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Q.1

X play was written by William Shakespeare in 1603. But it was published in the year 1623 in the First Folio.

The play’s main theme includes “Justice,Mortality and Mercy in Y.

X is often called Shakespeare’s Problem Play. Since, it was and continues to be classified as comedy,though its tone and settings, defy those expectations.

MEASURE FOR MEASURE

Q.2

X is a film production company owned by Y.The first movie produced by X was “The Assassination of Richard Nixon” in 2004 starring Sean Penn.

It then released the 2004 biopic “The Aviator” starring Y which had several Academy Awards nominations.

Recently the company produced a movie Z in 2015 which was biographical thriller.

Identify X,Y & Z.

X- APPIAN WAY PRODUCTION Y- LEONARDO DICAPRIO

Z- THE REVENANT

Q.3

X is named after a synthetic intelligence character in Halo video game franchise originating in Bungie folklore, with Jen Taylor, the character's voice actress, returning to voice the personal assistant's US-specific version.

X is currently available in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese language editions.

ID X.

X- CORTANA

Q.4

The X is a class of submarines based on the Scorpène-class submarine being built for the Indian Navy. It is a class of diesel-electric attack submarine which is designed by French naval defence and energy company DCNS and being manufactured at Mazagon Dock Limited in Mumbai.

ID X.

KALVARI CLASS

Q.5X is the academic study of the history and cultures, languages, and literature of the Indian subcontinent.

In the Netherlands the term X was used to designate the study of Indonesian history and culture in preparation for colonial service in the Dutch East Indies.

Specifically, X includes the study of Sanskrit literature and Hinduism along with the other Indian religions, Jainism, Buddhism and Pāli literature, and Sikhism.

ID X.

INDOLOGY

Q.6

Siachen was in the news recently.

Which Indian Army officer was officially the first person to get Siachen for India in the 1980s. He has a base in his honour as well - the first for any LIVING Indian Army person.

COL. NARENDRA KUMAR

Q.7X was a famous Indian Hindi,Urdu poet,lyricist and dialogue writer. X was fascinated by works of Meera and Kabir. X was a poet of various mood and to him sources of poetry were Inner Urge and creative sentiments. X published his first Urdu poetry in 1969.

X received Sahitya Akademi Award in 1998 for “Khoya Hua Sa Kuch”.

Identify X.

NIDA FAZLI

Q.8

ALL OF YOU RECOGNISE THIS POSE, BUT FROM WHICH MOVIE WAS IT TAKEN?

THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH

Q.9AD OF WHICH BRAND?

LEVIS LOW RISE JEANS

Q.10 X is a tribal festival of honouring the goddesses celebrated in the state of Telangana, India. The Jatra begins at _________ in Tadvai Mandal in Warangal district. It commemorates the fight of a mother and daughter, ______ and _________, with the reigning rulers against an unjust law. It is believed that after Kumbha Mela, the X attracts the largest number of devotees in the country. An estimated 10 million people gathered in 2012. It is celebrated during the time the goddesses of the tribals is believed to visit them. It is a remote place in the Eturnagaram Wildlife Sanctuary, a part of Dandakaranya, the largest surviving forest belt in the Deccan.

SAMMAKKA SARALAMMA JATARA OR MEDARAM JATARA

Q.11X was in charge of the Iranian consular office in Paris in 1941. There was a sizeable community of Iranian Jews in Paris when Adolf Hitler invaded and occupied the city. Leaning on the national socialist perception that Germans were Aryans, Nazi Germany and Iran had an agreement which protected all Iranian citizens against German acts of aggression, X was able to protect Iranian Jews, whose families had been present in Iran since the time of the Persian Empire. He very strongly argued this point to the Germans and specifically ascertained that the Iranian Jews were protected under these statutes. The Nazis grudgingly agreed and accordingly, many Persian Jews were saved from harassment and eventually deportation by the Nazi regime. But X went further. Once he realised the full nature of Nazi ambitions, he began issuing hundreds of Iranian passports for non-Iranian Jews to save them from persecution. To safeguard his plan, he did not ask for permission, and felt that support by the Iranian leadership was implied. His actions were later confirmed and applauded by the government of Iran. Thus X is often known as ‘IRANIAN SCHINDLER’.

