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Welcome to QUIZOCRACY 2.0

Researched and conducted by Vaibhav jain & navneet kumar.

25 questions are there in this roundWrite your Names, mobile numbers, team name.Marked questions are used for resolving ties. (*)6 teams qualify for the finalsAnyone found using mobile phones/googling during the quiz will be disqualied.No negatives, feel free to guess!

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X lost his life when a Rashtriya Rifles camp came under militant attack in Jammu and Kashmir in 1999.The Battle Casualty Report of X ,states that he was serving in the counter-insurgency operation, Rakshak, in J&K. X was commissioned in the 49 Army Air Defence Regiment in 1991 and was serving with the 4 Rashtriya Rifles battalion when he died fighting militants on August 6, 1999.ID X or put funda1

Gurmehar Kaurs father Capt Mandeep Singh1

X,also calledAsia Minor Agreement concluded on May 19, 1916 secret convention made duringWorld War I betweenGreat BritainandFrance, with the assent of imperialRussia, for the dismemberment of theOttoman Empire. The agreement led to the division of Turkish-heldSyria,Iraq,Lebanon, andPalestineinto various French- and British-administered areas.2

Sykes-Picot Agreement2

X is the name of ___ in lower Manhattan running east from Broadway downhill to the East River. Xs name is a direct reference to a structure that was erected by Dutch settlers on the southern tip of Manhattan Island in the 17th century. During this time, a war between the English and Dutch threatened to spill over onto the island's American colonies. So the Dutch, located at the southernmost part of the island, decided to erect a defensive structure. Although this structure was never used for its intended purpose, years after its removal it left a legacy behind. How do we better know this place ?

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Wall street3

Inastrophysics,X is the vertical stretching and horizontal compression of objects into long thin shapes in a very strong non-homogeneous gravitational field; it is caused by extremetidal forces.X has nothing to do with Italian cuisine, but refers to what happens if an object falls into a black hole.ID X?Vis on next slide *4

Spaghettification*4

Xis anArabicword literally meaning, "tremor", "shivering", "shuddering".It is derived from an Arabic termmeaning "to shake", "shake off", "get rid of as a dog might shrug off water, or as one might shake off sleep,or dirt from one's sandals.Prime Minister Nawaz Sharifs use of X in his UN General Assembly speech last year was the first time that Pakistan used the word X officially for any domestic or international audience in context of Kashmir.ID X ?5

Intifada5

ID him ?6

Sunny Pawar

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X born was on 16 November 1923. X was a Soviet Russian physicist andWorld War IIveteran. He is mostly known as a physics professor at theMoscow Institute of Physics and Engineeringand the author of a series of handbooks on general physics, which became lecture courses in physics in several countries.P.S. an intimidating figure for IIT aspirants 7

I.E Irodov7

Lakshmi Sahgal was a revolutionary of the Indian independence movement, an officer of theIndian National Army, and the Minister of Women's Affairs in theAzad Hind government.Sahgal is commonly referred to in India as "Captain Lakshmi", a reference to her rank when taken prisoner in Burma during the Second World War.Name her famous younger sister from a different arena.?

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Capt Lakshmi and Mrinalini Sarabhai

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What is special about them ?

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Adidas x Parley shoes made from recycled ocean plastic.9

The familys original name was kaul. Xs ancestor raj kaul settled in Mughal delhi in the 18th century and perhaps because there were other kauls of prominence in the city, they assumed the hyphenated name- Kaul X, the suffix indicating the familys residence on the edge of a Canal.ID X ?10

-

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Many voters inFrancecannot identify all the candidates running for president, who now number more than a dozen. But they recognize the smiling politician on campaign posters with the slogan Oui on peut. The organisers, four Parisians in their thirties came up with idea over beer, said they launched the website and began plastering Xs posters around Paris because they were disenchanted with the candidates running in Frances election.The movements website said it wants to coaxFranceout of its lethargy and X has the experience to do it. The goal is to gather one million signatures by March 15 to convince X that he should run because he has the best C.V. in the world for the job, according to the petition.ID X ?11

