4. 1
• A film adaptation of X had been in the works for years. In 1957, Y
wrote a one-page letter to actor Z, suggesting that he play A while Y
would portray B. In the letter, Y envisioned the film to be shot "with
the camera on the front seat of the car showing the road (day and
night) unwinding into the windshield." Z never responded to the
letter, and later on Warner Bros. offered $110,000 for the rights to
Y’s book but his agent declined it. He hoped for $150,000 from
Paramount Pictures, which wanted to cast Z in the film. The deal did
not occur and Y was angry that his agent asked for too much money.
• Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola bought the rights in 1979. In 1995,
the filmmaker planned to shoot on black-and-white 16mm but the
project fell through. Coppola said, "I tried to write a script, but I
never knew how to do it. It's hard — it's a period piece.”
• Give X, Y and Z
5.
6. • X – On The Road
• Y – Jack Kerouac
• Z – Marlon Brando
7. 2
• X was a New York City fire fighter from 1980 to 1984, with Engine
Company No. 55 in the Little Italy section of New York. He
showed up at his old firehouse the day after the World Trade
Center tragedy in New York to volunteer, working twelve-hour
shifts for a week after the terrorist act, and digging through
rubble with his old comrades looking for missing firefighters. X
was arrested, along with eleven others, on May 25, 2003 while
protesting the closing of his former firehouse.
• Identify X.
10. 3
• This is a snippet of a panel
from the graphic novel
Arkham Asylum: A Serious
House on Serious Earth.
Identify the two people
depicted. (They existed in real
life).
14. 4
• "His beloved first wife died early, in 1909, and the younger of
his two sons was killed in the First World War. He also had
twin daughters whom he adored. One died giving birth. The
surviving twin went to look after the baby and fell in love with
her sister's husband. They married and two years later she
died in childbirth. In 1944, when X was eighty-five, an Allied
bomb fell on his house and he lost everything -- papers,
diaries, a lifetime of accumulations. The following year his
surviving son was caught in a conspiracy to assassinate Hitler
and executed."
• Who is X?
17. 5
• India’s first military intervention in the Indian Ocean came first
with INS Vindhyagiri helping to abort a coup in the Seychelles
in 1986 (‘Operation X’) and then ‘Operation Y’ in 1988 when
commandos and naval ships were rushed to the Maldives after
Sri Lankan Tamil militants sought to unseat the then President,
Abdul Gayoom.
• ID X and Y.
18.
19. • X – Operation Flowers are Blooming
• Y – Operation Cactus
20. 6
• Extragalactic Blancmange puddings feature prominently in the latter
four linked TV humor sketches of the 1970's TV show Monty
Python's Flying Circus, Episode Seven: You're no fun any more. Their
fundamental absurdist humor is to upturn the usual relationship of
people eating food, into food eating people.
• A table-size sentient Blancmange from planet Skyron of the
Andromeda Galaxy turns the tables by eating people, especially
now-historic players of tennis.
• Chief Scientist Charles, his mistreated bimbo girlfriend, and a police
detective deduce that a particular bizarre cultural conversion and
the above mentioned player consumption are an effort to
depopulate England and win the Wimbledon tennis championships.
• What were these bizarre cultural conversions that would have
helped them win the Wimbledon tennis championships?
21.
22. • They converted the 48 million English citizens into
stereotypical Scots, as Scots cannot play Tennis.
• What the Blancmanges stand to gain by winning at
Wimbledon is never brought up.
23. 7
• "Modern examinations of the properties of X by Gustaf
Arrhenius and Andrew A. Benson of the Scripps Institution of
Oceanography have shown that they could, when immersed in
an arsenic-laced solution, remove poison. The toxic
compounds in arsenic are arsenate and arsenite. Each is acted
upon differently, but effectively, by X. Arsenate is removed by
being exchanged for phosphate in the mineral brushite, a
crystalline structure found in the stones. Arsenite is found to
bond to sulfur compounds in the protein of degraded hair,
which is a key component in X.“
• Give X.
