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(1) X is a subgenre of science fiction and fantasy literature and art that commonly

features some aspect of steam-powered machinery, especially in a setting inspired by industrialized Western civilization during the 19th century. X works are often set in an alternative history of the 19th century's British Victorian era or American "Wild West", in a post-apocalyptic future during which steam power has maintained mainstream use, or in a fantasy world that similarly employs steam power. X perhaps most recognisably features anachronistic technologies or retro-futuristic inventions as people in the 19th century might have envisioned them, and is likewise rooted in the era's perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, and art. Such technology may include fictional machines like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or the modern authors Philip Pullman, Scott Westerfeld, Stephen Hunt and China Miéville. Other examples of X contain alternative history-style presentations of such technology as lighter-than-air airships, analog computers, or such digital mechanical computers as Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine.

STEAMPUNK

(2) A boat filled with emigrants from Sweden arrives at the Danish island of

Bornholm. Among them are Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle who have moved to Denmark from southern Sweden to find work after the death of Pelle's mother. But neither boy nor father is willing to give up their dream of finding a better life than that which they left in Sweden.

In reality, Cera is left alone and desolate in the trenches, still immobilized by the mine. Meanwhile, the UNPROFOR commander has arranged false information to be passed to both Bosnian and Serb troops, to make them believe their enemies will be trying to reoccupy the trench at night (which each side would try to counter with an artillery barrage that presumably will kill Cera and obliterate the evidence).

Cabiria refuses to be bogged down by the numerous disappointments of her life as a streetwalker and her final smile full of hope has become a milestone.

(3)

X is an expression used to describe the design aspects of a theatre or film production, which essentially means "visual theme" or "telling a story"—both in visually artful ways through storyboarding, cinematography and stage design, and in poetically artful ways through direction. It is also commonly used to refer to multiple single scenes within the film to represent the film. X has been called film criticism's "grand undefined term".

Dilettante’s Delight- Mise en scene

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Some Salient points about the city:• The etymological origins would put it as ‘a city of

good deeds’ on account of it being located at the confluence of two rivers.

• Houses the country’s oldest privately governed college

• Has the only known statue of Aryabhatta• Other place of interest are the Pataleshwar caves,

Shaniwarwada and Dagrusheth temple

Pune

(5)

First Modern Representation of Hammer and Sickle

(6)

It is loosely based on the true story of the Jamaica national bobsleigh team's debut in the bobsled competition of the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

It is a 1993 American sports film directed by Jon Turteltaub, and starring Leon, Doug E. Doug, Rawle D. Lewis, Malik Yoba and John Candy. The film was released in the United States on October 1, 1993. This was the last film featuring Candy to be released in his lifetime.

Cool Runnings

(7)

Born Prasanth Kumar Shivashankar Padukone, he is known as India’s Orson Welles. Apart from havint a global dedicated cult following, he is famous for his early use of deep focus camerawork, introducing among other, Zohra Sehgal to Bollywood.

He had a pact with Dev Anand assuring mutual employment which Dev Anand was able to uphold with the movie Baazi but the person in question didn’t uphold his end of the bargain although he did produce CID in which Dev Anad starred.

Guru Dutt

(8) THE X(John William deforest) . . . We may be confident that Y will not be written, no matter what genius attempts it, until

democracy, the idea of our day and nation and race, has agonized and conquered through centuries, and made its work secure.

But X—the picture of the ordinary emotions and manners of American existence—the American "Newcomes" or "Miserables" will, we suppose, be possible earlier. "Is it time?" the benighted people in the earthen jars or commonplace life are asking. And with no intention of being disagreeable, but rather with sympathetic sorrow, we answer, "Wait.“……..—in the production of a few outlines. Washington Irving was too cautious to make the trial; he went back to fictions of Knickerbockers and Rip Van Winkles and Ichabod Cranes; these he did well, and we may thank him for not attempting more and failing in the attempt. With the same consciousness of incapacity Cooper shirked the experiment; he devoted himself to Indians, of whom he knew next to nothing, and to backwoodsmen and sailors, whom he idealized; or where he attempted civilized groups, he produced something less natural than the wax figures of Barnum's old museum. If all Americans were like the heroes and heroines of Cooper, Carlyle might well enough call us "eighteen millions of bores." As for a tableau of American society, as for anything resembling the tableaux of English society by Thackeray and Trollope, or the tableaux of French society by Balzac and George Sand,………

The Great American Novel

(9)

Funda?

War Flags (Philippines)

(10)

The original Indian architects were Sitaram Khanderao Vaidya and D. N. Mirza, and the project was completed by an English engineer, W. A. Chambers. The builder was Khansaheb Sorabji Ruttonji Contractor who also designed and built its famous central floating staircase. An additional wing was opened in 1973. It was designed by Melton Bekker.

A popular urban myth has it that the building was mistakenly constructed the other way round as it was intended to be and the said contractor committed suicide after seeing the ‘atrocity’.

The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel

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X was a king of Uruk, Mesopotamia, who lived sometime between 2800 and 2500 BC. He is the main character in the Epic of X, a Mesopotamian poem that is considered the first great work of literature.

In the epic, X is a demigod of superhuman strength who built the city walls of Uruk to defend his people and travelled to meet the sage Utnapishtim, who survived the Great Deluge. According to the Sumerian King List, X ruled his city for 126 years.

Gilgamesh

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The word “X" comes from X-wood, a tree that once grew plentifully along the coast. In Portuguese, Xwood is called pau-X, with the word X commonly given the etymology "red like an ember", formed from Latin and the suffix -il (from -iculum or -ilium). As Xwood produces a deep red dye, it was highly valued by the European cloth industry and was the earliest commercially exploited product from region.

Needless to say, the product itself ceased to exist long before the aftereffects it had.

Brazil

(13)

This documentary directed by Joshua Oppenheimer and produced by, among others, Werner Herzog won the Bafta for Best Documentary in 2012, but was however snubbed by the Academy. Even the Bafta would have regretted retrospectively when in the acceptance speech, which the Bafta edited in future and online broadcasts, Oppenheimer said, “…..Britain and America should both accept the fact that they had a large part to play in the killings…..”

The Act of Killing about the massacre in the aftermath of Suharto’s ascension

(14) He played centre-forward for the celebrated Austria national team of the early

1930s known as the Wunderteam, which he captained at the 1934 World Cup. Known as "The Mozart of football" or 'Der Papierene' – 'the Paper-man' for

his slight build, he was renowned as one of the finest pre-war footballers, known for his fantastic dribbling ability and creativity

Always refusing to leave his home country, he rejected to play for Germany after the Austrian state was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938 (Anschluss), citing old age or injury as his excuse.

His death remains shrouded in mystery and it has also been suggested that he was killed for his opposition for the Anschluss. The Nazi secret police force, the notorious Gestapo, had a file on him and had kept his café under surveillance.

Matias Sindelar

(15)

Connect the seven in this exhaustive list:• Ajman• _____• Fujairah• ______• Ras-al Khaimah• ______• Umm-Al Quwain

The UAE

(16) In 1938, he obtained a job as secretary to Sarat Chandra Bose, a political

leader in the freedom movement in India. As a result he was able to interact with political leaders of India. A growing familiarity with the workings of the inner circle of Indian politics led him to be skeptical about its eventual progress, and he became progressively disillusioned about the ability of Indian political leadership. In 1966, The Continent of Circe was awarded the Duff Cooper Memorial Award, making him the first and only Indian to date to be given the prize. The Sahitya Akademi, India's national Academy of Letters, awarded him the Sahitya Akademi Award for his biography on Max Müller, Scholar Extraordinary .

"The wogs took the bait and having read only dedication sent up howls of protest", commented Chaudhuri's friend, editor, historian and novelist, Khushwant Singh on this man’s magnum opus.

Nirad C Chaudhuri

(17)

Id the band:

KC & The Sunshine Band

(18)

Complete the proportion:Persian : Legend of RostamGermanic: Lady of HildebrandIrish: SetantaGreek: ??

Hercules/Labours of Hercules

(19) He is considered to be one of the greatest Roman historians. He

lived in what has been called the Silver Age of Latin literature. He is known for the brevity and compactness of his Latin prose, as well as for his penetrating insights into the psychology of power politics. examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero, and those who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors (AD 69). These two works span the history of the Roman Empire from the death of Augustus in AD 14 to the years of the First Jewish–Roman War in AD 70.His historical works focus on the inner motivations of the characters, often with penetrating insight. His style, although it has a grandeur and eloquence, is extremely concise, even epigrammatic—the sentences are rarely flowing or beautiful, but their point is always clear.

Tacitus

(20)Some more ‘less obvious references’ are:• "Eight miles high and falling fast" is likely a reference to The Byrds' hit "Eight

Miles High.”• "I met a girl who sang the blues and I asked her for some happy news, but she just

smiled and turned away" is probably about Janis Joplin.• "And while Lenin/Lennon read a book on Marx" has been interpreted different

ways. Some view it as a reference to Vladimir Lenin. The "Marx" referred to here would be the socialist philosopher Karl Marx. Others believe it is about John Lennon, whose songs often reflected a very communistic theology. Some have even suggested that in the latter case, "Marx" is actually Groucho Marx, another cynical entertainer who was suspected of being a socialist, and whose wordplay was often similar to Lennon's lyrics.

• "Helter Skelter in a summer swelter" - The Manson Family's attack on Sharon Tate and others in California.

Who is the ‘Jester’ who had ‘a coat he borrowed from James Dean’?

Bob Dylan

(21) Will Ritson: “Turnips grew so large in the Lake District that

people carved them out to make cow sheds.” Abrie Krueger of South Africa: “Iwas crowned King of the

Wasdale Valley” Sue Perkins: “How the ozone layer became damaged, ice caps

melted and people had to be taken to work on camels.” John Graham: “Magical ride to Scotland in a wheelie bin that

went under the sea.” Glen Boylan: “A snail race with Prince Charles (who advised him

to remove the shell to make it more aerodynamic) and losing because his opponents cheated with battery-operated snails.”

The World’s Biggest Liar

(22)Token tharki question:

Types of Brassieres

(23)

X was born Mumtaz Jehan Begum Dehlavi on 14 February 1933 in Delhi. Actress Devika Rani was impressed by her performance and potential, and advised her to assume the screen name by which she became famous. Her first lead role, at the age of 14, was with producer Kidar Sharma when he cast her opposite Raj Kapoor in Neel Kamal (1947). This was the last film in which she was credited as Mumtaz before assuming her screen name.

Her 1950 film Hanste Aansoo was the first ever Hindi film to get an "A" – adults only – rating from the Central Board of Film Certification.

Madhubala

(24) According to The Dawn, “X in Urdu literature was the strongest

movement after Sir Syed's education movement. The progressives contributed to Urdu literature some of the finest pieces of fiction and poetry. Undoubtedly, they were the trend-setters for the coming generation of writers, and their role cannot be denigrated or denied.”

The other writers in the forefront of the organisation, which was inaugrated for populist reasons by Munshi Premchand, were Dr Mulk Raj Anand, Dr Joshy Parshad, Permud Sen Gupta and Dr Deen Mohammed Taseer.

The organisation regarded socialism as an anomic system, which could end exploitation.

Progressive Writers Association

(25) Sheldon Cooper is a fan and when he and Leonard Hofstadter are

discussing their roommate agreement, they instill a passage in which they dedicate Friday nights to watching it, as Sheldon believes it will last for years. Upon its cancellation, he brands Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Fox, a traitor.

On the NBC comedy Community, the characters Troy and Abed are fans of the show. They have an agreement that if one of them dies, the other will stage it to look like a suicide caused by the cancellation of the show.

One of the salient features of the show is its unabashed political bias The story themes are often cautionary about too-powerful central authority and its capacity to do bad while being considered by the majority as good. The characters each exhibit traits that exemplify core libertarian values, such as the right to bear arms , legal prostitution , freedom of religion, logic and reasoning and anti-conscription .

Firefly

(26) X made his international debut for India in 1956 during the team's

1-0 victory over the Chinese Olympic team. He went on to play for India in 50 international matches including in Olympics, Asian Games, Asia Cup and Merdeka Cup. He captained India to the Asian Games Gold Medal in 1962 and a Silver in the 1964 Asia Cup in Tel Aviv and in the Merdeka Cup. He made his first class debut for Bengal in the Ranji Trophy during the 1962/63 season . After retiring from football, he fully focussed on playing Cricket. He led Bengal cricket team to a Ranji Trophy final. In his cricket career, which spanned up to 1972/73 season, he played 46 first class matches, scoring 1592 runs and took 47 wickets. He was also the Sheriff of Kolkata in 2005.