Barack Obama11

X was elected Vice-President of JNUSU in 1993, and subsequently held the office of JNUSU President for two terms.Xs murder on the streets of Siwan on March 31st1997 was clearly a reaction to the growing peoples assertion under the banner of CPI(ML) against the feudal forces in Bihar. Kanhaiya kumars popularity almost mirrors that of Xs in the late 90s when thousands and thousands of students braved gunfire, water cannons and an apathetic, sluggish state response to their comrades murder.ID X?*12

Chandrashekhar Prasad or Chandu

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City named X started life as a fishing settlement when a fisherwoman called Mai Kolachi settled here and started a family. This city was merely an access to the Arabian Sea and even though it had no strategic importance it remained in the middle of tug of war between the Governors of Kalat and the Mirs of Hyderabad in the 18th century.ID X ?13

Karachi

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ID ?14

Bahadur Shah Zafar14

X was founded by a small group of activists in an old fishing boat, thePhyllis Cormack. They wanted to stop and "bear witness" to U.S. underground nuclear testing at Amchitka, a tiny island off the west coast ofAlaska. Although their boat was intercepted and the bomb was detonated, nuclear testing there ended a year later.Formerly called Don't Make a Wave Committee.In 1987 Rainbow Warrior,a Xs ship scheduled to protest French atmospheric nuclear weapons tests, was blown up in Auckland Harbour, New Zealand, on July 10, 1985, by French intelligence agents. The resulting scandal caused the resignation of France's minister of defense and the firing of the head of France's intelligence service.ID X ?15

Greenpeace15

According to the London-based design studio behind the project ,the logo was inspired by German designer Kurt Wiedemans theory that a great logo is something you can draw in the sand with your toe or something a horny schoolboy might doodle in the back of his exercise book,or in the condensation on a window, as the case may be.Christened as the Blo, the company says it is an expression of what it truly means to belong anywhere, a universal sign that the company hopes people will adopt and make their own.Name the company ?*16

Airbnb logo*16

X created by Flemish cartographer in 1569. It's been widely used for centuries, including today in various forms by GoogleMapsand many otheronline services.This map preserves directional bearing,presenting rhumbs (imaginary lines that cut all meridians at the same angle) as straight lines, thus making it a useful tool for navigation.Despite its benefits, X drastically distorts the size and shape of objects approaching the poles.This may be the reasonpeople have no idea how big some places really are.ID X?17

Mercator projection17

X is anArabicword meaning community it can be said to be a supra-national community with a common history.X is commonly used to mean the collective community of Islamic peoples. In the Quran X typically refers to a single group that shares common religious beliefs, specifically those that are the objects of a divine plan of salvation. In the context ofPan-Islamismand politics, X can be used to mean the concept of aCommonwealthof the BelieversID X ?18

Ummah18

When muthulakshmi reddy sent angry letters to newspapers criticising those who held nautch parties. the letters drew a response from E. Krishna Iyer secretry of music academy, madras saying that natuch should not be preserved as art. Soon after the controversy the music academy adopted a resolution to take steps to preserve and promote X by renaming it as Y.ID X & Y?19

Y=Bharatanatyam X=Devadasi dance 19

Sohni took the pot and began her journey to meet her lover mahiwal. When she was a quarter of the way across, she realized something was wrong. The sturdy piece of pottery that served as her lifesaver was melting into the water. She called for her Mahiwal. Mahiwal heard his loves cries. He swam as far as he could with his limp leg. He met her drowning body halfway through the river but he could not hold himself up against the current. While holding on to each other, they both drowned in the Chenab River.This famous love story came into limelight last year with a song in which the singer achieved a unique feat.Give the name of the song and the singer?*20

Song = Paar chanaa deSinger = shilpa Rao*20

Baba Randhir Singh was a God-fearing religious man. It pained him to learn that X was a non-believer. He somehow managed to see X in the condemned cell and tried to convince him about the existence of God, but failed. Baba lost his temper and said tauntingly: You are giddy with fame and have developed an ego which is standing like a black curtain between you and the God.What was the result of this altercation ?21

Why I Am an AtheistX=Bhagat Singh21

Despite the company having no connection with X at all, it isn't entirely free from X like language, claiming to be the FIRST company to make retractable seat protectors and also claiming that over ONE BILLION people use their products every year, in multiple countries, and for a company specializing in smart commodes for hotels, spas, hospitals and beauty centers, even its name "Chuang Pu" sounds awfully close to Xs Chinese name, "Chuan Pu", which both fittingly sound like poo.Id X ?22

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X, which completes a century of substantial existence since its establishment in 1915 inSrinagarby Amar Nath ______ continues to function today from Connaught Place. It was the first one to bring negative to positive colour printing in India (in 1954). Actor Amitabh Bachchan learnt photography from them. in 1980s A constant stream of customers flok through the door. Some wanting to get their portrait done, others their photos developed. Some inquire about cameras. Maharani Gayatri Devi and painter M.F. Husain have been seen here. ID X?

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Mahatta & Co23

X is the period is a mirror of the 40 days thatJesus spent in the wilderness, fasting, praying, and being tempted by Satan before he started his public ministry.If Jesus fasted for 40 days, why is X 46 days longMost people know X as a time to fast from something chocolate, alcohol, sex, and social media are all popular choices in the US.X is the greatest and most solemn period of fasting on the Christian churchs calendar, leading up to the celebration of Christianitys greatest feast day: Easter.ID X and also the reason behind it of being 46 days

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Lent

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Hindu legends give credit for it to three ancient sages Atri, Pulastaya and pulaha skanda puranTells, how while on a pintential pilgrimage , these sages arrived at the crest of mount cheena and finding No water to quench their thrist dug a hole at the foot of the hill and syphoned water into it from Mansover , the sacred lake in Tibet . What is being talked here 25

Naini Lake in Nainital25

This round is a mega connect round consisting of 6 sub Questions+10/-10 on pounce on each sub questionIf a team gives the mega connect after 1 sub question then the team would be awarded +60 for correct and -30 for wrongIf a team gives the mega connect after 2 sub question then the team would be awarded +50 for correct and -25 for wrong+40/-20, +30/-15, +20/-10, +10/-5.

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X was born in the Mahal district of Nagpur in the year 1905 shewas affectionately referred to as Vandaneeya Mausiji. She started Y which brought women together and increased their pride and love for the nation and the Hindutva feeling by imbibing the great human values of the glorious Sanathana Dharma. According to her it was the women who would pass on these values to their future generations and so the future of the society and nation depended on nurturing Bharatiya values.ID X & Y?1

Y=Rashtra Sevika SamithiX =Lakshmibai Kelkar1

In theMahabharataVana Parva,Markandeyanarrates her story to thePandavas. She fell in love with the god of fire, Agni, and was pursuing him.X was the daughter ofDaksha. Her body is said to consist of the four Vedas and her six limbs are the six Angas of the Vedas. In some versions, she is one of the many divine mothers ofKartikeya.ID X ?2

Svaha

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X was an exceptionally beautiful princess of theSinghal kingdom.Ratan Sen, theRajputruler ofChittor, heard about her beauty from atalking parrotnamed Hiraman. After an adventurousquest, he married her and brought her to Chittor. Eminent historian Prof Irfan Habib said X was a character in a book written by Malik Mohammad Jaisi in Bhaktikal, which has no connection with history at all.Id X?3

Rani Padmavati3

, , , , ||Name the poet ?4

Subhadra kumari chauhan4

The Salwa Judum case rose out of a writ petition (civil) filed in 2007 in the Supreme Court by X.X has been named in FIR by Chhattisgarh police on 8 November 2016, stating that X & Archana Prasad, a local communist politician and Maoists stood accused of killing a tribal gentleman in Sukma district on 4 November 2016. X is sociology professor at Delhi University.ID X ?5

