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X was an Autistic and had a very low IQ. X later joined army and also went for a NASA mission with a female astronaut and an ape. He represented his state in football and nation in table tennis. He also had a brief career in Hollywood as a stunt man, a one time chess champion and a professional wrestler and was named after the grand wizard of KKK. Who is X?

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X was an Autistic and had a very low IQ. X later joined army and also went for a NASA mission with a female astronaut and an ape. He represented his state in football and nation in table tennis. He also had a brief career in Hollywood as a stunt man, a one time chess champion and a professional wrestler and was named after the grand wizard of KKK.

Who is X?

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_______ Shaikh Khwaja Syed Muhammad ____________ _____ was a Sufi saint of Chisti order. His predecessors were Moinuddin Chishti, Bakhtiyar Kaki and Fariduddin Ganjshakar. He as a saint gained so much popularity that Sultan Ghiyasuddin became envious of him. One day the sultan poached the saint's workmen to construct his fortress city of Tughlaqabad and the saint refused saying let it belong to the Gujjar or let it remain in desolation. This reply made Sultan Ghiyasuddin very unhappy and he vowed to behead the saint when he lands his feet in Tughlaqabad. When saints disciples got wind of this, they advised the saint to flee to Ghiyaspur. The saint replied "_____ ____ ____ ___".The reply is still used with a bit modified format to denote something which is hard to achieve.

Two part question, who was the saint and what was his reply?

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If you enter through this door, where are you entering? To earn points, you have to be specific.

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According to Hindu mythology, X was the first king to rule the earth. His other name meant ‘One with the oath of truth’. X was also the progenitor of human race, as he was the only human survivor of a great flood. X can be compared to the protagonist of Noah’s Arc in biblical stories.

Identify X.

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_______ ____ ________ is characterized by multiple, symmetric, circumferential skin creases, or bands, on the forearms, lower legs, and often the neck that are present at birth. The creases disappear later in life. The appearance resembles the mascot of a tire manufacture and hence the name of the syndrome.

Fill up the blanks.

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William X (right), a food manufacturer and James X (left), a pharmacist started a company to manufacture patented malted milk drink as an artificial infant drink. X is very familiar to us.

Give me X.

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What is the significance of the following list ?

a. Baby's breakfast b. The arrival of a train at la ciotat c. The Gardener d. Workers leaving the Lumiere factory

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This is actually the standardized sizes for manufacturing what?

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Connect the Three gentlemen.

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Identify and Connect

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Connect

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Connect

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X (in the middle) was the 3rd child of a vice chancellor of Oxford University and was very close to the Y. Out of affection Y named his most famous creation after her.

Identify X and Y.

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There is a controversy regarding the invention of certain gadget between X (above) and Y. They submitted the patent application on the same day just in a few hours difference. Y won it as his lawyer delivered it by hand and asked for an immediate action.

Identify X and Y.

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_ _____ _______ __ _ _________ _____; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:

There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.

Fir'd at first Sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless Youth we tempt the Heights of Arts,

While from the bounded Level of our Mind, Short Views we take, nor see the lengths behind,

But more advanc'd, behold with strange Surprize New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise!

So pleas'd at first, the towering Alps we try, Mount o'er the Vales, and seem to tread the Sky;

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Describe the game colloquially known as “Ducks and Drakes”?

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Who walked out of the studio of Corporation radio in Madras during the British regime when authorities refused her a permission to sing patriotic poems?

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Henry Morton Stanley (left) asked a famous question to Mr. X (right).

What question?

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Connect Malcolm Spinz and Cristieana Cojocaru with respect to India in Olympics.

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__________ is a set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside the other. Traditionally the outer layer is a woman, dressed in a sarafan, a long and shapeless traditional Russian peasant jumper dress. The figures inside may be of either gender; the smallest, innermost doll is typically a baby lathed from a single piece of wood. Much of the artistry is in the painting of each doll, which can be very elaborate. The dolls often follow a theme, aside from the typical traditional peasant girls, the themes vary, from fairy tale characters to Soviet leaders.Fill up the blank.

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In this particular art form created by X and Georges Braque, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context. Often the surfaces intersect at seemingly random angles, removing a coherent sense of depth. The background and object planes interpenetrate one another to create the shallow ambiguous space. Identify X and give me the art form.

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The movie "La Dolce Vita" by Frederico Fellini had a character named __________ who was a news photographer. The director chose that name which in Italian describes an annoying noise by a buzzing mosquito. This character was the main reason behind the widespread use of the word X. The word X was originally used by an Italian poet in 1901, X actually is a plural form of the name of the character in the blank.

Give me X.

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X (in picture) is a type of wading bird. In 1770s the people who were skilled enough to kill this elusive bird were termed Y. The current context of Y is somewhat modified and was first used in the same sense in 1824.

What is X and Y?

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What are Hays Code?