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Pranav ‘Pofama ‘ RajgopalSwinburn ‘its all wrong’ Miranda

“I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately,I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life,To put to rout all that was not life And not, when I had come to die discover that I had not lived.”

Whose words are these and its significance?

Henry David Thoreau

Opening lines of the Dead Poets Society

• X: “He may not fit society's definition of a hero, but he is the hero I needed, the hero who helped me recover from the disaster of my failed almost-marriage and get back into the game. He lives in the shadows. Is he a dream? Truth? Fiction? Damnation? Salvation? He is all these things and none of them. He is...Y”

X:Ted MosbyY: The Naked Man

X:"I was part-time and in a reserve game against Airdrie I broke my eyebrow, cheekbone and nose and was out for months. They put this massive plaster cast on my face.After I came back from the injury I played three reserve games. We lost 8-1, 7-0 and 9-2. I said 'that's it – I am finished'. I took out papers to emigrate to Canada.

On the Friday, my brother's girlfriend phoned up my manager at St Johnstone and told him I had the flu. But when I arrived home from a night at the swimming baths with my pals, my mother tore into me.She said, 'I've had a telegram from your manager – get down to the telephone booth and call him.' The manager said: 'Report to the Bath Hotel tomorrow, you're playing against Rangers.'I scored a hat-trick and became the first player to do so against Rangers at Ibrox – it changed my life. I became a full-time footballer in the summer and never looked back."

X?

Sir Alex Ferguson

What is this?

• The Million Dollar Homepage is a website by Alex Tew, a student from Wiltshire, England.The home page consists of a million pixels arranged in a 1000 × 1000 pixel grid; the image-based links on it were sold for $1 per pixel in 10 × 10 blocks. The aim of the website was to sell all of the pixels in the image, thus generating a million dollars of income for the creator

What does this cartoon depict?

• Schrödinger's cat paradox . A thought experiment related to applying quantum theory in real life wherein the cat is simultaneously dead and alive at the same instant.

• Weapons of mass destruction• Metrosexual• Red state, blue state , purple state• Truthiness• Plutoed• Subprime• Bailout• ___________Funda?And fill the blank(5 for each)

“Word(s) of the year” designated by the American Dialects Society(ADS)

• 2002-Weapons of mass destruction• 2003-Metrosexual• 2004-Red state, blue state , purple state• 2005-Truthiness• 2006-Plutoed• 2007-Subprime• 2008-Bailout

• 2009-Tweet

• The X line is a 10-km long defensive line made of dragon's

teeth that was built during the second World War in Switzerland. These lines of defensive blocks can be found all over Switzerland, but more predominantly in border areas. Their purpose was to stop tank invasions. X?

Toblerone Line

• X,a famous British admiral, lost one arm and eye in battle, and had only one testicle. This gave rise to Y which became a cricket superstition. Y was considered unlucky as it resembled a wicket without bails . Umpire David Shephard made popular the longstanding practice of raising a leg or legs from the ground on Y in an effort to avoid ill fate.

• X- Admiral Nelson• Y- Nelson 111

“Sometimes I wonder... will God ever forgive us for what we've done to each other? Then I look around and I realize... God left this place a long time ago.”

Words of which famous character?

Danny Archer

Blood Diamond

Give Funda..

• Product Red. It is an initiative begun to raise money for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS , Tuberculosis and Malaria.

On March 5, 1960, Fidel Castro called a memorial service and mass demonstration at Havana's Colón Cemetery, to honour more than 100 Cubans killed in the La Coubre explosion the day before. At the time, X was Minister of Industry in the new government, and Alberto Korfa was Castro's official photographer. After a funeral march ,Fidel Castro gave a eulogy for the fallen .During Castro's speech before thousands of onlookers , X came into view for a few seconds. Alberto Korfa snapped just two frames of X before he disappeared from sight. This has resulted in one of the most famous photos of this century. Name X and the photo .(5 each)

X- Ernesto “Che” Guevara Photo -Guerrillero Heroico

The word X orginates from a Latin word meaning nephew. The use of the word is passed down from fragmentary information that Roman emperors and generals appointed their nephews to high positions in the empire. In the 14th through 17th centuries X was used to describe the documented practice of French nobility naming their "nephews" (many of whom were their own illegitimate offspring) as prelates and to high office, and of many popes doing the same.

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X - Nepotism

Connect..

Hema MaliniRekhaJaya BachchanaurSushma Reddy

Sabki Pasand Nirma!

• If you encountered the “fail whale” where would you be?

Early cover of which magazine?

Connect..

• The connect is Old Trafford.

First is Newton Heath L&Y R, now known as Manchester United which plays its home matches at OT.

Second is Lancashire County Cricket Club, which also has its home base at the Old Trafford, but in the OT Cricket Ground

• Shiitake mushrooms, apart from tasting well when taken from oak trees ,have been used to models one of the most memorable villains in gaming history. Who?

Super Mario Goombas

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• On 22nd February, 2010 skaters Meryl Davis and Charlie White won the Olympic Silver in the Figure Skating Ice Dance category at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.

• In the process, they repeated something that first gained popularity during the Beijing Olympics via a group of Israeli gymnasts.

• What ?

Use of Bollywood numbers for Dance

The duo used ‘Dola re Dola’ from Devdas.

The Israelis used ‘Dhoom Taana’ from Om Shanti Om.

What does this map depict?

Map sowing number of Wikipedia entries per country

Connect to a place

San Theodoros. A fictional South American Country in The Adventures of Tintin

• The word X is an eponym originating in the 1960 film “La dolce vita” (1960 film) directed by Federico Fellini. One of the characters in the film is named Y. In his book ''Word and Phrase Origins'', Robert Hendrickson writes that Fellini took the name from an Italian language or Italian dialect that describes a particularly annoying noise, that of a buzzing mosquito. In his school days, Fellini remembered a boy who was nicknamed Y (Mosquito), because of his fast talking and constant movements, a name Fellini later applied to the fictional character in ''La dolce vita''.

• X: Paparazzi• Y: Papparazo

Identify the advertiser?

Print ad for South Africa Tourism

Connect

• Sandra Bullock is the best and the worst actress in 2009.

She won the Oscar for the Best Actress in a Leading Role in The Blind Side.

She won the Razzie Award for Worst Actress

for All About Steve.

At the time of its inception, X is meant to be the 'testing ground' to see if a series will be possible and successful . Networks use X to discover whether an entertaining concept can be successfully realized. After seeing this sample of the proposed product, networks will then determine whether the expense of show is justified. They are best thought of as prototypes of the show that is to follow.

Pilot Episode

• MGM Lion

• Godiva often referred to as Lady Godiva (fl. 1040–1080), was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to legend, rode naked through the streets of Coventry, in England, in order to gain a remission of the oppressive taxation imposed by her husband on his tenants. Legend has it that Godiva sent advance word to the townspeople of Coventry, asking them to avert their eyes as she rode naked through the market. Out of respect for Godiva, all complied with her wishes. All except X the tailor. Legend has it that immediately after viewing her, X was struck blind. Identify X and the phrase that this gave birth to?

• X- Tom• ‘Peeping Tom’

Who and what?

Darsheel Safary

• Created in 1974 by a designer fascinated with the notion of space, it came on its own only in 1980 when the government of that country permitted its exports to the west. Since 2007, it has seen a bit of a resurgence, selling more than 15 million units, because , as one analyst says “in troubled times, adults look for things that remind them of their happier days!”. Youtube features over 38,000 videos on it and an organization called WCA brings enthusiasts together for international meets. What are we talking about?

• Rubik`s cube

Connect?

Monty Hall problem

• The Monty Hall problem is a probability puzzle based on the American television game show Let's Make a Deal. The name comes from the show's host, Monty Hall.

• A well-known statement of the problem was published in Parade magazine:

• Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?

32)Connect• Balaram Naidu• Christian Fletzer• George Bush• Govind Rangaswamy• Kalifullah Khan• Krishnaveni Paati• Rangarajan Nambi• Shingen Narahari• Vincent Poovaragan• Avtar Singh

• 10 roles of Kamal Hassan in Dashavataram

Connect

Events in the life of forrest gump

Connect

Nursery rhymes

by Stan Lee

"I combined Jekyll and Hyde with Frankenstein and I got myself the monster I wanted, who was really good, but nobody knew it. He was also somebody who could change from a normal man into a monster, and lo, a legend was born.I had always loved the old movie Frankenstein. And it seemed to me that the monster, played by Boris Karloff, wasn't really a bad guy. He was the good guy. He didn't want to hurt anybody. It's just those idiots with torches kept running up and down the mountains, chasing him and getting him angry. And I thought, 'Wouldn't it be fun to create a monster and make him the good guy?'

• Hulk

Connect

They are some of the best Casino's in Las Vegas.

• We've Sensed It. We've Seen The Signs. Now... It's Happening. What am i talking about...

The Happening directed by M. Night Shyamalan

From 12:00 a.m. on March 29, 2008, the Google homepage in the United States, Colombia, Canada, Denmark, Ireland and the UK was turned to a black background. Their tagline is, "We've turned the lights out. Now it's your turn" . On what occasion was this done..?

Earth Hour

What did newly wed Earl G Dickson, employee of _______ come up with in1920 because his wife, who was inexperienced in the kitchen kept burning and cutting herself?

Band –Aid.

Douglas Engelbart received patent US3541541 on November 17, 1970 for an "X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System". How do we commonly know this patent as

The Mouse

David J. Bradley of IBM took just 5 mins to code a chunk of program called the "Three Fingered Salute" in 1981. Millions use it today in case of desperation. What are we talking about..?

The combination of Ctrl+Alt+Del keys that causes the system to halt

Concept?

Pangram – contains all letters of the alphabet

X’s record, based on tournament matches, is estimated to be 183-12-2, though some sources list it as 65-5. X won an estimated 30 or more tournaments, beating an average of five opponents per tournament. At the New York tournaments, he defeated 12-13 opponents per tournament.* 1964: Defeated unknown opponent in Salt Lake City Tournament (debut).* 1964: Defeated Ron Marchini in the finals at the Takayuki Kubota's All-Stars Tournament in Los Angeles, California by half a point. * 1965: Defeated by Tony Tulleners at Takayuki Kubota's All-Stars Tournament in Los Angeles, California. *1967: Won All American Karate Championships.

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* 1968: Won the National Tournament of Champions in Cleveland, Ohio. * 1969: Won The Internationals. * 1970: Won All Star Teams Championship in Long Beach, California.

* 1970: Defeated Al Dacascos on January 17 at the Long Beach Sports Arena for the U.S. Team Championship. X announced his retirement following the match.

X?

Chuck Noris

Quench your thirst for knowledge.

Think fruity. Think refreshing.

Occasion ?Manufacturer?

google april fools jokegoogle gulp

X is one of the world's oldest prepared beverages, possibly dating back to the early Neolithic or 9000 BC, and is recorded in the written history of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. The earliest Sumerian writings contain references to a type of X. A prayer to the goddess Ninkasi, known as "The Hymn to Ninkasi", serves as both a prayer as well as a method of remembering the recipe for X in a culture with few literate people. A X made from rice, which, unlike sake, didn't use the amylolytic process, and was probably prepared for fementation by mastication or malting, was made in China around 7,000 BC

Beer

Logo?

thyseenkrup

English dramatist John Dennis invented a gadget for imitating the sound of thunder and introduced it in a play in the early 1700s. The play flopped. Soon after, Dennis noted that another play in the same theater was using his sound-effects device. He angrily exclaimed, "That is my thunder, by God; the villains will play my thunder, but not my play.”

Lead to the origin of what?

STEAL SOMEONE'S THUNDER

“To save your world you asked this man to die:Would this man, could he see you now, ask

why?”

Where would you see these lines written?

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Your only requirement is strong affection. Author of softcovers. Writhe and yell.the day before todayBehave unaffected. Steer my automobile.Lumber from Norway.One cent passageway.Radical overthrow.The lengthy, meandering street.

Connect ?Hint : synonyms

Your only requirement is strong affection. ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE.

Author of softcovers. PAPERBACK WRITER. Writhe and yell. TWIST AND SHOUT.the day before today YesterdayBehave unaffected. ACT NATURALLY.Steer my automobile. DRIVE MY CAR. Lumber from Norway. NORWEGIAN WOOD.One cent passageway. PENNY LANE. Radical overthrow. REVOLUTION. The lengthy, meandering street. THE LONG AND

WINDING ROAD.

BEATLES

• Ad?

The movie tells the story of rock singer ,who is sitting in his hotel room in Los Angeles, burnt out from the music business and only able to perform on stage with the help of drugs. Based on the 1979 double album “X" by Y, the film describes the life of a protagonist whose father dies during his childhood. He is oppressed by his overprotective mother, and tormented at school by tyrannical, abusive teachers. Each of these traumas becomes “Z".The film shows all this in massive and epic pictures until the very end where he breaks free

X- The WallY – Pink floydZ - Another brick in the wall

Logo?

Good year tyres

The walled city of Cochester, Britain belonging to the King’s Royalists was laid under siege during the British Civil War of 1648. A massive cannon was strategically placed on the city’s wall. On July 15th 1648, the Royalist fort was blown to pieces and this massive cannon was destroyed. The Royalists attempted to raise the cannon on to another part of the wall but because it was so heavy, they failed to do so. The whole incident was immortalized in English literature in a rather humorous way. What?

Humpty Dumpty - the rhyme that immortalized the canon.

After the partition of India, around 100,000 refugees migrated to India from the province of Sindh in newly created West Pakistan. These refugees were relocated to deserted military camps 5 kms from Kalyan, Maharashtra. The area was converted into a township in 1949 and renamed by the then Governor-general of India C. Rajagopalachari. For a good part of the 70s and 80s this area flourished economically and later became infamous for inter-gang rivalry and violence. Popular name for this place.

Ulhasnagar

• Logo?

Dreamcast

She was offered 1 million dollars to play the role of Jacqueline Kennedy in the movie The Greek Tycoon which was a biographical movie on Aristotle Onassis. But she refused the offer and Jacqueline Bisset did it for half that amount. Who was given the offer initially?

Jacqueline Kennedy

Australian researchers IJ Bear and RG Thomas examined the problem of the abnormally rapid response in natural seed germination following the introduction of water in regions long subject to drought or desert conditions. They suggested that “petrichor” (their coinage), associated with claylike soils, along with “geosmin” was the reason for a distinctive phenomenon which we are all familiar with. Apparently, our senses can detect one part in a hundred billion of geosmin. What phenomenon?

The smell of wet earth (usually after rain).

Heavily influenced by the UFO craze, the first Pluto ____ spawned sales of a hundred million as well as a fake religion, ________tarianism, which holds that when a person dies his or her soul goes up to the roof, never to descend. There are two primary “sects”- ultimate and _____ golf. The term is attributed to the great comedian George Carlin.

Frisbee

The formal name for this derives from the Greek for `ribbon’. It was introduced by John Wallis in a book in 1655. The work was so brutally abstract that Thomas Hobbes complained of it being a “scab of symbols”.It is the Cartesian plane curve that satisfies the equation:

(x^2 + y^2) = a^2(x^2 - y^2)

What is being referred to?

The symbol for infinity.

Douglas Kirkpatrick, of the US Air Force quipped, "____ _____ has overcome the acceleration of the earth's gravity by the use of muscle power in the vertical plane, thus producing a low altitude earth orbit". Who?

Michael Jordan

Dr. Robert Cade and Dr.Dana Shires at the university of Florida in 1966 and named it after the university's football team. In 1967, the team upstaged all comers to lead a remarkable recovery to win the Orange Bowl title. When the coach of the runners-up, Georgia Tech was asked why they had lost, he quipped. "We didn't have ______. That made the difference. What?

Gatorade

A _____ is an individual who travels to gigs with a band and assists with setup and organization - most commonly girls (men traveling with the band are usually referred to as techies). You usually see them selling the tickets or refreshments, and/or sitting at a soundboard or helping the other bands during the show. ____ are sometimes mistaken for groupies, but there is a major difference.

Roadie

X has had more than 80 carrers, everything from a rock star to a paleontologist to a presidential candidate.X's first career was a teenage model and later she was even enlisted in the army as a medic during Desert Storm. She has had over 43 pets including 21 dogs, 12 horses, 3 ponies, 6 cats, a parrot, a chimpanzee, a panda, a lion cub, a giraffe and a zebra. Her full name is "X Millicent Roberts." She is from Willows, Wisconsin and went to Willows High School.

X?

Barbie

Logo?

Walmart

Concept?

The objective of this air bubble is to make society think about the prejudice toward people affected with AIDS and social isolation being one of the worst effects of getting this contagious disease.

Songs claim to fame?

Full House

Which was the most pirated book in the world in 2009? (In fact, this book holds the record for more than 5 years in a row)

Kama Sutra

What is the significance of this place?

The first Pizza Hut

What is the claim to fame of this music album by ABBA?

The first Audio CD

Vijay Amritraj was famously the ‘A’ of the ‘ABC’. He didn’t however, live up to his early promise. He also starred in the Bond film ‘Octopussy’, where he plays ‘Vijay’. He uses a tennis racket to stop some bad guys, and utters something. What words does he utter?

game set and match