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• 1) X was an American author of horror, fantasy,
and science fiction. His major inspiration and
invention was cosmic horror, the idea that life is
incomprehensible to human minds and that the
universe is fundamentally alien. Those who
genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble
with sanity. X’s works were deeply pessimistic
and cynical and his protagonists usually achieve
the mirror-opposite eternal bliss by momentarily
glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality. His
novels have also served as the inspiration for
songs" The Call of the Ktulu” and “The Thing
that should not be” by the metal band Metallica.
Identify X.

2)The first issue of this was published in
September 20, 1878. It was started by six young
men, two school teachers and four law students
on a borrowed capital of one rupee and four
annas. It was published every Wednesday
evening with eight pages , each a quarter of
today's page size and sold for four annas .The
first editorial of this newspaper declared that “the
press does not only give expression to public
opinion but also modifies and moulds it". Identify
the company which runs this newspaper.

Ans: Kasturi and Sons or The Hindu

3) An American animated sitcom was created by
Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the Comedy
Central television network. Intended for mature
audiences, the show has become infamous for
its crude, surreal, satirical, and dark humor that
lampoons a wide range of topics. The program
contains the following disclaimer” All characters
and events in this show—even those based on
real people—are entirely fictional. All celebrity
voices are impersonated.....poorly. The following
program contains coarse language and due to
its content it should not be viewed by anyone".
Identify the program.

• 4)“Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran,
cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the
vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer
of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now
vacant, vanished. However, this valorous
visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified,
and has vowed to vanquish these venal and
virulent vermin vanguarding vice and
vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious
violation of volition! The only verdict is
vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in
vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one
day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily,
this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose,
so let me simply add that it's my very good
honour to meet you “.Name the character and
movie.

5) X’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. X’s
parents are George and Margaret Roberts from
the town of Willows, Wisconsin .X has over forty
pets and owns a driver’s as well as a pilot’s
license.X has faced complaints of anorexia and
Saudi Arabia has accused X of “not complying
with the standards of Islam“ .X celebrated her
fiftieth anniversary on March 9 ,2009. Who/what
is X?

7)The X is an aerial salute performed as part of a flyover of
aircraft at a funeral or memorial event: typically in
memory of a fallen pilot. The X varies, using either pull-
up, split-off, or empty-position variations. The aircraft fly
in a V-shape, with the flight leader at the point and his
wingman following his left. The second-element leader
follows on the flight leader's right, and his wingman
follows on his right. Thus, as seen from the front, the V's
left leg is longer than its right. This formation flies over
the ceremony low enough to be clearly seen, and when
directly over the site, the second-element leader
executes an abrupt pull-up, while the rest of the
formation continues in level flight until all aircraft are out
of sight. The pull up indicates that the person honoured
is missing and not with them anymore. Name X.

• Ans: Google logo on August 14th
.Hans
Christian Oerstred’s birthday

• 6) Hannibal Lecter is a fictional character in a
series of novels by author Thomas Harris. He
is a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibal.
Hannibal appears in the four novels written
by the author Thomas Harris namely Silence
of the Lambs, Hannibal, X and Y. Name the
other two.

• Ans: Red Dragon and Hannibal rising

• 10)Name the character and name the
species.

• Ans: Scrat and saber toothed squirrel.

• 11)X is a recording technique in which a sound
or message is recorded backward onto a track
that is meant to be played forward .X was
popularized by The Beatles, who used backward
vocals and instrumentation on their 1966 album
Revolver . Fundamentalist Christian groups
claimed that these messages could bypass the
conscious mind and reach the subconscious,
where they would be accepted by the listener
Claims of use for Satanic purposes were made
against prominent rock musicians, leading to
record-burning protests and anti-X legislation by
state and federal governments.. Identify X

• Ans: Backmasking or backward masking

• 12)This movie ,based on a novel by
Stephen King ,was released in 1994
,starring Tim Robbins and Morgan
Freeman. Its tagline is“Fear can hold you
prisoner .Hope can set you free”. It was
nominated for seven Oscar Awards but
failed to make a big impact on the box
office ,barely breaking even .It has
remained one of the most successful
movies in DVD rentals and Television
runs. It has an IMDB rating of 9.2 on
10.Identify.

• Clockwise from top left: Thomas Alva
Edison, Nikola Tesla, George
Westinghouse.

Ans: War of currents or battle of currents

14)X is a national personification of the
United States and sometimes more
specifically of the American government.
The first usage of the term dates from the
War of 1812 and the first illustration dates
from 1852. He is depicted as a serious
elderly white man with white hair and a
goatee beard, and dressed in clothing that
recalls the design elements of flag of the
United States, typically a top hat with red
and white stripes and trousers with red and
white stripes. Name X.

