Dilip Jajodia, owner of the X company in East London, emphasizes the importance of leather sourced from a specific Scottish tannery, believing it to be the best for producing Dukes cricket balls. The text also mentions notable figures such as Judit Polgar, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Elon Musk, and others, discussing their achievements and contributions in various fields. Furthermore, it highlights critical terms and cultural references, illustrating the rich tapestry of personalities and historical contexts present throughout.

1. Dilip Jajodia, the owner of the X company, says it starts with the
leather.
The East London-based company has always imported its leather
for X from a particular tannery in Scotland. The thickness of this
leather is between 4mm and 4.5mm.The company believes the
leather produced at this specific tannery is the best available for the
manufacture of X.
Which company is being talked about?

2. The Dukes Cricket Ball

3. In 1991, X achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15
years and 4 months, at the time the youngest to have done so,
breaking the record previously held by former World
Champion Bobby Fischer. X was the youngest ever player to
break into the FIDE Top 100 players rating list, ranking No.
55 in the January 1989 rating list, at the age of 12.
X has defeated eleven current or former world champions in
either rapid or classical chess: including Carlsen, Kasparov,
Anand, Spassky, Karpov.Identify X.

4. Judit Polgar

5. X performed publicly for the first time, aged nine, at the death
anniversary of his grandfather.X debuted as a Bollywood
playback singer with a 2003 movie starring John Abraham,
directed by Pooja Bhatt.In 2006, X’s vocals were featured on
the soundtrack of Mel Gibson-directed Apocalypto.Identify
X.

6. Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

7. Cadillacs and Dinosaurs: The Second Cataclysm(Picture next
slide) is a video game made by Rocket Science Games
based on the comic book Xenozoic Tales. The game was
originally released in 1994 for the Sega CD and later the PC.
X,who was an employee of Rocket Science Games at that
point, worked as a programmer on Cadillacs and Dinosaurs.
X had also written a game called Blastar(Picture next slide)
in 1984,at the age of 12! The source code was published in a
magazine and he received $500 for it. Identify X.

9. Elon Musk

10. 27:Gone Too Soon(Picture next Slide), is a 2018 documentary
which examines the lives and deaths of the six most famous
members of the '27 Club' - musicians who have died aged 27: X,
Jimi Hendrix, Y, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse.
Half points each for giving the names of X and Y.

12. Brian Jones and Janis Joplin

13. The multiple award winning movies A and B have a lot in
common. Both are set in Gujarat.In both movies, the names
of the character of the lead actor and the lead actress are
same. Furthermore, both movies have been narrated by the
same person. A released in 1969 while B released in the early
years of the new millenium. Identify A and its director. (No
points for guessing B).

14. Bhuvan Shome
and MRINAL SEN.

15. Just Imagine…(picture of the first issue in the next slide)
was a comic book series published by the American company
DC Comics in November 2001.Simply state the person’s name
who created it.

17. Stan Lee

18. Chala Murari Hero Banne is 1977 Bollywood Comedy film
directed by the well known comedian G. Asrani. It features
special guest appearances of prominent actors like Amitabh
Bachchan,Dharmendra and Ashok Kumar. It also featured a
very prominent and emerging ‘jodi’ or duo of that time in
their only appearance on the celluloid. Name the two
personalities.

19. Atal Bihari Vajpayee and LK Advani

20. The film’s unlikeliest star is the X—an instrument you play without physically
touching it.
Created by the Soviet inventor Léon X in 1928, the aptly-name X was initially
conceived during research on proximity sensors for the Soviet government, until
someone realized that it sounded really cool and could be used as a musical
instrument.
Justin Hurwitz decided that the bizarre instrument needed to be a part of the
score as the instrument produces an eerie, almost ghostly, wailing sound that’s
perfect for evoking the mystery of space. Name the instrument.

21. Theremin.

22. Most people pretend that their favorite author is someone who will make
them sound smart. But, if you’re honest with yourself — and you’re of a
certain age — you know your favorite author is just X. Calling X prolific
would be a monstrous understatement. The author of hundreds of
novels and many hugely popular series, his books have also been made
into successful films and tv series. If you loved X’s books as a kid, Black
Mirror: Bandersnatch is for you. Who is the author?

23. R.L.STINE

24. Connect:

25. Big Falcon Rocket

26. Mixtec is an ancient Indigenous language composed of a variety of dialects that
are spoken in villages in an area known as “La Mixteca” in southern Mexico and
belong to the Otomanguean language family of Mexico.
X’s character, speaks in the Mixtec language throughout the film, but X told
Vogue that she did not learn Mixtec growing up because her father feared his
children could be discriminated against for not speaking proper Spanish.It is
hoped that exposure to Mixtec culture through the film will increase appreciation
and respect for Mixtec culture. Name of the film?

27. Roma

28. The term X originated from the 1938 play Y,known in the United States as Angel
Street, by the British dramatist Patrick Hamilton and two film adaptations (1940
and 1944), both named Y, about a woman whose husband slowly manipulates her
into believing that she is going insane.The 1944 film, starring Ingrid Bergman and
Charles Boyer, was nominated for seven Oscars. The title stems from the Y in the
house, which dim whenever the husband secretly turns them on in the attic, while
searching for hidden jewels. Although the wife accurately notices the dimming
lights, her husband insists that she has only imagined a change in the level of
illumination. It’s one of a series of unexplained incidents that lead the wife to
suspect that she may be slowly going mad. Much in news these days, what is the
term X?

29. Gaslighting, (One of the runners up to “Toxic”, which was
the Oxford Word of the Year.

30. The Moor's Last Sigh is the fifth novel by acclaimed author
Salman Rushdie, published in 1995. The novel has a character
named Raman Fielding, widely believed to be caricature of X.
X, an enigmatic personality, is commonly misquoted as once
having said he admired Hitler and the Axis powers.The book
lampoons X, who was considered to be a Hindu nationalist.
As a result, the book was banned in an Indian state for fears
of widespread protests. Who is X?

31. Thackeray

32. While many know vague details about the final moments of the late X, very few people
actually know the actual events of the day. Author Devapriya Roy and illustrator Priya
Kuriyan have thus come out with a graphic biography of the late X, where they have
managed to capture the details of the last few hours of X. Through the book, they have tried
to give us a glimpse into the 'white, black and grey' of the life of X. The last chapter of the
book pictures Y’s perspective on the events. The graphic novel recreates how a young Y
viewed X.The research for the book was aided by Y too. Identify X and Y.

33. X: Indira Gandhi
Y: Priyanka Gandhi

34. This is an exhaustive list about a unique distinction.
● Clint Eastwood,
● Roberto Benigni,
● Kevin Costner,
● Kenneth Branagh,
● Warren Beatty,
● Woody Allen,
● Laurence Olivier,
● Orson Welles
Who could have been the latest entrant to this list but missed the mark?What is the list
about?

35. Bradley Cooper
The distinction is being nominated in Oscars for the Best
Actor and the Best Director for the same movie.

36. X’s most impressive outing as a “super-sub” was scoring four off the bench in a
single game against Nottingham Forest in an 8-1 win during the 1998-99
season.As one of his country’s greatest ever players, X was honoured with the
Knight of the Order of St. Olav, First Class – the highest award possible.
"Thanks for giving me the best night of my life; it was better than my wedding
night." It is the phrase that X knows off by heart. They are the words he most
usually hears - “When these supporters talk about ‘the best night of my life’, they
really mean the best three minutes.”
Who is X and what is he talking about?

37. Ole Gunnar
Solskjaer

38. To tie in to X, Adidas has unveiled a new line of X athletic shoes(picture
next slide). According to Sneaker News, which first broke the news,
Adidas is releasing six pairs of shoes within its Ultra Boosts line inspired
by Xs most well-known houses.Each pair features a tiny tag in the back
stating a phrase representing that house or group. To be honest, it’s a
little weird that these shoes aren’t bloodstained. Now, these shoes
aren’t the only products out there connected to X. There have been X
beers, X wines, X perfume (seriously), even X lunchboxes (y’know...for
kids!). Identify X.

40. Game of Thrones

41. To whom is this Amul Topical dedicated to, and the name of
the films where he played the characters shown below.(The
two
bearded
ones).

42. Kader Khan. The two films are Coolie and Muqaddar Ka
Sikandar.

43. The X is unique for being perhaps the only infantry regiment in the world
that has a naval vessel in its regimental insignia. This curious bit of
history dates back to the raising of the original X by the British and the
taboos on crossing the black waters among Indians during the eighteenth
and nineteenth century. The soldiers of X apparently had fewer qualms
about overseas travel. If anything they seemed to relish it – by 1824,
the regiment had fought in as many as eight overseas campaigns. Identify
X.

44. Punjab Regiment

45. X’s debut novel, Paradise Towers, is set in an apartment building in Mumbai
of a certain vintage and unlike the new-fangled high-rises dotting the city, the
story revolves around the lives of the residents. It was launched on the
occasion of X’s father’s birthday.
X also launched a fashion label not long ago and appeared on a popular show
recently. Interestingly, X’s father has a not-so-happy connection with the
book’s title. Who is X.

46. Shweta Bachchan-Nanda.
(Paradise Papers)

47. The etymology of X dates back to the late 18th century.The verb comes from the
phrase "X Law", a term for a punishment without trial. Two Americans during
this era are generally credited for coining the phrase: Charles X and William X,
who both lived in Virginia in the 1780s. Charles X has the better claim, as he was
known to have used the term in 1782, while William X is not known to have used
the term until much later. There is no evidence that death was imposed as a
punishment by either of the two men. Identify the word, which seems to have been
overused by the Indian media since the last few year.

48. Lynch

49. In a cricket test match held between India and West Indies,
which is more famous for the image of Anil Kumble bowling
with a broken jaw, the Indian cricket team also made a record
of sorts. That happened when Ajay Ratra bowled the 247th
over in the West Indies first innings. Ajay Ratra also made his
only Test century in this match. What is the unique
occurence, which happened only third time in the history of
Test Cricket,and has happened only once since?

50. India used 11 bowlers.(Ajay Ratra was the wicketkeeper)

51. X just aired 37-year-old footage of art icon Y doing something, during the Super
Bowl. What was once documentary footage is now a 45-second ad for the brand—
an exercise in the confluence of art and commerce, exactly the kind of meta
commentary on consumerism that made Y famous.
It was a very meta, non-advertising ad composed completely of “found footage” of
a guy who loved marketing and wanted to monetize every single thing he ever
touched. The dude was all about mass-producing “art” created by his “factory,” so
it makes sense. The footage came from the Danish filmmaker Jørgen Leth’s 1982
documentary, 66 Scenes From America, and the original clip—of Y doing a
particular act —made the kind of gnomic statement on consumerism that Y
specialized in. Identify X and Y.

52. X is Burger King and Y is Andy Warhol

53. On March 20, 1977, Frank Collin, the leader of the National Socialist Party of
America, informed Skokie's police chief that the National Socialists intended to
march on the village's sidewalk on May 1.He also stated that the demonstration
would consist of 30-50 demonstrators marching in single file in front of the Skokie
Village Hall. The demonstrators intended to wear uniforms similar to those
traditionally worn by Nazis, including swastika armbands. They proposed to hold
a peaceable, public demonstration to protest against regulations on the use of the
village’s public parks for political assemblies. Why was the village of Skokie
specifically chosen for the march?

54. Skokie was, at that time, a village with a 57% Jewish population and a number of
its residents were survivors of Nazi concentration camps. (Majority population
followed Judaism or Jewish People will do.)

55. Y was born in a landowning family in Bengal. He enrolled at the art school in
Calcutta against his father’s wishes. In the 1920s, he, Atul Bose, and the great
Jamini Roy became close friends, making ends meet with artistic odd jobs.
Through his intimate works, Y changed the way women were depicted in Indian
art. He popularised the ‘X effect’ and invented a new genre of figure painting. The
‘X effect’ was also used in a famous 1977 film. Identify the artist(Y) and the ‘X
effect’.(Paintings in the next slide)

57. Hemendranath Mazumdar and the “Wet Sari effect”

58. X, a distinctive species of wild goat identified by its long hair and spiralled
horns, is the national animal of Y. It is a protected species in Y unless
permitted by the government to kill it under trophy hunting programmes.
Recently, A US hunter named Bryan Kinsel Harlan paid a whopping 110,000 USD
to kill a flared-horned X, a rare wildlife species in Y, during a trophy hunting
season in the country.

60. Markhor and Pakistan