Q.A bald kid named Mickey

Dugan was created by Richard .F. Outcault in the comic strip ‘Hogan’s Alley’ which became popular from

1895 to 1898. The kid habitually spoke in a

ragged , peculiar slang which was printed on his shirt . Give me a popular term ?

Q.Col Needham , a professional

computer programmer launched this with a Usenet entitled ‘Those eyes’ about

actresses with beautiful eyes in 1990. But in 1998 Jeff

Bezos of Amazon.com took control of it making it a

subsidiary of Amazon . What am I talking about ?

Q.This phrase has several roots of origin but most likely owes it’s origin to a very wild night of drunkenness . In 1837 a lush

mischief maker named Marquis of Waterford led a group of

friends through the English town of Melton Mowbray and

destroyed the town. The group later compensated for the

damages . The phrase hence means a wild night out . Which

phrase ?

PAINT THE TOWN RED

Q.The term ‘X’ was introduced

to English by American military personals in

Philippines during the early years of the 20th century . It generally refers to a remote

area which is considered unsophisticated . ‘X’ in Tagalog

means ‘Mountains’. Which popular term ?

‘X’ is a clause or provision in a life insurance where the company agrees to pay the stated multiple (double) of the face amount in the contract in cases of death caused by accidental means including murder .

‘X’ is also a 1944 American film noir based on the novel of the same name by James M. Caine .

Q.In 1860 former Mexican

president General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna brought a

natural stuff called ‘chicle’ to new York and gave to the

inventor Thomas Adams to use as a substitute of rubber ; it

was not found useful as a substitute but became popular

as what ?

CHEWING GUM

Q.The word means a very small piece of cake or

tablet of sugar and starch, flavoured and medicated which gets melted when

held in the mouth having shape like a diamond of four equal sides and a

pair of acute and obtuse angles each. Give me the

word ?

Lozenge

Q.In the early 60’s the HASBRO developed a

peculiar group of toys for boys only and

marketed as ‘America's movable fighting men’.

What was it ?

Q. CONNECT??

Q.In 1974 Howard Simons , the

managing editor of ‘The Washington Post’ dubbed the

person ‘X’ alluding to his deep background status . After 31

years of the incident , in 2005 it was revealed that he was

the then associate director of the FBI named W. Mark Felt who was known as ‘X’ . Give

me ‘X’ and the incident ?

Q.Caissa is a fictional tree nymph

first mentioned in a poem by Hieronymus Vida which describes a

‘X’ game between Apollo and Mercury in the presence of other gods . Later English orientalist Sir

William Jones reused the character in his own poem. In the poem she initially repels the god of war Mars so Mars seeks the aid of the god of sports Euphron who creates the game of ‘X’ as a gift for Mars to win Caissa’s favour . Caissa is now called the goddess of ‘X’. What is

‘X’ ?

Q.‘Wadi Rum’ or ‘The valley of the moon’ is a valley of sandstone

and granite rock in Jordan famous for the graffiti and rock paintings

of different civilisations . But it became more popular in the west because of it’s connection to ‘X ‘

during the Arab revolt in 1917-18 . Later on in 1980 it was renamed as ‘Seven pillars rock’ formation in the honour of ‘X’ . Give ‘X’ ?

Q.‘Ludovico Technique’ is a fictional

Aversion therapy administrated by Dr. Brodsky with the approval

of UK minster if the interior . The method is used to create

aversion to violent behaviour by forcing a patient to watch

through open eyes , with the help of a spatula , violent images for a long time under the influence

of drugs . Name the novel .

Q.The people from Wiltshire county in the West county England are known as ‘X’ .

A very popular folk story set in the time when smuggling was a significant industry in England was believed to be

the origin of the term . At that time local people had hidden barrels of

brandy from custom officers at local pond; one night one of the officers

caught some of them red handed but the locals explained to him pointing to

the moon’s reflection that they were trying to rake in a round cheese . The officer went thinking them to be fools .

Give the term .

MOONRACKER

Q.Exhibited at the Boott Cotton Mills Museum in Lowell , Massachusetts in

2007 . What is it ?

Q.Connect ( one was Oscar winner and

the other was nominated )

Lincoln is the capital of Nebraska

Q.Fill up the blanks (Clue :

‘M’)

Q.In 1933 Wolfgang Hermann’s

original blacklist first appeared in the Publication ‘Berliner

Nachtausgabe’ but was declared preliminary and incomplete . So

the German librarian did further research and

republished it on May 16th , 1933 in Börsenblatt , a weekly trade publication for German bookstores. . What was it ?

“To travel is very useful , it makes the

imagination work , the rest is just delusion

and pain . Our Journey is entirely imaginary , which is its strength”

A recent film starts with these lines from the book “Journey to the end of the night” by L.F.Celine . Which

film ??

Q.The shown diagram depicts the Ingsoc’s social

class system in Oceania . What is so special about it ?

Q.In modern Japanese the term

describes a “Salary man” who is unemployed or a secondary

school graduate who has not yet been admitted to university. The

literal meaning of the term is “Wave Man”. It is quite a

popular term now-a-days and can be related to

entertainment . What ?