April 2018 Quiz, QM Ashwin Mascarenhas

1. Rajiv Chowk Quiz
April 27th 2018
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2. Made in India
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3. Q1
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"I used to think it was marble, but when I tapped the statue the sound it gave was not the one you get when you strike
against marble. As we were scrapping off the layers of paint I found the statue to be made of porcelain”
You won't find a statue of this type anywhere else in the world," Desai said, as he and Chari chipped away at the
paint that has accumulated over the statue on Thursday evening.
"It is made entirely of porcelain and has three joints. The statue has been badly violated. We have found 18 layers of
paint over the statue whose original colour is a light cream," Desai added.
There are few large porcelain statues in the world. This one is over 5 feet in length and has stood in the garden for
decades being scorched by the sun, drenched by the rain and engulfed by the exhaust fumes of vehicles that whizz
past it. So neglected has the statue been, except of course for the occasional coat of paint, that not much is known of
its history.
Describing the statue Desai said, "It has a Mona Lisa sort of smile and very Greek features." The duo working on the
statue's restoration believe it was brought from Europe, with records of its existence found even as far back as 1939.
It's a very beautiful work with much detail, even the muscles are typically female," Desai said, as Chari, who crafts
images of stone for temples, nodded in agreement.
What statue am I talking about?

4. • The mermaid statue, Mermaid garden Panjim.
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5. Q2
This tree, belonging to the fig family was named by Portuguese
travelers who came to India, who observed that its shade was
frequented by members of the local Gujarati traders.
It’s name originates from the local language in which it’s name
meant trader or merchant.
The name was passed on to the English language as early as
1599 where English authors wrote about this tree under which
Hindu traders sat to sell their wares.
Give me the name of the tree and the community.
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6. • Banyan tree, Bhaniyas
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7. Q3
From the Latin verb “I fall” as a euphemism for dying, ie "the
fallen one".
This etymology is found as early as 200 CE in the writings of
Tertullian.
A folk etymology derives this term syllabically from the Latin
expression for (flesh given to worms). This etymology, more
popular in Romance countries, can be traced back as early
as the Middle Ages.
Recently though, in Sanskrit class, I discovered that this term
is pronounced almost the exact same way with the difference
of a single consonant.
What term?
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8. • Cadaver
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9. Q4
X is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United
States and the United Kingdom in the 1980s. Originally used to
describe independent record labels, the term became
associated with the music they produced and was initially used
interchangeably with "alternative rock".
As grunge and punk revival bands in the US, and then Britpop
bands in the UK, broke into the mainstream in the 1990s, it
came to be used to identify those acts that retained an outsider
and underground perspective. In the 2000s, as a result of
changes in the music industry and the growing importance of
the Internet, some X acts began to enjoy commercial success,
leading to questions about its meaningfulness as a term.
What term?
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10. • Indie Rock
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11. Q5
• Ravan is a DC super villain, He belongs to X and tries to stop the coming of Kali and
thereby the Kali Yuga, the Age of Chaos. By killing, he delays the coming of Kali another
thousand years. It is through this practice that he both prevents and worships Kali. Ravan
joins the Suicide Squad, so he can continue these efforts while actually being sponsored
by the American Government.
• In temple of doom, on arriving in North India, Indiana Jones is asked by desperate
villagers to find a mystical stone and rescue their children from X practicing child slavery,
black magic and ritual human sacrifice in honor of the goddess Kali.
• The X was a centuries-old group of assassins believed to have originated from
"Mohammaden" tribes which became unacceptable to the peaceful Islam religion.
Members roamed India, Bengal and parts of Tibet preying on travelers and merchants
that they deemed to be unrepentant, strangling them with a silk cloth and taking their
valuables. Victims' bodies were mutilated in honor of the Hindu goddess of destruction
Kali.
• Who are X?
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12. • The Thuggee cult
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13. Q6
• Until 2009, certain objects used to be made of an alloy of iron,
chromium and nickel. In around may, the producers of these
items changed the alloy they used to A cupronickel alloy.
• This was done because these items, each worth about 5
rupees used to be smuggled out of the country to Bangladesh
and melted down to make another commodity.
• Each one of these items could produce about three of the
commodity, which was sold for about 2 rupees a piece.
• What original item was smuggled and what was the
commodity?
