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• The French Controller-General of Finances under Louis XV, faced with a severe budget crisis, was forced to resort to stringent measures for thrift at the national level. His name became a byword in France for cost-cutting. At around the same time, those not very well-to-do were opting for a cheaper alternative to having their portraits painted, and this art form came to be known by the miserly bureaucrat’s name. What was it?

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• This movie is about a small mining town in Wales at the turn of the century. A town where unbreakable men emerge pitch black from the pits every evening singing folk songs as they walk back home. Here, money is kept in a tin-box on the mantelpiece in the drawing room as there are no banks! The Morgan family is the movie’s focal point. It’s through them that the director investigates the social change and the wreckage it leaves behind. This movie won five Oscars in the 1940’s. Identify the movie. Why is it more famous?!

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• Napoleon’s invasion of Russia

4• X is a classical Japanese dance-drama. X theatre is known for the

stylization of its drama and for the elaborate make-up worn by some of its performers. The individual kanji characters, from left to right, mean sing , dance , and skill . X is therefore sometimes translated as "the art of singing and dancing." These are, however, ateji characters which do not reflect actual etymology. The kanji of 'skill' generally refers to a performer in x theatre. Since the word X is believed to derive from a verb meaning "to lean" or "to be out of the ordinary", X can be interpreted as "avant-garde" or "bizarre" theatre. The three main categories of X play are jidai-mono, sewa-mono and shosagoto. The expression X-mono referred originally to those who were bizarrely dressed and swaggered on a street. Incidentally, the name X also appears on the title of a comic of Nagraj.

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• Barrage balloons over London during World War II. X observed balloons like these floating over the city in 1941. X recalls that his earliest idea for the story Y may have originated with this scene, with the giant balloons becoming____ , an integral part in the novel.

X- Arthur C. ClarkeY-Childhood’s End

6• ONE: ‘You shall have no other gods before Me, except Sachin and maybe Sunil.’• TWO: ‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image–any likeness of anything that is in

heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Infact don’t carve anything that is not wide outside off stump.’

• THREE: ‘You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, so if you stub your toe, try to not say Oh X.’

• FOUR: ‘Remember the 3rd day, the pitch is often at it’s best.’• FIVE: ‘Honor your father and your mother, and your sponsors.’• SIX: ‘You shall not murder, exceptions made for opening bowlers, spinners and probots.’• SEVEN: ‘You shall not commit quick singles.’• EIGHT: ‘You shall not be worrying about playing and missing.’• NINE: ‘You shall not bear false witness against the BCCI.’• TEN: ‘You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife,

nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, but if he bowls a wide half volley hit it like it stole your donkey or ox.’

The Ten Commandments of which religion?

Sehwagology

7• In legal parlance, X is a term of art from older family law. The word X is

plural, meaning "things beyond the dowry". X were the separate property of a married woman, such as clothing and jewellery "appropriate to her station", but excluding the assets that may have been included in her dowry. The term originated in Roman law, but ultimately comes from Greek.

• The legal concept of X in this sense is an important plot point in Anthony Trollope's novel The Eustace Diamonds. In the novel, it was a matter of some consequence whether the title jewellery was an heirloom, property of the heirs, or a woman's X, freely alienable by her. Changes in family law and inheritance law mirroring trends in the wider society, such as the several Married Woman's Property Acts of the various common law jurisdictions, have generally rendered the legal concept of X obsolete. X?

Paraphernalia

8• Curse of the X refers to an urban legend regarding a

reputed curse placed on the Japanese Kansai-based Hanshin Tigers baseball team by X. The curse was said to be placed on the team because of the X's anger over treatment of one of his store-front statues. The Curse is used to explain the Japan Championship Series drought that the Hanshin Tigers have had to endure since their first and only victory in the 1985 Japan Championship. The curse is said to have happened when Hanshin fans, excited over winning the 1985 championship series, tossed the statue of X into the Dotonbori River. Since then, fans have said they would never win another Japan Series until the statue was recovered. Although the statue was finally discovered in the Dōtonbori River on March 10, 2009, the Tigers are yet to win another championship.

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• The legend relates that once upon a time, at the end of Duvarparyoga, soon after the creation of the world, Brahma suffered a fit of divine amnesia and forgot all the Vedas and sacred scriptures. In order to remember them He performed a series of yogic exercises and austerities, before diving into the Yamuna. Soon afterwards, during the monsoon when the waters were in full spate, the flooded river miraculously threw up the sacred texts on the right bank of the river. The place where the river washed up the scriptures was named_______, the Bank of Sacred Knowledge

•Nigambodh Ghat

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• “Dear First Lady, I recently read your criticism of my family. I was deeply hurt. Heaven knows we're far from perfect and, if truth be known, maybe just a wee bit short from normal; but as Dr. Seuss says, "a person is a person". I try to teach my children always to give somebody the benefit of the doubt and not talk badly about them, even if they're rich. It's hard to get them to understand this advice when the very First Lady in the country calls us not only dumb, but "the dumbest thing" she ever saw. I hope there is some way out of this controversy. I thought, perhaps, it would be a good start to just speak my mind.”

