Question 146

X is often considered to have been the greatest military tactician and strategist in European history, X is also said to be one of the greatest generals of history, together with Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Scipio, and Pyrrhus of Epirus. When X was questioned by Scipio as to who was the greatest general, X is said to have replied either Alexander or Pyrrhus, then himself, or, according to another version of the event, Pyrrhus, Scipio, then himself. Military historian Theodore Ayrault Dodge once famously called X the "father of strategy", because his greatest enemy, Rome, came to adopt elements of his military tactics in its own strategic arsenal. This praise has earned him a strong reputation in the modern world, and he was regarded as a great strategist by men like Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington.

Answer : Hanibal Barca of Carthage

Question 119

Connect : 

                                                   

Answer : These are the women with whom JFK is said to have had affairs with

Question 116

X was founded in 1952 , famously because then prime minister Jawaharlal  Nehru was concerned that Indian women were spending precious foreign exchange on beauty products , and he personally requested JRD Tata to manufacture them in India.
ID X

Answer : Lakme.... Cracked by so many guys...

Question 104

Gyokusai  literally "shattered jade", is a Japanese euphemism for suicide attack, or suicide in the face of defeat (seppuku). It is based on a quote of the 7th century Classical Chinese text Book of Northern Qi, "A great man should die as a shattered jewel rather than live as an intact tile." It was applied to a conception of honorable death in defeat by Saigō Takamori (1827–1877), and employed as a slogan ichioku gyokusai  "one hundred million broken jewels" by the Japanese government during the last months of the Pacific War, when Japan faced invasion by the Allies. Some of the precepts for this belief also came from Tsunetomo Yamamoto's Hagakure, a well-known 18th-century treatise on bushido.

Allied troops during World War II called massed infantry attacks by the Imperial Japanese Army, "X charges" or "X attacks" because the assaulting Japanese infantrymen yelled "X!" as they charged the Allied soldiers. The "X" a battle cry to the fighting unit making the charge, was a gesture of courage to follow the attack through. In the Japanese language "X" , literally "ten thousand years", is a common exhortation of long life or celebration in Japan, essentially wishing for something or someone to persevere for eternity. During World War II,Tennōheika X!  literally "Ten thousand years to the Emperor" became a Japanese battle cry during charges, and was thus taken up by their Allied opponents. The term was seldom used in this way by the Japanese.

ID X... 


HINT : If u have played Call of Duty games based on WWII , you probably have learnt to hate and fear this phrase...


Answer : Banzai... Cracked by Nevil, arpit, @B#!j33T and VK

Question 99

Answer : Mount Rushmore... Cracked by Darshan. D, Rushabh, Nevil, arpit, VK, Matthew, Nanda, Krishna Prasad, suman, Rishwin and Samarthya...

Question 98

X (24 January 1914 – 9 December 1983) was an Indian soldier who is remembered as an officer who served in the Second Indian National Army duringWorld War II and later came to be one of the three defendants in the first of the INA trials in 1946.

Born in the village of Matore, Kahuta, Rawalpindi District, British India, (now Pakistan) X initially volunteered to join the British Indian Army in 1940, in the opening stages of the war in Asia. He saw action in the Battle of Singapore before being taken prisoner after the surrender of the city. Although initially reluctant to join the INA under Mohan Singh, X joined the second INA after the arrival of Subhash Chandra Bose in South-East Asia. He later led the INA forces that participated in the Japanese offensive at Imphal and Kohima, and subsequently rose to be the commander of the second division. X also saw action against allied forces in the latter's second Burma Campaign, and surrendered to British troops in Burma. In November 1946, X, along with G.B.S. Dhillon and P.K. Sehgal faced trial and was convicted for charges of treason at the Red Fort in Delhi, but intense public support and overwhelming nationalist sympathies forced General Auchinleck to discharge X and his co-defendants with forfeiture of pay.

In Independent India, X joined the Indian National Congress and came to be a minister for state in Nehru's First Cabinet. Hailing from the Janjua Rajput clan of Matore. His adopted daughter Lateef Fatima was Shah Rukh Khan's mother.
Identify this extraordinary man..

Answer : Shahnawaz Khan... Cracked by arpit, Anirban, Nevil, Samarthya, Indian, Rishwin and VK...