Chuni Goswami

(27)

Who on receiving the Academy Award in 2008: "That's the closest I'll come to ever getting a knighthood".

He was actually knighted in 2012. So Funda??

Daniel Day Lewis on being ‘knighted’ by Helen Mirren

(28) The Douglases became so powerful that by the early fifteenth century

they were seen as a threat to the stability of the nation. In 1440 William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas, about 16 years old, and his brother were invited to dine with the ten-year-old King James II of Scotland. Later called the Black Dinner, the occasion was organised by the Lord Chancellor, Sir William Crichton. A black bull's head, the symbol of death, was brought in. After the dinner the Douglas chiefs were dragged out to Castle Hill, given a mock trial and beheaded. The Clan Douglas then laid siege to Edinburgh Castle. Perceiving the danger, Crichton surrendered the castle to the king and was rewarded with the title Lord Crichton. It is still unclear exactly who else was ultimately responsible, though it is thought Livingstone and Buchan were likely candidates.

Why this obscurity?

Rains of Castemere

‘Yunki Yeh Kaun Bola?!’- The Quotes Round

+5 for each correctBonus +10 if all correct

• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

• Check him out in Saturday Night Fever: white suit, kipper tie, big flares. You can tell by the way he used his walk; he's a Hindi man, no time to talk!

• I have all the characteristics of a human being: flesh, blood, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

• Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

• From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.

• At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

• Check him out in Saturday Night Fever: white suit, kipper tie, big flares. You can tell by the way he used his walk; he's a Hindi man, no time to talk!- The ‘Mr. Everything Comes from India’, Goodness Gracious Me

• I have all the characteristics of a human being: flesh, blood, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.- Thomas Bateman, American Psycho

• Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.- Martina Navratilova

• From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.- Simone de Beauvoir

• At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.- Abraham Lincoln

REVERSING THE ORDER

(29)

Why is the SWP Hangar, where most of you shall be having the last hurrah of the insti, called the SWP Hangar?

South West Pacific

Built by the recruits at the Roorkee Cantonment for their preparation for deputation in the Guadal Canal Pacific Region in World War II.

(30) X & Y are two sisters who also happen to be doyennes of British Literature.

However, their writing has taken its toll on their personal relationship with either of them refusing to read the other’s work.

The detonation took place when X(arguably the more famous of the two) cried foul over Y having misappropriated a family heirloom (tea-set) in one of her works.

X has been knighted and her more famous works include the criticisms of Iris Murdoch who was a close friend.

Y’s renown increased in the aftermath of America’s invasion of Iraq because she had said: ‘My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease. It rises up in my throat like acid reflux, that fashionable American sickness. I now loathe the United States and what it has done to Iraq and the rest of the helpless world’

A.S. Byatt and Margaret Drabble

(31)

Funda?

Rod of Asclepius and Staff of Caduceus

(32)

Why is Steffi Graf’s 1988 Grand Slam termed the Golden Slam?

Slams and Gold at SeoulShe defeated Sabatini. The slide could only accommodate one

looker.

(33) Following are the points of controversy of this famous comic:• About Rebecca Addlington he said: “She looks like someone

who's looking at themselves in the back of a spoon“• Pretending to be The Queen, he said: “"I am so old, my pussy

is haunted“.• He likened Palestine to “a cake being punched to pieces by a

very angry Jew”.• He opened his performance back on the BBC by exclaiming:

"Genuinely quite surprised to be here. I thought the only way I'd ever get back on the BBC would have been if I started fucking kids."

Frankie Boyle

(34) X is a 1968 British drama film produced and directed by

Lindsay Anderson satirising English public school life. Famous for its depiction of a savage insurrection at a fictitious boys boarding school, the X certificate film was made at the time of the May 1968 protests in France by a director strongly associated with the 1960s counterculture. The film stars Malcolm McDowell in his first screen role and his first appearance as Anderson's "everyman" character Mick Travis.

McDowell's performance caught the attention of Stanley Kubrick, who subsequently cast him in his 1971 film adaptation of Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange. Additionally, McDowell used his performance in his inspiration for the Clockwork Orange protagonist, Alexander DeLarge.

if....

