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X Y is a British spaceflight company within the X
Group. It is developing commercial spacecraft and
aims to provide suborbital spaceflights to space
tourists and suborbital launches for space science
missions. SpaceShipTwo, X Y's suborbital spacecraft,
is air launched from beneath a carrier airplane known
as White Knight Two. X partnered with luxury car
maker roll Royce to develop engines for the X Y , as
Rolls Royce has experience of building such engines
owing to it's involvement in the Concorde project. ID
the company (X Y).

7. X Y – Virgin Galactic

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Q2
X is an organization which was established to
collaborate with State, National & International
Organizations. X, since it’s establishment has
faced a great deal of controversy and continues
to do so even today. Allegations of historical
revisionism with a Hindu Nationalist Agenda rose
in 2 periods, from 1977 to 1980 under Janata
Party and again under BJP from 1998 to 2004. In
2012, this organization faced another
controversy, which lead to the resignation of it’s
Chief Advisors. ID X, an autonomous body.

10. NCERT

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Q3
There has been a popular saying that they are
hard to kill and keep coming back for more. X
was trying to have people believe that their
products would similarly outlast things that
killed other competitors’ products, maybe by
even 9 times. It was of course, a marketing
exaggeration but an effective and memorable
one. What company thus had its logo devised?

13. EVEREADY

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Q4
The X was meant for the city of Kokura, but it
was found to be obscured by clouds and
drifting smoke from fires. So the authorities
decided upon the city Y. The name X was given
after Sydney Greenstreet's character in
Hammett's The Maltese Falcon.
Ironically the event turns 75 today. ID X & Y.

16. X-Fat Man
Y-Nagasaki

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Q5
The X can grow up to 15 centimeters taller
during hot summer days. This is because of
“thermal expansion”. When an object is heated,
its particles gain kinetic energy, move faster,
and take up more space. Most large structures
such as bridges (or the X) are constructed with
this principle in mind, so they can expand and
contract a little without breaking. With Europe
experiencing it's hottest summer till date the
expansion of X has shot up even more. ID X.

19. Eiffel Tower

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Q6
X may happen if a person experienced the
current sensory twice successively. The first
input experience is brief, degraded, occluded,
or distracted. Immediately followed by that, the
second perception might be familiar because
the person naturally related it to the first input.
One possibility behind this mechanism is that
the first input experience involves shallow
processing, which means that only some
superficial physical attributes are extracted
from the stimulus.
GIVE THE TERM X, quite popularly used these
days.

22. Déjà vu

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Q7
This fair is held on the seventh day of the bright
fortnight in the 'magh' month. It is believed that
during Mahabharata period, Samba, the son of
Krishna meditated the Sun God after bathing in
the river for 12 years and rid from leprosy.
Give me the name of the fair.

25. Chandrabhaga Fair

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◇ The origins are not fully known, but one common
explanation was that when the game was first being
played back in medieval times, a clock face was used.
It is possible that each quarter move of the hand was
used to indicate respective scores. When the hand
completes a full circle, the game was over.
◇ But you had to win by two points, which would mean
that the last point would exceed 60 (the maximum
minutes in an hour). To rectify this problem, the 3rd
quarter was revised and this evolved into the system
used now. What are we talking about?

29. 15/30/40(Instead of 45) in a game of
Tennis.

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Q9
◇ Alder commonly found near streams, rivers, and
wetlands is water resistant. It is due to the fact that
when wood is submerged in the water and mud, sans
oxygen doesn’t decay. Further the wood becomes
petrified due to constant flow of mineral rich water
around and through it, which gives a hardened
texture to it.
◇ Between the 5th and 14th centuries, hundreds of
these trees were chopped down in areas that today
form Slovenia, Croatia and Montenegro. What was
all this wood used for?

