THE OASIS

Questions set by ARINDAM GOSWAMI, NALBARI COLLEGE

A Short General Hub Quiz

X vibration syndrome or X ringing is the sensation and false belief that one can feel one’s mobile phone vibrating or hear it ringing, when actually its not.

In 2012, the term made its way to Australia as Macquarie Dictionary’s “Word Of The Year”.

X was the first fictional superhero to wear the skintight costume that has now become a hallmark of comic book superheroes.

Give Me X

Phantom !!

This minaret was built under the rule of Alauddin khiliji. According to local myths it was a 'tower of beheading' where the severed heads of thieves were displayed on spear through its 225 holes to act as a deterent to thieves.

It is situated just off Aurobindo Marg in New Delhi.

Identify the monument.

Chor Minar

X is the debut album of American hard rock band Y. The album's original cover art,based on Robert Williams painting,'X', depicted a robotic rapist about to be punished by a metal avenger.Later, because of some controversy, the cover art was replaced by an image depicting a cross and skulls of the five band members.

Name the band and the album.

Guns N' Roses and Appetite For Destruction

In 1886, president, Grover Cleveland ordered that X will serve as a lighthouse. After several failed attempts, the electrical lights were lit and those electric arc lights were able to be seen from a distance of 24 miles away. X functioned as a lighthouse for next 16 years, until March1, 1902.

Give X

Statue of Liberty

"Limelight" is a 1952 comedy-drama film written, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, co-starring Claire Bloom, with an appearance by Buster Keaton. The film score is composed by Chaplin and arranged by Ray Rasch.Charles Chaplin, Ray Rasch and Larry Russell won the Oscar for Best Original Score for this film and it is the only competitive Oscar he ever received; his other awards were given to him for special achievement outside of the established categories.Though the movie was released in 1952 but it won Oscar in 1972.What's the reason behind this delay?

The picture had never played in a Los Angeles-arena cinema during the intervening 20 years and was not eligible for Oscar consideration until it did.

This player plays as a striker for Premier League club Manchester City. In  the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he scored two goals in the 3–0 semi-final win against Brazil as his team went on to win the gold medal.  In 2012, he won Manchester City's player of the year as voted by the fans. With 13 goals, he is Manchester City's highest goalscorer in European competitions.His nickname  which features on his shirt, derives from his childhood and was first given to him by his grandparents. It came about due to a resemblance to the character "X" from his favourite television programme as a child. The player himself has said about it "I have grown to appreciate it because it's unique. It's not every day an athlete is nicknamed after a cartoon character!"

Name the player and the cartoon character also

Sergio Leonel "Kun" Agüero del Castillo and the cartoon character is Detective Kun Kun

X was an actor, screenwriter and director, best known for his work as director of the film Maria Candelaria which won the Grand Prix at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. His mother was a Kickapoo Indian, a tribe that inhabited the region of Sabinas, hence he got "Indio" nickname. He dropped out of school to serve in the revolutionary uprising led by Adolfo de la Huerta. X along with Huerta received a 20-year prison sentence but escaped prison using dynamite and followed Huerta to the United States.

Identify X and his more famous work.

Emilio Fernández and he was the model for the Oscar statuette

He is Astronaut Aki hoshide,. On August 30, 2012, Hoshide became the third Japanese astronaut to walk in space. During his stay, he successfully recorded the first voice acting performance in space for a cameo appearance in the 31st episode of the anime television series, Space Brothers, which aired on November 4, 2012. Buzzfeed reporter Andre kaczynski tweeted this picture with a funny line saying ''There are __ and then , well there are ___''

Fill In The Blanks

Selfies

She is a famous singer, born in Guwahati. Her 1st album was Picnic Picnic where she did a number with Usha Mangeshker. She did her debut in bollywood in Mithun starrer movie "Pyar Ke Do Pal". After that she also worked in Dadagiri, Rihai, Ganga Yamuna Saraswati etc.. She also sang with Kishore Kumar for the movie Jimmeder, but the movie was never released.

Just identify this voice…

Munmi Borah

This hat also known as a bob hat, derby (US), billycock or bombín, is a hard felt hat with a rounded crown. In Great Britain, it was believed that the customer (and designer of the hat) was William Coke.  But later it was revealed that Edward Coke, the younger brother of the 2nd Earl of Leicester, actually invented the hat design. It was the logo of British bank Bradford & Bingley. Give me the most common name of this hat.