26. 8
• This company was originally founded as an aircraft
manufacturer in 1934 by James ______. The factory was set
up in the late 1920s, where four aircraft prototypes were
designed and built - the MB1, MB2, MB3 and MB5. During the
design and testing of the MB 1 aircraft, James ______ and
Captain Valentine _____ started their friendship and
partnership.
• Today, this company is a supplier to 93 air forces worldwide.
• Name the company or the product it specializes in.
29. 9
• The company was founded in 1953 by three brothers, Juan,
José and Vicente ______, in the village of Almàssera near
Valencia. Starting with items such as vases and jugs, it wasn't
until 1956 that they started producing the products for which
they are now most famous.
• The manufacturing ingredients of the product are kept under
tight guard. The process is detailed in a number of _______
publications and is fully on view for tour groups and
individuals at the city. The products are made out of an
original blend of hard-paste porcelain, which gives the
products their unique porcelain characteristics. The glaze
ingredients also add to the look and is an industry secret.
• <Pic on Next Slide>
33. 10
President John F. Kennedy was prescribed swimming and use of
X by his physician in 1955 because the President suffered from
lingering back problems. The president so enjoyed his X that
he brought it on Air Force One when he travelled around the
country and the world. He bought additional Xs for Camp
David and the Kennedy estates, and gave them as gifts to
friends and heads of state.
ID X.
36. 11
• What is special
about this
soundtrack for a
movie.
• Also name the
movie.
37.
38. • The movie is Batman Begins, which can be worked out from
the fact that the titles of each of the tracks are taken from the
latin names for different species of bats. The titles of tracks 4
through 9 also form an acrostic: Barbastella, Artibeus,
Tadarida, Macrotus, Antrozous, and Nycterus all come
together to spell Batman.
39. 12
Connect (Exhaustive)
• Martha Jefferson Randolph
• Emily Donelson
• Sarah Yorke Jackson
• Angelica Singleton Van Buren
• Priscilla Cooper Tyler
• Harriet Lane
• Mary Arthur McElroy
• Rose Cleveland
• Mary Harrison McKee
• Margaret Woodrow Wilson
40.
41. The select few to carry the title of USA's First Lady without being the
wives of the President.
42. 13
Identify the two missing names from this list of prospective Popes on
the betting website paddypower.com.
50. 1
• In the Scientific American supplement for 1882, it was
remarked that "for two or three of his researches X deserves
the highest honor a scientific man can obtain, but the sum of
X’s work is absolutely overwhelming. Had X never lived, the
aspect of chemistry would be very different from that it is
now.“
• The X myth originated from a popular history of chemistry
published in 1931, which, "ignoring all pretence of historical
accuracy, turned X into a crusader who made attempt after
attempt to synthesize a natural product that would refute
vitalism and lift the veil of ignorance, until 'one afternoon the
miracle happened‘
• Identify X.
51. 2
• X was a priest who descended from Eleazar the son of Aaron. He aided
King David during the revolt of his son Absalom, and was consequently
instrumental in bringing King Solomon to the throne. After Solomon's
building of The First Temple in Jerusalem, X was the first High Priest to
serve there.
• The prophet Ezekiel extols the sons of X as staunch opponents of
paganism during the era of its pagan worship and indicates their birth-
right to unique duties and privileges in the future Third Temple.
• Y is a coronation anthem composed by George Frideric Handel using
texts from the King James Bible.
• X is heard on television coverage of the coronation of Elizabeth II in the
film Prick Up Your Ears, coinciding with the first sexual encounter
between playwright Joe Orton (played by Gary Oldman) and his lover
Kenneth Halliwell (Alfred Molina)
• A remixed version was used on the 19th November 2012 edition of
WWE Raw to celebrate CM Punk's 365th day as WWE Champion.
• Give X or Y.