32. To form the Foundation of Venice.

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◇ According to one of X's biographers, “Y" was inspired by a
passage in Canto 32 of Dante's Inferno, in which the worst
offenders of hell, the traitors, are tortured using Y.
◇ In an anecdote he recounted in 1960 in a "Science and the
Arts" presentation, prominent astronomer Harlow Shapley
claims to have inspired “Y".
◇ Shapley describes an encounter he had with X a year
before the poem was published in which X , noting that
Shapley was the astronomer of his day, asked him how the
world will end.
◇ Shapley responded that either the sun will explode and
incinerate the Earth, or the Earth will somehow escape this
fate only to end up slowly freezing in deep space.
◇ Which famous poem and poet is this?

35. X-Robert Frost Y-Fire and Ice
The fantasy writer George R. R. Martin has said
that the title of his A Song of Ice and Fire
series was partly inspired by the poem.
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

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Graham Greene once said, “I have read the stories of X
with great pleasure. He will certainly take a place on my
shelves besides the stories of Narayan. I imagine Odisha
is far from Malgudi, but there is the same quality in his
stories with perhaps an added mystery”.
Identify this Padma Shri winning Author.

38. Manoj Das

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Q12
◇ “Macbeth” of 1982 by Bela Tarr (57 minutes) is the first actual
one to employ a certain technique.
◇ The first one which appeared to have used this technique was in
1948 movie “Rope” by Alfred Hitchcock (80 minutes).
◇ Which technique am I talking about ? Which Latest Movie used
this same technique and was in news ?

41. One Shot/One Take Movie.
Movie – 1917 by Sam Mendes

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Q13
When the Pandava brothers, Draupadi, and their mother Kunti
were in exile after losing their kingdom in a game of dice, Kunti
gave Draupadi a challenge. She gave her some leftover aloo sabzi
and a small amount of dough and ordered her to cook something
that would satisfy all five brothers. The reason why she presented
this challenge is unconfirmed - some accounts say it was to gauge
if Draupadi would be a good housewife, and others say it was to
see if Draupadi would favor one brother over the others. In
response to Kunti’s challenge, Draupadi invented a dish. Impressed
by her daughter-in-law’s resourcefulness, Kunti blessed the dish
with immortality.
WHAT DID DRAUPADI CREATE AS A RESULT OF THIS
CHALLENGE?

44. Pani Puri / Gol Gappa

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Q14
In point of fact, the term X has very little
purchase in most European or indeed other
western societies as a part of normal political
vocabulary. Even today no one in the political
sphere much talks about X in the United
Kingdom, Germany, Italy, France, Spain or
Portugal. Neither Tony Blair nor Margaret
Thatcher has ever used the word in their
speech. These are some of the lines of a
popular reply for the idea of X. ID the term X.

47. SECULARISM

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Q15
This work, originally written in Arabic, was all the rage
among alchemists of Europe. Many people believed this
text contained the secrets to making the prima materia,
it's transmutation and the explanation to the "World's
Creation". While the original, which is said to have been
written by Hermes Trismegistus is missing, many
imaginative interpretations of it's appearance have been
made. A certain group of "travellers" were inspired by
the text and named their group after some lines in Latin
translation. Some of their members tattoo artistic
interpretations of the work onto their back and onto
doors used by the organization. Which group, whose
members have a thing towards confusing genealogies?

52. “SIC MUNDUS” From Dark.

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Q16
The X effect occurs when people engage too much time and
attention to specific activities that it begins to pattern their
thoughts, mental images, and dreams. People who played X
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. Mathematicians have reported
dreaming of numbers or equations, for example Srinivasa
Ramanujan, or Friedrich Engels who remarked "last week in a
dream I gave a chap my shirt-buttons to differentiate, and he
ran off with them", or the involuntary mental visualization of
Rubik's Cube algorithms common amongst speedcubers. ID X.

55. TETRIS

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Q17
The Panopticon (derived from a Greek word meaning “all-
seeing”) is a type of building developed by the English
philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham. He visited
Russia in 1786 and developed the architecture after observing
the workers there. • The plan consists of a rotunda with an
inspection house at the center. It works on the principle that
people will regulate their own behavior if they are unable to
know if they’re being watched. Bentham conceived his basic
plan as being applicable to a wide variety of buildings, but it
was used only for a specific purpose. Name the infamous
building in India sub-continent based on this plan.