Nandini Sundar

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At a young age, X witnessed a bonfire of foreign goods.The 5-year-old chose to burn her own beloved doll because the toy had been made in England. When she was 12, X played an even bigger role in India's struggle for self-determination by leading children in the Vanar Sena .The group grew to include 60,000 young revolutionaries who addressed envelopes, made flags, conveyed messages and put up notices about demonstrations. It was a risky undertaking, but X was happy to be participating in the independence movement.6

Indira gandhi6

All these are names of goddess Durga LakshmiSvahaPadmavatiSubhadraNandiniIndira

RulesThis round consists of 24 Questions12 clockwise & 12 anticlockwise+10/-10 on pounceNo negative on the direct ones

"It's just a dot of light, but it's a very special dot of light." That's how Xs friend and bandmate describes the asteroid named after him."Happy Birthday X Xs friend wrote on Twitter. "They already named a planet after you, but this little ROCK is a bonus! ha ha.The celestial body was discovered in the same year X died, at age 45. It was dedicated to X in honor of what would have been his 70th birthday.ID X?

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1

The origins of the X, a term commonly used to describe a complex or unsolvable problem, can be traced back to a legendary chapter in the life of Alexander the Great. As the story goes, in 333 B.C. the Macedonian conqueror marched his army into the Phrygian capital in modern day Turkey. Upon arriving in the city, he encountered an ancient wagon, its yoke tied with what one Roman historian later described as several knots all so tightly entangled that it was impossible to see how they were fastened. According to tradition, this knot was to be untied only by the future conqueror ofAsia. In the popular account, probably invented as appropriate to animpetuouswarrior, Alexander sliced through the knot with his sword.ID term ?2

Gordian Knot2

It has been more than 105 years since X were introduced on battlefields across the world. A series of connected tubes, each hardly five feet long, remains the weapon of choice for military engineers across the world clearing obstacles. The American version, played a vital role in breaking through German defences during D-Day landings on Normandy beaches. X is still part of the arsenals of the British, US, Indian, Chinese, Canadian and Pakistani armed forces.ID X ? 3

Bangalore torpedo

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There is a scene in Kalki Krishnamurthys classicPonniyin Selvanin which the loyalists of the Pandya king meet at midnight at Pallipadai temple a temple raised over the body of the leader and take a pledge to destroy the Cholas. this ancient ritual of Vanjinam Uraithal (Avenging) .Such pledges would take place in graveyards or in the battlefield to avenge the killing of a king or a warriorWhy it was recently in news put funda?4

Sasikala slamming the memorial slab of late Chief Minister Jayalalithaa4

In 18th century France,Xwere organised gatherings hosted in private homes, usually by prominent women. Individuals were invited toXto discuss literature and share their views and opinions.Guests atXusually camefrom thehaute bourgeoisieor nobility; mostwereeducated, well read and informed about politics, current affairs and intellectual debates. By the last quarter of the 18th century the Xhad becomede factouniversities or tutorial groups, specialising in Enlightenment ideasand philosophy.ID X?5

SALONS5

InHindumythology,X is a mythological being referred to as the female dog of the gods(mother of all dogs). She first appears in one of Hinduism's earliest texts, theRig Veda, in which she helps the god-kingIndrato recover divine cows stolen by thePanis, a class of demons. This legend is alluded to in many later texts, and X is often associated with Indra. The epicMahabharata, and somePuranas, also make brief reference to X.ID X ?6

Sarama6

One question has always nagged at Jonah Peretti: "What makes ideas spread?"He first wondered this in college, when he ordered a customized pair ofNikeshoes with the word "sweatshop" written on them. Nike refused to fulfill the order, and Peretti sent the email chain with customer service to twelve friends. Those friends forwarded it on and, eventually, it reached millions of people.X was started by Peretti, as a lab with a small team where they would play with ideas,One of Xs first viral posts was a meme it created called "Disaster Girl.ID X?7

