Quiz Compilation #1(Informal sessions)

On 19 July 1873, the surveyor William Gosse discovered the landmark and named it in honour of the then-Chief Secretary of South Australia, Sir Henry X . A Cry in the Dark a 1988 Australian docudrama film directed by Fred Schepisi. The screenplay by Schepisi and Robert Caswell is based on John Bryson's 1985 book Evil Angels, the title under which the film was released in Australia. It chronicles the case of Azaria Chamberlain, a nine-week-old baby girl who disappeared from a campground near X .

What is X ?

Uluru / Ayers Rocks

The place had disappeared from the tourist map due to its inaccessible approach but in 1931 when Frank S. Smythe a British mountaineer lost his way while returning from a successful expedition to Mt.Kamet and he reached there.He was so attracted towards the beauty of the place he named it as “----------------".He authored a book called “----------------------" and thus threw open the doors of this verdant jewel to nature-enthusiasts all over the world.

In 1939 Miss Margaret Legge, a botanist deputed by the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh arrived there for further studies. While she was traversing some rocky slopes to she slipped off and was lost for ever. Her sister later visited the place and erected a memorial near the spot. The memorial is still there.

Which place ?

Valley of Flowers National Park

It was home to the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, and to Queen Victoria, who built her much loved summer residence and final home Osborne House at East Cowes. The island's maritime and industrial history encompasses boat building, sail making, the manufacture of flying boats, the world's first hovercraft and the testing and development of Britain's space rockets. It is home to the ----------------- International Jazz Festival, Bestival and the recently-revived ------------- Festival, which, in 1970, was the largest rock music event ever held.The island has some exceptional wildlife and is one of the richest locations of dinosaur fossils in Europe.

Which Island ?

3.

Isle of Wight

There has been a long discussion in the Guangdong region about what the name of the structure should be. In 2009 the municipal government launched a competition calling for proposals for the name to be submitted. Over 100,000 names were submitted, of which Hai Xin Ta (center of the Seas) was awarded first prize. The name referred to the setting of the historical city of X on the banks of the Pearl River Delta. Protests by the Guangzhou population followed, finding the name too old fashioned. Eventually the City-government decided upon the more neutral and generally representative name of Guangzhou Ta in Chinese, or X in English.

In addition to its official name it has also acquired nicknames. The local population has started calling it Xiao Man’s waist (Xiao Man, a famous geisha in the Tang Dynasty (618AD-907AD), who had a very beautiful slender waist.)One of the architects, Mark Hemel, noted: “Where most skyscrapers bear "male" features; being introvert, strong, straight, rectangular, and based on repetition, we wanted to create a "female" tower, being complex, transparent, curvy and gracious. Our aim was a subtle and fragile but sexy tower that would represent Guangzhou as a sensitive, dynamic and exciting city.

Which structure ?

4.

Canton Tower

This site was made famous by Jacques-Yves Cousteau, who declared it one of the top ten scuba diving sites in the world. In 1971, he brought his ship, the Calypso, to the hole to chart its depths. Investigations by this expedition confirmed the hole's origin as typical karst limestone formations, formed before rises in sea level in at least four stages, leaving ledges at depths of 21, 49 and 91 meters (69, 161 and 299 ft). Stalactites were retrieved from submerged caves, confirming their previous formation above sea level. Some of these stalactites were also off-vertical by 5° in a consistent orientation, thus indicating that there had also been some past geological shift and tilting of the underlying plateau, followed by a long period in the current plane.

Which famous “scuba diving site” in Belize?

5.

Great Blue Hole

Fariborz Sahba began work in 1987 designing the gardens and oversaw construction. Beginning at its base, the gardens extend almost a kilometre up the side of Mount Carmel, covering some 200,000 square metres of land. The gardens are linked by a set of stairs flanked by twin streams of running water cascading down the mountainside through the steps and terrace bridges. The terraces represent the first eighteen disciples of the X, who were designated "Letter of the Living" , although no individual terraces are connected with individual Letters.

Where / Whose shrine ?

6.

Shrine of the Báb

The Brow-antlered deer, which was first discovered in Manipur in 1839 and named Cervus eldi eldi in 1844 in honour of Lt. Percy Eld – a British officer, was reported an extinct species in 1951. It was re–discovered in this area by the environmentalist and photographer E.P.Gee, which necessitated declaring this reserve park area as a national park to protect and conserve the deer now called Eld's Deer's subspecies Brow-antlered Deer (Cervus eldi eldi) or Sangai in Manipuri language .

What resulted ?

7.

Keibul Lamjao National Park : only floating park in the world

8.Solve A-F . This lake (A) is the second largest freshwater lake in the world – here seen from space.

A was discovered (to the Western world) jointly by two men, B and C, en route their quest for something.

Both were blighted by disease. B, (in pic), became temporarily deaf after a beetle crawled into his ear and he had to remove it with a knife, and also later went temporarily blind - he was still blind at point of discovery of A and could not properly see the lake.

They heard of a second lake in the area, but C was too sick to make the trip. B thus went alone, and found the lake, which he christened D. It was this lake which eventually proved to be the answer to their quest (E).

They both returned to England, B before C, who on 8 May 1859 made their trip famous in a speech to the Royal Geographical Society where he staked his claim to the solution of their quest.

This angered C, who returned on 21 May, who believed that it violated an agreement that the two men would speak to the society together. A further rift was caused when B was chosen to lead a subsequent expedition without C.

B went on his way with some others, did what he had to do and believed he’d confirmed the findings of their earlier expedition.

He sent a telegram to London that read, “Inform Sir Roderick Murchison that all is well, that we are in latitude 14°30’ upon the ____, and that [F]” (F being the famous bit that’s often quoted)

Epilogue – C disputed B’s finding, wanted to debate him on it; B died, aged 37, of a self-inflicted (accidental) gunshot wound the morning of the debate, while hunting. C went on to do other things in life, before dying in Trieste much later.

A – Lake TanganyikaB – John Hanning SpekeC – Richard Francis BurtonD – Lake VictoriaE – Quest for Source of the NileF – ‘The Nile is settled’

This is a type of whistle used in the training of dogs and cats. This is discussed quite briefly in his book Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development. In experiments to test the range of frequencies that could be heard by various animals, notes that cats have the most all-round sensitive hearing, being able from a considerable distance to hear notes too high in frequency for humans to hear, and small dogs can also hear these notes, while large dogs cannot.