58. Cellular Jail / Kala Pani

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Q18
Originally the chosen word "Date" was removed after
consulting the Roget's thesaurus because of romantic
connotations. Then later the word "Rendezvous" was chosen
but there wasn't any originality and thus was removed. Finally
the word X was chosen for the key note speech which became
an overnight sensation. ID the term X which was used for this
famous speech.

61. “TRYST” as in Tryst With Destiny.

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Q19
In Chinese Myth there's a story that goes like this : “Many
years ago, in a time before recorded history, a huge school
containing thousands of koi swam up the Yellow River. All was
going well until the koi reached a waterfall. Immediately, a
large number of them grew discouraged and turned back,
finding it much easier to simply go with the flow of the river.
Yet, a determined group of 360 koi stayed on. Undeterred, the
koi continued their efforts for one hundred years. At last, with
one heroic leap, a single koi reached the top of the falls. The
God’s smiled down in approval and transformed the
exhausted koi into a shining golden dragon.”
What in the world of Entertainment is supposedly inspired by
this story?

64. Magikarp turning into Gyrados.

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Q20
Trigeminal neuralgia, also known as prosopalgia, or
Fothergill's disease is a neuropathic disorder characterized by
episodes of intense pain in the face, originating from the
trigeminal nerve. It was once labeled the "suicide disease"
because of the significant numbers of people taking their own
lives before effective treatments were discovered.
a) Which Indian brought this disease to the limelight around
2011 when he disclosed that he was suffering from it?
b) Which famous work of Art has been used as a symbol of
Trigeminal Neuralgia?

67. 1. Salman Khan
2. The Scream by Edvard Munch

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Q21
CONNECT

70. Fictional Companies
NAKATOMI CORP – DIE HARD
MOMCORP- FUTURAMA
INITECH – OFFICE SPACE
VIRTUICON- AUSTIN POWERS
TYRELL – BLADERUNNER

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72. +10/-5
Q22
ID THE MOVIE

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Q23
X is the first Indian film to be released in Malay language as the
actor featuring in the movie has a huge fan base in Malaysia. Air
Asia, a low-budget Malaysian carrier, launched a special aircraft so
that the superstar’s fans can watch the film’s premiere in Chennai.
Identify the movie and give the Actor’s Name.

77. X-Kabali
Actor-Rajnikanth

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Q24
ID THE MOVIE

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Q25
ID THE MOVIE

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Q26
X claims to be India’s first underwater film but it has to
cede the title to Anmol Moti, made in 1969 and starring
Jeetendra and Babita in the lead roles. Before Sankalp
Reddy and his crew went underwater there was SD
Narang’s Anmol Moti, in which Jeetendra plays pearl
diver Vijay who wrestles his enemies underwater as well
as tackles a giant octopus during one of his deep sea
expeditions. What movie am I talking about?

86. THE GHAZI ATTACK

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Q27
The movie X is based on a book Y by a famous Indian author. While
many of us think that X is a cover to cover adaptation of the book ,
in reality it is not , in fact one of the actors of the movie X says only
a few points were taken from the book , otherwise the movie is fully
different . Many other movies based on novels by the Indian author
talked about above have been made but X remains the most
successful one. Given below is an instance which featured both in
the movie and the book. In the book, Neha tells her dad Cherian
why her brother committed suicide due to the latter's demanding
and dominating behavior. Similar episode takes place in the film as
well. However, the book talks about this incident in much more
detail than the movie which covers this branch of the storyline in a
single scene.
ID X & Y.

89. X-3 IDIOTS
Y-FIVE POINT SOMEONE

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Q28
The Old English word for X indicates that it was
named for the Germanic god Woden.
The movie titled “A X”, was released in 2008. The
antagonist in the movie operates from a workshop
which was shown to be on top of a 25 storey high
building. In reality the building had no lifts and the
actor who played the antagonist had to walk 25
floors each day to shoot his scenes. The movie
basically shows the events on a day from 2pm to
6pm. ID X.

92. A WEDNESDAY !

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