52. 3
• According to Johnson & Johnson, “The origins of the brand
name X are unknown. Two popular hypotheses are that it was
created in the state of Y, USA , hence ‘X’ , or that the letters
represent the key ingredients used to make X , neither of
which are proven.” Interestingly, X has also found use in the
horror movie industry. Give X.
53. 4
The existence of X is only known from textual sources. It has not
yet been localised although scholars have proposed different
locations, with most recent proposals pointing to a location
east of the Tigris. It was the capital of the Xian Empire.
After the fall of the Xian Empire, the Xian peoples
of Mesopotamia eventually coalesced into two major Xian
speaking nations - Assyria in the north, and a few centuries
later, Babylonia in the south.
ID X.
54. 5
Founded in Koblenz in 1827, the company initially produced its books
so that travellers would not have to pay local guides while touring
the Rhine. The first English edition appeared in 1861, and with their
distinctive red covers, diligently updated information and state-of-
the-art maps, X grew to become an essential tool for civilised travel
everywhere from the "Dominion of Canada" to Palestine. They
became so popular that X-ing entered the slang of the time to
describe a journey made purely to write a travelogue.
55. 6
X's tenure at the helm is regarded as the golden age of Indian
Football. Under him, India reached the semis of the 1956
Olympics (first ever Asian country to do so), won the Asiad
gold in 1951 and 1962, and won numerous quadrangular
tournaments in the 1950s. A man ahead of his time, he
observed the football world around him. He incorporated
tactics employed by the 1948 Olympics winners.
Unfortunately, before he could take the Indian team to
greater heights, X died from cancer in 1963. X?
56. 7
• X was an African American tennis player. In 1956 she became the first
person of color to win a Grand Slam title (the French Open).
• In all she won 11 Grand Slam tournaments, including six doubles titles,
and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame and the
International Women's Sports Hall of Fame.
• In the early 1960s she also became the first black player to compete on
the women's golf tour.
• At a time when racism and prejudice were widespread in sports and in
society, X was often compared to Jackie Robinson.
• "I am honored to have followed in such great footsteps," wrote Venus
Williams. "Her accomplishments set the stage for my success, and
through players like myself and Serena and many others to come, her
legacy will live on."
57. 8.
• In 1926, someone wrote this about his company’s
flagship product: “There is no other article for individual
use so universally known and widely distributed. In my
travels, I have found it in the most northern town in
Norway and in the heart of the Sahara Desert”
• What was this person talking about?
59. 1
• In the Scientific American supplement for 1882, it was
remarked that "for two or three of his researches X deserves
the highest honor a scientific man can obtain, but the sum of
X’s work is absolutely overwhelming. Had X never lived, the
aspect of chemistry would be very different from that it is
now.“
• The X myth originated from a popular history of chemistry
published in 1931, which, "ignoring all pretence of historical
accuracy, turned X into a crusader who made attempt after
attempt to synthesize a natural product that would refute
vitalism and lift the veil of ignorance, until 'one afternoon the
miracle happened‘
• Identify X.
61. 2
• X was a priest who descended from Eleazar the son of Aaron. He aided
King David during the revolt of his son Absalom, and was consequently
instrumental in bringing King Solomon to the throne. After Solomon's
building of The First Temple in Jerusalem, X was the first High Priest to
serve there.
• The prophet Ezekiel extols the sons of X as staunch opponents of
paganism during the era of its pagan worship and indicates their birth-
right to unique duties and privileges in the future Third Temple.
• Y is a coronation anthem composed by George Frideric Handel using
texts from the King James Bible.
• X is heard on television coverage of the coronation of Elizabeth II in the
film Prick Up Your Ears, coinciding with the first sexual encounter
between playwright Joe Orton (played by Gary Oldman) and his lover
Kenneth Halliwell (Alfred Molina)
• A remixed version was used on the 19th November 2012 edition of
WWE Raw to celebrate CM Punk's 365th day as WWE Champion.
• Give X or Y.
63. 3
• According to Johnson & Johnson, “The origins of the brand
name X are unknown. Two popular hypotheses are that it was
created in the state of Y, USA , hence ‘X’ , or that the letters
represent the key ingredients used to make X , neither of
which are proven.” Interestingly, X has also found use in the
horror movie industry. Give X.
64. Answer
• X – K-Y Jelly
• Y- Kentucky
• KY Jelly is used in the movie industry to create a slimy
appearance for monster puppet effects.
65. 4
The existence of X is only known from textual sources. It has not
yet been localised although scholars have proposed different
locations, with most recent proposals pointing to a location
east of the Tigris. It was the capital of the Xian Empire.
After the fall of the Xian Empire, the Xian peoples
of Mesopotamia eventually coalesced into two major Xian
speaking nations - Assyria in the north, and a few centuries
later, Babylonia in the south.
ID X.
67. 5
Founded in Koblenz in 1827, the company initially produced its books
so that travellers would not have to pay local guides while touring
the Rhine. The first English edition appeared in 1861, and with their
distinctive red covers, diligently updated information and state-of-
the-art maps, X grew to become an essential tool for civilised travel
everywhere from the "Dominion of Canada" to Palestine. They
became so popular that X-ing entered the slang of the time to
describe a journey made purely to write a travelogue.
69. 6
X's tenure at the helm is regarded as the golden age of Indian
football. Under him, India reached the semis of the 1956
Olympics (first ever Asian country to do so), won the Asiad
gold in 1951 and 1962, and won numerous quadrangular
tournaments in the 1950s. A man ahead of his time, he
observed the football world around him. He incorporated
tactics employed by the 1948 Olympics winners.
Unfortunately, before he could take the Indian team to
greater heights, X died from cancer in 1963. X?
71. 7
• X was an African American tennis player. In 1956 she became the first
person of color to win a Grand Slam title (the French Open).
• In all she won 11 Grand Slam tournaments, including six doubles titles,
and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame and the
International Women's Sports Hall of Fame.
• In the early 1960s she also became the first black player to compete on
the women's golf tour.
• At a time when racism and prejudice were widespread in sports and in
society, X was often compared to Jackie Robinson.
• "I am honored to have followed in such great footsteps," wrote Venus
Williams. "Her accomplishments set the stage for my success, and
through players like myself and Serena and many others to come, her
legacy will live on."
73. 8.
• In 1926, someone wrote this about his company’s
flagship product: “There is no other article for individual
use so universally known and widely distributed. In my
travels, I have found it in the most northern town in
Norway and in the heart of the Sahara Desert”
• What was this person talking about?
76. 1 What connects these?
• A scientific term, denoting organisms that reappear in the fossil
record after a period of apparent extinction
• A documentary project for HIV AIDS awareness by U2 musician
Bono's private sector brand initiative
• Former President of Haiti, Jean Bertrand Aristide, was termed
the "Haitian ________" by journalist Amy Wilentz, in her
description of his return to Haiti from exile and the political
significance of this event.
79. 2. Id X.
• The younger daughter of the family; X is intelligent, true-
hearted, fearless, and good-natured. After having been gifted
with the ability to communicate with wildlife, she often
employs this skill when embarking on explorations through
the wilderness, traveling around the world with her parents,
or encountering different wild creatures. Aided by her
intelligent pet chimp, Darwin, she often sets out to assist or
meet countless differing animals. X is depicted in a
stereotypically-nerdy fashion, with red hair plaited in braids,
eyeglasses, braces, and freckles.
85. 4.
• These are two songs which have almost the same name.
• The first is dedicated to a fictional character.
• The second is dedicated to a real life person.
• Give us the character and the person’s names.
• Song 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4bcyMy6A3c
• Song 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YrFT6KO6Y8
86.
87. 4.
• The name of the songs are Sam, the Brave.
• Samwise Gamgee from Lord of the Rings
• Field Marshal S.H.F.J. Manekshaw (Sam Bahadur or Sam, the
brave)
90. • Starbucks had to recall this poster because it bore resemblance
to the unfortunate 9/11 attacks and thus hurt the sentiments of
the people. Any depiction of two similar, side by side objects
taller than they were wide was considered as an unacceptable
reminder of the 9/11 attacks
91. 6
X was an American professional
basketball player. He was a pioneer
as an African-American basketball
player, becoming the first to be
named NCAA All-American, the first
to play on a United States men's
Olympic basketball team, and the
first to play in an National Basketball
Association All-Star Game. He was
inducted into the Naismith Memorial
Basketball Hall of Fame.In 1948, he
was the first African-American on the
U.S. Olympic basketball team. He
joined the team in Basketball at the
1948 Summer Olympics, and became
the first African-American to win an
Olympic gold medal in basketball.
He is immortalized in a t.v.show
Y,mainly because of his
achievements and of the teams he
played for.
92.
93. X:Donald Argee "Don" Barksdale(played for the Baltimore Bullets
from 1951-1953)
The name of the character D'angelo Barksdale from The
Wire(chronicling the city of Baltimore) is based on Don Barksdale
94. 7.
• ”We were sent a gift and we need to make use of it. We need
our own Eiffel Tower or Statue of Liberty,” said Natalia Gritsay,
head of the region’s tourism department, according to The
Sydney Morning Herald.
• •Officials and residents made a wide range of proposals at the
meeting, one official suggesting a ”______ Disneyland” that
would function to recreate the events and a ”floating beacon-
tipped pyramid” on the lake in the city.
• What is being talked about here?
97. 8. Identify.
• X (October 23, 1875 – March 23, 1946) was an American
physical chemist known for the discovery of the covalent
bond, his purification of heavy water, his reformulation of
chemical thermodynamics in a mathematically rigorous
manner accessible to ordinary chemists, his theory of acids
and bases, and his photochemical experiments.
• In 1926, X coined the term "photon" for the smallest unit of
radiant energy. He was a brother in Alpha Chi Sigma, the
professional chemistry fraternity, and for most of his long
professorial career, a professor of chemistry at the University
of California, Berkeley.
• X was nominated for the Nobel Prize 35 times but he never
won even once. X was found dead in his lab on the same day
he had lunch with Irving Langmuir, 1932 recipient of the
Chemistry prize. It is speculated that this was suicide.
100. 9. Identify
• X also known as Flash Kicker, or Captain Majid in Arab speaking
countries, is a popular long-running Japanese manga, animation,
and video game series, originally created by Yōichi Takahashi in
1981. The series mainly revolves around the sport of Association
football.
• The story focuses on the adventures of a Japanese youth soccer
team and its football captain ________ , whose name literally
translates to "Big Sky Wings". The series is characterized by
dynamic football moves, often stylish and implausible. The plot
focuses on _______ relationship with his friends, rivalry with his
opponents, training, competition, and the action and outcome of
each football match.
• X inspired prominent footballers such as Hidetoshi Nakata,
Alessandro Del Piero, Fernando Torres, Zinedine Zidane,
Lionel Messi and Alexis Sánchez to play football and choose
it as a career.
101.
102.
103. 10.
• The X measures the performance of a global universe of investable
equities that have been screened for compliance consistency with Y
and with Dow Jones Indexes’ methodology. The selection universe
for the X is the same as the universe for the Dow Jones World Index,
a broad-market index that seeks to provide approximately 95%
market coverage of 44 countries.
• The first level of X screening removes companies involved in such
products as alcohol, pork-related products, conventional financial
services (e.g. banks and insurance companies), entertainment (e.g.
hotels, casinos, gambling etc.), tobacco, and weapons and defence.
A second level of X screening based on financial ratios, is intended to
remove companies based on debt and interest income levels in their
balance sheets.
• Give X and Y
106. 11.
The X, named after political economist Thomas Robert _______,
suggests that for most of human history, income was largely
stagnant because technological advances and discoveries only
resulted in more people, rather than improvements in the
standard of living. It was only with the onset of the Industrial
Revolution in about 1800 that the income per person
dramatically increased in some countries, and they broke out of
the X. Also, It has been recently suggested that the emergence
of major socio-political upheavals at the escape from the X is not
an abnormal, but a regular phenomenon.
X? Graph on next slide
111. 12.
What is being referenced in the video? (The part about declaring
their apartment a Sovereign nation)
<video- part of ‘The Toast Derivation’, Leonard is telling Priya
about Sheldon trying to declare their apartment a sovereign
nation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6f_zknMEAc >
112.
113. They are referring to Talossa, which was founded as a kingdom
on December 26, 1979 by Robert Ben Madison, a 14 year-old
resident of Milwaukee, shortly after the death of his mother. At
that time the kingdom occupied Madison's bedroom, and he
adopted the name "Talossa" for it after discovering that the
word means "inside the house" in Finnish.
115. 1.
• X is a painting by Henri Edmond Cross. X is a resort town in
the Alpes-Maritimes department in south eastern France. It lies on
the Mediterranean in the Côte d'Azur, located
between Cannes and Nice.
116. 2.
The rich, creamy flavours of the Y drink, special to
the city, remain a favourite with Puneites
“You must have heard about X Y. X, once besotted
with Y's beauty, couldn't get enough of her, and
the same holds true for anyone who's ever tasted
this drink. You simply have to keep having it again,
if you've tasted it once.”
Summertime's here and the droves of people
heading to have their fill of the Y are soon to
follow. Made from cold milk and ice-cream, fresh
and dry fruits, it's served with ice-cream garnished
with more dry fruits. Sinfully delicious and loaded
with calories, the drink is a favourite with old-
timers and the youth alike.
117. 3.
2.
X is a street and road in the eastern Santa Monica
Mountains of Southern California. It is named after Los Angeles
pioneer civil engineer William _________. The western rural portion in
Los Angeles and Ventura Counties is named ___________ Highway.
118. 4.
• X is an igneous intrusion or laccolith in the Black
Hills near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County,
northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises
dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding terrain
and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.
• X was the first declared United States National Monument,
established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore
Roosevelt. The Monument's boundary encloses an area of
1,347 acres (545 ha).
• <image on next slide>
119.
120. 5.
• X is a type of restaurant found in Lyon, France, that serves
traditional Lyonnaise cuisine, such as sausages, duck pâté or
roast pork. Compared to other forms of French cooking such
as nouvelle cuisine, the dishes are quite fatty and heavily
oriented around meat. There are approximately twenty
officially certified traditional X, but a larger number of
establishments describe themselves using the term.
• Typically, the emphasis in a X is not on haute cuisine but,
rather, a convivial atmosphere and a personal relationship
with the owner.
121. 6.
• X or Y cuisine combines Chinese, Malay and other influences
into a unique blend. X are descendants of early Chinese
migrants who settled in Penang, Malacca, Indonesia
and Singapore, inter-marrying with local Malays.
• The old Malay word Y , a term of respect and affection for
women of prominent social standing ,has come to refer to the
cuisine of the X.
• Y cooking is the result of blending Chinese ingredients with
spices and cooking techniques used by the Malay/Indonesian
community.
123. 1.
• X is a painting by Henri Edmond Cross. X is a resort town in
the Alpes-Maritimes department in south eastern France. It lies on
the Mediterranean in the Côte d'Azur, located
between Cannes and Nice.
126. 2.
The rich, creamy flavours of the Y drink, special to
the city, remain a favourite with Puneites
You must have heard about X Y. X, once besotted
with Y's beauty, couldn't get enough of her, and
the same holds true for anyone who's ever tasted
this drink. You simply have to keep having it again,
if you've tasted it once.
