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It is generally believed that the term originated with the Spanish
administration of Charles V, King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor, in
the early 16th century, who started to use ____ ______ in an effort to
modernize the administration that was running his vast empire. The
____ ______ was used to bind the most important administrative
dossiers that required immediate discussion by the Council of State, and
separate them from issues that were treated in an ordinary
administrative way, which were bound with ordinary string. Although
other European monarchs copied this idea to speed up their
administrative machines, its modern day usage in the form of an term
indicates just the opposite. Fill in the blanks.
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To attain more knowledge, X meditated on Lord Shiva and performed penance for
many years. Impressed by the devotion he showed, Lord Shiva appeared before X
but he was so engrossed in his meditation that he did not notice the Lord's arrival.
In order to wake X, Shiva sounded his Damaru. The Damaru beats reverberated and
X woke up from his trance. The sound made by Shiva's Damaru kept resonating in
X's ears. He bowed to the lord and the lord blessed him and disappeared.
X is believed to have formulated the rules of Sanskrit morphology, syntax and
semantics which are believed to be the sounds of Shiva's Damaru, and called them
Maheshwara Sutrani.
Give X.
2

X was described as a hard-working tenant farmer driven to destitution and despair
by social and political change in the early nineteenth century. The rich farmers had
introduced threshing machines, due to which demand for labour decreased which
caused the labourers to become agitated.
X was a mythical name used in the threatening letters written by the poor
labourers in rural England to the rich farmers telling them to stop using threshing
machines or face the consequences. It symbolised or represented the anger of the
poor labourers in rural England who wanted a return to the pre machine days
when human labour was used.
This came to be known as X movement.
Give X. #ThrowbackNCERT
3

The plant family and genus of X was named after the Greek god X, who could
change his form at will because they have such a wide variety of forms. The genus
of X attracted the attention of botanists visiting the Cape of Good Hope in the
17th century. Many species were introduced to Europe in the 18th century,
enjoying a unique popularity at the time amongst botanists. It is also the national
flower of South Africa.
Give X.
4

X was featured in the 1937 edition of the TIME magazine which considered him to
be the richest person in the world. The description of his wealth can make you
realize that. He used the Jacob Diamond, a 185-carat diamond, a precious
collection running into several thousand crores of rupees today, as a paperweight.
X is widely believed to have remained as one of the richest man in Asia until his
death in 1967, though his fortunes fell to US$1 billion by then as more than 97% of
his wealth, including jewellery belonging to his family including his daughter's and
grand daughters, was taken away by the government. Who?
(Looking for a specific name)
5

Nawab Mir Osman Ali Khan Siddiqi/
Bayafandi Asaf Jah VII

Anna Maria _________ was a French artist who learnt her preferred art form
from Philippe Curtius, a doctor in whose house her mother worked. Her first work
of art was of Voltaire. She started something in her name in London to exhibit her
work and which is now a major tourist attraction. The works of art are always
made 2% bigger than the person they are based on because the material shrinks
over time. It used to belong to her but doesn’t anymore and so the name is
written without an apostrophe. What did she opened which has become so
popular worldwide?
6

Connect to a specific event
Virchand Gandhi
Anagarika Dharampal
Soyen Shaku
Kiyozawa Manshi
Mohammed Alexander Russel Webb
P.C. Majumdar
Rev. Henry Jassup
Septimus J. Hanna
(Inexhaustive List, major name missing)
7

Representatives at Parliament of World
Religion, Chicago in 1893.

The ______ effect/syndrome occurs when people devote so much time and
attention to an activity that it begins to pattern their thoughts, mental images,
and dreams. It takes its name from a famous video game with which almost all of
us are familiar. People who played ______ for a prolonged amount of time could
find themselves thinking about ways different shapes in the real world can fit
together, such as the boxes on a supermarket shelf, the buildings on a street, or
hallucinating pieces being generated and falling into place on an invisible layout.
What?
8

X was the strongest chess master of his time from Asia. A servant from British
India, he travelled with Colonel Nawab Sir Umar Hayat Khan ("Sir Umar"), his
master, to Britain, where he took the chess world by storm. In an international
chess career of less than five years (1929–33), he won the British Championship
three times in four tries (1929, 1932, 1933), and had tournament and match
results that placed him among the top ten players in the world. Sir Umar then
brought him back to his homeland, where he gave up chess and returned to his
humble life. He have been referred to as "perhaps the greatest natural player of
modern times". Who is X?
(Image follows)
9

X was sent into moon in 1965, four years before Neil Armstrong became the first
human to walk on the moon. X's moon mission was to celebrate Valentina
Tereshkova, who became the first woman to go into space in 1963. X travelled to
space again in 1985 and 1994 to mark the moon landing.
Give X?
10

