bossing around!!

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Identify this person XY. He is lesser known as the scion of Y Enterprises, a multi Billion Dollar group, the industrial conglomerate founded in 1933, it has interests in agro-chemicals, steel, tobacco, tea and beverages, education, entertainment and Real estate. He also sits on the board of Godfrey Philips, one of India's tobacco companies.Very much in news nowadays.
Clue: Towards the end of March 2009 the Mumbai police were interrogating Chota Shakeel's arrested hit man Rashid Malabari and during the interrogation he had reveled that there were planing to assassinate XY, his wife Minal and son Ruchir.

Long time no see...

X was a student of St. Vincent's high school , Pune. His earlier career graph, not much known, is as follows. His later career is however, known quite well by many. He was in the news last year.

• 1960 – 1963National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla,Pune
• 1964 Air Force Flying College, Jodhpur and Allahabad
  
• 1965 Joined the Indian Air Force as Pilot
  
• 1964 – 1972Served in the Indian Air Force
  
• 1972 – 1974Instructor Air Force Training Team at NDA
  
• 1965 – 1971 Participated in the Indo-Pak war
  Recipient of eight medals in his career with IAF

Useless Questions

1. This Italian dessert typically made from sponge finger biscuits, espresso coffee, mascarpone cheese, eggs, cream, sugar, Marsala wine, cocoa, and rum, means "pick-me-up" metaphorically, "make me happy,"), a reference to the two caffeine-containing ingredients, espresso and cocoa. Which cake? (A clue for people who are not foodies like me: think cadbury)

2. In 1900, André ______ published the first edition of a guide to France to help drivers maintain their cars, find decent lodging, and eat well while touring. It included addresses of things like gasoline distributors, garages, tire stockist , and public toilets. As motoring became more widespread, a rating system was developed which gave stars to restaurants. This grading system went on to become the ultimate recognition a restaurant could aspire for in Western Europe and is used by gourmets worldwide. What is this grading system called?

3. ISO 3103 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization. What does it specify? George Orwell had spent some of his time doing the same thing, as in standardizing the same thing.

4.Which Bollywood movie was based on Stephen King's story Quitter's Inc?

5. Fill in the blanks to get the name of a novel

O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O ____ ___ ___
That has such people in't!"
These lines are taken from The Tempest.

6. X and Y were rivals in a sport for a long time. After retirement X came up with Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grill machine which went on to earn $100 million in sales since 1995. Now Y who had defeated X to become the world champ has come out with a brand called Real Deal grill to rival X's product. Id X and Y

7. Who now owns the Marquis de Sade's legendary castle at Lacoste, France, where he indulged in the atrocities attributed to him?

8. If we should be remembering Radhanath Sircar a Bengali mathematician, today, what would it be for? Our former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was of the opinion that Mr. Andrew Scott Waugh was unfairly giving credit to his former boss and instead Sircar should be bestowed with the honour. What did Sircar do? ( Clue coz the questions are too wild: think of brands of spices)

9. Which capital city's name means "the hills of Impala" the antelope?

10. X is an English Mathematician working on number theory at Princeton. His areas of specialization include arithmetic of elliptic curves with complex multiplication. His most famous mathematical result is that "all rational semi stable elliptic curves are modular"; which is a way of proving Y. A special case of Y was first stated by Abu Mahmud Khujandi in the 10th century. Y is named after a French mathematician who felt that the margin of his copy of Arithmetica of Diaphantus was not wide enough. Id X and Y.

11. Originally published as a monthly limited series from 1986 to 1987, it was later republished as a trade paperback, which popularized a particular format. To date, it remains the only book of its genre to win a Hugo Award, and is also the only book of its kind to appear on Time Magazine's 2005 list of "the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present." It is set in 1985, in an alternative history United States where costumed adventurers are real and the country is edging closer to a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. The title of the book is derived from the phrase Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?, from Juvenal's Satire VI, "Against women", often translated as "Who watches the ______?"

12. This iconic scientist has a penchant for courting controversies. In his autobiography, Avoid boring People, he describes his academic colleagues as "dinosaurs", "deadbeats", "fossils", "has-beens", "mediocre", and "vapid". . THe was quoted as saying he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" as "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours — whereas all the testing says not really." These quotes attributed to him drew attention and criticism from press in several countries and was widely discussed on CNN, the BBC, several papers, peers and by civil rights advocateshe common perception was that he was claiming a link between race and intelligence with the BBC stating that "he claimed black people were less intelligent than white people" Name this scientist who was in news for all wrong reasons during the last months of 2007.

13. It’s a phenomenal instrument, one of those freaks of nature that come very rarely in a hundred years. Clear and penetrating it has a brilliant, metallic timbre and yet remains warm, with a gorgeous romantic sheen, an unforced, open throated quality that.." says conductor Richard Bonynge. What is he talking about?

Sorry for the tough ones

Try to crack'em

VROOM!!

Connect the answers!

1.X has its origin in Sundaram Clayton Limited, Moped Division, started in 1980. The factory was started in Hosur, Tamilnadu in southern India. The first product launched was a 50 cc moped, which appealed to the masses because of its capability to carry two people.In the same location, the same promotors started another company in 1984, in collaboration with Y, for the manufacture of 100 cc motorcycles under the brand name of Ind-Y Motorcycles. Even though the company started producing all kinds of two wheelers like mopeds, scooters and motorcycles, the collaboration with Suzuki continued for the motorcycles only. The collaboration with Y ended in 2001 and since then the name of the company changed to X.Identify X.


2.In Chinese, Y was originally a verb meaning to wait upon or accompany a person in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese. In both countries the terms were nominalized to mean "those who serve in close attendance to the nobility," the pronunciation in Japanese changing to Y.By the end of the 12th century, became synonymous with 'bushi' almost entirely and the word was closely associated with the middle and upper echelons of the warrior class.

3. Z is a military rank and historical title for Hereditary Commanders of Armies in Japan. Z is the Japanese word for "general".

4.'B' was a prominent Native American leader of the Chiricahua 'A' who fought against Mexico and the U.S. and their expansion into 'A' tribal lands for several decades.t was the Mexicans who named him B . This appellation stemmed from a battle in which he repeatedly attacked Mexican soldiers with a knife, ignoring a deadly hail of bullets, in reference to the Mexicans' plea to Saint Jerome ("B"). The name stuck.In 1940, the night before their first mass jump, U.S. paratroopers at Fort Benning watched the 1939 film 'B' , in which the actor playing B yells his name as he leaps from a high cliff into a river, depicting a real-life escape B successfully attempted in which he jumped off Medicine Bluff at Fort Sill, Oklahoma into the Medicine Creek with his Cadillac horse. Private Aubrey Eberhardt announced he would shout the name when he jumped from the airplane to prove he was not scared. The trend has since caught on elsewhere, becoming widely associated with any sort of high jump in popular culture.Identify B and A.
A is in the connect, B is not.

A KEKULE!

'X' is a latin word meaning a)'right' as in right hand or b)'skillful'

'Y' is X's sister. Y is a meaningless word. In one episode Y took care of a turtle, thinking it was a bird.

Susan Astronomonov,(a boy) better known as 'Z', is X's arch rival and is in love with Y.

Koosalagoopagoop, also called Koosy or Koos, is a multi-coloured dinosaur-like creature that originates from Y's imagination. He can change his size at will, become invisible and the heart in his belly is a portal to his world.

Z and X have a 'W'

W is a word originating from another word.The other word means: a place for labor or work

Y enjoys destroying the 'W' belonging to X.


Identify W, X, Y and Z


-PUSHKAR

FAMOUS SECRET!

CRYPTIC CONNECT:

Connect the above 2 images to a certain 'mary pollock'.The images are only connected due to one of their elements, not directly. The title is a sort of cryptic clue. Its literal meaning is not in the least related to the connect.

-PUSHKAR

CONNECT!

One of China's emperors, Qin Shi Huang Di — allegedly buried in a tomb that contained rivers of flowing 'X' on a model of the land he ruled, representative of the rivers of China — was killed by drinking a 'X' and powdered Jade mixture (causing liver failure, poisoning, and brain death) intended to give him eternal life.


THE CONNECT IS 'X'
- PUSHKAR

confusing connections!!

1.'X' - 1936, as a lotto-like game of chance; many theories about its origin, none satisfying; the most likely is 'X'! as an exclamation of sudden realization or surprise (attested from 1927). Uncertain connection to the slang word for "brandy" (1699); attested as "liquor" in Amer.Eng., 1861

2. 'Y' entered a segment of market mostly dominated by 'Z' with a product one of whose ads had 'a CBI inspector clarifying the difference between the criminal Zango and 'X''

3.'Y' features on the Forbes Global 2000 rankings for 2007 at position 1256. On 24th August 1910, the Company was incorporated as a Private Limited Company under the name, Imperial Tobacco Co. of IndiaLtd. The Company manufactured and distributed cigarettes and smoking tobaccos and speciality papers including cigarette tissue papers (Sole manufacturer in the country). Present activities include above mentioned and tobacco leaf processing, printing and packaging, hotels, food and exports.

