12. X was a famous stunt performer and an escape
artist in the early 20th century. Some of his notable
escapes include:
Mirror handcuff challenge.
Milk Can Escape.
Chinese Water Torture Cell.
Suspended straitjacket escape.
Overboard box escape.
Buried Alive stunt.
Id X.
14. Shammi Narang is a voice-over artist, ex news
anchor, emcee and entrepreneur based in
Delhi, best known for raising the standards of
news-casting in India. Graduating with an
engineering degree, Narang first got into the voice-
over profession by working in the Hindi division
of Voice of America. Later he became the 'face of
Doordarshan news reading' and Indian Television
in general during the 1970s - 80s. His rendering
of Sarab Sanjhi Gurbani has become the voice of
Sikhs globally as well.
Where can Delhiites hear him everyday
nowadays?
16. X was originally founded as a
pioneering peer-to-peer file sharing Internet
service that emphasized sharing audio
files, typically music, encoded in MP3 format.
The original company ran into legal difficulties
over copyright infringement, ceased
operations and was eventually acquired
by Roxio. In its second incarnation X became
an online music store until it merged with
Rhapsody in December 2011. What is X?
30. What does this list represent?
1. Smaug
2. Flintheart Glomgold
3. Carlisle Cullen
4. Jed Clampett
5. Tony Stark
6. Richie Rich
7. Charles Foster Kane
8. Bruce Wayne
9. Forrest Gump
10. Lisbeth Salander
11. Mr. Monopoly
12. Tywin Lannister
13. C. Montgomery Burns
14. Robert Crowley
15. Jo Bennett
32. It was founded in 1965 in New York City by A. C.
Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Its core beliefs
are based on traditional Hindu scriptures, such as
the Srimad Bhagavatam and the Bhagavad-Gita.
The distinctive appearance of the movement and
its culture come from the Gaudiya Vaisnava
tradition, which has had adherents in India since
the late 15th century and Western converts since
the early 1930s. It was formed to spread the
practice of bhakti yoga.
Id this organization.
42. The religion X was founded in the 17th
century by George Fox.
Y, or Friends, are members of the Religious
Society of Friends, also called the Friends'
Church. X„s central doctrine is the priesthood
of all believers. Members of X have founded
banks & companies including
Barclays, Lloyds, Friends Provident, Clarks
and Cadbury.
Id X and Y.
50. What did the last line of the poem give
birth to?
Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands,
Oh, where hae ye been?
They hae slain the Earl O' Moray,
And laid him on the green.
52. He single-handedly carved a 360-foot-
long, 25-foot-high and 30-foot-wide
road by cutting through a mountain in the
Gehlour hills, working day and night for 22
years from 1960 to 1982. His feat reduced
the distance between the Atri and
Wazirganj blocks of the Gaya district from
75 km to 1 km, bringing him international
acclaim. He is known as the Mountain Man
of India. Name him.
54. Because of its top-level domain name, this
country has earned notoriety for being
associated with the most number of
phishing sites on the internet. Which
country is it?
55. Cameroon.
Its domain name is .cm and phishing sites
make it an easy target as people get
confused with .com
57. Batesian mimcry.
It is a form of mimicry typified by a
situation where a harmless species has
evolved to imitate the warning signals of a
harmful species directed at a
common predator. It is named after the
English naturalist Henry Walter Bates, after
his work in the rainforests of Brazil.
58. X is a genre of Spanish music, song, and
dance from Andalusia, in
southern Spain, that includes cante
(singing), toque (guitar
playing), baile(dance)
and palmas (handclaps). X is the Spanish
name for Greater Flamingo. The dance
style derives much from Romani
dances, seen in India in the present
day Kathak dance. Id X.
61. X was a French illusionist and filmmaker famous
for leading many technical and narrative
developments in the earliest days of cinema. X, a
prolific innovator in the use of special
effects, accidentally discovered the
substitution stop trick in 1896, and was one of the
first filmmakers to use multiple exposures ,time-
lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted
color in his work. Because of his ability to
seemingly manipulate and transform reality
through cinematography, X is sometimes referred
to as the first "Cinemagician.“
Id X.
67. X was tinned and canned as part of
emergency rations to US pilots in WW-II, who
were working for espionage services.
The idea was that pilots who were shot down
or marooned on remote islands would eat
eggs and eventually urinate into the sea.
Since X contains mercaptans-powerful
chemical attractants-fish would be drawn by
the chemical passing through the urine into
the sea, making it easier for the pilot to catch
food.
What is X?
69. If Hawaii is the southern most state of the
USA, which states are the northern
most, western most and the eastern most
states in the USA?
(Hint: Think Longitude.)
70. Alaska is the northern most and the
western most state.
It crosses the 180 degree longitude,
hence it is the eastern most state
as well.
71. X is an exhibition basketball team that
combines athleticism, theater and comedy. The
executive offices for the team are located in
downtown Phoenix, Arizona; the team is owned
by Shamrock Holdings, which oversees the various
investments of the Roy E. Disney family.
Over the years they have played more than 20,000
exhibition games in 120 countries. Brother
Bones's whistled version of "Sweet Georgia Brown" is
the team's signature song. "Globie" has been their
mascot since 1993. The members have also appeared
in Family Guy, Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader
and Amazing Race.
Id X.