X were professional warriors that belonged to the noble classes of ancient
Japanese society. From childhood they were trained about self duty and discipline.
X named their sword during Kamakura period because they believe that their
spirit and their honor lies in Sword.
The word is basically a masculine term but the woman also exist.They were
referred to as “Onna-Bugeisha” and fought alongside male X.
They existed to perform their duty, live their lives in the pursuit of 'The Way of the
Warrior' or Bushido and exist to be 'X' not exist as a X.
Give X.
11

X is a seasonal fruit, considered to be among the most superior varieties of
the fruit in terms of sweetness, richness and flavour.
The variety is named after a Portuguese general and military expert Y who
helped establish Portuguese colonies in India.
He was responsible for introducing the method of ‘grafting’, which led to
the production of this fruit. It is highly sought after as it has a long shelf life
and has a rich taste.
Give X and Y.
12

X – Alphonso Mango
Y – Alfonso de Albuquerque, (Duke of
Goa)

___________ is a Turkic term meaning black gravel. The
name was first applied by local traders to the ___________
Pass.Early European travelers, including William Moorcroft
and George Hayward, started using the term for the range of
mountains west of the pass, although they also used the
term Muztagh (meaning, "Ice Mountain") for the range now
known as ___________.
Fill in the blank.
13

People in China claim to have seen a floating city in the sky after a mirage in the
shape of a cityscape appeared in the clouds over Jiangxi and Foshan. The
mysterious apparition, which many believe to have been supernatural, seemed to
form a perfect city skyline when it was spotted by residents.
This had has also reiterated the talks regarding an old conspiracy theory given by
Serge Monast in 1994. The conspiracy claims that NASA is attempting to implement
a New Age religion with the Antichrist at its head and start a New World Order, via
a technologically-simulated Second Coming.
Which conspiracy theory?
(Image follows)
14

Identify the form of martial art.
15

__ ___ ______ ___ _____ _____ is a phrase meaning to take from one
person or thing to give to another, especially when it results in the
elimination of one debt by incurring another. Legend has it that the phrase
alludes to an event in mid-16th century England in which the abbey church
of Saint _____, Westminster was deemed a cathedral by letters patent; but
ten years later it was absorbed into the diocese of London when the
diocese of Westminster was dissolved, and a few years after that many of
its assets were expropriated for repairs to Saint ____'s Cathedral.
The phrase is a basic premise of a Ponzi scheme.
Which famous phrase?
16

The White Tiger is the debut novel by Indian author Aravind Adiga. It
was first published in 2008 and won the 40th Man Booker Prize in the
same year.
His novel attempt to catch the voice of the men you meet as you travel
through India — the voice of the colossal underclass.
In the novel, Balram Halwai narrates his life in a letter, written in seven
consecutive nights and addressed to X.
To whom did Balram wrote these letters?
(Looking for a specific name)
19

Wen Jiabao
(Chinese Premier at the time
this novel was written)

Acknowledging his iconic status among Netherlands X speakers, the Dutch
government has issued a postal stamp on singer-actor Y.
The stamp has a picture of Y wearing a typical X headgear.
This multi-colour postal stamp, costing 44 Euro Cent currency, was issued considering
the superstar's huge number of fans all over the world.
The stamp was issued back in 2008.
Give X and Y
20

X – Bhojpuri
Y – Manoj Tiwari

A new report claims that the X lineage dates back to the founder of Islam,
Prophet Muhammad, through the Arab kings of Seville, who once ruled
Spain.
A March article in Moroccan newspaper Al - Ousboue restates claims,
which first surfaced in 1986, by Harold B Brooks-Baker, publishing director
of Burke's Peerage Partnership, that X is a 43rd direct descendant of the
Prophet via Muhammad's daughter Fatimah.
Who?
21

The recipe of X contains a list of ‘secret’ ingredients known as Y – herbal extracts
which give the drink it’s unique flavour, which the company has guarded for a
century.
John Pemberton is known to have shared his original formula with at least four
people before his death in 1888. In 1891, Asa Candler purchased the rights to
the formula from Pemberton's estate, founded X and instituted the shroud of
secrecy that has since enveloped the formula.
Give X and Y
22

Who gave this all time Great speech?
23

The Diomede Islands are located in the middle of the Bering Strait between mainland
Alaska and Siberia, which borders with the Chukchi Sea to the north and the Bering
Sea to the south. 9.3 km to the southeast is Fairway Rock, which is generally not
considered part of the Diomede Islands. Because they are separated by the
International Date Line, Big Diomede is almost a day ahead of Little Diomede, but not
completely; due to locally defined time zones, Big Diomede is only 21 hours ahead of
Little Diomede (not 23 hours ahead—which is a common misconception). Because of
this the islands are sometimes called X Island (Big Diomede) and Y Isle (Little
Diomede). Give X and Y.
(Be specific about X and Y. If the answer is correct but the order is wrong, then the
overall answer will be considered as wrong)
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