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14. • Smuggling 5 rupee coins to make razor blades
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15. Q7
X was founded by Y and Jack Smith, It was commercially
launched on July 4, 1996, symbolizing "freedom" from ISP-
based email and the ability to access a user's inbox from
anywhere in the world. The name "x" was chosen out of
many possibilities as it included the letters of the the markup
language used to create web pages. The limit for free
storage was 2 MB. By December 1997, it reported more than
8.5 million subscribers.
Give X and Y.
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16. • Hotmai, Sabeer Bhatia
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17. Q8
• Hailing from the South India, this monk prince is credited
for transmitting Buddhism to Ming China.
• He is sometimes credited as being the one to introduce
Kung fu to China but there is concrete evidence against
this.
• He is credited though for the introduction of the meditative
arts to China and its integration into the Shaolin principles,
where he is referred to as the Dharma master by Tánlín.
• Who is he?
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18. • Bodidharma
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19. Q9
• Chandra Mohan Jain, the eldest of eleven children of a
cloth merchant, at his maternal grandparents' house in
Kuchwada; a small village in the Raisen district of Madhya
Pradesh state in India. He became an anti-theist, took an
interest in hypnosis and briefly associated
with socialism and two Indian Nationalist organisation:
the Indian National Army and the Rashtriya swayamsevak
Sangh. How do we better know him?
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20. • Rajneesh ‘Osho’
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21. Q10
• When parts of coastal Australia were settled by the British from the late 1700s
onwards, the colonial thinking of the day meant that a fuller exploration and
understanding of this vast landmass became seen as a necessity.
• Inland expeditions began to take place with regularity, in often punishing conditions.
Confusion sometimes reigned – a map from the early 1800s mistakenly shows a
huge inland sea in the centre of the country – but, explorer by explorer, the continent
was pieced together.
• Between 1870 and 1920, as many as 20,000 animals were imported into Australia
from the Arabian Peninsula, India and Afghanistan, together with at least 2,000
handlers, from the same regions to help the exploration as these animals were
ideally suited to the climate of the Australian interior, and their usage grew into a
major industry in early Australian history.
• However with the advent of the internal combustion engine, roadways and airways,
the handlers found it less and less fees able to rear these animals and released
them into the Wild where they thrived, unknown to the world at large.
• What animal?
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22. • Camels
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23. Q11
• Designed by NID Ahemdabad,
since 2002, he has been the
official mascot of the Indian
Railways. Name him.
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24. • Bhobe the guard elephant
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25. Q12
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• Yasurijo Ozu, (the director of Tokyo Story made numerous
films during world war 2. The script and footage of a film
he worked on in 1943, Derhui e Derhui e was destroyed in
1945. What was the subject of the film?

26. • The Indian National Army
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27. Q13
• Dr. X is an Indian doctor with lackluster medical skill often
described as MD Quack.
• He is very close to the Bagge family and is one of the few
people Courage considers a friend. Name him.
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28. • Dr Vindaloo
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29. Q14
• Identify these full-length
trousers worn for horse
riding, which are close-
fitting below the knee and
have reinforced patches
on the inside of the leg.
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30. • Jodhpurs
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31. Q15
X was originally a woodblock printed, painted or stained
calico produced in India from 1600 to 1800 and popular and
draperies. Around 1600, Portuguese and Dutch traders were
bringing examples of X into Europe. By 1680 more than a
million pieces of X were being imported into England per
year, and a similar quantity was going to France and the
Dutch Republic. It has been suggested that wearing them as
clothes began when these were replaced and given to
maidservants, who made them into dresses.
X is an anglicized version of the the term meaning splatter or
stain.
Give me X
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32. • Chintz
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33. Q16
• The brand gets its name from this
gemstone called the star of
_______. The gemstone also
features in the brand logo.
• Name the brand.
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34. • Bombay Saphire
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35. Q17
• It started in British rule way back in 1880 when many
Indian people worked under British dislike the food and
they want it to be served to them from home.
• It got Six sigma certification(CMMi 6 level) which means
99.9999% successful delivery rate.This means there is a
chance of 1 error in 60 million transaction
• Every day they doing 4,00,000 transaction of boxes in the
radius of 60 KM in 3 hour.
• What service?
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36. • The Bombay Dabbawalas
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37. Q18
• This Indian company that shares its name with the
founder’s first name, did The Chan Zuckerberg initiative
invest in? This being their first investment in Asia
• It’s owned by Think and Learn private ltd a Bengaluru
based online tutoring company, which is now India’s best
funded education startup and one of the handful of Indian
consumer startups that have gone global.