The frequency range of a dog whistle is largely out of the range of human hearing. Typically, a dog whistle is within the range of 16 to 22 kHz with only the frequencies below 20 kHz audible to the human ear. Some dog whistles have adjustable sliders for active control of the frequency produced.

Depending on the way the whistle is used, a trainer may simply gather a dog's attention or inflict pain for the purpose of behavior modification.

The name dog whistle is often used for both lung-powered whistles as well as electronic devices that emit ultrasonic sound via piezoelectric emitters. The electronic variety are sometimes coupled with bark detection circuits in an effort to curb barking behavior.

Who discovered this type of dog whistle ?

9.

Francis Galton ,famed expolorer

He was appointed professor of geology at the University of Bonn beginning in 1875, but being fully occupied with his work in China he did not take up professorial duties until 1879. He became professor of geography at the University of Leipzig in 1883, and professor of geography at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin in 1886. He occupied the latter position until his death. His lectures attracted numerous students who subsequently became eminent in geographical work, and in order to keep in touch with them he established his weekly geographical “colloquium.” Among his most famous students was Sven Hedin, the Swedish explorer. He served as president of the German Geographical Society for many years, and founded the Berlin Hydrographical Institute.

Who/What famous phrase he coined ?

10.

Ferdinand von Richthofen – Silk Route

‘When President Abraham Lincoln requested that Ohio raise ten regiments at the outbreak of the Civil War, the state responded by raising a total of 23 volunteer infantry regiments for three months of service. Ohio also produced a number of great Civil War figures, including William Tecumseh Sherman, Ulysses S. Grant, Philip Sheridan, and George Custer. Columbus itself was host to large military bases, Camp Chase and Camp Thomas, which saw hundreds of thousands of Union soldiers and thousands of Confederate prisoners during the Civil War. There was also a Shawnee leader named so in the Ohio Country after the American Revolutionary War’

What supposedly takes its name thus?

Columbus Blue Jackets

 late 1809, Irving completed work on his first major book, A History of New-York a satire on self-important local history and contemporary politics. Prior to its publication, Irving started a hoax akin to today's viral marketing campaigns; he placed a series of missing person adverts in New York newspapers seeking information on Diedrich _____, a crusty Dutch historian who had allegedly gone missing from his hotel in New York City. As part of the ruse, Irving placed a notice—allegedly from the hotel's proprietor—informing readers that if Mr. Diedrich failed to return to the hotel to pay his bill, he would publish a manuscript ____ had left behind

Unsuspecting readers followed the story of _____ and his manuscript with interest, and some New York city officials were concerned enough about the missing historian that they considered offering a reward for his safe return. Riding the wave of public interest he had created with his hoax, Irving—adopting the pseudonym of his Dutch historian—published A History of New York on December 6, 1809, to immediate critical and popular success.

Fill the blank and what gets its name thus?

NY Knicks from Knickerbocker (Dietrich Knickerbocker)

Born and brought up in the Himalayas and attending the prestigious The Lawrence School Sanawar.

He studied humanities and political science from 'Cesare Alfieri' University of Florence and received a Master's degree in International relations from the University of Florence.

He resides in the north Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, on the foothills of the Himalayas. He was (in his words), "offered Italian citizenship, but I refused because I am an Indian and want to spend [his] life there".

WHO?

SHIVA KESHAVAN – The Indian LUGE prodigy

Each team consists of one left and one right Inside Grouch, one left and one right Outside Grouch, four Deep Brooders, four Shallow Brooders, five Wicket Men, three Offensive Niblings, four Quarter-Frummerts, two Half-Frummerts, one Full-Frummert, two Overblats, two Underblats, nine Back-Up Finks, two Leapers and a Dummy — for a total of 43.

The game officials are a Probate Judge (dressed as a British judge, with wig), a Field Representative (in a Scottish kilt), a Head Cockswain (in long overcoat), and a Baggage Smasher (dressed as a male beachgoer in pre-World War I years). None has any authority after play has begun.

WHICH GAME?

43-man squamish, the famous fictional sport that was invented in issue #95 of MAD Magazine (June 1965) by George Woodbridge and Tom Koch

In October 1984, Fred L. Worth, an author, filed a $300 million lawsuit against the distributors of X . He claimed that more than a quarter of the elements in the game had been taken from his books, even to the point of reproducing typographical errors and deliberately placed misinformation.

The inventors of X acknowledged that Worth's books were among their sources, but argued that this was not improper and that facts are not protected by copyright. The district court judge agreed, ruling in favor of the X inventors. The decision was appealed, and in September 1987 the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in California upheld the ruling. The issue was taken to the Supreme Court of the United States, which rejected Worth's arguments in March 1988

X?

Heather Small released her debut solo album and a single of the same name. The single was also used for the first season and the last chapter on the finale season of Queer as Folk and was put on its single. It is Small's signature song, with which she achieved international success. When Oprah Winfrey was looking for a song to sum up the work she'd been striving to achieve over her twenty-year career, she got in touch with Small and the song became the theme song to The Oprah Winfrey Show, and in 2005 Small made her American television debut on the show. Then in 2004 the song become the theme song for the American reality weight loss show The Biggest Loser.

What is the sporting connection?

Proud – the official song for the 2012 Olympics

A conversation on the train journey home between the Secretary of the Auto-Cycle Club, Freddie Straight and the brothers from the Matchless motor-cycle company, Charlie Collier and Harry Collier and the Marquis de Mouzilly St Mars led to a suggestion for a race the following year on closed public roads. The new race was proposed by the Editor of "The Motor-Cycle" Magazine at the annual dinner of the Auto-Cycle Club held in London on 17 January 1907

The first race was held on Tuesday 28 May 1907 and was called the International Auto-Cycle Tourist Trophy.The event was organised by the Auto-Cycle Club over 10 laps of the St John's Short Course of 15 miles 1,470 yards for road-legal touring motor-cycles with exhaust silencers, saddles, pedals and mud-guards.

Which event?

 A semi-legendary child-martyr of the 3rd century. He was martyred at Caesarea.

Born in prison to parents who had been jailed because they were Christian.

He was later thrown to the lions, but managed to make the beasts docile. He preached to animals in the fields, and a lion remained with him as companion. Accompanied by the lion, he visited Duke Alexander, who condemned him to death.He was struck in the stomach with a trident. Bleeding, he dragged himself to a spot near a theater before his soul was carried into heaven by angels

WHICH FAMOUS LOCATION GETS ITS NAME FROM HIM?