X comes from the Latin laesa maiestas, Though it has become increasingly associated with Thailand in recent years, the crime dates back to the Roman Republic, and was massively expanded during the reign of Emperor Tiberius (14-37 AD),according to historian Theodor Mommsen.Countries as diverse as theNetherlands,NorwayandJordanall still have laws against X.The law was added toThailand's Criminal Codein 1908, and was expanded after a military coup in 1976.ID X or put funda ?8

Lese majeste

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This English word comes from the latin root which means white or pure and romans seeking to be elected to the senate used to wear white robes signifying their honesty. Till date our parliamentarians follow the same principle (of wearing white that is, not necessarily honesty)What word used in election terminology arises from the same ?9

Candid, Candidate

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When theFrench Revolutionbegan in 1789, upheavals put the very existence of the state at risk. X perhaps overvaluing the authority of science and the power of reason, continued to advise revolutionary government on finance and other matters, and neither he nor his wife fled abroad when popular anger turned against those who had exercised power and enjoyed social privileges in the old regime. In May 1794 X, his father-in-law, and 26 other Tax Farmers were guillotined. Acknowledging Xs scientific stature, his contemporary,Joseph-Louis Lagrange, commented, It took them only an instant to cut off that head, and a hundred years may not produce another like it.Id X ?10

Antoine Lavoisier10

Mautam is a cyclicecologicalphenomenon that occurs every 48 years in the northeasternIndianstates ofMizoramandManipur.During Mautam,Melocanna baccifera, a species of bamboo,flowersat one time across a wide area. This event is followed invariably by a plague ofXa kind of deluge. which in turn creates a widespread famine in those areas.ID the phenomenon or X11

Rat flood

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Superior orders, often known as the X,or by theGermanphraseBefehl ist Befehl("only following orders", literally "an order is an order"), is apleain a court of law that a person whether a member of themilitary,law enforcement, afirefightingforce, or thecivilianpopulation not be held guilty for actions which were ordered by asuperior officeror anofficial.The superior orders plea is often regarded as the complement tocommand responsibility.ID X ?12

Nuremberg defense1112

On June 15, 1912 X with his son and daughter-in-law Pratima Devi, took a train from Dover to London to meet Rothenstein. On arrival in London, they took the underground railway. Awe-struck at the sight of the modern marvels of the tube, they forgot Yin the Baker Street Underground, A fanatic search failed to yield results. X asked his son to go to the London tube railways lost property office and try his luck. True to his fathers hunch, the Y was found there.ID X & Y ?

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X= Rabindranath tagoreY= Gitanjali13

When Kanye West releasedThe Life of Pabloin early 2016, he was praised for pushing the boundaries of hip-hop. But Kanye did something that rappers have been doing nearly every single year since 1992. when he says, "Yeezy, Yeezy, Yeezy, this is pure luxury / I give 'em ____ ______ on a DJ Mustard, ah!.____ ______ became the condiment of choice for rappers who wanted an easy rhyme that also illustrated the idea of status, luxury, and class. Created in France, ____ ______ has been around since 1866 and has been on sale in America since 1946, but domestic sales didnt really spike until 1981, when a ubiquitous television campaign promoted the ____ ______ as an affordable luxury. Pardon me. Would you have any ____ ______ ? became a pop culture catchphrase.FITB.14

Grey Poupon

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X is an ingenious storytelling box that storytellers use to tell traditional Indian talesofthe Gods, Goddesses, Saints, Local Heroes and Patrons.From Marwar, Rajasthan, Northern India. X opens into many layers in a rather compellingmanner as the story unfolds to reveal its deepest secret.Revealing pictures from theepisodes in a particular tale, or more frequently in a series of stories, as the audience listens.Id X(vis on next slide)15

Kavad

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X, was anuisance wildlife managementmilitary operationundertaken inAustraliaover the latter part of 1932 to address public concern over the number ofYsaid to be running amok in the Campion district ofWestern Australia. Australia have one distinction that no other nation on Earth can boast: they are the only country in history to lose a war to ______.ID x &Y ?16

