3. ID X
In the 2012 Armenian general election, a section of the
youth was frustrated with the candidates.
Many of them started using __X__'s name as an almighty
character; the sort of leader they needed in their country.
During election campaigns __X__'s photos often appeared
alongside the real candidates.
As the Electoral Code of Armenia does not envisage
“against all” option on the ballot, young voters added
__X__'s name by hand and voted for him.
15. Which summit?
● The first 'summit' meeting was held in Belgrade in
1961, and India has hosted it too, in 1983. The
previous one was in Sharm El Shaikh, Egypt.
● Usually held three years apart, the latest edition was
held in Tehran in August 2012. (Fittingly, the US has
complained about the UN Secretary General's visit to
the summit and thus Iran.)
● The summits have lost a lot of popularity in India,
although they were really popular when they started
off
18. ●
__X__ is a British comic strip which started on 17th March
1951. It featured a boy __A__ and his dog __B__
● In a staggering coincidence, another comic strip named
__X__ debuted on 12th March 1951 in the US. Even it
was about a boy named __A__ and his dog
● Neither artist knew about the other development across
the ocean when they launched their own strip, and hence
no lawsuit was filed
● To avoid confusion, the US version is marketed in UK
under the name __A__ and the UK version gets the
name __A__ and __B__ outside UK
24. ● On 30 December 1995, in a match against Hibernian F.C,
Paul Gascoigne of Rangers was booked by the referee for a
certain action.
● This action was much to the amusement of the 44,692 fans
form both clubs in the stadium
● On being questioned later, the referee Dougie Smith replied
“He might be able to take the fucking piss out of you, but he’s
not taking the fucking piss out of me”
● What was the offending action?
36. ● Poseidon had given a white bull to Minos so that he might use it
as a sacrifice. Instead, Minos kept it for himself; and in revenge,
Poseidon made his wife lust for the bull with the help of __A__.
She made the archetypal architect __C__ make a hollow
wooden cow, and climbed inside it to mate with the bull. This led
to the birth of __B__
● To contain the raging __B__, Minos had __C__ construct a
gigantic labyrinth where __B__ was trapped.
● As a sacrifice to Minos, the Athenians had to send seven young
men and maidens to __B__ every seven years. One such
sacrifice was Theseus, who volunteered to kill __B__
● __D__, daughter of Minos, was in charge of the labyrinth and
these sacrifices. However, she fell in love with Theseus and
offered him a __E__ to find his way out.
● The method of solving a logic puzzle or maze by exhaustive
application of logic to all possible routes is known as __D__'s
__E__
40. Quotes #1
1. 1932, that’s not a time, it sounds like my dad’s birthday
2. It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I
beat people up
3. In the end, it’s extra effort that separates a winner from
second place. But winning takes a lot more that, too. It starts
with complete command of the fundamentals. Then it takes
desire, determination, discipline, and self-sacrifice. And finally,
it takes a great deal of love, fairness and respect for your
fellow man. Put all these together, and even if you don’t win,
how can you lose?
4. Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,'
probably lost.
41. Quotes #2
5. Sportsmanship for me is when a guy walks off the court and
you really can't tell whether he won or lost, when he carries
himself with pride either way
6. Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes
and at the end, the Germans win
7. Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I'm
very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is
much, much more important than that.
8. Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you
can do for your teammates.
42. Quotes #3
9. Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours
of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little
girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back...
play for her.
10.An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run
with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
11.I spent 90 percent of my money on booze, birds and fast
cars. The rest I just squandered
12.I'm a big believer that the coach is something you travel in to
get to and from the game
46. X, who had migrated from Madras, and begun working as a
coolie at the Bombay port, went on to become a rich and
immensely influential man.
In the 70s, X ruled the Mumbai underworld, and made a
fortune in gold smuggling. It was license-permit Raj era, and
the smuggling of imported goods brought him immense riches
and as a result tremendous clout. However, he stayed away
from the dirty business - smuggling of weapons or narcotics.
After his arrest during the emergency, he started using the
prefix Y, which refers to those who have been on a pilgrimage
48. ● Trial Judge: The court has acquitted them because the Delhi police failed
to sustain the grounds on which they had built up their case. The police
failed to recover the weapon which was used to fire at __X__ as well as
prove their theory that the two cartridges, emptied shells of which were
recovered from the spot, were fired from one weapon
● High Court: With very great respect to the learned judge [Bhayana], we
point out that this manner of testing the credibility of the witness is hardly a
rule of appreciation of evidence. ... Obviously, this reflects total lack of
application of mind and suggests a hasty approach towards securing a
particular end, namely the acquittal
● Supreme Court: The evidence regarding the actual incident, the
testimonies of witnesses, the evidence connecting the vehicles and
cartridges to the accused — __Y__, as well as his conduct after the
incident prove his guilt beyond reasonable doubt. The High Court has
analysed all the evidence and arrived at the correct conclusion
50. X is a Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist convicted of conspiracy in the
December 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament and was sentenced
to death by the Supreme Court of India in 2004
The delay in __X__'s death sentence has raised several eyebrows,
despite muffled hints that he is being used by the government.
