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1
• The French Controller-General of Finances
under Louis XV, faced with a severe budget
crisis, was forced to resort to stringent
measures for thrift at the national level. His
name became a byword in France for cost-
cutting. At around the same time, those not
very well-to-do were opting for a cheaper
alternative to having their portraits painted,
and this art form came to be known by the
miserly bureaucrat’s name. What was it?

2
• This movie is about a small mining town in Wales
at the turn of the century. A town where
unbreakable men emerge pitch black from the
pits every evening singing folk songs as they walk
back home. Here, money is kept in a tin-box on
the mantelpiece in the drawing room as there are
no banks! The Morgan family is the movie’s focal
point. It’s through them that the director
investigates the social change and the wreckage it
leaves behind. This movie won five Oscars in the
1940’s. Identify the movie. Why is it more
famous?!

• Napoleon’s invasion of Russia

4
• X is a classical Japanese dance-drama. X theatre is known for the
stylization of its drama and for the elaborate make-up worn by
some of its performers. The individual kanji characters, from left to
right, mean sing , dance , and skill . X is therefore sometimes
translated as "the art of singing and dancing." These are, however,
ateji characters which do not reflect actual etymology. The kanji of
'skill' generally refers to a performer in x theatre. Since the word X
is believed to derive from a verb meaning "to lean" or "to be out of
the ordinary", X can be interpreted as "avant-garde" or "bizarre"
theatre. The three main categories of X play are jidai-mono, sewa-
mono and shosagoto. The expression X-mono referred originally to
those who were bizarrely dressed and swaggered on a street.
Incidentally, the name X also appears on the title of a comic of
Nagraj.

5
• Barrage balloons over London during World
War II. X observed balloons like these floating
over the city in 1941. X recalls that his earliest
idea for the story Y may have originated with
this scene, with the giant balloons
becoming____ , an integral part in the novel.

X- Arthur C. Clarke
Y-Childhood’s End

6
• ONE: ‘You shall have no other gods before Me, except Sachin and maybe Sunil.’
• TWO: ‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image–any likeness of anything
that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water
under the earth. Infact don’t carve anything that is not wide outside off stump.’
• THREE: ‘You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, so if you stub
your toe, try to not say Oh X.’
• FOUR: ‘Remember the 3rd day, the pitch is often at it’s best.’
• FIVE: ‘Honor your father and your mother, and your sponsors.’
• SIX: ‘You shall not murder, exceptions made for opening bowlers, spinners and
probots.’
• SEVEN: ‘You shall not commit quick singles.’
• EIGHT: ‘You shall not be worrying about playing and missing.’
• NINE: ‘You shall not bear false witness against the BCCI.’
• TEN: ‘You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your
neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his
donkey, but if he bowls a wide half volley hit it like it stole your donkey or ox.’
The Ten Commandments of which religion?

7
• In legal parlance, X is a term of art from older family law. The word
X is plural, meaning "things beyond the dowry". X were
the separate property of a married woman, such
as clothing and jewellery "appropriate to her station", but excluding
the assets that may have been included in her dowry. The term
originated in Roman law, but ultimately comes from Greek.
• The legal concept of X in this sense is an important plot
point in Anthony Trollope's novel The Eustace Diamonds. In the
novel, it was a matter of some consequence whether the title
jewellery was an heirloom, property of the heirs, or a woman's X,
freely alienable by her. Changes in family law and inheritance
law mirroring trends in the wider society, such as the
several Married Woman's Property Acts of the various common law
jurisdictions, have generally rendered the legal concept of X
obsolete. X?

8
• Curse of the X refers to an urban legend regarding a
reputed curse placed on the Japanese Kansai-based Hanshin
Tigers baseball team by X. The curse was said to be placed on the
team because of the X's anger over treatment of one of his store-
front statues. The Curse is used to explain the Japan Championship
Series drought that the Hanshin Tigers have had to endure since
their first and only victory in the 1985 Japan Championship. The
curse is said to have happened when Hanshin fans, excited over
winning the 1985 championship series, tossed the statue of X into
the Dotonbori River. Since then, fans have said they would never
win another Japan Series until the statue was recovered. Although
the statue was finally discovered in the Dōtonbori River on March
10, 2009, the Tigers are yet to win another championship.

9
• The legend relates that once upon a time, at the end of
Duvarparyoga, soon after the creation of the world,
Brahma suffered a fit of divine amnesia and forgot all
the Vedas and sacred scriptures. In order to remember
them He performed a series of yogic exercises and
austerities, before diving into the Yamuna. Soon
afterwards, during the monsoon when the waters were
in full spate, the flooded river miraculously threw up
the sacred texts on the right bank of the river. The
place where the river washed up the scriptures was
named_______, the Bank of Sacred Knowledge

10
• “Dear First Lady, I recently read your criticism of my
family. I was deeply hurt. Heaven knows we're far from
perfect and, if truth be known, maybe just a wee bit
short from normal; but as Dr. Seuss says, "a person is a
person". I try to teach my children always to give
somebody the benefit of the doubt and not talk badly
about them, even if they're rich. It's hard to get them
to understand this advice when the very First Lady in
the country calls us not only dumb, but "the dumbest
thing" she ever saw. I hope there is some way out of
this controversy. I thought, perhaps, it would be a good
start to just speak my mind.”
• Who to whom?

