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+5 for all passed answers.

The quizmaster is STILL God.

If no one gets it, audience gets a chance.

1. Canine Capers The X is considered to be the most ancient, and purest

dog breed in Japan.

It was developed in the isolated district of Kai (Yamanashi Prefecture) as a hunting dog.

They were used to hunt boar and deer and also known as Tora Inu or Tiger Dog

This breed was designated a natural monument in Japan in 1934.

Identify X.

1. Canine Capers Kai Ken

2. Measuring Scores A common measure of volume in Australia and in the

state of Victoria in particular is the X.

The volume of the X is 1,700,000 cubic metres (1.7 million cubic metres), or nearly 700 Olympic swimming pools.

The seating capacity of the X is also used as a unit measure of the number of people.

Identify X.

2. Measuring Scores The Melbourne Cricket Ground

3. Real World Ninjas A X was a samurai with no lord or master during the

feudal period (1185–1868) of Japan. A samurai became masterless from the death or fall of his master, or after the loss of his master's favor or privilege.

In modern Japanese usage, the term also describes a salaryman who is "between employers" or a secondary school graduate who has not yet been admitted to university.

Identify X.

3. Real World Ninjas Ronin

4. Cut! This trade sign is, by a tradition dating back to the

Middle Ages, a staff or pole with a helix of colored stripes.

The pole may be stationary or may revolve, often with the aid of an electric motor.

What is this?

4. Cut! A barber’s rotating pole.

5. A Million Colours Connect

5. A Million Colours LSD

6. Expecting a title? Sorry. X, is an entirely Indian owned company.

It owns a bookstore chain that was co-founded by Emile Moreau, a French author, T K Banerjee, an Indian businessman and others in Allahabad in 1887.

This chain grew to have stores all over India, especially in the north.

Identify

6. Expecting a title? Sorry. A. H. Wheeler and Co.

7. Family Tree ID X, who is somehow connected to Ranchi.

7. Family Tree Jyotirindranath Tagore, lived in Santidham in

Morabadi Hills

8. Twisted and Turned This is the most sold item on this planet.

8. Twisted and Turned Rubik’s Cube

9. In Conjunction 1st Century A.D. Roman scribes wrote in cursive, so

they wrote the Latin word “X” in a joined manner to join the alphabets together to give it its characteristic shape.

Being used by schoolchildren as the 27th alphabet, it got corrupted eventually to give “X” the name we know it by today.

Name the character and the word we are talking about.

9. In Conjunction The AMPERSAND

9. In Conjunction The AMPERSAND

10. Lingo Term “X” was constructed by J.R.R. Tolkien, used today

to mean language construction, particularly artistic languages.

X = LATIN(language + making)

Tolkien’s X has two temporal dimensions, the fictional timeline which he describes through events in the Silmarillion and the real timeline of his own life, where he revised and refined his languages and their fictional history.

What term is “X”?

10. Lingo Glossopoeia

“Glosso” + “Poeia”

11. Mercy? Private Henry Tandey, a British soldier encountered a

wounded German soldier and declined to shoot him, thus sparing the life of this 29 year old Lance Corporal X during World War I.

Who is this X?

11. Mercy? Adolf Hitler

12. Let’s Talk This communication service, provided by a

government institution is presently operational only in the state of Odisha, in and around the city of Cuttack.

It has been in operation since 1946, but is an endangered species of communication, in danger of being replaced by more modern and easy modes of communication.

What service?

12. Let’s Talk Pigeon mail