4.'Z':In 1932 Herman W. Lay began a potato chip business in Tennessee.
Victoria Miller, the operator of the Highland ParkConfectionery, purchased a corn chip recipe, 19 retail accounts and a potato ricer for $100 from a local manufacturer in 1932. Doolin established a new corn chip business.
the two businesses later merged to become 'Z'. The company's current form is the result of a 1965 merger of 'Z' and the Pepsi-Cola Company, which resulted in the formation of PepsiCo, Inc.

general

1 connect the above 3 images and explain.
2.marathi slang word originated in goa, means 'someone who has come from across the ghats'. What?
3.what was earlier named '"X" like us' then ' six of one' and then the name by which we know it(X)?

- Pushkar

Powe , Power and Power

Complete the list

1. --------------------
2. John Adams
3. --------------------
4. James madison
5. James Monroe
6. John Quincy Adams
7. Andrew Jackson
8. Martin van Buren
9. William Henry Harrison
10. John Tyler
11. James K. Polk
12. Zachary Taylor
13. Millard Fillmore
14. Franklin Pierce
15. James Buchanan
16. ------------------
17. Andrew Johnson
18. Ulysses S. Grant
19. Rutherford Hayes
20. James A. Garfield
21. Chester Arthur
22. Grover Clevland
23. Benjamin Harrison
24. Grover Clevland
25. Willam Mc Kinley
26. ----------------
27. William Howard Taft
28. ----------------
29. warren Halding
30. Calvin Cooldige
31. Herbert Hoover
32. ----------------
33. Harry Truman
34. Dwight D. Eisenhover
35. ----------------
36. Lyndon Johnson
37. Richard Nixon
38. Gerald Ford
39. Jimmy Carter
40. Ronald Raegan
41. ----------------
42. ----------------
43. ----------------
44. ----------------

Complete the list!
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whatsdis?

Who is this and what is this the cover of?

Cacaphonix- find the connexion

for 2008

for 2007

for 2006
for 2005 : Here we go again by Ray Charles and Norah Jones (sorry cudn't get an image)

for 2004

for 2002

for 2003

for 2001

for 2000

Pottering Around

1) What would you call this?

2)Connect the two images above and

a. Christian Coulson

b. Frank Dillane

c.Ian Harte

d.Richard Bremmer

3) What is this group of people better known as?

4) What happens next?
5) What?

NEED FOR SPELLOTAPE?

Instruction: Fill in the blanks below by guessing the incantation from the meaning!!

a. Latin ______ meaning "to double"

b.French _______ meaning "slide/glide"

c.Latin _________ meaning "a hindrance"

d.Latin _________meaning "impassable

e.English__________ incarcerate meaning "to confine/imprision"

f.Latin ____ meaning "to set fire"
g.____ is Latin for "I await a protector
h.Greek__________ meaning "repair, restoration"

i.The Greek __________ which means "to draw breath or to revive

j.The Latin word ________ means "I call" or "I summon"

k.The Latin word ____ which means "bird

l.The Latin word ____________ which means, "to break in pieces, to bring to naught"

m.The Latin word __________ which means, "to confuse, throw into disorder

n.Latin ________ meaning "to bring light"

o.Latin X meaning death and French Y(from Latin Y+re) meaning "to bite" ___________

(What is formed as a esult of joining these two words?)

p.Engish __________ meaning "to make a sound less distinct by covering its source."

q.Latin ____ meaning "night"

r.Latin ______ meaning "forgetfulness".

s.Latin __________ meaning "to hide or conceal".

t.Latin _________ meaning "to attack".

u.English _________ meaning "a plant of a large family with complex showy flowers"

v.Latin ______ meaning "to protect"
w.Italian __________ meaning "to release

x.Latin __________meaning "to renew" or "repair

y.Latin __________ meaning "absurd"

z.English ______ meaning "to clean by vigorous rubbing"

6)A X is a member of one of the sides of a war raiding for pillage, or roving around carrying out violent attacks. While "X" is most often used in the context of war, there is no clear-cut division between it and "robber", and in many contexts the two can be regarded as synonymous.

7) X (traditionally c. 1330 – 1418) was a successful scrivener and manuscript-seller who developed a posthumous reputation as an alchemist due to his reputed work on the -----------.

Who was X?

Who is X?

LOOK OUT !!

note: if the text in the pics is too small just click on them.

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4.I have blanked out some portion of this picture(in the left panel)
Identify what asterix is talking about.







5.what are the guys in the picture below talking about?







6.Following many pics contain pictures of celebrities who have appeared on the simpsons.
Identify them.
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that's all folks!

A Bit Too General

1)He was born Pushpa Kamal Dahal and his nom de guerre means the fierce one. ID the person given below.

2)What happened after the implementation of this plan?

3)What is this the icon of?

4)Connect all the images given below

5)Where would you find this gate??

6)Who is the guy below? (though he is not exactly famous by name, whatever he did certainly helped social people)(You may even tell what he did)
7)A ruler falls in love with a local dancer named Bhagmati who lives in the village of Chichlam. He builds a city and names it Bhagyanagar after her. Sometime later she converts to Islam, (due to the ruler's insistence) following which the city is given a new name based on her new Muslim name. Identify the city, now a state capital in South India.

8)____ ______ : Gold

Sergi Brugerra : Silver

Leander Paes : Bronze

9)The main bodies were hewn directly from the sandstone cliffs, but details were modeled in mud mixed with straw, coated with stucco. This coating, practically all of which was worn away long ago, was painted to enhance the expressions of the faces, hands and folds of the robes; the larger one was painted carmine red and the smaller one was painted multiple colours. The lower parts of the statues’ arms were constructed from the same mud straw mix while supported on wooden armatures. It is believed that the upper parts of their faces were made from great wooden masks or casts. This description was true till 2001. What?

10)What is " Nomophobia"?

11)His filmatography reads

2005- The longest Yard

2008- Get Smart

Besides he is rather famous on Indian Television among kids.He was born in Punjab but has now migrated and changed his name. Who?

12)In a rare event in brazillian grand prix 2003 ,winner Kimi Raikonnen was unceremonously adjudged 2nd and some other driver was declared winner, who and why.

13)This very popular actor today made his small screen debut for throat drops 'smyle', who??

14)When asked if there were any real x this person replied that i have never heardof a newborn baby named x, there is a barrister in london who became cool in his grandchildren's eyes, a soldier who died in WWII and a clockmaker who worked in the last century(1800's).identify x??(quite a workable one and that is the hint)

15)A cryptic question, what got into itself after 19 years of its existence??

16)Which comic was initially named as m l j comics?

17)Ok now a tough one(but a workable one)

63:vengicillion

100:___???_______

18)The Universal Tube and Rollform Equipment Corporation has had all sorts of problem with maintaining their web presence since 2006. What has caused these difficulties?

19)Who founded Harpo Productions and hosts a famous talk show?

20)Which athlete has a brand of designer clothes called 'aneres'?( you'll get it if you apply the same logic as you did for the one above) (if you did !!!)

21)They are essentially the tops of submerged mountain range that is a continuation of the Arakan Yomas in Burma. They occupy an area of 3185 square miles and lie 121 km south of Cape Negrais. What are we talking about?

22)The airport that serves Venice is named after which famous explorer and traveler who lived in the city?

23)Complete this quote, attributed to one of the wives of the Persian king Nader Shah: “If a strong man should take five stones, and throw one north, one south, one east and one west, and the last straight up into the air, and the space between filled with gold and gems, that would be equal the value of ______”

24)This word X is slang for a low-paying, low-prestige job that requires few skills and offers very little chance of intra-company advancement.The term X derives its name from McDonald's, but is used to describe any low-status job — regardless of the employer where little training is required.."X" was in use at least as early as 1986, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, which defines it as "An unstimulating, low-paid job with few prospects"The word X is....

25) Where would you be at 3.316° N 95.854° E, approximately 100 miles in the Indian Ocean just north of Simeulue island, off the western coast of northern Sumatra, 19 miles below mean sea level?

26)The best test to find the authenticity of --------- is to get it X-rayed and count the number of compartments inside. If they are equal to the number of lines outside the -------- is real. What?

27) Which famous Indian Bazaar claims that “The Edge is Efficiency”?

That's all for today

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Sayonara!!!!