The story describes how in the late 19th century, a Dublin theatre proprietor named Richard Daly made a bet that he could introduce a nonsense word to widespread use and public understanding within 48 hours. He had cards with the word "X" printed on them and had his staff write it on walls around Dublin. The next day, "X" had become a topic of conversation throughout the city and entered common usage, with the word being "quiz".

1. GENERAL QUIZ
PRELIMS-ANSWERS

2.  The story goes that a Dublin
theatre proprietor by the name of Richard Daly
made a bet that he could, within forty-eight
hours, make a nonsense word known
throughout the city, and that the public would
supply a meaning for it. After a performance one
evening, he gave his staff cards with the word ‘X'
written on them, and told them to write the
word on walls around the city. The next day the
strange word was the talk of the town, and
within a short time it had become part of the
language. What word ????

3.  quiz

4.  What was significant about the words
"Watson, please come here, I want you." when
spoken in 1876?

5.  THE FIRST CONVERSATION THROUGH A
TELEPHONE

6.  What common word originates from the
fact that ancient Greek poetry was usually
recited with the music of the lyre ??

7.  LYRICS

8. Which famous physicist’s epitaph (writing on the grave) reads “He lies somewhere here”?
 Which famous physicist’s epitaph (writing
on the grave) reads as follows ????
“He lies somewhere here”

9.  Heisenberg, the one brought about the
uncertainty principle

10.  X was a song first published in 1744. It almost
certainly dates back to the Middle Ages,
perhaps to the 13th Century, and relates to a
tax forced on ------. One-third went to the
local noble, one-third to the cathedral and
approximately a third was for the farmer….
 Just gimme the song X

11.  BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP

12.  When stainless steel was introduced in India,
it was marketed under a name which
suggested that it would not tarnish, unlike
preferred metals of the day such as brass. The
name continues to enjoy some vogue as a
synonym for stainless steel in South India.
What term?

13.  EVER SILVER

15.  MUGGLE QUIDDITCH

16.  What do these numbers correspond to?
256, 271, 323, 342, 362, 406, 483, 512

17.  The frequencies of the seven swaras -
Sa, Re, Ga, Ma, Pa, Dha, Ni, Sa.

18.  X is a model village on the south side of
Birmingham, England, best known for its
connections with the Cadbury.
 Research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
has claimed that it is “One of the nicest places
to live in Britain.”
 The Cadburys named the village ‘X' after the
brooke which flowed through it.

19.  BOURNE VILLE

20.  Which was the first fully privately owned
Television channel in India when it emerged
in 1993. It remains the most viewed TV
channel in the world in its language and is
part of Rs 16000-crore network

21.  SUN TV

22.  A demon, Sahasra Kavacha, got a boon for 1000
armors. It was said that it would take 1000 years to
break each Kavacha and that the one to destroy it
would die instantly. So Nara and Naryana do this:
one does a penance for 1000 years while the other
fights for a thousand years to break one armor. He
dies, but the 1000 year penance is used to revive
him. They alternate roles and keep at it. They break
999 armors when the demon hides behind Surya to
escape. Luckily, there is the pralaya and he escapes
death (so to speak) and is reborn as X.

23.  KARNA

24. • It is believed that the __________ carries with it a
curse and only when in the possession of a woman will
the curse not work. All the men who owned it have
either lost their throne or had other misfortunes befall
them. Queen Victoria is the only reigning monarch to
have possessed it. According to the legend, if the
monarch is a male, it is passed to his spouse.
• The possibility of a curse pertaining to ownership of
the _____dates back to a Hindu text relating to the
first authenticated appearance of the ______ in 1306:
"He who owns this will own the world, but will also
know all its misfortunes. Only God, or a woman, can
wear it with impunity."

25.  The Ko-hi-noor

27.  EDELWEISS

28.  This phrase was originally in usage by highway
robbers in England while stopping their victims
on the road and commanding them to hand over
their valuables ”_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ,your money
or your life” .
 The phrase has evolved and is used in a different
meaning and now predominantly in cricket
commentary !!! what phrase ???

29.  STAND AND DELIVER

30.  Connect Cedric Pioline, Hagar's wife, Lady
Ivanhoe from Ivanhoe, Antonio Salazar.

31.  THEY FORMED THE BASIS FOR THE NAMES
FOR THE FOUNDERS OF THE HOGWARTS
HOUSES

33.  RUBIK 360

34. Gunter's chain is a measuring device used for
land survey. It was designed and introduced
in 1620 by English clergyman and
mathematician Edmund Gunter long before
the development of more sophisticated
equipments to accurately survey land plots.
Today, the Gunter Chain's most famous legacy
is that it gave us the accurate length of X.

35.  TO MEASURE THE LENGTH OF THE CRICKET
PITCH

36.  The 1984 and 1985-86 cricket series in West
Indies and England are popularly known as X
because of the result instead of Y, a name by
which these kind of results are generally
known as.
West Indies under Lloyd had Richards,
Garner, Marshall and Holding. England under
the leadership of Gower had Botham, Lamb,
Gatting and Emburey.
Give me X n Y and the funda.

37.  BLACK WASH

38. Trygve Lie
Dag Hammarskjöld
U Thant
Kurt Waldheim
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
_________
_________

39.  Kofi Annan,
 Ban Ki-moon
Secretaries-General of the UN.

41.  INTERROBANG