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• Pranav and Siddarth are the founding partners
of 3one4 Capital.
• They are the sons of one of India’s top angel
investors.
Id the family and the angel investor.
8. • Mission X, with tagline Mana Ooru Mana
Cheruvu, is a program of restoring all the tanks
and lakes in Telangana. The Program was
inaugurated on 12 March 2015 by chief
minister Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao.
• The name 'Mission X' is given in the
remembrance and tribute to the X rulers who
developed large number of the irrigation tanks.
ID X.
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12. • X was established by a group of farmers led by Shri.
Attavar Balakrishna Shetty on 23 October 1931 in
Mangalore in Dakshina Kannada District of Karnataka.
Since it was established on Dussehra, it was named so.
• The birth of X was preceded by the economic chaos
created out of the Great Depression of 1927-30. The
worldwide economic depression had severe impact on
the Indian economy and the financial system. Moved by
the pitiable conditions of the agriculturists, Attavara
Balakrishna Shetty was determined to devise some
institutional remedy to annihilate their sufferings, thus
he established X.
ID X.
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15. • X was discovered using spectroscopy by chemist Paul Emile
Lecoq de Boisbaudran in 1875 from its characteristic
spectrum (two violet lines) in a sample of sphalerite. Later
that year, Lecoq obtained the free metal by electrolysis of
the hydroxide in potassium hydroxide solution. He named
the element “A", from Latin A meaning B (a region
of Western Europe during the Iron Age that was inhabited
by Celtic tribes), after his native land.
• It was later claimed that, in one of those multilingual puns so
beloved by men of science in the 19th century, he had also
named X after himself: "Le coq" is D for "the rooster" and
the Latin word for "rooster" is “C". In an 1877 article, Lecoq
denied this conjecture.
• A, B, C are similar names, which in turn is similar to X. D is
the language of his native land.
Just ID X.
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18. • X was born out of folklore of North India. There was a
princess with incomparable beauty who was so delicate
that she weighed only as much as a flower. This folklore
took the shape of a drama then known as sangeets by
the name, X Shehzadi ("The Story of Princess X"). Soon it
became so popular that the name became that of the
genre itself.
• The word, X, comprises of two words, A meaning "nine"
and B referring to a "silver coin, weighing four grams". It
metaphorically implied that the graceful princess
weighed only 36 grams.
ID X.
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21. • The first-ever X emoji was launched on
September 4. People could activate it using
hashtags wishing each other.
• After the hashtags are used, a X emoji is
activated next to the hashtag. It was active
until September 16.
ID X.
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24. • A YouTube parody, X rides high on the talents of
videographer Jeremy Leaird-Koch, who used his
computer graphic abilities to recreate the
opening credits of the gritty gangster tale about
drug trafficker Pablo Escobar.
• X attempts to narrate the life of the most
fearsome of ____– the notorious Puplo Escobark.
Use your p(h)unny minds and give the title, X.
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If no one objects…
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28. • The anthem is titled Onwards Toward the Final
Victory, is part of a propaganda drive to build up
the image of the great successor. Radio and
television are airing it several times a day and the
score has been printed in the official newspaper.
The anthem has been airing repeatedly in state
media since July 2012.
• It continues the tradition of having hymns
dedicated to the leader.
Whom is this propaganda hymn dedicated to?
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31. • X appears to have had antecedents in Mexico and Central America
around the 9th century. The Maya, and later the Aztecs, ______ Y and
other psychoactive drugs in religious rituals and frequently depicted
priests and deities on pottery and temple engravings.
• The North American, Central American, and South American X used
various plant wrappers; when it was brought back to Spain, maize
wrappers were introduced, and by the 17th century, fine paper. The
resulting product was called papelate and is documented in Goya's
paintings.
• Production climbed markedly when a X-making machine was developed
in the 1880s by James Albert Bonsack, which vastly increased the
productivity of X companies, which went from making about 40,000
products daily to around 4 million, thus bringing a revolution in the X
industry.
ID X.
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35. • A X-themed pop-up restaurant serving dishes envisioned by the
late rapper opened on September 13th at 7 p.m. at the Fulton
Mall in Fresno, California.
• Before his death, X sketched ideas for a cookbook and restaurant
based on his own recipes, as well as contributions from other
musicians. The sheet currently at display at the Grammy Museum,
boasts his ideas for the Powamekka Cafe: a logo that incorporates
an ankh symbol, some branding slogans and drawings of
bathroom doors for "Divaz" and "Playaz.“
• The California Love burger is on the menu, as well as Hennessy
Apple Butter chicken wings, a Mac-and-Cheese Burger and Thug
Passion cake pops.
ID the rapper X.
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If no one objects…
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39. • The largest and strongest super-sonic
parachute ever made weighs 100 pounds. The
parachute can withstand upto 65,000 pounds
of weight.
Where was this parachute used?
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43. • X filed for legal action against 29-year-old Dutch artist
Nadia Plesner for the image shown in the next slide.