Recently the delay in __Y__'s sentence has been compared to that
of __X__
On 7th September 2011, a high intensity bomb blast outside Delhi
high court killed 11 people and left 76 others injured. In an e-mail
sent to a media house Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami, an Islamic
fundamentalist organization, owned responsibility for the attack and
claimed the blast was carried out in retaliation to Parliament attack
convict __X__'s death sentence.
65. ● Length of the marathon was decided. The
royal family wanted to witness the start of the
race, so the race was from the Windsor castle
to the Olympic Stadium
71. ● Fosbury Flop, which has become standard in
high jumps these days
72. ● The 1980 games were
boycotted by twenty four
countries, and fifteen of
the participating
countries marched
under the Olympic flag.
● What were they
protesting against?
75. Identify
● This petite 17 year old
performed one of the most
stunning moves in
gymnastics history, which
has subsequently been
banned after being
considered too dangerous.
● The judges received a lot of
flak from the audience who
couldn't believe that she was
awarded just a 9.8
82. Since 1967, X, the world's
smallest micro-nation, has
been occupied by the former
British Army Major Paddy Roy
Bates; his associates and
family claim that it is an
independent sovereign state.
In January 2007, Y attempted
to buy X after harsher
copyright measures in Sweden
forced them to look for a base
of operations elsewhere.
85. What's being talked about?
Before becoming a living ___ platter, the person (usually
a woman) is trained to lie down for hours without moving.
She or he must also be able to withstand the prolonged
exposure to the cold food. Before service, the individual
is supposed to have taken a bath using a special
fragrance-free soap and then finished off with a splash of
cold water to cool the body down somewhat for the ___.
In some parts of the world, in order to comply with
sanitation laws, there must be a layer of plastic or other
material between the ___ and the body of the woman or
man.
91. What?
In the 18th and early 19th centuries, the growing English sea port of
__X__ became fabulously wealthy and most of that wealth was
earned by city businessmen and sea captains who took cheap trade
goods to the west coast of Africa and exchanged them for men,
women and children whom they then shipped off to the West Indies
James __Y__ was one of the leading protagonists in the battle
against the abolition of slavery.
in 2006 a well-meaning city councillor proposed that all the streets
named after slave traders should be re-named.
However, it could not be carried out because a road named after
James __Y__ had gained worldwide fame for a completely
unrelated reason.
96. ● HK drives on the left, China on the right. The
bridge flips the traffic
97. ● Twin brothers Reginald and Ronald Kray were the foremost
perpetrators of organized crime in London's East End during the
50's and the 60's
● "They were the best years of our lives. They called them the
swinging sixties. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones were rulers of
pop music, Carnaby Street ruled the fashion world... and me and
my brother ruled London. We were fucking untouchable..." – Ronnie
Kray
● What lasting impression did the Kray brothers leave on the world of
literature?
99. ● He who must not be named. People were
scared to name the Kray brothers because the
retribution was so brutal.
100. ● The word __A__ comes from the Persian tale
“The three princes of __B__”
● __B__ was an old name for __C__, the name
possibly originates from the Sanskrit
Suvarnadweepa
● The heroes in the fairy tale were always
making discoveries, by accidents and
sagacity, of things they were not in quest of
103. Who?
● ''To be honest, X has provided as much marketing impetus to the
Big Bash League, probably only behind Shane Warne. If he doesn't
ever come, he has done more for this game, and Cricket Australia
should put a street parade for him already. Maybe some of the
people at marketing who are talking about it being a negative
should come and have a chat to me and see what we're actually
doing and not worry about it.''
● 'We don't in any circumstance want to devalue the competition from
a marketing point of view or just as a 'promo' or PR, that won't come
into it, but I think if you look at the bigger picture ... to have X, if he's
good enough to play a game and he wants to be with us, that's
pretty good, isn't it?''
105. ● Usain Bolt, who is being pursued by Warne
led Melbourne Stars
106. ● These two companies went public together at
the same time in 1971
● After a decade, the price of the shares of one
of the companies was double of that of the
other, so one analyst noted "This is proof that
stock markets prefer memory over mammary”
109. ● This practice is mentioned in the 1948 Vogue edition of the
Book of Etiquette as something that should never be used in
greeting cards. Although there is a misconception that the
origins of this were for the purposes of secularism, many
writers consider this practice a blasphemy against Christianity;
some going to the extent of equating it to a war against Jesus
Christ. What common practice are we talking about?
