cut off-9 team of two

1. • Originally published in 1865, X (science fiction) is by far
the most fascinating novel in the history of human
kind. The events hypothesized and described in the
novel bears uncanny resemblance to the events of
1969 which proved to be the greatest step for
mankind. Applauded for its ambitiousness, novel X acts
as a major source of inspiration for other works. Doctor
Emmett Brown from the popular culture movie – Back
to the Future III refers to this novel and demonstrates
his love for the content of this novel.
• Identify the novel X
QUESTION 1

2. ANSWER
• From the Earth to the Moon – Jules Verne

3. X originally wanted to call his forthcoming book Four and a Half
Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice
(translated name) but X’s publisher is said to have suggested the
much shorter “Y". X wrote Y in 2 volumes with Volume 1 being
published in 1925 and Volume 2 in 1926 .Though X originally wrote
this book mostly for his followers, it grew in popularity. The book
was in high demand in libraries and often reviewed and quoted in
other publications. X had made about 1.2 million ___ from the
income of his book in 1933, when the average annual income of a
teacher was about 4,800 ___. By 1939 the book had sold 5.2
million copies in eleven languages. ID Y
QUESTION 2

4. ANSWER
• Mein Kampf – Adolf Hitler

5. • This book contains account of a two-week
boat trip on Thames from Kingston to Oxford,
it was intended to be a serious travel guide
with accounts of local history along the route,
but it turned into a humorous and satirical
piece. Name the book.
QUESTION 3

6. ANSWER
• Three men in a boat

7. • The following art work by Nabil Kanso is an
artistic rendering of a famous tragedy. Identify
the tragedy.
QUESTION 4

9. ANSWER
• Othello – William Shakespeare

10. QUESTION 5

11. ANSWER
• Jingle Bells

12. CONNECT
•Mitra-bheda
•Mitra-samprāpti
•Kākolūkīyam
•Labdhapraṇāśam
•Aparīkṣitakārakaṃ
QUESTION 6

13. ANSWER
• Panch Tantra – The five disciplines of practical
wisdom.

14. Dr. Joseph Bell was a doctor in Victorian
England. He had a habit of asking his patients
a lot of questions about themselves, as well as
making observations regarding them. Rudyard
Kipling read the first X story and asked Y “ isn’t
he my old friend Mr. Joe?”- though Y’s
biography tells it was R. L. Stevenson who
spotted the similarity. He served as an
inspiration for one of his students Y to create
X. ID X
QUESTION 7

15. ANSWER
• Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle

16. • “X" is a poem by British Nobel laureate Y, written in
1895 and first published in Rewards and Fairies, 1910. It is a
tribute to Leander Starr Jameson. Jameson was
a British colonial politician who was best known for his
involvement in the Jameson Raid. In 1895, Jameson led
about 500 of his countrymen in what became known as
the Jameson Raid against the Boers in southern Africa. The
raids were a complete failure with Jameson forced to
surrender, but the story as recounted in Britain was quite
different. The British defeat was interpreted as a victory
and Jameson was portrayed as a daring hero. The Jameson
Raid was later cited by Winston Churchill as a major factor
in bringing about the Boer War of 1899 to 1902. ID Y.
QUESTION 8

17. ANSWER
• If – by Rudyard Kipling

18. QUESTION 9

19. ANSWER
• Malgudi, Malgudi Days by R.K. Narayan
“Malgudi is where we all belong, and where we
wish we lived.”

20. CONNECT
• Zabibah and the King (2000)
• The Fortified Castle (2001)
• Men and the City (2002)
• Begone, Demons (2003)
QUESTION 10

21. ANSWER
• All books were written by Saddam Hussein.

22. • X, widely known as _______ was a poet, philosopher, and
politician, as well as an academic, barrister and scholar. ". X
was born on 9 November 1877 in Sialkot within the Punjab
Province of British India (now in Pakistan). His grandparents
were Kashmiri pandits. In 1922, he was knighted by King
George V, granting him the title "Sir". X is widely regarded as
one of the best poets subcontinent has ever produced, with
his area of influence even including Iran. X wrote two books
on the topic of The Development of Metaphysics in Persia
and The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam. ID X
QUESTION 11

23. ANSWER
• IQBAL

24. • Tolstoy doodle
QUESTION 12

25. ANSWER
• Leo Tolstoy

26. • This contemporary of the great Urdu and
Persian poet Ghalib, X was the court poet of
Bahadur Shah Zafar II. His rivalry in the court
with Ghalib is extremely famous. While he
enjoyed favours of the court, Ghalib who
considered his work much more superior
despised him. Though later both the poets
reconciled. He is famous for his ghazal which
ends with the much famous lines. “Kaun jaaye
X par dilli ki galiyaan chhodkar.” Identify X
QUESTION 13

27. ANSWER
• Zauq (Sheikh Muhammad Ibrahim Zauq)

28. X is the author of books like Losing my Virginity and
Screw it, let’s do it. Losing my Virginity became a national
best seller and was serialized in The Sun and The Times.
In October 2010 it was reported by Variety that Losing my
Virginity was being adapted into a biopic by David Mirkin,
who would write, direct and co-produce the film
with Steven Paul.
ID X.
QUESTION 14

29. ANSWER
• RICHARD BRANSON

30. • John Lawrence Nettleship was a British school
teacher who taught chemistry at Wyedean
School, Gloucestershire. Nettleship described
himself in hindsight as “a short- tempered
chemistry teacher with ___ ___...[and a] gloomy,
malodorous laboratory.”
When he was first questioned about his links to
character by journalists, he said: “I was horrified
when I first found out. I knew I was a strict
teacher but I didn't think I was that bad.” Which
literary character did he inspire?
QUESTION 15

31. ANSWER
• Severus Snape, Harry Potter Series

32. • This pair of lovers were the literary
predecessors of Romeo and Juliet, Troilus and
Cressida and Antony and Cleopatra. They find
their mention in Virgil’s epic X and Christopher
Marlowe the famous Elizabethan Playwright
wrote a play on their love story. ID them
QUESTION 16

33. ANSWER
• Dido and Aeneas

34. • Batman vs superman
QUESTION 17

35. ANSWER
• Batman –
• Superman –

36. • “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne
back ceaselessly into the past.”
The last line of famous novel X demonstrates the
complex negotiation of the past and the future in
the lives of human beings. The line encapsulates
the struggles of the protagonist and hold hints of
melancholy for the tragic fate of the character.
• Identify the novel X.
QUESTION 18

37. ANSWER
• The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald