Quiz Compilation #1

 On 19 July 1873, the surveyor William Gosse
discovered the landmark and named it in honour
of the then-Chief Secretary of South Australia, Sir
Henry X . A Cry in the Dark a 1988 Australian
docudrama film directed by Fred Schepisi. The
screenplay by Schepisi and Robert Caswell is
based on John Bryson's 1985 book Evil Angels,
the title under which the film was released in
Australia. It chronicles the case of Azaria
Chamberlain, a nine-week-old baby girl who
disappeared from a campground near X .
 What is X ?

 The place had disappeared from the tourist map due to its
inaccessible approach but in 1931 when Frank S. Smythe a
British mountaineer lost his way while returning from a
successful expedition to Mt.Kamet and he reached
there.He was so attracted towards the beauty of the place
he named it as “----------------".He authored a book
called “----------------------" and thus threw open
the doors of this verdant jewel to nature-enthusiasts all
over the world.
 In 1939 Miss Margaret Legge, a botanist deputed by the
Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh arrived there for further
studies. While she was traversing some rocky slopes to she
slipped off and was lost for ever. Her sister later visited
the place and erected a memorial near the spot. The
memorial is still there.
 Which place ?

 Valley of Flowers National Park

 It was home to the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, and to
Queen Victoria, who built her much loved summer
residence and final home Osborne House at East
Cowes. The island's maritime and industrial history
encompasses boat building, sail making, the
manufacture of flying boats, the world's first
hovercraft and the testing and development of
Britain's space rockets. It is home to the -----------
------ International Jazz Festival, Bestival and the
recently-revived ------------- Festival, which, in
1970, was the largest rock music event ever held.The
island has some exceptional wildlife and is one of the
richest locations of dinosaur fossils in Europe.
 Which Island ?

 There has been a long discussion in the Guangdong region about what
the name of the structure should be. In 2009 the municipal government
launched a competition calling for proposals for the name to be
submitted. Over 100,000 names were submitted, of which Hai Xin Ta
(center of the Seas) was awarded first prize. The name referred to the
setting of the historical city of X on the banks of the Pearl River Delta.
Protests by the Guangzhou population followed, finding the name too
old fashioned. Eventually the City-government decided upon the more
neutral and generally representative name of Guangzhou Ta in Chinese,
or X in English.
 In addition to its official name it has also acquired nicknames. The local
population has started calling it Xiao Man’s waist (Xiao Man, a famous
geisha in the Tang Dynasty (618AD-907AD), who had a very beautiful
slender waist.)One of the architects, Mark Hemel, noted: “Where most
skyscrapers bear "male" features; being introvert, strong, straight,
rectangular, and based on repetition, we wanted to create a "female"
tower, being complex, transparent, curvy and gracious. Our aim was a
subtle and fragile but sexy tower that would represent Guangzhou as a
sensitive, dynamic and exciting city.
 Which structure ?

 This site was made famous by Jacques-Yves Cousteau,
who declared it one of the top ten scuba diving sites in the
world. In 1971, he brought his ship, the Calypso, to the
hole to chart its depths. Investigations by this expedition
confirmed the hole's origin as typical karst limestone
formations, formed before rises in sea level in at least four
stages, leaving ledges at depths of 21, 49 and 91 meters
(69, 161 and 299 ft). Stalactites were retrieved from
submerged caves, confirming their previous formation
above sea level. Some of these stalactites were also off-
vertical by 5° in a consistent orientation, thus indicating
that there had also been some past geological shift and
tilting of the underlying plateau, followed by a long period
in the current plane.
 Which famous “scuba diving site” in Belize?

 Fariborz Sahba began work in 1987 designing
the gardens and oversaw construction. Beginning
at its base, the gardens extend almost a
kilometre up the side of Mount Carmel, covering
some 200,000 square metres of land. The
gardens are linked by a set of stairs flanked by
twin streams of running water cascading down
the mountainside through the steps and terrace
bridges. The terraces represent the first eighteen
disciples of the X, who were designated "Letter of
the Living" , although no individual terraces are
connected with individual Letters.
 Where / Whose shrine ?

 The Brow-antlered deer, which was first
discovered in Manipur in 1839 and named Cervus
eldi eldi in 1844 in honour of Lt. Percy Eld – a
British officer, was reported an extinct species in
1951. It was re–discovered in this area by the
environmentalist and photographer E.P.Gee,
which necessitated declaring this reserve park
area as a national park to protect and conserve
the deer now called Eld's Deer's subspecies
Brow-antlered Deer (Cervus eldi eldi) or Sangai in
Manipuri language .
 What resulted ?

 Keibul Lamjao National Park : only floating
park in the world

8.Solve A-F . This lake (A) is the second
largest freshwater lake in the world – here
seen from space.

A was discovered (to the Western
world) jointly by two men, B and
C, en route their quest for
something.
Both were blighted by disease. B,
(in pic), became temporarily deaf
after a beetle crawled into his ear
and he had to remove it with a
knife, and also later went
temporarily blind - he was still
blind at point of discovery of A
and could not properly see the
lake.
They heard of a second lake in
the area, but C was too sick to
make the trip. B thus went alone,
and found the lake, which he
christened D. It was this lake
which eventually proved to be the
answer to their quest (E).

They both returned to England, B before C, who on 8 May 1859 made
their trip famous in a speech to the Royal Geographical Society where
he staked his claim to the solution of their quest.
This angered C, who returned on 21 May, who believed that it
violated an agreement that the two men would speak to the society
together. A further rift was caused when B was chosen to lead a
subsequent expedition without C.
B went on his way with some others, did what he had to do and
believed he’d confirmed the findings of their earlier expedition.
He sent a telegram to London that read, “Inform Sir Roderick
Murchison that all is well, that we are in latitude 14°30’ upon the
____, and that [F]” (F being the famous bit that’s often quoted)
Epilogue – C disputed B’s finding, wanted to debate him on it; B died,
aged 37, of a self-inflicted (accidental) gunshot wound the morning
of the debate, while hunting. C went on to do other things in life,
before dying in Trieste much later.

A – Lake Tanganyika
B – John Hanning Speke
C – Richard Francis Burton
D – Lake Victoria
E – Quest for Source of the Nile
F – ‘The Nile is settled’

 This is a type of whistle used in the training of dogs and cats. This is
discussed quite briefly in his book Inquiries into Human Faculty and its
Development. In experiments to test the range of frequencies that could
be heard by various animals, notes that cats have the most all-round
sensitive hearing, being able from a considerable distance to hear notes
too high in frequency for humans to hear, and small dogs can also hear
these notes, while large dogs cannot.
 The frequency range of a dog whistle is largely out of the range of
human hearing. Typically, a dog whistle is within the range of 16 to 22
kHz with only the frequencies below 20 kHz audible to the human ear.
Some dog whistles have adjustable sliders for active control of the
frequency produced.
 Depending on the way the whistle is used, a trainer may simply gather a
dog's attention or inflict pain for the purpose of behavior modification.
 The name dog whistle is often used for both lung-powered whistles as
well as electronic devices that emit ultrasonic sound via piezoelectric
emitters. The electronic variety are sometimes coupled with bark
detection circuits in an effort to curb barking behavior.
 Who discovered this type of dog whistle ?

 Francis Galton ,famed expolorer

 He was appointed professor of geology
at the University of Bonn beginning in
1875, but being fully occupied with his
work in China he did not take up
professorial duties until 1879. He
became professor of geography at the
University of Leipzig in 1883, and
professor of geography at the Friedrich
Wilhelm University of Berlin in 1886. He
occupied the latter position until his
death. His lectures attracted numerous
students who subsequently became
eminent in geographical work, and in
order to keep in touch with them he
established his weekly geographical
“colloquium.” Among his most famous
students was Sven Hedin, the Swedish
explorer. He served as president of the
German Geographical Society for many
years, and founded the Berlin
Hydrographical Institute.
 Who/What famous phrase he coined ?

 Ferdinand von Richthofen – Silk Route

 ‘When President Abraham Lincoln requested that
Ohio raise ten regiments at the outbreak of the Civil
War, the state responded by raising a total of 23
volunteer infantry regiments for three months of
service. Ohio also produced a number of great Civil
War figures, including William Tecumseh
Sherman, Ulysses S. Grant, Philip Sheridan,
and George Custer. Columbus itself was host to large
military bases, Camp Chase and Camp Thomas,
which saw hundreds of thousands of Union soldiers
and thousands of Confederate prisoners during the
Civil War. There was also a Shawnee leader named so
in the Ohio Country after the American Revolutionary
War’
 What supposedly takes its name thus?

 late 1809, Irving completed work on his first major
book, A History of New-York a satire on self-
important local history and contemporary politics.
Prior to its publication, Irving started a hoax akin to
today's viral marketing campaigns; he placed a series
of missing person adverts in New York newspapers
seeking information on Diedrich _____, a crusty Dutch
historian who had allegedly gone missing from his
hotel in New York City. As part of the ruse, Irving
placed a notice—allegedly from the hotel's
proprietor—informing readers that if Mr. Diedrich
failed to return to the hotel to pay his bill, he would
publish a manuscript ____ had left behind
 Unsuspecting readers followed the story of _____ and
his manuscript with interest, and some New York city
officials were concerned enough about the missing
historian that they considered offering a reward for
his safe return. Riding the wave of public interest he
had created with his hoax, Irving—adopting the
pseudonym of his Dutch historian—published A
History of New York on December 6, 1809, to
immediate critical and popular success.
 Fill the blank and what gets its name thus?

 NY Knicks from Knickerbocker (Dietrich
Knickerbocker)

 Born and brought up in the Himalayas and
attending the prestigious The Lawrence School
Sanawar.
 He studied humanities and political science from
'Cesare Alfieri' University of Florence and
received a Master's degree in International
relations from the University of Florence.
 He resides in the north Indian state of Himachal
Pradesh, on the foothills of the Himalayas. He
was (in his words), "offered Italian citizenship,
but I refused because I am an Indian and want to
spend [his] life there".
 WHO?

 SHIVA KESHAVAN – The Indian LUGE prodigy

 Each team consists of one left and one right Inside
Grouch, one left and one right Outside Grouch, four
Deep Brooders, four Shallow Brooders, five Wicket
Men, three Offensive Niblings, four Quarter-
Frummerts, two Half-Frummerts, one Full-Frummert,
two Overblats, two Underblats, nine Back-Up Finks,
two Leapers and a Dummy — for a total of 43.
 The game officials are a Probate Judge (dressed as a
British judge, with wig), a Field Representative (in
a Scottish kilt), a Head Cockswain (in long overcoat),
and a Baggage Smasher (dressed as a male
beachgoer in pre-World War I years). None has any
authority after play has begun.
 WHICH GAME?

 43-man squamish, the famous fictional
sport that was invented in issue #95 of MAD
Magazine (June 1965) by George
Woodbridge and Tom Koch

 In October 1984, Fred L. Worth, an author, filed a $300
million lawsuit against the distributors of X . He claimed
that more than a quarter of the elements in the game had
been taken from his books, even to the point of
reproducing typographical errors and deliberately
placed misinformation.
 The inventors of X acknowledged that Worth's books were
among their sources, but argued that this was not
improper and that facts are not protected by copyright.
The district court judge agreed, ruling in favor of the
X inventors. The decision was appealed, and in September
1987 the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth
Circuit in California upheld the ruling. The issue was taken
to the Supreme Court of the United States, which rejected
Worth's arguments in March 1988
 X?

 Heather Small released her debut solo
album and a single of the same name. The
single was also used for the first season
and the last chapter on the finale season
of Queer as Folk and was put on its single.
It is Small's signature song, with which
she achieved international success.
When Oprah Winfrey was looking for a
song to sum up the work she'd been
striving to achieve over her twenty-year
career, she got in touch with Small and
the song became the theme song to The
Oprah Winfrey Show, and in 2005 Small
made her American television debut on
the show. Then in 2004 the song become
the theme song for the American reality
weight loss show The Biggest Loser.
 What is the sporting connection?

 Proud – the official song for the 2012
Olympics

 A conversation on the train journey home between
the Secretary of the Auto-Cycle Club, Freddie Straight
and the brothers from the Matchless motor-cycle
company, Charlie Collier and Harry Collier and the
Marquis de Mouzilly St Mars led to a suggestion for a
race the following year on closed public roads. The
new race was proposed by the Editor of "The Motor-
Cycle" Magazine at the annual dinner of the Auto-
Cycle Club held in London on 17 January 1907
 The first race was held on Tuesday 28 May 1907 and
was called the International Auto-Cycle Tourist
Trophy.The event was organised by the Auto-Cycle
Club over 10 laps of the St John's Short Course of
15 miles 1,470 yards for road-legal touring motor-
cycles with exhaust silencers, saddles, pedals and
mud-guards.
 Which event?

 A semi-legendary child-martyr of the 3rd
century. He was martyred at Caesarea.
 Born in prison to parents who had been jailed
because they were Christian.
 He was later thrown to the lions, but
managed to make the beasts docile. He
preached to animals in the fields, and a lion
remained with him as companion.
Accompanied by the lion, he visited Duke
Alexander, who condemned him to death.He
was struck in the stomach with a trident.
Bleeding, he dragged himself to a spot near
a theater before his soul was carried into
heaven by angels
 WHICH FAMOUS LOCATION GETS ITS NAME
FROM HIM?

 Saint Mammes, lends his name to Athletico
Bilbao’s homeground San Mamés Stadium
and hence is nicknamed "the football
cathedral".

 The term X has its origins in a Test match played
between the West Indies and England at Old
Trafford, Manchester, in the year 1933. Elliss
"Puss" Achong, a left-arm orthodox spinner,
playing for the West Indies at the time. According
to folklore, Achong is said to have had Walter
Robbins stumped off a surprise delivery that
spun into the right-hander from outside the off
stump. As he walked back to the pavilion,
Robbins said to his teammates "Fancy being done
by a bloody X !", leading to the popularity of the
term in England, and subsequently, in the rest of
the world.
 X?

 It was invented by English computer scientist
Allan Plaskett in the mid-1990s. Plaskett, brother
of chess Grandmaster James Plaskett, also
invented another device for aiding television
commentary on cricket: Flightpath, and is the
author of 'H-Trauma: The General Theory of Evil',
a work in the field of psychoanalysis. It was
introduced by Channel 4 in the UK, who also
introduced the Hawk-Eye and the Red Zone,in
1999
 Used to graphically analyse sound and video, and
show whether a fine noise, called X from which
the name comes, occurs. What?

 Though a black and white film,it was shot in
color and transferred to black and white. Some
prints were accidentally released with the first
couple of reels in color. The film was inspired by
a poster that they saw while filming The
Hudsucker Proxy; the poster showed various
haircuts from the 1940s. The story takes place in
1949 and, is "heavily influenced by" the work
of James M. Cain, a writer best known for the
novels Double Indemnity, The Postman Always
Rings Twice, and Mildred Pierce. Many critics
have also noticed a striking resemblance between
the film and Albert Camus' The Stranger
The famous original soundtrack to consists
of classical music, mainly piano
sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven, interspersed
with cues composed by Carter Burwell.
 WHICH NEO-NOIR CLASSIC?

 As a corporate speaker, he commands
an honorarium of $25,000 per domestic
speaking appearance, and up to $37,000
for international speeches.
 A graduate of Cherry Creek High
School and a mechanical
engineering and French student
at Carnegie Mellon University, was a
member of the honor society Phi Beta
Kappa. At Carnegie Mellon, he served as a
Resident Assistant, studied abroad, and
was an active intramural sports
participant. He left his job as a mechanical
engineer with Intel in 2002 for his famous
deed for which he is still remembered
 His famous autobiography was published
in 2004. Gimme his name and why was he
in news recently?

 Aron Lee Ralston ,an American mountain
climber and public speaker.
 He gained fame in May 2003vwhen, while
canyoneering in Utah, he was forced
to amputate his lower right arm with a dull
knife in order to free himself after his arm
became trapped by a boulder.
 The incident is documented in Ralston's
2004 autobiography Between a Rock and a
Hard Place, and is the subject of the 2010
film 127 Hours.

 Forby ______ Skinner was an American high
school gym teacher, basketball coach, realtor an
d bar owner from Jacksonville, Florida.
 For many years, Skinner was a gym teacher at
his alma mater, Robert E. Lee High School in
Jacksonville. The New York Times called him
"arguably the most influential high school gym
teacher in American popular culture.” Because
he inspired something that took form in 1970s.
 It was persumably due to strict enforcement of a
policy against long hair by him, and ultimately it
was renamed as a"tongue-in-cheek homage" to
him. WHAT?

 His name appeared on the screen in only two of the
pictures he produced, both of which were completed
after he died. While he was alive, he refused to allow
his own name to appear in his films as he was once
heard to say "Credit you give yourself is not worth
having". The credit for his final film, The Good
Earth(1937) reads: "To the Memory of ____ his last
greatest achievement we dedicate this picture."
Another dedication to him appeared in the opening
credits of Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), a film that ___
set into motion, but never lived to see.
 WHO?

Using technology including surgery-training
software and grading of operations via digital
imaging to increase efficiency, China was the first
country in which X operated. The relationship
between the would-be organization and China began
when the founders worked with then U.S. and Chinese
presidents George H. W. Bush and Jiang Zemin to gain
access for training local surgeons and supporting
hospitals in some of that country’s poorest regions.
 The founders were Mullaney worked in advertising for
more than 20 years and Charles Wang co-
founded Computer Associates International with Russ
Artz. ID X WHICH ACQUIRED FAME IN 2008-09

 Dave Lizewski, an otherwise ordinary New York
City high school student and the child of Greg Willer,
a loving single father, takes his interest in comic
books as inspiration to become a real-life superhero.
He buys a wetsuit off of the website eBay, which he
wears under his normal clothing, begins exercising,
and practices things like walking on roofs, satisfying
his ambitions for a time. He eventually turns to
fighting crimes
 He even sets up a MySpace account, so people can
contact him for help
 When he saves a man from a beating, an onlooker
records the incident and uploads it to YouTube,
turning Dave into an overnight sensation dubbed with
the name X
 Gimme X

 The first X ran on October 29, 1993, and featured a
hapless history buff (played by Sean Whalen)
receiving a call to answer a radio station's $10,000
trivia question (voiced by Rob Paulsen), "Who shot
Alexander Hamilton in that famous duel?" The man's
apartment is shown to be a private museum to the
duel, packed with artifacts. He answers the
question correctly, but because his mouth is full of
peanut butter and he has no milk to wash it down, his
answer is unintelligible. The ad, directed by
Hollywood director Michael Bay was at the top of the
advertising industry's award circuit in 1994.
 What is X?

 Originally a nine-bedroom Georgian townhouse built in
the 1830s on the footpath leading to Kilburn, the building
was later converted to apartments where the most
flamboyant resident was Maundy Gregory. The premises
were acquired by the Gramophone Company in
1931. Pathé filmed its opening, when Sir Edward
Elgar conducted the London Symphony Orchestra.
 During the mid-1900s the location was extensively used
by leading British conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent, whose
house was just around the corner from the studio building
 WHICH FAMOUS LOCATION?

 It was built in 1911 for impresario Fred Karno, who
designed it so that there could be an entire 90-piece
orchestra playing on deck
 It was originally equipped with UREI 813 studio main
monitors with Phase Linear amps. Now equipped with
modern technologies, this is currently at Hampton
Court
 X who bought it in 1986 tells : "In my case, I just
happened to find this beautiful ____ that was built as
a ___ and was very cheap, so I bought it. And then
only afterward did I think I could maybe use it to __.
The control room is a 30-foot by 20-foot room. It's a
very comfortable working environment--- three
bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom, a big lounge. It's 90
feet long.“
 WHAT? X?

 ASTORIA – DAVE GILMOUR
 The famous floating recording studio of Pink
Floyd

 The film began with a spec script called "The Man
Who Came To Play", written by Louis Garfinkle
and Quinn K. Redeker
 One of the most talked-about sequences in the film
and also an iconic scene from the work,
the Vietcong's use of lethal game X with POWs was
criticized as being contrived and unrealistic since
there were no documented cases of X in the Vietnam
War.
 Associated Press reporter Peter Arnett, who had won
a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the war, wrote in
the Los Angeles Times, “In its 20 years of war, there
was not a single recorded case of X.… The central
metaphor of the movie is simply a bloody lie.” ID X
AND THE FILM

 Joseph Thompson played an important part in the Scramble for
Africa. Thomson's Gazelle is named for him. Excelling as an
explorer rather than an exact scientist, he avoided
confrontations among his porters or with indigenous peoples,
neither killing any native nor losing any of his men to
violence.His motto is often quoted to be "He who goes gently,
goes safely; he who goes safely, goes far."His book Through
Masai Land followed in January 1885 and was a best-seller. One
of the first to read it was the young X. Imagination fired by
Thomson's expedition, X promptly wrote a book of his own, Y.
Thomson was outraged. He had provided the first credible
reports of snow-capped mountains on the Equator and had
terrified the Masai warriors by removing his false teeth and
claiming to be a magician.

 H. Rider Haggard & King Solomon’s Mines

 # The British science fiction magazine Interzone
takes its name from the novel.
 # The band Steely Dan takes its name from a dildo
featured in the book
 .# Alt-country band Clem Snide is named for a
character in this book
 .# The band Showbread titled one of their songs “-
----------" in their 2006 release Age of
Reptiles.In the 1984 Alex Cox film, Repo Man,
there is a hospital scene in which Dr. Benway and
Mr. Lee are paged. The two are also paged in a
hospital scene in the 1998 film Dark City.The
instrumental post-rock band Tortoise included a
song entitled "Benway" on their 2001 album
Standards.# The post-punk band Joy Division's
debut album Unknown Pleasures featured a song
called "Interzone
 -Novel ?

 The original "scroll" still exists. It was bought
in 2001 by Jim Irsay (Indianapolis Colts
football team owner), for 2.43 million US
dollars. It is available for public viewing, with
the first 30 feet (9 m) unrolled. Between 2004
and 2005, the scroll was displayed in a
number of museums and libraries in the US,
Ireland and the UK.
 What am I talking about ?

 The literary critic, Harold Bloom wrote, as the
introduction for the 150th anniversary of X:If you
are American, then Y is your imaginative father
and mother, even if, like myself, you have never
composed a line of verse. You can nominate a
fair number of literary works as candidates for
the secular Scripture of the United States. They
might include Melville's Moby-Dick, Twain's
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Emerson's
two series of Essays and The Conduct of Life.
None of those, not even Emerson's, are as central
as the first edition of X.
 Which poet ? Also name the poem .

 Walt Whitman/Leaves of Grass

 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt named
the Presidential hideaway in Maryland after it.
(It has since been renamed Camp David.)
Likewise Roosevelt initially claimed the
Doolittle Raid came from there; this later
inspired the name of a aircraft carrier.
 Name?

 After the 1932 release of MGM's adaptation of this
novel, which featured the Asian villain telling an
assmbled group of Muslims that they must "kill the
white men and take their women", a Harvard
University student group petitioned MGM producer
William Randolph Hearst (who had also serialized the
novel in his Cosmopolitan magazine) to cease making
further films based on the property. Following the
1940 release of Republic Pictures' adaptation of the
novel, the U.S. State Department requested the studio
make no further films with the character as China was
an ally against Japan.
 Which super villain ?

 It was first published in serial form in 1844, about a
member of the Irish gentry trying to become a
member of the English aristocracy. Based the novel
on the life and exploits of the Anglo-Irish rakehell
and fortune-hunter Andrew Robinson Stoney, later
reissued it under the title ………………………………....
 Stanley Kubrick later adapted the novel into the
movie (1975). Unlike the film, the novel is narrated
by Barry himself, who functions as a quintessentially
unreliable narrator perpetually boasting and not
realizing the bad light in which he casts himself.

 The fictional name Llareggub resembles
other Welsh place names, which often
begin with Llan- (meaning church), but
is actually derived from reversing the
phrase "bugger all". In early published
editions of the work it was often
rendered as Llaregyb or similar. The
double-G doesn't feature in real Welsh.
 The geographical inspiration for the
town has generated intense debate.
Laugharne was the village where the
authorlived on and off from the thirties.
This town was probably the inspiration
for the people of Llareggub, although
the topography of the town is thought
to be based on New Quay, Ceredigion
where hewas staying when he started
writing the play seriously in 1944.
 Which literary work ?

 Under Milk Wood /Dylan Thomas
 Robert Allen Zimmerman adopted the name
Bob Dylan after this authour .

 It is derived from two Chickasaw words meaning "split
land." The author claimed that the compound means "water
flowing slow through the flatland," though this is unverified.
The County is located in northwestern Mississippi and its
seat is the town of Jefferson.
 The area was originally Chickasaw land. White settlement
started around the year 1800. Prior to the Civil War, the
county consisted of several large plantations: Louis
Grenier's in the southeast, McCaslin's in the northeast,
Sutpen's in the northwest, and Compson's and Sartoris's in
the immediate vicinity of Jefferson. Later, the county
became mostly small farms. By 1936, the population was
15,611, of which 6,298 were whites and 9,313 were black.
 Which county ?

 Yoknapatawpha County by William Faulkner

 She was accidentally wounded in the right eye by a shot from a
BB gun fired by one of her brothers.[5Because the family had no
access to a car, they were unable to take their daughter to a
hospital for immediate treatment, and when they finally brought
her to a physician a week later, she was permanently blind in
that eye. A disfiguring layer of scar tissue formed over it,
rendering the previously outgoing child self-conscious and
painfully shy. Stared at and sometimes taunted, she felt like an
outcast and turned for solace to reading and to writing poetry.
Although when she was 14, the scar tissue was removed—and
she subsequently became valedictorian and was voted most-
popular girl, as well as queen of her senior class, she realized
that her traumatic injury had some value: it allowed her to begin
"really to see people and things, really to notice relationships
and to learn to be patient enough to care about how they turned
out," as she has said.
 Who ?

 Lomas Rishi cave: The arch-like shape facade of Lomas Rishi
Caves, imitate the contemporary timber architecture. On the
doorway, a row of elephants proceed towards stupa emblems,
along the curved architrave.
 Sudama cave: This cave was dedicated by Mauryan Emperor,
Ashoka in 261 BC, and consist of a circular vaulted chamber with
a rectangular mandapa.
 Karan Chaupar (Karna Chaupar) [: Consists of single rectangular
room with polished surfaces, contains inscription which could be
dated to 245 BC.
 Visva Zopri: Reachable by Asoka steps hewn in cliff, consists of
two rectangular rooms.
 These are the 4 caves in the oldest surviving rock-cut caves in
India.Which one ?

 Barabar Caves setting for the opening of E.M.
Forster's book, A Passage to India,

 It is an American comic strip, created by Harold Gray that first appeared on
August 5, 1924. The title, suggested by an editor at the Chicago Tribune
Syndicate, was inspired by James Whitcomb Riley's popular 1885 poem
which begins
 :X’s come to our house to stay,An' wash the cups an' saucers up, an' brush
the crumbs away...I
 t was eight years after Riley's death when Gray created his comic strip ----
--------------------------(1924), and the Chicago Tribune's Joseph
Patterson changed the title to ------------------------. Three years
later, King Features came up with their own waif, --------------------
.On May 13, 2010, Tribune Media Services announced that the strip's final
installment would appear on June 13, 2010. At the time of the cancellation
announcement, it was running in fewer than 20 newspapers; some of those
papers, such as the New York Daily News, had carried the strip for its
entire life.The last installment was published on Sunday, June 13. The final
cartoonist, Ted Slampyak, said, "It's kind of painful. It's almost like
mourning the loss of a friend.“
 Which comic strip ?

 A – They are upper class Yankee families with a
distinctive life style. Based in and around ----------
-, they are part of the historic core of the East Coast
establishment. They are associated with the
distinctive ------------ accent, and with Harvard
University.
 B - On 16 October 1846 William Thomas Green
Morton, a Boston dentist was invited to the
Massachusetts General Hospital to demonstrate his
new technique for painless surgery. Surgeon John
Collins Warren removed a tumor from the neck of
Edward Gilbert Abbott after Morton had induced ----
--------- using ether.

 A – Boston Brahmins
 B -- Anesthesia
 Both words are coined by Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Sr.

 The series has lent its name to a whole sub-genre of science
fiction that uses an entropically X as the setting. Its importance
was recognised with the publication of Songs of the X,a tribute
anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois.
Each short story in the anthology is set on the Dying Earth, and
concludes with a short acknowledgement by the author of
Vance's influence on them.
 The magic system used in Dungeons & Dragons (in which a
wizard is limited in the number of spells that can be
simultaneously remembered and forgets them once they are
cast) was based on the magic of X. Some of the spells from
Dungeons & Dragons are based on spells mentioned in the X
series, notably the prismatic spray. Magic items from the X
stories such as ioun stones also made their way into Dungeons &
Dragons. One of the deities of magic in Dungeons & Dragons is
named Vecna (an anagram of Vance).

 Biopolitical activist Jeremy Rifkin and biologist Stuart Newman
accept that biotechnology has the power to make profound
changes in organismal identity. They argue against the genetic
engineering of human beings, because they fear the blurring of
the boundary between human and artifact.Philosopher Keekok
Lee sees such developments as part of an accelerating trend in
modernization in which technology has been used to transform
the "natural" into the "artifactual".In the extreme, this could lead
to the manufacturing and enslavement of "monsters" such as
human clones, human-animal chimeras or bioroids, but even
lesser dislocations of humans and non-humans from social and
ecological systems are seen as problematic.
 What is this argument known as ?

 Dehumanization known as Frankenstein
argument

 His office is on the 86th floor of a New York City
skyscraper, implicitly the Empire State Building, reached by
his private high-speed elevator. heowns a fleet of cars,
trucks, aircraft, and boats which he stores at a secret
hangar on the Hudson River, under the name The Hidalgo
Trading Company, which is linked to his office by a
pneumatic-tube system nicknamed the "flea run." He
sometimes retreats to his Fortress of Solitude in the
Arctic—which pre-dates Superman's similar hideout of the
same name. All of this is paid for with gold from a Central
American mine given to him by the local descendants of
the Mayans in the first of his story.
 Who ?

 He was sued by the chemist Eugène Turpin, inventor of the
explosive Melinite, who recognized himself in the character of
Thomas Roch and was not amused. Turpin had tried to sell his
invention to the French government which in 1885 refused it,
though later purchasing it (it was extensively used in the First
World War); but Turpin had never gone mad, nor did he ever
offer his invention to any but the Government of France, so he
had some justified griveance. He was successfully defended by
Raymond Poincaré, later president of France. A letter to his
brother Paul seems to suggest, however, that after all Turpin was
indeed the model for Roch. The character of Roch and his
revolutionary powerful explosive might also have been be
inspired by the real-life Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite and
later reportedly regretted having introduced such a destructive
force into the world .
 Who is the author and name the novel ?

 In 1964, bookseller Ranjit Udeshi in Bombay was prosecuted
under Sec. 292 of the Indian Penal Code for selling an
unexpurgated copy of X.Ranjit D. Udeshi v. State of Maharashtra
was eventually laid before a three-judge bench of the Supreme
Court of India, where Chief Justice Hidayatullah declared the law
on the subject of when a book can be regarded as obscene and
established important tests of obscenity such as the Hicklin
test.The judgement upheld the conviction, stating that:
 “When everything said in its favour we find that in treating with
sex the impugned portions viewed separately and also in the
setting of the whole book pass the permissible limits judged of
from our community standards and as there is no social gain to
us which can be said to preponderate, we must hold the book to
satisfy the test we have indicated above.”
 Which book caused all these ?

 These classical projections, and something from the fire,
suddenly suggested X’s scene in which the Seasons, hand
in hand and facing outward, tread in rhythm to the notes
of the lyre that the winged and naked greybeard plays. The
image of Time brought thoughts of mortality: of human
beings, facing outward like the Seasons, moving hand in
hand in intricate measure, stepping slowly, methodically
sometimes a trifle awkwardly, in evolutions that take
recognizable shape: or breaking into seemingly
meaningless gyrations, while partners disappear only to
reappear again, once more giving pattern to the spectacle:
unable to control the melody, unable, perhaps, to control
the steps of the dance.

 The title is an allusion to lines in T. S. Eliot's
1922 poem The Waste Land:
 I will show you something different from
either Your shadow at morning striding
behind you Or your shadow at evening rising
to meet you; I will show you fear in a -------
-------------.
 Fill up the name to get a title of the book .

 The novel is said to have influenced the Unabomber—Theodore
Kaczynski. Kaczynski was a great fan of the novel and as an
adolescent kept a copy at his bedside.He identified strongly with
the character of "the Professor" and advised his family to read it in
order to understand the character with whom he felt such an
affinity. David Foster, the literary attributionist who assisted the
FBI, said that Kaczynski "seemed to have felt that his family could
not understand him without reading the author X."Kaczynski's
idolization of the character was due to the traits that they shared:
disaffection, hostility toward the world, and being an aspiring
anarchist. However, it did not stop at mere idolisation. Kaczynski
used "The Professor" as a source of inspiration, and "fabricated
sixteen exploding packages that detonated in various
locations".After his capture, Kaczynski revealed to FBI agents that
he had read the novel a dozen times, and had sometimes used “X"
as an alias. It was discovered that Kaczynski had used various
formulations of X’s name - in order to sign himself into several
hotels in Sacramento. As in his youth, Kaczynski retained a copy of
this novel , and kept it with him whilst living as a recluse in a hut
in Montana.
 Which Novel ? Author ?

 He has stated that the idea for the novel came to him while
reading Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.'s autobiography, in which
Schlesinger makes a comment that some of the more
radical Republican senators of the day wanted Lindbergh
to run against Roosevelt. The title appears to be taken
from that of a communist pamphlet published in support
of the campaign against Burton K. Wheeler's re-election to
the U.S. Senate in 1946.The novel depicts an antisemitic
United States in the 1940s. The author had written in his
autobiography, The Facts, of the racial and antisemitic
tensions that were a part of his childhood in Newark, New
Jersey. Several times in that book he describes children in
his neighborhood being set upon simply because they
were Jewish.
 Novel ? Author ?

 The book begins with a long quotation in Hebrew, which
comes from page seven of Philip Berg's book The
Kabbalah: A Study of the Ten Luminous Emanations from
Rabbi Isaac Luria with the Commentaries Sufficient for the
Beginner Vol. II, published in Jerusalem by the Kabbalah
Centre in 1973.
 The quotation translates into English as follows:When the
Light of the Endless was drawn in the form of a straight
line in the Void... it was not drawn and extended
immediately downwards, indeed it extended slowly — that
is to say, at first the Line of Light began to extend and at
the very start of its extension in the secret of the Line it
was drawn and shaped into a wheel, perfectly circular all
around.
 Which book ?

 The deaths of civilians in Operation X and in particular at Qana
have been cited by Al-Qaeda as motivations for its actions and
policies towards the United States of America. Mohamed Atta is
described in Lawrence Wright ‘s account of the September 11,
2001 attacks to have committed himself to martyrdom in
immediate response to the Israel strikes at the beginning of
Operation X.
 In his 23 August 1996 declaration of jihad against the United
States, Osama bin Laden wrote (addressing his fellow Muslims),
"Your blood has been spilt in Palestine and Iraq, and the horrific
image of the massacre in Qana in Lebanon are still fresh in
people’s minds." In November 1996, he told the Australian
journal Nida'ul Islam about Qana again, saying that when the
United States government accuses terrorists of killing innocents
it is "accusing others of their own afflictions in order to fool the
masses.
 Which operation shares its name with a novel.

 The author gave three possible origins for the title:
 * That he had overheard the phrase "as queer as a --------------
----" in a London pub in 1945 and assumed it was a Cockney
expression.¹ In --------------------- Marmalade, an essay
published in the Listener in 1972, he said that he had heard the
phrase several times since that occasion. However, no other record
of the expression being used before 1962 has ever appeared.
 *Kingsley Amis notes in his Memoirs (1991) that no trace of it
appears in Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Historical Slang.* His
second explanation was that it was a pun on the Malay word,
meaning "man". The novel contains no other Malay words or links.
 * In a prefatory note to --------------------------------, he
wrote that the title was a metaphor for "...an organic entity, full of
juice and sweetness and agreeable odour, being turned into an
automaton. In his essay, “------------------------------" ²,
Heasserts that "this title would be appropriate for a story about the
application of Pavlovian or mechanical laws to an organism which,
like a fruit, was capable of colour and sweetness". This title alludes
to the protagonist's positively conditioned responses to feelings of
evil which prevent the exercise of his free will.
 Which book ?

 One cannot get a job in a high-profile occupation without prior
experience, but they cannot get experience without getting a job in a
high-profile area.
 However, there are many entry-level opportunities available for those
fresh out of college. It is merely more difficult to get good jobs without
experience.
 One cannot get a loan without established credit, but one cannot establish
credit without previously getting a loan.
 There are loans that do not check your credit, prior to lending. Also, those
without credit can get a credit-worthy co-signature
 Until vendors develop applications for Linux, Linux's market share on the
desktop will stagnate. But until the market share of Linux on the desktop
rises, no vendor will develop applications for Linux.
 One is unlikely to purchase a hydrogen-fueled vehicle without there being
a network of hydrogen stations from which to fill up. However, creating a
network of hydrogen stations is not viable until there are enough
hydrogen vehicles to create the demand.
 One could own a hydrogen car by having a water-to-hydrogen converter
either already built into their car or in their garage; a network of hydrogen
stations is not necessary.
 Investors seeing potential of a demand might invest in hydrogen station
network, thus risking, but profiting if the established network provides
the necessary last kick for people to buy hydrogen cars more.
 Examples of ?

 An autopsy revealed that this author had
accidentally swallowed a toothpick
(presumably in a martini olive), which had
perforated his colon and caused a fatal case
of peritonitis.He was buried at Round Hill
Cemetery in Marion, Virginia. His epitaph
reads, "Life, Not Death, is the Great
Adventure."His most enduring work is the
short story sequence Winesburg, Ohio.
 Who ?

 It tells the story of the young life of Adolf Hitler, his origins and his
immediate family tree, through the eyes of what at first is
portrayed as a young SS officer researching Hitler's genealogy at
the behest of Heinrich Himmler, who opens the novel speaking to
SS officers about the importance of strong traits that result
through incest. The SS Officer, who initially instructs the reader to
remember him as Dieter, reminds the reader of the penalty he
would suffer from the Nazi Party should his writings become public
knowledge. He proceeds to describe his search for Hitler's
grandparents, to both detect any presence of Jewish ancestry and
to ascertain whether Hitler was the product of incest. The story
follows Hitler's father, Alois Hitler, his upbringing in a rural area of
Austria, and his early marriages and work for the customs
department of the Austrian government. Following two marriages
and a number of affairs, Alois marries a distant relative, Klara, and
the couple have three children who survive past childhood, the
third of these being Hitler, whom is referred to by Mailer as Adi.
The book was the New York Times Bestseller for 2007, and won
the 2007 Bad Sex in Fiction Award from the London literary journal
Literary Review.
 Which Novel ?

 Many readers have accepted the acclaimed last lines
of this poem as inspirational. The poem's ending line
has been used as a motto by schools and other
organisations. The final three lines are inscribed on a
cross at Observation Hill, Antarctica, to
commemorate explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his
party, who died on their return trek from the South
Pole in 1912:
 One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
 Which one ?

 Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

 Richard Hall ‘s most notable tracks from his early days include "Next Is
The E", "Everytime You Touch Me" and "Into The Blue", and the classic
"Go", as well as his early albums "Ambient" and "Early Underground". A
brief outing into more rock-oriented territory came with 1996's "Animal
Rights", followed by "I Like To Score" in 1997, highlighting his past
movie score contributions (most notably a remix of the "James Bond
Theme").
In 1999 and 2000, He found unprecedented pop success with the album
"Play" and the slew of singles and radio tracks that came from it
("Honey", "Run On", "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?", "Natural Blues",
"Porcelain", "Southside", and more). Among other things, his appearance
as a DJ in the foyer of the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards (wearing a gold
suit and playing two golden copies of "Play") led many people to decry
him as a sellout. Nonetheless, his follow-up album "18" tinkered very
little with the "Play" sound and still received a mostly positive reception
in 2002.
 What is his most famous nickname ?

 Richard Melville Hall and hence the nickname
Moby after his great great great ancestor’s
famous work moby Dick .

 Legend has it that the warrior Fionn mac Cumhaill (Finn
McCool) built X to walk to Scotland to fight his Scottish
counterpart Benandonner. One version of the legend tells
that Fionn fell asleep before he got to Scotland. When he
did not arrive, the much larger Benandonner crossed it
looking for him. To protect Fionn, his wife Oonagh laid a
blanket over him so he could pretend that he was actually
their baby son. In a variation, Fionn fled after seeing
Benandonner's great bulk, and asked his wife to disguise
him as the baby. In both versions, when Benandonner saw
the size of the 'infant', he assumed the alleged father,
Fionn, must be gigantic indeed. Therefore, Benandonner
fled home in terror, ripping up X in case he was followed
by Fionn
 Legend about WHAT?

 Located on the Sarthe River. Traditionally the capital
of the province of Maine, are mentioned in Ptolemy’s
writings as Civitas Cenomanorum (City of
the Cenomani)
 Major sights include the cobbled streets and half-
timbered house fronts provided setting for Gérard
Depardieu in Cyrano de Bergerac (1989) and
a cathedral: Cathédrale St-Julien.There are remnants
of a Roman wall in the old town and Roman baths by
the river.
 However visits to the city in increased since 1923 due
to something which began here. WHAT? CITY?

 LE MANS - 24 HOURS OF LE MANS

 One of the prime tourist delicacies of
France, a sheep milk blue cheese from
the south of France, is one of the world's
best-known blue cheeses. Though
similar cheeses are produced elsewhere,
European law dictates that only those
cheeses aged in the natural Combalou
caves of X-sur-Soulzon may bear the
name.
 Legend has it that the cheese was
discovered when a youth, eating his
lunch of bread and ewes' milk cheese,
saw a beautiful girl in the distance.
Abandoning his meal in a nearby cave,
he ran to meet her. When he returned a
few months later, the mold (Penicillium
X) had transformed his plain cheese into
X. X?

 Constructed in Leeds, England by Kitson,
Thompson, & Hewitson in 1855, and
reached Calcutta in the same year where it
was christened.
 Intially serving West Bengal and Bihar, In
1943, it was shifted to Chandausi, where it
served as a curiosity object for many of the
students based there. In 1972, the Indian
government bequeathed heritage status to
the it, rendering it a national treasure. WHAT?

 Mannarasala Sree Nagaraja Temple is a very
ancient and internationally-known centre of
pilgrimage for the devotees of serpent
Gods.Women seeking fertility come to
worship here, and upon the birth of their
child come to hold thanksgiving ceremonies,
often bringing new snake images as
offerings.
 This was in news very recently due to the visit
of X . X? Why ?

 Mallika Sherawat visited here due to the
release of ‘Hisss’

 John Gutzon de la Mothe, was born in 1867 in St.
Charles, Idaho. His father worked mainly as a
woodcarver. At the age of seven, he moved
to Nebraska He was trained in Paris at the Académie
Julian, where he came to know Auguste Rodin and
was influenced by Rodin's impressionistic light-
catching surfaces. Back in the U.S. in New York
City he sculpted saints and apostles for the
new Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in 1901, in
1906 got a group sculpture accepted by
the Metropolitan Museum of Art— the first sculpture
by a living American the museum had ever
purchased—and made his presence further felt with
some portraits
 But today he is remembered for a project during
1927–1941, was the brainchild of historian Doane
Robinson. WHAT?

 Mount Rushmore – He carved out the faces

 It was created 250 years ago and is named after a
Shiva temple within its boundaries. Initially, it was a
natural depression; and was flooded after the Ajan
Bund was constructed by Maharaja Suraj Mal, the then
ruler of the princely state of Bharatpur, between 1726
to 1763. The bund was created at the confluence of
two rivers, the Gambhir and Banganga.
 It was a hunting ground for the maharajas of
Bharatpur, a tradition dating back to 1850, and duck
shoots were organised yearly in honor of the British
viceroys. In one shoot alone in 1938, over 4,273
birds such as mallards and teals were killed byLord
Linlithgow, the then Governor-General of India.
 PLACE?

 Keoladeo Ghana National Park formerly
known as the Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary

 X, 1st Baron Llanover – a British
civil engineer and politician, He
oversaw the later stages of the
rebuilding of the Houses of
Parliament
 ___ Caunt (Y), a 19th
century English bare-knuckle
boxer who became the
"heavyweight" boxing champion
known as the "Torkard Giant”
 They are often debated as the
reason for the origin of which
‘two word term’ which is
questionable still?

 ‘BIG BEN’
 They are Sir Benjamin Hall and Benjamin
Caunt respectively

 A part of Amargosa Range located in
east of Death Valley in Death Valley
National Park in the United
States noted for
its erosional landscape. It is composed
of sediments from Furnace Creek Lake,
which dried up 5 million years ago —
long before Death Valley came into
existence
 The location was named after Christian
Brevoort ____ (shown alongside), vice-
president and general manager of
the Pacific Coast Borax Company in the
early 20th century.
 This location shoot to international
fame in 1970 and is still significant in
pop culture . Id.

 The name may derive from a reed variety. It
was probably the site of a small Ligurian port,
and later a Roman outpost on Le Suquet hill,
suggested by Roman tombs discovered here.
Le Suquet housed an 11th-century tower
which overlooked swamps where the city now
stands. Most of the ancient activity, especially
protection, was on the Lérins islands and the
history of the location is the history of the
islands.
 IDENTIFY

 The site was used as a meditation retreat by
King Songtsen Gampo, who in 637 built X’s
predecessor there in order to greet his
bride Princess Wen Cheng of the Tang Dynasty. X
measures 400 metres east-west and 350 metres
north-south, with sloping stone walls averaging
3 m. thick, and 5 m. (more than 16 ft) thick at
the base, and with copper poured into the
foundations to help proof it against earthquakes,
containing over 1,000 rooms and about 200,000
statues – soar 117 metres (384 ft) on top of the
"Red Hill", rising more than 300 m (about
1,000 ft) in total above the valley floor. WHAT?

 Anna Grosholtz (1761–1850), was born
in Strasbourg, France. Her mother worked as a
housekeeper for Dr. Philippe Curtius in Bern,
Switzerland, who was a physician which
contributed to her later works
 Her works included those on Voltaire, Rousseau
and Benjamin Franklin. Some of her works were
preceded by a search through corpses to find the
decapitated heads of executed or dead citizens
and making a death mask.
 HOW DO WE KNOW HER BETTER?

 Madame Tussauds
 ANNE MARIA GROSHOLTZ

 The special International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
determined in 1997 :
"It is safe to walk on all of the islands ... although the
residual radioactivity on X islands is still higher than
on other in the _____ Islands, it is not hazardous to
health at the levels measured ... The main radiation
risk would be from the food: eating locally grown
produce, such as fruit, could add significant
radioactivity to the
body...Eating coconuts or breadfruit from X Island
occasionally would be no cause for concern. But
eating many over a long period of time without
having taken remedial measures might result in
radiation doses higher than internationally agreed
safety levels.“
WHICH FAMOUS SITE recently made a World Heritage
site?

 Terrence Donnelly – publisher of the Hollywood
Independent Newspaper
 Giovanni Mazza – Italian movie producer
 Les Kelley – originator of the Kelley Blue Book
 Gene Autry – singer, actor and businessman
 Hugh Hefner – founder of Playboy magazine
 Andy Williams – singer
 Warner Bros. Records
 Alice Cooper – singer, who donated in memory of
comedian Groucho Marx
 Matthew L. Williams – businessman
 All of them in a 1978 public campaign donated $27,777
each to restore WHICH LANDMARK by which all these name
together became synonymous with?

 HOLLYWOOD SIGN
 From Terrence Donnelly to Mathew Williams
each donated for letters ‘H’ to ‘D’

 Although the brainchild of veteran parliamentarian
from Barrister Nath Pai M.P., national leaders such
as Madhu Dandavate and George Fernandes, played
a major role in the conception of X. In 1966, the first
line was laid between Diva in Mumbai and Apta
in Raigad district.
 Later X impetus after George Fernandes entered the
cabinet in 1989. Thus, on July 19, 1990, it was
incorporated as a public limited company under
the Companies Act, 1956, with its headquarters
at CBD Belapur inNavi Mumbai and E. Sreedharan, as
its first Chairman and Managing Director.
 WHAT?

 According to history, there was a storm in the
sea at Malpe. Shri Madhvacharya was on the
shore at the time and saw a ship which was in
trouble. He helped the ship reach the shore to
safety. The sailors were very grateful to him and
gave him deities of Lord Krishna and Lord
Balarama. He did the pratishte (installation
ceremony) of the deity of Lord Balarama near
Malpe. This temple is known as
Vadabhandeshwara. He brought the deity of Lord
Krishna and did the pratishte at place X which in
turn derives its name from the temple
 Gimme both

 Krishna Mutt (Temple of Lord Krishna) ,
devoted to Vadabhandeshwara and the place
is UDUPI

 The term was coined by Ralph Vaerst, a Central
California entrepreneur. Its first published use is
credited to Don Hoefler, a friend of Vaerst's, who
used the phrase as the title of a series of articles
in the weekly trade newspaper Electronic News
 During the 1940s and 1950s, Frederick Terman,
as Stanford's dean of engineering and provost,
encouraged faculty and graduates to start their
own companies. He is often called "the father of
____“
 WHAT?

 CURRENT AFFAIRS !
 A coastal city in Mexico's
easternmost state, Quintana
Roo, on the Yucatán
Peninsula , it is sometimes
known as the Mexican
Caribbean or the Mayan
Riviera.
 It first appears on maps
from the 18th century. The
meaning of the name is
unknown, and it is also
unknown whether the name
is of Maya origin. If it is of
Maya origin, possible
translations include
"Place/Seat/Throne of the
Snake" or "Enchanted Snake“
 ID THIS PLACE RECENTLY
INNEWS

 CANCUN, Venue of 2010 United Nations
Climate Change Conference

 Ai Weiwei , a artist, a social
commentator, and activist. He was
particularly focused at exposing an
alleged corruption scandal in the
construction of Sichuan schools that
collapsed during the 2008 Sichuan
earthquake. In October 2010, his work
Sunflower Seeds was installed at
the Tate Modern Turbine Hall, the work
consists of one hundred million
porcelain "seeds," each individually
hand-painted in the town
of Jingdezhen by 1,600 Chinese artisans.
However collaborating with the Swiss
firm Herzog & de Meuron he hogged the
limelight a few years back. Why?

 He was the artistic consultant for BIRD’s NEST

 The name is Dutch for "seal island". It is roughly oval
in shape, 3.3 km long north-south, and 1.9 km wide,
with an area of 5.07 km². It is flat and only a few
metres above sea level, as a result of an ancient
erosion event
 Used as as a leper colony and
animal quarantine station, it became infamous in late
17th century. Harry de Strandloper in the mid-17th
century is a name synonymous with the place. One of
the recent names synonymous with the location is
Jacob Zuma. It again came in public attention in
2009. ID THIS LOCATION, currently a famous tourist
location in the country and a UNESCO World Heritage
site

 ROBBEN ISLAND – infamous for the prison
which held Nelson Mandela. Harry de
Strandloper was the first prisoner here. 2009
attention is ofcourse ‘INVICTUS’

 The name of this place means “the place of
five mirages”. It is associated with a legend
where Ram once fitted his bow with an arrow
to generate heat to dry up the seas of Lanka.
Cajoled not to do so, he instead fired it into
the mythical river Saraswati which flowed
here. The river dried up and was replaced by
the desert. Identify this place which aquired
fame in the 1970s.

Dry. X was the only airline in India to fly a three
class configuration compared to others Airlines,
It had a First, Business and an Economy Class and
an incident free track record of flying. It used
[Boeing 737-200]Aircraft leased from Lufthansa.
It did not last very long specially because the
business parity of the German and Indian
partners was not the same and problems arose.
The airline project was started in February, 1993
by S K Modi, Ashutosh Dayal Sharma and Kanwar
K S Jamwal. Id

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