X is a graphic novel by Art Spiegelman published serially from 1980 to 1991. It depicts Spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a Holocaust survivor. Through postmodern techniques like depicting races as different animal types, it uses the personal story to explore broader historical and social themes. Upon its publication it was praised for bringing comics and graphic novels recognition as a legitimate art form. It was the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1992.
2. • The questions are very simple and all of them can be related to
our day to day life, casual coffee machine chats to frantic policy
making arguments.
• Again, most of the questions are derived from social media like
FB, Twitter etc. so if you have been really doing nothing these
days, this quiz is taylor-made for you.
• Although the quiz lacks in information quotient, I have tried my
best not to diminish the entertainment quotient
• Again, all questions are “AUTHENTIC”
3. Questio
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•Identify X
X lights candles on 25th of March , 1983
After completing his schooling from Singarpara Patidarang High
School, he joined Guwahati College and completed his graduation
According to X, his religious views are based on Humanitarian
thoughts
X admires good politics
Who is X ?
6. Question
Shown here is the Brent
Oil Field situated in in the
East Shetland Basin 186
kilometres (116 mi)
north-east of Lerwick,
Shetland Islands,
Scotland. Now
decommissioned,this oil
field has a significant
importance in the oil and
petroleum industry.
What significance am I
talking about
7. Question
Brent Crude is a major trading classification
of sweet light crude oil that serves as a
major benchmark price for purchases of crude oil
Originally Brent Crude was produced from the Brent
oilfield. The name "Brent" comes from the naming
policy of Shell UK Exploration and Production,
operating on behalf of ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch
Shell, which originally named all of its fields after birds
(in this case the Brent Goose).But it is also an acronym
for the formation layers of the oil field:
Broom(oseBerg), Rannoch, Etive, Ness and Tarbertf
8. X is a cocktail made with vodka, triple sec, cranberry
juice, and freshly squeezed or sweetened lime juice.
One version of the creation of this popular drink
credits the accomplishment to the gay community in
Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Neal Murray apparently claims to have created the X
in 1975 at the Cork & Cleaver steak house in
Minneapolis. According to Murray:
He was fiddling around with the recipe for the
Kamikaze and decided to add a splash of cranberry
juice. The first taster declared, "How X."
This event supposedly led to the naming of the new
12. Question
The word has its origins in the legal system of Classical
Athens. The original etymology “ Revealer of figs” has
been the subject of extensive scholarly speculation and
conjecture
Its believed that in ancient Athens there was a law
forbidding the exportation of figs, and those who
levelled the accusation against people illegally exporting
figs were called _________
In modern English however the meaning has shifted to
“an insincere flatterer,someone who praises the
18. X is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman,
serialized from 1980 to 1991.
It depicts Spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences
as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor.
The book uses postmodern techniques—most strikingly in its
depiction of races as different kinds of animals: Jews as mice,
Germans as cats, and non-Jewish Poles as pigs.
Critics have classified Maus as memoir, biography, history, fiction,
autobiography, or a mix of genres.
In 1992 it became the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize.
19.
20. It is often claimed that the term's etymological
origin lies in a law that limited the maximum
thickness of a stick with which it was permissible
for a man to beat his wife .
English common law before the reign of Charles
II permitted a man to give his wife "moderate
correction“
Which commomly used phrase am I talking about?
22. X is a generic term in Uganda for domestic distilled beverages . It is
known as a form of homemade Gin .
The manufacturing of X does not vary too much in the different parts of
Uganda - only the ingredients are slightly different.
A commercial brand called Uganda X is produced and marketed by East
African Breweries Limited
X was created to give the soldiers confidence to go into battle during the war. A common
fear of theirs was internal conflicts about fighting in the war. X gave the soldiers what the
English now name it, "Dutch Courage ." X was first made in 1965, yet prior to that the
people of Uganda brewed another kind of liquor called Enguli.
X derives its name from what the the British colonial expatriates in the 1950s and 1960s
referred to the distilled spirit known in Luganda language as enguli .
Its appearance first came about when British soldiers were first starting to create inroads
into East Africa. They used brigades of Nubian Soldiers to help with the feat, and they
concocted the alcohol to help keep up good spirits. It then spread throughout Uganda as a
well-known drink.
24. Although the word X is used in a different sense in todays world, in ancient India it was
the name of a very ambitious and awe-inspiring social practice. The X system was similar
to Plato’s proposals (never implemented) regarding communal living where children are
to be brought up in common nurseries. Under the X system, all pregnant women must
travel to a camp when they are ready to deliver babies. Children are brought up in the X
without knowing who their parents are. At the age of 15, a comprehensive exam is held,
on the basis of which castes are allocated. After such allocation, there is one more year of
training, this time, caste specific. Children are then adopted by parents from the caste
allocated to them at the X. Under this fantastic system, over time, the percentage of high
castes actually went up.
Name this practice which later began to be used in a slightly different form although for a
similar context and purpose
26. • It is not known when and how X was first celebrated
• With time X lost state patronage and became a private family celebration again till its revival by Indian
freedom fighter and social reformer Y
• Y transformed the annual domestic festival into a large, well-organized public event
• Y recognized the wide appeal of the deity as "the god for everybody and popularized X as a national
festival in order "to bridge the gap between Brahmins and 'non-Brahmins' and find a context in which
to build a new grassroots unity between them", and generate nationalistic fervour among against the
British colonial rule.
• Under Y’s encouragement, the festival facilitated community participation and involvement in the form
of intellectual discourses, poetry recitals, performances of plays, musical concerts, and folk dances. It
served as a meeting ground for people of all castes and communities in times when, in order to
exercise control over the population, the British discouraged social and political gatherings.
27.
28. In graph theory , X path is a trail in a graph which visits every edge exactly once.
Similarly, an X circuit or X cycle is an X trail which starts and ends on the same
vertex . They were first discussed by X while solving the famous Y problem in
1736. Mathematically the problem can be stated like this: Given the graph in the
image, is it possible to construct a path (or a cycle , i.e. a path starting and ending
on the same vertex) which visits each edge exactly once?X proved that a necessary
condition for the existence of X circuits is that all vertices in the graph have an even
degree, and stated without proof that connected graphs with all vertices of even
degree have an X circuit. The first complete proof of this latter claim was published
posthumously in 1873 by Carl Hierholzer .
30. X is an ancient prayer in Aramaic .
The literal translation of this word may be Holy/ Holy Praise / Divine Praise.
This prayer is chanted even to this day in the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church and the Syriac
Orthodox Church of the Syrian Malabar Nasrani people from Kerala, South India .
The Kerala Syrian Malabar Nasrani people also called as Nasrani Syrian Christians are the
descendants of the Jewish diaspora in Kerala who became Christians in the earliest days of
Christianity in the Malabar Coast .They have preserved some of the traditions of the early
Jewish Christians to this day.
31.
32. When Mizo insurgency was at its peak, X infiltrated into the Mizo National Front's camp
in the Arakans in Burma to meet Laldenga, the movement's leader. In an interview to a
magazine later, Laldenga would cite X's work as the reason he decided to come on board
and sign the Mizoram accord. "I had seven military commanders under me. When X left,
he took six of them with him and I had no choice but to come on board and negotiate a
peace accord," Laldenga told his interviewers.
During Operation Black Thunder-II that was launched to flush out militants from the
Golden Temple in 1988, a small man, believed to be a Pakistani agent, quietly walked in.
He met the Khalistani militant leaders and went missing soon after. Years later, it emerged
that the man posing as a Pakistani agent was actually X.
He would become the first police officer to be awarded the second-highest peacetime
gallantry award, the Kirti Chakra, for his exploits during the operation.
In Kashmir he would wean away militants such as Kuka Parray and turn them into assets
for security forces.
In 1999 he was the lead negotiator for the release of the IC 814 hostages from Kandahar
in Afghanistan. “X never hesitated to take risks and this has always stood him in good
stead and made him such an outstanding intelligence officer," Dulat said.
34. X was established in 1936 in Calcutta by late D. Mehra, later
joined by his brother, late N.D. Mehra whose son R.K. Mehra
followed him.
It started by publishing two slim volumes of Bengali poetry.
Publishing continued along with distribution and acquired a larger
scale in and X moved from strength to strength.
The name ‘X’ was inspired by one of the characters in a play and
the logo designed by Y for which he charged a few good books to
read.
36. The blue Mormon ( Papilio polymnestor) is a big
swallowtail butterfly,generally found in Sri Lanka and
India. It can be ocassionally spotted and easily
recognized with its exquisite velvet like black wings
alongwith bright blue spots
Why was it in the news recently?
37. •State butterfly of Maharashtra
•Maharashtra thus became the
1st Indian state to have a state
butterfly
38. •In the popular video game
“subway surfer” the players take
the role of youthful hooligans
who upon be caught in the act
of doing something is chased
by an inspector and his dog
40. • All new Jacks to the game must know: a) He’s going to get rich. b) He’s going to jail. c) He’s going to die.
• Car jacking in our Hood is against the Code.
• Slinging to children is against the Code.
• Having children slinging is against the Code.
• No slinging in schools.
• The Boys in Blue don’t run nothing; we do. Control the Hood, and make it safe for squares.
• No slinging to pregnant Sisters. That’s baby killing; that’s genocide!
• Senseless brutality and rape must stop.
• Our old folks must not be abused.
• Respect our Sisters. Respect our Brothers.
• Sisters in the Life must be respected if they respect themselves.
• Military disputes concerning business areas within the community must be handled professionally and not on the block.
• No shooting at parties.
• Concerts and parties are neutral territories; no shooting!
• Know the Code; it’s for everyone.
• Be a real ruff neck. Be down with the code of the _________
• Protect yourself at all times..
Rules of What?
41.
42. X is a slang term popularized in hip hop culture, referring to flashy, ostentatious, or elaborate jewelry and ornamented
accessories that are carried, worn, or installed, such as cell phones or tooth caps.
The term was first used in rap by Jay z and Jermaine Dupri on "money ain't a thing" in 1998, but made popular by
Cash Money Millionaires in the song “X X" in 1999.The term reached mainstream popularity in 1999 when the song by
rap artist B.G. featuring the Cash Money Millionaires cracked the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100; the chorus of the
song featured a young Lil' Wayne rapping "Everytime I come around your city _____ _____; Pinky ring worth about 50
_____ _____; Everytime I buy a new ride ________ ________; Lorenzos on Yokahama tires _____ ______.“
Late rapper Tupac mentioned it in the song called "Fuck Friendz" of his posthumous album Until the End of Time. He
goes by saying "Check out my - diamonds bitch everyone gonna _____ _____ _____)".
During a 2008 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day parade Mitt Romney admired a baby decked in dress attire with gold jewelry
and said, "Oh, you've got some____ _____here.“
The word is set to become popular in India as the nation observes something exactly opposite of what it means