General quiz 2018

GENERAL QUIZ 2018

AMAN NAYAK

VIKRANT SAHA

PRELIMS+10/QUESTION UNLESS MENTIONED OTHERWISE

1. STILL RELEVANT TODAY

Where is this inscription found?

Bonus marks for identifying the reference in the first two lines

2. SHOULD THIS REALLY BE COPYRIGHTED?

Patty Hill was a kindergarten principal in Louisville, Kentucky; her sister Mildred was a pianist and composer. The sisters used "Good Morning to All" as a song that young children would find easy to sing. The combination of melody and lyrics in X first appeared in print in 1912, and probably existed even earlier.

None of the early appearances of X lyrics included credits or copyright notices. The Summy Company registered a copyright in 1935, crediting authors Preston Ware Orem and Mrs. R. R. Forman. In 1988, Warner/Chappell Music purchased the company owning the copyright for US$25 million, with the value of X estimated at US$5 million. Based on the 1935 copyright registration, Warner claimed that the United States copyright will not expire until 2030, and that unauthorized public performances of the song are illegal unless royalties are paid to Warner. In the European Union, the copyright for the song expired on January 1, 2017.

The American copyright status of X began to draw more attention recently. In September 2015, a federal judge declared that the Warner/Chappell copyright claim was invalid, ruling that the copyright registration applied only to a specific piano arrangement of the song, and not to its lyrics and melody. The court thus declared that X was hence in the public domain.

3. COMMON MEME HAI. FITB

4. YOU MIGHT LOSE A COUPLE OF TEETH THOUGH

5. WHAT MAP?

6. WHICH TECHNOLOGY?

This everyday technology was originally designed by the U.S. Department of Defense for military and intelligence applications at the height of the Cold War. It is currently owned by the US government

The US government denied the Indian military access to this system in 1999 during the Kargil War. This event caused India to begin development of its own such system, which was completed in 2016.

7. ATGC

This is a recent Google Doodle featuring an Indian scientist

ID him and what he is known for.

8. "WHOSE" GRAVE IS THIS ?

9. AT LEAST IT ISN’T AN ANVIL

X and Y are Italian for soft and hard, respectively. What is today known as a X is actually a shortened form of XY, the original Italian name for it.

“Falling X” or “X drop” is a trope common in cartoons. To quote TVTropes,

"X which is being lifted via pulley to be moved into or out of someone's high-rise apartment will always fall, almost always on someone/something, often with a resounding "BONG". Hilarity usually ensues. A common gag more often seen in cartoons includes the character rising up from within the wreckage with a mouthful of __ like teeth. Bonus points if they start playing by themselves."

Tom and Jerry mein to dekha hoga. Plus, this is how Charlie Harper finally died.

10. NUMBERS OF WHAT?

11. ALEXANDER POPE

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

___________________________!

Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;

12. WHO’S X?

"At the same time he held out the cup to X. He took it, and very gently, without trembling or changing color or expression, but looking up at the man with wide open eyes, as was his custom, said: “What do you say about pouring a libation to some deity from this cup? May I, or not?” “X,” said he, “we prepare only as much as we think is enough.” “I understand,” said X; “but I may and must pray to the gods that my departure hence be a fortunate one; so I offer this prayer, and may it be granted.” With these words he raised the cup to his lips and very cheerfully and quietly drained it. Up to that time most of us had been able to restrain our tears fairly well, but when we watched him drinking and saw that he had drunk the __, we could do so no longer, but in spite of myself my tears rolled down in floods, so that I wrapped my face in my cloak and wept for myself; for it was not for him that I wept, but for my own misfortune in being deprived of such a friend. [........]

Such was the end of our friend, who was, as we may say, of all those of his time whom we have known, the best and wisest and most righteous man."

13.

X is an actress who is best known for her role as Y on the show Z

When X married W, she appended W's surname to her name. An in-joke reference to this is made once in the beginning credits of Z, where the rest of the cast has W's surname added to their names.

The dedication "For X and W, who did get married" – a reference to Y and U (her boyfriend in the show) deciding not to marry in the episode – appears during the fade out to the tag scene.

Give me X, W and Z

14.

