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10. • The film X was released on International
Woman's Day
• The lead actor of this movie Y declared
that something would change for the first
time ever in Indian cinema and he would
continue doing this in all his subsequent
movies
• Z was the first Indian actress to have this
noble gesture to her name.
• Give me X,Y and Z
16. • He created his most famous work in 1917, a poster to
encourage recruitment in the United States Army during
World War I. It showed Uncle Sam pointing at the viewer
(inspired by a British recruitment poster showing Lord
Kitchener in a similar pose) with the caption "I Want YOU
for U.S. Army".[3] Over four million copies of the poster
were printed during World War I, and it was revived for
World War II. Flagg used his own face for that of Uncle
Sam (adding age and the white goatee), he said later,
simply to avoid the trouble of arranging for a model.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt praised his
resourcefulness for using his own face as the model. By
some accounts though, Flagg had a neighbor, Walter
Botts, pose for the piece.
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18. • If left is for England and Right is for USA
• What am I talking about?
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21. • The prefix of the word “X” comes from believe
that the phases of the Y could induce insanity or
epilepsy in certain individuals. Both Aristotle and
Roman historian Pliny the Elder taught that the
moistness of the brain made it susceptible to
changes based on the position of the Y.This
belief endured up through the Middle Ages and
is likely the reason why werewolves and other
fictional creatures were thought to emerge
during certain phases of Y. “X” even appeared in
several official US federal laws until 2012, when
Congress agreed to replace it with more modern
and scientifically accurate terminology.
27. • X is from Moradabad, where his father Rajinder ran a brassware export
business. His mother Maureen taught at a playschool in Delhi. X studied at
The British School and met Y when she was 13. They got married in 1997,
and have two children - son Raihan and daughter Miraya.
• His father, from whom he was estranged, was found dead in a Delhi motel in
2009. His elder brother, Richard, committed suicide in 2003 and his sister,
Michelle, died in a car accident in 2001.
• X started Artex, a handicraft business, in 1997. He diversified into other
areas, such as real estate, hospitality and charter aircraft. Realty firm Z is
his partner in real estate and hospitality.
• His mother Maureen is a director in all his companies Sky Light Hospitality,
Sky Light Realty, North India IT Parks, Real Earth Estates and Blue Breeze
Trading. All of them were registered between November 2007 and June
2008 with a paid-up share capital between Rs.5 lakh and Rs.25 lakh.
• X loves life in the fast lane. He is often seen at hip nightclubs in the Capital.
A fitness fanatic, he flaunts his body in body-hugging designer clothes. He is
a familiar face at all happening events, be it the F1 race or the Air Show at
Hyderabad. Zips around in high-end bikes.
30. • As the story goes, the ancestors of X’s Hindu population
lived beside the vast lake where a demon known as
Jalodbhava terrorized them. Since Jalodbhava was
invincible while in the water, they could not hope to
defeat him until the arrival of the ancient sage Kashyap.
The sage beseeched Vishnu who pierced the side of a
mountain, creating a deep gorge which completely
drained the lake. Jalodbhava, now on dry land, lost his
invincibility and was annihilated by the gods. Thus, the
new area became known as what could be roughly
translated as “the abode of Kashyap"
• What is X?
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33. • Pramod Karan Sethi was an Indian surgeon. Sethi was born at
Varanasi where his father Nihal Karan Sethi, himself a renowned
scientist, was a physics professor at Banaras Hindu University.Sethi
was awarded the Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership in
1981,the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 1981 and he
also won a major Rotary International award.He was elected a
fellow of the British Royal College of Surgeons.
• What did Sethi along with Ram Chandra Sharma, an illiterate
craftsman,invent after an idea came to Ram serendipitously while he
was riding a bicycle and had a flat tire.
36. • The year was 1975 . The “bad man” of
Assamese cinema, Dinesh Das, paced
about nervously as X got ready to
disfigure him with practised kicks and
punches. A make-belief scuffle and loads
of tomato ketchup later, the director
shouted “cut”.
• A description of a 1975 Assamese Masala
Action movie which was never released
due to a tiff between the producer and
director.
• Name the movie and who is X
39. • He was described by Shane Warne, the Australian leg spinner, as
the best all-rounder in the world.
• X finished his Test career with a batting average of 33.53 and a
bowling average of 29.40. In 2000, he was named as one of five
Wisden Cricketers of the Year.