X=Emu WarY=Emu

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The first recorded use of the term X was applied to financial crisis specifically, the crash of the U.S. gold market on September 24, 1869. The true story behind X was Back in the 1950s, police in the city of Philadelphia used the term X to describe the chaos that ensued on the day after fourth Thursday of November, when hordes of suburban shoppers and tourists flooded into the city in advance of the big Army-Navy football game held on that Saturday every year. X story stuck, and pretty soon the terms darker roots in Philadelphia were largely forgotten.ID X ?How do we know this ?17

Black Friday17

Maud Gonne was the daughter of an army officer and had been educated and raised in Paris. Gonne was an Irish Nationalist and an active campaigner for the release of political prisoners in Ireland. X first met Gonne in London 1889 and was infatuated by her. Gonne was the inspiration for much of Xs poetry over the next few years and she starred in Cathleen Ni Houlihan, a play X had written.Id X ?18

W. B. Yeats18

X gained international notoriety when, in September of 1992, he risked $10 billion on a single currency speculation when he shorted the British pound it was reported that his profit on this transaction almost reached $2 billion. As a result, he is famously known as the "the man who broke theBank of England. X was also cited by some as the "trigger" behind the Asian financial crisis in 1997, as he had a large bet against the Thai baht.ID X ?

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George Soros19

X which started out as a fashionable impulse, became an expression of Han identity after the Mongols invaded China in 1279. The fact that it was only performed by Chinese women turned the practice into a kind of shorthand for ethnic pride.The practice was daily proof of their cultural superiority to the uncouth barbarians who ruled them. X in China, no different from a tiny waist in Victorian England, represented the height of female refinement. For families with marriageable daughters, X translated into its own form of currency and a means of achieving upward mobility. The most desirable bride possessed a three-inch _____ known as a golden lotus. It was respectable to have four-inch ____, silver lotus but feet five inches or longer were dismissed as iron lotuses. The marriage prospects for such a girl were dim indeed.What is being talked about ?20

Foot binding20

Originally only Bayer a german company could make aspirin as it had a trademark on it . at the end of the first World War, Despite being on the losing side bayer was making fortunes because Aspirin provedSomething of a wonder drug and a pain killer for reducing fever, particularly during the Spanish Flu pandemic .something led bayer to loose its trademark in UKWhat or give funda ?21

Treaty of Versailles

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Bayer also lost another trademark under the Treaty of Versailles the one over the word heroin.Bonus fact

X was a soldier who died in the Japan War (World War II). His Quarter Master was apparently smart and continued to draw rations on the jawans name.The surplus ration that collected in the name of X over the months proved to be a godsend when the regiment was surrounded by the Japanese and cut off from supplies. The regiment survived the siege thanks to Xs ration and averted a possibly disastrous fate that could have resulted in many deaths. Y is the regimental song of the Assam Regiment. The passing out ceremony of recruits is celebrated at the Regimental Center at Happy Valley, Shillong. It is called the Kasam Parade. Young recruits march, sing, and foot stomp to the tune of this regimental song.Id X & Y?22

Badluram ka Badan Zameen ke Neeche hai22

Mahershala Ali made history by becoming the first Muslim actor to win an Academy Award in 2017. Ali follows the X sect of Islam, which isoutlawed in Pakistan. Although Alis faith and win are now making headlines, X usually appear in the news in Pakistan when they become the victims of mass killings. Even then, the word Muslimdoesnt appear. Dr. Abdus Salam the first muslim nobel laureate in science also belonged to the same community.ID X ?

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X=Ahmadiyya faith23

In the summer of 1996 Karen Mycock a cell biologists ,was attending a wedding in the Scottish highlands. Returning to her hotel to change her hat, she found a fax pushed under her door. It said SHES BEEN BORN AND SHE HAS A WHITE FACE AND FURRY LEGS.X lived a pampered existence at Roslin institute. She mated and produced normal offspring in normal way.ID X or put funda ?

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Dolly the sheep first mammal to be cloned 24

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