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1.Dry –I (15 Questions, Clockwise)

2.Written ( 6 Questions)

3.Dry – II (15 Questions, Anti clockwise)

Dry I

15 questions (Clockwise)

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Id the ceremony, Explain/Funda

X is a public sculpture by Indian-born British artist Y, located on topof Park Grill, Millennium Park, Chicago. Constructed between 2004and 2006, the sculpture is nicknamed The Bean because of its bean-like shape.

Despite early claims from architect Norman Foster that it would benearly impossible to make this sculpture appear seamless, Y tookinspiration from a droplet of liquid mercury and had an extremelycomplex infrastructure developed to support the 168 stainless steelplates that make up its outside. As visitors walk around the structure,its surface acts like a fun-house mirror as it distorts their reflections.

It is prominently featured in the ending scene of Source Code.Director Duncan Jones felt the structure was a metaphor for themovie's subject matter and aimed for it to be shown at the beginningand end of the movie. It was also featured in the Bollywood filmDhoom 3.

X – Cloud Gate, Y - Anish Kapoor

He drove a 100 miles twice a week to teach a class with onlytwo students in it; since the students were Yang and Lee, theentire class won a Nobel Prize.

In his later years, he worked on translating Sir IsaacNewton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica intoEnglish and posited a unity between literature, art, music, andphysics. A professor at Chicago, he shared a Nobel Prize withWilliam Fowler.

Once when involved in a discussion about the Gita, He said,"I should like to preface my remarks with a personalstatement in order that my later remarks will not bemisunderstood. I consider myself an atheist."

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

What has been blanked out?

Leap Second

IMDb Bottom 100 Indian Movies

X is a German actress. She gained public attention after starringin the 2004 film Head-On. She won two Lolas, the most prestigiousGerman film awards, for her performances in Head-On and WhenWe Leave. X was born and raised in Heilbronn, to a family ofTurkish origin. After leaving school at age 16, she worked for twoyears for the local city government, then moved to Essen, whereshe worked in various jobs, including acting in pornographic filmsusing the stage name "Dilara".

In 2002, while at a shopping mall in Cologne, X was noticed by acasting director, who invited her to audition for a role in a film. Shewon the leading part in Head-On against a field of 350 otherhopefuls. The film was released in 2004 and was a major success,receiving several prizes at film festivals.

Sibel Kekilli

Puttamraju Kandrika village located in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh was in news recently. Why?

‘In Breaking Bad season 4 episode 6 _______, at one point, Skylerdrives to this monument and flips a coin. It lands in X. She flipsagain and it lands in X. Skyler, using her foot, drags the coin from Xto Y. She looks at Holly and picks up the coin and leaves.’

The monument consists of a granite disk embedded with a smallerbronze disk around the point, circling the point, starting fromnorth, the disk reads "Here meet in freedom under God, ________”.

The monument is a popular tourist attraction despite of its remoteand isolated location. As early as 1908, people traveled longdistances to take pictures of family and friends at the monumentin Twister-like poses, sitting on the disk, in a circle of friends orfamily around the disk, or for couples to kiss directly over the disk.

Id the Monument, What is so special about this Landmark?

Four Corners Monument, The Four Corners Monument marks thequadripoint in the Southwestern United States where the states ofArizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah meet. It is the only point inthe United States shared by four states.

He was so sensitive about his lack of hair that he decreed ita capital crime to look down from a high place as he passedby. However, whatever hair he lacked on his head, he madeup for on his body, and thus it was equally dangerous tospeak about any hairy animal while in his presence. Heinherited epilepsy, a family affliction, and some scholars claimthat it was responsible for his madness. He was caught in bedwith his sister Drusilla at an early age.

Identify this Roman emperor who received his mostfamous nickname from the child-sized military boots he usedto wear. The character Joffrey Baratheon is modeled after thisRoman Emperor.

Caligula or Gaius Caesar AugustusGermanicus

‘X Y’ is Z’s national costume, now most commonly worn bywomen. In its current form, it is a tight-fitting silk tunic worn overpants. X classifies the item as a piece of clothing on the upper partof the body. Y means "long“.

“X Y" is one of the few Z words that appear in English-languagedictionaries.

The most popular style of ‘X Y’ fits tightly around the wearer'supper torso, emphasizing her bust and curves. Although the dresscovers the entire body, it is thought to be provocative, especiallywhen it is made of thin fabric. "The ‘X Y’ covers everything, buthides nothing", according to one saying. The dress must beindividually fitted and usually requires several weeks for a tailor tocomplete. An X Y costs about $200 in the United States and about$40 in Z.