(35) His first paper in genetics, written with his sister Naomi,

published in 1915 became a landmark as the first demonstration of genetic linkage in mammals. He was also one of the first writers to expound the concept of neo-Darwinism for which Richard Dawkins is most famous today.

Among his more famous aphorisms are:• "My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than

we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.“• "I had gastritis for about fifteen years until I read Lenin and

other writers, who showed me what was wrong with our society and how to cure it. Since then I have needed no magnesia."

J.B.S. Haldane

(36)

The stairs were originally known as the Boulevard steps, the Giant Staircase,or the Richelieu steps. The top step is 12.5 meters (41 feet) wide, and the lowest step is 21.7 meters (70.8 feet) wide. The staircase extends for 142 meters, but it gives the illusion of greater length. The stairs were so precisely constructed as to create an optical illusion. A person looking down the stairs sees only the landings, and the steps are invisible, but a person looking up sees only steps, and the landings are invisible.

In 1837 the decision was made to build a "monstrous staircase", which was constructed between 1837 and 1841. An English engineer named Upton constructed the stairs.

Odessa Steps

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Originally a little-known town, it became famous in India in 1957 owing to its connection with Vividh Bharati. Young listeners from the town would compete among themselves to send out the most song requests in a day or month. Vividh Bharati Radio listeners thus became familiar with the town. Comperers Rameshwar Bernwal and Nandlal Sinha of Vividh Bharti used to doubt the existence of such a place and appeared circumspect on the show.

Jhumri Telaiya, Koderma

(38) 1776: The site of the demolished St Anne’s church and the adjoining plot

were granted to Thomas Lyon, after whom Lyons Range is named, to construct buildings to accommodate the junior servants. Was the first three storeyed building in the city.

1780: Barwell leased out the range of buildings by his own rate at 31,700 current rupees per annum to be paid half-yearly in advance”. The building looked like a “shabby hospital, or poor-house”.

1800: Fort William College, opened to train writers in Oriental languages, later moved to this building. Over the next 20 years, structural changes were made: a hostel for 32 students and an exam hall, which still exist.

Which building that underwent major renovation in 2013?

Lekhok Bhobon

(39)

X is a play written by Heather Raffo. In the original version of the play, a single performer plays all nine characters. Heather Raffo herself has acted in some productions. Some productions opt to use multiple actors.

The title originates from a statement from Ali about the distribution of desire between the two genders which also has many parallels with what Kautilya has to say in Arthashastra. Lauren Sandler of The New York Times wrote that "The play's emphasis on sex is inherent in its title.” Geraldine Brooks had used this statement as a title of her 1995 book, X.

NINE PARTS OF DESIRE

(40)

Funda please?

Sorrentino mentioning El Diego in his Oscar speech

(41) The film has been cited by Roger Ebert as an anti-establishment film

which was shot during the time of the Vietnam War, in which the protagonist endures "physical punishment, psychological cruelty, hopelessness and equal parts of sadism and masochism". His influence on his prison mates and the torture that he endures is compared to that of Jesus, and Christian symbolism is used throughout the film, culminating in a photograph superimposed over crossroads at the end of the film in comparison to the crucifixion.

“______________. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week. Which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. And I don't like it any more than you men.”

This quote from the movie has become a major entertainment byline with some interpreters arguing that it best captured in the middle of the Cold War and the Vietnam war, the suspiria state of the world.

‘What we have here is failure to communicate’

(42) X was an Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist, socialist theorist and essayist. His

works are influential in various theoretical, social, and historiographical contexts. A tireless political activist, his writing on the Communist International stirred debate in Trotskyist circles, and his history of the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins, is a seminal text in the literature of the African Diaspora.

In his attempt to remain in America, he wrote a study of Herman Melville, Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In, and had copies of the privately published work sent to every member of the Senate. He wrote the book while being detained on Ellis Island. In an impassioned letter to a friend, he said that in Mariners he was using Moby Dick as a parable for the anti-communism sweeping the United States—a consequence, he thought, of Americans' uncritical faith in capitalism.

His Magnum Opus, however begins with a twist of Kipling’s English Flag’s ‘What do they know of England who only England know?’

C L R James

(43)

X is known for his particular Persianized style and the beautiful use of his takhllus. According to legend, Mirza Ghalib (his contemporary and also a rival) offered him his entire diwan (collection of poetry) in exchange for a particular verse of his. The couplet in question was:

"Tum mere pas hote ho goya Jab ko'i dusra nahin hota" He was a contemporary of Zauq, today his grave lies

near the parking area near Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi.

Momin

Woh jo ham men tum men qarar tha; tumhen yad ho, keh nah yad ho…..

Wohi, yani wadah nibah ka; tumhen yad ho, keh nah yad ho……

(44) It has been estimated that in the 10th century X was the most

populous city in the world, and under the rule of Caliph Al Hakam II it had also become a centre for education under its Islamic rulers.

During these centuries it had become the intellectual centre of Europe and was also noted for its predominantly Muslim society that was tolerant toward its minorities.

Its most famous landmark is a highlight of Moorish architecture which was built as a Church, then was turned into a mosque and later reconverted into a Catholic Church.

Cordoba

(45) X, also known as the great writ, is a summons with the force

of a court order; it is addressed to the custodian (a prison official for example) and demands that a prisoner be taken before the court, and that the custodian present proof of authority, allowing the court to determine whether the custodian has lawful authority to detain the prisoner. If the custodian is acting beyond his or her authority, then the prisoner must be released. is one of what are called the "extraordinary", "common law", or "prerogative writs", which were historically issued by the English courts in the name of the monarch to control inferior courts and public authorities within the kingdom.

Habeus Corpus

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Robert Frost wrote of the author, "In one book ... he surpasses everything we have had in America".

Robert Louis Stevenson judged the author’s endorsement of rebelling against modern society, to be a mark of effeminacy, calling it "womanish solicitude; for there is something unmanly, something almost dastardly" about what he preaches.

But the final word must go to John Updike who said: “……so vivid a protester, so perfect a crank and hermit saint, that the book risks being as revered and unread as the Bible”.

WALDEN

(47)Etymology of the two terms:• Before ships had rudders on their centrelines, they were steered by use of a

specialized steering oar, which was held by an oarsman located in the stern of the ship and, due to the prevalence of right-handed sailors, on the right-hand side of it. The word comes from Old English, literally meaning the side on which the ship is steered, cognate with the Old Norse words stýri meaning "rudder" (from the verb stýra, "to steer" or "to govern") and borð meaning the "side of a ship".

• In Old English the word was bæcbord, of which cognates are used in other European languages. The origin of lade has not been determined but some would connect it with the verb lade (to load), referring to the side on which cargo was loaded. The term larboard, when shouted in the wind, was presumably too easy to confuse with its opposite and so the word came to replace it. It is derived from the practice of sailors mooring ships on the left side at ports in order to prevent the steering oar from being crushed.

Port and Starboard

(48)

Where would you expect SBI’s first lock free bank branch to be located? It opened sometime in 2011.

Shani Shingnapur

(49) “On the one hand it would seem that in the course of a myth anything is

likely to happen. But on the other hand, this apparent arbitrariness is belied by the astounding similarity between myths collected in widely different regions. Therefore the problem: If the content of myth is contingent , how are we to explain the fact that myths throughout the world are so similar?”

He argued that the "savage" mind had the same structures as the "civilized" mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere. These observations culminated in his famous book Tristes Tropiques that established his position as one of the central figures in the structuralist school of thought. As well as sociology, his ideas reached into many fields in the humanities, including philosophy. Structuralism has been defined as "the search for the underlying patterns of thought in all forms of human activity."

Claude Levi Strauss

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• X was an American-born violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom. He became a citizen of Switzerland in 1970, and a British citizen in 1985. He is widely considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century.

• In 1952, X met and befriended the influential yogi B. K. S. Iyengar before he had come to prominence outside India. He arranged for Iyengar to teach abroad in London, Switzerland, Paris and elsewhere. This was the first time that many Westerners had been exposed to yoga.

• X made several recordings with the German conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who had been criticized for conducting in Germany during the Nazi era. He defended Furtwängler, noting that the conductor had helped a number of Jewish musicians to flee Nazi Germany.

• X also had a long association with Ravi Shankar, which began with their 1966 album West Meets East

Yehudi Menuhin

(51)

If you are in the high skies on a flight or on the high seas on a vessel, laws of which country apply to you?

‘Flag State’ Regulations

(52) X was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of

the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. He was part of the generation of Spanish colonizers who began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

Because of his controversial undertakings and the scarcity of reliable sources of information about him, it has become difficult to assert anything definitive about his personality and motivations. As a result of these historical trends, descriptions of Cortés tend to be simplistic, and either damning or idealizing.

His personal account of the conquest of Mexico is narrated in his five letters addressed to Charles V. These five letters, the cartas de relación, are his only surviving writings.

Which conquistador who is subject of a famous semi-autobiographical song by Neil Young?

Hernan Cortes

(53) He explains that his pen name comes from a warning from his father

and mother not to speak his mind while outside, because of China's revolutionary political situation from the 1950s, when he grew up.

The pen name also relates to the subject matter of his writings, which reinterpret Chinese political and sexual history.

Like most things/people Chinese he has made polarized impressions. A specific criticism was that he hand-copied Mao Zedong's influential

Yan'an Talks on Literature and Art in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the speech, which described the writer's responsibility to place politics before art. He not only agreed but has gone further than others to explain that the “Talks,” in their time, had “historical necessity” and “played a positive role.” He has also attracted criticism for his supposed good relationship with the Chinese Communist Party in general.

Mo Yan

(54)

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Genbaku Dome, Hiroshima

(55) This capital city was built in complete secrecy and was named such as the

name means "seat of the king" or "abode of kings“. At least 25 construction companies were hired by the military government to

build the city, including Asia World and Htoo Ltd. The government began moving government ministries to the city on 6

November 2005 at the astrologically auspicious time of 6:37 a.m. The government originally prohibited families of government workers from

moving to the new capital. Indian journalist Siddharth Varadarajan, who visited the city in January

2007, described the vastness of the new capital as "the ultimate insurance against regime change, a masterpiece of urban planning designed to defeat any putative "colour revolution" – not by tanks and water cannons, but by geometry and cartography".

Naypyidaw, Myanmar

(56) X was a Punjabi Sufi poet of Chisti order, renowned for his contribution

to Punjabi literature. He is best known for his seminal work Heer Ranjha. He was a consummate artiste, deeply learned in Sufi and domestic cultural lore. His verse is a treasure-trove of Punjabi phrases, idioms and sayings. His minute and realistic depiction of each detail of Punjabi life and the political situation in the 18th century, remains unique. Waris Shah sublimated his own unrequited love for a girl (Bhag Bhari) in writing romance.

Many verses of Waris Shah are widely used in Punjab in a moral context. One of the more popular is

"Waris Shah; Naa adataan jaandiyan ne, Bhavein katiye poriyan poriyan ji” Which poet who was made even more famous after an eponymous cri de

Coeur to him written by Amrita Pritam?

Syed Waris Shah

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A was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise". Among his more famous works are screenplay for movies like Paris When it Sizzles and Brief Encounter, directed by B. ‘The A Pose’, is a photograph pose named after him.

B, considered one of the greats of ‘epic moviemaking’, made his magnum opus in lieu of another project on which he had an eye on for a long time. To be based upon the book ‘9 Hours to Rama’, the project was shelved due to its controversial nature. The project was taken up, albeit in a changed form by C, (1) and the project lived up to its hype becoming a crown jewel in his glittering career. Both the movies won Academy Awards and A,B,C have been/were knighted.

C directed D in movie 1 and co-starred with him in movie 2, a movie which won the National Award for Best Film and earned D his sole Filmfare Award for best supporting actor. D, a veteran of Indian and British theatre was directed by B in an adaptation of a famous colonial novel (3), one he made after a 14 year hiatus and one that also proved to be the last of his career.

C directed E in the movie (4)which featured an ensemble cast of, among others, Michael Caine, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Edward Fox, Liv Ullman. The movie has since gathered a cult following and has become one of the more famous movies about WW II. E has been said to be ‘the personification of British 20th Century theatre’ and is famous more as a theatre artist and a director than an actor. Another movie in which he featured was a propaganda film by the name of ‘49th Parallel’ made in 1941 and edited by B.

ANSWERS

• A- Sir Noel Coward• B- Sir David Lean• C- Sir Richard Attenborough• D- Saeed Jaffrey• E- Sir Laurence Olivier• 1- ‘Gandhi’• 2- ‘Shatranj Ke Khiladi’• 3- ‘A Passage to India’• 4- ‘A Bridge Too Far’

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