• X formerly held the world record for most sixes in Tests (87, since
surpassed by Adam Gilchrist), and for a time held his country's
record for fastest century in ODIs
• He is also one of only seven players to have reached the all-
rounder's double of 200 wickets and 3000 runs. Out of these seven
players, X reached the double 2nd fastest (58 Test) behind Ian
Botham. In ODIs, X came close to another double of 200 wickets
and 5000 runs. X finished his ODI career on 4950 runs, just 50
short. X Test batting average at number seven (44.02) is the 5th
best average for that position of all time.
42. • I’m sure the English language media will have a field-day thinking of
puns for headlines. I’ll get the ball rolling with my own suggestions
for X puns. We can play X pun bingo by crossing them off as the
media uses them:
• X's all that
• That’s what X said
• X doesn’t know who I am (and X doesn’t give a damn about me)
• Murder, X wrote
• X's way out of my league
• He said, X said
• X loves me, X loves me not
• X loves me, yeah, yeah, yeah
• X's the one for me
• X's gotta have it
• Imagine this:
• “Angela Merkel met with X last Thursday. She said that the talks
45. • X was originally conceived as an enemy of international terrorism.
Interestingly, in his debut issue, X was unleashed as an international
terror weapon by an evil scientist . X, in this first mission, was
tasked with stealing a golden statue of a Goddess from a temple
that was protected by tribal devotees, and by a mysterious 300 -year
old Sadhu named Baba Gorakhnath. X succeeded in his task, but
upon confrontation with Gorakhnath and his mystic Black Mongoose
shikangi, was defeated. Gorakhnath read his mind and discovered
that the evil scientist had implanted a mind control device in the form
of a capsule in X's head, to keep him under his control. Gorakhnath
operated and removed the capsule from X's head, setting X free of
the scientist's control. X then became Baba Goraknath's disciple
and vowed to eliminate crime and terror from the Earth. Since then,
X has thrice toured the world and defeated many villains and
terrorists.
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48. • Onika Tanya Maraj was born in Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago
on December 8, 1982 .She said that her upbringing, which lacked
discipline, made her "seek out and practice self-discipline".
• She played clarinet, for her elementary education.Onika graduated
from LaGuardia High School, which focuses on music and the visual
and performing arts.In the drama program, she planned to sing at
LaGuardia but lost her voice the day of the audition.Onika described
her distraction from academics in high school by "acting and
boys".She wanted to become an actress, and was cast in the Off-
Broadway play In Case You Forget in 2001.When Onika's acting
career failed to take off, at age 19 she worked as a waitress at Red
Lobster in the Bronx but was fired because of her discourtesy to
customers; she said she had been fired from "at least fifteen jobs"
for similar reasons.How is Onika better known to us as?
51. • Padmini Prakash, 31, who
works at Lotus News in the
southern state of Tamil Nadu
said that she had faced a lot of
discrimination throughout her
life, including being disowned
by her family.
• She worked as a dancer and
then acted in Tamil soap
operas before joining the news
channel.
• Padmini has become the face
of the Coimbatore-based Lotus
News Channel's daily 7 pm
special bulletin five months
after a court ruled a historic
judgement.
• What was the judgement and
why is she famous?
54. • It was first patented on May 11, 1965, by David E. Hansen of Fairport, NY. Mr.
Hansen was an engineer at the Eastman Kodak Company.
• It consists of a circular tray .with a metal plate on the bottom with an opening about 5
cm wide The body contains a motor which rotates the plastic main body of the tray
( while the metal plate is fixed with the opening As the tray is advanced, a
reciprocating mechanism takes place
• A common series with a horizontally mounted tray was introduced in the spring of
1962 by Kodak (Kodak Carousel/Ektagraphic). The earliest Carousel models (mostly
known as the 500-series) are compatible only with the 80- trays.
• The Kodak system offered three advantages over the straight-tray, horizontal-feed
systems that were then common on the market. The Carousel tray had a locking ring
on its hub, preventing accidental spilling out of the tray if it was dropped. By using
gravity the chance of jamming was greatly reduced,The circular tray also enabled
automatic action without the need to manually reset .
• It was discontinued in October 2004.
• What am I talking about is the earliest known form of something.
• What?
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57. • The cover depicts a young man in open shirt
punting across a sea of clouds towards the glow
of the sun, and was dreamt up by 18-year old
Egyptian digital artist Ahmed Emad Eldin.
• Aubrey “Po” Powell led the task of finding an
image which would carry on the legacy of their
previous works. Powell said: “When we saw
Ahmed’s image it had an instant X''ian
resonance. It’s enigmatic and open to
interpretation, and is the cover that works so well
for Y.”