• Ans: Lord Mountbatten in his Viceroy’s
Office. The calendar shows the days left
for transfer of power.

16)X is the ancient name for northern and
central India, where the culture of the
Indo-Aryans was based .X literally means
abode of the Aryans. The boundaries vary
.According to one text,its boundaries are
said to be the Himalayas in the north
,Vindhyas in the south, the Bay of Bengal
and Arabian sea on the east and west
respectively. Name X.

18)X is a comic/cartoon series featuring
four mutated red eared sliders who are
trained by their sensei, Master Splinter, in
the art of Ninjutsu. It was done initially as
a parody of four famous comic characters
of 190’s namely the Daredevil ,New
Mutants, Cerebus and Ronin but later it
became a craze with people even
adoption read eared sliders as pets.
Identify the series.

• Ans:The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

19)X is a consumer product. It was marketed in
1979 as the X in Japan, the Soundabout in many
countries including the US, Freestyle in Sweden
and the Stowaway in the UK. The company
chairman hated the brand name “X" and asked it
to be changed, but relented after being told by
executives that a promotion campaign had
already begun using the ‘X' name and would be
too expensive to change. The promotion
campaign was unique. The staff of the publicity
and domestic marketing divisions took X and
spent a day riding busy trains around the center
of Tokyo in an attempt to make people listen to
Name X.

• 20)Whose signature is this ?

• 21) 21)X is a handheld weapon, most
often a chain, rope, scarf, wire or fishing
line used to strangle someone. The term
especially refers to an execution device
but is sometimes used in assassination,
because it can be completely silent. In
addition, X is used by some military units.
It was popularised by the mafia.Identify.

• 22)Connect John McLaughlin, Zakir
Hussain U. Srinivas ,Shankar Mahadevan,
V. Selvaganesh,L. Shankar, T.H. "Vikku"
Vinayakram, and R. Raghavan.

• Ans: Members of the band Shakti

• Ans: Albus Dumbledore (RIP) First edition
cover

24)X was born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum in
1905, into a middle-class family living in Saint
Petersburg, Russia. In late 1925, she was
granted a visa to visit American relatives. X's
first literary success came with the sale of her
screenplay Red Pawn in 1932 to Universal
Studios. X saw her views as constituting an
integrated philosophical system, which she
called Y. The essence of Y, according to X, is
“The concept of man as a heroic being, with his
own happiness as the moral purpose of his life,
with productive achievement as his noblest
activity, and reason as his only absolute."

• 25)What scientific paradox does this
cartoon depict?

Ans: Schrödinger's cat paradox . A thought
experiment related to applying quantum
theory in real life wherein the cat is
simultaneously dead and alive at the
same instant.

26)The Russia-born American writer Isaac
Asimov is one of the most prolific science
fiction writers ever. In his Foundation-
series the science of psychohistory, that
allows to make some predictions about the
future, is developed by a scientist keen of
establishing a new galactic empire. The
ideas of that scientist are omnipresent
through the entire series. What was his
name?

Ans: Indian Express ran a blank editorial in
protest of Indira Gandhi’s Press
Censorship during emergency. The
newspaper decided it would rather not
have an editorial column than be a
propaganda tool.

28)X was an obsequious courtier in the court of
Dionysius II of Syracuse. X exclaimed that, as a
great man of power and authority, Dionysius was
truly fortunate. Dionysius offered to switch places
with him for a day, so he could taste first hand
that fortune. In the evening a banquet was held
where X very much enjoyed being waited upon
like a king. Only at the end of the meal did he
look up and notice a sharpened sword hanging
directly above his head by a single horse-hair.
Immediately, he lost all taste for the fine foods
and beautiful wines and asked leave of the
tyrant, saying he no longer wanted the power.
Name X of this story.

• Ans: Damacles. Damacles sword

30) An episode of the American radio drama
anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air, was
performed on Halloween October 30, 1938 and
aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System
radio network. Directed and narrated by Orson
Wells, the episode was an adaptation of science
fiction novel by the same name. This show was
presented as a series of simulated news bulletins
with no commercial breaks , which suggested that
an actual Martian Invasion was in progress. Mass
hysteria ensued. It is estimated that some six
million heard the CBS broadcast; 1.7 million
believed it to be true, and 1.2 million were
“genuinely frightened” prompting Hitler to call it
“evidence of the decadence and corrupt condition
of democracy." Identify the novel and program .

• Ans: War of the Worlds by HG Wells

31) X is a product created in 1928 by County
Chemicals at the Chemico Works in Bradford
Street, Birmingham, England. X is an emulsion
of water and mineral oil stabilised with beeswax.
Other ingredients are fragrance, calcium
hydroxide, BHT, dimethyl oxazolidine,
magnesium sulfate, and stearic acid.It is sold in
a tube in the US, and tube and pot in Europe
and Canada. The formulations are slightly
different. It is marketed in the US by Combe
Incorporated and in Europe, by the Sara Lee
Corporation .In India it is marketed by Godrej
Sara lee.Identify.