Summertime's here and the droves of people
heading to have their fill of the Y are soon to
follow. Made from cold milk and ice-cream, fresh
and and dry fruits, it's served with ice-cream
garnished with more dry fruits. Sinfully delicious
and loaded with calories, the drink is a favourite
with old-timers and the youth alike.
129. 3.
2.
X is a street and road in the eastern Santa Monica
Mountains of Southern California. It is named after Los Angeles
pioneer civil engineer William _________. The western rural portion
in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties is named ___________ Highway.
132. 4.
• X is an igneous intrusion or laccolith in the Black
Hills near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County,
northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises
dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding terrain
and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.
• X was the first declared United States National Monument,
established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore
Roosevelt. The Monument's boundary encloses an area of
1,347 acres (545 ha).
136. 5.
• X is a type of restaurant found in Lyon, France, that serves
traditional Lyonnaise cuisine, such as sausages, duck pâté or
roast pork. Compared to other forms of French cooking such
as nouvelle cuisine, the dishes are quite fatty and heavily
oriented around meat. There are approximately twenty
officially certified traditional X, but a larger number of
establishments describe themselves using the term.
• Typically, the emphasis in a X is not on haute cuisine but,
rather, a convivial atmosphere and a personal relationship
with the owner.
139. 6.
• X or Y cuisine combines Chinese, Malay and other influences
into a unique blend. X are descendants of early Chinese
migrants who settled in Penang, Malacca, Indonesia
and Singapore, inter-marrying with local Malays. The old
Malay word Y , a term of respect and affection for women of
prominent social standing ,has come to refer to the cuisine of
the X.
• Y cooking is the result of blending Chinese ingredients with
spices and cooking techniques used by the Malay/Indonesian
community.
143. Q1. (+30/-20)
• X is a country in West Africa. It is surrounded by Senegal,
apart from a short strip of Atlantic coastline at its western
end. It is the smallest country on mainland Africa.
• On 18 February 1965, X gained independence from the United
Kingdom and joined the Commonwealth of Nations. Banjul is
X’s capital, but the largest cities are Serekunda and Brikama.
• X shares historical roots with many other West African nations
in the slave trade, which was the key factor in the placing and
keeping of a colony in the area.
• In contrast to many African countries, since gaining
independence in 1965, X has enjoyed relative political
stability, with the exception of a brief period of military rule in
1994
144. Q2.(+27/-18)
• X consumes the highest amount of alcohol per capita in
the world.
• The country has a well established wine industry. It has a
vineyard area of 147,000 hectares, of which 102,500 ha
are used for commercial production. Most of the
country's wine production is made for export. Many
families have their own recipes and strands of grapes
that have been passed down through the generations.
• X currently aspires to join the European Union, and has
implemented the first three-year Action Plan within the
framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP).
• As of 2009, X has been described by the European
Parliament as the poorest country in Europe in terms of
GDP.
145. Q3. Etymology of the name of a
capital city. Which? (+24/-15)
• This hypothesis of the origin of the name comes from the
Navigational Calendar of boatswain Francisco de Albo, member of
the expedition of Ferdinand Magellan,who wrote, "Tuesday of the
said [month of January 1520] we were on the straits of Cape Santa
María [now Punta del Este], from where the coast runs east to west,
and the terrain is sandy, and at the right of the cape there is a
mountain like a hat to which we gave the name “______".“
• This is the oldest Spanish document that mentions the promontory
with a name similar to the one that designates the city, but which
doesn't contain any mention of the alleged cry “_______*“.
146. Q4. Where would you find this?(Country) It is
named after the person whose statue you see.
(+21/-12)
147. Q5. (+18/-9)
An X is a concrete scar caused by a mortar shell's explosion that was later
filled with red resin. Mortar rounds landing on concrete created a unique
fragmentation pattern that looks almost floral in arrangement. Because
_______ was a site of intense urban warfare and suffered thousands of
shell explosions during the Y War, the marked concrete patterns are a
unique feature to _________.
