4. X built a diving bell, a device in which the atmosphere was
replenished by way of weighted barrels of air sent down from the
surface. In a demonstration, X and five companions dived to 60
feet in the River Thames, and remained there for over an hour and
a half. X suffered one of the earliest recorded cases of middle ear
barotrauma.
He was the first one to introduce to the royal society a rudimentary
working model of a magnetic compass using a liquid-filled housing
to damp the swing and wobble of the magnetized needle.
X first suggested a high-precision measurement of the distance
between the Earth and the Sun by timing the transit of Venus
X participated in the first attempt to scientifically date Stonehenge
5. One problem that attracted his attention was the
proof of Kepler's laws of planetary motion. In
August 1684 he went to Cambridge to discuss
this with Sir Isaac Newton, only to find that
Newton had solved the problem, but published
nothing. X convinced him to write the Principia
Mathematica Philosophiae Naturalis (1687),
which was published at X's expense.
6. * X (lunar crater)
* X (Martian crater)
* X Research Station, Antarctica
* X's method, for the numerical solution of
equations
* X Street, in Blackburn, Victoria, Australia
* Edmund X Road, Oxford Science Park ,
Oxford, OX4 4DQ UK
10. In addition to his office, the X also holds a number
of other position
he is Joint President of the Council of Christians
and Jews in the United Kingdom.
Visitor The University of Kent
Visitor Wycliffe Hall, Oxford
Joint President, Churches Conservation Trus
* Governor of Charterhouse School
* Governor of Wellington College
11. Since St Augustine was the first one to hold this
position in 597AD, all till now have been
referred to as occupying the Chair of St.
Augustine.
15.
Sir Winston Churchill
# Jawaharlal Nehru, First Prime Minister of India
Spencer Perceval, Tory (Conservative) Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom
Spencer Gore (artist)
Alex Chamberlin, artist
James Bond, ornithologist
Simon Astaire
# Thomas Baring of Barings Bank
18. Its formula, which was a closely guarded state
secret, whose composition has now been lost.
As a result, its ingredients are a much debated
topic, with proposals including naphtha,
quicklime, sulphur, and niter
19. The Byzantines typically used it in naval battles to
great effect as it could continue burning even
under water
What set the Byzantine usage of incendiary
mixtures apart was their use of pressurized
siphons to project the liquid onto the enemy.
22. # Robert Boyle (1627–1691), natural philosopher
and chemist
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of
Wellington
George Canning Prime Minister and Chancellor of
the Exchequer, 1827
# William Cavendish, politician and benefactor of
science and industry
23. Francis Thomas Bacon (1904–1992)
Ian Fleming
Sir Adrian Cadbury Chairman, 1975–1989,
Cadbury Schweppes
# Hugh Laurie (born 1959), actor and comedian
# Abhisit "Mark" Vejjajiva 27th Prime Minister of
Thailand
HM King Dipendra of Nepal briefly King of Nepal,
2001
26. Y is an American actress and former fashion model
with a career spanning six decades.
Y had been assured by X that mechanical birds would
be used. Instead, Y endured five solid days of prop
men, protected by thick leather gloves, flinging
dozens of live gulls, ravens and crows at her (their
beaks clamped shut with elastic bands). Cary Grant
visited and told Y, "I think you're the bravest lady I've
ever met." In a state of exhaustion, when one of the
birds gouged her cheek and narrowly missed her
eye, Y sat down on the set and began crying. A
physician ordered a week's rest, which Y said at the
time was riddled with "nightmares filled wth flapping
28. They were shooting last scene of
BIRDS by HITCHCOCK
X -Hitchcock
Y- Tippie Hedren
Daughter-Melanie Griffith
wife of actor Antonio
Banderas.
29. It one of the longest-running annual cricket
fixtures in the world.
The first one occured in 1805 and has been an
annual event since 1822
It is the last annual match played at Lord's Cricket
Ground.
The number of spectators necessitated the first
introduction of viewing stands and a boundary
rope at Lord's in 1866.
33. a) incompleteness theorems,+ coding formal
expressions as natural numbers.
b)
mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs,
and mezzotints featuring impossible
constructions, explorations of infinity,
architecture, and tessellations.
c) Brandenburg Concertos, the Goldberg
37. X was an influential film critic and filmmaker and
one of the founders of the French New Wave
X joined the French Army in 1950, aged 18, but
spent the next two years trying to escape.
He was called "The Gravedigger of French
Cinema" and was the only French critic not
invited to the Cannes Film Festival in 1958
38. Quoted as inspiration for directors such as Steven
Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, Brian De Palma,
Martin Scorsese, & Wes Anderson and is
referred by Haruki Murakami in Kafka on the
Shore.
He was also notably one of the main stars in
Steven Spielberg's 1977 film Close Encounters
of the Third Kind, where he played scientist
Claude Lacombe.
39. The 400 Blows (Best Director - Cannes Film
Festival)
Day for Night ( Best Foreign Film Oscar in 1973. )
Fahrenheit 451 (1966) novel of the same name by
Ray Bradbury.
42. As his mother Suzanne Brière was French, he
spent much of his childhood in France and as a
result, French was his first language. He also
attended the French Foreign Legion
He then attended the Cathedral and John Connon
School, Bombay
He did not continue beyond matriculation as
mentioned in his biography Beyond The Last
Blue Mountain by R M Lala.
45. ____ _____ Pracaraka Samgha is a social and
spiritual movement founded in Jamalpur, Bihar,
India in 1955 by Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
Its followers describe it as a practical philosophy
for personal development, social service and all
around transformation of society. Through its
meditation centers and service projects around
the world, _____ _____ offers instruction in
meditation, yoga and other self-development
practices on a non-commercial basis.
46. From 1975–77 _____ _____ was banned under
the state of emergency imposed by the Indian
government of Indira Gandhi. Over 400 of its
schools in India were closed down, and
numerous ministers and adherents were
imprisoned.
1976 Karpov - Korchnoi Title Match some of the
followers of this created a controversy after
Korchnoi hiring them to prevent the "negative
rays" sent by Karpov's followers
47. In 1978 three followers of this were found guilty of
conspiring to murder the Indian High
Commissioner in London the previous year and
were sentenced to a total of 12 years. As part of
their investigations the anti-terrorist squad
discovered bomb-making instructions and a
copy of The Anarchist Cookbook at the
organization's London headquarters
In 1996 the Supreme Court of India lifted the ban
50. In baseball, a _____ _____ is a substitute batter.
Batters can be substituted at any time while the
ball is dead (not in active play); the manager
may use any player that has not yet entered the
game as a substitute. Unlike basketball,
American football, or ice hockey, however,
baseball does not have a "free substitution rule"
and thus the replaced player in baseball is
never allowed back into that game. The _____
_____ assumes the spot in the batting order of
the player he replaces. Mainly used by
managers in desperate situations with dire need
of immediate runs.