• Originally published in 1865, X (science fiction) is by far the most fascinating novel in the history of human kind. The events hypothesized and described in the novel bears uncanny resemblance to the events of 1969 which proved to be the greatest step for mankind. Applauded for its ambitiousness, novel X acts as a major source of inspiration for other works. Doctor Emmett Brown from the popular culture movie – Back to the Future III refers to this novel and demonstrates his love for the content of this novel.

• Identify the novel X

QUESTION 1

ANSWER

• From the Earth to the Moon – Jules Verne

X originally wanted to call his forthcoming book Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice (translated name) but X’s publisher is said to have suggested the much shorter “Y". X wrote Y in 2 volumes with Volume 1 being published in 1925 and Volume 2 in 1926 .Though X originally wrote this book mostly for his followers, it grew in popularity. The book was in high demand in libraries and often reviewed and quoted in other publications. X had made about 1.2 million ___ from the income of his book in 1933, when the average annual income of a teacher was about 4,800 ___. By 1939 the book had sold 5.2 million copies in eleven languages. ID Y

QUESTION 2

ANSWER

• Mein Kampf – Adolf Hitler

• This book contains account of a two-week boat trip on Thames from Kingston to Oxford, it was intended to be a serious travel guide with accounts of local history along the route, but it turned into a humorous and satirical piece. Name the book.

QUESTION 3

ANSWER

• Three men in a boat

• The following art work by Nabil Kanso is an artistic rendering of a famous tragedy. Identify the tragedy.

QUESTION 4

ANSWER

• Othello – William Shakespeare

QUESTION 5

ANSWER

• Jingle Bells

CONNECT•Mitra-bheda•Mitra-samprāpti•Kākolūkīyam•Labdhapraṇāśam•Aparīkṣitakārakaṃ

QUESTION 6

ANSWER

• Panch Tantra – The five disciplines of practical wisdom.

Dr. Joseph Bell was a doctor in Victorian England. He had a habit of asking his patients a lot of questions about themselves, as well as making observations regarding them. Rudyard Kipling read the first X story and asked Y “ isn’t he my old friend Mr. Joe?”- though Y’s biography tells it was R. L. Stevenson who spotted the similarity. He served as an inspiration for one of his students Y to create X. ID X

QUESTION 7

ANSWER

• Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle

• “X" is a poem by British Nobel laureate Y, written in 1895 and first published in Rewards and Fairies, 1910. It is a tribute to Leander Starr Jameson. Jameson was a British colonial politician who was best known for his involvement in the Jameson Raid. In 1895, Jameson led about 500 of his countrymen in what became known as the Jameson Raid against the Boers in southern Africa. The raids were a complete failure with Jameson forced to surrender, but the story as recounted in Britain was quite different. The British defeat was interpreted as a victory and Jameson was portrayed as a daring hero. The Jameson Raid was later cited by Winston Churchill as a major factor in bringing about the Boer War of 1899 to 1902. ID Y.

QUESTION 8

ANSWER

• If – by Rudyard Kipling

QUESTION 9

ANSWER

• Malgudi, Malgudi Days by R.K. Narayan“Malgudi is where we all belong, and where we

wish we lived.”

CONNECT

• Zabibah and the King (2000)• The Fortified Castle (2001)• Men and the City (2002)• Begone, Demons (2003)

QUESTION 10

ANSWER

• All books were written by Saddam Hussein.

• X, widely known as _______ was a poet, philosopher, and politician, as well as an academic, barrister and scholar. ". X was born on 9 November 1877 in Sialkot within the Punjab Province of British India (now in Pakistan). His grandparents were Kashmiri pandits. In 1922, he was knighted by King George V, granting him the title "Sir". X is widely regarded as one of the best poets subcontinent has ever produced, with his area of influence even including Iran. X wrote two books on the topic of The Development of Metaphysics in Persia and The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam. ID X

QUESTION 11

ANSWER

• IQBAL

• Tolstoy doodle

QUESTION 12

ANSWER

• Leo Tolstoy

• This contemporary of the great Urdu and Persian poet Ghalib, X was the court poet of Bahadur Shah Zafar II. His rivalry in the court with Ghalib is extremely famous. While he enjoyed favours of the court, Ghalib who considered his work much more superior despised him. Though later both the poets reconciled. He is famous for his ghazal which ends with the much famous lines. “Kaun jaaye X par dilli ki galiyaan chhodkar.” Identify X

QUESTION 13

ANSWER

• Zauq (Sheikh Muhammad Ibrahim Zauq)

X is the author of books like Losing my Virginity and Screw it, let’s do it. Losing my Virginity became a national best seller and was serialized in The Sun and The Times.In October 2010 it was reported by Variety that Losing my Virginity was being adapted into a biopic by David Mirkin, who would write, direct and co-produce the film with Steven Paul. ID X.

QUESTION 14

ANSWER

• RICHARD BRANSON

• John Lawrence Nettleship was a British school teacher who taught chemistry at Wyedean School, Gloucestershire. Nettleship described himself in hindsight as “a short- tempered chemistry teacher with ___ ___...[and a] gloomy, malodorous laboratory.”

When he was first questioned about his links to character by journalists, he said: “I was horrified when I first found out. I knew I was a strict teacher but I didn't think I was that bad.” Which literary character did he inspire?

QUESTION 15

ANSWER• Severus Snape, Harry Potter Series

• This pair of lovers were the literary predecessors of Romeo and Juliet, Troilus and Cressida and Antony and Cleopatra. They find their mention in Virgil’s epic X and Christopher Marlowe the famous Elizabethan Playwright wrote a play on their love story. ID them

QUESTION 16

ANSWER

• Dido and Aeneas

• Batman vs superman

QUESTION 17

ANSWER

• Batman – • Superman –

• “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

The last line of famous novel X demonstrates the complex negotiation of the past and the future in the lives of human beings. The line encapsulates the struggles of the protagonist and hold hints of melancholy for the tragic fate of the character.

• Identify the novel X.

QUESTION 18

ANSWER

• The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald