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1. X is a persistent anticyclonic storm, 22 south of Y's equator, which has lasted for at least 180

years and possibly as long as 345 years or more.The X rotates counterclockwise, with a period of

about six Earth days or 14 equivalent Y days. Its dimensions are 2440,000 km westtoeast and

1214,000 km southtonorth. It is large enough to contain two or three planets the size of Earth.

At the start of 2004, X had approximately half the longitudinal extent it had a century ago, when it

was 40,000 km in diameter. At the present rate of reduction it could potentially become circular by

2040, although this is unlikely because of the distortion effect of the neighboring jet streams.

Infrared ata have long indicated that X is colder (and thus, higher in altitude) than most of the

other such phenomena on Y. Furthermore, careful tracking of atmospheric features revealed the

X's counterclockwise circulation as far back as 1966.

Identify X and Y.

2. The Book of Ezekeil is a book of the Hebrew Bible, and also recognized as canonical by most

denominations of Christianity. The book derives its name from the prophet Ezekiel, a prophet of

the 6th century BC. Ezekeil 25:17 reads:

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny

of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of charity and goodwill shepherds the weak through

the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will

strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and

destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon

thee."

What is the significance of this passage in popular culture of cult films?

3. When this player received a letter from a fan which conveyed: "Why did God have to select youfor such a bad disease?" X replied: "Listen. 50 million children around the world start playing

Y(the sport). 5 million learn to play Y. 500,000 learn professional Y. 50,000 come to the circuit.

5000 reach the Z. 50 reach X. 8 reach the Quarterfinals. 4 to the Semifinals. 2 to the Finals.

When i was holding it, i never asked God: Why me? So why now in pain should I be asking Him:

WHY ME?

Identify X, Y and Z

4. This product was originally invented by Max Keith in Germany 1940 when World War II made it

difficult to get a certain syrup to Nazi Germany. It was originally made from byproducts of cheese

and jam production. The name comes from the German word for imagination because Max Keith

thought that imagination is required to taste the fruit(which is the principal ingredient of the

product) from the strange mixture. Which product?

5. Connect the following personalities, or more specifically, their achievements.

Isaac Newton, Isaac Asimov, Johannes Kepler

6. What connects: Eagle, Albatross, Condor, Ostrich? (Clue: Order of the names is important)

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7. She was born in Boston, and grew up mostly in Massachusetts and New York. Her father gave

his children a Buddhist upbringing, and she is named after an Dbuma Chenpo(in Tibetan, "db" is

silent, in Sanskrit, meaning "Great Middle Way"). Regarding religion, she now calls herself

agnostic. She has three brothers, Ganden, Dechen and Mipam, and a half-sister named Taya

from her father's previous marriage. She and her siblings spent time in Almora, India, during

childhood, and the Dalai Lama sometimes visited their home. Who?

8. Legend says that this creature was once totally white.One day a young girl died when she was

trying to rescue a cub from a leopard.When this creature went to pay his respects to the girl,it

wore a black shawl as a sign of grief..rubbing away his tears left stains from the shawl around its

eyes,while holding its head in its hands left black patches on its nose and ears.The shawl left

stains on its hands and legs too. What animal?

9. X's original title was to be Stag Party, but an unrelated outdoor magazine, Stag, contacted the

founder and informed him that they would protect their trademark if he were to launch his

magazine with that name. The founders and the executive vice-president met to seek a new

name. The executive vice-president's mother had worked for the Chicago sales office of the

short-lived X Automobile Company, suggested "X."

The first issue, in December 1953, was undated, as the founder was unsure there would be a

second. He produced it in his kitchen. The first picture used originally was taken for a calendar

rather than for X. The first issue sold out in weeks. Known circulation was 53,991. The cover price

was 50. Which magazine?

10.These are the contents of what coveted thing especially among Bollywood circles?

(It was necessary to blank out some contents)

- A Blackberry Torch

- A Samsung Tab

- A box of chocolates from the Grand Hyatt

- A box of Lindt Swiss thins

- A box of mini cupcakes- Vicenzi's Mini Snack puff pastry rolls filled with hazelnut cream

- A maroon ______ ____ _____ mug

- A small bottle of _______ Classic

- Gourmet ground ______

- Bailey's Irish Cream

- A scented candle

- A small bottle of Leonidas chocolate spread

- A bottle of Burberry Sport for women

11.The person who designed the logo of this company stated that he decided to use a lion as a

tribute to his alma mater Columbia University, whose athletic teams' nickname is the Lions and

their fight song was "Roar, Lion, Roar". Which company's iconic logo are we talking about?

12.In 1948, a graduate student at Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia, USA overheard the

president of a local food chain asking one of the deans to research a system to automatically

read product information. He told his friend about the request, and they started working on a

variety of systems. Their first working system used ultraviolet ink, but this proved to fade and was

fairly expensive. Convinced that the system was workable with further development, the friend

quit his position at Drexel, moved into his father's apartment in Florida, and continued working on

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the system. His next inspiration came from Morse code, and he formed this system for the first

time from sand on the beach when "I just extended the dots and dashes downwards and made

narrow lines and wide lines out of them."

On 20 October 1949 the 2 friends filed a patent application for "Classifying Apparatus and

Method". What was invented as a result?

13.In March 1970, Larry Nichols invented a 222 Puzzle and filed a Canadian patent application for

it. Two years later X invented Y. Names such as 'The Gordian Knot' and 'Inca Gold' were

considered for it but the name Y stuck. There are around 43,252,003,274,489,856,000

permutations of the puzzle. Software can also simulate very large puzzles that are impractical to

come up with, such as 100100100 and 1,0001,0001,000. Identify only Y.

14.He was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature "for his work which is marked by both idealism and

humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty."

He later said about Alfred Nobel, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but

only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."

He is one of the only two people to win the Nobel prize as well as the Oscar(for Best Adapted

Screenplay). Who is this Nobel Laureate?

15. The son of Italian immigrants, X picked up the guitar as a teenager. He plays guitar left-handed.

In an industrial accident at the age of 17 on his last day of work in a sheet metal factory, he lost

the tips of the middle and ring finger of his right hand. He considered abandoning music after

attempting to learn to play right-handed. He then strung his guitars with extra-light strings (using

banjo strings, which were a lighter gauge than even the lightest guitar-strings of the time) and

wore plastic covers over the two damaged fingers. He fashioned the latter himself, by melting

plastic liquid-soap bottles into a ball and then using a soldering iron to make holes into this ball,

putting his fingers in while the plastic was still soft enough to be shaped. He then trimmed and

sanded away the excess plastic to leave himself with two thimbles, which he then covered with

leather, to provide better grip on the strings. Which guitarist?

16. X was born on 22 December 1887. His father worked as a clerk in a shop and his mother was a

housewife. In December 1889, X had smallpox and recovered, unlike thousands who succumbed

to the disease that year.

On 1 October 1892, X was enrolled at the local school. Just before the age of 10, in November

1897, he passed his primary examinations in English, geography and arithmetic. With his scores,

he finished first in the district. That year, X entered Town Higher Secondary School where he

encountered formal mathematics for the first time. By age 11, he had exhausted the mathematical

knowledge of two college students who were lodgers at his home. He was later lent a book on

advanced trigonometry which he completely mastered this book by the age of 13 and discovered

sophisticated theorems on his own. By 14, he assisted the school in the logistics of assigning its

1200 students (each with their own needs) to its 35-odd teachers. When he was 17, heindependently developed and investigated the Bernoulli numbers and calculated Euler's constant

up to 15 decimal places. Which wonderkid?

17.The Babylonians were expert Astronomers. Of the many things that we owe to them, this system

is used to measure a physical quantity worldwide. It remains the most used system even though

its base is not standard. The system traces its roots to Babylonian mathematics, which is to the

base 60. Identify the physical quantity which the system measures.

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18.X lays down the basic principles of plastic surgery by advocating a proper physiotherapy before

the operation and describes various methods or different types of defects

(1) release of the skin for covering small defects

(2) rotation of the flaps to make up for the partial loss

(3) pedicle flaps for covering complete loss of skin from an area

He has mentioned various methods including sliding graft, rotation graft and pedicle graft. Nasal

repair or rhinoplasty has been described in greater detail, which to this day has stood the test of

time and is mentioned as the Indian method of rhinoplasty in the books of plastic surgery. Lastly,

labioplasty too has received his attention. In short, all the principles of plastic surgery, accuracy,

precision, economy, haemostasis and perfection find an important place in X's writings on this

subject.

British physicians traveled to India to see rhinoplasty being performed by native methods.Reports

on Indian rhinoplasty were published in the Gentleman's Magazine by 1794.Joseph Constantine

Carpue spent 20 years in India studying local plastic surgery methods. Carpue was able to

perform the first major rhinoplasty in the western world by 1815. Instruments described in X'swritings were further modified in the Western World. Identify X.

19. X is a language spoken in parts of north-central and eastern India. It is spoken in the western part

of state of Bihar, the northwestern part of Jharkhand, and the Purvanchal region of Uttar

Pradesh. It is also spoken in Guyana, Suriname, Fiji, Trinidad and Tobago and Mauritius. A total

of 150 million people in India speak it.

X cinema history begins in 1962. X cinema is also watched in many parts of the world, where

Indianas have settled, including Brazil, Fiji, Guyana, Mauritius, South Africa, Trinidad and

Tobago. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many colonizers faced labor shortages

due to the abolition of slavery; thus, they imported many Indians, many from X-speaking regions.

Today, some 200 million people in the West Indies, Oceania and South America speak X as anative or second language and they also watch the films.

Which language?

20.X was originally named after a Biblical character. Her family and friends' inability to pronounce the

name caused them to put the "P" before the "R" in every place else other than the birth certificate.

X was born to unmarried teenage parents due to a single sexual encounter and the couple broke

up not long after. After her birth, her mother traveled north and she spent her first six years living

in rural poverty with her grandmother, who was so poor that she often wore dresses made of

potato sacks. She has stated that she was molested by her cousin, her uncle, and a family friend,

starting when she was nine years old.

At 13, after suffering years of abuse, she ran away from home. When she was 14, she became

pregnant, her son dying shortly after birth. Her frustrated mother sent her to live with her father

who made her education a priority. She became an honors student, was voted Most Popular Girl,

joined her high school speech team , placing second in the nation in dramatic interpretation. She

won an oratory contest, which secured her a full scholarship where she studied communication.

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She also attracted the attention of a local black radio station which hired her to do the news part-

time.

Working in local media, she was both the youngest news anchor and the first black female news

anchor at her place. And as they say, the rest is history...

Whom are we talking about?

21.X delusion is a controversial type of delusion in which patients believe their lives are reality

television shows. The term was coined in 2008 by brothers Joel and Ian Gold, who are both

psychiatrists, after the film X.

There have been over 40 recorded instances of people suffering from the X delusion. The Gold

brothers are the foremost researchers on the subject. They have met since 2002 with over a

dozen individuals, primarily white men between 25 and 34, suffering from the delusion. They have

reported that one patient traveled to New York after 9/11 to make sure that the 2001 terrorist

attacks were not a plot twist in his personal X, while another traveled to a downtown Manhttan

Federal building to seek asylum from his show. One of Gold's patients, an upper-middle class

Army veteran who wanted to climb the Statue of Liberty in the belief that doing so would releasehim from the "show", described his condition this way:

I realized that I was and am the center, the focus of attention by millions and millions of people ...

My family and everyone I knew were and are actors in a script, a charade whose entire purpose

is to make me the focus of the world's attention.

The choice of the name "X Delusion" by the Golds was influenced by the fact that three of the five

patients initially treated for the syndrome explicitly linked their perceived experiences to the film.

Which film/syndrome?

22.Which book is divided into the following parts? Who is the author?

1) Concerning Discipline2) The Duties of Government Superintendents

3) Concerning Law

4) The Removal of Thorns

5) The Conduct of Courtiers

6) The Source of Sovereign States

7) The End of the Six-Fold Policy

8) Concerning Vices and Calamities

9) The Work of an Invader

10) Relating to War

11) The Conduct of Corporations

12) Concerning a Powerful Enemy

13) Strategic Means to Capture a Fortress

14) Secret Means

15) The Plan of a Treatise

23.Yaadein is a film directed and produced by Sunil Dutt also starring himself. This is film of the rare

films by actor Sunil Dutt in his directorial debut, where he shows his talent as an actor as well as

a director. This film is about a man who comes home to find that his wife and son are not at

home, he assumes that they have left him and reminiscences his life with them, and scared of his

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life without them, he regrets his past indiscretions. The suspense is only revealed in the end, as

his wife and son had only gone out for a while. What's so unique about this film, that it also has a

place in the Guinness Book of World Records?

24.Logo of which international organization?

25.It is commonly believed that the coffee bean that originated in the port city of X was encountered

by Marco Polo on his trip through the Arab World. After the month and a half of Polo's turbulent

journey, his party was forced to go ashore at r (modern-day Tyre, Lebanon) to resupply its

stocks, because the captain, William Maurice, had provided insufficient room for food storage. In

the marketplace there, Polo found a Yemenite salesman who had brought coffee beans from X,

purchased some and ultimately returned with them (among many other imports) to

Europe. However, the bean was not widely known through Europe until the 17th century. In 1595

Spanish Jesuit missionary Pedro Paez was the first European to taste X's coffee in place. The

term "X" in relation to chocolate and coffeechocolate blends is strictly as a result of European

influence. Chocolate is not cultivated at X nor imported into it. Identify X.

26.Put funda:

Tuesday 22 June 2010

6:13 pm Match begins

9:07 pm Match suspended

Wednesday 23 June 2010

2:05 pm Match resumes

5:45 pm Match sets record

9:10 pm Match suspended a second time

Thursday 24 June 2010

3:43 pm Match continued

4:48 pm Match ended

27.Following is a list of various nicknames for which sportsperson?

"The Montster", "The Python", The "Sikh of Tweak", "Montastic", "Parmesan Tony", "The Beard to

be Feared".

28.X was an Italian philosopher and writer during the Renaissance. He is one of the main founders

of modern political science. He was a diplomat, political philosopher, musician, and a playwright.

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X is most famous for a short political treatise, Z, written in 1513, but not published until 1532, five

years after X's death. Since the sixteenth century, generations of politicians remain attracted and

repelled by the cynical approach to power posited in Zand his other works. Whatever his personal

intentions, which are still debated today, his surname yielded the modern political word Ythe

use of cunning and deceitful stratagems in politics. Identify X.