4. 2. X is a type of dance in which the dancer, usually a woman,
shakes her hips in an up-and-down bouncing motion,
causing the dancer's buttocks to shake, "wobble" and
"jiggle".
• According to the Oxford Dictionary Online, to X is "to dance
to popular music in a sexually provocative manner
involving thrusting hip movements and a low, squatting
stance“
• In 2013, X was added to the Oxford Dictionary Online. The
dictionary said the word had been around for 20 years, but
the evidence for it to be included in the dictionary had
tipped the scale when U.S. pop star Y gave a controversial
and headline-producing X dance on August 25, 2013.
• ID X and Y
10. 5. Even though it is sometimes used to refer to
a particular class of vehicles, the word actually
represents a brand owned by Chrysler Group
in the United States.
It's name is derived from the words General
Purpose
16. 8. Some of the nicknames for this city were
Motown, Rock City, 313, Hockeytown,
Renaissance City among others.
• It was recently declared bankrupt.
• ID the city.
20. 10. Jesse James and Frank James, Billy Kid and
all the rest, ...
• These are the 1st lines of the song "I'm a
Gangsta of Love".
• Which recent commercial would you hear this
song in?
32. 16. X was nicknamed the Pelvis, because of his gyrations on stage.
• This uncrowned ‘King’ died after choking on his own vomit, after
taking a cocktail of ten prescribed drugs, taken in doses no doctor
would prescribe:
The painkillers Morphine and Demerol. Chloropheniramine, an
antihistamine. The tranquilizers Placidyl and Valium. Finally, four
drugs were found in "significant" quantities: Codeine, an opiate,
Ethinamate, largely prescribed at the time as a "sleeping pill,"
Quaaludes, and a barbituate, or depressant, that has never been
identified.
• His daughter Lisa Marie went on to marry the next ‘King’, Y in 1994.
• A few years back, Y died of acute propofol and benzodiazepine
intoxication after suffering a cardiac arrest at his home in Los
Angeles.
• ID X and Y.
33. • X= Elvis Presley (The King of Rock and Roll)
• Y= MJ (The King of Pop)
34. 17. Identify the link and give fundaa
• This name in Norwegian literally means:
A beautiful woman who leads you to victory.
37. 18. In 1865, Engineer Fredrik Idestam established a wood pulp mill on the
banks of the TammerKoski rapids in the town of Tampere, in southern
Finland. Later in 1868, he built second mill by the Nokianvirta River.
•
In 1871, Idestam and his friend Leo Mechelin, renamed and transformed
the firm into a share company, thereby founding the Company.
• The first logo of the company was created in 1966 showing the image of a
fish. This image was inspired by the salmon fish of the river near which it
was situated.
• In 1898, Eduard Polon founded the Finnish Rubber Works, which later
became the company’s rubber business. The new company tried
producing many products like papers, bicycle, car tires, footwear,
communication cables, electricity generation machineries, televisions,
aluminum, capacitors, and lot more.
• In 1967, three companies, which were jointly owned since 1922, officially
merged and created X Corporation. After the merger, it adopted the logo
which was all black rounded shape emblem, in which the name of the
company was written in white.
• Recently the said company sold a major chunk of its business to another
industry giant. ID the company(X).
38.
39. 19.The Lion King is a 1994 American animated epic musical comedydrama film. It is the 32nd animated feature in the Walt Disney
Animated Classics series. The story takes place in a kingdom of lions
in Africa, and was influenced by the biblical tales of Joseph and
Moses, and the Shakespeare plays Hamlet and Macbeth.
• The film also witnessed some of the most intensive use of special
effects of its time. Hence, a common abbreviation of "special
effects”, intended as an innocent "signature" created by the effects
animation team, was inserted in the film.
• This resulted into a huge controversy and is considered as one of
the famous animation bloopers of all times.
43. 21.
X has an MSc in Electrical Engineering from The Queen's College, Oxford.
X first won national attention in the Oxford Revue at the Edinburgh Festival
Fringe in August 1976, he had already written and performed early sketches for
shows in Oxford by the Etceteras – the revue group of the Experimental Theatre
Club (ETC) and for the Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS).
X starred in a series of comedy shows for BBC Radio 3 in 1978 that consisted of a
series of satirical interviews with fictional great men, who were played by X
himself.
X has been married to Sunetra Sastry since 1990.
X is specially known for the portrayal of Y in a series penned by himself.
In November 2012 it emerged that the character of Y will not be performed again.
"The stuff that has been most commercially successful for me – basically quite
physical, quite childish – I increasingly feel I'm going to do a lot less of," X told
the Daily Telegraph's Review. "Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts
to decline, I also think someone in their 50s being childlike becomes a little sad.
You've got to be careful." He has also said that the role typecast him to a degree.
ID X and Y
45. • 22. Vinod Dham is an inventor, entrepreneur and venture capitalist.
• He is a mentor, advisor and investor; and sits on the boards of many
companies including promising startups funded through his India
based fund – Indo US Venture Partners,where he is the founding
Managing Director.
• After graduation in Electrical Engineering (with an emphasis in
Electronics) from the prestigious Delhi College of Engineering (now
known as Delhi Technological University) in 1971, he joined a Delhibased semiconductor company called Continental Devices.
• In 1975, at the age of 25, he left his family in New Delhi to get a
graduate degree in the U.S., arriving with just $8 in his pocket. He
joined University of Cincinnati, in Cincinnati, Ohio – USA, to pursue
a master's degree in Electrical Engineering, where he specialised
in Solid State Science.
• How is he popularly known?
50. • 24. The original logo was designed by Ron Wayne, who started this
company with the guys we have heard a lot about in 1976. In 1977
White sold his portion of company back to these guys.
• The image is a pen and ink illustration of Sir Issac Newton leaning
against an apple tree with a portion of a William Wordsworth poem
running around the border: “Newton…A mind forever voyaging
through strange seas of thought…alone” (Prelude, Book III,
Residence at Cambridge)
• X decided to scrap this image because he felt that Wayne’s logo was
too cerebral and not easily reproduced at small sizes. In 1977, with
Wayne gone from the company, X turned to the Regis McKenna
Advertising Agency to produce a new, more iconic logo. After
several attempts and variations (and a ton of money spent), the
result was the most iconic of all logos. The Rainbow logo.
55. 26. This company was founded in 1896 as the Tabulating Machine Company
by Herman Hollerith, in Broome County, New York (Endicott, New York,
where it still maintains very limited operations). It was incorporated as
Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (CTR) on June 16, 1911, and
was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1916.
• It adopted its current name in 1924, when it became an international
manufacturing company. The logo that was used from 1924 to 1946.
The logo is in a form intended to suggest a globe, girdled by the word
“International”.
• In the logo that was used from 1947 to 1956. The familiar “globe” was
replaced with the name in a typeface called “Beton Bold.”
• In 1972, the horizontal stripes now replaced the solid letters to suggest
“speed and dynamism.” This logo (in two versions, 8-bar and 13-bar), as
well as the previous one, was designed by graphic designer Paul Rand.
• ID the company
68. 31)Sleepy John is a Czech folk legend which tells the story of a useless fellow who can do
nothing but sleep. He happens to land in the kings court due to magic, where the court is
discussing the strange disappearance of the Queen every night.
The Queen wears out a dozen pairs of shoes every night, yet no one has ever been able to
follow her.
Sleepy John announces that hell follow her and find her secret. He uses his magic to track
her down, and discovers that she sneaks out of the palace every night to attend a feast in
Hell and ends up dancing with the devil till her dozen pairs of shoes are worn out.
John is rewarded with half the kingdom by the King for tracking her exploits, and the
Queen is swallowed by the earth.
Where did most of us come across this story, in a slightly different form?
70. 32.
Robert Cade, Dana Shires, Harry James Free, and Alejandro deQuesada were the
medical researchers at the University of Florida who created the original _____ in
1965.
The Florida ******football coach, Ray Graves, was frustrated with the performance
of his players during the hot summer football practices, and asked the team doctor,
one of Cade’s associates, for his insight.
Cade and his research team came across the unique mix ofwater, sodium, sugar,
potassium, phosphate and lemon juice that is now known as _____ in honor of the
football team, the ******
The football team credited _____ with their first Orange Bowl win over the Georgia
Tech Yellow Jackets in 1967, and the drink became an instant phenomenon.
The Yellow Jackets coach Bud Carson, when asked why they lost, replied:
"We didn‟t have _____.
That made the difference.”
What is the blank?
72. 33.
X ( Latin: “may you have the body”) is a writ, or legal action, through which a
prisoner can be released from unlawful detention, that is, detention lacking
sufficient cause or evidence.
The remedy can be sought by the prisoner or by another person coming to their
aid.
X originated in the English legal system to assist wealthy landowners, but it is now
available in many nations. It has historically been an important legal instrument
safeguarding individual freedom of certain individuals against arbitrary state
action.
It is a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge.
79. 36. Who said this?
“ In sports we learn how to fight: for victory, for the entire team, in order to reach a
goal. In many countries of the world a majority of people, despite their efforts, do not
have access to education or sports.
I am very glad to be able to make a difference by means of my Foundation.“
The X Foundation supports projects located in the region of Southern Africa and
Switzerland.
The projects on the African continent focus on the improvement of the quality of early
learning and basic education, in Switzerland on the promotion out-of-school of
children affected by poverty.
All activities are realized and implemented by local non-governmental and nonprofit organizations with best references.
The X foundation is also popular in India with X making a trip to India in 2006 to
promote his foundation
83. 38.
History of creation of a famous group in pop-culture “Biophysicist and Security
Operations Center expert Dr. Henry 'Hank' Pym decided to become a superhero after
discovering a chemical substance that would allow the user to alter his size.
Armed with a helmet that could control ants, Pym would shrink down to the size of an
insect to become the mystery-solving Ant-Man.
He soon shared his discovery with his girlfriend, Janet Van Dyne, who became his
crime- fighting partner as the Wasp.
The duo would become founding members of _________________, fighting recurring
enemies such as the mad scientist Egghead, the mutant Whirlwind,and Pym's own
robotic creation Ultron.”
Identify the group.
85. 39. List of What (in chronological order)?
Scrooge McDuck
Smaug
Carlsile Cullen
Tony Stark
Charles Foster Kane
Bruce Wayne
Richie Rich
Christian Grey
??
87. 40.
Honorary Fellowships of the Royal Society of Chemistry,2002
Professor Henri B Kagan Hon FRSC
Sir Thomas Fulton Wilson McKillop Hon FRSC FRSE FRS
Professor Sir John Edward Sulston Hon FRSC FRS
Professor Kurt Wuthrich Hon FRSC Hon FRSE For MemRS
Professor Ahmed Hassan Zewail Hon FRSC ForMemRS
X
Who is X?
93. 43.
An Okinawan Japanese immigrant to the United States, _________ learned karate
originally from his father, who had been a fisherman.
_________ initially had a job working for the father of his best friend, Sato, who
was also taught karate by __________'s father.
When ________ fell in love with a young woman named Yukie, who was arranged
to marry Sato, Sato felt dishonoured by this, and challenged _________ to a fight to
the death.
To avoid the fight, _________ left Okinawa and immigrated to the United States.
Gimme __________
101. Find X
Professor Sidney Watkins , a world-renowned
neurosurgeon, who performed an onsite tracheotomy
on X, reported:
He looked serene. I raised his eyelids and it was clear
from his pupils that he had a massive brain injury. We
lifted him from the Cockpit and laid him on the ground.
As we did, he sighed and , although I am totally
agnostic, I felt his soul depart at that moment.
103. • On a 2003 broadcast of The Oprah Winfrey Show, Winfrey
asked what kind of cosmetic surgery X had undergone. X
stated that she felt that cosmetic surgery was imperative in
keeping with her famous image, but jokingly admitted, "If I
have one more facelift, Ill have a beard!“
• X has repeatedly joked about her physical image and
surgeries, saying, "If I see something sagging, bagging, and
dragging, Im going to nip it, suck it and tuck it. Why should I
look like an old barn yard dog if I dont have to?" and "It
takes a lot of money to look this cheap.“
• • Identify X.
105. • X had originally planned to study business administration at
Boston University in 1996.However, upon his arrival in the
United States, he lost interest in his studies, spending his
remaining tuition funds on musical instruments and
entertainment equipment, including a computer, an electric
keyboard, and a MIDI interface.
• After attending an English-language summer course and
studying for one semester, X dropped out of Boston
University and applied to study at Berkley College of Music
instead. During his time at Berkley, X took core curriculum
lessons in ear training, contemporary writing and music
synthesis, but he soon dropped out.
• In 2001, X was arrested for the possession of marijuana and
as a result, was unable to attend his grandfathers funeral.
• How do we “better” know X?
108. • This was introduced by the Government of
India to avoid CELL PHONE driving as
VODAFONE PUG CANNOT FOLLOW
WHEREVER YOU GO !!!
109. In 2001, the word X was added to the Oxford English Dictionary where the definition
given is:
"Expressing frustration at the realization that things have turned out badly or not as
planned, or that one has just said or done something foolish.
Also implying that another person has said or done something foolish" X was first used
in media in 1988 but is famous for its association with something different from its first
occurrence.
Many believe, X was inspired by Jimmy Finlayson who appeared in 33 Laurel and Hardy
films.
Identify X.
110.
111. The X is a multi-role air superiority fighter, constructed from the parts of salvaged
aircraft and designed by genius Jake Clawson, and flown by ace pilot Chance Furlong
The X uses state of the art radar and fly by wire systems, and also makes use of multispectrum navigation including
x-ray scanning ,electronic surge detection and dimensional-radar An enhanced
communications array allows the X to interface with existing Enforcer and municipal
systems
The flight systems also integrate with an in-helmet visor heads up display system, giving
the wearer increased usability
Starboard and port mega thrusters act as the primary propulsion and power units of
the X. A secondary mega thruster centered between the primaries acts as a stabilizer
when the X is in vertical take-off and landing mode, allowing the jet to hover
The majority of the X’s weapons are designed by Jake Clawson and tested thoroughly
for effectiveness . Most of the ordinance the X carries is highly specialized , but
orthodox munitions are also used