• The t-shirts were intended to call attention to the horrific
situation in Darfur by contrasting the small silent boy and
his obvious need for our attention, to the media’s
obsession with fashion and celebrity. Plesner has taken
on the cause of Darfur with a great deal of dedication,
starting her own Nadia Plesner Foundation in June 2008.
All of her profits from the Simple Living t-shirt sales going
to “containers and shipment of medical supplies to
Darfur.”
ID X, Y, Z.
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Continued
45. • Nadia Plesner has resurrected the Living Simple
boy for her painting. It is based on Y’s Z.
• A tapestry copy of Y’s Z was displayed on the wall
of the United Nations Building in New York City at
the entrance to the Security Council room from
1985 to 2009. It was commissioned in 1955
by Nelson Rockefeller, since Y refused to sell him
the original. The tapestry is less monochromatic
than the original and uses several shades of
brown.
49. • Sotheby's is a British multinational
corporation headquartered in New York City. One
of the world's largest brokers of fine and
decorative art, jewellery, real estate, and
collectibles, Sotheby's operation is divided into
three segments: auction, finance, and dealer.
It is listed on the NYSE. What is it’s ticker symbol?
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52. • The X Plague (or X Epidemic) of 1518 was a case
of X mania that occurred in Strasbourg,
Alsace (then part of the Holy Roman Empire) in
July 1518. Around 400 people took to X for days
without rest, and, over the period of about one
month, some of those affected died of heart
attack, stroke, or exhaustion. Some people
believe it was an outbreak of religious ecstasy.
What activity caused the plague?
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55. • In 2011, the first campus placement programme was
organised. More than a dozen recruiters - from security
companies, construction firms and hospitality sector -
offered jobs to 100 ______.
• In 2014, as many as 66 ______ were hired by private
companies during a recruitment drive.
• Some of the recruiters were People's Own Foundation,
Tajmahal Group of Companies, Da Pizza hutt, Aziz Media,
Vedanta Foundation, Universal Enterprises. They offered in
between Rs 8000 to Rs 35,000 per month packages for the
positions like driver, plumbers, Marketing Executive,
Business Development Manager etc.
These are some of the recruitment drives held in X, the largest
of its kind in South Asia.
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58. • In mathematics, a Lissajous curve or Bowditch
curve, is the graph of a system of parametric
equations
which describes complex harmonic motion.
• The title sequence by John Whitney for a 1950’s
film is based on Lissajous figures.
ID the movie.
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If no one objects…
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62. • Satirical French magazine X has been criticised
for publishing a cartoon portraying Y victims
as pasta dishes.
• “How the f*** do you draw a cartoon about
the dead?” Mayor Sergio Pirozzi said, adding
he didn't believe the “unpleasant" satire
reflected French sentiment.
ID the magazine X and the event Y.
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65. • Charlie Hebdo, however, did not apologise and
instead released a second offensive
cartoon on its official Facebook page, further
antagonising critics.
• The cartoon caption read: “Italians, it is not
Charlie Hebdo that built your homes, it’s the
mafia!”
66.
67. • A map purportedly released by X shows
Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East
drawn-up to show the lands it plans dominate
within five years.
ID X.
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71. • X’s Y; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American
author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped
lay the groundwork for the Z", according to Will Kaufman.
• The book and the plays it inspired helped popularize a number
of stereotypes about black people. These include the affectionate,
dark-skinned "mammy"; the "pickaninny" stereotype of black
children; and the “X", or dutiful, long-suffering servant faithful to
his white master or mistress.
• The impact attributed to the book is great, reinforced by a story
that when Abraham Lincoln met Stowe at the start of the Z, Lincoln
declared, "So this is the little lady who started this great war." The
quote is though apocryphal.
• In recent years, the negative associations with X’s Y have, to an
extent, overshadowed the historical impact of the book as a "vital
antislavery tool.“
ID XY and Z.
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74. • Richard "Dick" Wertheim (born 1923) was an American tennis
linesman who suffered a fatal injury on September 10, 1983,
during a match at the 1983 US Open.
• Wertheim's fatal injury occurred after X sent an errant serve
directly into his groin. The official had been sitting in a chair and
officiating at the center line when the blow knocked him
backward. He fell out of the chair and onto the hardcourt surface,
striking his head.
• Wertheim was unconscious when he was taken to the Hospital. He
died on September 15.
ID X, who is a Swedish former world no. 1 professional tennis player
(in both singles and doubles). He was a major proponent of the serve-
and-volley style of tennis.
Where is his distinctive serve seen prominently?
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77. • X (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a poet and
writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle
into that good night" and "And death shall have no
dominion"; the 'play for voices' Under Milk Wood; and
stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in
Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.
• In his memoir, Y acknowledged that he had been influenced
by the poetry of X. In a 2004 interview, Y remarked, "You're
born, you know, the wrong names, wrong parents. I mean,
that happens. You call yourself what you want to call
yourself. This is the land of the free.“
ID X and Y.
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