General Quiz

Arnab Barua/EE/4th Sem

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The concept first rose to national attention in India in 2009, with claims of widespread conversions in Kerala and Mangalore, but claims have subsequently spread throughout the nation and beyond, into Pakistan and

the United Kingdom. With waves of publicity in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2014, the allegations of X in India have raised concerns in various Hindu, Sikh and Christian organizations, while Muslim organisations have denied the allegations. The

concept has remained a source of political contention and social concern for many, although as of 2014 the idea of an organized X was still widely regarded as a conspiracy theory by the Indian mainstream, according to Reuters.Official investigations launched in 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2014 have found no evidence of the activity. As of 2014, individual

reports continue to spread.

In a piece picked up by the Chicago Tribune, Foreign Policy correspondent Siddhartha Mahanta reports that the modern X conspiracy has roots in the 1947 partition of India. This partition led to the creation of the sovereign states of the Dominion of Pakistan (it later split into the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the People's Republic of Bangladesh) and the Union of India (later Republic of India). According to Mahanta, the creation of two countries with different majority religions led to large-scale migration, with millions of people moving between the countries and rampant reports of sexual predation and forced conversions of women by men of both faiths.This tense history caused repeated clashes between the faiths in the decades that followed as well, according to Mahanta, as cultural pressure against interfaith marriage for either side.

• The then Sultan of Delhi included XYZ inside his capital teritorry. Z literally means fortress or citadel. The pillar, also called obelisk or Lat is an Ashoka Column, attributed to Mauryan ruler Ashoka. The 13.1 metres high column, made of polished sandstone and dating from the 3rd Century BC, was brought from Ambala in 14th century AD under orders of the Sultan. It was installed on a three-tiered arcaded pavilion near the congregational mosque, inside the Sultanate's fort. In centuries that followed, much of the structure and buildings near it were destroyed as subsequent rulers dismantled them and reused the spolia as building materials.

Feroz Shah Kotla

• The term X was coined in Greek by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book X, describing a fictional island society in the Atlantic Ocean.

• The word comes from the Greek: οὐ ("not") and τόπος ("place") and means "no-place". The English homophone , derived from the Greek εὖ ("good" or "well") and τόπος("place"), means "good place".

• X is medically recognized as a mental and emotional condition in which a person experiences intense feelings of well-being, elation, happiness, excitement and joy.

• Technically, X is an affect, but the term is often colloquially used to define emotion and an intense state of transcendent happiness combined with an overwhelming sense of contentment. It has also been defined as an "affective state of exaggerated well-being or elation.

• X, is also the name of an Indian rock band from the city of Delhi. . The Band is also considered the soul of the pop music wave which hit India in the mid nineties.

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X in Malay language means Bunny or Rabbit. However the basic local meaning of X is sea.

• Originally the title was conferred for most of class of officers in the Ahom kingdom of medieval Assam. The Ahom appointed officers with various title and the title Y means a " Leader of 3000 men".

• The Y are Hindus by faith and have been a key contributors to the growth of Assamese community.

• X: Arnab• Y: Baruah• your QM for the day

• X reveals that the 13 other passengers on the train, and the train conductor, were all connected to the Armstrong family in some way:

• Hector Willard MacQueen, Ratchett/Cassetti's secretary was devoted to Sonia Armstrong. MacQueen's father was the district attorney for the kidnapping case. He knew from his father the details of Cassetti's escape from justice and intended to kill Ratchett.

• Edward Henry Masterman, Ratchett/Cassetti's valet, was Colonel Armstrong's batman during the war, and later his valet, who also acted as butler to the Armstrong household.

• Colonel Arbuthnot was Colonel Armstrong's comrade and best friend.• Mrs. Hubbard is, in actuality, Linda Arden (maiden name Goldenberg), the most famous tragic

actress of the New York stage, and was Sonia Armstrong's mother and Daisy's grandmother.• Countess Andrenyi (née Helena Goldenberg) was Sonia Armstrong's sister.• Count Andryeni was the husband of Helena Andrenyi.• Princess Natalia Dragomiroff was Sonia Armstrong's godmother, and a friend of her mother.• Miss Mary Debenham was Sonia Armstrong's secretary and Daisy Armstrong's governess.• Fräulein Hildegarde Schmidt, Princess Dragomiroff's maid, was the Armstrong family's cook.• Antonio Foscarelli, a car salesman based in Chicago, was the Armstrong family's chauffeur.• Miss Greta Ohlsson, a Swedish missionary, was Daisy Armstrong's nurse.• Pierre Michel, the train conductor, was the father of Susanne, the Armstrong's nursemaid who

committed suicide.• Cyrus Hardman, a private detective ostensibly retained as a bodyguard by Ratchett/Cassetti, was a

policeman in love with Susanne.

Murder on the Orient Express

• X is the quality of audacity, for good or for bad. The Yiddish word derives from the Hebrew word for "insolence", "cheek" or "audacity". The modern English usage of the word has taken on a broader meaning, having been popularized through vernacular use in film, literature, and television. The word is sometimes interpreted—particularly in business parlance—as meaning the amount of courage, mettle or ardor that an individual has. However in more traditional usage, X is invariably negative in context.

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• According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission:• "The notorious Burma-Siam railway, built by Commonwealth,

Dutch and American prisoners of war, was a Japanese project driven by the need for improved communications to support the large Japanese army in Burma. During its construction, approximately 13,000 prisoners of war died and were buried along the railway. An estimated 80,000 to 100,000 civilians also died in the course of the project, chiefly forced labour brought from Malaya and the Dutch East Indies, or conscripted in Siam (Thailand) and Burma. Two labour forces, one based in Siam and the other in Burma, worked from opposite ends of the line towards the centre."

Bridge on the River Kwai

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