K-Circle Quiz of the Month

Oct - 2009

Y not learn

Quiz-Master : Anupam Sinha

Preamble

• It has been great quizzing with K-Circle• Sincere gratitude for all the encouragement

from all the members and especially from sirji .

• This is not an obscure quiz.• Bad news : questions are bit lonnnnng.• Good news : they provide you with lot of

clues

The word X was added to the Preamble of Indian Constitution by the 42nd Amendment Act of 1976, during the Emergency. It implies social and economic equality. Social equality in this context means the absence of discrimination on the grounds only of caste, colour, creed, sex, religion, or language. Economic equality in this context means that the government will endeavour to make the distribution of wealth more equal and provide a decent standard of living for all.

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Socialist

Rest of India: IPC::J&K: _______

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Ranbir Penal Code after Maharaja Ranbir Singh

AZS Media Group, a Dutch company on September 1 launched the world's first Islamic search engine -- X -- that differentiates what material is allowed and what is forbidden in Islam."We got the idea to develop X about nine months ago," says Reza Abdolali Zadeh Sardeha, who is the chief executive officer of X and founder of the Amsterdam-based AZS Media Group.This is how the search on X works: The search engine only fetches results that are flagged as to be _____.

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Iamhalaal.com

Id this famous activist.

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Irom Sharmila

BPM 37093 is a variable white dwarf star of the DAV, or ZZ Ceti, type, with a hydrogen atmosphere and an unusually high mass of approximately 1.1 times the Sun's. It is about 50 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Centaurus, and vibrates; these pulsations cause its luminosity to vary. In 2004, Travis Metcalfe and a team of researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics estimated, on the basis of these asteroseismological observations, that approximately 90% of the mass of BPM 37093 had crystallized. Crystallization of the material of a white dwarf of this type is thought to result in a body-centered cubic lattice of carbon and/or oxygen nuclei, which are surrounded by a Fermi sea of electrons. Because of its crystallized core it is also called a ______ star.

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Diamond Star

In Sanskrit his name literally means sugar cane.He was the first King to implement the Manusmriti, or the religious rules of Hindu living composed through divine inspiration and from the Vedas . According to Matsya Purana he is the son of Vaivasvata Manu, one of the two central characters along with the Lord Matsya incarnation of Lord Vishnu in the. Bhagirath and Dashrath were his descendents.

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Ikshvaku

X is the most common Vietnamese family name. By some estimates, approximately 40 percent of Vietnamese have this surname. The prevalence of X as a family name in Vietnam can be felt in countries to which many Vietnamese have immigrated; X is the 7th most common family name in Australia (second only to Smith in the Melbourne phone books), and the 54th most common in France. In the United States, it is the 57th most common family name according to the 2000 Census, as well as the most common exclusively Asian surname, a massive leap from its 229th-place ranking in 1990.It is ranked 124th in the U.S. Social Security Index.It is the 62nd most common surname in Norway and it tops the list of foreign names in the Czech Republic.

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Ngugen

Y is a sphenic number. 50 can be partitioned into powers of two in Y different ways. Y might be the largest n for which the value of the central binomial coefficient

2nC

n is not divisible by an odd prime

squared. If there is a larger such number, it would have to be at least 157450 .The number Y also features in the name of a galaxy and an asteroid.

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786

The _______ is a scientific device which uses X-rays to give an exact reading of the purity of gold. Due to its excellent precision, X-ray analysis has been adopted by international agencies in India as part of the certification process used to hallmark gold. It is an accurate, non-destructive means of testing the purity of gold and other related elements.

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Karatmeter

A Z is a coming-of-age kind of novel. It arose during the German Enlightenment, and in it, the author presents the psychological, moral and social shaping of the personality of a usually young main character (the protagonist). The term Z was coined by Johann Carl Simon Morgenstern and it means novel of education in German.

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Bildungsroman

Richard G. ______ is a prominent former mathematics teacher and the author of one of the most famous high-school advanced mathematics text books, Advanced Mathematics: Precalculus With Discrete Mathematics and Data Analysis.He taught high school mathematics at Phillips Exeter Academy from 1962 until his retirement in 1997. He had been offered a job at the National Security Agency at one time, but declined due to his desire to not move his family out of New Hampshire.He is currently a member of the COMAP Consortium Council, he is an active participant in professional mathematics organizations and the author of mathematics texts and journal articles. In 2004, he was chosen by President George H.W. Bush to receive the "Presidential Award for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching".His son though is very well known for a different reason altogether.

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Dan Brown

It is celebrated on the fourth day (chaturthi tithi) after the full moon in the month of kartik in the Hindu calendar following the Autumnal Equinox. According to the religious scriptures like Dharma sindhu, Nirnay sindhu and other shastra that governs rules of when to observe festival says, “X-Y to be observed at moonrise (chandrodaya vyapini) and poorvaviddha, best if its tritiya viddha. If visible during both days take the first one, if not visible on both days then take the second one”.X means clay pot and Y means fourth night after the full moon. Give me the phrase X-Y

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Tympanum

These five put together form an integral part of the cuisine

of which state/s

• Fenugreek • Nigella seed • Mustard seed • Fennel seed • Cumin seed

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West Bengal (Panch Phoron)

The name Z in local Balti language means “a land with an abundance of roses” . Its the main source of water for Nubra River in Ladakh, which drains into the Shyok River. The Shyok in turn joins the Indus River.

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Siachen galcier

Who and where ???

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Ban Ki Moon and Svalbaard

Name of this molecule is derived from the local name of the island on which it was

found

Rapamycin

A derasar is a temple for followers of Jainism . Dehrasar is a word used in Gujarat and parts of Rajasthan, in other parts of India, the term Jain temple is used. The main part of derasar is called "Gambhara" (Garbha Graha) in which there is the stone carved God idol.A derasar which is 100 years old is called a X. A dehrasar is also called a X if it has a large facility for food and night-stay A dehrasar generally holds the statues of three of the Y: Parshwanath, Rishabdev and Mahavir. What are X and Y ?

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Tirtha and Thirthankar

During the swadeshi movement, after Gandhiji gave a call to boycott foreign goods, a certain K. V. Ratnam, who was until then involved in making lithographic blocks, met Gandhiji in 1921. Gandhiji advised him to make something that would be useful to the common man and that was inexpensive.Ratnam and his brother, basically goldsmiths, made a golden _____ and presented it to a sub-judge who needed it. Then in 1932, Nyapati Subba Rao Pantulu, one of the founders of The Hindu, ordered the first X. It was made of silver.

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Ratnam pens

The word ______ (Latin for "I shall please") is name given to the rite of Vespers of the Office of the Dead (Psalm cxiv:9) in Bible. It was first used in a medicinal context in the 18th century. In 1785 it was defined as a "commonplace method or medicine" and in 1811 it was defined as "any medicine adapted more to please than to benefit the patient", sometimes with a derogative implication but not with the implication of no effect.

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Placebo

A ______ is a type of artillery piece that is characterized by a relatively short barrel and the use of comparatively small explosive charges to propel projectiles at relatively high trajectories, with a steep angle of descent. ________ derives from the German word Haufen (heap) which as Gewalthaufen designated a pike square formation.In the Battle of Grunwald (1410), the Teutonic Knights used artillery which was intended to break up enemy formations. In the Hussite Wars of the 1420s and 1430s, the Czechs used short barreled "houfnice" cannons to fire at short distances into such crowds of Haufen infantry ("houf" came in use as the Czech word for crowd), or into charging heavy cavalry, to make horses shy away.

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Howitzer

He was born on March 25th 1914 and went on to do his PhD in plant pathology and genetics from the University of Minnesota in 1942.He was one of only six people to have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. He was also a recipient of the Padma Vibhushan, India's highest civilian honour for a foreign citizen.He took up an agricultural research position in Mexico, where he developed semi-dwarf, high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties.

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Dr. Norman Borlaug (Green Revolution)

In political geography, an _____ is a territory whose geographical boundaries lie entirely within the boundaries of another territory. The word ______ crept into the jargon of diplomacy rather late in English, in 1868, coming from French, the lingua franca of diplomacy, with a sense inherited from late Latin word for “shut in, locked up with a key”.

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Enclave

It is formed by deposition of layers of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) in the form of the mineral aragonite or a mixture of aragonite and calcite (both crystalline forms of calcium carbonate) held together by an organic horn-like compound called conchiolin. The combination of aragonite and conchiolin is called ______._____ is composed of hexagonal platelets of aragonite 10-20 µm wide and 0.5 µm thick, arranged in a continuous parallel lamina. These layers are separated by sheets of organic matrix composed of elastic biopolymers (such as chitin, lustrin and silk-like proteins). _____ appears iridescent because the thickness of the aragonite platelets is close to the wavelength of visible light. This results in constructive and destructive interference of different wavelengths of light, resulting in different colors of light being reflected at different viewing angles.

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Nacre

This structure was built (ca. 629 A.D.)during the reign of Cheraman Perumal Bhaskara Ravi Varma a king of the ancient Tamil-speaking Chera Dynasty in the late eighth Century CE in the present day district of Kasargode . It is supposedly the first of its kind in India.

The story goes that once on a moon-lit night the king while walking on the rooftop of his palace along with the queen saw the moon suddenly splitting into two halves. Later he came to know through the Arab traders that that a prophet called Muhammad had wrought a miracle on that fateful night and sundered the moon before a crowd of dazed spectators. Hence .....

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First mosque “built” in India

Though Gujarati and Marathi are the official and main languages,Portuguese is also used. In addition to standard Portuguese, there are two shrinking Portuguese-based creole languages in X (known as Língua da Casa, "Home Language") and Y (Língua dos Velhos, "Elders' Language").

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Daman and Diu

______ is a method of food preparation in which the food item is cut into long thin strips. With a sharp knife the raw vegetable is sliced to length and trimmed on four sides to create a thick rectangular stick 6-7cm long, then cut lengthwise into thin (1-2mm) slices. Stacking these slices and again cutting lengthwise into thin (1-2mm, equal to the thickness) strips creates thin uniform square sticks.______ can also be applied to the preparation of meat or fish, especially in stir fry techniques.Once _______, turning the subject 90 degrees and dicing finely (again 1-2mm, equal to other dimensions) will produce brunoise. In American culture, a popular phrase for saying that a gadget can do many things is, "It slices! It dices! It makes _______ fries!"

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Julienne

_______ magazine has a history of sponsoring auto racing. The magazine previously sponsored cars in the Formula One circuit from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. Teams included Hesketh Racing and RAM.Currently it sponsors the 1X car of driver Randy Hannagan in the World of Outlaws sprint car series. Much controversy from fans has surrounded the sponsorship with many claiming to outright boycott any event Hannagan is entered in. The sports sanction body, DIRT Motorsport however will not prevent _______ from their sponsorship role. There is a section of ________ official site that can only be accessed through a link on Hannagan's website and when accessed offers a special discount for a one year subscription to the publication.

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Penthouse

________(Foeniculum vulgare), is a plant species in the genus Foeniculum (treated as the sole species in the genus by most botanists). It is a highly aromatic and flavorful herb with culinary and medicinal uses, and is one of the primary ingredients of absinthe. t is generally considered indigenous to the shores of the Mediterranean, but has become widely naturalised elsewhere.

In Ancient Greek, ______ was called marathon, and is attested in Linear B tablets as ma-ra-tu-wo. John Chadwick notes that this word is the origin of the place name Marathon (meaning "place of ____"), site of the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC. In Greek mythology, Prometheus used the stalk of a ______ plant to steal fire from the gods. Also, it was from the giant ______, Ferula communis, that the Bacchanalian wands of the god Dionysus and his followers were said to have come.

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Fennel

Leonor Michaelis (January 16, 1875 – October 8, 1949) was a German biochemist and physician famous for his work with Maud Menten in enzyme kinetics and Michaelis-Menten kinetics.Besides his role in the formulation of the Michaelis-Menten equation (1913) he discovered Janus green as a supravital stain for mitochondria and the Michaelis-Gutmann body in urinary tract infections (1902) and found that thioglycolic acid could dissolve keratin, making him the father of the ________(a beauty parlor technique).

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Perm(Permanent wave)

Y is a Hindu folk goddess of snakes, worshipped mainly in Bengal and other parts of northeastern India, chiefly for the prevention and cure of snakebite and also for fertility and prosperity. She is the sister of Vasuki, king of Nāgas (snakes) and wife of sage Jagatkāru (Jaratkāru)Originally an Adivasi (tribal) goddess, she was accepted in the pantheon worshipped by Hindu lower caste groups. Later, she was included in higher caste Hindu pantheon, where she is now regarded as a Hindu goddess rather than a tribal one. As a Hindu goddess, she was recognized as a daughter of sage Kashyapa and Kadru, the mother of all Nāgas. By the 14th century, she was identified as the goddess of fertility and marriage rites and was assimilated into the Shaiva pantheon, related to the god, Shiva. Myths glorified her by describing that she saved Shiva after he drank the poison, and venerated her as the "remover of poison"

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Manasa

The ________ (laurus nobilis) is indigenous to Asia Minor, from where it spread to the Mediterranean and then to other countries with similar climates. According to legend the Delphi oracle chewed _______ leaves, or sniffed the smoke of burning leaves to promote her visionary trances. _______, or laurel, was famed in ancient Greece and Rome. Emperors, heroes and poets wore wreaths of laurel leaves. The Greek word for laurel is dhafni, named for the myth of the nymph Daphne, who was changed into a laurel tree by Gaea, who transformed her to help her escape Apollo’s attempted rape. Apollo made the tree sacred and thus it became a symbol of honour. The association with honour and glory continue today; we have poet laureates (Apollo was the God of poets), and bacca-laureate means “laurel berries” which signifies the completion of a bachelor degree. Doctors were also crowned with laurel, which was considered a cure-all. Triumphant athletes of ancient Greece were awarded laurel garlands and was given to winners at Olympic games since 776 BC.

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Bay tree (Tej patta)

Pantua is a local confection of eastern India (especially W.B.) and Bangladesh. It is a traditional Indian sweet made of deep-fried balls of semolina, chhana, milk, ghee and sugar syrup. Pantuas range in colour from pale brown to nearly black depending on how long they are fried. The name ______ is a rendition of "Lady Canning" and was supposedly first used by confectioner Bhim Nag when he renamed his pantuas specially prepared on the occasion of the birthday of Countess Charlotte Canning, wife of Governor-General Charles Canning.

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Ledikeni

Name the lyricist of the first stanza (Dil dhoondta hai ..)

A Z is a musical ensemble from Indonesia, typically from the islands of Bali or Java, featuring a variety of instruments such as metallophones, xylophones, drums and gongs; bamboo flutes, bowed and plucked strings. Vocalists may also be included.

The term refers more to the set of instruments than to the players of those instruments. A Z is a set of instruments as a distinct entity, built and tuned to stay together — instruments from different Z are generally not interchangeable.

The word Z comes from the Javanese word for “to strike or hammer”, and the suffix "an", which makes the root a collective noun.

A ______, is an herb or preparation that either prevents formation of gas in the gastrointestinal tract, or facilitates the expulsion of said gas, thereby combating flatulence.

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Carminative

Prior to the 1980s, only the aggrieved party could approach the courts for justice. However, post 1980s and after the emergency era, the apex court decided to reach out to the people and hence it devised an innovative way wherein a person or a civil society group could approach the supreme court seeking legal remedies in cases where public interest is at stake. Justice P. N. Bhagwati and Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer were among the first judges to admit _______ in the court.Filing a _______ is not as cumbersome as any other legal case and there have been instances when even letters and telegrams addressed to the court have been taken up as _______ and heard by the court. The court takes cognisance of the matter and proceeds suo motu or cases can commence on the petition of any public-spirited individual.

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Public Interest litigation(PIL)

Her name is either derived from partial translation of German word Aschenbrödel, ( from asche "ash" + brodeln "bubble up, to brew.") or from the French word Cendrillon ( cendre meaning ashes). (Hint : Fictional Character)

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Cinderella

X is not very well known in India, although it was a demonstration sport at the Delhi Asiad in 1982. The X Federation with its headquarters in Nagpur, Maharashtra, was founded on 10 September 1982. It is recognised by the Indian Olympic Association and Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports since 2000. So far, the Federation has conducted 14 Senior, seven Junior and six Sub-Junior National Championship in different cities and is also conducting Federation Cup Tournament and zonal National Championship.

The game is very popular in the north eastern state of Manipur and some of the best players hail from there. In the 22nd King’s Cup International X Tournament held at Bangkok, the India men team lost in the semifinals and claimed bronze in the team event. In doubles event, the women team lost in the semifinals, but bagged bronze medals.

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Sepak Takraw

X is a web service that provides short aliases for redirection of long URLs. Kevin Gilbertson, a web developer, launched the service in January 2002 so that he would be able to link directly to newsgroup postings which frequently had long and cumbersome addresses . The X homepage includes a form that's used to submit a long URL for shortening. For each URL entered, the server adds a new alias in its hashed database and returns a short URL in the following page. If the URL has already been requested, X will return the existing alias rather than create a duplicate entry

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TinyURL

Y is the one of the most sensuous dance forms of Rajasthan, performed by the Y tribe. The main occupation of the community is catching snakes and trading snake venom. Hence the dance movements and the costumes bear resemblance to that of the serpents. They are also known as Sapera or Jogira. Male participants take care of the musical part of the dance. The use the different instruments (Pungi, Dufli, "Been", "Khanjari", "Morchang", "khuralio" and "Dholak") to create the rhythm on which the dancers perform. The X dancers (mainly females) wear long black skirts embroidered with silver ribbons.

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Kalbelia

X (1861-1913) was the first author of mystery novels in Hindi. He wrote _______, _______ Santati, Kajar ki Kothari, Narendra-Mohini, Kusum Kumari, Virendra Veer, Gupt Godna, Katora Bhar Khoon and Bhootnath. Bhootnath was incomplete and completed by his son , who also wrote the concluding volumes of Bhootnath saga as Rohtasmath. Fill in the blanks. Both are same .

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Chandrakanta

A voussoir is a wedge-shaped element, typically a stone, used in building an arch.Although each unit of stone in an arch or vault is known as a voussoir, there are two specified voussoir components of an arch: the keystone and the Y. The Y is the lowermost voussoir, located where the curve of the arch springs from the vertical support or abuttment of the wall or pier

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Springer

X is a city and a municipal board in Saharanpur district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is located in the upper Doab region of Uttar Pradesh. X used to be surrounded by dense forests, and was believed to be the abode of the Goddess Durga, according to one tradition this is where the town got its name, from Devi Van, or 'the Forest of the Goddess'. The Darul Uloom X is an Islamic school propagating Sunni Islam in the Indian Subcontinent and is where the X Islamic movement was started. It was founded in 1866 by several prominent Islamic scholars (ulema), headed by Maulana Muhammad Qasim Nanautawi. The other prominent founding scholars were Maulana Rashid Ahmad Gangohi and Haji Syed Abid Hussain. The institution is highly respected in India and other parts of the World.

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Deoband

This painting, formerly in the collection of The Playboy Mansion, recalls a previous depiction of his sister Ana María by the painter himself in Figure at a Window (1925), and has therefore been read by some critics as a nasty jab at his sister, punishing her for publishing a biography on him that presented a quite negative point of view, though in fact the figure is based on a photograph from a 1930s sex magazine. In 1958, ______ wrote, “Paradoxically, this painting, which has an erotic appearance, is the most chaste of all”. The painter or the painting ……

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Dali and Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity

The Z's dilemma, is an analogy about the challenges of human intimacy. It describes a situation in which a group of Z all seek to become close to one another in order to share their heat during cold weather. However, once accomplished, they cannot avoid hurting one another with their sharp ______. They must step away from one another. Though they all share the intention of a close reciprocal relationship, this may not occur for reasons which they cannot avoid.Both Schopenhauer and Freud have used this situation to describe what they feel is the state an individual will find themselves in relation to others. The hedgehog's dilemma suggests that despite goodwill, human intimacy cannot occur without substantial mutual harm, and what results is cautious behavior and weak relationships.

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Hedgehog’s dilemma

Of all the new town schemes in independent India, the X project quickly assumed prime significance, because of the city's strategic location as well as the personal interest of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India. Commissioned by Nehru to reflect the new nation's modern, progressive outlook, Nehru famously proclaimed X to be "unfettered by the traditions of the past, a symbol of the nation's faith in the future." Several buildings and layouts in X were designed by the French (born Swiss)

architect and urban planner, ______, in the 1950s. _______ was in fact the second architect of the city, after

the initial master plan was prepared by the American architect-planner Albert Mayer who was working with the Poland-born architect Matthew Nowicki. It was only after Nowicki's untimely death in 1950 that _______was pulled

into the project.

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Chandigarh

Y is a system of attributing a distinct syllable to each note in a musical scale. Various forms of Y are in use and have been used.In Europe and North America, solfège is the convention used most often. The seven syllables normally used for this practice in English-speaking countries are: do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, and ti. In India, the origin of Y was to be found in Vedic texts like the Upanishads, which discuss a musical system of seven notes, realized ultimately in what is known as sargam. In Indian classical music, the notes in order are: sa, re, ga, ma, pa, dha, and ni.

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Solmization

X is a mixed gender team ball game, similar to mixed netball and basketball. It is played in 57 countries. The sport is very popular amongst

others in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Taiwan. A team consists of four men and four women. X is

played indoors or outdoors on a court divided into halves called zones. In each zone is a post (3.5m (11.5 ft), shorter for children) with a basket at the top. This is positioned two thirds of the distance

between the center line and the back of the zone. The ball is similar in size as those used in football (soccer) but with more grip and bounce. Players

score by throwing the ball through the other team's basket. After two goals the teams change

zones: defenders become attackers and attackers become defenders. At half-time teams swap

halves.

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Korfball

Connect the lifebuoy ad “ Tandurusti Raksha karta hai Lifebuoy, Lifebuoy

hai jahan Tandurusti hai wahan” with the following song .

Sun o haseena

The answer is …..

Jolly mukherjee