Saint Mammes, lends his name to Athletico Bilbao’s homeground  San Mamés Stadium and hence is nicknamed "the football cathedral".

The term X has its origins in a Test match played between the West Indies and England at Old Trafford, Manchester, in the year 1933. Elliss "Puss" Achong, a left-arm orthodox spinner, playing for the West Indies at the time. According to folklore, Achong is said to have had Walter Robbins stumped off a surprise delivery that spun into the right-hander from outside the off stump. As he walked back to the pavilion, Robbins said to his teammates "Fancy being done by a bloody X !", leading to the popularity of the term in England, and subsequently, in the rest of the world.

X?

Time for a sitter!

CHINAMAN

 It was invented by English computer scientist Allan Plaskett in the mid-1990s. Plaskett, brother of chess Grandmaster James Plaskett,  also invented another device for aiding television commentary on cricket: Flightpath, and is the author of 'H-Trauma: The General Theory of Evil', a work in the field of psychoanalysis. It was introduced by Channel 4 in the UK, who also introduced the Hawk-Eye and the Red Zone,in 1999

Used to graphically analyse sound and video, and show whether a fine noise, called X from which the name comes, occurs. What?

SNICKOMETER

Though a black and white film,it was shot in color and transferred to black and white. Some prints were accidentally released with the first couple of reels in color. The film was inspired by a poster that they saw while filming The Hudsucker Proxy; the poster showed various haircuts from the 1940s. The story takes place in 1949 and, is "heavily influenced by" the work of James M. Cain, a writer best known for the novels Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice, and Mildred Pierce. Many critics have also noticed a striking resemblance between the film and Albert Camus' The StrangerThe famous original soundtrack to consists of classical music, mainly piano sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven, interspersed with cues composed by Carter Burwell.

WHICH NEO-NOIR CLASSIC?

As a corporate speaker, he commands an honorarium of $25,000 per domestic speaking appearance, and up to $37,000 for international speeches.

A graduate of Cherry Creek High School and a mechanical engineering and French student at Carnegie Mellon University, was a member of the honor society Phi Beta Kappa. At Carnegie Mellon, he served as a Resident Assistant, studied abroad, and was an active intramural sports participant. He left his job as a mechanical engineer with Intel in 2002 for his famous deed for which he is still remembered

His famous autobiography was published in 2004. Gimme his name and why was he in news recently?

The answer is…

Aron Lee Ralston ,an American mountain climber and public speaker.

He gained fame in May 2003vwhen, while canyoneering in Utah, he was forced to amputate his lower right arm with a dull knife in order to free himself after his arm became trapped by a boulder.

The incident is documented in Ralston's 2004 autobiography Between a Rock and a Hard Place, and is the subject of the 2010 film 127 Hours.

Forby ______ Skinner was an American high school gym teacher, basketball coach, realtor and bar owner from Jacksonville, Florida.

For many years, Skinner was a gym teacher at his alma mater, Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville.  The New York Times called him "arguably the most influential high school gym teacher in American popular culture.” Because he inspired something that took form in 1970s.

It was persumably due to strict enforcement of a policy against long hair by him, and ultimately it was renamed as a"tongue-in-cheek homage" to him. WHAT?

He is the namesake for…

He was the name-sake for ……

His name appeared on the screen in only two of the pictures he produced, both of which were completed after he died. While he was alive, he refused to allow his own name to appear in his films as he was once heard to say "Credit you give yourself is not worth having". The credit for his final film, The Good Earth(1937) reads: "To the Memory of ____ his last greatest achievement we dedicate this picture." Another dedication to him appeared in the opening credits of Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), a film that ___ set into motion, but never lived to see.

WHO?

Irving.G.Thalberg

Using technology including surgery-training software

 and grading of operations via digital imaging to increase efficiency, China was the first country in which X operated. The relationship between the would-be organization and China began when the founders worked with then U.S. and Chinese presidents George H. W. Bush and Jiang Zemin to gain access for training local surgeons and supporting hospitals in some of that country’s poorest regions. 

The founders were Mullaney worked in advertising for more than 20 years and Charles Wang co-founded Computer Associates International with Russ Artz. ID X WHICH ACQUIRED FAME IN 2008-09

Dave Lizewski, an otherwise ordinary New York City high school student and the child of Greg Willer, a loving single father, takes his interest in comic books as inspiration to become a real-life superhero. He buys a wetsuit off of the website eBay, which he wears under his normal clothing, begins exercising, and practices things like walking on roofs, satisfying his ambitions for a time. He eventually turns to fighting crimes

He even sets up a MySpace account, so people can contact him for help

When he saves a man from a beating, an onlooker records the incident and uploads it to YouTube, turning Dave into an overnight sensation dubbed with the name X

Gimme X

The first X ran on October 29, 1993, and featured a hapless history buff (played by Sean Whalen) receiving a call to answer a radio station's $10,000 trivia question (voiced by Rob Paulsen), "Who shot Alexander Hamilton in that famous duel?" The man's apartment is shown to be a private museum to the duel, packed with artifacts. He answers the question correctly, but because his mouth is full of peanut butter and he has no milk to wash it down, his answer is unintelligible. The ad, directed by Hollywood director Michael Bay was at the top of the advertising industry's award circuit in 1994. 

What is X?

Originally a nine-bedroom Georgian townhouse built in the 1830s on the footpath leading to Kilburn, the building was later converted to apartments where the most flamboyant resident was Maundy Gregory. The premises were acquired by the Gramophone Company in 1931. Pathé filmed its opening, when Sir Edward Elgar conducted the London Symphony Orchestra.

 During the mid-1900s the location was extensively used by leading British conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent, whose house was just around the corner from the studio building

WHICH FAMOUS LOCATION?

ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS

It was built in 1911 for impresario Fred Karno, who designed it so that there could be an entire 90-piece orchestra playing on deck

It was originally equipped with UREI 813 studio main monitors with Phase Linear amps. Now equipped with modern technologies, this is currently at  Hampton Court

X who bought it in 1986 tells : "In my case, I just happened to find this beautiful ____ that was built as a ___ and was very cheap, so I bought it. And then only afterward did I think I could maybe use it to __. The control room is a 30-foot by 20-foot room. It's a very comfortable working environment--- three bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom, a big lounge. It's 90 feet long.“

WHAT? X?

ASTORIA – DAVE GILMOUR The famous floating recording studio of

Pink Floyd

The film began with a spec script called "The Man Who Came To Play", written by Louis Garfinkle and Quinn K. Redeker

One of the most talked-about sequences in the film and also an iconic scene from the work, the Vietcong's use of lethal game X with POWs was criticized as being contrived and unrealistic since there were no documented cases of X in the Vietnam War.

Associated Press reporter Peter Arnett, who had won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the war, wrote in the Los Angeles Times, “In its 20 years of war, there was not a single recorded case of X.… The central metaphor of the movie is simply a bloody lie.” ID X AND THE FILM

Deer Hunter & Russian Roulette

Joseph Thompson played an important part in the Scramble for Africa. Thomson's Gazelle is named for him. Excelling as an explorer rather than an exact scientist, he avoided confrontations among his porters or with indigenous peoples, neither killing any native nor losing any of his men to violence.His motto is often quoted to be "He who goes gently, goes safely; he who goes safely, goes far."His book Through Masai Land followed in January 1885 and was a best-seller. One of the first to read it was the young X. Imagination fired by Thomson's expedition, X promptly wrote a book of his own, Y. Thomson was outraged. He had provided the first credible reports of snow-capped mountains on the Equator and had terrified the Masai warriors by removing his false teeth and claiming to be a magician.

H. Rider Haggard & King Solomon’s Mines

# The British science fiction magazine Interzone takes its name from the novel.

# The band Steely Dan takes its name from a dildo featured in the book

.# Alt-country band Clem Snide is named for a character in this book

.# The band Showbread titled one of their songs “-----------" in their 2006 release Age of Reptiles.In the 1984 Alex Cox film, Repo Man, there is a hospital scene in which Dr. Benway and Mr. Lee are paged. The two are also paged in a hospital scene in the 1998 film Dark City.The instrumental post-rock band Tortoise included a song entitled "Benway" on their 2001 album Standards.# The post-punk band Joy Division's debut album Unknown Pleasures featured a song called "Interzone

-Novel ?

The original "scroll" still exists. It was bought in 2001 by Jim Irsay (Indianapolis Colts football team owner), for 2.43 million US dollars. It is available for public viewing, with the first 30 feet (9 m) unrolled. Between 2004 and 2005, the scroll was displayed in a number of museums and libraries in the US, Ireland and the UK.

What am I talking about ?

The literary critic, Harold Bloom wrote, as the introduction for the 150th anniversary of X:If you are American, then Y is your imaginative father and mother, even if, like myself, you have never composed a line of verse. You can nominate a fair number of literary works as candidates for the secular Scripture of the United States. They might include Melville's Moby-Dick, Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Emerson's two series of Essays and The Conduct of Life. None of those, not even Emerson's, are as central as the first edition of X.

Which poet ? Also name the poem .

Walt Whitman/Leaves of Grass

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt named the Presidential hideaway in Maryland after it. (It has since been renamed Camp David.) Likewise Roosevelt initially claimed the Doolittle Raid came from there; this later inspired the name of a aircraft carrier.

Name?

Shangri - La

After the 1932 release of MGM's adaptation of this novel, which featured the Asian villain telling an assmbled group of Muslims that they must "kill the white men and take their women", a Harvard University student group petitioned MGM producer William Randolph Hearst (who had also serialized the novel in his Cosmopolitan magazine) to cease making further films based on the property. Following the 1940 release of Republic Pictures' adaptation of the novel, the U.S. State Department requested the studio make no further films with the character as China was an ally against Japan.

Which super villain ?

Fu - Manchu

It was first published in serial form in 1844, about a member of the Irish gentry trying to become a member of the English aristocracy. Based the novel on the life and exploits of the Anglo-Irish rakehell and fortune-hunter Andrew Robinson Stoney, later reissued it under the title ………………………………....

Stanley Kubrick later adapted the novel into the movie (1975). Unlike the film, the novel is narrated by Barry himself, who functions as a quintessentially unreliable narrator perpetually boasting and not realizing the bad light in which he casts himself.

The fictional name Llareggub resembles other Welsh place names, which often begin with Llan- (meaning church), but is actually derived from reversing the phrase "bugger all". In early published editions of the work it was often rendered as Llaregyb or similar. The double-G doesn't feature in real Welsh.

The geographical inspiration for the town has generated intense debate. Laugharne was the village where the authorlived on and off from the thirties. This town was probably the inspiration for the people of Llareggub, although the topography of the town is thought to be based on New Quay, Ceredigion where hewas staying when he started writing the play seriously in 1944.

Which literary work ?

Under Milk Wood /Dylan Thomas Robert Allen Zimmerman adopted the

name Bob Dylan after this authour .

It is derived from two Chickasaw words meaning "split land." The author claimed that the compound means "water flowing slow through the flatland," though this is unverified. The County is located in northwestern Mississippi and its seat is the town of Jefferson.

The area was originally Chickasaw land. White settlement started around the year 1800. Prior to the Civil War, the county consisted of several large plantations: Louis Grenier's in the southeast, McCaslin's in the northeast, Sutpen's in the northwest, and Compson's and Sartoris's in the immediate vicinity of Jefferson. Later, the county became mostly small farms. By 1936, the population was 15,611, of which 6,298 were whites and 9,313 were black.

Which county ?

Yoknapatawpha County by William Faulkner

She was accidentally wounded in the right eye by a shot from a BB gun fired by one of her brothers.[5Because the family had no access to a car, they were unable to take their daughter to a hospital for immediate treatment, and when they finally brought her to a physician a week later, she was permanently blind in that eye. A disfiguring layer of scar tissue formed over it, rendering the previously outgoing child self-conscious and painfully shy. Stared at and sometimes taunted, she felt like an outcast and turned for solace to reading and to writing poetry. Although when she was 14, the scar tissue was removed—and she subsequently became valedictorian and was voted most-popular girl, as well as queen of her senior class, she realized that her traumatic injury had some value: it allowed her to begin "really to see people and things, really to notice relationships and to learn to be patient enough to care about how they turned out," as she has said.

Who ?

Alice Walker

Lomas Rishi cave: The arch-like shape facade of Lomas Rishi Caves, imitate the contemporary timber architecture. On the doorway, a row of elephants proceed towards stupa emblems, along the curved architrave.

Sudama cave: This cave was dedicated by Mauryan Emperor, Ashoka in 261 BC, and consist of a circular vaulted chamber with a rectangular mandapa.

Karan Chaupar (Karna Chaupar) [: Consists of single rectangular room with polished surfaces, contains inscription which could be dated to 245 BC.

Visva Zopri: Reachable by Asoka steps hewn in cliff, consists of two rectangular rooms.

These are the 4 caves in the oldest surviving rock-cut caves in India.Which one ?

Barabar Caves setting for the opening of E.M. Forster's book, A Passage to India,

It is an American comic strip, created by Harold Gray that first appeared on August 5, 1924. The title, suggested by an editor at the Chicago Tribune Syndicate, was inspired by James Whitcomb Riley's popular 1885 poem which begins

:X’s come to our house to stay,An' wash the cups an' saucers up, an' brush the crumbs away...I

t was eight years after Riley's death when Gray created his comic strip ------------------------------(1924), and the Chicago Tribune's Joseph Patterson changed the title to ------------------------. Three years later, King Features came up with their own waif, --------------------.On May 13, 2010, Tribune Media Services announced that the strip's final installment would appear on June 13, 2010. At the time of the cancellation announcement, it was running in fewer than 20 newspapers; some of those papers, such as the New York Daily News, had carried the strip for its entire life.The last installment was published on Sunday, June 13. The final cartoonist, Ted Slampyak, said, "It's kind of painful. It's almost like mourning the loss of a friend.“

Which comic strip ?

A – They are upper class Yankee families with a distinctive life style. Based in and around -----------, they are part of the historic core of the East Coast establishment. They are associated with the distinctive ------------ accent, and with Harvard University.

B - On 16 October 1846 William Thomas Green Morton, a Boston dentist was invited to the Massachusetts General Hospital to demonstrate his new technique for painless surgery. Surgeon John Collins Warren removed a tumor from the neck of Edward Gilbert Abbott after Morton had induced ------------- using ether.

Connect A and B .

A – Boston Brahmins B -- Anesthesia Both words are coined by Oliver Wendell

Holmes, Sr.

The series has lent its name to a whole sub-genre of science fiction that uses an entropically X as the setting. Its importance was recognised with the publication of Songs of the X,a tribute anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois. Each short story in the anthology is set on the Dying Earth, and concludes with a short acknowledgement by the author of Vance's influence on them.

The magic system used in Dungeons & Dragons (in which a wizard is limited in the number of spells that can be simultaneously remembered and forgets them once they are cast) was based on the magic of X. Some of the spells from Dungeons & Dragons are based on spells mentioned in the X series, notably the prismatic spray. Magic items from the X stories such as ioun stones also made their way into Dungeons & Dragons. One of the deities of magic in Dungeons & Dragons is named Vecna (an anagram of Vance).

Biopolitical activist Jeremy Rifkin and biologist Stuart Newman accept that biotechnology has the power to make profound changes in organismal identity. They argue against the genetic engineering of human beings, because they fear the blurring of the boundary between human and artifact.Philosopher Keekok Lee sees such developments as part of an accelerating trend in modernization in which technology has been used to transform the "natural" into the "artifactual".In the extreme, this could lead to the manufacturing and enslavement of "monsters" such as human clones, human-animal chimeras or bioroids, but even lesser dislocations of humans and non-humans from social and ecological systems are seen as problematic.

What is this argument known as ?

Dehumanization known as Frankenstein argument

His office is on the 86th floor of a New York City skyscraper, implicitly the Empire State Building, reached by his private high-speed elevator. heowns a fleet of cars, trucks, aircraft, and boats which he stores at a secret hangar on the Hudson River, under the name The Hidalgo Trading Company, which is linked to his office by a pneumatic-tube system nicknamed the "flea run." He sometimes retreats to his Fortress of Solitude in the Arctic—which pre-dates Superman's similar hideout of the same name. All of this is paid for with gold from a Central American mine given to him by the local descendants of the Mayans in the first of his story.

Who ?

He was sued by the chemist Eugène Turpin, inventor of the explosive Melinite, who recognized himself in the character of Thomas Roch and was not amused. Turpin had tried to sell his invention to the French government which in 1885 refused it, though later purchasing it (it was extensively used in the First World War); but Turpin had never gone mad, nor did he ever offer his invention to any but the Government of France, so he had some justified griveance. He was successfully defended by Raymond Poincaré, later president of France. A letter to his brother Paul seems to suggest, however, that after all Turpin was indeed the model for Roch. The character of Roch and his revolutionary powerful explosive might also have been be inspired by the real-life Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite and later reportedly regretted having introduced such a destructive force into the world .

Who is the author and name the novel ?

In 1964, bookseller Ranjit Udeshi in Bombay was prosecuted under Sec. 292 of the Indian Penal Code for selling an unexpurgated copy of X.Ranjit D. Udeshi v. State of Maharashtra was eventually laid before a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India, where Chief Justice Hidayatullah declared the law on the subject of when a book can be regarded as obscene and established important tests of obscenity such as the Hicklin test.The judgement upheld the conviction, stating that:

“When everything said in its favour we find that in treating with sex the impugned portions viewed separately and also in the setting of the whole book pass the permissible limits judged of from our community standards and as there is no social gain to us which can be said to preponderate, we must hold the book to satisfy the test we have indicated above.”

Which book caused all these ?

These classical projections, and something from the fire, suddenly suggested X’s scene in which the Seasons, hand in hand and facing outward, tread in rhythm to the notes of the lyre that the winged and naked greybeard plays. The image of Time brought thoughts of mortality: of human beings, facing outward like the Seasons, moving hand in hand in intricate measure, stepping slowly, methodically sometimes a trifle awkwardly, in evolutions that take recognizable shape: or breaking into seemingly meaningless gyrations, while partners disappear only to reappear again, once more giving pattern to the spectacle: unable to control the melody, unable, perhaps, to control the steps of the dance.

This is how an author admires a piece of art work which inspired his most famous work .Who / Which work ?

The title is an allusion to lines in T. S. Eliot's 1922 poem The Waste Land:

I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a --------------------.

Fill up the name to get a title of the book .

The novel is said to have influenced the Unabomber—Theodore Kaczynski. Kaczynski was a great fan of the novel and as an adolescent kept a copy at his bedside.He identified strongly with the character of "the Professor" and advised his family to read it in order to understand the character with whom he felt such an affinity. David Foster, the literary attributionist who assisted the FBI, said that Kaczynski "seemed to have felt that his family could not understand him without reading the author X."Kaczynski's idolization of the character was due to the traits that they shared: disaffection, hostility toward the world, and being an aspiring anarchist. However, it did not stop at mere idolisation. Kaczynski used "The Professor" as a source of inspiration, and "fabricated sixteen exploding packages that detonated in various locations".After his capture, Kaczynski revealed to FBI agents that he had read the novel a dozen times, and had sometimes used “X" as an alias. It was discovered that Kaczynski had used various formulations of X’s name - in order to sign himself into several hotels in Sacramento. As in his youth, Kaczynski retained a copy of this novel , and kept it with him whilst living as a recluse in a hut in Montana.

Which Novel ? Author ?

He has stated that the idea for the novel came to him while reading Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.'s autobiography, in which Schlesinger makes a comment that some of the more radical Republican senators of the day wanted Lindbergh to run against Roosevelt. The title appears to be taken from that of a communist pamphlet published in support of the campaign against Burton K. Wheeler's re-election to the U.S. Senate in 1946.The novel depicts an antisemitic United States in the 1940s. The author had written in his autobiography, The Facts, of the racial and antisemitic tensions that were a part of his childhood in Newark, New Jersey. Several times in that book he describes children in his neighborhood being set upon simply because they were Jewish.

Novel ? Author ?

The book begins with a long quotation in Hebrew, which comes from page seven of Philip Berg's book The Kabbalah: A Study of the Ten Luminous Emanations from Rabbi Isaac Luria with the Commentaries Sufficient for the Beginner Vol. II, published in Jerusalem by the Kabbalah Centre in 1973.

The quotation translates into English as follows:When the Light of the Endless was drawn in the form of a straight line in the Void... it was not drawn and extended immediately downwards, indeed it extended slowly — that is to say, at first the Line of Light began to extend and at the very start of its extension in the secret of the Line it was drawn and shaped into a wheel, perfectly circular all around.

Which book ?

The deaths of civilians in Operation X and in particular at Qana have been cited by Al-Qaeda as motivations for its actions and policies towards the United States of America. Mohamed Atta is described in Lawrence Wright ‘s account of the September 11, 2001 attacks to have committed himself to martyrdom in immediate response to the Israel strikes at the beginning of Operation X.

In his 23 August 1996 declaration of jihad against the United States, Osama bin Laden wrote (addressing his fellow Muslims), "Your blood has been spilt in Palestine and Iraq, and the horrific image of the massacre in Qana in Lebanon are still fresh in people’s minds." In November 1996, he told the Australian journal Nida'ul Islam about Qana again, saying that when the United States government accuses terrorists of killing innocents it is "accusing others of their own afflictions in order to fool the masses.

Which operation shares its name with a novel.

The author gave three possible origins for the title: * That he had overheard the phrase "as queer as a ------------------"

in a London pub in 1945 and assumed it was a Cockney expression.¹ In --------------------- Marmalade, an essay published in the Listener in 1972, he said that he had heard the phrase several times since that occasion. However, no other record of the expression being used before 1962 has ever appeared.

*Kingsley Amis notes in his Memoirs (1991) that no trace of it appears in Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Historical Slang.* His second explanation was that it was a pun on the Malay word, meaning "man". The novel contains no other Malay words or links.

* In a prefatory note to --------------------------------, he wrote that the title was a metaphor for "...an organic entity, full of juice and sweetness and agreeable odour, being turned into an automaton. In his essay, “------------------------------" ², Heasserts that "this title would be appropriate for a story about the application of Pavlovian or mechanical laws to an organism which, like a fruit, was capable of colour and sweetness". This title alludes to the protagonist's positively conditioned responses to feelings of evil which prevent the exercise of his free will.

Which book ?

One cannot get a job in a high-profile occupation without prior experience, but they cannot get experience without getting a job in a high-profile area.

However, there are many entry-level opportunities available for those fresh out of college. It is merely more difficult to get good jobs without experience.

One cannot get a loan without established credit, but one cannot establish credit without previously getting a loan.

There are loans that do not check your credit, prior to lending. Also, those without credit can get a credit-worthy co-signature

Until vendors develop applications for Linux, Linux's market share on the desktop will stagnate. But until the market share of Linux on the desktop rises, no vendor will develop applications for Linux.

One is unlikely to purchase a hydrogen-fueled vehicle without there being a network of hydrogen stations from which to fill up. However, creating a network of hydrogen stations is not viable until there are enough hydrogen vehicles to create the demand.

One could own a hydrogen car by having a water-to-hydrogen converter either already built into their car or in their garage; a network of hydrogen stations is not necessary.

Investors seeing potential of a demand might invest in hydrogen station network, thus risking, but profiting if the established network provides the necessary last kick for people to buy hydrogen cars more.

Examples of ?

An autopsy revealed that this author had accidentally swallowed a toothpick (presumably in a martini olive), which had perforated his colon and caused a fatal case of peritonitis.He was buried at Round Hill Cemetery in Marion, Virginia. His epitaph reads, "Life, Not Death, is the Great Adventure."His most enduring work is the short story sequence Winesburg, Ohio.

Who ?

Sherwood Anderson

It tells the story of the young life of Adolf Hitler, his origins and his immediate family tree, through the eyes of what at first is portrayed as a young SS officer researching Hitler's genealogy at the behest of Heinrich Himmler, who opens the novel speaking to SS officers about the importance of strong traits that result through incest. The SS Officer, who initially instructs the reader to remember him as Dieter, reminds the reader of the penalty he would suffer from the Nazi Party should his writings become public knowledge. He proceeds to describe his search for Hitler's grandparents, to both detect any presence of Jewish ancestry and to ascertain whether Hitler was the product of incest. The story follows Hitler's father, Alois Hitler, his upbringing in a rural area of Austria, and his early marriages and work for the customs department of the Austrian government. Following two marriages and a number of affairs, Alois marries a distant relative, Klara, and the couple have three children who survive past childhood, the third of these being Hitler, whom is referred to by Mailer as Adi. The book was the New York Times Bestseller for 2007, and won the 2007 Bad Sex in Fiction Award from the London literary journal Literary Review.

Which Novel ?

Many readers have accepted the acclaimed last lines of this poem as inspirational. The poem's ending line has been used as a motto by schools and other organisations. The final three lines are inscribed on a cross at Observation Hill, Antarctica, to commemorate explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his party, who died on their return trek from the South Pole in 1912:

     One equal temper of heroic hearts,     Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will     To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Which one ?

Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Richard Hall ‘s most notable tracks from his early days include "Next Is The E", "Everytime You Touch Me" and "Into The Blue", and the classic "Go", as well as his early albums "Ambient" and "Early Underground". A brief outing into more rock-oriented territory came with 1996's "Animal Rights", followed by "I Like To Score" in 1997, highlighting his past movie score contributions (most notably a remix of the "James Bond Theme").In 1999 and 2000, He found unprecedented pop success with the album "Play" and the slew of singles and radio tracks that came from it ("Honey", "Run On", "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?", "Natural Blues", "Porcelain", "Southside", and more). Among other things, his appearance as a DJ in the foyer of the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards (wearing a gold suit and playing two golden copies of "Play") led many people to decry him as a sellout. Nonetheless, his follow-up album "18" tinkered very little with the "Play" sound and still received a mostly positive reception in 2002.

What is his most famous nickname ?

Richard Melville Hall and hence the nickname Moby after his great great great ancestor’s famous work moby Dick .

Legend has it that the warrior Fionn mac Cumhaill (Finn McCool) built X to walk to Scotland to fight his Scottish counterpart Benandonner. One version of the legend tells that Fionn fell asleep before he got to Scotland. When he did not arrive, the much larger Benandonner crossed it looking for him. To protect Fionn, his wife Oonagh laid a blanket over him so he could pretend that he was actually their baby son. In a variation, Fionn fled after seeing Benandonner's great bulk, and asked his wife to disguise him as the baby. In both versions, when Benandonner saw the size of the 'infant', he assumed the alleged father, Fionn, must be gigantic indeed. Therefore, Benandonner fled home in terror, ripping up X in case he was followed by Fionn

Legend about WHAT?

Giant’s Causeway

 Located on the Sarthe River. Traditionally the capital of the province of Maine, are mentioned in Ptolemy’s writings as Civitas Cenomanorum (City of the Cenomani)

Major sights include  the cobbled streets and half-timbered house fronts provided setting for Gérard Depardieu in Cyrano de Bergerac (1989) and a cathedral: Cathédrale St-Julien.There are remnants of a Roman wall in the old town and Roman baths by the river.

However visits to the city in increased since 1923 due to something which began here. WHAT? CITY?

LE MANS - 24 HOURS OF LE MANS

One of the prime tourist delicacies of France, a sheep milk blue cheese from the south of France,  is one of the world's best-known blue cheeses. Though similar cheeses are produced elsewhere, European law dictates that only those cheeses aged in the natural Combalou caves of X-sur-Soulzon may bear the name.

Legend has it that the cheese was discovered when a youth, eating his lunch of bread and ewes' milk cheese, saw a beautiful girl in the distance. Abandoning his meal in a nearby cave, he ran to meet her. When he returned a few months later, the mold (Penicillium X) had transformed his plain cheese into X. X?

Roquefort

Constructed in Leeds, England  by Kitson, Thompson, & Hewitson in 1855, and reached Calcutta in the same year where it was christened.

Intially serving West Bengal and Bihar, In 1943, it was shifted to Chandausi, where it served as a curiosity object for many of the students based there. In 1972, the Indian government bequeathed heritage status to the it, rendering it a national treasure. WHAT?

Sitter

Fairy Queen

Mannarasala Sree Nagaraja Temple is a very ancient and internationally-known centre of pilgrimage for the devotees of serpent Gods.Women seeking fertility come to worship here, and upon the birth of their child come to hold thanksgiving ceremonies, often bringing new snake images as offerings.

This was in news very recently due to the visit of X . X? Why ?

Mallika Sherawat visited here due to the release of ‘Hisss’

John Gutzon de la Mothe, was born in 1867 in St. Charles, Idaho. His father worked mainly as a woodcarver. At the age of seven, he moved to Nebraska He was trained in Paris at the Académie Julian, where he came to know Auguste Rodin and was influenced by Rodin's impressionistic light-catching surfaces. Back in the U.S. in New York City he sculpted saints and apostles for the new Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in 1901, in 1906 got a group sculpture accepted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art— the first sculpture by a living American the museum had ever purchased—and made his presence further felt with some portraits

But today he is remembered for a  project during 1927–1941, was the brainchild of historian Doane Robinson. WHAT?

Mount Rushmore – He carved out the faces

It was created 250 years ago and is named after a Shiva temple within its boundaries. Initially, it was a natural depression; and was flooded after the Ajan Bund was constructed by Maharaja Suraj Mal, the then ruler of the princely state of Bharatpur, between 1726 to 1763. The bund was created at the confluence of two rivers, the Gambhir and Banganga.

It was a hunting ground for the maharajas of Bharatpur, a tradition dating back to 1850, and duck shoots were organised yearly in honor of the British viceroys. In one shoot alone in 1938, over 4,273 birds such as mallards and teals were killed byLord Linlithgow, the then Governor-General of India.

PLACE?

Keoladeo Ghana National Park formerly known as the Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary 

X, 1st Baron Llanover – a British civil engineer and politician, He oversaw the later stages of the rebuilding of the Houses of Parliament

___ Caunt (Y), a 19th century English bare-knuckle boxer who became the "heavyweight" boxing champion known as the "Torkard Giant”

They are often debated as the reason for the origin of which ‘two word term’ which is questionable still?

‘BIG BEN’ They are Sir Benjamin Hall and Benjamin

Caunt respectively

 A part of Amargosa Range located in east of Death Valley in Death Valley National Park in the United States noted for its erosional landscape. It is composed of sediments from Furnace Creek Lake, which dried up 5 million years ago — long before Death Valley came into existence

The location was named after Christian Brevoort ____ (shown alongside), vice-president and general manager of the Pacific Coast Borax Company in the early 20th century.

This location shoot to international fame in 1970 and is still significant in pop culture . Id.

The name may derive from a reed variety. It was probably the site of a small Ligurian port, and later a Roman outpost on Le Suquet hill, suggested by Roman tombs discovered here. Le Suquet housed an 11th-century tower which overlooked swamps where the city now stands. Most of the ancient activity, especially protection, was on the Lérins islands and the history of the location is the history of the islands.

IDENTIFY

CANNES from ‘CANNA’

The site was used as a meditation retreat by King Songtsen Gampo, who in 637 built X’s predecessor there in order to greet his bride Princess Wen Cheng of the Tang Dynasty. X measures 400 metres east-west and 350 metres north-south, with sloping stone walls averaging 3 m. thick, and 5 m. (more than 16 ft) thick at the base, and with copper poured into the foundations to help proof it against earthquakes, containing over 1,000 rooms and about 200,000 statues – soar 117 metres (384 ft) on top of the "Red Hill", rising more than 300 m (about 1,000 ft) in total above the valley floor. WHAT?

Potala palace

Anna Grosholtz (1761–1850), was born in Strasbourg, France. Her mother worked as a housekeeper for Dr. Philippe Curtius in Bern, Switzerland, who was a physician which contributed to her later works

Her works included those on Voltaire, Rousseau and Benjamin Franklin. Some of her works were preceded by a search through corpses to find the decapitated heads of executed or dead citizens and making a death mask.

HOW DO WE KNOW HER BETTER?

Madame Tussauds ANNE MARIA GROSHOLTZ

The special International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) determined in 1997 :"It is safe to walk on all of the islands ... although the residual radioactivity on X islands is still higher than on other in the _____ Islands, it is not hazardous to health

at the levels measured ... The main radiation risk would be from the food: eating locally grown produce, such as

fruit, could add significant radioactivity to the body...Eating coconuts or breadfruit from X Island

occasionally would be no cause for concern. But eating many over a long period of time without having taken

remedial measures might result in radiation doses higher than internationally agreed safety levels.“

WHICH FAMOUS SITE recently made a World Heritage site?

BIKINI ATOLL

 Terrence Donnelly – publisher of the Hollywood Independent Newspaper

 Giovanni Mazza – Italian movie producer  Les Kelley – originator of the Kelley Blue Book Gene Autry – singer, actor and businessman Hugh Hefner – founder of Playboy magazine Andy Williams – singer Warner Bros. Records Alice Cooper – singer, who donated in memory of

comedian Groucho Marx Matthew L. Williams – businessman

All of them in a 1978 public campaign donated $27,777 each to restore WHICH LANDMARK by which all these name together became synonymous with?

HOLLYWOOD SIGN

From Terrence Donnelly to Mathew Williams each donated for letters ‘H’ to ‘D’

Although the brainchild of veteran parliamentarian from  Barrister Nath Pai M.P., national leaders such as Madhu Dandavate and George Fernandes,  played a major role in the conception of X. In 1966, the first line was laid between Diva in Mumbai and Apta in Raigad district.

Later X impetus after George Fernandes entered the cabinet in 1989. Thus, on July 19, 1990, it was incorporated as a public limited company under the Companies Act, 1956, with its headquarters at CBD Belapur inNavi Mumbai and E. Sreedharan, as its first Chairman and Managing Director.

WHAT?

Konkan railways

According to history, there was a storm in the sea at Malpe. Shri Madhvacharya was on the shore at the time and saw a ship which was in trouble. He helped the ship reach the shore to safety. The sailors were very grateful to him and gave him deities of Lord Krishna and Lord Balarama. He did the pratishte (installation ceremony) of the deity of Lord Balarama near Malpe. This temple is known as Vadabhandeshwara. He brought the deity of Lord Krishna and did the pratishte at place X which in turn derives its name from the temple

Gimme both

Krishna Mutt (Temple of Lord Krishna) , devoted to Vadabhandeshwara and the place is UDUPI

The term was coined by Ralph Vaerst, a Central California entrepreneur. Its first published use is credited to Don Hoefler, a friend of Vaerst's, who used the phrase as the title of a series of articles in the weekly trade newspaper Electronic News

During the 1940s and 1950s, Frederick Terman, as Stanford's dean of engineering and provost, encouraged faculty and graduates to start their own companies. He is often called "the father of ____“

WHAT?

SILICON VALLEY

CURRENT AFFAIRS ! A  coastal city in Mexico's

easternmost state, Quintana Roo, on the Yucatán Peninsula , it is sometimes known as the Mexican Caribbean or the Mayan Riviera.

It first appears on maps from the 18th century. The meaning of the name is unknown, and it is also unknown whether the name is of Maya origin. If it is of Maya origin, possible translations include "Place/Seat/Throne of the Snake" or "Enchanted Snake“

ID THIS PLACE RECENTLY INNEWS

CANCUN, Venue of 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference

Ai Weiwei , a artist, a social commentator, and activist. He was particularly focused at exposing an alleged corruption scandal in the construction of Sichuan schools that collapsed during the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. In October 2010, his work Sunflower Seeds was installed at the Tate Modern Turbine Hall, the work consists of one hundred million porcelain "seeds," each individually hand-painted in the town of Jingdezhen by 1,600 Chinese artisans. However collaborating with the Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron he hogged the limelight a few years back. Why?

He was the artistic consultant for BIRD’s NEST

The name is Dutch for "seal island". It is roughly oval in shape, 3.3 km long north-south, and 1.9 km wide, with an area of 5.07 km². It is flat and only a few metres above sea level, as a result of an ancient erosion event

Used as as a leper colony and animal quarantine station, it became infamous in late 17th century. Harry de Strandloper in the mid-17th century is a name synonymous with the place. One of the recent names synonymous with the location is Jacob Zuma. It again came in public attention in 2009. ID THIS LOCATION, currently a famous tourist location in the country and a UNESCO World Heritage site

ROBBEN ISLAND – infamous for the prison which held Nelson Mandela. Harry de Strandloper was the first prisoner here. 2009 attention is ofcourse ‘INVICTUS’

The name of this place means “the place of five mirages”. It is associated with a legend where Ram once fitted his bow with an arrow to generate heat to dry up the seas of Lanka. Cajoled not to do so, he instead fired it into the mythical river Saraswati which flowed here. The river dried up and was replaced by the desert. Identify this place which aquired fame in the 1970s.

Pokhran

Dry. X was the only airline in India to fly a three class configuration compared to others Airlines, It had a First, Business and an Economy Class and an incident free track record of flying. It used [Boeing 737-200]Aircraft leased from Lufthansa. It did not last very long specially because the business parity of the German and Indian partners was not the same and problems arose.

The airline project was started in February, 1993 by S K Modi, Ashutosh Dayal Sharma and Kanwar K S Jamwal. Id

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