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2) In the trial of The Pirate Bay in 2009, against IP rights activists, defense attorney

Per Samuelson presented an argument, which has since been dubbed the X defence

“ ____LAW JARGON_____says that the person who provides an information service

is not responsible for the information that is being transferred. In order to be

responsible, the service provider must initiate the transfer. But the admins of The

Pirate Bay don’t initiate transfers. It’s the users that do and they are physically

identifiable people. They call themselves names like X...The prosecutor must show

that Carl Lundström personally has interacted with the user X, who may very well be

found in the jungles of Cambodia.

Id X

X - King Kong

This led to the tactic now known as the King Kong defence

• Against the Grain is an American dramatic television series that aired on NBC from October to December 1993 starring John Terry, Donna Bullock, Robyn Lively, Ben Affleck, and Vanessa Lee Evigan. The show was inspired by ________’s book X.

• A movie version of X was later made and then released in the United States on October 6, 2004, followed by the more popular television series of the same name.

• Id X

Friday Night Lights

• In 1909, the Automobile Club of Monaco started planning an event at the behest of Albert I, the Prince of Monaco.

• It was to start at points all over Europe and converge on Monte Carlo. • In January 1911, 23 cars set out from 11 different locations and eventually,

Henri Rougier was declared the winner. • What term was used to describe this event, referring to the format, and

deriving from the French word for ‘to unite’?

• Rally

• X, apart from being an athlete, was also an actor who went on to star in Hollywood and Broadway projects

• Born in Calcutta to British parents, X was the first athlete from India to participate in the Olympics. He also became the first athlete representing an Asian nation to win a medal in the Olympics

• He was the secretary of the Indian Football Association for two years, before migrating to UK permanently

• Id X

• Norman Pritchard

• The X was established in what is today's Dare County, North Carolina, United States. It was a late 16th-century attempt by Queen Elizabeth I to establish a permanent English settlement. It is famously known as the birthplace of America’s first English child.

• The end of the 1587 colony is unrecorded, leading to the colony being referred to as the "Lost colony", with multiple hypotheses existing as to the fate of the colonists.

• Giles Milton's 2013 children's book Children of the Wild and Blue Birds, a 2015 children’s book written in verse by Caroline Starr Rose are fictional recreations of the X.

• On September 14th, 2016, the TV Series Y debuted its new season. With no announcement of the season's theme before the premiere, it was revealed to have a documentary style format and a storyline of the X.

• X= Roanoke

• Y= American Horror Story

14) Timur’s Curse is a popular rumour, that said that there was an inscription

inside Timur’s tomb which said, ‘Whosoever Disturbs My Tomb Will Unleash an

Invader More Terrible than I’. It warned that the curse will take effect within 3

days from the date when the tomb would be opened and that wrath would befall

the land of those who open the tomb.

On 20 June, 1941, excavation of the tomb began. What happened (or more

accurately, began) two days later, arguably making the prophecy come true?

Operation Barbarossa; Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union

• Malindi is a port town in Southeast Kenya, 120 km away from Mombasa

• In the middle ages, this town was rivaled only by Mombasa for dominance in East Africa and was an important port city for foreign sailors

• Shown in the image is a tourist attraction in the town named Pillar of X, which was built by X as a sign of goodwill with the town

• X is known to us all

• X - Vasco da Gama

• X was painted by an artist by the name of Nihâl Chand.

• This portrait is painted in the typical style of the Kishangarh school of Indian miniature painting. The woman here is portrayed with an elongated face, arched eyebrows, lotus-like eyes tinged with pink, a sharp nose and a pointed chin, hence it is often cited as the idealized depiction of the female form.

• It has been labelled as the Indian Mona Lisa.

• Bani Thani

Given is the music video for Dani California by

Red Hot Chili Pepper. Identify all artists

depicted in the music video

Elvis Presley

The Beatles

Cream

Parliament-Funkadelic

David Bowie

Sex Pistols

The Misfits

Poison

Nirvana

Red Hot Chili Peppers

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What recent, non-fictional TV incident, is being referred to here?

“I just feel like the whole process needed to be called out,”, Full Frontal host Samantha

Bee said; “They’ve allowed him to amplify his message in a way that feels safe and

comfortable for so long, and I’m not sure why.”

Bee also criticized X for presenting a cuddly image of a man who is “playing footsie

with fringe hate groups”; “Coming right on the heels of the Matt Lauer interview, I think

we were done with these gossamer light interviews and the normalization of the

deplorable”

X responded to the allegations with a reminder of the general tone of his show, saying

“Have you seen my show? We’ll have _____ tomorrow, and we’ll do something fun

with her too!”

X - Jimmy Fallon; incident - Fallon tussling Donald Trump’s hair and generally giving

him an easy time

• X is a French dish made of fish or meat supplemented with bread crumbs and egg

• X is also used to mean elongated fish balls (which look like female genitalia). The use of this word in French is similar to the use of “up yours” in English

• X is used as a gesture signifying anti-Semitism. French striker Nicolas Anelka found himself in hot water after making this gesture while playing for West Bromwich Albion

• X - Quenelle

• The English band X disbanded in 1969 when their second studio album failed to make the charts.

• Almost two years after their breakup, the band’s U.S. label, Date Records, decided to release the track “__________” as a last-ditch effort; the song went to No. 3 on the Billboard chart and the X were suddenly in demand. Rather than bring the group to the States, there were two different bands touring the United States in 1969 calling themselves the X. Both impostor groups were managed by the same company, Delta Promotions, one hailing from Texas and one from Michigan.

• The Texas group featured bassist Dusty Hill and drummer Frank Beard, soon to be members of another rock band, Y.

• X - The Zombies

• ZZ Top

Dodi Fayed, was the son of Egyptian billionaire, and ex-owner of

Fulham Football Club, Mohamed Al-Fayed. As a businessman in

Hollywood, he was known for being the Executive Producer of films

such as Chariots of Fire, The Scarlet Letter, among others.

In the late 90s though, he was most famous for being romantically

involved with someone much more famous.

Why did his death in Paris in 1997, receive disproportionately higher

media attention for a man like himself?

• He was in the car that crash that killed Princess Diana, who he was in a relationship with, at the time of his death.

• X is an event which takes place every year in Tamil Nadu as a part of the Pongal celebrations

• The name comes from Tamil words meaning golden or silver coins attached to the horns of the bulls

• Bulls are specifically bred for this purpose and the participants have to tame the bull

• PETA led a protest against this event, saying that this is against animal rights.

• The Supreme court banned this in January 2016

• Jallikattu

The practice of X has been both praised and criticized. It benefits retailing,

sports, and other activities that exploit sunlight after working hours, but

can cause problems for evening entertainment and other occupations tied

to the sun (such as farming) or to darkness (such as firework shows).

ex-Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi announced plans implement it in

Assam, so that people in the state would not have to wait till the rest of

India wakes up and starts working, saying ”It is nothing new. The upper

Assam districts had been practising it in the tea estates as well as the

Digboi refinery because the sun rises much earlier in this region.”

Id X (the generic name for the practice)

• Daylight Saving

• X has claimed several inspirations behind writing his best-seller Y.

• X spoke of an incident which he said occurred when he was 15: he stood by as three men gang-raped an acquaintance of his. The incident, he said, haunted him for years afterward and in part inspired him to create his main character who was also a rape survivor.

• The veracity of this story has been questioned since X's death, after a colleague reported to Rolling Stone that X had told him he had heard the story secondhand and retold it as his own.

• The unsolved murder of Swedish prostitute Catrine da Costa was also an inspiration when he wrote the book.

• X and Y?

• X= Stieg Larsson

• Y= The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Blender magazine ranked X, No. 41 on its list of the "50 Worst Songs Ever." They

considered the production bombastic and stated that the song "resembles a term

paper scribbled the night before it's due.”

Y, the singer, has mentioned having mixed feelings about the song. "It's a nightmare to

perform live, because if I miss one word, it's a train wreck.” and “it does not really

define me as well as album songs that probably don't get played” and criticised his

musical style, "Take a song like X - It’s really not much of a song....If you take the

melody by itself, terrible. Like a dentist drill.”

Id X and Y

X- We Didn’t Start the Fire

Y- Billy Joel

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Maurice Micklewhite, an accomplished personality from the world of cinema,

recently changed his real name to X, his popular stage-name, that dates back

to 1954 (first use of the stage-name by this personality), frustrated by increased

airport security checks following terror attacks all over the world, and having to

corroborate to not faking an identity by carrying a popular name and a different,

official name. Id X

Michael Caine

The term X is generally used to describe the southern United States

The origin of this word has different stories

One says that the banks based in Louisiana had the French word

for 10 written on the notes they minted instead of the English ten.

These notes were known as X by the English speaking southerners.

Another story suggests a certain Mr. X of NY, who provided an

asylum for slaves

The term?

X - Dixie

• Lake Balkhash is a lake in Kazakhstan, bordering Kyrgyzstan and China. It’s the fifteenth largest lake in the world

• Like the neighbouring Aral sea, this is rapidly decreasing in area

• The lake is divided into two parts, by a strait

• Based on its composition, what’s so special about this lake?

• It is half fresh-water and half salt-water

• X was an Avar leader from Dagestan and Chechnya who led the resistance against the incorporation of these provinces into the Russian Empire

• He was an effectual leader under the Imam of Dagestan, Shamil , and he united a lot of tribes to his cause against the Russians

• He feuded with the Imam after the latter proclaimed his own son as the leader of the movement. Shamil decided to kill X, but X managed to escape.

• X defected to the Russians, where he was placed under a house arrest in Tbilisi. He managed to escape, but was killed in the ensuing battle

• Leo Tolstoy wrote a book on his exploits

• Hadji Murad

4) The X incident, named after the Japanese steamship that carried a group of citizens

of the British Raj who attempted to emigrate to Canada in 1914, but were denied entry.

Of the 376 passengers on board, 352 (mostly Sikhs) were denied entry - and it was a

significant incident that highlighted racist exclusion laws in North America against

immigrants of Asian origin.

The incident has been universally condemned, culminating in Justin Trudeau’s formal

governmental apology in May, 2016 for the incident in the House of Commons.

X - Komagata Maru

10) Zabibah and the King was an Arabic romance novel, then published anonymously in 2000, which

was later revealed to be written by X. It’s plot consisted of characters, which were all supposed to

represent geo-political actors, due to their traits. Some of the characters were:

'Arab — The protagonist of the story, the novel follows him as he becomes king of ___. The character

represents X

Zabibah - A poor woman in an unhappy marriage, she is the love interest of 'Arab. Zabibah represents

the people of ____

Zabibah's husband — A cruel man. This unnamed character symbolizes the United States.

Hezkel — An emir and an antagonist to 'Arab. Zabibah lives in a small hut next to Hezkel's palace.

Hezkel represents Israel.

Id X

X - Saddam Hussein

• The Commonwealth Games, 1998 in Malaysia included cricket in which 16 teams took part

• Three participants were debutants in cricket: hosts Malaysia, Northern Ireland and X

• Despite having a huge connection to cricket and hosting international matches, X had never contested as “X” before; and they didn’t do so after this tournament too

• X were drawn with Australia, Canada and India and managed to finish second in the group to Australia

• X?

Antigua and Barbuda

• Rodrigo Amarante is a Brazilian singer from Rio, who is a part of different bands including Los Hermanos, Orquestra Imperial and Little Joy

• Fairly popular in South America, he sings psychedelic, acoustic and folk songs

• His most famous song is Tuyo, meaning “yours”.

• Where have we heard this song?

Narcos’ opening theme

All Indian Prime Ministers

+3 for every right answer

If he/she has been PM more than once, write

the name more than once (different stints)

-2 for every wrong answer

Acting PMs are included

VP Singh

Chandra Shekhar

PV Narsimha Rao

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

HD Deve Gowda

IK Gujral

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Manmohan Singh

Narendra Modi

Jawaharlal Nehru

Gulzarilal Nanda

Lal Bahadur Shastri

Gulzarilal Nanda

Indira Gandhi

Morarji Desai

Charan Singh

Indira Gandhi

Rajiv Gandhi

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X was a French philosopher, author and journalist. His views contributed

to the rise of the philosophy of Absurdism. Although often classified as an

existentialist, his works were devoted to opposing the philosophy of

nihilism while delving deeply into individual freedom, evidenced by his

magna carta, The Rebel. However, all along, he fiercely rejected any

ideological associations.

He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957. More recently, his name

was doing the rounds amidst netizens in India due to the following meme.

Albert Camus

• The flags of Guatemala and Mozambique are the only ones to have X in them

• In case of Guatemala, X symbolize the willingness of the country to defend itself by force if demanded

• For Mozambique, it represents defense and vigilance

• X?

Guns

• Born Badruddin Jamal Kazi, this Indian actor was born in Indore to a mill worker

• He started working as a bus conductor in Mumbai, where he caught the eye of Balraj Sahni. Sahni made him meet Guru Dutt, who gave him the role of a drunkard in the 1951 film Baazi

• Known for his comical facial expressions, he won the filmfare award for the films Madhumati and Shikar

• Who’s this actor, whose screen name sounds like an alcoholic brand?

Johnny Walker

X, the Serpent Holder, is closely associated with Aescupalius, the noted healer of Greek

legend. His mother Coronis was courted by the god Apollo and she eventually became

pregnant. However, this did not stop her falling for a mere mortal, Ischys by name. When

Artemis, Apollo's huntress sister, heard of the behaviour of Coronis, she shot a quiverful of

arrows into her. Apollo saved his unborn son, named him Aesculapius, and took him to

Chiron, the kind and extremely wise centaur, who taught him the art of medicine. The

youth mastered the art completely, so much so that Hades, King of the Underworld, feeling

threatened should Aesculapius be able to raise the dead, complained to Zeus. Zeus

regrettably decided that Aesculapius must die, and struck him with a thunderbolt,

thereafter placing him among the stars. To this day, Aesculapius and the serpent are

associated with healing, and all physicians take the Hippocratic oath (Hippocrates

supposedly being a descendant of Aesculapius).

Id X, recently in the news due a rumour that has been falsified (for now)

Ophiuchus, the 13th Zodiac sign

• X and Y are two separate films based on the life of author and poet, Z

• X is a 2010 American experimental film starring James Franco in the role of Z. It is also the name of Z’s most noted poem.

• Y is a 2013 American biographical drama film written by Austin Bunn and directed by John Krokidas, starring Daan Dehaan, Michael C Hall, Ben Foster among others. It recounts the college days of Z and many other contemporary writers of his time.

• X= Howl

• Y= Kill your Darlings

• Z= Allen Ginsberg

• X was a prominent Hindu saint who was a devotee of Lord Ganesha

• He was born to a couple who couldn’t conceive a child, but after praying to Lord Ganesha for an entire year, they were blessed with X

• X himself started composing poetry in praise of the elephant headed God and subsequently moved to Pune to spread the Ganapatya sect

• Name X, whose name is now closely associated with Lord Ganesha

• Morya Gosavi

• Parts for Morya

The George Cross is given by the British government for "showing

gallantry not in the face of enemy"

In World War II, this country was savaged by German and Italian

bombers. With resources running low, the Germans and Italians laid

siege to this country.

Field Marshall Albert Kesselring led the final attack, but the people's

heroism remained.

As a result, the UK awarded the George's Cross to this country,

which can be seen on the country's flag

Which country?

Malta

• XY are considered to be the elite of X’s society i.e. considered to be members of X’s traditional upper class

• The term was coined by Oliver Wendell Homes Sr., while writing for the Atlantic Monthly in 1860

• The XY are often associated with distinctive English accent, Harvard education and Anglo-American customs and clothing

• The word Y comes from the Hindu Caste system, where the Ys are considered to be at the apex in the system

• Some of the famous XY families are Adams, Weld, Bradlee, Cabot, Delano and Emerson

• Boston Brahmins