Ao dai, Vietnam

Id the monument and where you have seen itrecently?

Kakatiya Kala Thoranam, Telangana statesymbol.

Associated with the financially struggling UFA studios,it relies heavily on chiaroscuro lighting, surrealistic setdesign, and tilted camera angles. Examples of films inthis style include Destiny, the Golem, Pandora’s Box,and The Last Laugh, while the definitive book aboutthis movement is Siegfried Kracauer’s From Caligari toHitler. A major influence on both horror and film noir,Identify this cinematic movement of the 1920s and30s that collapsed after most of its adherents fled theNazi regime.

German expressionism

The X British award is given in recognition of notablecontributions to space exploration, particularly Britishachievements. It was founded as an annual event byDave Wright and Jerry Stone in 2005. The award wasestablished with the permission of X, who also chose aspecial award independently of the public nominationsprior to his death on 18 March 2008. The award featuresthe diagram X drew in 1945 in order to demonstratehow satellites can provide global communicationsaround the Earth from geostationary orbit, also calledthe X Orbit. It was co-designed by Jerry Stone andHoward Berry. Who is X?

Arthur C. Clarke

Id the movie

What is this common term?

In biology, it is the term for the division of a zygote,occurring spirally in protostomes and radially indeuterostomes.

In Chemistry the breaking of a chemical bond in a moleculeto give smaller molecules or radicals.

In mineralogy, it is the splitting of a mineral along planarsurfaces determined by the crystal structure, ranging fromperfect in muscovite to fair in beryls.

National X Day is an annual celebration held in eitherMarch or April in South Africa, since 2002.

Cleavage

Written

6 Questions

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One of his more famous theatrical productions was a versionof Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, updated to a modern fasciststate. He also performed a voodoo-based version of Macbeth,and he would film a straight version of this play in 1948, withScottish burrs that were replaced in the re-edited version. HisDon Quixote was never finished, and his version of Othellowas shot over a period of ten years in three differentcountries as he scrambled to find money for the production.

Q.1)

It starts with an airplane exploding, and the two maincharacters falling to their supposed deaths, but as they fall,one becomes more beautiful, and the other a hideousmonster. This duality is present throughout the novel, as thebeautiful one is actually a psychopathic killer, and the other,kind and gentle. Timothy Brennan called the work "the mostambitious novel yet published to deal with the immigrantexperience in Britain" that captures the immigrants' dream-like disorientation and their process of "union-by-hybridization". The book is seen as "fundamentally a study inalienation."

Q.2) Id the book

X was an Indian inventor and engineer who is also referred to asthe Edison of India. He is credited with the manufacture of the firstelectric motor in India. His contributions were primarily industrialbut also span the fields of electrical, mechanical, agricultural(Hybrid cultivation) and automobile engineering.

He had only primary education but excelled as a versatile genius.Among his hobbies was train travel to nearby cities. Among hisother inventions were super-thin shaving blades, a distanceadjuster for film cameras, a fruit juice extractor, a tamper-proofvote-recording machine and a kerosene-run fan.

In 1935, he personally filmed the funeral of King George V atLondon. In 1936, he met Adolf Hitler in Germany. He was gifted aRolls Royce car and he was the only one who had this luxury car inthose times.

Q.3)

X is a minimalist principle that originated in the medievalphilosophical school Nominalism. The principle states that amongcompeting hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptionsshould be selected. Other, more complicated solutions mayultimately prove correct, but—in the absence of certainty—thefewer assumptions that are made, the better.The application of the principle can be used to shift the burdenof proof in a discussion.

It was popularized by scientist Carl Sagan in his novel turnedmovie “Contact”, where Jodie Foster quotes it while during aconversation with a theist to defend her belief that God doesn’texist. (Ironically, at the end of the movie it is used against her in apublic interrogation by a National Security Agent.) However, ananalysis on the facts and assumptions of this argument revealssome obvious problems.

Q.4)

X is a novel by Stephen King about a time traveler who attemptsto prevent one of the major incident of 20th century. The novel waspublished on November 8, 2011 and quickly became a number-one bestseller. It stayed on The New York Times Best Seller list for16 weeks. X won the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for BestMystery/Thriller and the 2012 International Thriller Writers Awardfor Best Novel, and was nominated for the 2012 British FantasyAward for Best Novel and the 2012 Locus Award for Best ScienceFiction Novel.

The novel required deep research to accurately portray the late1950s and early 1960s.King commented on the amount ofresearch it required, saying "I've never tried to write anything likethis before. It was really strange at first, like breaking in a new pairof shoes.

