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Oct - 2009

Y not learn

Preamble

• It has been great quizzing with K-Circle
• Sincere gratitude for all the encouragement
from all the members and especially from
sirji .
• This is not an obscure quiz.
• Bad news : questions are bit lonnnnng.
• Good news : they provide you with lot of
clues

The word X was added to the Preamble of
Indian Constitution by the 42nd
Amendment Act of 1976, during the
Emergency. It implies social and economic
equality. Social equality in this context
means the absence of discrimination on
the grounds only of caste, colour, creed,
sex, religion, or language. Economic
equality in this context means that the
government will endeavour to make the
distribution of wealth more equal and
provide a decent standard of living for all.

Rest of India: IPC::J&K: _______

Ranbir Penal Code after
Maharaja Ranbir Singh

AZS Media Group, a Dutch company on
September 1 launched the world's first Islamic
search engine -- X -- that differentiates what
material is allowed and what is forbidden in Islam.
"We got the idea to develop X about nine months
ago," says Reza Abdolali Zadeh Sardeha, who is
the chief executive officer of X and founder of the
Amsterdam-based AZS Media Group.This is how
the search on X works: The search engine only
fetches results that are flagged as to be _____.

BPM 37093 is a variable white dwarf star of the DAV,
or ZZ Ceti, type, with a hydrogen atmosphere and an
unusually high mass of approximately 1.1 times the
Sun's. It is about 50 light-years from Earth, in the
constellation Centaurus, and vibrates; these
pulsations cause its luminosity to vary. In 2004,
Travis Metcalfe and a team of researchers at the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
estimated, on the basis of these asteroseismological
observations, that approximately 90% of the mass of
BPM 37093 had crystallized. Crystallization of the
material of a white dwarf of this type is thought to
result in a body-centered cubic lattice of carbon
and/or oxygen nuclei, which are surrounded by a
Fermi sea of electrons. Because of its crystallized
core it is also called a ______ star.

In Sanskrit his name literally means sugar cane.He
was the first King to implement the Manusmriti, or the
religious rules of Hindu living composed through
divine inspiration and from the Vedas . According to
Matsya Purana he is the son of Vaivasvata Manu,
one of the two central characters along with the Lord
Matsya incarnation of Lord Vishnu in the. Bhagirath
and Dashrath were his descendents.

X is the most common Vietnamese family name. By some
estimates, approximately 40 percent of Vietnamese have this
surname. The prevalence of X as a family name in Vietnam
can be felt in countries to which many Vietnamese have
immigrated; X is the 7th most common family name in
Australia (second only to Smith in the Melbourne phone
books), and the 54th most common in France. In the United
States, it is the 57th most common family name according to
the 2000 Census, as well as the most common exclusively
Asian surname, a massive leap from its 229th-place ranking in
1990.It is ranked 124th in the U.S. Social Security Index.It is
the 62nd most common surname in Norway and it tops the list
of foreign names in the Czech Republic.

Y is a sphenic number. 50 can be
partitioned into powers of two in Y different
ways. Y might be the largest n for which
the value of the central binomial coefficient
C is not divisible by an odd prime
2n n
squared. If there is a larger such number,
it would have to be at least 157450 .The
number Y also features in the name of a
galaxy and an asteroid.

The _______ is a scientific device
which uses X-rays to give an exact
reading of the purity of gold. Due to its
excellent precision, X-ray analysis has
been adopted by international
agencies in India as part of the
certification process used to hallmark
gold. It is an accurate, non-destructive
means of testing the purity of gold and
other related elements.

A Z is a coming-of-age kind of novel. It arose during
the German Enlightenment, and in it, the author
presents the psychological, moral and social shaping
of the personality of a usually young main character
(the protagonist). The term Z was coined by Johann
Carl Simon Morgenstern and it means novel of
education in German.

Richard G. ______ is a prominent former mathematics
teacher and the author of one of the most famous high-
school advanced mathematics text books, Advanced
Mathematics: Precalculus With Discrete Mathematics
and Data Analysis.
He taught high school mathematics at Phillips Exeter
Academy from 1962 until his retirement in 1997. He had
been offered a job at the National Security Agency at
one time, but declined due to his desire to not move his
family out of New Hampshire.
He is currently a member of the COMAP Consortium
Council, he is an active participant in professional
mathematics organizations and the author of
mathematics texts and journal articles. In 2004, he was
chosen by President George H.W. Bush to receive the
"Presidential Award for Excellence in Science and
Mathematics Teaching".His son though is very well
known for a different reason altogether.

It is celebrated on the fourth day (chaturthi tithi)
after the full moon in the month of kartik in the
Hindu calendar following the Autumnal Equinox.
According to the religious scriptures like Dharma
sindhu, Nirnay sindhu and other shastra that
governs rules of when to observe festival says,
“X-Y to be observed at moonrise (chandrodaya
vyapini) and poorvaviddha, best if its tritiya
viddha. If visible during both days take the first
one, if not visible on both days then take the
second one”.
X means clay pot and Y means fourth night after
the full moon. Give me the phrase X-Y

These five put together form
an integral part of the cuisine
of which state/s
• Fenugreek
• Nigella seed
• Mustard seed
• Fennel seed
• Cumin seed

The name Z in local Balti language means “a
land with an abundance of roses” . Its the main
source of water for Nubra River in Ladakh,
which drains into the Shyok River. The Shyok in
turn joins the Indus River.

Name of this molecule is derived from the
local name of the island on which it was
found

A derasar is a temple for followers of Jainism .
Dehrasar is a word used in Gujarat and parts of
Rajasthan, in other parts of India, the term Jain
temple is used. The main part of derasar is
called "Gambhara" (Garbha Graha) in which
there is the stone carved God idol.A derasar
which is 100 years old is called a X. A dehrasar
is also called a X if it has a large facility for food
and night-stay A dehrasar generally holds the
statues of three of the Y: Parshwanath,
Rishabdev and Mahavir. What are X and Y ?

During the swadeshi movement, after Gandhiji gave
a call to boycott foreign goods, a certain K. V.
Ratnam, who was until then involved in making
lithographic blocks, met Gandhiji in 1921. Gandhiji
advised him to make something that would be useful
to the common man and that was inexpensive.
Ratnam and his brother, basically goldsmiths, made
a golden _____ and presented it to a sub-judge who
needed it. Then in 1932, Nyapati Subba Rao
Pantulu, one of the founders of The Hindu, ordered
the first X. It was made of silver.

The word ______ (Latin for "I shall please") is
name given to the rite of Vespers of the Office of
the Dead (Psalm cxiv:9) in Bible. It was first
used in a medicinal context in the 18th century.
In 1785 it was defined as a "commonplace
method or medicine" and in 1811 it was defined
as "any medicine adapted more to please than to
benefit the patient", sometimes with a derogative
implication but not with the implication of no
effect.

A ______ is a type of artillery piece that is
characterized by a relatively short barrel and the use
of comparatively small explosive charges to propel
projectiles at relatively high trajectories, with a steep
angle of descent. ________ derives from the German
word Haufen (heap) which as Gewalthaufen
designated a pike square formation.In the Battle of
Grunwald (1410), the Teutonic Knights used artillery
which was intended to break up enemy formations. In
the Hussite Wars of the 1420s and 1430s, the Czechs
used short barreled "houfnice" cannons to fire at short
distances into such crowds of Haufen infantry ("houf"
came in use as the Czech word for crowd), or into
charging heavy cavalry, to make horses shy away.

He was born on March 25th 1914 and went on to
do his PhD in plant pathology and genetics from
the University of Minnesota in 1942.He was one
of only six people to have won the Nobel Peace
Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the
Congressional Gold Medal. He was also a
recipient of the Padma Vibhushan, India's
highest civilian honour for a foreign citizen.He
took up an agricultural research position in
Mexico, where he developed semi-dwarf, high-
yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties.

Dr. Norman Borlaug (Green
Revolution)

In political geography, an _____ is a territory
whose geographical boundaries lie entirely within
the boundaries of another territory. The word
______ crept into the jargon of diplomacy rather
late in English, in 1868, coming from French, the
lingua franca of diplomacy, with a sense
inherited from late Latin word for “shut in, locked
up with a key”.

It is formed by deposition of layers of calcium
carbonate (CaCO3) in the form of the mineral
aragonite or a mixture of aragonite and calcite
(both crystalline forms of calcium carbonate) held
together by an organic horn-like compound
called conchiolin. The combination of aragonite
and conchiolin is called ______._____ is
composed of hexagonal platelets of aragonite
10-20 µm wide and 0.5 µm thick, arranged in a
continuous parallel lamina. These layers are
separated by sheets of organic matrix composed
of elastic biopolymers (such as chitin, lustrin and
silk-like proteins).
_____ appears iridescent because the thickness
of the aragonite platelets is close to the
wavelength of visible light. This results in
constructive and destructive interference of
different wavelengths of light, resulting in
different colors of light being reflected at different
viewing angles.

This structure was built (ca. 629 A.D.)during the
reign of Cheraman Perumal Bhaskara Ravi
Varma a king of the ancient Tamil-speaking
Chera Dynasty in the late eighth Century CE in
the present day district of Kasargode . It is
supposedly the first of its kind in India.
The story goes that once on a moon-lit night
the king while walking on the rooftop of his
palace along with the queen saw the moon
suddenly splitting into two halves. Later he came
to know through the Arab traders that that a
prophet called Muhammad had wrought a
miracle on that fateful night and sundered the
moon before a crowd of dazed spectators.
Hence .....

First mosque “built” in India

Though Gujarati and Marathi are the official and
main languages,Portuguese is also used. In
addition to standard Portuguese, there are two
shrinking Portuguese-based creole languages in
X (known as Língua da Casa, "Home
Language") and Y (Língua dos Velhos, "Elders'
Language").

______ is a method of food preparation in which the
food item is cut into long thin strips.
With a sharp knife the raw vegetable is sliced to
length and trimmed on four sides to create a thick
rectangular stick 6-7cm long, then cut lengthwise
into thin (1-2mm) slices. Stacking these slices and
again cutting lengthwise into thin (1-2mm, equal to
the thickness) strips creates thin uniform square
sticks.______ can also be applied to the
preparation of meat or fish, especially in stir fry
techniques.Once _______, turning the subject 90
degrees and dicing finely (again 1-2mm, equal to
other dimensions) will produce brunoise. In
American culture, a popular phrase for saying that a
gadget can do many things is, "It slices! It dices! It
makes _______ fries!"

_______ magazine has a history of sponsoring
auto racing. The magazine previously sponsored
cars in the Formula One circuit from the late
1970s to the early 1980s. Teams included
Hesketh Racing and RAM.
Currently it sponsors the 1X car of driver Randy
Hannagan in the World of Outlaws sprint car
series. Much controversy from fans has
surrounded the sponsorship with many claiming
to outright boycott any event Hannagan is
entered in. The sports sanction body, DIRT
Motorsport however will not prevent _______
from their sponsorship role. There is a section of
________ official site that can only be accessed
through a link on Hannagan's website and when
accessed offers a special discount for a one year
subscription to the publication.

________(Foeniculum vulgare), is a plant species
in the genus Foeniculum (treated as the sole
species in the genus by most botanists). It is a
highly aromatic and flavorful herb with culinary and
medicinal uses, and is one of the primary
ingredients of absinthe. t is generally considered
indigenous to the shores of the Mediterranean, but
has become widely naturalised elsewhere.
In Ancient Greek, ______ was called marathon,
and is attested in Linear B tablets as ma-ra-tu-wo.
John Chadwick notes that this word is the origin of
the place name Marathon (meaning "place of
____"), site of the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC. In
Greek mythology, Prometheus used the stalk of a
______ plant to steal fire from the gods. Also, it
was from the giant ______, Ferula communis, that
the Bacchanalian wands of the god Dionysus and
his followers were said to have come.

Leonor Michaelis (January 16, 1875 – October 8,
1949) was a German biochemist and physician
famous for his work with Maud Menten in
enzyme kinetics and Michaelis-Menten
kinetics.Besides his role in the formulation of the
Michaelis-Menten equation (1913) he discovered
Janus green as a supravital stain for
mitochondria and the Michaelis-Gutmann body in
urinary tract infections (1902) and found that
thioglycolic acid could dissolve keratin, making
him the father of the ________(a beauty parlor
technique).

Y is a Hindu folk goddess of snakes, worshipped
mainly in Bengal and other parts of northeastern
India, chiefly for the prevention and cure of
snakebite and also for fertility and prosperity.
She is the sister of Vasuki, king of Nāgas
(snakes) and wife of sage Jagatkāru
(Jaratkāru)Originally an Adivasi (tribal) goddess,
she was accepted in the pantheon worshipped
by Hindu lower caste groups. Later, she was
included in higher caste Hindu pantheon, where
she is now regarded as a Hindu goddess rather
than a tribal one. As a Hindu goddess, she was
recognized as a daughter of sage Kashyapa and
Kadru, the mother of all Nāgas. By the 14th
century, she was identified as the goddess of
fertility and marriage rites and was assimilated
into the Shaiva pantheon, related to the god,
Shiva. Myths glorified her by describing that she
saved Shiva after he drank the poison, and
venerated her as the "remover of poison"

The ________ (laurus nobilis) is indigenous to Asia
Minor, from where it spread to the Mediterranean
and then to other countries with similar climates.
According to legend the Delphi oracle chewed
_______ leaves, or sniffed the smoke of burning
leaves to promote her visionary trances. _______, or
laurel, was famed in ancient Greece and Rome.
Emperors, heroes and poets wore wreaths of laurel
leaves. The Greek word for laurel is dhafni, named
for the myth of the nymph Daphne, who was
changed into a laurel tree by Gaea, who transformed
her to help her escape Apollo’s attempted rape.
Apollo made the tree sacred and thus it became a
symbol of honour. The association with honour and
glory continue today; we have poet laureates (Apollo
was the God of poets), and bacca-laureate means
“laurel berries” which signifies the completion of a
bachelor degree. Doctors were also crowned with
laurel, which was considered a cure-all. Triumphant
athletes of ancient Greece were awarded laurel
garlands and was given to winners at Olympic
games since 776 BC.

Pantua is a local confection of eastern India
(especially W.B.) and Bangladesh. It is a
traditional Indian sweet made of deep-fried balls
of semolina, chhana, milk, ghee and sugar syrup.
Pantuas range in colour from pale brown to
nearly black depending on how long they are
fried. The name ______ is a rendition of "Lady
Canning" and was supposedly first used by
confectioner Bhim Nag when he renamed his
pantuas specially prepared on the occasion of
the birthday of Countess Charlotte Canning, wife
of Governor-General Charles Canning.

Name the lyricist of the first stanza (Dil dhoondta
hai ..)

A Z is a musical ensemble from Indonesia,
typically from the islands of Bali or Java,
featuring a variety of instruments such as
metallophones, xylophones, drums and gongs;
bamboo flutes, bowed and plucked strings.
Vocalists may also be included.
The term refers more to the set of instruments
than to the players of those instruments. A Z is a
set of instruments as a distinct entity, built and
tuned to stay together — instruments from
different Z are generally not interchangeable.
The word Z comes from the Javanese word for
“to strike or hammer”, and the suffix "an", which
makes the root a collective noun.

A ______, is an herb or preparation that either
prevents formation of gas in the gastrointestinal
tract, or facilitates the expulsion of said gas,
thereby combating flatulence.

Prior to the 1980s, only the aggrieved party could
approach the courts for justice. However, post
1980s and after the emergency era, the apex
court decided to reach out to the people and
hence it devised an innovative way wherein a
person or a civil society group could approach
the supreme court seeking legal remedies in
cases where public interest is at stake. Justice P.
N. Bhagwati and Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer were
among the first judges to admit _______ in the
court.Filing a _______ is not as cumbersome as
any other legal case and there have been
instances when even letters and telegrams
addressed to the court have been taken up as
_______ and heard by the court. The court
takes cognisance of the matter and proceeds
suo motu or cases can commence on the
petition of any public-spirited individual.

Public Interest litigation(PIL)

Her name is either derived from partial
translation of German word Aschenbrödel, ( from
asche "ash" + brodeln "bubble up, to brew.") or
from the French word Cendrillon ( cendre
meaning ashes).
(Hint : Fictional Character)

X is not very well known in India, although it was
a demonstration sport at the Delhi Asiad in 1982.
The X Federation with its headquarters in
Nagpur, Maharashtra, was founded on 10
September 1982. It is recognised by the Indian
Olympic Association and Ministry of Youth Affairs
and Sports since 2000. So far, the Federation
has conducted 14 Senior, seven Junior and six
Sub-Junior National Championship in different
cities and is also conducting Federation Cup
Tournament and zonal National Championship.
The game is very popular in the north eastern
state of Manipur and some of the best players
hail from there. In the 22nd King’s Cup
International X Tournament held at Bangkok, the
India men team lost in the semifinals and
claimed bronze in the team event. In doubles
event, the women team lost in the semifinals, but

X is a web service that provides short aliases for
redirection of long URLs. Kevin Gilbertson, a web
developer, launched the service in January 2002
so that he would be able to link directly to
newsgroup postings which frequently had long
and cumbersome addresses . The X homepage
includes a form that's used to submit a long URL
for shortening. For each URL entered, the server
adds a new alias in its hashed database and
returns a short URL in the following page. If the
URL has already been requested, X will return
the existing alias rather than create a duplicate
entry

Y is the one of the most sensuous dance forms of
Rajasthan, performed by the Y tribe. The main
occupation of the community is catching snakes
and trading snake venom. Hence the dance
movements and the costumes bear resemblance to
that of the serpents. They are also known as
Sapera or Jogira. Male participants take care of the
musical part of the dance. The use the different
instruments (Pungi, Dufli, "Been", "Khanjari",
"Morchang", "khuralio" and "Dholak") to create the
rhythm on which the dancers perform. The X
dancers (mainly females) wear long black skirts
embroidered with silver ribbons.

X (1861-1913) was the first author of mystery novels
in Hindi. He wrote _______, _______ Santati, Kajar
ki Kothari, Narendra-Mohini, Kusum Kumari, Virendra
Veer, Gupt Godna, Katora Bhar Khoon and
Bhootnath. Bhootnath was incomplete and
completed by his son , who also wrote the concluding
volumes of Bhootnath saga as Rohtasmath. Fill in
the blanks. Both are same .

A voussoir is a wedge-shaped element, typically
a stone, used in building an arch.
Although each unit of stone in an arch or vault is
known as a voussoir, there are two specified
voussoir components of an arch: the keystone
and the Y. The Y is the lowermost voussoir,
located where the curve of the arch springs from
the vertical support or abuttment of the wall or
pier

X is a city and a municipal board in Saharanpur district
in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is located in the
upper Doab region of Uttar Pradesh. X used to be
surrounded by dense forests, and was believed to be
the abode of the Goddess Durga, according to one
tradition this is where the town got its name, from Devi
Van, or 'the Forest of the Goddess'.
The Darul Uloom X is an Islamic school propagating
Sunni Islam in the Indian Subcontinent and is where
the X Islamic movement was started. It was founded in
1866 by several prominent Islamic scholars (ulema),
headed by Maulana Muhammad Qasim Nanautawi.
The other prominent founding scholars were Maulana
Rashid Ahmad Gangohi and Haji Syed Abid Hussain.
The institution is highly respected in India and other
parts of the World.

This painting, formerly in the collection of The
Playboy Mansion, recalls a previous depiction of
his sister Ana María by the painter himself in
Figure at a Window (1925), and has therefore
been read by some critics as a nasty jab at his
sister, punishing her for publishing a biography
on him that presented a quite negative point of
view, though in fact the figure is based on a
photograph from a 1930s sex magazine. In 1958,
______ wrote, “Paradoxically, this painting, which
has an erotic appearance, is the most chaste of
all”. The painter or the painting ……

Dali and Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the
Horns of Her Own Chastity

The Z's dilemma, is an analogy about the
challenges of human intimacy. It describes a
situation in which a group of Z all seek to become
close to one another in order to share their heat
during cold weather. However, once
accomplished, they cannot avoid hurting one
another with their sharp ______. They must step
away from one another. Though they all share the
intention of a close reciprocal relationship, this
may not occur for reasons which they cannot
avoid.
Both Schopenhauer and Freud have used this
situation to describe what they feel is the state an
individual will find themselves in relation to others.
The hedgehog's dilemma suggests that despite
goodwill, human intimacy cannot occur without
substantial mutual harm, and what results is
cautious behavior and weak relationships.

Of all the new town schemes in independent India, the X
project quickly assumed prime significance, because of the
city's strategic location as well as the personal interest of
Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent
India. Commissioned by Nehru to reflect the new nation's
modern, progressive outlook, Nehru famously proclaimed
X to be "unfettered by the traditions of the past, a symbol
of the nation's faith in the future." Several buildings and
layouts in X were designed by the French (born Swiss)
architect and urban planner, ______, in the 1950s.
_______ was in fact the second architect of the city, after
the initial master plan was prepared by the American
architect-planner Albert Mayer who was working with the
Poland-born architect Matthew Nowicki. It was only after
Nowicki's untimely death in 1950 that _______was pulled
into the project.

Y is a system of attributing a distinct syllable to
each note in a musical scale. Various forms of
Y are in use and have been used.
In Europe and North America, solfège is the
convention used most often. The seven
syllables normally used for this practice in
English-speaking countries are: do, re, mi, fa,
sol, la, and ti. In India, the origin of Y was to be
found in Vedic texts like the Upanishads, which
discuss a musical system of seven notes,
realized ultimately in what is known as sargam.
In Indian classical music, the notes in order are:
sa, re, ga, ma, pa, dha, and ni.

X is a mixed gender team ball game, similar to
mixed netball and basketball. It is played in 57
countries. The sport is very popular amongst
others in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Taiwan. A
team consists of four men and four women. X is
played indoors or outdoors on a court divided into
halves called zones. In each zone is a post (3.5m
(11.5 ft), shorter for children) with a basket at the
top. This is positioned two thirds of the distance
between the center line and the back of the zone.
The ball is similar in size as those used in football
(soccer) but with more grip and bounce. Players
score by throwing the ball through the other
team's basket. After two goals the teams change
zones: defenders become attackers and attackers
become defenders. At half-time teams swap
halves.

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