Bowler hat

She was born in Sonapur, Assam. Besides doing several television serials such as Murder and Tejimola she has received notable praise for portraying the character of a slum dweller, Jyothi, who works as a housemaid, in tamil drama-thriller Vazhakku Enn 18/9. The Times of India critic M. Suganth wrote: "It is X's understated performance as Jothi that is the film's pivot".She got nomination at the SIIMA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and for Best Female Debutant.

Name her .

• URMILA MAHANTA

Pramilla Rani Brahma : “The fact that the film shows Bodo militants in Manipur reflects how poorly it was researched.”

Rabiram Narzary : “It makes Bodo militants look like some sort of barbarians. The film is not only slanderous but shows the entire community in very bad taste, as if we are all blood thirsty monsters.”

Bharat Narah : “We cannot allow anything that depicts our own people in poor taste. The film is nothing but slanderous. Bollywood filmmakers need to be more sensitive while depicting tribal communities.” 

Which film ?

Tango Charlie

‘X’ are seven problems in mathematics that were stated by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000. As of July 2013, six of the problems remain unsolved. A correct solution to any of the problems results in a US$ 1,000,000 prize being awarded by the institute. The Poincaré conjecture was solved by Grigori Perelman, but he declined the award in 2010. The Navier–Stokes equations problem was claimed to be solved in January 2014 by Mukhtarbay Otelbaev, and the paper is currently under review. Other problems are P versus NP, The Hodge conjecture, The Riemann hypothesis, Yang–Mills existence and mass gap and The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture.What’s the common term for these problem.

Millennium Prize Problems

What I blanked out ?

Ans .

The painting shows a pale figure with blue lips which points at a serious disease which was extreme in the 19th century. It is a self-portrait of the artist, Caravaggio. He painted himself as Bacchus (symbol in Greek mythology which stands for sexual liberation) is what makes this painting controversial. He had also killed his lover and lived the rest of his life running from authorities. Name the disease which made it so controversial.

Painting is 'Young Sick Bacchus' and it directs toward Syphillis.

He was the co-owner of a car customization business which describes itself as “The source for all of your automotive passions.” in Santa Clarita, California and was “one of America’s top wealth management advisors”, apparently boasted an impressive list of clients in his portfolio, has been named on a list of America’s Top 1000 Financial Advisers in 2010, 2011, 2012. He’s had eight competitive races and his best position with a second place finish in the Pirelli Porsche Driver’s Cup Series championship in 2012.Why I’m asking about him ?

He is Roger Rodas and he died along with Paul Walker in a car crash

Give X

In geography, X is an isolated area of vegetation in a desert, typically surrounding a spring or similar water source. X also provide habitat for animals and even humans if the area is big enough.  X is an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1991. Developed from an earlier group called the Rain.  The band were listed in the Guinness World Records book in 2010 for “Longest Top 10 UK Chart Run by a Group” after an unprecedented run of 22 top 10 hits in the UK. The band also holds the Guinness World Record for being the most successful act in the UK between the years 1995 and 2005, spending 765 weeks in the Top 75 singles and albums charts.

Oasis

Now he is popular in another field.. Just ID him..

Rajdeep Sardeshai

Clay animation or claymation is one of many forms of stop motion animation. Each animated piece, either character or background, is "deformable"—made of a malleable substance, usually Plasticine clay. This technique was first used in bollywood in the movie X. Walt Disney Company Home Entertainment, which acquired 33 percent of UTV Software Communications, bought the DVD rights of X for distribution in North America, the United Kingdom, and Australia for  7 crore (US$1.68 million). This marked "the first time an international studio has bought the video rights of an Indian film.

Movie ?

Taare Jameen Par

Identify him and his more famous son

Yograj Singh and Yuvraj Singh

___ A micro-recipe written in 140 characters or less. Sometimes cryptic. Sometimes open to interpretation. Always textable and tweetable. ___ Ingredients: Water = H2O Flour = flr Blueberries = blubry Frozen = frzn Recipes = rcips Vegan = vgn Soy milk = soymlk Tempeh = tmph coconut Ice Cubes = CoCoIce Salt and black pepper = s&p

Fill In The Blank

Twecipe

She is Jasmine Fiore, a swimsuit model who frequently worked as a body-painted model at parties for entertainment. She was killed  on August 15, 2009 and  Her badly beaten,

crushed body was discovered inside a suitcase in a dumpster in an alley in Buena Park, California. According to Buena Park police, Fiore's teeth and fingers had been

removed before her nude body was stuffed into the suitcase. She had also been

strangled. Authorities believe the mutilation was an attempt to impede identification. On

August 18, her remains were identified.With the help of what ?

Breast implant serial number !!

Connect

They all have done song based on Mandela

Give me the term..

The term "___" was coined by the English writer George Orwell. It describes a world where the two major powers—each possessing nuclear weapons and thereby threatened with mutual assured destruction—never met in direct military combat. Instead, in their struggle for global influence they engaged in ongoing psychological warfare and in regular indirect confrontations through proxy war.

Cold war

He is Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. was an American business magnate, investor, aviator, aerospace engineer, film maker and philanthropist. He was one of the wealthiest people in the world. As a maverick film producer, Hughes gained prominence in Hollywood, making big-budget and often controversial films like The Racket (1928). Hughes was one of the most influential aviators in history: he set multiple world air speed records, built the Hughes H-1 Racer and H-4 "Hercules" and acquired and expanded Trans World Airlines, which later merged with American Airlines. Hughes is also remembered for his eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyle in later life.How is he related to the comic world ?

Character of Tony Stark is based on him..

Who was X ?

"You" were chosen in 2006, as Time magazine's Person of the Year.  It recognized the millions of people who anonymously contribute user-generated content to wikis (including Wikipedia), youTube, MySpace, Facebook and the multitudes of other websites featuring user contribution. The poll winner by a wide margin was X, with 35% of the votes. The president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came in second. Time decided to ignore those results and did not mention them in the announcement of the Person of the Year.

Hugo Chávez

He was a legendary wrestling coach of India who was awarded the prestigious Dronacharya Award in 1988 and the Padma Shri in 1983. He mixed  traditional Indian wrestling style, pehlwani with international wrestling standards. His disciples Sudesh Kumar, Prem Nath and Ved Prakash won gold medals at the CardiffCommonwealth Games in 1972 and  Satpal and Kartar Singh won gold medals in Asian Games in 1982 and 1986 respectively.His name literally means  "one with prominent or disfigured jaw"

Who’s he ?

Guru HanumanThe Sanskrit words Hanu ("jaw") and -man (or -mant, "prominent" or "disfiguredom") means "one with prominent or disfigured jaw". Another theory says the name derives fr the Sanskrit words Han ("killed" or "destroyed") and maana (pride); the name implies "one whose pride was destroyed"

It is an iconic photo of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara wearing his black beret taken by Alberto Korda. It was taken on March 5, 1960, in Havana, Cuba, at a memorial service for victims of the La Coubre explosion and by the end of the 1960s turned the charismatic and controversial leader into a cultural icon. Korda has said that at the moment he shot the picture, he was drawn to Guevara's facial expression, which showed "absolute implacability" as well as anger and pain. Years later, Korda would say that the photo showed Che's firm and stoic character. Guevara was 31 at the time the photo was taken. Versions of it have been painted, printed, digitized, embroidered, tattooed, silk-screened, sculpted or sketched on nearly every surface imaginable.Give the name of the Photo..(Photo in the next slide)

Guerrillero Heroico or "Heroic Guerrilla Fighter"

What term ?In popular culture, X refers to a platonic relationship where in one person wishes to enter into a romantic relationship, while the other does not. It is generally considered to be an undesirable situation by the lovelorn person. Once the X is established as a pattern, it is impossible to get out of it.The term was popularized by a 1994 episode of the American sitcom Friends entitled "The One with the Blackout", where the character Ross Geller, who was lovesick for Rachel Green, was described by character Joey Tribbiani as being the "mayor of the X".

Friend Zone

He is Indrasena Reddy, a national secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party. He hails from Andhra Pradesh state in India. He was earlier president of the state unit of the party.

Why was he in the news few days back ?

He filed the petition which resulted in taking back the Padma Shri award from Mohan Babu and Brahmanandam..

Hatigaon, Bhetapara, Beltola, Dispur, Downtown, Sixmile, Noonmati, Jalukbari, Adabari, Chandmari, Ulubari…

How can you connect these places ?

All places are mentioned in a song of "Local Kung Fu"

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