Since this is my

first quiz and all

30.12.2012

I am Kavin.

Pursuing my M.A in English Studies at IIT-M.

Hobbies include reading, TV and the internet.

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P.S. Quizmaster is rulemaker.

Even though any attire can be worn when one performs X, a lungi (colourful cloth wrapped around the waist) is commonly worn and most preferable, with the bottom raised and folded upwards over the knees in the middle. Ideally, it should be worn over pattapatti (lined trousers). The shirt worn would have only two or three buttons in place, while the chest portion is left wide open and at the lower part of the shirt is knotted (using the two portions of the shirt). It is also common to tie a handkerchief or bandana around one's forehead and/or wristIt is an evolution of Y, which is an informal dance structure. The performances generally depict scenes from ancient epics like Ramayana, Mahabharata and Tamil classical epics. There will be no dialogues instead only songs. Artists are trained to sing in their own voice and in a high pitch to reach entire crowd, since no technology was available at that time

It was probably the April of 1974. Bangalore was getting warm and gulmohars were blooming at the IISc campus. I was the only girl in my postgraduate department and was staying at the ladies' hostel. Other girls were pursuing research in different departments of Science. I was looking forward to going abroad to complete a doctorate in computer science. I had been offered scholarships from Universities in the US... I had not thought of taking up a job in India. One day, while on the way to my hostel from our lecture-hall complex, I saw an advertisement on the notice board. It was a standard job-requirement notice from the famous automobile company Telco (now Tata Motors)... It stated that the company required young, bright engineers, hardworking and with an excellent academic background, etc.

At the bottom was a small line: 'Lady Candidates need not apply.' I read it and was very upset. For the first time in my life I was up against gender discrimination...

It was only after joining Telco that I realized who JRD was: the uncrowned king of Indian industry. Now I was scared, but I did not get to meet him till I was transferred to Bombay. One day I had to show some reports to Mr Moolgaokar, our chairman, who we all knew as SM. I was in his office on the first floor of Bombay House (the Tata headquarters) when, suddenly JRD walked in. That was the first time I saw ‘appro JRD'. Appro means 'our' in Gujarati. This was the affectionate term by which people at Bombay House called him…

Gently, he said, 'So what are you doing, Mrs Kulkarni?' (That was the way he always addressed me.) 'Sir, I am leaving Telco.'

'Where are you going?' he asked. 'Pune, Sir. My husband is starting a company called ___ and I'm shifting to Pune.

'Sir, I don't know whether we will be successful.' 'Never start with diffidence,' he advised me 'Always start with confidence. When you are successful you must give back to society. Society gives us so much; we must reciprocate. Wish you all the best.'

Then JRD continued walking up the stairs. I stood there for what seemed like a millennium. That was the last time I saw him alive.

Many years later I met Ratan Tata in the same Bombay House, occupying the chair JRD once did. I told him of my many sweet memories of working with Telco. Later, he wrote to me, 'It was nice hearing about Jeh from you. The sad part is that he's not alive to see you today.‘

3. ID X, Y and Z

In a 2001 interview _______said a "Z" was approximately five pounds (i.e. approximately US$ 7.50 or € 5.50), although “the exchange rate varies”

One X is One Y is One Z is

1 X 29 X 493 X

0.03448... Y 1 Y 17 Y

0.002028... Z 0.05882... Z 1 Z

X refers to the elaborate licenses, regulations and accompanying red tape that were required to set up and run businesses in India between 1947 and 1990. It was a result of India's decision to have a planned economy where all aspects of the economy are controlled by the state and licences are given to a select few. Up to 80 government agencies had to be satisfied before private companies could produce something and, if granted, the government would regulate production. It was coined by Indian statesman Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari, who firmly opposed it for its potential for political corruption and economic stagnation and founded the Swatantra Party to oppose these practices. In his newspaper, Swarajya, C. Rajagopalachari wrote:

“I want the corruptions of the X to go. [...] I want the officials appointed to administer laws and policies to be free from pressures of the bosses of the ruling party, and gradually restored back to the standards of fearless honesty which they once maintained. [...] I want real equal opportunities for all and no private monopolies created by the X.”

During the Middle Ages, the word was generally used in regard to any young person-the equivalent of what we consider a "minor" in today's standards. In Italy for instance, a youngster or ____as they were called then, would be responsible to perform basic military duties as a young citizen should in that day. As a group, these young men were called ______

"It" has claimed the Guinness World Record of being the "fastest selling consumer electronics device" yet. Oliver Kreylos, a researcher at University of California, Davis, adopted the technology present in it to improve live 3-dimensional videoconferencing, which NASA has shown interest in. For a limited time in May 2011, a Topshop store in Moscow set up a X kiosk that could overlay a collection of dresses onto the live video feed of customers. Through automatic tracking, position and rotation of the virtual dress were updated even as customers turned around to see the outfit's backside. Researchers at the University of Minnesota have used it to measure a range of disorder symptoms in children, creating new ways of objective evaluation to detect such conditions as autism, attention-deficit disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder

X began in September 2005 when Randall Munroe decided to scan doodles from his school notebooks and put them on his webpage. Eventually X was changed into a stand-alone website, where Munroe started selling T-shirts based on X. He currently "works on X full time," making Munroe one of the few professional_____. According to Munroe, X's name has no particular significance and is simply a word without a phonetic pronunciation, something he describes as "a treasured and carefully guarded point in the space of four-character string”

Bruce Shelley was born in Michigan, U.S. and grew up in Baltimore. He attended Syracuse University and the State University of New York's College of Forestry, earning a degree in forest biology. Shelley continued his education at the University of Virginia. He had developed a fondness for strategy board games in school, playing Risk and Stratego. The first time he thought of making games for a living came in the 1970s, but he had a difficult time finding a job. In February 1995, he joined an old friend named Tony Goodman who had just started Ensemble Studios in Dallas, Texas

David Yermack, a business and finance professor at New York University's Stern School, looked at 29 clothing companies whose garments X wore in 189 public appearances between November 2008 and December 2009. Their stock prices typically jumped by 2 to 3 percent — and when X wore J. Crew on "The Tonight Show" in October 2008, the company's stock price climbed 25 percent in the next three days. Such increases that "cannot be attributed to normal market variations," says Yermack.

Yermack reckons that, on average, an appearance by X in a company's clothes is worth $14 million. The total boost for all of the appearances examined in the study — a whopping $2.7 billion. Designer Naeem Khan found out first hand about X's influence when X wore one of his outfits to a dinner in February 2009. "My stuff is flying out of stores," the designer says. "It's the gift that doesn't stop giving.“

A X is a rainbow produced by light reflected off the surface of the moon rather than from direct sunlight. X are relatively faint, due to the smaller amount of light reflected from the surface of the moon. They are always in the opposite part of the sky from the moon.

It is difficult for the human eye to discern colours in a X because the light is usually too faint to excite the cone colour receptors in human eyes. As a result, they often appear to be white. However, the colours in X do appear in long exposure photographs.

A true X is lit from the Moon itself. A coloured rainbow when the sun is setting or when it is darker out is not a X because it is still produced by sunlight. X have been mentioned at least since Aristotle, in his Meteorology, circa 350 BC, and in 1847; and the term X was used by Nick Whelan who sighted one of the first documented X in Eastern Utah.

In 450, Attila proclaimed his intent to attack the Visigoth kingdom of Toulouse by making an alliance with Emperor Valentinian III. He had previously been on good terms with the Western Roman Empire and its influential general Flavius Aëtius. Aëtius had spent a brief exile among the Huns in 433, and the troops Attila provided against the Goths and Bagaudae had helped earn him the largely honorary title of magister militum in the west. The gifts and diplomatic efforts of Geiseric, who opposed and feared the Visigoths, may also have influenced Attila's plans

However, Valentinian's sister was Honoria, who, in order to escape her forced betrothal to a Roman senator, had sent the Hunnish king a plea for help – and her engagement ring – in the spring of 450

Attila returned in 452 to claim his marriage to Honoria anew, invading and ravaging Italy along the way. This invasion made a number of citizens flee from the countryside and into the nearby regions

The place is equipped with approximately 100 IBM and Lenovo ThinkPad model A31 and T61P laptop computers. Each computer is a commercial off-the-shelf purchase which is then modified for safety and operation including updates to connectors, cooling and power to accommodate the place’s 28V DC power system and for other reasons. As of September 2000, the ThinkPad is the only laptop certified for uses over long periods there though Mac and other laptop computers have been used for specific purposes. All laptops in it are connected to the place's wireless LAN via Wi-Fi and are connected to the ground at 3Mbps up and 10 Mbps down

Since most people are right-handed, swordsmen preferred to __________ in order to have their right arm nearer to an opponent and their scabbard further from him. Moreover, it reduced the chance of the scabbard (worn on the left) hitting other people. Furthermore, a right-handed person finds it easier to mount a horse from the left side of the horse, and it would be very difficult to do otherwise if wearing a sword (which would be worn on the left)

In the late 1700s, however, teamsters in France and the United States began hauling farm products in big wagons pulled by several pairs of horses. These wagons had no driver's seat; instead the driver sat on the left rear horse, so he could keep his right arm free to lash the team. The French Revolution also made the aristocracy to mingle among the peasantry to avoid attention towards them

Tsamina or Zangaléwa is a 1986 hit song, originally sung by a makossa group from Cameroon called Golden Sounds who were beloved throughout the continent for the dances and costumes. The song was such a hit for Golden Sounds that they eventually changed their name to Zangaléwa, too. The song pays tribute to African skirmishers (a.k.a tirailleurs) during World War II. Most of the band members were in the Cameroonian Army themselves and used make up, fake bellies, and fake butts for comic relief

The song was used extensively in the frontlines by the Nigerian Army during the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970). It was also popular in some Nigeria schools as a marching song in the 1970s and 1980s. The Nigerian Army Band, The Mercuries, based in Kaduna also did cover this song in the 1970s on live Television appearances

The source that popularized Mizaru, Kikazaru and Iwazaru is a 17th century carving over a door of the famous Tōshō-gū shrine in Nikkō, Japan. The carvings at Toshogu Shrine were carved by Hidari Jingoro, and believed to have incorporated Confucius’s Code of Conduct, using them as a way to depict man’s life cycle. There are a total of 8 panels, and they come from panel 2. The philosophy, however, probably originally came to Japan with a Tendai-Buddhist legend, from China in the 8th century (Nara Period). It has been suggested that they represent the three dogmas of the so-called middle school of the sect

Their representation in the West is often the opposite of what they represent in the East and they are not seen in a very positive manner

A X is a soldier or airman assigned to a commissioned officer as a personal servant

A X’s duties often include:

acting as a "runner" to convey orders from the officer to subordinates

maintaining the officer's uniform and personal equipment as a valet

driving the officer's vehicle, sometimes under combat conditions

acting as the officer's bodyguard in combat

other miscellaneous tasks the officer does not have time or inclination to do

The action of serving as a X was referred to as “X ing". In armies where officers typically came from the upper class, it was not unusual for a former X to follow the officer into later civilian life as a domestic servant

Alcanivorax borkumensis is a rod shaped bacteria with flagella that obtains its energy primarily from eating alkanes. It is aerobic, meaning it uses oxygen to gain energy, and it is halophilic, meaning it tends to form in environments that contain salt. It is also gram-negative, which essentially means that it has a relatively thin cell wall. It is also non-motile, however, other organisms that appear to be in the same genus are motile through flagella

Although not very much different among other members of its species, it has been of great use amongst a particular community

This is a result of their profound ability to degrade and live predominately on alkanes

X is commonly said to have been composed by Te

Rauparaha of Ngāti Toa to commemorate his escape from

death during an incident in 1810. Chased by his enemies he

hid in a food-storage pit under the skirt of a woman. He

climbed out to find someone standing over him, who,

instead of killing Te Rauparaha, turned out to be another

chief friendly to him. In relief, Te Rauparaha performed

this X

Sang Nila Utama was a prince of Palembang, then capital of the Srivijayan empire. Wanting to find a suitable place for a new city, he decided to visit the islands off the coast of Palembang. He set sail in a number of ships as in a fleet. He and his men reached the Riau Islands and were welcomed by the queen. A few days later, Sang Nila Utama went to a nearby island on a hunting trip. While on the trip, he happened to get to a high point on the island, and another island

Asking his Chief Minister what land it was, he was told that it was the island of Temasek. He went to the island with a few of his subjects and saw a strange animal with an orange body, black head and a white neck breast. It was a fine-looking animal and moved with great speed as it disappeared into the jungle

He asked his chief minister what animal it was, and was told that it probably was a _____. Recent studies indicate that the animal could not have lived there, and Nila Utama probably believed it to be a mythical creature. Pleased, he decided to build a new city on the island of Temasek

X was born in 1570 in Stonegate, York

X was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605

The plotters secured the lease to an undercroft beneath the House of Lords, and X was placed in charge of the gunpowder they stockpiled there. Prompted by the receipt of an anonymous letter, the authorities searched Westminster Palace during the early hours of 5 November, and found X guarding the explosives. Over the next few days, he was questioned and tortured, and eventually he broke. Immediately before his execution on 31 January, X jumped from the scaffold where he was to be hanged and broke his neck, thus avoiding the agony of the mutilation that followed

The failure of the plot has been commemorated in England since 5 November 1605. His effigy is traditionally burned on a bonfire, commonly accompanied by a firework display

X was resurrected in a 1980s book, which was made into an acclaimed movie in 2006, both resembling the gunpowder plot in some aspects

Although this disease was discovered before his time, it was Hippocrates who named it. While examining the nature of the disease, he noticed that blood vessels around a _________ looked like the claws of ______. He then proceeded to name it as X

Also features as a joke in a 2003 Tamil movie

The 2nd Organisation of the Islamic Conference meeting was held in Pakistan in 1974. In the meeting, this leader staunchly defended Pakistan’s pursuit of Nuclear weapons and gave a speech in support of it. This made the grateful Pakistanis do something in return

The Mars Climate Orbiter was a 338 kilogram robotic space probe launched by NASA on December 11, 1998 to study the Martian climate, atmosphere, surface changes and to act as the communications relay in the Mars Surveyor '98 program, for Mars Polar Lander

On September 23, 1999, during the Mars orbital insertion manoeuvre, Mars Climate Orbiter went out of radio contact when the spacecraft passed behind Mars at 09:04:52 UTC, 49 seconds earlier than expected, and communication was never re-established

What mistake led to a tragic end?

the flight system software on the

Mars Climate Orbiter was written

to calculate thruster

performance using the metric

unit Newtons (N), while the ground

crew was entering course

correction and thruster data using

the Imperial measure Pound-force

The term “X planet" is used for any planet that is located within the circumstellar habitable zone (CHZ) although when used in the context of planetary habitability the term implies terrestrial planets with conditions roughly comparable to those of Earth

A planet following this X Principle is one neither too close nor too far from a star to rule out liquid water on its surface. While only about a dozen planets have been confirmed in the habitable zone, the Kepler spacecraft has identified a further 54 candidates and current estimates indicate "at least 500 million" such planets in the Milky Way

There is growing support for equivalent zones around stars where other solvent compounds (such as ammonia and methane) could exist in stable liquid forms. Astrobiologists theorise these environments could be conducive to alternative biochemistry

Habitable zones are used in the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence and is based on the assumption, should intelligent life exist elsewhere in the Universe, it would most likely be found there

In behavioral finance, the X effect is the avoidance of apparently risky financial situations by pretending they do not exist. The name comes from the common (but false) legend that X do something (seemingly to them) to avoid danger

The myth may have begun with the Roman thinker, Pliny the Elder. He had written about this myth first in his encyclopaedia, stating that X do something thinking it conceals them

The Jungfrau Encounter is a graphic novel featuring X as the protagonist. It is written by Yogesh Chandekar with art by Saumin Patel

The story is set at a restaurant high up in the Bernese Alps (in Jungfrau, Switzerland) where four mysterious strangers come together to get even with the one man responsible for their disgrace and humiliation. But almost nothing is as it seems, for their nemesis happens to be RAW’s most notorious operative ever

The novel was released earlier this year

The man-in-the-middle attack (often abbreviated MITM, also known as a bucket brigade attack,) in cryptography and computer security is a form of active eavesdropping in which the attacker makes independent connections with the victims and relays messages between them, making them believe that they are talking directly to each other over a private connection, when in fact the entire conversation is controlled by the attacker. The attacker must be able to intercept all messages going between the two victims and inject new ones, which is straightforward in many circumstances

A man-in-the-middle attack can succeed only when the attacker can impersonate each endpoint to the satisfaction of the other—it is an attack on (or lack of) mutual authentication. Most cryptographic protocols include some form of endpoint authentication specifically to prevent MITM attacks. For example, SSL can authenticate one or both parties using a mutually trusted certification authority

The attacker in MITM is often referred to as X, in reference to X in an entirely different field

X is a joint venture between a Russian gas company and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. X was established in 2009. It plans to invest US$2.5 billion to build oil and gas refineries, pipelines and gas power stations in Nigeria

The company's name, a portmanteau of "Nigeria" and the Russian gas company, attracted media attention for a reason. It had also sparked a row in Western media for the same

Homage to Qwert Yuiop, also published as But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?, is a collection of essays by Anthony Burgess published in 1986

Book reviews form the bulk of the content, though there are various essays and an interview Burgess conducted with Graham Greene

The title of the collection is a reference to the urban legend of an Hungarian man named QwertYuiop

Although the service remains essentially low-tech, with the barefoot delivery men as the prime movers, X have started to embrace technology, and now allow booking for delivery through SMS. The success of the system depends on teamwork and time management. A simple colour coding system doubles as an ID system for the destination and recipient. There are no multiple elaborate layers of management either - just three layers. Each X is also required to contribute a minimum capital in kind, in the form of two bicycles, a wooden crate for the ____, white cotton kurta-pyjamas, and the white trademark Gandhi cap (topi)

In 2002, Forbes Magazine found its reliability to be that of a six sigma standard. More than 175,000 or 200,000 _____ get moved every day by an estimated 4,500 to 5,000 Xs, all with an extremely small nominal fee and with utmost punctuality. According to a recent survey, they make less than one mistake in every 6 million deliveries

For the first time in 120 years on Aug 19, 2011 Xs broke their tradition and went on strike for 2011 Indian Anti Corruption Movement