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• The X derby is one of the less known derbies in Spanish football, mostly because the mismatch between the teams X and Y

• X was started by British expatriate community, mostly Scots, with the first president being Edward Farquharson Johnston, while Y was given royal patronage by King Alfonso in 1914, as Spanish aristocrats and the King along with the working class supported them

• X is the name of the city, while Y’s name has been taken from the Roman name of the Guadalquivir river which passes through the city

• Although both the teams have won the La Liga only once, and that too more than 70 years ago, X has clearly been the more successful team with 5 Copa del Reys, 4 UEFA Cups and 1 Supercopa as against Y’s 1 Copa del Rey and nothing else

• X and IDW Publishing have teamed up to publish Love is Love, an anthology comic aiming to provide benefit for a certain cause. Love Is Love will be 144 pages long and feature over 100 short stories from a number of writers and artists.

• Marc Andreyko is the comic book writer who organized the project. Andreyko is collaborating with artists such as Damon Lindelof, co-creator and producer of the television series Lost; comedian Patton Oswalt; comic book artist Phil Jimenez; and French comic book artist Olivier Coipel.

• Proceeds from the book will benefit the charity _______

• Id X and give the cause of the charity

The X Group is an informal group of countries (now joined by the European

Commission) established in 1985 (after the use of chemical weapons by Iraq in 1984)

to help member countries to identify those exports which need to be controlled so as

not to contribute to the spread of chemical and biological weapons.

The group, initially consisting of 15 members, held its first meeting in Brussels,

Belgium, in September 1989. With the incorporation of Mexico on August 12, 2013, it

now has 42 members, including all OECD members, the European Commission, all 28

member states of the European Union, Ukraine, and Argentina. The name comes from

X's initiative to create the group. X manages the secretariat.

It was recently in the news because of India’s attempts to join this group (as part of an

effort to join a series of nuclear energy-sharing groups)

Id X (country)

• Syed Fazl ul-Hasan aka Hazrat Mohani was a UP born poet and freedom fighter

• In poetry circles, he’s famous for composing the ghazal, “Chupke chupke raat din”

• But he’s more well known for coining a phrase which was used quite a lot during the Indian independence struggle, especially by the non-Congress camp

• Give me the phrase

• In 1976, Alan Dean Foster was contracted to ghostwrite a novelization for X, as well as a second novel which would have been used as a basis for a low-budget sequel to X in case the film was not successful. However the film opened to great acclaim and massive box office so that the sequel was never produced.

• The book was later adapted as a graphic novel published by Dark Horse Comics in 1996, created by Terry Austin and Chris Spouse.

• X?

#TCQ

“X, X” is a BBC sitcom that ran from 1982 to 1992. The story was

set in a small-town cafe in German-occupied France during

WW2, and was a parody of another BBC programme, the

wartime drama Secret Army.

Why is this seemingly out-of-mind show back in public memory,

for completely different reasons?

Alternately, give me the name of the show.

• Established in 1969, X by Lilasons breweries in Madhya Pradesh is considered to be India’s first super strong beer

• The beer has a sweet fruity taste and the strong variant has 8.7% alcohol

• The name X has been taken from the ancient temples found in Madhya Pradesh, built by the Chandela dynasty, famous for the erotic arts displayed on its walls

• X?

• On being asked about the name of the album X, the lead singer of the band _______ said it was inspired from the inscription on one of Y’s paintings. He said “She went through a lot of shit of course and then she started a big painting in her house that said ‘X’, I just loved the boldness of it”, referring to Y’s strength through her struggle with polio and chronic pain.

• The phrase X reflected the artist’s way of acclaiming life.

• Id X and Y

Mark Selby is the reigning World Snooker Champion, who won the 2016 edition

in May. He hails from a place that was more popular in sporting news at the

time, and his surprise victory that saw him join the ranks of select others to have

won the Championship two times, was second only to the other popular

achievement. In his own words, “I don’t know what the bigger shock was; me

winning it, or [the other achievement]. I last won it in 2014, which was also the

year that [the other achievement became theoretically possible]. It’s an

unbelievable feeling.”

Id the other, more popular sporting achievement.

• John C Calhoun was an American politician who was a strong defender of slavery. His beliefs played a major role in the secession of the South during Civil War

• He also served as the Vice President of the United States from 1824 to 1832

• Calhoun easily got selected as the VP in 1824, despite a neck and neck battle between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson

• Why?

• In a 2012 episode of Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated, a fictional band called Sunday Around Noonish is featured. However this is said to be inspired from a real-life 70s band, even modeling the lead singer after a guest act featured in one of the band’s albums and also featuring parodies of various other figures associated with the band.

• ID the two figures parodied in the pictures given.

Amrish Kumar Tyagi, a psephologist, is the son of KC Tyagi of the

JDU. His consultancy firm worked for Nitish Kumar and Arvind

Kejriwal in the Bihar and Delhi elections respectively. His latest

assignment is to aid another campaign, antithetical to his father’s

party, and popularise it amongst a particular demographic, that is the

fastest-growing racial group in the context of the election, accounting

for nine million new voters from the last election.

Id campaign and demographic (too much specificity could cost you).

Part points apply

• This place was earlier known as Pygmalion point and Parsons point

• This place has a steady population of 27 people, and was badly damaged in the 2004 tsunami

• X decided to pay a visit to the place in 1984, when the person was visiting the local lighthouse

• The place was officially renamed in X’s honour in 1985

• ID the place

• The Lake X murders were a multiple homicide that took place in Finland in 1960. Four teenagers while camping on the shores of Lake X were murdered by unknown persons. The murders have proven to be a popular subject in the Finnish media.

• We know about X due to a certain death metal band, Y that was initially called Inearthed but after coming across X, changed its name to Y.

• Id X and Y

Rose International is a large US-based IT staffing and consulting

firm, that has generated revenue north of USD 357 million.

Recently however, the company has come into the news for

infamous reasons by association with a PIO on the management.

Put funda/Why has it come into the limelight?

• This country (XY) is the southernmost territory of the U.S. and one of two U.S. territories (along with Jarvis Island) south of the Equator.

• The flag of this country consists of a red-edged white triangle pointing towards the hoist charged with a bald eagle clutching a war club and fly-whisk, with dark blue upper and lower triangles.

• The colours used epitomize the traditional colours of the United States and Y. • The Bald Eagle represents the U.S. and features on the flag, despite the fact it is not a

native of XY. Image follows

• Y Joe is a famous wrestler from this country

• This country also has the dubious record of the highest margin of defeat in an international football match when they were hammered 31-0 by Australia

• XY?

• X was an American actor, drummer, radio host, and disc jockey. He is most notably known for his role in the show Hogan’s Heroes, for which he won two Primetime Emmys and later in the self-titled The X Show.

• However, his name is most commonly associated with being on high profile unsolved murder lists as he was found bludgeoned to death in his apartment in 1978.

• X's life and murder were the subject of the 2002 film Auto Focus, directed by Paul Schrader and starring Greg Kinnear as X.

(5,11), (7,13), (11,17), (13,19), (17,23), (23,29), (31,37), (37,43), (41,47), (47,53), (53,59), (61,67),

(67,73), (73,79), (83,89), (97,103), (101,107), (103,109), (107,113), (131,137), (151,157), (157,163),

(167,173), (173,179), (191,197), (193,199), (223,229), (227,233), (233,239), (251,257), (257,263),

(263,269), (271,277), (277,283), (307,313), (311,317), (331,337), (347,353), (353,359), (367,373),

(373,379), (383,389), (433,439), (443,449), (457,463), (461,467)

The above is the exhaustive (upto 500) list of sets, belonging to a

particular mathematical sequence, where numbers in each entity are

related in a particular way and have a common feature.

What is the term used to describe such sets, that follow these rules?

Note the relationship between numbers in a set, and let your

imagination fly low.

• Born on 27th May 1999 in Brownsville, Texas, He was named after a Rita Marley song

• His name is also a Swahili term for communal labor

• His tragic death in Cincinnati, Ohio was so impactful, that the Green Party of USA used it as exhibit-A to lobby for new policies for the future, ahead of the Presidential Elections.

• American rappers Young Thug and Dumbfoundead released songs in His memory

• Which present day legend am I talking about?

• One of X’s earliest writing credits include an episode in Monty Python's Flying Circus. He later also had two brief appearances in the show’s fourth series (Picture follows)

• X’s next venture was into radio, where he pitched the idea for Y, as a science-fiction radio series to BBC Radio. Y was originally broadcasted in 1978 and then later adapted to various formats.

• After the first radio series of Y was completed, X left BBC Radio to become script editor for Doctor Who.

• Give X and Y

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• The X derby is one of the less known derbies in Spanish football, mostly because the mismatch between the teams X and Y

• X was started by British expatriate community, mostly Scots, with the first president being Edward Farquharson Johnston, while Y was given royal patronage by King Alfonso in 1914, as Spanish aristocrats and the King along with the working class supported them

• X is the name of the city, while Y’s name has been taken from the Roman name of the Guadalquivir river which passes through the city

• Although both the teams have won the La Liga only once, and that too more than 70 years ago, X has clearly been the more successful team with 5 Copa del Reys, 4 UEFA Cups and 1 Supercopa as against Y’s 1 Copa del Rey and nothing else

• X - Sevilla• Y - Real Betis

• X and IDW Publishing have teamed up to publish Love is Love, an anthology comic aiming to provide benefit for a certain cause. Love Is Love will be 144 pages long and feature over 100 short stories from a number of writers and artists.

• Marc Andreyko is the comic book writer who organized the project. Andreyko is collaborating with artists such as Damon Lindelof, co-creator and producer of the television series Lost; comedian Patton Oswalt; comic book artist Phil Jimenez; and French comic book artist Olivier Coipel.

• Proceeds from the book will benefit the charity _______

• Id X and give the cause of the charity

• X - DC comics

• Cause - Benefits for the victims of the Orlando Nightclub Shooting

The X Group is an informal group of countries (now joined by the European

Commission) established in 1985 (after the use of chemical weapons by Iraq in 1984)

to help member countries to identify those exports which need to be controlled so as

not to contribute to the spread of chemical and biological weapons.

The group, initially consisting of 15 members, held its first meeting in Brussels,

Belgium, in September 1989. With the incorporation of Mexico on August 12, 2013, it

now has 42 members, including all OECD members, the European Commission, all 28

member states of the European Union, Ukraine, and Argentina. The name comes from

X's initiative to create the group. X manages the secretariat.

It was recently in the news because of India’s attempts to join this group (as part of an

effort to join a series of nuclear energy-sharing groups)

Id X (country)

Australia

India lobbied to join the Australia Group along with the NSG and the

Wassenaar Arrangement

• Syed Fazl ul-Hasan aka Hazrat Mohani was a UP born poet and freedom fighter

• In poetry circles, he’s famous for composing the ghazal, “Chupke chupke raat din”

• But he’s more well known for coining a phrase which was used quite a lot during the Indian independence struggle, especially by the non-Congress camp

• Give me the phrase

• Inquilab Zindabad

• In 1976, Alan Dean Foster was contracted to ghostwrite a novelization for X, as well as a second novel which would have been used as a basis for a low-budget sequel to X in case the film was not successful. However the film opened to great acclaim and massive box office so that the sequel was never produced.

• The book was later adapted as a graphic novel published by Dark Horse Comics in 1996, created by Terry Austin and Chris Spouse.

• X?

• X - Star Wars

#TCQ

“X, X” is a BBC sitcom that ran from 1982 to 1992. The story was

set in a small-town cafe in German-occupied France during

WW2, and was a parody of another BBC programme, the

wartime drama Secret Army.

Why is this seemingly out-of-mind show back in public memory,

for completely different reasons?

Alternately, give me the name of the show.

The show is named ‘Allo Allo’

……

• Established in 1969, X by Lilasons breweries in Madhya Pradesh is considered to be India’s first super strong beer

• The beer has a sweet fruity taste and the strong variant has 8.7% alcohol

• The name X has been taken from the ancient temples found in Madhya Pradesh, built by the Chandela dynasty, famous for the erotic arts displayed on its walls

• X?

• Khajuraho

• On being asked about the name of the album X, the lead singer of the band _______ said it was inspired from the inscription on one of Y’s paintings. He said “She went through a lot of shit of course and then she started a big painting in her house that said ‘X’, I just loved the boldness of it”, referring to Y’s strength through her struggle with polio and chronic pain.

• The phrase X reflected the artist’s way of acclaiming life.

• Id X and Y

• X - Viva la Vida

• Y - Freida Kahlo

Mark Selby is the reigning World Snooker Champion, who won the 2016 edition

in May. He hails from a place that was more popular in sporting news at the

time, and his surprise victory that saw him join the ranks of select others to have

won the Championship two times, was second only to the other popular

achievement. In his own words, “I don’t know what the bigger shock was; me

winning it, or [the other achievement]. I last won it in 2014, which was also the

year that [the other achievement became theoretically possible]. It’s an

unbelievable feeling.”

Id the other, more popular sporting achievement.

Leicester City winning the Premier League. Selby hails from Leicestershire, and

is nicknamed the ‘Jester from Leicester’

• John C Calhoun was an American politician who was a strong defender of slavery. His beliefs played a major role in the secession of the South during Civil War

• He also served as the Vice President of the United States from 1824 to 1832

• Calhoun easily got selected as the VP in 1824, despite a neck and neck battle between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson

• Why?

• He was the running mate (VP candidate) for both Adams and Jackson!

• In a 2012 episode of Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated, a fictional band called Sunday Around Noonish is featured. However this is said to be inspired from a real-life 70s band, even modeling the lead singer after a guest act featured in one of the band’s albums and also featuring parodies of various other figures associated with the band.

• ID the two figures parodied in the pictures given.

• Nico

• Andy Warhol

Amrish Kumar Tyagi, a psephologist, is the son of KC Tyagi of the

JDU. His consultancy firm worked for Nitish Kumar and Arvind

Kejriwal in the Bihar and Delhi elections respectively. His latest

assignment is to aid another campaign, antithetical to his father’s

party, and popularise it amongst a particular demographic, that is the

fastest-growing racial group in the context of the election, accounting

for nine million new voters from the last election.

Id campaign and demographic (too much specificity could cost you).

Part points apply

Trump

Asian-Americans or Asians (DO NOT accept Indian-Americans)

• This place was earlier known as Pygmalion point and Parsons point

• This place has a steady population of 27 people, and was badly damaged in the 2004 tsunami

• X decided to pay a visit to the place in 1984, when the person was visiting the local lighthouse

• The place was officially renamed in X’s honour in 1985

• ID the place

• Indira Point

• The Lake X murders were a multiple homicide that took place in Finland in 1960. Four teenagers while camping on the shores of Lake X were murdered by unknown persons. The murders have proven to be a popular subject in the Finnish media.

• We know about X due to a certain death metal band, Y that was initially called Inearthed but after coming across X, changed its name to Y.

• Id X and Y

• X - Bodom

• Y - Children of Bodom

Rose International is a large US-based IT staffing and consulting

firm, that has generated revenue north of USD 357 million.

Recently however, the company has come into the news for

infamous reasons by association with a PIO on the management.

Put funda/Why has it come into the limelight?

Himanshu Bhatia, its CEO has been accused of mistreating her

domestic help, and forcing her to work inhuman hours and holding

her hostage, forcing her to ‘sleep with dogs’.

• This country (XY) is the southernmost territory of the U.S. and one of two U.S. territories (along with Jarvis Island) south of the Equator.

• The flag of this country consists of a red-edged white triangle pointing towards the hoist charged with a bald eagle clutching a war club and fly-whisk, with dark blue upper and lower triangles.

• The colours used epitomize the traditional colours of the United States and Y. • The Bald Eagle represents the U.S. and features on the flag, despite the fact it is not a

native of XY. Image follows

• Y Joe is a famous wrestler from this country

• This country also has the dubious record of the highest margin of defeat in an international football match when they were hammered 31-0 by Australia

• XY?

• X Y = American Samoa

• X was an American actor, drummer, radio host, and disc jockey. He is most notably known for his role in the show Hogan’s Heroes, for which he won two Primetime Emmys and later in the self-titled The X Show.

• However, his name is most commonly associated with being on high profile unsolved murder lists as he was found bludgeoned to death in his apartment in 1978.

• X's life and murder were the subject of the 2002 film Auto Focus, directed by Paul Schrader and starring Greg Kinnear as X.

• X - Bob Crane

(5,11), (7,13), (11,17), (13,19), (17,23), (23,29), (31,37), (37,43), (41,47), (47,53), (53,59), (61,67),

(67,73), (73,79), (83,89), (97,103), (101,107), (103,109), (107,113), (131,137), (151,157), (157,163),

(167,173), (173,179), (191,197), (193,199), (223,229), (227,233), (233,239), (251,257), (257,263),

(263,269), (271,277), (277,283), (307,313), (311,317), (331,337), (347,353), (353,359), (367,373),

(373,379), (383,389), (433,439), (443,449), (457,463), (461,467)

The above is the exhaustive (upto 500) list of sets, belonging to a

particular mathematical sequence, where numbers in each entity are

related in a particular way and have a common feature.

What is the term used to describe such sets, that follow these rules?

Note the relationship between numbers in a set, and let your

imagination fly low.

Sexy primes (Prime numbers that differ by 6)

• Born on 27th May 1999 in Brownsville, Texas, He was named after a Rita Marley song

• His name is also a Swahili term for communal labor

• His tragic death in Cincinnati, Ohio was so impactful, that the Green Party of USA used it as exhibit-A to lobby for new policies for the future, ahead of the Presidential Elections.

• American rappers Young Thug and Dumbfoundead released songs in His memory

• Which present day legend am I talking about?

• Comrade ‘Eternal President for Life and in Death’ Harambe

• One of X’s earliest writing credits include an episode in Monty Python's Flying Circus. He later also had two brief appearances in the show’s fourth series (Picture follows)

• X’s next venture was into radio, where he pitched the idea for Y, as a science-fiction radio series to BBC Radio. Y was originally broadcasted in 1978 and then later adapted to various formats.

• After the first radio series of Y was completed, X left BBC Radio to become script editor for Doctor Who.

• Give X and Y

• X= Douglas Adams

• Y= The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy