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1) The origin of this phrase is not definitely known . Perhaps the most frequently quoted use is from World War II. Has nothing to do with football. In those days fighter planes were equipped with belt-fed machine guns. If a pilot emptied his plane's guns into a target, he would have gone “___ ______ ____ _____“ Also the name of a Mafia comedy film.

2) X is one of the earliest forms of frozen desserts, existing as early as 400 BC.It is a Persian sorbet made of thin vermicelli noodles frozen with corn starch, rose water, lime juice, and often ground pistachios. It is a traditional dessert in Iran and Afghanistan. It was brought to the Indian subcontinent during the Mughal period. The X of Shiraz is famous.

If one is listening to an album called rest-day whom would he be listening to?

4) After World War I, X was forced to cease aircraft (engine) production by the terms of the Versailles Armistice Treaty. The company consequently shifted to motorcycle production in 1923 once the restrictions of the treaty started to be lifted.The circular X logo or roundel is portrayed as the movement of an aircraft propeller, to signify blades cutting through the blue sky – an interpretation that X adopted for convenience in 1929, twelve years after the roundel was created.

CHARM X UP X STRANGE X BOTTOM X DOWN X TOP X

In 1945,Percy Spencer, an American self-taught engineer from Howland, Maine, was building magnetrons for radar sets with the American company Raytheon. He was working on an active radar set when he noticed that a peanut chocolate bar he had in his pocket started to melt. On October 8, 1945 Raytheon filed a U.S. patent for the first X.

7) The X were a legendary tribe of ancient Greece. They were very brave and skilled warriors as described in Homer's Iliad, and were commanded by Achilles. Their eponymous ancestor was X, a king of Thessalian Phthia who was a son of Zeus and "wide-ruling" Eurymedousa, a princess of Phthia. She was seduced by him in the form of an ant. X were known for their loyalty to their leaders, so that in pre-industrial Europe the word “X" carried many of the same connotations that robot does today. X later came to mean "hired ruffian" or "a loyal follower, especially one who executes orders without question, protest, or pity, unquestioning followers.” In the movie Troy, Xare shown not taking part in the second and third day of the war.

8) X (January 23, 1737 – October 8, 1793) was a merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is remembered for his large and stylish signature on the United States Declaration of Independence, so much so that “X" became, in the United States, a synonym for "signature".

X (also previously known as Volta Bureau) is the research and development organization of Alcatel-Lucent and previously of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T). It has its headquarters at Murray Hill, New Jersey. The first president of research was Frank B. Jewett, who stayed there until 1940. The ownership of X was evenly split between AT&T and the Western Electric Company. Its principal work was to design and support the equipment that Western Electric built including telephone exchange switches.

BELL/BELL TELEPHONE LABORATORIES

10) Following people, among others have been credited for the invention of XFrank Vincent Zappa an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer and film director.Bill Scott, a Seattle bartender who sold beer to football crowds at Seattle's Kingdome.Krazy George Henderson , a professional cheerleader in Major League Baseball games.Dave Hunter , a Husky band trumpet player and Robb Weller, later Entertainment Tonight co-host, and then a television producer.

11) The word X is of Italian origin, and in Italian, X is a male or female bartender, who typically works behind a counter, serving both hot drinks and cold alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. Generally,X is a name applied to a person, usually a coffeehouse employee, who prepares and serves espresso-based coffee drinks. The term persists in American coffeehouse jargon, with many employers such as Starbucks officially utilizing the title for such employees. Some coffee enthusiasts reserve the word X for one who has acquired some level of expertise or particular skill in the preparation of such drinks

12)Xis an oil painting of 1818–1819 by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault (1791–1824). Completed when the artist was just 27, the work has become an icon of French Romanticism. At 491 cm × 716 cm (193.3 in × 282.3 in),X is an over-life-size painting that depicts a moment from the aftermath of the wreck of the French naval frigate Y, which ran aground off the coast of today's Mauritania on July 5, 1816.

13) X is a geopolitical term originally used to describe the process of fragmentation or division of a region or state into smaller regions or states that are often hostile or non-cooperative with each other. The term has arisen from the conflicts in the 20th century Y.The term is also used to describe other forms of disintegration, including, for instance, the subdivision of the Internet into separate enclaves, the division of subfields and the creation of new fields from sociology, and the breakdown of cooperative arrangements due to the rise of independent competitive entities.

14)Id. the person on the right who shares his name with the largest city in his country.

15) X as a brand was established by Polish immigrants Reuben and Rose Mattus in the Bronx, New York, in 1961. The name does not derive from any of the North Germanic languages; it is simply two made-up words meant to look Scandinavian to American eyes (in fact, the digraphs "zs" and “aa” are not a part of any native words in any of the Scandinavian languages). This is known in the marketing industry as foreign branding. Mattus included an outline map of Scandinavia on early labels, as well as the names of Oslo, Copenhagen and Stockholm, to reinforce the Scandinavian theme. However, to Scandinavians the name doesn't look particularly Scandinavian, and is often presumed to be a German brand.

17) The X is a modern expressionist design, with a series of large precast concrete "shells",each composed of sections of a hemisphere of the same radius, forming the roofs of the structure, set on a monumental podium. The building covers 1.8 hectares (4.5 acres) of land and is 183 metres (605 ft) long and 120 metres (388 ft) wide at its widest point. It is supported on 588 concrete piers sunk as much as 25 metres below sea level. Its power supply is equivalent to that of a town of 25,000 people and is distributed by 645.5 kilometres (401 miles) of electrical cableX was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007.As of 2009, it is the most recently constructed World Heritage Site to be designated as such.

19) The first European to reach X was the Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias in 1488, who named it “Y" . It was later renamed by John II of Portugal as X because of the great optimism engendered by the opening of a sea route to India and the East.

X-CAPE OF GOOD HOPE Y-CAPE OF STORMS

21) As a teenager, X wanted to become a writer. Upon telling his mother this, she responded with "My dear, your father is an engineer. He's a logical, reasonable man with a very clear vision of the world. Do you actually know what it means to be a writer?" After researching, Xconcluded that a writer "always wears glasses and never combs his hair" and has a "duty and an obligation never to be understood by his own generation," amongst other things. At 17, hisintroversion and opposition to following a traditional path led to his parents committing him to a mental institution from which he escaped three times before being released at the age of 20. X is a strong advocate of spreading his books through peer-to-peer file sharing networksHetook to pirating his own books on Pirate X which provides free translations of many of his books.Due to the openness regarding his content, author Jeff Jarvis named X 'the Googliest author' in his book What Would Google Do.

22) X is unintended or incidental to the intended outcome.Theterm originated as a euphemism during the Vietnam War and can refer to friendly fire, or the killing of non-combatants and the destruction of their property. Curtis Le May used the term in describing the bombing of Japanese cities in the Second World War. The term has also been borrowed by the computing community to refer to the denial of service to legitimate users when administrators take blanket preventative measures against some individuals who are abusing systems.

23) X or milk plasma is the liquid remaining after milk has been curdled and strained. It is a by-product of the manufacture of cheese or casein and has several commercial uses. Sweet X is manufactured during the making of rennet types of hard cheese like Cheddar or Swiss. Acid X(also known as "sour X") is obtained during the making of acid types of cheese such as cottage cheese.

24)Xis a video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov. It was created on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow The long history of Xresulted in a Guinness World Record awarding the franchise nine world records in the Gamer's Edition. These records include, "Most Ported Video Game", "Game With the Most Official and Unofficial Variants", and "Longest Prison Sentence for Playing a Video Game", which is held by Faiz Chopdat, who was jailed for four months for playing X on his cell phone while on a flight to Manchester, England. He refused to stop playing after being repeatedly warned by the cabin staff.

+100/-50X is an acclaimed 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker. It received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award. It was later adapted into a film which got nominated for eleven Academy Awards. Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, the story focuses on female black life during the 1930s in the Southern United States, addressing the numerous issues including their exceedingly low position in American social culture. The novel has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999 at number fifteen because of the sometimes explicit content, particularly in terms of violence.

+90/-45X is intelligent and imaginative with good powers of deduction. He also seems to know multiple foreign languages and reads extensively on a variety of subjects. He is also skilled at driving automobiles, motorcycles, tanks, riding horses and flying planes or helicopters. Despite his generally weak appearance, X is athletic and possesses great physical strength, being able to knock out enemies much larger than him in combat. He was even once victorious in a weaponless fight with a large Brown bear. Additionally, he is an excellent swimmer, has been shown to do yoga, and can survive falls that would normally cause serious injuries. His name remains a mystery, probably a pseudonym that he uses to protect his identity while writing columns for his newspaper: Le Petit Vingtième.

+80/-40X is the branch of computer science that aims to create intelligent machines. Textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents," where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chances of success. John McCarthy, who coined the term in 1956, defines it as "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines."

+70/-35Identify this famous “businessman.”

+60/-30X was designed by comic book artist Jim Steranko. George Lucas suggested the flight jacket (which reminded Steranko of Lucas), the fedora (which reminded him of Humphrey Bogart in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre) and a whip (reminiscent of Zorro). Steranko added the Sam Browne belt, a belt with a holster, and the khaki shirt and trousers. Costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis said the inspiration for Indiana's outfit was Charlton Heston's Harry Steele in Secret of the Incas.

+40/-20X is said to be the first story that details a conflict between mankind and an alien race. It describes the experiences of a journalist (narrator) in Woking and his brother, a medical student from London as the Earth is invaded by Martians. A radio adaptation of X aired on October 30,1938 over the Colombia Broadcasting System, directed and narrated by Orson Welles caused widespread havoc and confusion with people fleeing their homes, and others thinking they could smell poison gas or could see flashes of lightning in the distance.

+30/-151975 The Great Train Robbery 1976 Eaters of the Dead 1980 Congo 1987 Sphere 1990 X 1992 Rising Sun 1994 Disclosure 1995 Y 1996 Airframe 1999 Timeline

+20/-10The opening sequence of this movie depicting the Omaha landingswas voted the "best battle scene of all time" by Empire magazine and was ranked number one on TV Guide's list of the "50 Greatest Movie Moments". The scene cost US$12 million and involved up to 1,500 extras, some of whom were members of the Irish Army Reserve. Local reenactment groups such as the Second Battle Group were cast as extras to play German soldiers.In addition, twenty to thirty actual amputees were used to portray US soldiers maimed during the landing.

+10/-0MehranKarimiNasseri also known as Sir, Alfred Mehran , is an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal One in Charles de Gaulle Airport from 8 August 1988 until July 2006, when he was hospitalized for an unspecified ailment. Nasseri was born in the Anglo-Persian Oil Company settlement located in Masjed Soleiman, Iran. His father was an Iranian physician working for the company.His mother was a nurse from Scotland working in the same place. His life forms the basis for which movie?

+60/-30X was designed by comic book artist Jim Steranko. George Lucas suggested the flight jacket (which reminded Steranko of Lucas), the fedora (which reminded him of Humphrey Bogart in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre) and a whip (reminiscent of Zorro). Steranko added the Sam Browne belt, a belt with a holster, and the khaki shirt and trousers. Costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis said the inspiration for X’s outfit was Charlton Heston's Harry Steele in Secret of the Incas.

27)Xwas first synthesized by English chemist and natural philosopher Joseph Priestley in 1775, who called it phlogisticatedair.HumphryDavy in the 1790s tested the gas on himself and some of his friends, including the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. They realized that X considerably dulled the sensation of pain, even if the inhaler were still semi-conscious. After it was publicized extensively by Gardner Quincy Colton in the United States in the 1840s, it came into use as an anaesthetic, particularly by such dentists as Horace Wells, who was one of the first dentists to use it on his patients. This was because dentists did not typically have access to the services of anesthesiologists and might benefit from patients who could respond to verbal commands.

NITROUS OXIDE/N2O/LAUGHING GAS

28) X -“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.And like that………he’s gone.”

29)X,also known as El Chino ("The Chinese") was the first Latin American player to reach the top position on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) singles rankings in 1998. He held the World No. 1 ranking for six weeks. He is the only male player in the open era to have held the World No. 1 ranking despite never winning a Grand Slam singles tournament During the 1997 Wimbledon tournament he commented that grass was for "cows and soccer" and not suitable for tennis play. He reportedly told Monica Seles to move her "fat ass" while on a lunch queue, but he has denied this.

30)X is a biblical creature mentioned in the Book of Job, and means a large beast or animal. The Book of Job describes X as being created along with man, is herbivorous, has strong muscles and bones, and lives in the swamps . In Jewish belief, X is the primal unconquerable monster of the land, as Leviathan is the primal monster of the waters of the sea and Ziz the primordial monster of the sky. Metaphorically, the name has come to be used for any extremely large or powerful entity.

32) Daniel X (October 24, 1862 – January 23, 1956) was born in northern Bohemia (now the Czech Republic). His father was a glass cutter who owned a small glass factory. It was here that a young Daniel served an apprenticeship, becoming skilled in the art of glass-cutting. In 1892 he patented an electric cutting machine that facilitated the production of crystal glass.In 1895,financier Armand Kosman and Franz Weis founded the X company, originally known as A. Kosmann, Daniel X & Co, which was later shortened to K.S. & Co. The company established a crystal cutting factory in Wattens, Tyrol, to take advantage of local hydroelectricity for the energy-intensive grinding processes which Daniel X had patented.

33)X (Leontopodium alpinum), is one of the best-known European mountain flowers, belonging to the sunflower family (Asteraceae). The name comes from two German words meaning noble and white. Also a culturally and historically specific style of white beer-a barley/wheat, top-fermented beer flavoured and preserved with a blend of spices and other plants mainly coriander, orange, bitter orange, and hops-brewed near Salzburg, Austria. Also a leading financial services company based in Mumbai and New York.

34)Lance Corporal Katrina Hodge (born 1987) is a serving member of the British Army and a brand ambassador for the La Senza lingerie brand. Challenged by her older brother to join the Army, she signed up aged 17. She reported for duty at their barracks in Winchester, Hampshire, wearing kitten heels, false eyelashes and with her clothes in a pink suitacse, earning her the nickname X.She rose to fame after it was reported in the British papers in 2005 that she had won a bravery award whilst serving with the Royal Anglian Regiment in Iraq for wrestling two rifles from a prisoner and then flooring him with her bare hands - thus saving lives of her fellow comrades. She was promoted to corporal.Signed up by lingerie firm La Senza, she was the runner up in the 2009 Miss England competition, but became Miss England when the pageant winner Rachel Christie stepped down after she was involved in a fight.

35)X Winamp Napster Firefox Winzip iTunes Ad-AwareSkypeRealPlayerAdobe Acrobat Reader

36) Combat stress reaction, in the past commonly known as X, is a military term used to categorize a range of behaviours resulting from the stress of battle which decrease the combatant's fighting efficiency. The most common symptoms are fatigue, slower reaction times, indecision, disconnection from one's surroundings, and inability to prioritize. Combat stress reaction is generally short-term and should not be confused with acute stress disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, or other long-term disorders attributable to combat stress although any of these may commence as a combat stress reaction.

37) Partial filmography of?Ghutan (2007) Zee Horror Show (1993-1998) Ajooba Kudrat Ka (1991)Bandh Darwaza (1990)Purani Haveli (1989)Veerana (1988)Tahkhana (1986)Telephone (1985)Purana Mandir (1984)GhungrooKiAwaaz(1981)Guest House (1980)Darwaza (1978)Andhera (1975)Do GazZameenkeNeeche(1972)

39)“Le marchand de la mort est mort .” What did this headline in a French newspaper said to have inspired?

NOBEL PRIZES In 1888 Alfred's brother Ludwig died while visiting Cannes and a French newspaper erroneously published Alfred's obituary. It condemned him for his invention of dynamite and is said to have brought about his decision to leave a better legacy after his death.The obituary stated Le marchand de la mort est mort ("The merchant of death is dead")and went on to say, "Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday.

40) X is a small, manoeuvrable, lightly armed warship, originally smaller than a frigate and larger than a coastal patrol craft or Fast Attack Craft (500 or less tons), although many recent designs resemble frigates in size and role. During the Age of Sail, X were smaller than frigates and larger than sloops-of-war, usually with a single gun deck. Although almost all modern navies use ships smaller than frigates for coastal duty, not all of them use the term X.Also the name of a popular sports car.

42) X was made famous by the 1978 movie The Deer Hunter, which features three soldiers who are captured during the Vietnam War and forced to play X as their captors gamble on the results. Their captors demand an especially brutal variation of the game: the game is played until all but one contestant is killed. In the Bugs Bunny cartoon short Ballot Box Bunny, Bugs and Yosemite Sam play X. Bugs loses and a shot is heard after the picture irises out, then the iris opens again to reveal Bugs saying "I missed!", followed by a pan over to reveal a singed and blackened Sam. The 1975 blockbuster Sholay depicts a form of X. Angry with his three colleagues for their cowardice, Gabbar Singh fires his fully loaded revolver into the air until only three bullets are left. He spins the barrel and then aims at each of the three in turn, threatening the last, "TeraKyahoga re Kalia?". Surprisingly, all three escape by sheer luck, but Gabbar ends up shooting all three dead anyway

43)Id. the personality-CEO and founder Chairman of the UTV group. In September 2008, he was named amongst, 'Esquire Magazines List of the 75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century.’ In 2009 Time 100, annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, compiled by Time magazine, he was ranked at 78.

44)Exploitation film is a type of film that is promoted by "exploiting" often lurid subject matter. An exploitation film relies heavily on sensationalist advertising and broad and lurid overstatement of the issues depicted, regardless of the intrinsic quality of the film. Exploitation films may feature suggestive or explicit sex, sensational violence, drug use, nudity, freaks, gore, the bizarre, destruction, rebellion, and mayhem.X is an American term for a theatre that mainly showed exploitation films. It is named after the defunct burlesque theatres, where 'bump and _____' dancing and striptease used to be on the bill. In the 1960s these theatres were put to new use as venues for exploitation films. Also the name of a 2007 action film.

45)Id. the bird which gives rise to a popular military term.

COMMON SNIPE/SNIPER The verb "to snipe" originated in the 1770s among soldiers in British India where a hunter skilled enough to kill the elusive snipe was dubbed a “sniper”

46)Xis a fictional character designed by the Doyle Dane Bernbach ad agency in 1959. X was initially portrayed by José F. Duval in both print advertisements and on television until 1969. Since then has been embodied by Carlos Sánchez and voiced by Norman Rose. In 2005, during the U.S. Advertising Week X was voted as the most important advertising icon in the United States, beating popular ones like Ronald McDonald, the Energizer bunnies, Charlie the Tuna and Nike. In 2004, M&M's was the first winning brand logo in the competition. X won with more than 200,000 votes from advertisers.

47)X is a mysterious figure. The son of an Indian Raja, he is a scientific genius who roams the depths of the sea in his submarine, the Nautilus, which he helped build on a deserted island. He tries to project a stern, controlled confidence, but he is driven by a thirst for vengeance and wracked by remorse over the deaths of his crewmembers and even by the deaths of enemy sailors. X is Latin for "no one", and also Greek for "I give what is due“.

48)Id. Compound/Additive.IUPAC Name:Sodium (2S)-2-amino-5-hydroxy-5-oxo-pentanoate

MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE/AJINOMOTO

49)X is an Indian television sitcom that first aired on Doordarshan in 1989. The sitcom was a satire on the socio-cultural problems faced by the common man in India at the time.X has a distinctive opening sequence. It starts off with a dedication to those whom the specific episode is poking fun at. This is followed by the title song which mocks the show itself as being misdirected. It features most of the main cast collectively playing musical instruments as a band. Y appears as an eye-patch wearing, menacing looking director. The other cast members are dressed variously as a Police Inspector, a Doctor, a peon, etc. Another distinctive aspect of the show was a joke in between the casting credits at the beginning and a satirically reworded popular Hindi film song played at the end of every episode.

50)Id. this Marvel Comics character.

51) X- “When a mighty tree falls, it is only natural that the earth around it does shake a little."

RAJIV GANDHI AFTER INDIRA GANDHI’S ASSASINATION

52) In the Mahābhārata,X was a rakshasa, the brother of Y and a forest dweller. He and his sister were tempted at the sight of the Pandavas and wished to eat them. However, X came into conflict with Bhima and died in the conflict. As the brother of Y he was also the uncle of Ghatotkacha. He was reputed to be 8 cubits(or 12 feet) tall. Tradition states that X belonged to the Kirata tribe of eastern Nepal. Some scholars believe him as belonging to the great Kachari tribe of Assam kamrup of which the Dimasas are descendents.

53) X was very popular with the Mughals and was a delicacy that vied with Biryani.In those days it was called lazizaan (thedelicious).Akbar had it served to Prince Salim(Jehangir) when he returned victorious from the campaign in Gujarat. It immediately became Jehangir’s favorite.Ain-i-Akbari, a 16th century document, written by Akbar’s vizier, Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak, mentions the recipe for X, which gives seven variations. It has inspired an English rip-off too.Nowadays ,ithas fallen in ‘ill’ times.

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