• Which brand?
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38. • Byjus
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39. In meme-orium
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40. The meme calendar
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41. January
On January 7th, 2017, Nusret Gökçe uploaded a video of
himself carving a steak and sprinkling salt over his forearm
on to the meat (shown below). Within 48 hours, the video
gained over 2.4 million views and 8,700 comments. That
day, Twitter user @lolalissaa reposted the video along the
the message “so this is #X.”
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42. • Salt bae
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43. In meme-orium
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44. February
• ______________ is an image macro series featuring a
screenshot of actor Kayode Ewumi who playes Reece
Simpson (aka _______) in the web series Hood
Doccumentary. The image is often captioned with various
jokes mocking poor desicion making and failures in critical
thinking.
• FITB
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45. • Roll Safe
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46. The meme calendar
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47. March
• Name the
meme or FITB
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48. • How Italians do things
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49. The meme calendar
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50. April
On April 9th, 2017, a video of police
forcing a _________ passenger off of
flight 3411 went viral on Facebook
and Twitter.
After boarding the plane at Chicago’s
O’Hare International Airport, the
airline announced that they had
overbooked the flight and requested
four ticket-holders give up their seats
for four _________ employees. When
no one volunteered, they randomly
selected four passengers for removal.
One of those passengers, David Dao,
a doctor on his way to Kentucky,
refused to give up his seat. Police
forced him out of his seat and
dragged him off the plane. FITB. 50

51. • United Airlines
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52. The meme calendar
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53. May
Catherine Hettinger, a chemical engineer by training, was initially
credited by some news stories as having been the inventor of the
_________, including by media outlets such as The Guardian, The
New York Times, and the New York Post. Hettinger filed a patent
application for a "___y____ toy"in 1993 and a patent was issued, but
Hettinger allowed the patent to lapse in 2005 after she could not find a
partner. A May 2017 Bloomberg News article showed that Hettinger
was not the inventor of the _________, and Hettinger agreed.
In an interview appearing on May 4, 2017 on NPR, Scott McCoskery
described how he invented a metal ___y___ device in 2014 to cope
with his own _________ in IT meetings and conference calls. In
response to requests from an online community, he began selling the
device he called the Torqbar online.
FITB. Y is unnecessary.
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54. • Fidget spinner
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55. The meme calendar
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56. June
____________ is an exploitable
image series based on a
webcomic by Facebook artist
Florkofcows, featuring two
illustrated socks discussing a
third character in the distance.
On April 25th, 2017, the
Facebook page
Florkofcowsofficial posted the
original comic,featuring an MS
paint illustration of a sock puppet
saying “___________ / He thinks
Sword Art Online is the best
anime ever”. Within two months,
the post gained over 7,600
shares and 4,500 reactions.FITB
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57. • Hey man, you see that guy over
there?
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58. The meme calendar
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59. July
On November 8th, 2016, the
@fijichecks Instagram
posted photographs of a
nude man wielding a light
saber along with the caption
“___________” (intentionally
misspelled)
FITB
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60. • He Protec, but he also Attac
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61. The meme calendar
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62. August
The source image is a stock photograph taken by
photographer Antonion Guillem, which was posted on the
stock photo database iStock under the description
“______________”
According to a post published on the Meme Documentation
Tumblr blog, the earliest known captioned version of the
photo was submitted to a Turkish Facebook group at an
unknown date. On January 30th, 2017, the Prog
Düşmanlarına Verilen Müthiş Cevaplar Facebook page
posted the image with captions identifying the man as Phil
Collins peering at pop music while prog music looks on.
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63. • The disloyal man meme
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64. The meme calendar
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65. September
On December 3rd, 2016,
Tumblr user fuckin-rockets
posted a variation with the
phrase “__________.”
Under that caption, they
posted a picture of an Ash
Ketchum action figure in a
garbage can (the implied
rhyme being “Ash in the
trash”). The post received
more than 53,000 notes
within 10 months. FITB
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66. • Elf on the shelf
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67. The meme calendar
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68. October
On September 25th, 2017, Redditor furrutia29 posted an
image of Bear Grylls with the subtitle, a common Marine
Corp mantra “___________” and the caption “when the porn
video doesnt load so you beat your meat to the ads” in the
/r/dankmemes subreddit. Within 24 hours, the post (shown
below) received more than 6,200 points (98% upvoted) and
50 comments. FITB.
