The RTI was filed to ask the government when hockey was declared as India's national game.

1. THE LEGENDARY QUIZ

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In 1979, the then Prime Minister Morarji Desai laid the foundation stone for
X. However, the installation and the sculpting work began on September 6,
1990, when funds were allocated in the 1990-91 budget. Initially, the project
stalled but then recommenced in 1997 and was completed on January 1, 2000.
At the cost of more than US$1 million (INR 61.4 million), it employed about
150 workers, sculptors, assistants and supervisors. The slight bend in X made
the design challenging. Dr. V. Ganapati Sthapati solved the problem by
creating a full-length wooden prototype before construction. Study of this
prototype led to the identification of an energy line (known in Vastu
science as kayamadhyasutra), currently an empty cavity in the center of X
from top to bottom. Sthapati designed the X to survive earthquakes of
unexpected magnitude.

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• Thiruvalluvar Statue

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• And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall
be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth. Their tags shall blink until the end of days.
• And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold. The din of a
million keyboards like unto a great storm shall cover the earth, and the followers of Mammon shall tremble.
• And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great
bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been
reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.
• And thus the Creator looked upon the beast reborn and saw that it was good.
• Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbers grew legion. And they proclaimed
the times and sacrificed crops unto the fire, with the cunning of foxes. And they built a new world in their
own image as promised by the sacred words, and spoke of the beast with their children. Mammon awoke, and
lo! it was naught but a follower.
• The twins of Mammon quarrelled. Their warring plunged the world into a new darkness, and the beast
abhorred the darkness. So it began to move swiftly, and grew more powerful, and went forth and multiplied.
And the beasts brought fire and light to the darkness.
• Where would you see these verses?

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• The game has been invented by two French entrepreneurs Aurélien and
Samuel and the arena on, which players stand on to play, is 6.60m by
3.60m and costs 3,900 Euros to build.
• Samuel said: "It's only the start of the development of the game and we
have 10 across France and we are now starting to our marketing
campaigns across Europe with a lot of projects and interest being shown
in your very own country but also in Italy, Spain, Germany and
Belgium. We know this game will be popular when beer is involved in
public houses and beer gardens and we know England has a lot of great
venues to house it and we are aiming for a UK tournament in 2015.”
• Which game?

7. Snookball

8. 4
• One of the audio sources Lipsett sampled for 21-87 was a
conversation between artificial intelligence pioneer Warren S.
McCulloch and Roman Kroitor, a cinematographer who went on to
develop IMAX. In the face of McCulloch's arguments that living
beings are nothing but highly complex machines, Kroitor insists that
there is something more. This is the origin of the term X.
• Dominus vobiscum, a Latin phrase meaning “_____”, is an ancient
salutation and blessing traditionally used by the clergy in the
Roman Catholic Mass, as well as in the liturgies of other Western
Christian denominations. This is believed to be the origin of phrase
Y.
• Identify X and Y.

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• X- Force
• Y- May the Force be with you

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• X never went to school; as X’s mother believed it destroyed the brain
and ruined the eyes.
• Instead, X studied history and X’s father taught mathematics until he
died. As a teenager, X was heavily influenced by the novelist Eden
Phillpotts, whom X would visit regularly.
• X was inspired to write when X’s sister challenged X to a bet which
she lost in a spectacular fashion.
• Which book was the result of the bet?

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• The Mysterious Affair at Styles

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• X was born in the suburbs of London, England, on
November 1. Her height is described as five apples and her
weight as three apples.
• X is portrayed with a large family. Her twin sister Mimmy
is described as "shy and very girly," interested in sewing
and dreaming of marriage. Their father George is described
as dependable, humorous but also absent-minded. Their
mother Mary is portrayed as a good cook who loves doing
housework. Grandpa Anthony likes to tell stories and
Grandma Margaret likes sewing. Dear Daniel is X's
childhood friend.

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• It was invented in 1957 when Alfred Fielding and Marc
Chavannes sewed two shower curtains together. Their plan
was to create a wallpaper that would have some space within.
The wallpaper was a flop, and the two inventors went back to
the drawing board, where they decided to sell the wallpaper as
a greenhouse insulator. That also failed. Later on, a marketer
called Frederick Bowers advertised it to IBM for their IBM
1401 computers during shipping. IBM bought the idea and
used it.
• By what name do we know the ‘wallpaper’ which can also be
used to save the life f someone suffering from hypothermia?

15. 7
• Bubble -wrap

16. These currency coins have been introduced by X to combat oil prices among other
reasons. X?

17. 8
• ISIS

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• X was born a Quaker. At the time, the conservative Protestant
Quakers were known for dressing very plainly, in dark clothes
without adornment or jewellery. So it was quite the scandal when
he bought his mother a pair of red stockings for her birthday. X
thought they were blue—as did his brother, indicating that the
issue was genetic. X was an accomplished scholar, but his theory
on color blindness was all wrong. He believed that the fluid in his
eyes merely had a blue tint. X’s dedication to science, however,
ran so deep that he instructed a lab assistant to squeeze the fluid
out of his eye after his death to test whether it was blue.
• Id X and give his most important contribution to the field of
science.

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• John Dalton’s Atomic theory

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• Pandav warrior chief Arjun had been told by Sri Krishna to initiate meditation
before the X to seek blessing to win battle. Arjun initiated mediation thereafter and
bowed his head while chanting ‘Jambookatak Chityaishu Nityam Sannihitalaye’.
• The story of X further examines facts like the gestures of winning Pandavas in the
form of building huge temples at Kol Kandoli and Bhawan to venerate their
gratefulness for this miraculous X whose charisma they had seen. The nearby
mountain located close to the Trikuta Mountain supervises the place whose five
stone structures might symbolize the Pandavas, explain the researchers.
• Other important reference that is oldest in nature indeed is the sign of Guru Gobind
Singh’s visit in the X. It is said that this place has become famous due to his visit.
• X?

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• Vaishno Devi Temple

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The image shows locations of
Dead Drops.
’Dead Drops’, a five-year-old
project created by Berlin media
artist Aram Bartholl.
Bartholl was a resident at the
Eyebeam Art and Technology
Center in Manhattan, when he
started Dead Drops, in 2010.
His idea was based on a
technique used by spies to pass
items between them using a
secret location.
What is Dead Drops?

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• "I didn't direct or produce the movie
• My spiritual experiences of working on the film are very
personal and I would prefer not to share these.”
• "I am not a scholar of Islam. I follow the middle path
and am part traditional and part rationalist. I live in the
Western and Eastern worlds and try to love all people
for what they are, without judging them.”
• This is a series of tweets by someone . Who and to what
is the person replying to?

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• AR Rehman on the fatwa against him.

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• A bamboo cutter was going about his daily task when he stumbled across something very strange
and unusual. A tiny baby no bigger than his own thumb was gazing up at him from inside the
bamboo he was busy cutting. Seeing how beautiful the tiny baby was, he took her home to his wife
so that they could raise her as their own.
• Soon after, the bamboo cutter started making more discoveries while working. Every time he cut a
piece of bamboo, he found a gold nugget inside it. After a short while, the bamboo cutter and his
family were very rich. The little girl grew into a stunning young woman. The bamboo cutter and his
wife had learned in the meantime that the girl named was sent from the Moon to Earth so that she
would be protected from a war raging there. Because of her beauty, had several marriage proposals,
even from the emperor, but she declined all of them in her quest to get back home to the Moon.
• When her own Moon people finally came to take her home, the emperor was so distressed at the
prospect of losing her that he sent his own men to fight her true family. However, a blinding light
sent them reeling. As a parting gift, the Moon princess sent the emperor a special letter and an
immortality elixir which he refused to drink. He, in turn, wrote her a letter and requested that his
men take it to X and burn it along with the elixir ,in the hopes of the letter reaching the moon.
• This is the story behind the origin of X. X?

27. 13
• Mount FujiYama

28. These are
images of the
interior of
Norwegian
and
Canadian
passports.
What is so
special about
them?

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• Zabibah and the King is believed to have been written with
the help of ghostwriters.
• The Fortified Castle is another allegorical work.
• Men and the City
• Begone, Demons
• The author of all these books is ‘He who wrote it’.All these
books were bestsellers. Who is this person?

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• Saddam F*****g Hussein

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• In 1502, Columbus was stranded on the north coast of
Jamaica. His crew decided that the best way to get help was
through plundering the local villages. Of course, the natives
responded with hostility, forcing Columbus to figure out a
way to stave them off before they killed him and his
outnumbered crew.Gambling, Columbus bluffed to the
natives, telling them that if they did not help him out, X
would happen. He had a copy of Regiomontanus’s almanac,
the Ephemerides using which he was able to fool the natives
and buy enough time to fix his ships.
• How did he fool the natives? The idea has been made famous
in one of Tintin’s stories.

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• He predicted an eclipse which frightened the natives

35. • This letter is a source of great astonishment and
surprise to everyone and was recently discovered by
a newspaper and talks about a man named Ernst
Hess. What is so special about this letter?

36. • It details Hitler’s orders not to kill Hess, a Jew as he
was Hitler’s commanding officer during WW1.

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• It turns out that the adaptation that allows X to live through
these trying conditions is their ability to enter a dehydrated
state that closely resembles death. When encountering
stresses, a X curls up into a dry, lifeless ball called a tun,
reducing its metabolic activity to as low as .01 percent of
normal levels. In order to do so, tardigrades produce
trehalose, a special protective sugar that forms a gel-like
medium that suspends and preserves the organelles and
membranes that make up the animal’s cells.
• X and reason they have become famous.

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• Tardigrades .
• They can survive even in space.

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• This test gauges whether a computer-based synthesized voice can
tell a joke with sufficient skill to cause people to laugh. It was
proposed by X at the 2011 TED conference as a challenge to
software developers to have a computerized voice master the
inflections, delivery, timing, and intonations of a speaking human.
• X employed CereProc, which custom-tailors text-to-speech
software for voiceless customers who record their voices at length
before losing them, and mined tapes and DVD commentaries
featuring X to create a voice that sounded more like his own voice.
• Identify X. The test is named after him.

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• Ebert Test

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• X was established February 16, 1973 by Y with the birth of Mascom, an ambitious
telecommunications network located in the heart of India. After ten years of perfecting
their technology Mascom was on air by 1983, and from 1983 to 1991 had become a
household name with forty-five channels covering the Indian subcontinent. 1992 saw the
untimely passing of X whose success was passed down to his son Simon.
• Simon went on to expand Mascom's services, however it was the founding of the X Oil
sector in Abu Dhabi in 1996 that put the X Global Corporation on the world business
radar. Despite being one of the youngest oil companies in operation, this division of the X
Corporation generated the third largest income of revenue for any business between the
years 1997 to 2004. Today, the X Global Corporation has holdings in both the commercial
and industrial sectors, ranging from oil, telecom, mining, construction, engineering, real
estate, technology, and health care. Currently one of the world's leading Fortune 500
companies, X growth continues to expand, helping to fuel the world's economy.
• This text has been taken from the website of X. X and who owns the website?

42. MASRANI COMPANY

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• SPS Tomar, Under Secretary to the Ministry has replied that there was no
such record available in his archive.
• "I haven't come across any official order or notification in the ministry
saying X. It is known to be X in general parlance," Tomar has stated.
• "I had asked the government when X was declared. The question assumes
significance in the backdrop of the fact that we have been learning since
Class I that X. We attach this with our nationalism.”
• The query was filed by a class-VII student, Aishwarya Parashar. An earlier
query by the girl had revealed that the government does not have any
specific document to prove whether Mahatma Gandhi was conferred the
“Father of the nation” title.
• What was the RTI filed?

44. • Hockey is our national game.