148. Q6. Id X and Y (+ 15/-6)
• The X are the eleven countries- Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia,
Iran, Mexico, Y , Pakistan, Philippines, Turkey, South Korea, and
Vietnam – identified by Goldman Sachs investment bank and
economist Jim O'Neill in a research paper as having a high
potential of becoming, along with the BRICs/BRICS, the
world's largest economies in the 21st century.
150. Q8. Name of the cat? (+5/-0)
The cat was named after the baseball player Rubén Sierra, who
was nicknamed “_____" during his time with the Texas
Rangers when Bush owned the team. The name had reportedly
been given to the family cat by the daughter of the American
President.
152. Q1. (+30/-20)
• X is a country in West Africa. It is surrounded by Senegal,
apart from a short strip of Atlantic coastline at its western
end. It is the smallest country on mainland Africa.
• On 18 February 1965, X gained independence from the United
Kingdom and joined the Commonwealth of Nations. Banjul is
X’s capital, but the largest cities are Serekunda and Brikama.
• X shares historical roots with many other West African nations
in the slave trade, which was the key factor in the placing and
keeping of a colony in the area.
• In contrast to many African countries, since gaining
independence in 1965, X has enjoyed relative political
stability, with the exception of a brief period of military rule in
1994
155. Q2.(+27/-18)
• X consumes the highest amount of alcohol per capita in
the world.
• The country has a well established wine industry. It has a
vineyard area of 147,000 hectares, of which 102,500 ha
are used for commercial production. Most of the
country's wine production is made for export. Many
families have their own recipes and strands of grapes
that have been passed down through the generations.
• X currently aspires to join the European Union, and has
implemented the first three-year Action Plan within the
framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP).
• As of 2009, X has been described by the European
Parliament as the poorest country in Europe in terms of
GDP.
158. Q3. Etymology of the name of a
capital city. Which? (+24/-15)
• This hypothesis of the origin of the name comes from the
Navigational Calendar of boatswain Francisco de Albo, member of
the expedition of Ferdinand Magellan,who wrote, "Tuesday of the
said [month of January 1520] we were on the straits of Cape Santa
María [now Punta del Este], from where the coast runs east to west,
and the terrain is sandy, and at the right of the cape there is a
mountain like a hat to which we gave the name “______".“
• This is the oldest Spanish document that mentions the promontory
with a name similar to the one that designates the city, but which
doesn't contain any mention of the alleged cry “_______*“.
164. Q5. (+18/-9)
An X is a concrete scar caused by a mortar shell's explosion that was later
filled with red resin. Mortar rounds landing on concrete create a unique
fragmentation pattern that looks almost floral in arrangement. Because
_______ was a site of intense urban warfare and suffered thousands of
shell explosions during the Y War, the marked concrete patterns are a
unique feature to the city.
167. Q6. Id X and Y (+ 15/-6)
• The X are the eleven countries- Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia,
Iran, Mexico, Y , Pakistan, Philippines, Turkey, South Korea, and
Vietnam – identified by Goldman Sachs investment bank and
economist Jim O'Neill in a research paper as having a high
potential of becoming, along with the BRICs/BRICS, the
world's largest economies in the 21st century.
173. Q8. Name of the cat? (+5/-0)
The cat was named after the baseball player Rubén Sierra, who
was nicknamed “_____" during his time with the Texas
Rangers when Bush owned the team. The name had reportedly
been given to the family cat by the daughter of the American
President.
176. Answer to the Mega Connect:
Countries named after rivers :
• The Gambia-Gambia
• Moldova- Moldova
• Uruguay- Uruguay
• Zambia-Zambezi
• Bosnia-Bosna
• Nigeria-Niger
• Jordan-Jordan
• India-Indus
• More examples include Congo, Paraguay and Niger.
