1. The document discusses two novels that can greatly influence a bookish 14-year-old - The Lord of the Rings, which can lead to a lifelong obsession, and the other novel involves orcs. 2. The second passage describes a musical instrument invented by Shiva during lovemaking with his wife Parvati, which was inspired by her breasts. It is one of the most difficult instruments. 3. The third passage describes how Bernard Silver invented the barcode to solve inventory problems, starting with ultraviolet ink and later developing it from Morse code symbols drawn in sand.

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2. 1. X?
“There are two novels that can change a bookish
fourteen-year-old's life: The Lord of the
Rings and X. One is a childish fantasy that often
engenders a lifelong obsession with its
unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally
stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to
deal with the real world. The other, of course,
involves orcs.”

3. Atlas Shrugged

4. 2.
Invented by Shiva, this musical instrument is said to
have been invented by him during some sort of
tantric fore-playing/lovemaking with his wife. The
instrument’s two prominent resonating chambers
are said to have been inspired by Parvati’s breasts.
It also happens to be one of the most difficult
instruments to master, and the Dagar Gharana has
been most prominently associated with it for
decades now.

5. Rudra Veena (start attending SPICMACAY concerts!)

6. 3.
In 1948 Bernard Silver came up with a new solution
to an inventory management problem packaged
food industries and general stores were facing.
Their first working system used ultraviolet ink, but
the ink faded too easily and was rather expensive.
Convinced that the system was workable with
further development, Silver’s friend set himself to
work on it. His next inspiration came from Morse
code, and he formed his first X from sand on the
beach. "I just extended the dots and dashes
downwards…“

7. Bar-code.

8. 4.
This Greek philosopher is known in India popularly
by a different name, often used to refer to an
eclectic person, or a maverick. The name changed
because the traveling Arabs who came to India with
knowledge of the philosopher could not pronounce
a particular sound.
A Guddu Dhanoa film starring Akshay Kumar also
has the same name.

9. Plato, known in India as Aflatoon.

10. 5.
These little pyramids around Switzerland were
used during wars to prevent tanks from entering
the border, and that too, quite successfully.
Thousands of these are lined on Swiss borders
even today, and are known by a very innovative
name. What?
(picture on the next slide)

12. The Toblerone Line

13. 6.
Although Karel Čapek's robots in R.U.R.
(Rossum's Universal Robots) (1921) – the play
that introduced the word robot to the world –
were organic artificial humans, the word "robot"
has come to primarily refer to mechanical
humans, animals, and other beings. The term X
(from the Greek word for human-like) can mean
either one of these, while a Y would be a
creature that is a combination of organic and
mechanical parts.

14. X-Android
Y-Cyborg

15. 7. Connect
1. Veritas
2. Lux et Veritas
3. Leges sine moribus vanae
4. Dei sub numine viget
5. Vox clamantis in deserto
6. I would found an institution where any person can find
instruction in any study.
7. In lumine Tuo videbimus lumen
8. In Deo Speramus

16. Ivy League University mottos

17. 8.
In mid-18th century, Francis Maseres, an English
mathematician, wrote that X "darken the very
whole doctrines of the equations and make dark
of the things which are in their nature
excessively obvious and simple". He came to the
conclusion that X were nonsensical.
In the 18th century it was common practice to
ignore any X results, on the assumption that
they were meaningless.

18. Negative numbers.

19. 9.
If I am standing in country A’s territory, which
lies in country B’s territory, which again lies in
A’s territory, and that lies in B’s territory, where
the hell am I standing?

20. Chitmahals, or Indo-Bangladeshi enclave
systems. The one in question is a 3-tier enclave
called Dahala Khagrabari #51.

21. 10.

22. La Nouvelle Vague, French New-wave
movement.

23. 11.
X, started in 2006, is in stark contrast to its earlier version
in that it is much simpler. It has already been criticized for
being difficult to recognize by the visually impaired, as
opposed to its predecessor.
It features an equal-armed cross with the beams divided
into 2 and dots in between the beams. According to the
authority making it, this design represents "four heads
sharing a common body" under a new "unity in diversity"
theme.
However, some Hindu nationalists have charged that the
symbol is a Christian cross resembling the symbol on the
deniers issued by Louis the Pious.

25. 11.
• The X principle describes an endeavor in which a
deficiency in any one of a number of factors dooms it
to failure. Consequently, a successful endeavor (subject
to this principle) is one where every possible deficiency
has been avoided.
• The name of the principle derives from Y’s book X.
• In statistics, the X principle is used to describe
significance tests: there are any number of ways in
which a dataset may violate the null hypothesis and
only one in which all the assumptions are satisfied.

26. Anna Karenina Principle.
Happy families are all alike, each unhappy family
is unhappy in its own way.

27. 12. Id X.
• X was born in Murom, Vladimir region in 1923.
• In 1941, X was drafted into the Red Army. He fought on the
southern and south-western areas in the 1st and 4th Ukrainian
Fronts. He fought for the liberation of Ukraine, Poland,
Czechoslovakia. During the war, X was awarded the Order of
Patriotic War II degree (1945), Red Star (1944), and the medals "For
Courage" (1943), "For Military Merit" (1944), "For Victory over
Germany" (1946).
• In 1945 X was demobilized from the ranks of the Red Army for
health reasons and returned to Moscow. In February 1946, he
entered the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute at the Faculty of
Physics and subsequently worked on Nuclear and Atomic physics in
Moscow.
• X created something we all know and respect.

28. I.E. Irodov

29. 13.

30. Madhubala.

31. 14.
This mythological couple and its etymological
derivatives are frequently referred to in many
contexts, one often jokingly, but the other
mostly in serious light. The female’s name
comes from the Greek word for soul, or breath
of life. The man’s name is from the Latin word
for desire.
ID the wife’s name.
(Picture on the next slide)

33. Cupid and Psyche.

34. 15.
Which epic fantasy series by James Oliver Rigney
Jr. borrows its name from the Hindi concept of
Kaal Chakra, and has characters apparently
influenced by the Tridev- Brahma, Vishnu and
Mahesh?

35. Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan.