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S Manoj Karthick

Sweden has added the verb X to their national dictionary. The Swedish Language Council has approved the term since it has been increasingly used in conversation by Swedes referring to an outlandishly talented action. The word was originally coined on Les Guignols, a popular satirical puppet show - from French station Canal Plus, whose characters were in awe of the outlandishly talented action.

What verb?

How has Vishal Malhotra, a model from Delhi become an over-night sensation and one of the most recognisable face in the past few weeks ? Put funda.

In 2010,a legendary IT company was concerned it might lose its trademark, and in desperation, took out a full page ad in newspapers, urging people to "Please use our brand name only to identify our products, and not as a verb or noun.

Which company?

Poster on Next Slide.

Who is the Official Sponsor of the West Indies Cricket Team for the CWC 2015 ?

Which young actor plays the role of the SupervillianLex Luthor in the upcoming movie “Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice “ starring Ben Affleck as Batman and Henry Cavill as Superman directed by Zack Snyder. ?

The first look poster was in the news recently.

Minimalist Poster for which awesome movie ???

X worked with Hot Wheels Design to create the ‘Spin King’, a limited edition car. The toy car was part of their new ‘Designed by’ series and is the first car designed by an Australian.

In 2009 he ventured into the men’s underwear category with the successful launch of Spinners in Australia.

What’s the gadget the guy is using ?

It’s produced by Microsoft. From the world of VR.

Critics suggested that her vocals were more developed and intriguing than her songwriting, a sentiment with which she agreed. She has stated: "I taught myself how to sing by listening to Ella Fitzgerald for acrobatics and scales, Etta James for passion and Roberta Flack for control. Her first album is of the soul genre, with lyrics describing heartbreak and relationship. Her success occurred simultaneously with several other soul singers, with the press dubbing her a new Amy Winehouse. Her career was boosted by a Saturday Night Live appearance in late 2008. At the 51st Annual Grammy Awards, She received the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. She is the first female in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 to have three simultaneous top 10 singles as a lead artist, and the first female artist to simultaneously have two albums in the top five of the Billboard 200 and two singles in the top five of the Billboard Hot 100. Her most famous track is featured in the James Bond movie “Skyfall” for which she won an Oscar award.

X was founded by Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp in 2009 and the app was released the following June.

It develops, markets and operates a mobile-app-based transportation network also called X. The X app allows consumers to submit a trip request, which is routed to crowd-sourced taxi drivers. As of March 26, 2015, the service was available in 55 countries and more than 200 cities worldwide. The app was recently banned in India due to an incident in Delhi.

Madurai celebrated its first Rainbow Festival and the birth centenary of X with a program for high school students focusing on various aspects in science and gender diversity. It was organized by Srishti, the first Y of Madurai, at Mahatma Montessori School. It was inaugurated by the German rock band Panik through video conferencing, it was attended by 600 students.

Identify X and Y.

_______ is a classical South Indian painting style, which draws its immediate resources and inspiration from way back about 1600 AD, a period when the Nayakas under the suzerainty of the Vijayanagara Rayas encouraged art—chiefly, classical dance and music—as well as literature, both in Telugu and Tamil and painting of chiefly Hindu religious subjects in temples.

They are characterised by rich, flat and vivid colors, simple iconic composition, glittering gold foils overlaid on delicate but extensive gesso work and inlay of glass beads and pieces or very rarely precious and semi-precious gems.

The X Store is an online store started in December, 2013. It includes products like T- shirts; stationary material, masks, kurtas and pen-drives etc. According to Live Mint, there are plans to launch physical stores in major cities and that the first brick and mortar store would be in Delhi or Ahmedabad.

The online store is from Take India Beyond Merchandising Pvt. Ltd. which describes itself as a "merchandising brand that goes beyond mere profits and tries to predict the future of India". Interestingly, this comes in the wake of X-inspired video games and mobile phone series that were also launched in 2013.

X???

An episode of American Dad featured a reality TV star as a pink fluffy alien (Shown Above) who later transforms into her original self. Which Celeb ? Hint : Think Silicone!

India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) is a proposed particle physics research project to primarily study atmospheric neutrinos in a 1,300 meters (4,300 ft) deep cave under Ino Peak near _______. This project is notable in that it is anticipated to provide a precise measurement of neutrino mixing parameters. The project is a multi-institute collaboration and one of the biggest experimental particle physics projects undertaken in India. The project is expected to be completed in 2015 at an estimated cost of 1,500 crores .

When completed, the INO will house the world's most massive magnet, four times larger than the 12,500-tonne magnet in the Compact Muon Solenoid detector at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.

FITB.

It is an Indian airline based in New Delhi with a hub at the Indira Gandhi International Airport. The carrier commenced operations on 9 January 2015 and operates 164 flights per week with 6 Airbus A320 aircrafts. The Full service carrier was announced in 2013 and was established as a joint venture between Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines. It is the first carrier to offer premium economy seats on domestic flights in India.

Which airline are we talking about ?

This actor has the habit of shooting short films starring his family members. One fine day, he and his music director friend along with his family were seeing the film, “Inglorious Basterds”. They were planning to start a production house, and after getting inspired by the film named their company after a German word. Their production “Kaaka Muttai” recently won the Best Children’s film and Best Child Actors awards at the 62nd National Film Awards.

Name the production house. Part points if you guess the actor right.

This is the Intro song from a popular American crime drama series where the protagonists are in search of a serial killer for 17 long years.

ID the series.

The series is based on an Anthology format.

It was sensation on the web and praised by viewers and critics alike.

Artist: The Handsome Family.

Album: Singing Bones.

This Taiwanese electronic company X changed its name to Y because ,the name Y meant the company would appear be listed earlier also appear sooner in the stock boards as the names of companies appear in lexicographic order.

Identify the company X.

The term Z was coined in 1996 by a Cult of the Dead Cow member known as "Omega". Due to the variety of meanings of its root words, it is sometimes ambiguous and there exists significant disagreement over the kinds of activities and purposes it encompasses. It is a portmanteau of X and Y and refers to the subversive use of computers and computer networks to promote a political agenda.

Identify Z.

X You Should Know X You Missed in History Class . TechX BrainX X From the B-Side High Speed X X Mom Never Told X of Genius The Coolest X on the Planet X They Don't Want You To Know X From the Science Lab

ID X and put funda.