I (a
dedication to Asterix).

Goscinny and Uderzo in the next pic.

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39.
He was a leading artist of the Pop art movement. He has the
largest museum in the USA dedicated to a single artist.

In the mid-1960s, he adopted the band the Velvet
Underground, making them a crucial element of the Exploding
Plastic Inevitable multimedia performance art show. He, with
Paul Morrissey, acted as the band's manager, introducing them
to Nico (who would perform with the band at X's request). In
1966 he "produced" their first
album The Velvet Underground & Nico,
as well as providing its album art.

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40.
Y bought the rights to the novel anonymously from Robert Bloch for only
US$9,000. He then bought up as many copies of the novel as he could to keep
the ending a secret.

To ensure the people were in the theaters at the start of the film (rather than
walking in part way through) the studio provided a record to play in the
foyer of the theaters. The album featured background music, occasionally
interrupted by a voice saying "Ten minutes to X time," "Five minutes to X
time," and so on.

Every theater that showed the film had a cardboard cut-out installed in the
lobby of Y pointing to his wristwatch with a note from the director saying
"The manager of this theatre has been instructed at the risk of his life, not to
admit to the theatre any persons after the picture starts. Any spurious
attempts to enter by side doors, fire escapes or ventilating shafts will be met
by force. The entire objective of this extraordinary policy, of course, is to help
you enjoy X more. Y"

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X – Psycho
Y – Alfred Hitchcock

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+20/-10
On a London vacation with his wife, Cole declined to enter a
museum on the north London thoroughfare.
"I told her, 'I've seen enough museums. You go on in, take
your time and look around and so on, and I'll just stay out here and
see what's going on outside,'" he recalled.
Parked just outside was a black police van. "I like to just start
talking with people," Cole said. "I walked out, and that cop was sitting
there in that police car. I just started carrying on a conversation with
him. I was asking him about all kinds of things, about the city of
London and the traffic control, things like that. Passing the time of
day.“
It was 10 a.m., Aug. 8, 1969. Photographer Iain McMillan was
on a stepladder in the middle of the street.
“I just happened to look up, and I saw those guys walking
across the street like a line of ducks," Cole remembered. "A bunch of
kooks, I called them, because they were rather radical-looking at that
time. You didn't walk around in London barefoot.”
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Chandrashekara Kambara

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