Q.5) Id X and the Incident.

it is the only third-order enclave in the world. It is an Indianenclave belonging to the District of Cooch Behar in the State ofWest Bengal. This is a piece of India within Bangladesh, withinIndia, within Bangladesh.

It is completely encircled by the Bangladeshi village ofUpanchowki Bhajni, 110, itself contained in the Indian village ofBalapara Khagrabari, itself contained in the Rangpur Division,Bangladesh. Thus it is the enclave of an enclave of an enclave. Inpractice, it is a parcel of land used for farming and is not actuallyinhabited. It is separated by a few meters of Bangladeshi land fromits first-order Indian enclave.

The owner of this enclave is a Bangladeshi farmer who lives inthe enclave surrounding.

Q.6)

Exchange your sheets.

Answers

One of his more famous theatrical productions was a versionof Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, updated to a modern fasciststate. He also performed a voodoo-based version of Macbeth,and he would film a straight version of this play in 1948, withScottish burrs that were replaced in the re-edited version. HisDon Quixote was never finished, and his version of Othellowas shot over a period of ten years in three differentcountries as he scrambled to find money for the production.

Orson Welles

It starts with an airplane exploding, and the two maincharacters falling to their supposed deaths, but as they fall,one becomes more beautiful, and the other a hideousmonster. This duality is present throughout the novel, as thebeautiful one is actually a psychopathic killer, and the other,kind and gentle. Timothy Brennan called the work "the mostambitious novel yet published to deal with the immigrantexperience in Britain" that captures the immigrants' dream-like disorientation and their process of "union-by-hybridization". The book is seen as "fundamentally a study inalienation."

Id the book

The Satanic Verses

X was an Indian inventor and engineer who is also referred to asthe Edison of India. He is credited with the manufacture of the firstelectric motor in India. His contributions were primarily industrialbut also span the fields of electrical, mechanical, agricultural(Hybrid cultivation) and automobile engineering.

He had only primary education but excelled as a versatile genius.Among his hobbies was train travel to nearby cities. Among hisother inventions were super-thin shaving blades, a distanceadjuster for film cameras, a fruit juice extractor, a tamper-proofvote-recording machine and a kerosene-run fan.

In 1935, he personally filmed the funeral of King George V atLondon. In 1936, he met Adolf Hitler in Germany. He was gifted aRolls Royce car and he was the only one who had this luxury car inthose times.

G. D. Naidu (Gopalaswamy Doraiswamy Naidu)

X is a minimalist principle that originated in the medievalphilosophical school Nominalism. The principle states that amongcompeting hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptionsshould be selected. Other, more complicated solutions mayultimately prove correct, but—in the absence of certainty—thefewer assumptions that are made, the better.The application of the principle can be used to shift the burdenof proof in a discussion.

It was popularized by scientist Carl Sagan in his novel turnedmovie “Contact”, where Jodie Foster quotes it while during aconversation with a theist to defend her belief that God doesn’texist. (Ironically, at the end of the movie it is used against her in apublic interrogation by a National Security Agent.) However, ananalysis on the facts and assumptions of this argument revealssome obvious problems.

Occam’s Razor

X is a novel by Stephen King about a time traveler who attemptsto prevent one of the major incident of 20th century. The novel waspublished on November 8, 2011 and quickly became a number-one bestseller. It stayed on The New York Times Best Seller list for16 weeks. X won the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for BestMystery/Thriller and the 2012 International Thriller Writers Awardfor Best Novel, and was nominated for the 2012 British FantasyAward for Best Novel and the 2012 Locus Award for Best ScienceFiction Novel.

The novel required deep research to accurately portray the late1950s and early 1960s.King commented on the amount ofresearch it required, saying "I've never tried to write anything likethis before. It was really strange at first, like breaking in a new pairof shoes.

Id X and the Incident.

11/22/63 and assassination of John F. Kennedy.

it is the only third-order enclave in the world. It is an Indianenclave belonging to the District of Cooch Behar in the Stateof West Bengal. This is a piece of India within Bangladesh,within India, within Bangladesh.

It is completely encircled by the Bangladeshi village ofUpanchowki Bhajni, 110, itself contained in the Indian villageof Balapara Khagrabari, itself contained in the RangpurDivision, Bangladesh. Thus it is the enclave of an enclave of anenclave. In practice, it is a parcel of land used for farming andis not actually inhabited. It is separated by a few meters ofBangladeshi land from its first-order Indian enclave.