A _______ ______ is a plot device used for either dramatic or humorous effect in animation and comic strips (and occasionally in live-action television). They depict either moral dilemmas or a choice between conscience and temptation; and are are a useful convention for depicting the inner conflict of a character.

Exact phrase not necessary: funda will suffice

15. SUPER STAR

X is the first ever and to-date the only actor to have won both The Best Actress and the Best Supporting Actress awards in a single year at the Film fare Awards. She did so at the 50th anniversary of the Film Fare Awards, when having already won the Best Supporting Actress award for Y, she also added the Best Actress Award for her film, Z.

ID X, Y, Z

16. FOR ALL YOU STONERS

In economics, the X is the apparent causal relationship between the increase in the economic development of a specific sector (for example natural resources) and a decline in other sectors (like the manufacturing sector or agriculture). The supposed mechanism is that as revenues increase in the growing sector, the given nation's currency becomes stronger compared to currencies of other nations. This results in the nation's other exports becoming more expensive for other countries to buy, and imports becoming cheaper, making those sectors less competitive. The term was coined in 1977 by The Economist to describe the decline of the manufacturing sector in Y after the discovery a large natural gas field in 1959.

17. EASY ONE

The X (also formerly known during its run as the McDowell Open, Gold Flake Open, Chennai Open and the Tata Open) is a professional men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is currently part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) World Tour. It is held annually in January in Y, India. It is owned by IMG and organized by IMG Reliance

18. MANDIR WAHIIN BANEGA !!

This is the image of the idol of a deity from a temple constructed recently.Who is the “God” being worshipped?Where is this temple located?

19. SHER ABHI ZINDA HAI !!

Who’s this?

20. BETA GHAR AA GAYA

The Israeli prime minister’s official visit to India commenced this week with Benjamin Netanyahu arriving in Delhi, and 11-year-old Y arriving in Z. Rabbi Israel Kozlovsky, Director of Chabad-run Jewish centre at X said “We are very excited about this upcoming visit of Y with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. We are heartened to see him here again in X”. Y’s trip to Z and the site of his parent’s violent deaths as an adjunct to Netanyahu’s official visit to India was announced when Indian prime minister Narendra Modi visited Israel earlier this year. Since Modi’s visit to Israel, Y has become the face of Israel-India friendship.

ANSWERS

1. STILL RELEVANT TODAY

Where is this inscription found?

Bonus marks for identifying the reference in the first two lines

2. SHOULD THIS REALLY BE COPYRIGHTED?

Patty Hill was a kindergarten principal in Louisville, Kentucky; her sister Mildred was a pianist and composer. The sisters used "Good Morning to All" as a song that young children would find easy to sing. The combination of melody and lyrics in X first appeared in print in 1912, and probably existed even earlier.

None of the early appearances of X lyrics included credits or copyright notices. The Summy Company registered a copyright in 1935, crediting authors Preston Ware Orem and Mrs. R. R. Forman. In 1988, Warner/Chappell Music purchased the company owning the copyright for US$25 million, with the value of X estimated at US$5 million. Based on the 1935 copyright registration, Warner claimed that the United States copyright will not expire until 2030, and that unauthorized public performances of the song are illegal unless royalties are paid to Warner. In the European Union, the copyright for the song expired on January 1, 2017.

The American copyright status of X began to draw more attention recently. In September 2015, a federal judge declared that the Warner/Chappell copyright claim was invalid, ruling that the copyright registration applied only to a specific piano arrangement of the song, and not to its lyrics and melody. The court thus declared that X was hence in the public domain.

THE HAPPY BIRTHDAY SONG

3. COMMON MEME HAI. FITB

FLYING CARS

4. YOU MIGHT LOSE A COUPLE OF TEETH THOUGH

5. WHAT MAP?

5.

Percentage of irreligious population (population not following any religion – agnostics, atheists, etc)

6. WHICH TECHNOLOGY?

This everyday technology was originally designed by the U.S. Department of Defense for military and intelligence applications at the height of the Cold War. It is currently owned by the US government

The US government denied the Indian military access to this system in 1999 during the Kargil War. This event caused India to begin development of its own such system, which was completed in 2016.

