2. 1) As answered by Swapnil Desale on Quora :
In the year 2000, Pidilite Industries acquired a subsidiary of
Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd., named as Mahindra
Engineering and Chemical Products Ltd. With this subsidiary
they acquired two brands, named as M-seal and AB. To
rebrand AB into CB, and to give it a professional touch, it was
decided to have a C on the brand logo. The person on the logo
is a model who just got into the audition and then into the
role. He must be very proud now to see his face on the logo of
a national brand. Name and whereabouts of the model are
not known to me, but he is just a model and not any person
related to major stockholders’ family.
• What question is Swapnil Desale answering
here?
5. 2) Sending offs are a part and parcel of the
beautiful game of football. But the record for
the quickest sending off is held by Lee Todd.
While playing in one of the amateur divisions
of English football in 2001, he was given his
marching orders by the referee after 2
seconds during a match between Cross Farm
and Taunton East Reach Wanderers.
• Why?
7. • After the whistle was blown, he yelled at the
referee saying, “F*** me, that was loud!”
8. 3) John Baptista, fondly called Kaka, was elected as
the Mayor of Bombay in 1925. He was a barrister
and represented the likes of Veer Sawarkar. While
in the University of Cambridge, he was influenced
by the Irish Home Rule Movement and helped
start the Indian equivalent. It is in Cambridge that
he coined the famous phrase which is
misattributed to X. X and Kaka, who first met in
Cambridge, worked together to promote
nationalist feelings and the cause of
independence.
• ID X who is arguably more famous.
11. 4) Bhupen Hazarika Sethu, which was
inaugurated a few months back, is he longest
bridge in the country. But long before beam
and cable bridges, a long causeway built ver
the floodplains of a river in 1634 was
considered to be the longest bridge in the
world at 3.2 km.
• On which river or where does the bridge,
Ponte Conde de Linhares, lie today?
14. 5) Aaj ki Awaaz is a Urdu daily newspaper
started on 22 November 2008 in Karachi,
Pakistan. Mr Qamam Iqbal is the current chief
editor of the newspaper. But we know of this
daily since 27 September 1997.
• How?
17. 6) Stephen King dedicated his 1989 book The
Dark Half to the deceased Richard Bachman.
• Known facts about Richard Bachman include :
He was born in New York, served a four year
stint in the Coast Guard followed by ten years
in the merchant marines, after which he
settled down in New Hampshire and ran a
dairy farm. The Bachmans lost a child, a boy.
Bachman was diagnosed with a brain tumour
which was treated with surgery, but
succumbed to cancer later.
• Who was Richard Bachman?
20. 7) On 25 April 2014, X began its ‘Smash the Past’
campaign. The promotion asked the
participants to destroy their phones on video
in an effort to purchase the X for $1. Due to
confusion, several videos were published after
misinterpreting the promotion and destroying
their phones before the promotion date.
• ID X.
29. 10) Documentaries are being produced all the time for
purposes of education and instruction. Dinesh D’Souza’s
documentary X is another example of it. It was the most
successful documentary of 2016 and as of today is the 8th
highest grossing documentary of all time. And yet, it was
nominated for 4 Golden Raspberries and won the award
for worst picture of the year (a first for a documentary),
with Dinesh D’Souza himself winning the awards for
worst director and actor of the year.
• Who was the documentary based on? Give the name for
a bonus 5 points.
32. 11) This is an excerpt from George RR Martin’s ‘A
Feast for Crows” :
• In the mêleé at Bitterbridge she had sought
out her suitors and battered them one by
one, Farrow and Ambrose and Bushy, Mark
Mullendore and Raymond Nayland and Will
the Stork. She had ridden over X Sawyer and
broken Robin Y’s helm, giving him a nasty
scar.
• Give me X and Y.
35. 12) The band’s eponymous debut album has
been ranked #29 on the Rolling Stone
magazine’s list of 500 greatest albums of all
time. The artwork featured a certain event
that occurred on May 6, 1937 and refers to
the origin of the band’s name itself.
When X, The Who’s Keith Moon and John
Entwsitle were discussing the idea of forming
a group, Moon jokes, “It would go over like a Y
ballon”, to which Entwistle allegedly replied,
“A Y Z!”
• Give me X or the band name.
38. 13) X is a geopolitical term used to refer to the
division of a multinational state into smaller
ethnically homogeneous entities or ethnic
conflict within multiethnic states. It was
coined at the end of World War I to describe
the ethnic and political fragmentation that
followed the breakup of the Ottoman Empire/
• Give me X.
41. 14) Sometime in 2015, there was very
speculation of the who will it be? kind. The
company realised that once the little known X
is announced as “the one”, there will be a lot
of public curiosity about X. They decided to
make perfect use of this and bought Google
adwords for search queries like X age, X wiki, X
net worth, etc. to show links to YouTube
videos which could only be reached though
those links. Each video had X giving a funny
answer to the search query.
• Who is X?
44. 15) Süddeustche Zeitung, published in Munich,
Bavaria, is the largest daily newspaper in
Germany. Although it isn’t available outside
Germany, it gained ‘popularity’ world over in
April 2016 and this week for publishing certain
articles.
• What were these articles?
47. 16) X was started as the Galvin Manufacturing
Corporation in Chicago in 1928, when Paul V. and
Joseph E. Galvin purchased a bankrupt company’s
battery eliminator plans and equipment for $750.
Soon they moved onto manufacturing
inexpensive car radios when they realised that
battery eliminators had become obsolete. Paul
wanted a brand name for the radio and at the
time there was a trend of adding a certain suffix
after brand names and named it X. The car radio
was such a hit that the Galvin Manufacturing
Corporation changes its name to X in 1930.
• Give me X.
50. 17) In 1869, while examining a slide under the
microscope, a German pathologist noticed
groups of cells sitting in groups that were
surrounded by thin connective tissue, and
thought that they looked like Xs. He noticed
that these areas were richly innervated, but
could not suggest a function, except for the
incorrect hypothesis that they might be lymph
nodes.
• Name the pathologist or the tissue that he
was examining.
53. 18) X is a fictional place described in British author James
Hilton’s 1933 novel ‘Lost Horizon’. He describes it as a
mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery,
enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains.
• X has become synonymous with any earthly paradise, and
particularly a mythical Himalayan utopia, a permanently
happy land, isolated from the outside world.
• X was also a 24 episode anime, written by Hiroshi Onogi, set
in a dystopian future, about a young woman’s fight for
survival in a world ravaged by earthquakes and global
warming.
• X is also a resort in Majorda, Goa.
• Identify X.
