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TONIGHT

1.

*2. IT’S IN THE BAG.

“Few individuals significantly alter the course of

history.

Fewer still modify the map of the world.

Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a

nation-state.

X did all three.”

3. Y LITTLE

• Lance and Chris Cairns (New Zealand)

• Don and Derek Pringle (England)

• Chris and Stuart Broad (England).

• X and Y

*4. MY DEAR CUMBERBITCHES

• What does the T in CAPTCHA stand for?

*5. ?

On Craigslist, about twenty enterprising sellers are offering Issue

1178 ("X") for between $35 and $1,500, and a handful of vendors

(presumably the same people who sell lists of New York apartments

for rent and magic cancer cures) are selling a PDF file for between

$3 and $5. One ad includes a link to Y, a twee dedicated e-boutique

from which one can purchase either an original hard copy ($99) or

the PDF file ($5). On eBay, there are a whopping 434 active listings

ranging in price from a penny to $120,000, many of which have

abundant bids.

6.

___________________________, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

…….

…….

And you, my father, there on the sad height,

Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.

___________________________.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

7. TABLEAUX?

8. BALANCE

Benoit B. Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October

2010) was a Polish-born, French and American

mathematician, noted for developing a "theory of

roughness" and "self-similarity" in nature and the field

of fractal geometry to help prove it, which included

coining the word "fractal". He later discovered the

Mandelbrot set of intricate, never-ending fractal

shapes, named in his honor.

What does B in his name stand for?

*9. GOOGLE DOODLE FOR?

10. FUNDA?

I began at once somewhat more steady work on the

subjects and books which I should have to lecture on. I

now first hit upon the diagrammatical device of

representing propositions by inclusive and exclusive

circles. Of course the device was not new then, but it

was so obviously representative of the way in which any

one, who approached the subject from the mathematical

side, would attempt to visualise propositions, that it was

forced upon me almost at once.

11. DISH?

12.

•Salman Rushdie is coming out with a new book “Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty Eight Days”. About his new book, he says, “I just rather loved it. You've got two, eight, twenty-eight – you've got another symmetrical number describing that very famous symmetrical number.“

•The title is a direct reference to a title of another famous literary work as mentioned by the author.

•Give the famous work.

13. This photo taken at a company’s new product launch in India met with a controversy (outside the country). What was the controversy about?

*14. ANOTHER TRIBUTE

• A railway release said that Train No 17303/17304 Mysore- Yesvantpur-Mysore

Daily Express has been renamed ‘X Express’ as advised by the Ministry of Railways.

• Though it is not a convention, it is, perhaps, for the first time that a train has been named after an imaginary town.

15. FUNDA?

16. WHAT?

•Near the center is Latin.

•Above that is Japanese; below it are Cyrillic,

Hebrew, and (barely visible at the bottom) Tamil.

•To the left of Latin is Greek, and below that are

Chinese, Kannada and Tibetan.

•At left, from the top down are Armenian,

Cambodian, Bengali, Devanagari and Georgian.

•The right-most column is Ethiopic, Arabic, Korean,

and Thai.

17. NORTH BAY ISLAND / CORAL ISLAND IN ANDAMAN AND

NICOBAR

18. WHO ABOUT WHAT?

One day I was in San Francisco in a coffee shop, and I

was thinking X is a good name. And then a waitress

came, and I said, "Do you know about X?" And she

said yes. I said, "What do you know about X?", and she

said, "Open Sesame". And I said, "Yes, this is the

name!" Then I went onto the street and found 30 people

and asked them, "Do you know X?" People from India,

people from Germany, people from Tokyo and China …

they all knew about X. X is a kind, smart business

person, and he helped the village. So … easy to spell,

and globally known. X opens sesame for small- to

medium-sized companies.

19. X?

On July 11, 2014, North Korea's United Nations

ambassador Ja Song-nam condemned X, saying that

"the production and distribution of such a film on the

assassination of an incumbent head of a sovereign

state should be regarded as the most undisguised

sponsoring of terrorism as well as an act of war".

He also said X "shows the desperation of the US

government and American society ... a film about the

assassination of a foreign leader mirrors what the US

has done in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Ukraine".

20. AJUDHIYA NATH _____

● Born in Jalandhar district of Punjab, he took up his early education there.

After passing the matriculation in 1908 he took his BA with honours from

D.A.V. College, Lahore, in 1912. He then joined the Thomason College of

Civil Engineering in 1913 and passed out in 1916 as Civil Engineer.

● He applied his methods to the design of the Trimmu Barrage and

constructed it within two years (1937–1939), against the normal period of

4–5 years.

● He served as Superintending Engineer in 1939 and Chief Engineer in 1943

and in both capacities, cherished Bhakra project.

● He was appointed the first Chairman of the newly constituted Central

Waterways, Irrigation and Navigation Commission in 1945.

● He undertook planning, design and, as in Hirakud Dam, construction of

major Water Resources Projects.

● He served as vice-chairman and later chairman of the board of

Consultants of Bhakra Control Board till its commissioning in 1963.

● He was instrumental in bringing about a number of agreements on

negotiations for Indus Water Dispute with Pakistan.

ANSWERS

1.

*2. IT’S IN THE BAG.

“Few individuals significantly alter the course of

history.

Fewer still modify the map of the world.

Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a

nation-state.

X did all three.”

JINNAH

3. Y LITTLE

• Lance and Chris Cairns (New Zealand)

• Don and Derek Pringle (England)

• Chris and Stuart Broad (England).

• X and Y

Roger and Stuart Binny Father and son duos to have represented their country

in the World Cup.

*4. MY DEAR CUMBERBITCHES

• What does the T in CAPTCHA stand for?

COMPLETELY AUTOMATED PUBLIC TURING

TEST TO TELL COMPUTERS AND HUMANS APART

*5. ?

On Craigslist, about twenty enterprising sellers are offering Issue

1178 ("X") for between $35 and $1,500, and a handful of vendors

(presumably the same people who sell lists of New York apartments

for rent and magic cancer cures) are selling a PDF file for between

$3 and $5. One ad includes a link to Y, a twee dedicated e-boutique

from which one can purchase either an original hard copy ($99) or

the PDF file ($5). On eBay, there are a whopping 434 active listings

ranging in price from a penny to $120,000, many of which have

abundant bids.

JE SUIS CHARLIE

6.

___________________________, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

…….

…….

And you, my father, there on the sad height,

Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.

___________________________.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD

NIGHT.

7. TABLEAUX?

8. BALANCE

Benoit B. Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October

2010) was a Polish-born, French and American

mathematician, noted for developing a "theory of

roughness" and "self-similarity" in nature and the field

of fractal geometry to help prove it, which included

coining the word "fractal". He later discovered the

Mandelbrot set of intricate, never-ending fractal

shapes, named in his honor.

What does B in his name stand for?

*9. GOOGLE DOODLE FOR?

LEO TOLSTOY

10. FUNDA?

I began at once somewhat more steady work on the

subjects and books which I should have to lecture on. I

now first hit upon the diagrammatical device of

representing propositions by inclusive and exclusive

circles. Of course the device was not new then, but it

was so obviously representative of the way in which any

one, who approached the subject from the mathematical

side, would attempt to visualise propositions, that it was

forced upon me almost at once.

JOHN VENN

11. DISH?

RATATOUILLE

12.

•Salman Rushdie is coming out with a new book “Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty Eight Days”. About his new book, he says, “I just rather loved it. You've got two, eight, twenty-eight – you've got another symmetrical number describing that very famous symmetrical number.“

•The title is a direct reference to a title of another famous literary work as mentioned by the author.

•Give the famous work.

1001 ARABIAN NIGHTS

13. This photo taken at a company’s new product launch in India met with a controversy (outside the country). What was the controversy about?

Xiaomi launching the Mi4, showed Arunachal Pradesh as a part of India angering China.

*14. ANOTHER TRIBUTE

• A railway release said that Train No 17303/17304 Mysore- Yesvantpur-Mysore

Daily Express has been renamed ‘X Express’ as advised by the Ministry of Railways.

• Though it is not a convention, it is, perhaps, for the first time that a train has been named after an imaginary town.

MALGUDI EXPRESS

15. FUNDA?

16. WHAT?

•Near the center is Latin.

•Above that is Japanese; below it are Cyrillic,

Hebrew, and (barely visible at the bottom) Tamil.

•To the left of Latin is Greek, and below that are

Chinese, Kannada and Tibetan.

•At left, from the top down are Armenian,

Cambodian, Bengali, Devanagari and Georgian.

•The right-most column is Ethiopic, Arabic, Korean,

and Thai.

WIKIPEDIA

17. NORTH BAY ISLAND / CORAL ISLAND IN ANDAMAN AND

NICOBAR

18. WHO ABOUT WHAT?

One day I was in San Francisco in a coffee shop, and I

was thinking X is a good name. And then a waitress

came, and I said, "Do you know about X?" And she

said yes. I said, "What do you know about X?", and she

said, "Open Sesame". And I said, "Yes, this is the

name!" Then I went onto the street and found 30 people

and asked them, "Do you know X?" People from India,

people from Germany, people from Tokyo and China …

they all knew about X. X is a kind, smart business

person, and he helped the village. So … easy to spell,

and globally known. X opens sesame for small- to

medium-sized companies.

JACK MA ABOUT ALIBABA

19. X?

On July 11, 2014, North Korea's United Nations

ambassador Ja Song-nam condemned X, saying that

"the production and distribution of such a film on the

assassination of an incumbent head of a sovereign

state should be regarded as the most undisguised

sponsoring of terrorism as well as an act of war".

He also said X "shows the desperation of the US

government and American society ... a film about the

assassination of a foreign leader mirrors what the US

has done in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Ukraine".

20. AJUDHIYA NATH _____

● Born in Jalandhar district of Punjab, he took up his early education there.

After passing the matriculation in 1908 he took his BA with honours from

D.A.V. College, Lahore, in 1912. He then joined the Thomason College of

Civil Engineering in 1913 and passed out in 1916 as Civil Engineer.

● He applied his methods to the design of the Trimmu Barrage and

constructed it within two years (1937–1939), against the normal period of

4–5 years.

● He served as Superintending Engineer in 1939 and Chief Engineer in 1943

and in both capacities, cherished Bhakra project.

● He was appointed the first Chairman of the newly constituted Central

Waterways, Irrigation and Navigation Commission in 1945.

● He undertook planning, design and, as in Hirakud Dam, construction of

major Water Resources Projects.

● He served as vice-chairman and later chairman of the board of

Consultants of Bhakra Control Board till its commissioning in 1963.

● He was instrumental in bringing about a number of agreements on

negotiations for Indus Water Dispute with Pakistan.

A.N. KHOSLA