6.

Global Positioning System (GPS)

7. ATGC

This is a recent Google Doodle featuring an Indian scientist

ID him and what he is known for.

7.

Har Gobind Khorana

He shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for research that showed the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell and control the cell’s synthesis of proteins.

8. "WHOSE" GRAVE IS THIS ?

8. AUSTRALIA'S BID FOR FIFA WORLD CUP 2022 WHICH WAS EVENTUALLY WON BY QATAR

9. AT LEAST IT ISN’T AN ANVIL

X and Y are Italian for soft and hard, respectively. What is today known as a X is actually a shortened form of XY, the original Italian name for it.

“Falling X” or “X drop” is a trope common in cartoons. To quote TVTropes,

"X which is being lifted via pulley to be moved into or out of someone's high-rise apartment will always fall, almost always on someone/something, often with a resounding "BONG". Hilarity usually ensues. A common gag more often seen in cartoons includes the character rising up from within the wreckage with a mouthful of __ like teeth. Bonus points if they start playing by themselves."

Tom and Jerry mein to dekha hoga. Plus, this is how Charlie Harper finally died.

10. NUMBERS OF WHAT?

10. PARSIS/ FOLLOWERS OF ZOROASTRIANISM

11. ALEXANDER POPE

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

___________________________!

Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;

12. WHO’S X?

"At the same time he held out the cup to X. He took it, and very gently, without trembling or changing color or expression, but looking up at the man with wide open eyes, as was his custom, said: “What do you say about pouring a libation to some deity from this cup? May I, or not?” “X,” said he, “we prepare only as much as we think is enough.” “I understand,” said X; “but I may and must pray to the gods that my departure hence be a fortunate one; so I offer this prayer, and may it be granted.” With these words he raised the cup to his lips and very cheerfully and quietly drained it. Up to that time most of us had been able to restrain our tears fairly well, but when we watched him drinking and saw that he had drunk the [], we could do so no longer, but in spite of myself my tears rolled down in floods, so that I wrapped my face in my cloak and wept for myself; for it was not for him that I wept, but for my own misfortune in being deprived of such a friend. [........]

Such was the end of our friend, who was, as we may say, of all those of his time whom we have known, the best and wisest and most righteous man."

12. SOCRATES

13.

X is an actress who is best known for her role as Y on the show Z

When X married W, she appended W's surname to her name. An in-joke reference to this is made once in the beginning credits of Z, where the rest of the cast has W's surname added to their names.

The dedication "For X and W, who did get married" – a reference to Y and U (her boyfriend in the show) deciding not to marry in the episode – appears during the fade out to the tag scene.

X – Courtney Cox

Y – Monica Geller

Z – Friends

W – David Arquette

U – Chandler Bing

14.

A _______ ______ is a plot device used for either dramatic or humorous effect in animation and comic strips (and occasionally in live-action television). They depict either moral dilemmas or a choice between conscience and temptation; and are are a useful convention for depicting the inner conflict of a character.

14. SHOULDER ANGEL

15. SUPER STAR

X is the first ever and to-date the only actor to have won both The Best Actress and the Best Supporting Actress awards in a single year at the Film fare Awards. She did so at the 50th anniversary of the Film Fare Awards, when having already won the Best Supporting Actress award for Y, she also added the Best Actress Award for her film, Z.

ID X.Y,Z

15.

X- Rani MukHerjee

Y- YUVA

Z- HUM TUM

16. FOR ALL YOU STONERS

In economics, the X is the apparent causal relationship between the increase in the economic development of a specific sector (for example natural resources) and a decline in other sectors (like the manufacturing sector or agriculture). The supposed mechanism is that as revenues increase in the growing sector, the given nation's currency becomes stronger compared to currencies of other nations. This results in the nation's other exports becoming more expensive for other countries to buy, and imports becoming cheaper, making those sectors less competitive. The term was coined in 1977 by The Economist to describe the decline of the manufacturing sector in Y after the discovery of the large ________ natural gas field in 1959.

16. DUTCH DISEASE

17. EASY ONE

The X (also formerly known during its run as the McDowell Open, Gold Flake Open, Chennai Open and the Tata Open) is a professional men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is currently part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) World Tour. It is held annually in January in Y, India. It is owned by IMG and organized by IMG Reliance

17. YE LE TERA PUNE KA QUESTION

Maharashtra Open – India’s only ATP event

18. MANDIR WAHIIN BANEGA !!

This is the image of the idol of a deity from a temple constructed recently.Who is the “God” being worshipped?Where is this temple located?

18. NATHURAM GODSE TEMPLE AT GWALIOR

19. SHER ABHI ZINDA HAI !!

20. BETA GHAR AA GAYA

The Israeli prime minister’s official visit to India commenced this week with Benjamin Netanyahu arriving in Delhi, and 11-year-old Y arriving in Z. Rabbi Israel Kozlovsky, Director of Chabad-run Jewish centre at X said “We are very excited about this upcoming visit of Y with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. We are heartened to see him here again in X”. Y’s trip to Z and the site of his parent’s violent deaths as an adjunct to Netanyahu’s official visit to India was announced when Indian prime minister Narendra Modi visited Israel earlier this year. Since Modi’s visit to Israel, Y has become the face of Israel-India friendship

X- NARIMAN HOUSE Y- BABY ‘MOSHE’

CLOCKWISE POUNCE-BOUNCE+15/-10 FOR POUNCE. +10/0 FOR DIRECT.

1. IDENTIFY BOTH (+5 FOR EACH)

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1. MAN WITH CIGARETTE IS STEPHEN KING THE YOUNG GIRL IS DREW BARRYMORE

The man with the cigarette is Stephen King, the famous horror writer and film director. The young lady lighting his cigarette is none other than actress Drew Barrymore.

The scene took place back in 1984 at the premiere of the film Firestarter, slightly redundant as the picture has a lit match in it. The movie itself was based on the Stephen King novel of the same name and Barrymore acted as the star of it at only nine years old.

2. NOBODY REMEMBERS THE 3RD ONE

X was born on May 16, 1965 to Croatianimmigrant parents, Kristo and Maria, inCompton, California. He enjoyed huge successand fame with Y, which he had cofounded withA. Seemingly on top of the world, Y's successwas short-lived because of an unfortunateevent, because of which Y was permanentlyshut down. After this, X has at times workedwith his compatriot from Y, B at B's newventure Z. B originally asked X to come workwith him at Z full time, but he declined, statingpeople would refer to it as "the second Y" andhe did not want it for A's sake.

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2.

X- Krist Novoselic

Y- Nirvana

Z- FOO Fighters

A- Kurt Cobain

B- Dave Grohl

3. WHERE? BONUS FOR SIGN MEANING.

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3 AUSCHWITZ I; "WORK SETS YOU FREE"

4. JUST ONE MORE TURN!

X is a series of strategy video games first released in 1991. All titles in the series share similar gameplay, centered on building an empire on a macro-scale from prehistory up to the near future. One may win by military conquest, achieving a certain level of culture, building an interstellar space ship, or achieving the highest score, among other means.

This series is known for spawning a meme, "Nuclear Y", where Y is one of the leaders in the game. Among fans of the games, Y has gained much notoriety for his obsessive nuclear warmongering, which is in stark contrast to his real life counterpart.

This was originally caused by a bug in the first game of the series, where Y was given the lowest number possible, a rating of 1. However, when a country adopted democracy, it was granted -2 to opponent aggression levels. This sent Y’s rating into the negative, which swung it back around to 255 — the highest possible rating available, and thus, the infamous warmonger was born. This behaviour was preserved by the developers in later games as an easter egg.

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5. LIFE IS LIKE A BOX OF CHOCOLATES

In the lead actor's words, "The film is non-political and thus non-judgmental. "Nevertheless, CNN's Crossfire debated whether the film promoted conservative values or was an indictment of the counterculture movement of the 1960s. Thomas Byers, in a Modern Fiction Studies article, called the film "an aggressively conservative film".

It has been noted that while X follows a very conservative lifestyle, Y's life is full of countercultural embrace, complete with drug usage, promiscuity, and antiwar rallies [....] Jennifer Wang also notes the film's screenwriter, Eric Roth, when developing the screenplay from the novel, had "...transferred all of X's flaws and most of the excesses committed by Americans in the 1960s and 1970s to Y."

ID the film

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5. FORREST GUMP; X- FORREST Y- JENNY

6. RIGHT WING STUFF

X is an American conservative movement, loosely allied with the conservative wing of the Republican Party. Members of the movement have called for a reduction of the national debt of the United States and federal budget deficit by reducing government spending, and for lower taxes. The movement opposes government-sponsored universal healthcare and has been described as a mixture of libertarian, populist, and conservative activism. It has sponsored multiple protests and supported various political candidates since 2009.

The movement's name refers to a political protest that was a watershed event in the launch of the American Revolution.

Y, former Governor of Alaska and the Republican Party nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2008 election (alongside presidential nominee, Arizona Senator Z) identifies as part of this movement.

On the day of the election (4th November 2008), a satirical pornographic film was released that satirized Y, called "Who's Nailin Y".

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6.

X – Tea Party Movement

Y – Sarah Palin

Z – John McCain

7. X,Y,Z AND THE OCCASION

"There are two boats on the river. One is an old boat but a big boat, piloted by X. Another man, Y has a new boat, attractively painted and beflagged. X is a tried boatman who can safely transport you. If you get into the other boat, which I know is leaky, all will go down, and the river Narmada is indeed deep."

The above speech was made by Z on a monumental occasion in Indian political history. His grandson, C.R. Kesavan made a similar speech in 2004 to describe the political scenario of the nation.

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7.

X- Mahatma Gandhi

Y- Subhas Chandra Bose

Z- C Rajagopalachari

This speech was made during the Tripuri Congress session in 1939 after Subhas Chandra Bose won re-election to the post of Congress resident over Gandhi's favored candidate Pattabhai Sitaramaiyya

8. FITB

____ : (of a system or situation) excessively complicated, and typically involving a great deal of administrative detail.

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8. BYZANTINE

9.

ID why this photograph was momentous.

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9.

In shaking hands with an AIDS patient, she helped dispel the myth that HIV — the virus that can lead to AIDS— could be transmitted by handshakes or touch.

10. PROPAGANDA AT ITS BEST

X is an iconic photograph taken by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945, which depicts six United States Marines raising a U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi, during a certain battle. Eventually it became the only photograph to win the Pulitzer Prize for Photography in the same year as its publication, and came to be regarded in the United States as one of the most significant and recognizable images of the war.

Y is another very famous photograph that was directly inspired by X. But unlike X, Y was both staged and doctored. Noting the publicity the X had received, Z [the photographer] received orders to take a similar photo that would symbolize their victory. Z carried with him a large ___, sewn from three tablecloths for this very purpose, by his uncle. The photograph was later edited to erase a wristwatch and add smoke to the sky.

Give me X, Y

X is shown on next slide

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10.

X – Raising the Flag at Iwo Jima

Y – Raising a Flag over the Reichstag

11. I WANNA _____________!

X was a peaceful political demonstration that occurred on the 50th anniversary of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. The pact and its secret protocols divided Eastern Europe into spheres of influence and led to Soviet occupation of the three countries in 1940.

X illustrated solidarity among the three nations. It has been described as an effective publicity campaign, and an emotionally captivating and visually stunning scene.

An excerpt from a 2011 interview with a demonstrator:

"I stood here," said ___, gamely stepping into the roadside snow and extending her arms as she did at 7pm that historic day. "Of course, then it was warm, it was right."

I asked what it had felt like. "It was nothing very touching. We just all linked up and then we went home."

A similar protest was recently carried out in Bihar, in support of total prohibition.

Give me X. Part points for funda.

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11. BALTIC WAY

The (then) longest human chain spanning three countries

12. X, PSYCHO, BELGIANS IN THE CONGO

X is an American singer and dancer. He is widely known for popularizing the twist dance style, with his hit cover of "The Twist", and is the only recording artist to place five albums in the Top 12 at once.

The performer has often claimed to have personally changed the way we dance to the beat of music, as when he told Billboard, "Anyplace on the planet, when someone has a song that has a beat, they're on the floor dancing apart to the beat. And before X, it wasn't here." Clay Cole agreed: "X has never been properly acknowledged for one major contribution to pop culture—X and the Twist got adults out and onto the dance floor for the first time. Before the Twist dance phenomenon, grownups did not dance to teenage music."

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ICONIC PHOTOGRAPHS ROUND

+5 FOR NAME OF PHOTOGRAPH

+5 FOR THE FUNDA

+5/-5 FOR STAKE

ANSWERS

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1 NAPALM GIRL

2 GUERRILLERO HERÓICO (HEROIC GUERRILLA FIGHTER)

3 MIGRANT MOTHER

4 AMERICAN GOTHIC

5 LEAP INTO FREEDOM

ANTICLOCKWISE POUNCE-BOUNCE+15/-10 FOR POUNCE. +10/0 FOR DIRECT.

13. “WHO” TF IS THIS?

It’s common to find, in the blank spaces of 13th and 14th century English texts, sketches and notes from medieval readers. And scattered through this marginalia is an oddly recurring scene: a brave knight in shining armor facing down a X.

No one knows what, exactly, the scenes really mean. The British Library says that the scenes could represent the Resurrection, or it could be a stand in for the Lombards, “a group vilified in the early middle ages for treasonous behaviour, the sin of usury, and ‘non-chivalrous comportment in general.’”

The valiant X could be a commentary on social oppression, or it could just be medieval humor, says Got Medieval: “We’re supposed to laugh at the idea of a knight being afraid of attacking such a “heavily armored” opponent. Silly knight, it’s just a X! “

Lisa Spangenberg floated another idea. She says that “the armored X fighting the armored knight is a reminder of the inevitability of death,” a sentiment captured in Psalm 58 of the bible: “Like a X that melteth away into slime, they shall be taken away; like a dead-born child, they shall not see the sun.”

Pic on next slide

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13. SNAILS – A MEDIEVAL TROPE

14. PIC ON NEXT SLIDE

Tell me what this comic is a reference to

+10 for funda; +5 for using a specific four word phrase. Pounce for +20/-15

Read panel column wise (1st column then 2nd then 3rd)

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15. “ONE DAY, YOU WILL BE OLD ENOUGH TO START READING FAIRYTALES AGAIN.”

X was a British novelist and Christian apologist who is best known for the series Y. Despite being targeted at children, Y contained strong religious symbolism, including a character he described as an "alternative version of Jesus as the form in which Christ might have appeared in an alternative reality.“

X and fellow novelist Z were close friends. They were active in the informal Oxford literary group known as the Inklings, which was an group of literary enthusiasts at the University of Oxford who praised the value of narrative in fiction and encouraged the writing of fantasy.

Give me X, Y, Z. Bonus marks for giving me the character described.

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15.

X – C. S. Lewis

Y – The Chronicles of Narnia

Z – J. R. R. Tolkien

The character is Aslan (the lion)

16.

Bollywood actor, X was the first recipient of Godfrey's Mind of Steel Award at the annual Red and White Bravery Awards, given to her for the "courageous act" of standing against the Y. In 2003, as a witness in the Z case, she had testified against the Y. Z, the financer of one of her films, ___ ___ ____ ____, was arrested in 2000 for having connections with W, a member of Y. Unlike several of her colleagues, X repeated in court her earlier statement that she had received extortion threats during the shooting of the film. After her testimony, she was given witness protection and was forced to stay out of the public eye for two months. Thirteen other witnesses before her, including celebrities Salman Khan and ShahrukhKhan, were witnesses in the case but later retracted their earlier statements. X was the only witness who did not become hostile to the prosecution and was widely applauded for her stance.

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16.

X – Preity Zinta

Y – Bombay Underworld/ Indian Mafia

Z – Bharat Shah

W – Chotta Shakeel

17. UPSETS GALORE

The 1954 FIFA World Cup Final between West Germany and Hungary is famously known as “ ___ ______ __ ___”. Going into the final, Hungary were firm favourites for the title having routed West Germany 8-3 in the group stages. But the final saw West Germany beat the heavily favoured Golden Team of Hungary 3–2. The match was played in heavy rain, conditions that the German side had christened "Fritz Walter weather", as Walter was known for playing his best football in the wet. In addition, the German team had a trick under their sleeve, which might have tilted the odds in their favour.

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17. THE MIRACLE OF BERN

The West German team was equipped with boots supplied by Adidas that featured hitherto unknown, exchangeable, screw-in studs. The boots could be adapted to any weather, enabling the German players to wear their regular footwear despite the adverse conditions.

18. THE MOST FAMOUS HORNET

When lifelong Watford supporter X became club chairman and director in 1976, he declared an ambition to take the team into the First Division. He appointed Graham Taylor as manager and together, they would carry Watford, then a Fourth Division side, to heights the club had never previously seen. In the space of seven years, the club had climbed from bottom place in the lowest division of The Football League to top position in the highest division, eventually finishing runners up to Liverpool. Remarkably, this wasn't even the pinnacle of Taylor's time at Watford. That came in 1984, when he took the club to the final of the FA Cup. Overcome with emotion and pride in the build-up, X famously welled up on camera when the Watford end joined in the traditional chorus of Abide With Me. Although, heartbreakingly for them, Watford lost the final to Everton, X would later cite the final as one of the proudest days of his life.

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18. SIR ELTON JOHN

19. CONNECT KARO ISKO

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#METOO AND THE “WEINSTEIN EFFECT”

20. ISKO BHI CONNECT KARO

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NAMES OF COURTS AT THE AUSTRALIAN OPEN

21. X,Y AND THE INDIAN SIGNIFICANCE

X , celebrated every year on Y is also known as Gwangbokjeol ("the day the light returned") in South

Korea and as Chogukhaebangŭi nal ("Liberation of the Fatherland Day") in North Korea. It is the only Korean holiday that is currently celebrated on both sides of the Korean Divide.

This day, Y is very special for us, Indians too because of something that happened a long time ago.

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21.

X- National Liberation day of Korea or V-J Day

Y- 15th August

INDIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY

22.

Clicking on the first link in the main text of a Wikipedia article, and then repeating the process for subsequent articles, would usually lead to the X article. As of February 2016, 97% of all articles in Wikipedia eventually led to the article X. The remaining articles lead to an article without any outgoing wikilinks, to pages that do not exist, or get stuck in loops. This has gone up from 94.52% in 2011.

There have been some theories on this phenomenon, with the most prevalent being the tendency for Wikipedia pages to move up a "classification chain." According to this theory, the Wikipedia Manual of Style guidelines on how to write the lead section of an article recommend that the article should start by defining the topic of the article, so that the first link of each page will naturally take the reader into a broader subject, eventually ending in wide-reaching pages such as Mathematics, Science, Language, and of course, X.

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23.

Just a few years ago, X was living in Syria and married to Y, who would become the most influential American member of ISIS. Together they traveled the globe, befriending jihadis and grooming their children to become “assassins.” X was 14 during al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attacks and said she became “jihadi hardcore” shortly afterwards, while allegedly associating with a group of fundamentalist Algerians. But after ten years of living on the run, X began to fear for her family’s safety. That’s when she says her husband abandoned her "to become the next Osama bin Laden.” In a new documentary from The Atlantic, called " '_____ _____'- A new life in Texas for the _____ ____ __ ____" based on original reporting from Graeme Wood, the former extremist details her experience returning to the United States and building a new life in Plano, Texas with the family of her ex-husband.

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23. X- TANIA GEORGELAS Y- JOHN GEORGELAS

24.

X is the easing of strained relations, especially in a political situation. The term originates in the time of the Triple Entente and Entente cordiale in reference to an easing of tensions between England and France who, subsequent to being commingled polities under Norman rule, were warring rivals for the better part of a millennium but pursuant to a policy of détente became enduring allies.

The term is most often used in reference to a period of general easing of the geo-political tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States it was the distinct lessening of the Cold War. It began in 1969, as a foreign policy of U.S. presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford called X a "thawing out" or "un-freezing" at a period roughly in the middle of the Cold War, in efforts to avoid the collision of nuclear risks.

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