3. 2. Designed by Robert Tor Russell based upon
an outline by W. H.Nichollas; named after a
duke who was a member of the Royal Family
the architects hoped that it's horse shoe shape
would bring good luck to the merchants who
would later manage their businesses here.
Identify this famous landmark.
5. 3. Natalie McDonald was a Canadian girl
suffering from a terminal illness,leukaemia.A
friend of her mother's wrote to___X___ to ask
her to write to Natalie. But before___X_____
could respond Natalie passed away.After her
death, the creator decided to honour the girl
by a mention in Y.
X and Y please?
7. 4. They are fictional creatures found in Gulliver’s
Travels. Swift describes them as vile and savage
creatures, filthy and with unpleasant
habits,obsessed with "pretty stones" they find by
digging in mud. Hence the term has come to
mean "a crude, brutish or obscenely coarse
person".
Who are 'they' ?
9. 5. “Mother of Cities to me,
For I was born in her gate,
Between the palms and the sea,
Where the world-end steamers wait.”
A British author about an Indian city.
Identify both
13. 7. Wikipedia has been running a series of ads as part of
their fund-raising campaign. These feature various
people, usually associated with or those who benefited
from Wikipedia. In this ad, you see Ward Cunningham
who is somebody that Wikipedia owes a debt of gratitude
to.
What did he invent?
15. 8. Jennifer Egan's book "A Visit From the Goon Squad" won the
2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The book is a set of stories about
Bennie Salazar, a music executive and one-time-rocker, and
characters connected to him.
An interesting aspect to the book is the presence of a chapter
(about a girl's diary) set in a particular form, which has probably
never been used in a mainstream literary novel. Some critics
thought of it as a gimmick, while others have lauded the idea.
Egan says she was inspired from how the 2008 Obama campaign
benefited from one such document to spur a turnaround in their
fortunes.
What form is this chapter in?
17. 9. Train number 17303/4, an Express of the Indian
Railways, plies between Yeshwantpur (Bangalore)
and Mysore in Karnataka. This comes under the
SouthWestern Railway.
In 2011, this train was given a more endearing
name, something fitting to that particular section of
the country. Perhaps a tiger or M.K.Gandhi will
one day board the express.
What name?
19. 10. Originally, Shigeru Miyamoto wanted to create a
video game involving Popeye, Olive Oyl and Bluto,
but was unable to get the licenses for these
characters. Hence, he created Y and the entire
universe of related characters.
Y?
21. 11. X's death in February 1656, while fighting
against a group of rebel Afghan tribesmen, caused
Y to go into a terrible depression. Reportedly, Y did
not attend court for two full days after hearing the
news, and refused to eat or drink anything for a
long while.
X and Y?
23. 12. While most people think that it was created by
the Japanese, its modern form was actually created
by Howard Garms , a 74-year-old retired architect
from Indiana in the year 1979, and it was featured in
Dell Magazines. Unfortunately, Garns died in 1989,
long before his creation shot achieved worldwide
fame. What did he create?
25. 13. Her father was born in Tibet and raised in
Delhi, while her mother was from a small town in
Himachal Pradesh. Her previous employers
include a bakery and a tax and retirement firm.
She claims that she does her best to maintain
her links to Sikh traditions, but also says that
she would be unlikely to abandon her career
path due to religion.
In 2011, she gained over 8000 followers on
Twitter in just two days owing to a particular
incident.
Who?
29. 15. “As you may or may not be aware,
Sweden is not a state in the United States of
America. Sweden is a country in northern
Europe. Unless you figured it out by now, US
law does not apply here... It is the opinion of
us and our lawyers that you are .......
morons, and that you should please go
sodomize yourself with retractable batons.“
X’s letter to Y.
31. 16. In 2011 alone, there have been 5
incidents of this, straining the relationship
between A and B to a breaking point. A says
about their relationship- "It's some sort of
fatal attraction!“
The most recent incident occurred in New
Delhi in October, adding a sour flavour to
what was otherwise an amazing occasion.
What incidents?
33. 17. Originally called Paul Michael Levesque, X began his
career under the name Terra Ryzing. He soon changed his
_____ name to Jean-Paul Levesque, and then took up the
name by which we know him/her today.
X has won 23 world championships in his/her chosen
discipline
X has also appeared in a few movies, such as Pacific Blue,
Blade:Trinity and The Chaperone
34. Y is the Executive Vice President, Creative of an
organization that X is closely associated with. Y's father,
incidentally, is the Chairman and CEO of the organization
Y married X both on-screen and in real life
Y also holds one World Championship title in the same
discipline
X and Y?
36. 18. It was initially launched in Brazil, but it was
Pakistan that made it what it is. An Indonesian
version may also be on the cards, while the first
ever Indian version went on air in the middle of
June 2011. Leslie Lewis took on the role played by
Rohail Hyatt. The reviews for the Indian version
were not as great.
Which media property is this?
38. 19. This is a question about two terms X and Y - you
might not find either of them in a dictionary yet.Both X
and Y refer to groups of people who believe in two
separate American controversies.
X is the older of the two, and was coined principally in
opposition to one person. The term's associated
controversy flared up once again in the end of April
2011, but has significantly died down since.
This happened partly because of events associated with
Y. Y was coined in early May 2011 (by online media).
Both X and Y are coined from nouns, the exact opposite
of each other.
Which two words are these?
39. X: "Birthers", Y="Deathers"
"Birthers" are those people who do not believe
that US President Obama was born in Hawaii, and claim he is
ineligible to be the US President because he was born
outside the US. In April, a detailed birth certificate showing
his place of birth was released.
"Deathers" believe that Osama bin Laden was not shot on May
1 in Pakistan. Among the alternatives are that he was either
captured alive or killed long before these events supposedly
happened.
40. 20. The theories behind the origin of the name of
this region vary. While some believe it is an
anglicised version of the Malayalam term for
'Hilly Region' its name may also be derived from the
Sanskrit 'tamalapattram' literally meaning 'dark tree
leaves'.
Identify.