X- Abdol Hussein Sardari

Q.12 X is a 2001 low-budget black and white indie film drama directed by R. D. Robb, starring Leonardo Di Caprio, Tobey Maguire and Kevin Connolly. The drama was filmed in 1995–1996, and written by Robb with Bethany Ashton, Tawd Beckman, David Stutman and Dale Wheatley. The film takes place over the

course of one night in which a group of young adults discuss life while eating at a diner. Despite being paid $575 per day to appear in the film, DiCaprio and Maguire later tried to stop the movie from being released. As of January 2016, the film is still blocked from appearing in the USA and Canada.

On April 1, 1998 Producer David Stutman filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court, against Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire for Declaratory Relief, Interference with Prospective Economic

Advantage, Breach of Contract, Slander of Title, and Injunctive Relief. It was later agreed between DiCaprio, Maguire, Stutman, Wheatley and Jerry Meadors that the film would be released outside the US and Canada only. It premiered on February 10, 2001, in Berlin. Time Out New York writer Mike D'Angelo

called it, "the best film [I saw] in Berlin". Variety Magazine called it an "unpleasant and tedious ensemble." In September 2014, Dale Wheatley published an open letter to DiCaprio on the website freeX.com, giving

his take on the history of the film and the ensuing legal issues. Wheatley also uploaded the film to the website so that it could be streamed for free. It was removed Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at 15:55 as a

result of a third-party notification by Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire claiming infringement. Wheatley made the following statement to Fox News “It saddens me deeply that in 2016 we witness the senseless oppression of film and art by one of America's most beloved actors," Wheatley told FOX411. "While the world celebrates — and certainly Americans celebrate — his great achievements in cinema,

he chooses to use an iron fist to suppress the work of many other artists including him in a film made 20 years ago." Give X

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Q.1

Connect.

Hilary Mantel

John Maxwell Coetzee

Peter Carey

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Q.3

CONENCT.

German pacifist and journalist Carl von Ossietzky

Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi

Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo

Q.4

Q.5

Q.6Jean de Gisors (1188–1220)

Marie de Saint-Clair (1220–1266) Guillaume de Gisors (1266–1307)

Edouard de Bar (1307–1336) Jeanne de Bar (1336–1351)

Jean de Saint-Clair (1351–1366) Blanche d'Évreux (1366–1398)

Nicolas Flamel (1398–1418) René d'Anjou (1418–1480)

Iolande de Bar (1480–1483) Sandro Filipepi (1483–1510)

Léonard da Vinci (1510–1519) Connétable de Bourbon (1519–1527) Ferdinand de Gonzague (1527–1575)

Louis de Nevers (1575–1595) Robert Fludd (1595–1637)

J. Valentin Andrea (1637–1654) Robert Boyle (1654–1691) Isaac Newton (1691–1727)

Charles Radclyffe (1727–1746) Charles de Lorraine (1746–1780)

Maximilian de Lorraine (1780–1801) Charles Nodier (1801–1844)

Victor Hugo (1844–1885) Claude Debussy (1885–1918)

Jean Cocteau (1918–1963)

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ANSWERS1. Two Times Man Booker Prize (Booker Prize)

Winners. 2. Hatrick Against India In Odi. 3.  All Of Them Were Under Arrest When They

Won Nobel Prize. 4. Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet Which Won

Nobel Peace Prize 2015 5. Google 4 Doodle,Us Winners(2010-14) 6. Alleged Grandmasters Of The Priory Of Sion

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Q.1 In the philosophy of thermal and statistical physics, X is a thought experiment created by the physicist James Clerk Maxwell in which he suggested how the Second Law of Thermodynamics could hypothetically be violated. In the thought experiment, X controls a small door between two

chambers of gas. As individual gas molecules approach the door, the demon quickly opens and shuts the door so that

fast molecules pass into the other chamber, while slow molecules remain in the first chamber. Because faster

molecules are hotter, the demon's behaviour causes one chamber to warm up as the other cools, thus decreasing

entropy and violating the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

MAXWELL’S DEMON

Q.2 The X, was a wooden chest clad with gold containing the two stone tablets of the Ten Commandments as well as, according to various texts within the

