2. Question 9
Alma de Bretteville Spreckels was a wealthy
socialite and philanthropist in San Francisco,
California and was known as "The Great
Grandmother of San Francisco". At the age of 19,
she married X magnate Adolph B. Spreckels who
was 24 years older than her whom she met during
her modeling days whom she affectionately called
her XY. Give me XY.
4. Question 10
On 1 August 2012, Amazon UK announced that it had
sold more copies of X than it had the entire Harry
Potter series combined, making Y its best-selling
author, replacing J. K. Rowling, though worldwide the
Harry Potter series sold more than 450 million copies
compared to X's sales of 60 million copies. It was
number one on USA Today's best-selling books list
for twenty weeks in a row, breaking a previous record
of 16 weeks set by In the Kitchen with Rosie: Oprah's
Favorite Recipes by Rosie Daley and The Hunger
Games by Suzanne Collins. It also set a record in the
6. Question 11
On her Facebook page, Jasmine Tridevil thanked
followers for sharing YouTube videos featuring
her. She also hired a camera crew to follow her
around so she can pitch a reality show to MTV. For
which act did Jasmine Tridevil come to news in
September last year, the apparent reason for
which, as she quoted, was, "I don't want to date
anymore"?
8. Question 12
This book became an international
bestseller and gained wide publicity.
• Reviews on Amazon include:
A must read for students studying
anything to do with gender politics,
This is a deeply insightful and
philosophical read and in many ways.
• Simove understands the mind so
much that he's able to explain it in
one simple read. Yes, I read it in one
session! I just can't wait for the
sequel.
10. Question 24
•With a brief to "break the internet", the famous
photographer, Jean-Paul Goude, who did his
pioneering work in the 70s and 80s, went through
his old works and recreated a 1976 photograph of
model Carolina Burmont, which has created a
recent sensation.
• What is being talked about?
12. Question 13
Several stories about the circumstances of
Catherine the Great's death at the age of 67
originated soon after her death. One of the stories
stating that she died on the toilet when her seat
broke under her, is true only in small part: she did
collapse in a bathroom from a stroke, but after that
she died while being cared for in her bed.
• However, what is the most famous story
associated with her death?
16. Question 16
During World War II, pin-up girls were painted onto
the sides of fighter planes. The military allowed
artists to create such artworks for amusement as
well as to boost the morale during the war. Some
sources say that such paintings were approved by
US air force also for giving them a tactical
advantage and differentiating enemy fighter and
bomber planes.
• Which word, used to describe such pin-up girls,
18. Question 19
⚫ It is a beef stew for which various recipes exist,
and some sources say its ingredients may vary
according to whatever is on hand. Most recipes
involve meat and offal from a calf, though, making
the stew something of a luxury item on the trail.
Alan Davidson's Oxford Companion to Food
specifies meats and organs from a freshly killed
unweaned calf, including the brain, heart, liver,
sweetbreads, tongue, pieces of tenderloin, and an
20. Question 25
• The Party at Kitty and Stud's, better known under
the title Y is a 1970 softcore film. It was X's first
film, and also his first starring role, for which he
worked two days and was paid $200. X has said in
interviews that he did the film out of desperation
after being bounced out of his apartment and
finding himself homeless for several days,
sleeping in a bus station.
26. Question 18
• X is the name given to the rivalry between the
pornographic
magazines Playboy and Penthouse during the
1960s and 1970s. Each magazine strove to show
just a little bit more than the other, without getting
too crude.
The name is a pun on Y, a series of three wars
fought between Rome and Carthage from 264 BC
to 146 BC. At the time, they were probably the
30. Question 22
_______ Condoms, a small US consumer products
development company founded by inventor Danny
Resnic, began development and clinical research of
three new types of condoms in 2005. The brand has
patented the condoms made of silicone that were
designed to improve sensation from the inside rather
than from the outside like rolled latex condoms. The
_______ Anal Condom, an insertable condom for the
receptive partner, is the first condom ever proposed
for anal sex protection. The brand's innovation was
acknowledged in 2013 by the Bill & Melinda Gates