• 32)The X temple complex in South India
was designed by the architect Sama
Varma.It sits on the banks of a river that
was channeled to make a moat around the
complex's outer walls, the walls being built
like a fortress .The tower is two hundred
feet high and rests on a single granite
stone weighing 81 tonnes. The tower is
designed in such a way that it never casts
a shadow at noon. Identify the temple and
the king who built it

• Ans: Brihadishwarar and Rajaraja Chola

33)Y is a fictional Canadian superhero who appears
in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The
character first appeared in Incredible Hulk #180 .
Y was created by writer Len Wein and Marvel art
director John Romita Sr and was first drawn for
publication by Herb Trimpe .Y’s senses of sight,
smell, and hearing are all superhumanly acute.
Due to regenerative abilities Y has an enhanced
life span .Y is said to have taken part in both
world wars 1 and 2 before being captured for the
weapon X program. Y’s catch phrase is “I'm the
best there is at what I do. But that I do best isn't
very nice.” Identify Y.

34)In the mid-1970s X worked at the Department of
Interior Design at the Academy of Applied Arts and
Crafts in Budapest .He sought to find a teaching
tool to help his students understand 3D objects. X
invented Y in 1974 and obtained Hungarian patent
HU170062 for the Y in 1975 . The first test batches
of the product were produced in late 1977 and
released to Budapest toy shops. In September
1979, a deal was signed with Ideal Toys to bring
the Y to the Western world, and the Y made its
international debut at the toy fairs of London, Paris,
Nuremberg and New York in January and February
1980. "The Gordian Knot" and "Inca Gold" were the
other names considered but it was marketed as Y.

• Ans : Erno Rubik ,Rubik’s cube

35)X is the name given to flags flown to identify a
ship's crew as pirates. The flag most usually
identified as the X today is the skull and
crossbones, being a flag consisting of a skull
above two long bones set in an x-mark
arrangement on a black field. This design was
used by four pirates, captains Edward England,
John Taylor, Sam Bellamy and John Martel..
Historically, the flag was flown to frighten pirates'
victims into surrendering without a fight, since it
conveyed the message that the attackers were
outlaws who would not consider themselves
bound by the usual rules of engagement—and
might, therefore, slaughter those they defeated.
Name X

36)X is a model village on the south side of
Birmingham, England, best known for its
connections with the Cadbury family and
chocolate . 120 acres of land was bought by
George Cadbury on which a model village was
built. Designed by resident architect William
Alexander Harvey the houses were traditional in
design but with large gardens and modern
interiors. These were for the employees who
worked in the Cadbury factory located there. As
Cadbury was a Quaker no public houses were
ever built in X. The district surrounding the factory
has been 'dry' for one hundred years or more with
no alcohol being sold in pubs, bars or shops with
residents constantly fighting to maintain this.
Name the town

38)“If I were a Jew and were born in Germany and earned
my livelihood there, I would claim Germany as my home
even as the tallest Gentile German might, and challenge
him to shoot me or cast me in the dungeon; I would
refuse to be expelled or to submit to discriminating
treatment. And for doing this I should not wait for the
fellow Jews to join me in civil resistance, but would have
confidence that in the end the rest were bound to follow
my example. If one Jew or all the Jews were to accept
the prescription here offered, he or they cannot be
worse off than now. And suffering voluntarily undergone
will bring them an inner strength and joy. The calculated
violence of Hitler may even result in a general massacre
of the Jews by way of his first answer to the declaration
of such hostilities. But if the Jewish mind could be
prepared for voluntary suffering, even the massacre I
have imagined could be turned into a day of
thanksgiving and joy that Jehovah had wrought
deliverance of the race even at the hands of the tyrant.
For to the God-fearing, death has no terror.” Who said
this?

• Ans :Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

• Ans: Product Red. Part of the profits is
used to fight AIDS

• 40)On March 5, 1960, Fidel Castro called a
memorial service and mass demonstration at
Havana's Colón Cemetery, to honour more than
100 Cubans killed in the La Coubre explosion
the day before. At the time, Guevara was
Minister of Industry in the new government, and
X was Castro's official photographer. After a
funeral march ,Fidel Castro gave a eulogy for
the fallen .During Castro's speech before
thousands of onlookers , Y came into view for a
few seconds. X snapped just two frames of Y
before he disappeared from sight. This has
resulted in one of the most famous photos of
this century. Name X ,Y and the photo

• Ans: Ernesto “Che” Guevara ,Alberto
Korfa ,Guerrillero Heroico

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