7. 3. Alan Stillman opened the first X restaurant in 1965 in
New York. He lived in a neighborhood with many airline
stewardesses, fashion models, secretaries, and other
young, single people on the East Side of Manhattan
near the Queensboro Bridge, and hoped that opening a
bar would help him meet women. At the time,
Stillman's choices for socializing were non-public
cocktail parties or "guys' beer-drinking hangout" bars
that women usually did not visit; he recalled that
"there was no public place for people between, say,
twenty-three to thirty-seven years old, to meet."
Which restaurant did Alan open?
25. • 12. In the Nicolas Roeg film Insignificance, set
in 1954, we meet four characters who
represent iconic figures of the era: Marilyn
Monroe, Joseph McCarthy, Joe DiMaggio and
____ ____ who are called The Actress, The
Senator, The Ballplayer, and The Professor,
respectively. Which real-life person was the
basis for The Professor?
26.
27. 13. Which leading Indian MNC has signed
up Lionel Messi, a professional footballer,
as their Global Brand Ambassador?
31. • 15. The examinations are split into three levels namely
The Knowledge module, Skills module and the
Professional module totally making 14 papers. These
papers are attempted over a span of three years."I
began coaching for examinations in September 2012
and I wrote the final exam in June 2015,as far as my
earlier previous exams are concerned, I don't think I
performed that well. When it comes to marks, I scored
a 8.6 CGPA in grade 10 and an 87 per cent in 12th" said
X."As of now, X holds the record for the youngest ACCA
affiliate amongst our records," Herriot Fitgerald, the
ACCA Academic Advisor Middle East was quoted as
saying by the newspaper. Identify X.
32.
33. • 16. X was born in 20th october 1891 in Bollington,
England. He studied at Manchester University
under Ernest Rutherford. When World War I broke
out in 1914, He was in Berlin working with Hans
Geiger. He spent the war in an internment camp
for enemy aliens. After the war, He rejoined
Rutherford, first at Manchester and then at
Cambridge.X and Rutherford hypothesized the
existence of a new particle, the Y. In 1932 X
devised and performed an experiment that proved
the particle existed. He was awarded the Nobel
physics prize three years later for his discovery.
36. • 17. Every human language has its own word for the X,
and these words are the ones normally used in
astronomical contexts. However, a number of fanciful
or mythological names for the X have been used in the
context of astronomy (an even larger number of ITS
epithets have been used in non-astronomical contexts).
In the 17th century, the X was sometimes referred to as
Proserpina. In technical terminology, the word-stems
cynthi- (from Cynthia, an epithet of the goddess
Artemis) are sometimes used to refer to the X, as in
selenography, selenology, and pericynthion. Identify X.
37.
38. • 18. 'The worlds most valuable Biscuit' which survived
something that happened long time ago, will go under
the hammer late this month and is expected to fetch
between 8000 - 10000 euro. the cracker which was
kept as souvenir by James Fenwick which helped
rescue people. It was stored by him in kodak
photographic envelope with an original note which
read " pilot biscuit from X." 'It is the world's most
valuable biscuit', Andrew Aldridge from Henry Aldridge
& son auctioneers in wiltshire U.K. said "the cracker
will go under the hammer on october 24." ID X and
give funda .
39. • X- Titanic lifeboat 1912
• It survived the sinking of
titanic more than a century
ago
40. 19. X has opened to record smashing $80 million
overseas this weekend. In the UK, the film has
taken in an estimated $64 milllion in its first 7
days of release, the biggest opening run in
that country's boxoffice history, according to a
statement by makers. It took the the mark
from harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban
which was also released on a Monday and
totalled $82 million in 2004. ID X?
41.
42. • 20. Colleagues of a late researcher noted for his
expertise on outer-space collisions came up with
an astronomical way to honor his memory. A
vehicle carrying an ounce of his ashes slammed
into a moon crater at 3,800 mph, riding shotgun
along NASA’s Lunar Prospector science craft.He
was an American geologist and one of the
founders of the field of planetary science. He is
best known for co-discovering the Comet X–Levy
9 with his wife Carolyn and David H. Levy.
44. • 21. Connect:
• Theodore C. Freeman (October 31, 1964, aircraft accident)
• Charles A. Bassett II (February 28, 1966, aircraft accident)
• Elliot M. See Jr. (February 28, 1966, aircraft accident)
• Virgil I. Grissom (January 27, 1967, Apollo 1 fire)
• Roger B. Chaffee (January 27, 1967, Apollo 1 fire)
• Edward H. White II (January 27, 1967, Apollo 1 fire)
• Vladimir M. Komarov (April 24, 1967, Soyuz 1 re-entry parachute failure)
• Edward G. Givens Jr. (June 6, 1967 automobile accident)
• Clifton C. Williams Jr. (October 5, 1967, aircraft accident)
• Yuri A. Gagarin (March 27, 1968, aircraft accident)
• Pavel I. Belyayev (January 10, 1970, disease)
• Georgiy T. Dobrovolsky (June 30, 1971, Soyuz 11 re-entry pressurization
failure)
• Viktor I. Patsayev (June 30, 1971, Soyuz 11 re-entry pressurization
failure)
• Vladislav N. Volkov (June 30, 1971, Soyuz 11 re-entry pressurization
failure)
46. • 22. When Yudhishthira crowned himself as the
Emperor of Indraprastha and began preparations
for a Rajasuya sacrifice. He despatched his
brother, Sahadeva to the southern kingdoms to
subjugate the rulers to his authority and
supremacy. Sahadeva stopped at a place and sent
his messengers to X's kingdom. X gratefully
accepted Yudhishthira's authority and regarded it
as "an act of time." He also sent diverse kinds of
jewels, gems, pearls, celestial ornaments and
costly apparel to Sahadeva and Yudhishthira. ID X.
48. • 23. One of the myths of the origin of this game
suggests that Confucius , the Chinese
philosopher, developed the game in about 500
BC.
• The myth also claims that Confucius was fond of
birds, which would explain its name.
• This game was played with 40 paper cards similar
in appearance to the cards used in the game Ya
Pei. These 40 cards are numbered 1 to 9 in four
different suits, along with four extra flower cards.
50. 24. Connect:
• City in Fear (1980), directed by Jud Taylor [a movie]
• Raging Angels (1995) [ A Movie]
• MacGyver, "Pilot" directed by Jerrold Freedman, and
"The Heist" episodes (1985).[ a television direction]
• "Waiting for Tonight" - Jennifer Lopez (1999), directed
by Francis Lawrence. [ A music Video]
• Daredevil #338–342, a comics series published by
Marvel Comics: Writer D.G. Chichester
• Rolento in the video games Street Fighter X Tekken
and Ultra Street Fighter IV. - Dameon Clarke
52. 25. Duryodhan placed his camp on the opposite
side of a pond where the Pandavas used to stay.
Once, while he was taking bath in that pond, the
heavenly princes, named Gandharvas, came to
take a bath.
Duryodhana could not tolerate this; he had a
fight in which the Gandharvas captured him. On
the request of Yudhisthir, Arjuna saved
Duryodhana and set him free. Duryodhana was
ashamed, but being a kshatriya, he asked Arjuna
what benediction or boon he would like. Arjuna
replied that he would ask for the boon later
when he needed it. What was that boon Arjuna
asked for later?