11
• “No man is an island, entire of itself; every
man is a piece of the continent, a part of the
main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory
were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of
thine own were: any man's death diminishes
me, because I am involved in mankind, and
therefore never send to
know_____________.”

13
• During the recent financial crisis, a number of nonbank financial
companies acquired bank subsidiaries to become bank holding
companies, thereby becoming subject to Federal Reserve
regulation, but also making them eligible for funding under the
Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. As the crisis passed, several
of these companies sought to return the TARP funding, divest
themselves of their banking subsidiaries, and return to their
unregulated status. In an effort to maintain Federal Reserve control
over these companies, the
Financial Reform Act provides that bank holding companies with
$50 billion or more in assets as of January 1, 2010 that received
TARP funds will not be able to avoid Federal Reserve supervision by
divesting themselves of their bank subsidiaries and ceasing to be
bank holding companies. This limitation on the impact of "de-
banking" has been called the X provision. X?

14
• The X number describes the "collaborative distance" between a person and mathematician X as
measured by authorship of mathematical papers.It was created by friends as a humorous tribute to
the enormous output of X, one of the most prolific modern writers of mathematical papers, and
has become well-known in scientific circles as a tongue-in-cheek measurement of mathematical
prominence.To be assigned an X number, an author must co-write a mathematical paper with an
author with a finite X number. X has an X number of zero. Anybody else's X number is k +
1 where k is the lowest X number of any co author.
• The Y number of an actor or actress is the number of degrees of separation he or she has from
Bacon, as defined by the game. The higher the Y number, the farther away from Y the actor is.
• The computation of a Y number for any actor is a "shortest path" algorithm:
• Y himself has a Y number of 0.
• The Y number of actors who have worked directly with Y is 1.
• If the lowest Y number of any actor with whom the actor has appeared in a movie is N, That actor's
Y number is N + 1
• A person's X-Y number is the sum of one's X number and one's Y number. The lower the number,
the closer a person is to X and Y, and this reflects a small world phenomenon in academia and
entertainment. Notable scientists with defined X-Y numbers include popular string theorist Brian
Greene (who has an X–Y number of 5), astronomer Carl Sagan and theoretical physicist Stephen
Hawking. One of the best-known actors with a number is actress Natalie Portman, whose
authorship of a psychology paper during her Harvard degree in psychology earned her an X–Y
number of 6

15
• "He's just run in and clipped his (Assou-
Ekotto's) heels. He hasn't stuck his leg out. It
was [like] X and Y wasn't it? What can you do
about that? He hasn't broken his stride.”
• Harry Redknapp talking about Rafael da Silva’s
red card in the Man Utd-Tottenham game on
16th Jan,2011. Which infamous sporting
incident is he referencing in his post match
interview?

Hachette

Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette

Simon and Garfunkel + Berndt Schuster

1
• The X was issued by Adolf Hitler on March 19, 1945 ordering the
destruction of German infrastructure to prevent their use by Allied forces
as they penetrated deep within Germany. It was officially
titled Demolitions on Reich Territory and has subsequently become
known as the X.
• Its most pertinent section reads as follows:
• "It is a mistake to think that transport and communication facilities,
industrial establishments and supply depots, which have not been
destroyed, or have only been temporarily put out of action, can be used
again for our own ends when the lost territory has been recovered. The
enemy will leave us nothing but scorched earth when he withdraws,
without paying the slightest regard to the population. I therefore order:
• "All military transport and communication facilities, industrial
establishments and supply depots, as well as anything else of value within
Reich territory, which could in any way be used by the enemy immediately
or within the foreseeable future for the prosecution of the war, will be
destroyed."

3
• X is Rembrandt's painting from the collection of Pierre
Crozat which from the 18th century resides in the
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. It depicts the
character X from Greek mythology, the mother of
Perseus. She is presumably depicted as welcoming
Zeus, who impregnated her in the form of a shower of
gold. Given that this is one of Rembrandt's most
magnificent painting, it is not out of the question that
he cherished it, but it also may have been difficult to
sell because of its eight-by-ten-foot size. Although the
artist's wife Saskia was the original model for Danaë,
Rembrandt later changed the figure's face to that of his
mistress Geertje Dircx.

• Hitler Masturbating- Salvador Dali

Beowulf is
challenged by a The barrow of Skalunda, a barrow
• A 1908 depiction of Beowulf that was identified by the
Danish coast • fighting the unnamed dragon by J. R. Skelton.
guard, Evelyn Paul archaeologist Birger Nerman as
(1911). Beowulf's burial mound

7

martha

• Emily Donelson

Sarah Lane

Mary Elizabeth
Harriet lane

First Ladies who were never First
Ladies

8
• Sandra Torres tearily announced on Thursday
that she had divorced her husband President
Alvaro Colam(Guatemala) though they led a
perfectly cordial married life. What was the
actual reason behind the split??

• The constitutional clause in Guatemala
prevents family members of the presidents
from taking power.Shes going to run for the
elections

9
• X understands puns, anagrams, and word play
and has memorized every Shakespeare
soliloquy, major river and World capital on
Earth. X has been especially been noted after
the Valentine’s Day this year after X’s famous
date with two people. Identify X and give the
funda.

10
• Apt Pupil (1982 novella), also published in
Different Seasons
• The Body (1982 novella, also published in
Different Seasons)
• It (1986 novel)
• Needful Things (1991 novel)
• Dolores Claiborne (1992 novel)
• Bag of Bones (1998 novel)
• Blaze (2007 novel)
• Under the Dome (2009 novel)

11
• General Zia-ul-Haq brought with him harsh censorship to
the Pakistani Film Industry. Films dropped from a total
output of 98 films in 1979, of which 42 were in Urdu, to
only 58 films (26 in Urdu) in 1980. The filmmakers that
remained employed flaccid storylines to present Punjabi
cult classics like Maula Jatt in 1979, telling the story of a x-
carrying protagonist waging a blood-feud with a local
gangster. Growing censorship policies against displays of
affection, rather than violence, came as a blow to the
industry and as a result violence-ridden Punjabi films
prevailed and overshadowed the Urdu cinema. The middle
class neglected the 'increasingly dilapidated and rowdy
cinemas'. This film sub-culture came to be known as the ‘x
y’ in the local industry.

12
•
• They are an initiative to encourage and honor acts of bravery in
society, started in 2010. The award winners were awarded in the
presence of distinguished guests, and celebrities in a grand function
in Mumbai. The idea of the these Awards is to recognize and honor
the feats of people who have performed selfless acts of bravery for
the benefit of their fellow citizens and provide a platform to
encourage the new generation to be courageous and brave. Many
brave deeds go unnoticed and this award becomes a platform for
them. The winner was given Rs. 1 lakh while the runner up received
Rs. 50,000. The jury panel consists of personalities including:
Gerson Da Cunha, who is an actor, social worker and an author;
Aushtosh, managing editor of IBN 7; Shanta Gokhale, writer,
translator, cultural critic and theatre historian; and Kavita Karkare,
the wife of 26/11 martyr Hemant Karkare. Salman Khan was the
special guest of honour at these awards.

13
• born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh on 25 December
1861 his ancestors, known for
their Sanskrit scholarship, originally hailed from Y-Y is
derived from the name of the ancient Aryan tribe
about whom very little is known apart from the fact
that they created the Vikrama Samvat, a calendar
dating from 57 BC that is widely used in India and is
popularly associated with king Chandragupta
Vikramaditya. and hence came to be known as ‘X‘-
which later has parted its name to residential colonies
in some cities. He also founded a highly
influential, English-newspaper, The Leader published
from Allahabad in 1909.give X and Y.

14
• The latest design was invented in Auckland, New
Zealand by Morris Yock in the 50s and patented in
1957. However, this claim has recently been contested
by the children of John Cowie who was an England-
raised businessman who started a plastics
manufacturing business in Hong Kong after the World
War II. His children claim that it was Cowie that started
manufacturing a plastic version of them in the late
1940s and that Yock was just a New Zealand importer.
They are known as thongs in Australia, Plakkies in
South Africa, and go-aheads in the South Pacific. In
parts of Texas they are known as clam diggers. What?

15
• At a great party at the Imperial Harem,B
persuaded Y that it would be an amusing joke to
send an object to X,which was dispatched the
very next day with I`tibar Khan .
• Niccolao Manucci writes of this incident-
• I`tibar Khan ,the chief eunuch,waited till X had sat
down for his dinner to present him with the
`souvenir`.X eagerly awaited to see what Y had
sent him but when the object was revealed
before X ,it left him horrified and apparently
lifeless.

17
• XY i Acosta is a Catalan Spanish chef born on May 14, 1962 in
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat. He is the head chef of the Z restaurant in
Roses on the Costa Brava, and is considered one of the best chefs in
the world. XY began his culinary career in 1980 during his stint as a
dishwasher at the Hotel Playafels, in the town of Castelldefels. The
chef de cuisine at this hotel taught him traditional Spanish cuisine.
At 19 he was drafted into military service where he worked as a
cook. XY is often associated with "molecular gastronomy”, his
stated goal is to "provide unexpected contrasts of flavour,
temperature and texture. Nothing is what it seems. The idea is to
provoke, surprise and delight the diner." He has introduced quite a
few unusual dishes. Unusual dishes that have been criticized
include frozen whisky sour candy, white garlic and almond sorbet,
tobacco-flavoured blackberry crushed ice and Kellogg's paella (Rice
Krispies, shrimp heads and vanilla-flavoured mashed potatoes).

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