Hebrew Bible, Aaron's rod and a pot of manna. The biblical account relates that, approximately one year after the Israelites'

exodus from Egypt, the X was created according to the pattern given to Moses by God when the Israelites were encamped at the foot of biblical Mount Sinai. Thereafter, the gold-plated acacia chest was carried by its

staves while en route by the Levites approximately 2,000 cubits in advance of the people when on the march or before the Israelite army, the host of

fighting men. When the X was borne by Levites into the bed of the Jordan River, the waters parted as God had parted the waters of the Red Sea,

opening a pathway for the entire host to pass. The walls of the city of Jericho were shaken to the ground with no more than a shout from the army after the

X was paraded around them for seven days by Levites accompanied by seven priests sounding seven trumpets of rams horns. Id X.

Image in the next slide.

X- ARK OF THE COVENANT

Q.3 X is the popular name given to each of four versions of a composition, created as both paintings and pastels, by the Expressionist artist Edvard Munch between 1893 and 1910. The works show a figure with an agonised expression against a landscape with a tumultuous orange sky. Arthur Lubow has described X as "an icon of modern art, a Mona Lisa for our time”. On 12 February 1994, the same day as the opening of the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, two men broke into the National Gallery, Oslo, and stole its version of The Scream, leaving a note reading "Thanks for the poor security". The painting had been moved down to a second-story gallery as part of the Olympic festivities. X was recovered a few days later though. 10 years later, the 1910 tempera on board version of X was stolen on 22 August 2004, during daylight hours, when masked gunmen entered the Munch Museum in Oslo and stole it and Munch's Madonna too.

THE SCREAM M

Q.4 X are rarely-encountered neologisms for the concept of nominative determinism, used for a personal name aptly or peculiarly suited to its owner; essentially, when someone's name describes what they are or what they do.In the book What's in a

Name? (1996), author Paul Dickson cites a long list of X originally compiled by Professor Lewis P. Lipsitt, of Brown University. Psychologist Carl Jung wrote in his

book Synchronicity that there was a "sometimes quite grotesque coincidence between a man's name and his peculiarities". Some examples of X are

Jules Angst, German professor of Psychiatry, who has published works about anxiety Allan Argue, Scottish Solicitor

Jack Armstrong, retired MLB (Major League Baseball) pitcher Jeff Bagwell, retired MLB first baseman

Colin Bass, British bassist in the rock band Camel Lance Bass, bass singer for American pop band NSYNC

Sara Blizzard, meteorologist (television weather presenter) for the BBC. Give X

APTRONYM, APTONYM

Q.5The following is a part of a Wikipedia article which was

recently in news,why? ‘Jack Robichaux was a serial rapist in the 19th century, who plagued the township of New Orleans. Most of his victims

were overweight females. He was a Creole, although police initially suspected that the assailant was black by his choice

of victims. His talents as a jazz musician were praised throughout New Orleans, until his crimes became public

knowledge. References: Christopher Waldrep & Donald G. Nieman (2001). Local matters : race, crime, and justice in the

nineteenth-century South. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 0-8203-2247-4.’

THE LONGEST RUNNING HOAX ARTICLE IN WIKIPEDIA HISTORY.

Q.6X is a building in Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh which served as a palace for the rulers of

Awadh and their wives. It was constructed by order of Nawab Ghazi Uddin Haider and completed after his

death by his successor, Nawab Nasir Uddin Haider. The X stands on the banks of the River Gomti. The X consisted of a Bari (larger) X

and Chhoti (smaller) X, however only the larger one still exists. These two buildings were examples of the Indo-European-Nawabi architectural style, even though the

Bari X has been altered over the years. The palaces were named after the umbrella-shaped domes on the octagonal pavilions, which crown the buildings. The imposing building has large underground rooms and a dome surmounted by a gilt umbrella. A portion of it was destroyed by Britishers during the war of 1857. After the war of

1857 the government had allotted the building to an American NGO which used it as a club for recreation purposes, till 1947, the X was used as the United Services Club.

Post Independence, this building was allotted to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research which used it as Central Drug Research Institute since 1950, but

now it has been vacated by CDRI.

CHATTAR MANZIL

Q.7Though a number of backstories have been given, a definitive one has not yet been established for X. An unreliable narrator, the character is uncertain of who he was before and how he became X: "Sometimes I

remember it one way, sometimes another ... if I'm going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice!" . X quits his job, becoming a stand-up comedian to support his pregnant wife. Unsuccessful, he agrees to help mobsters with a robbery and dons the Red Hood. The heist goes awry; the comedian leaps into a chemical vat to escape Y , surfacing disfigured. This, combined with the earlier accidental death of his wife

and unborn child, drives the comedian insane and he becomes X . X has claimed a number of origins, including being the child of an abusive father who broke his nose and the long-lived jester of an Egyptian pharaoh. As Y says, "Like any other comedian, he uses

whatever material will work". Give X and Y.

X- JOKER Y- BATMAN

Q.8This is an excerpt from a recent interview of X

‘The technology for making X hasn’t actually changed. ….There has been no technological improvement there.

“However, the wages that you are paying to that gentleman, especially in a high-wage sort of state like Kerala, are going

up all the time,” Y said. “In real life, I have a query on X prices — when inflation rates go up, X prices go up, but when inflation rates are

lower, the X prices are not lowered. What is happening to our beloved X, sir?” she asked.

Id X and Y

X- RAGHURAM RAJAN Y- DOSA

Q.9 X is an American web television series that first streamed on Netflix on December 18,

2015.The ten-part documentary, written and directed by Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos, explores the story of Y, a Manitowoc County, Wisconsin man, who served 18

years in prison for the sexual assault and attempted murder of Penny Beerntsen, before being exonerated in 2003. In 2005 he was arrested in connection with the

murder of Teresa Halbach, a local photographer, and convicted in 2007. The series also covers the arrest, prosecution, and conviction of Y's nephew, Brendan Dassey,

who was also charged in the murder. The series was filmed over the course of ten years, with the creators moving back and forth from New York City to Wisconsin during filming. To promote the series,

Netflix released the first episode concurrently on YouTube and on Netflix streaming, which it had not done for any other original programming.

The series was favorably compared to the HBO series The Jinx and the podcast Serial. X generated considerable controversy, both in Manitowoc County, where the

documentary is set, and nationwide. A petition to the White House to pardon Y garnered more than 128,000 signatures. In response, President Barack Obama

stated he had no authority to act in a state case.

MAKING A MURDER AND STEVEN AVERY

Q.10

NARENDRA MODI AND ASHRAF GHANI

Q.11X was an Argentine footballer and coach, who has been called the best, most

complete and influential footballer of all time. On the night of 24 August 1963, the Venezuelan revolutionary group Armed

Forces of National Liberation (FALN), kidnapped X at gunpoint from the Potomac Hotel in Caracas while his team,_______, were on a pre-season tour of South America. The kidnapping was codenamed "Julian Grimau", after the Spanish

communist Julian Grimau García, executed by firing squad in Spain in April 1963 during Francisco Franco's dictatorship. X was released unharmed two days later close to the Spanish embassy without a ransom being paid, and X stressed that

his kidnappers had not mistreated him. X played in a match against São Paulo FC the day after he was released and received a standing ovation.

A Spanish movie entitled Real, La Película (Real, The Movie), which recounted these events, was released on 25 August 2005. In a bizarre publicity stunt at the

premiere, kidnapper Paul del Rio, now a famous artist, and X were brought together for the first time since the abduction, 41 years before.

Identify.

ALFREDO DI STEFANO “BLOND ARROW”

Q.12

At least 600 years ago, when banks did not exist, people stored money at their homes. Since metal was expensive, the household wares and jars were made from a rather economical orange coloured clay called X. Those jars were used to store and save money and were known as X jars or X pots. Over the years the usage of X saw a retardation of age of their users. Give me X (the correct spelling).

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