The owner of this enclave is a Bangladeshi farmer who livesin the enclave surrounding.

Dahala Khagrabari

Dry II15 questions. (Anti-Clockwise)

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The Lotus Bridge is located about 8 km west of theMacau International Airport. The bridge is the secondroad crossing between mainland China and Macau.What is so special about this bridge?

The bridge has three lanes in each direction, and followsMacau's rule of the road of driving on the left. The approachroads to the bridge on the mainland Chinese side have anunusual arrangement to facilitate switching traffic to drivingon the right in mainland China.

X was built in 1833 for housing the Agra Bank and later, theGovernment of India occupied large parts of the building forhousing and issuing paper currency. Till 1937, the building servedas the first office of Y.

The cast iron gates, large brick arches and Venetian windowswith intricate designs are the main attractions of the building. Theroof is arched with iron joists and the floor is covered with marbleand chunar sandstone. The central hall of the courtyard used toget light through the skylights on top of the large domes. Thesecond floor is also similarly built, the rooms are spacious andpaved with Italian marble.

While most of the heritage buildings of Kolkata — the first seatof power of the British Empire — reflect the Gothic style ofarchitecture, X stands out for its unique Italian style.

X is the codename for an initiative that aims to develop an openhardware platform for creating highly modular smartphones. Theplatform will include a structural frame (endoskeleton that holdssmartphone modules of the owner's choice), such as a display,camera or an extra battery. It would allow users to swap outmalfunctioning modules or upgrade individual modules asinnovations emerge, providing longer lifetime cycles for the handset,and potentially reducing electronic waste.

X smartphone will begin pilot testing in Puerto Rico later 2015 witha target bill of materials cost of $50 for a basic grey phone. Theproject was originally headed by the Advanced Technologies andProjects team within Motorola Mobility while it was a subsidiary ofGoogle. Although Google had sold Motorola to Lenovo, it is retainingthe project team who will work under the direction of the Androiddivision.

Project Ara

She was the daughter of Theon of Alexandria who was a teacherof mathematics with the Museum of Alexandria in Egypt. Shestudied with her father, and with many others including Plutarchthe Younger. She herself taught at the Neoplatonist school ofphilosophy. She became the salaried director of this school in 400.She probably wrote on mathematics, astronomy and philosophy,including about the motions of the planets, about number theoryand about conic sections.

According to Damascius’ report one of her regular students fellin love with her. Unable to control his feelings, the young manconfessed his love. She resolved to punish him, and she found aneffective method of chasing him away. As a symbol of femalebody’s physicality she showed him her Y, remonstrating: “This iswhat you really love, my young man, but you do not love beautyfor its own sake”.

Hypatia, Sanitary Napkin

Einstein is often said to have had this experience(feeling) whendeveloping the special theory of relativity, although he disputedthis:“Actually, I was led to it by steps arising from the individuallaws derived from experience.”Einstein also said that the whole idea of special relativity did notcome to him as a sudden, single thought, like X.

Similarly, Carl Friedrich Gauss said after a similar experienece: "Ihave the result, only I do not yet know how to get to it.“

In 1984, Sir Alec Jeffreys also had this experience– after lookingat the x-ray film of a DNA experiment, he saw both similarities anddifferences between the DNA of different members of histechnician’s family. He had developed DNA fingerprinting – usingvariations in the genetic code to identify individuals – a methodconstantly used in forensic science.

The eureka effect (also known as the aha! moment or eurekamoment) refers to the common human experience ofsuddenly understanding a previously incomprehensibleproblem or concept.

X 's Wall was a defensive fortification in Roman Britain, begun inAD 122 during the rule of emperor X. In addition to its militaryrole, gates through the wall served as customs posts. A significantportion of the wall still exists and can be followed on foot alongthe X's Wall Path. It is the most popular tourist attraction inNorthern England and was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in1987.

X's Wall, also called Roman Wall, Picts Wall, ran between Tyneand Solway Firth. American author George R. R. Martin hasacknowledged that X's Wall was the inspiration for The Wall in hisbest-selling series A Song of Ice and Fire.

The soundtrack of the movie King Arthur by Hans Zimmerfeatures a track titled "Another Brick in X's Wall", as a nod to PinkFloyd's composition "Another Brick in the Wall".

Hadrian'sWall

It is a low ridge pass in the Himalayas. It is in the disputed India-China border area in Ladakh. The Chinese held northeastern part isknown as Aksai Chin and Indian South West is known as Ladakh.This is the area where Indian and Chinese armies fought major warin 1962. The area is one of the least accessed areas in the worldand by agreement the two countries do not patrol this part of theborder.

Locals on both sides of the border believe that there is anunderground UFO base in this region with the knowledge of bothcountries. They also claim that they have seen UFOs coming out ofthe ground. Tourists are denied entry to this area in spite ofpermits to travel between the two countries.

Kongka La Pass

Patent for?

Mechanical Fan

It is considered to be the oldest fighting system in existence.includes strikes, kicks, grappling, preset forms, weaponry andhealing methods. It has three regional variants that aredistinguished by their attacking and defensivepatterns.(Northern X, Central X, and Southern X)

In recent years, efforts have been made to furtherpopularise the art, with it featuring in international and Indianfilms such as Ondanondu Kaladalli (Kannada), Indian (1996),Asoka (2001), The Myth (2005), The Last Legion (2007) andCommando (2013).

It was spread across to Chinese borders by Bodhidharma,who was a Buddhist monk. Some traditional Indian danceschools still incorporate it as part of their exercise regimen.

Kalaripayattu

X or civet coffee, refers to the seeds of coffee berries once theyhave been eaten and defecated by the Asian palm civet. AlthoughX is a form of processing rather than a variety of coffee, it has beencalled one of the most expensive coffees in the world with retailprices reaching €550 / US$700 per kilogram, close to the €850 /US$1,100 price of Black Ivory coffee. X is produced mainly on theislands of Sumatra, Java, Bali and Sulawesi in the IndonesianArchipelago.

X is also mentioned in The Bucket List (2008) as Carter Chambers(Morgan Freeman) reveals with great amusement of how the X—enjoyed by Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) — was produced; eatenand defecated by a jungle cat. Cole reacted in surprise "You'reshitting me!" and Carter replied in jest "No, the cats beat me toit!".

Kopi Luwak

X is a length of linen cloth bearing the image of a man whoappears to have suffered physical trauma in a manner consistentwith crucifixion. The origins of X and its image are the subject ofintense debate among theologians, historians and researchers. Avariety of scientific theories regarding the X have since beenproposed, based on disciplines ranging from chemistry to biologyand medical forensics to optical image analysis.

X is respected by Christians of several traditions, includingBaptists, Catholics, Lutherans, Methodists, Orthodox, Pentecostals,and Presbyterians. The Catholic Church has neither formallyendorsed nor rejected X but in 1958 Pope Pius XII approved of theimage in association with the devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus.More recently, Pope Francis and his predecessor Pope Benedict XVIhave both described X as an “icon”. X continues to be one of themost studied and controversial objects in human history.

Shroud of Turin

The origin of this dish ‘X Y’ is traced to textile mill workers inMumbai in the 1850s.The mill workers used to have lunch breaks too short for a fullmeal, and a light lunch was preferred to a heavy one, as theemployees had to return to strenuous physical labor after lunch. Avendor created this dish using items or parts of other dishesavailable on the menu. Roti or rice was replaced with X and thecurries that usually go with Indian bread or rice wereamalgamated into just one spicy concoction, the ‘Y'. Initially, itremained the food of the mill-workers. With time the dish foundits way into restaurants and spread over Central Mumbai andother parts of the city via the Udupi restaurants.

Y is a traditional Marathi Name for a vegetable dish, the X wasthe Portuguese word for bread (small rolls)

Pav Bhaji

Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Charles Baudelaire,Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Vincentvan Gogh, Oscar Wilde, Aleister Crowley, Erik Satie,Alfred Jarry , Mark Twain, Franklin Roosevelt, FrankSinatra, Émile Zola, Édouard Manet, Guy deMaupassant, and August Strindberg.

Connect. (Not Exhaustive)

Absinthe(They were all habitual absinthe drinkers.)

X is a 1902 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès.Inspired by a wide variety of sources, including Y's novelsFrom the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon, the filmfollows a group of astronomers who travel to the Moon in acannon-propelled capsule, explore the Moon's surface,escape from an underground group of Selenites (lunarinhabitants), and return with a splashdown to Earth with acaptive Selenite.

X was named one of the 100 greatest films of the 20thcentury by The Village Voice, ranked 84th.It is widely regardedas the earliest example of the science fiction film genre and,more generally, as one of the most influential films in cinemahistory.

A Trip to the Moon (French: Le Voyage dans la Lune), Jules Verne

FITB/ List of what?

• Fetus (41%)

• Log (15%)

• Yearner (13%)

• Soldier (8%)

•Freefall (7%)

•Starfish (5%)

Most Popular ‘_________ ___________’

Sleeping Positions