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1X was a two-stroke motorcycle made in India by Escorts group from 1983 to 1990. It was a licenced copy of the very popular Yamaha RD350B, modified to suit Indian conditions. Many Indian motorcycle connoisseurs consider it to be the best two-stroke ever made in India. X was named to mean a ROYAL MESSENGER. Though production has long ceased, the X remains an iconic and desirable motorcycle among Indian riding enthusiasts, with well-maintained running models fetching healthy prices.

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2A story of Kalidasa goes as follows. Kalidasa was a great Indian poet in King Bhoja’s court. King Bhoja asked his courtiers to list five great poets. His courtiers started to count and naturally Kalidasa’s name came first. But no one could come up with the second best. This story is attributed to the etymology of what?

Anamika – “One without a name”

3For 60 years, no airline bigwig nor any aviation official in the ministry or DGCA realised the irrelevance and absurdity of this insignia on aircraft until Rajya Sabha MP Tarlochan Singh raised the issue. Armed with evidence, Tarlochan Singh took up the vexed issue again in the consultative committee meeting at Mumbai . Aviation minister Praful Patel reacted immediately and agreed for the usage of suitable Indian insignia.What was the issue all about?

Viceroy’s Territory - VT

4A is a term used to describe multimillionaire Indian businessmen. It is a portmanteau of X which, in its own right is an identifier for India and Y, a word that gives the meaning of a business magnate, particularly those magnates from the erstwhile Soviet Republic who emerged during the privatisation in Russia and other post-Soviet States. Anurag Dikshit, Cyrus Vandrewala, Vijay Mallya, Naresh Goyal, Sunil Mittal, Swaraj Paul are a few As.What is A ?

BOLLYGARCH

5_______ forms the basis of Patanjali's yoga, to which concentration and meditation are vital. ________comes from the root “rudh” which means to “obstruct”, the prefix “___” literally means lowness. _________means not just restraint of thoughts but to obstruct thoughts of lower nature. The act of _______ would increase thought and concentration of a higher nature._________ is a word that has been in regular parlance since the 1960's when products under The Red Triangle (pic) came into prominence.What's the goodword?

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6X sparked widespread protests from members of a nearly 5000-strong youth organisation called Prathikarana Vedi in Kerala, marched to the state assembly in protest against George W Bush. “It is an insult to India, to Indians and our nationality. It has hurt our national pride,” the group's district president Binoo C Thampan told Deutsche Presse-Agentur. However X actually wasn’t meant as an insult to India, but was merely inspired by guy in pic. Who is X? Why did X cause such a furore ?

India Bush

7. ID the 2 mainstream Indian designers

Rohit Bal and Manish Arora

8 _______  Alperin runs a successful celebrity real estate business in Los Angeles(Sotheby's International Realty). Her clientele includes numerous A-list Hollywood celebrities. Alperin was only 17 when a lead singer of a band fell in love with her and wrote his homage as a hit song, and the two remain friends to this day. In a 2009 interview, Alperin said, “Is it really the 30th year anniversary of X coming out? Oh my God! You're absolutely right. I 'm not sure that I realized that. I talk to Doug quite often and we never discussed it.

  And on the subject of being immortalized in a hit single: “You could not escape putting on the radio and hearing that song. Or going to the market and hearing that song...But I was never, never sick of the song.”Who is this ??

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1. Who are the subjects of this rap ?

Einstein vs. Hawking

2. What’s so special about what you’re hearing ?

Richie Benaud’s Final Commentary Stint

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5The ______ effect is a visual phenomenon caused by aliasing that occurs when continuous motion is represented by a series of short or instantaneous samples. It occurs when the view of a moving object is represented by a series of short samples as distinct from a continuous view, and the moving object is in rotational or other cyclic motion at a rate close to the sampling rate. It also accounts for the "wagon-wheel effect", so called because in video or film, spoked wheels on horse-drawn wagons sometimes appear to be turning backwards.A ______ fountain, a stream of water droplets falling at regular intervals lit with a _____ light, is an example of the ______ effect being applied to a cyclic motion that is not rotational. When viewed under normal light, this is a normal water fountain. When viewed under a ______ light with its frequency tuned to the rate at which the droplets fall, the droplets appear to be suspended in mid-air. Adjusting the _____ frequency can make the droplets seemingly move slowly up or downAll blanks the same. What is it ?

Stroboscopic Effect

6. 2 musicians collaborating for which film

7. What’s the big deal about this ad ?

Paul Newman – First Male actor in a Lux Ad

8In Hinduism, ______is the tenth and final Maha Avatar of Vishnu who will come to end the present age of darkness and destruction known as Kal-Yuga. The name_____is often a metaphor for eternity or time. The origins of the name probably lie in the Sanskrit word which refers to mud, dirt, filth, or foulness and hence denotes the "destroyer of foulness," "destroyer of confusion," "destroyer of darkness," or "annihilator of ignorance." Other similar and divergent interpretations based on varying etymological derivations from Sanskrit - including one simply meaning "White Horse" - have been made.Also the name of an enchanting Indian actress. FIB

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