4. Q2. X?
X (nakshatra), a lunar mansion in Indian astronomy corresponding to Aldebaran
X Devi, a consort of Vasudeva and mother of Balarama and Subhadra in Hindu mythology
X Hattangadi, is an Indian actress of film, theatre and television. She has won two Filmfare Awards, one
National Film Award, and is the only Indian actress to win the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting
Role for her performance as Kasturba Gandhi in Gandhi (1982)
X (satellite), a series of Indian space satellites
X sounding rocket series, Indian rockets developed for meteorological and atmospheric study purposes
X Sub City, a residential sub city in Northwest Delhi
X (actress), actor from south Indian films, notably Malayalam and Tamil films during the 1980s and 1990s
X River, in South Central Nepal, tributary to the West Rapti River
X (West Bengal), a village in West Bengal, India
6. Q3. XY
The name X Y is sort of redudant since the latter half of both X and Y in Urdu
refers to an area. The suffix of X means "The area or environment where an
organism or ecological community normally lives with reference to the name", so X
is literally the area of the King, or rather settlement of the King (misleadingly
enough). But Y’s suffix also misleadingly means walled city in Hindi. So XY
becomes the Area of the King in the City of Wealth or the Settlement of the Kind in
the Walled City of Wealth. XY?
8. Q4.
X (17 June 1887 – 17 February 1968) was a prominent politician of India. He was the Governor of Odisha
and West Bengal, the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, the Union Law Minister, the Union Home
Minister and the Union Defence Minister. He was also one of India's most prominent lawyers. He was part
of some of the most riveting cases of his times, including the famous INA trials. X joined the freedom
struggle against the British rule in India early on and spent several years incarcerated with fellow freedom
fighters.
While most of us here have heard the name X often enough, his grandson Y, who served as the Chief
Justice of the Delhi and Madras High Courts, as well as one of the judges of the Supreme Court. The
reason for his fame however are his eloquent rants on social media which often address contemporary
Indian issues in a Bipartisan manner. These rants, or posts are often in an eloquent combination of Urdu,
Hindi and English.
Question is, why would we have heard the name X very often?
9. Q4.
X= K.N. Katju; the road leading to Rohini Sectors 16 and 17 from Rithala bears his
name
Y= Markande Katju
10. Q5. Who is Artem Vaulin?
Artem Vaulin, a 30 year old from Ukraine was finally traced because of a legal
purchase he made before continuing maintenance at his work place. Why is the
way he was traced special, OR what was his place of work?
11. Q5.
He ran Kick Ass Torrents, but was caught due to a legal iTunes purchase made by
him
12. Q6. Who? Or What Company?
Due to the economic climate in the Weimar Republic, he had to declare
Bankruptcy right in the infancy of the company that bears his name. However
because of an agreement with his creditors and the founder’s membership in the
Nazi Party, his business thrived right uptill the end of WWII. During this time he
supplied uniforms for the Third Reich, often using slave labour from occupied
countries to expand output. Due to these activities a 1946 judgment at Nuremberg
stripped him of his voting rights and his capacity to run a business and fined him
heavily.
Only then did his son-in-law take control of the company, and, after a first ever
order in the 1950s, finally start production on what the company is famous for.
Who? OR What Company?
14. Q7. FITB
In a review on India Today’s online website, critic Devarsi Ghosh has absolutely
destroyed the movie in question, with a review titled “India’s first stoner film does
not ___ ___ ____”. An excerpt from the same follows:
“Agneya Singh's _______ is painfully boring. One wishes if there were a better, less
offensive, classier and subtler way to say it, but sadly, a person would be
hard-pressed to find words that could better explain the film than "painfully
boring".
Name the movie, and complete the title of the review
22. Q10.
The Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) and National
Centre for Radio Astrophysics - Tata Institute for Fundamental Research
(NCRA-TIFR), two of the best institutions for astrophysics in India, are situated
opposite to one another on the same road (image follows).
What is the name of this road? #notkolstylz
26. Q11.
Cineflix (a youtube channel) recently came out a 3 minute video referencing a
movie. Look at these screen grabs from the video, and tell me what movie?
33. Q12.
The Transatlantic Pyramid is the tallest skyscraper in San Francisco, but more
interestingly buried just a few feet away from it’s base is a California Historical
Landmark that all of us have heard about. What?
#TCQ
36. Q13.
Fragrance of Peace is a collection of 12 poems translated from the poets
language of Meiteilon, the proceeds of which have gone to supporting the poet in
their long struggle. It was published on the 10th anniversary of the beginning of
the poets’ struggle. Who is the poet?
37. Q13. Poet?
When life comes to its end
You, please transport
My lifeless body
Place it on the soil of Father Koubru
To reduce my dead body
To cinders amidst the flames
Chopping it with axe and spade
Fills my mind with revulsion
The outer cover is sure to dry out
Let it rot under the ground
Let it be of some use to future generations
Let it transform into ore in the mine
I’ll spread the fragrance of peace
From Kanglei, my birthplace
In the ages to come
It will spread all over the world.
39. Q14.
In the following strips of Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin’s face has been swapped with
someone else’s to show the resemblance between their arguments, temperament
and levels of maturity. Whose face has replaced Calvins?
45. Q15.
From early last year IRCTC has tied up with vendors at various stations to provide
delivery of food from their establishments to your train seat when the train is at a
particular station.
While this service started with one particular vendor and was only available when
the order was placed at least 30 minutes in advance, for delivery at a few stations
where it’s outlets were already established, it has now has spread to multiple
stations and multiple vendors. Which vendor did they start with?
47. Q16. FITB
A _____ ____ is a monotone colour graphic at the beginning of the trailer. Until
April 2009, these cards indicated that they had been approved for "all audiences"
and often included the movie's MPAA rating. In April 2009, the MPAA began to
permit the _____ ____ language to say that a trailer had been approved for
"appropriate" audiences, meaning that the material would be appropriate for
audiences in theaters, based on the content of the film they had come to see.
Trailers that do not adhere to MPAA guidelines may be issued a ___ ____, which
indicates approval for only "restricted" or "mature" audiences.
49. Q17.
In a barren lime quarry on an island about 12 kilometres off the coast of the
mainland, a group of political prisoners built a university in the 1960s - not of
bricks and mortar, but of intellectual debate carried out despite the attentions of
the warders keeping the men imprisoned.
The institution became known as the "Robben Island University" and allowed
prisoners to lecture on their respective areas of expertise and debate wide-ranging
topics including homosexuality and Marxism.
The prisoners had to work outdoors in the isolated lime quarry where, when left to
themselves, they discussed their different views and taught each other what they
knew.,
Who started this “University”?
51. Q18.
In 2015 Biswaswar Nandi narrowly missed out on being recommended for the
Dronacharya Award, because he only had one student. That being said, this year
it is inconceivable that he will miss out on the recommendation. Who is his
student?
53. Q19.
New England chicken farmers generally sold poultry in the month of march, so the
poultry born in the springtime yielded better earnings than the poultry that survived
the winter. Sometimes, farmers tried to sell old birds for the price of a young bird.
Clever buyers complained that the fowl was “__ ______ _______,” and the term
came to represent anyone past their prime.
55. Q20.X
X is a cocktail made with gin and vermouth, and garnished with an olive or a
lemon twist. Over the years, the X has become one of the best-known mixed
alcoholic beverages. While it has many variations, ranging from replacing the gin
with vodka to make a vodka X, to the version popularized by Eva Green.
57. Q21. X or what has he built?
The owner of a cocktail bar in the UK has turned to physics in an attempt to force
his customers to actually talk to other instead of just staring at social media all
night.
Steve Tyler, who owns the Gin Tub in East Sussex, has built his very own X using
silver and copper mesh around the establishment to block mobile phone signals
from entering the building.
"It's not the perfect system, it's not military grade," Tyler explained. "I just wanted
people to enjoy a night out in my bar, without being interrupted by their phones."
"Rather than asking them not to use their phones, I stopped the phones working,"
he added.
59. Q22.
The trend of success in one startup venture spiralling on to success in other
ventures is not exclusive to the USA, one can see an example of the same in India
as well. While the USA has its XZ, with companies such as Yelp, Palantir,
LinkedIn and Tesla Motors to show, India has it’s YZ, accompanied by companies
such as GoodBox, MediaAnt, TouringTalking and SnaxSmart.
Give me X and Y.
61. Q23. Megaconnect +60/-30
He is a right-handed middle order batsman. Xhas
represented India in One Day International matches. In first
class cricket, he captains Vidarbha now and captained Tamil
Nadu and in the Indian Premier League, he is a former
Chennai Super Kings player.
X signed for the Indian Premier League side Chennai Super
Kings in 2008, but he gained the selectors attention only
during the 2011 IPL season, playing an important role in the
team's success and becoming known as "Mr Dependable" for
Chennai Super Kings.
Who?
63. Q24. Mega Connect +40/-20
In 2009, the Maldives government held the first ever official _________ cabinet
meeting as part of an international movement organized by 350.org to draw global
attention to the pressing issue of climate change.
To call attention to their country’s plight as a nation already feeling the effects of
climate change, ministers ratified a statement calling for rapid greenhouse gas
reductions – they communicated by the use of hand signals and wrote on slates.
The statement was presented at the UN climate change talks in Copenhagen that
December.
FITB
67. Q26.Megaconnect +10/-0
X is a town in the Ramanathapuram district in the South Indian state of Tamil
Nadu. It is located on Pamban Island separated from mainland India by the
Pamban channel and is about 50 kilometres from Mannar Island, Sri Lanka.
It is thus the closest Indian town to Sri Lanka. It is said that this is the place from
where the Hindu god Rama built a bridge across the sea to Lanka to rescue his
wife Sita from her abductor Ravana.
Recently this place was in the news for the funeral rites of APJ Abdul Kalam.