• Who to whom?

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• “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know_____________.”

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13• During the recent financial crisis, a number of nonbank financial

companies acquired bank subsidiaries to become bank holding companies, thereby becoming subject to Federal Reserve regulation, but also making them eligible for funding under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. As the crisis passed, several of these companies sought to return the TARP funding, divest themselves of their banking subsidiaries, and return to their unregulated status. In an effort to maintain Federal Reserve control over these companies, the Financial Reform Act provides that bank holding companies with $50 billion or more in assets as of January 1, 2010 that received TARP funds will not be able to avoid Federal Reserve supervision by divesting themselves of their bank subsidiaries and ceasing to be bank holding companies. This limitation on the impact of "de-banking" has been called the X provision. X?

14• The X number describes the "collaborative distance" between a person and mathematician X as

measured by authorship of mathematical papers.It was created by friends as a humorous tribute to the enormous output of X, one of the most prolific modern writers of mathematical papers, and has become well-known in scientific circles as a tongue-in-cheek measurement of mathematical prominence.To be assigned an X number, an author must co-write a mathematical paper with an author with a finite X number. X has an X number of zero. Anybody else's X number is k + 1 where k is the lowest X number of any co author.

• The Y number of an actor or actress is the number of degrees of separation he or she has from Bacon, as defined by the game. The higher the Y number, the farther away from Y the actor is.

• The computation of a Y number for any actor is a "shortest path" algorithm:• Y himself has a Y number of 0.• The Y number of actors who have worked directly with Y is 1.• If the lowest Y number of any actor with whom the actor has appeared in a movie is N, That actor's Y

number is N + 1• A person's X-Y number is the sum of one's X number and one's Y number. The lower the number, the

closer a person is to X and Y, and this reflects a small world phenomenon in academia and entertainment. Notable scientists with defined X-Y numbers include popular string theorist Brian Greene (who has an X–Y number of 5), astronomer Carl Sagan and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. One of the best-known actors with a number is actress Natalie Portman, whose authorship of a psychology paper during her Harvard degree in psychology earned her an X–Y number of 6

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• "He's just run in and clipped his (Assou-Ekotto's) heels. He hasn't stuck his leg out. It was [like] X and Y wasn't it? What can you do about that? He hasn't broken his stride.”

• Harry Redknapp talking about Rafael da Silva’s red card in the Man Utd-Tottenham game on 16th Jan,2011. Which infamous sporting incident is he referencing in his post match interview?

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• Publishing houses

The Bloomsbury Group

Harper Lee+Collins Ubuya

Hachette

         Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette

              Ali McGraw + Graham Hill

   Simon and Garfunkel + Berndt Schuster

          Dorothy Mills + David Boon

                  Rupa Ganguly

Penguin

1• The X was issued by Adolf Hitler on March 19, 1945 ordering the destruction

of German infrastructure to prevent their use by Allied forces as they penetrated deep within Germany. It was officially titled Demolitions on Reich Territory and has subsequently become known as the X.

• Its most pertinent section reads as follows:• "It is a mistake to think that transport and communication facilities, industrial

establishments and supply depots, which have not been destroyed, or have only been temporarily put out of action, can be used again for our own ends when the lost territory has been recovered. The enemy will leave us nothing but scorched earth when he withdraws, without paying the slightest regard to the population. I therefore order:

• "All military transport and communication facilities, industrial establishments and supply depots, as well as anything else of value within Reich territory, which could in any way be used by the enemy immediately or within the foreseeable future for the prosecution of the war, will be destroyed."

NERO DECREE

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• X is Rembrandt's painting from the collection of Pierre Crozat which from the 18th century resides in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. It depicts the character X from Greek mythology, the mother of Perseus. She is presumably depicted as welcoming Zeus, who impregnated her in the form of a shower of gold. Given that this is one of Rembrandt's most magnificent painting, it is not out of the question that he cherished it, but it also may have been difficult to sell because of its eight-by-ten-foot size. Although the artist's wife Saskia was the original model for Danaë, Rembrandt later changed the figure's face to that of his mistress Geertje Dircx.

Danae

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• Hitler Masturbating- Salvador Dali

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• A 1908 depiction of Beowulf• fighting the unnamed dragon by J. R. Skelton.

Beowulf is challenged by a Danish coast guard, Evelyn Paul (1911).

The barrow of Skalunda, a barrow that was identified by the archaeologist Birger Nerman as Beowulf's burial mound

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• Emily Donelson

martha

Sarah Lane

Mary ElizabethHarriet lane

First Ladies who were never First Ladies

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• Sandra Torres tearily announced on Thursday that she had divorced her husband President Alvaro Colam(Guatemala) though they led a perfectly cordial married life. What was the actual reason behind the split??

• The constitutional clause in Guatemala prevents family members of the presidents from taking power.Shes going to run for the elections

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• X understands puns, anagrams, and word play and has memorized every Shakespeare soliloquy, major river and World capital on Earth. X has been especially been noted after the Valentine’s Day this year after X’s famous date with two people. Identify X and give the funda.

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• Apt Pupil (1982 novella), also published in Different Seasons

• The Body (1982 novella, also published in Different Seasons)

• It (1986 novel)• Needful Things (1991 novel)• Dolores Claiborne (1992 novel)• Bag of Bones (1998 novel)• Blaze (2007 novel)• Under the Dome (2009 novel)

11• General Zia-ul-Haq brought with him harsh censorship to the

Pakistani Film Industry. Films dropped from a total output of 98 films in 1979, of which 42 were in Urdu, to only 58 films (26 in Urdu) in 1980. The filmmakers that remained employed flaccid storylines to present Punjabi cult classics like Maula Jatt in 1979, telling the story of a x-carrying protagonist waging a blood-feud with a local gangster. Growing censorship policies against displays of affection, rather than violence, came as a blow to the industry and as a result violence-ridden Punjabi films prevailed and overshadowed the Urdu cinema. The middle class neglected the 'increasingly dilapidated and rowdy cinemas'. This film sub-culture came to be known as the ‘x y’ in the local industry.

• Gandasa Culture

12•  • They are an initiative to encourage and honor acts of bravery in society,

started in 2010. The award winners were awarded in the presence of distinguished guests, and celebrities in a grand function in Mumbai. The idea of the these Awards is to recognize and honor the feats of people who have performed selfless acts of bravery for the benefit of their fellow citizens and provide a platform to encourage the new generation to be courageous and brave. Many brave deeds go unnoticed and this award becomes a platform for them. The winner was given Rs. 1 lakh while the runner up received Rs. 50,000. The jury panel consists of personalities including: Gerson Da Cunha, who is an actor, social worker and an author; Aushtosh, managing editor of IBN 7; Shanta Gokhale, writer, translator, cultural critic and theatre historian; and Kavita Karkare, the wife of 26/11 martyr Hemant Karkare. Salman Khan was the special guest of honour at these awards.

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• born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh on 25 December 1861 his ancestors, known for their Sanskrit scholarship, originally hailed from Y-Y is derived from the name of the ancient Aryan tribe about whom very little is known apart from the fact that they created the Vikrama Samvat, a calendar dating from 57 BC that is widely used in India and is popularly associated with king Chandragupta Vikramaditya. and hence came to be known as ‘X‘-which later has parted its name to residential colonies in some cities. He also founded a highly influential, English-newspaper, The Leader published from Allahabad in 1909.give X and Y.

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• The latest design was invented in Auckland, New Zealand by Morris Yock in the 50s and patented in 1957. However, this claim has recently been contested by the children of John Cowie who was an England-raised businessman who started a plastics manufacturing business in Hong Kong after the World War II. His children claim that it was Cowie that started manufacturing a plastic version of them in the late 1940s and that Yock was just a New Zealand importer. They are known as thongs in Australia, Plakkies in South Africa, and go-aheads in the South Pacific. In parts of Texas they are known as clam diggers. What?

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• At a great party at the Imperial Harem,B persuaded Y that it would be an amusing joke to send an object to X,which was dispatched the very next day with I`tibar Khan .

• Niccolao Manucci writes of this incident-• I`tibar Khan ,the chief eunuch,waited till X had sat

down for his dinner to present him with the `souvenir`.X eagerly awaited to see what Y had sent him but when the object was revealed before X ,it left him horrified and apparently lifeless.

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17• XY i Acosta is a Catalan Spanish chef born on May 14, 1962 in

L'Hospitalet de Llobregat. He is the head chef of the Z restaurant in Roses on the Costa Brava, and is considered one of the best chefs in the world. XY began his culinary career in 1980 during his stint as a dishwasher at the Hotel Playafels, in the town of Castelldefels. The chef de cuisine at this hotel taught him traditional Spanish cuisine. At 19 he was drafted into military service where he worked as a cook. XY is often associated with "molecular gastronomy”, his stated goal is to "provide unexpected contrasts of flavour, temperature and texture. Nothing is what it seems. The idea is to provoke, surprise and delight the diner." He has introduced quite a few unusual dishes. Unusual dishes that have been criticized include frozen whisky sour candy, white garlic and almond sorbet, tobacco-flavoured blackberry crushed ice and Kellogg's paella (Rice Krispies, shrimp heads and vanilla-flavoured mashed potatoes).