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69. • Improvise adapt
overcome
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70. The meme calendar
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71. November
• Look! _________
made a new
keyboard just for
Star Wars!
• FITB.
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72. • Electronic Arts
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73. The meme calendar
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74. December
• I’d the man in panel
3.
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75. • Suthep Thaugsuban
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76. The meme calendar
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77. Trending
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78. Q1
• A recent study claimed
that Indians are among
the most "prolific
consumers" of internet
pornography, accounting
for 40% of the website’s
14.2 billion visits.
• This is a screenshot of the
xvideos.com India porn
page from April 18, 7:34
pm. What’s blanked out?
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79. • Aasifa
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80. Q2
• Yesterday ABD hit the
longest six of the IPL
2018. But it ranks only
number 10 on the list
of all time longest
sixes. Who is number
one on the list? With a
distance of 125
meters.
• Give me 2 and 3 for
10 points.
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82. Q3
Josh James Brolin born February 12, 1968 is an American
actor. His first role was in the 1985 film The Goonies. Since
then he has appeared in a wide number of films, and is best
known for his work as Llewelyn Moss in No Country for Old
Men, young Agent K in Men in Black 3, George W. Bush in
W., and Dan White in Milk, for which he received Academy
Award and SAG Award nominations for Best Supporting
Actor. Other roles include Hollow Man, In the Valley of Elah,
American Gangster, True Grit, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For,
and Inherent Vice. In 2015, he appeared in Everest and
Sicario.
What is his latest movie role?
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83. • Thanos, in Infinity War
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84. Q4
Everett Ross debuted in Ka-Zar Vol. 3, and was created by
Christopher Priest and Kenny Martinez. According to creator
Christopher Priest, Ross's personality was based on that of
Chandler Bing, a character from the television series Friends,
while the name was inspired by the Family Ties character Alex
P. Keaton. After introducing Ross in Ka-Zar, Priest chose to
bring the character back in Black Panther for use as an audience
surrogate who "saw Panther the way Panther had ultimately
come to be seen by Marvel: Just Some Guy who was routinely
overshadowed by heroes in which they were more invested".
Everett Ross was one of the only 2 white main role characters in
the cast of black panther who were predominantly black.
Who was cast in the role of Everett?
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85. • Martin Freeman
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86. Q5
• On January 20 1987, India Played a 40 over practice
game against Pakistan just before the 5 match test series
which was supposed to be a farewell series for Sunny
Gavaskar. Midway through the match, some Pakistan
players went off the pitch to their hotel to rest and the team
being 4 players short, substitute fielders were called on
from the ball boys from the local cricket club. This was an
unofficial professional debut for X before his official debut
2 years later.
• Who am I talking about?
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87. • Sachin Tendulkar
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88. Q6
The Coca-Cola Cup was a tri-nation cricket tournament played in
Sharjah in 1998. The Round Robin format was followed with each
team playing the other two teams twice each. All matches were day
and night games and the tournament featured India, Australia and
New Zealand cricket teams.
The final league match agains Australia required India to win or else
lose by a narrow margin so as to qualify for the final. India lost both
league matches against Australia but qualified over New Zealand by
net run rate largely due to the heroics of a certain Sachin tendulkar
who scored back to back centuries in the last league game and in the
final which was on his 25th birthday to ensure India lifted the trophy.
What happened during that last league match that gave this knock of
Sachin’s it’s infamous name?
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89. • Desert Storm
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90. Q7
• Which
company
runs this ad
campaign?
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91. • United Colors of Benetton
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92. Q8
• Who is this? Or what post
does he hold? Or what is he
doing?
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93. • Official Town Crier announcing the Birth of the Prince
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94. Q9
Originally formed in 1964 as My Backyard in Jacksonville,
Florida, the band was also known by names such as The
Noble Five and One Percent, before finally deciding on "x" in
1969
X was inspired by the name of the basketball coach who
coached at the high school the original members attended in
Jacksonville.
Give me X.
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95. • Lynyrd Skynyrd
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96. Q10
• The earliest reference to the game of X in The Oxford
English Dictionary dates from 1589. The basic term x,
means a fool or simpleton, but in the gaming sense, it is
just the name given to the Knave of the suit turned up at
the start of play.
• X is a fictional character created by English children's
author Enid Blyton, originally published between 1949 and
1963. X was illustrated by the Dutch artist Eelco Martinus
ten Harmsen van der Beek from 1949 until his death in
1953, after which the work was continued by Peter Wienk
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97. • Noddy
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