Question contributed by Gopi Krishna

Question 95

Connect (India-related and you got to dig deep...)

 
 

Answer : Quoting VK ' Operations by Indian and Pakistani Armies since independence. India: Meghdoot, Trishul, Vijay & Pakistan: Chengiz Khan, Gibraltar, Grand Slam '... Cracked only by him..

Question 82

The Cathach of St. Columba is an early 7th century Irish Psalter. It is traditionally associated with St. Columba in the 2nd half of the 6th century. Paleographic evidence, however, dates the manuscript to the 7th century. The 58 folios in the damaged and incomplete vellum manuscript contain the text of Psalms 30:10 to 105:13 in Latin. Rubrics written in Old Irish appear above the text of the Psalms. It may be the oldest known Irish manuscript. However a dispute arose (which led to a battle) concerning the book and that is said to be the earliest recorded incident of a case-law related to what??

Answer : Copyright... For more info pls. visit Wikipedia
Cracked by Rushabh, GIM Quizzing and Arjuno101...

Question 79

X

X was beaten by Y in the race to patent the Z by just a few hours...some people say that he is the original inventor of the Z and that Y created Z by copying him...
ID X, no need to ID Y and Z
X is Elisha Gray and Y is Alexander Graham Bell and Z is of course the telephone
For those who answered for only Y , sorry you get no points
and @ rishwin dont worry you'll get your chance....
Cracked by Pranav, Arpit, GIM Quizzing, Nanda, Indian, Aditya & Krishna prasad

Question 75

In 1938 , Lee Byung-chull (1910–1987) of a large landowning family in theUiryeong county came to the nearby Daegu city and founded X , a small trading company with forty employees located in Su-dong (now Ingyo-dong). It dealt in groceries produced in and around the city and produced noodles itself. The company prospered and Lee moved its head office to Seoul in 1947. When the Korean War broke out, however, he was forced to leave Seoul and started a sugar refinery in Busan as a name of Cheil Jedang. After the war, in 1954, Lee founded Cheil Mojik and built the plant in Chimsan-dong, Daegu. It was the largest woolen mill ever in the country and the company took on an aspect of a major company.
Id the company..
Hint:The company is now danm famous in another field
Ans : Samsung cracked by Qqsachin , Nevil , Indian , Nanda

Question 74

 Simple one...

He was born in Bavaria, Germany. When he was 18, he went to USA. His mother and siblings also came with him. In the mid 1850’s he moved to San Francisco and got a patent for an innovative item. 

Id this ground-breaking gentleman…


Answer : Levi Strauss, cracked by Naruto, Indian and Nanda...

Question 73

It was established in 1602. It was the 1^st multination company in the world and also the 1^st to issue stock. In the late 18^th century, it was referred to as Vergaan Onder Corruptie which means ‘perished by corruption’. It was formally dissolved after it filed for bankruptcy in 1800. Which famous company am I talking about?

Logo

Answer : Dutch East India Company... Cracked by Mattttt, Arpit, Rithvik Kumar, Ritvik, naruto and Nevil...

Question 69

X was a Navarra fighting bull known for having survived 28 sword strokes in an October 5, 1879 fight against Rafael "El Lagartijo" Molina Sanchez, at the Coso de los califas bullring in Córdoba, Spain. X fought with such passion and spirit that the crowd called for his life to be spared, an honor which the matador bestowed. The bull, which came from the farm of Joaquin del Val de Navarra, was later presented as a gift to Don Antonio Miura. Together with his brother, Don Eduardo Miura, they brought X into the Miura line by siring him with 70 cows. Bulls from the Miura ranch, located near Seville, Spain, are known for being large and ferocious.

ID X 

Answer:X is Murcielago , the Lamborghini Murcielago car is named after this bull
Cracked by Nanda , Indian , Aditya, Nevil and Krishna Prasad

Question 67

 What do they have in common???

Answer : All have been foretold by Jules Verne...
Points to Nevil , he got close on the 1st attempt so we gave him points for the second attempt........
krishna gets 1/2

Question 66

There was a small mistake in question 66 which I have edited....  Sorry for the mistake and here is the new question...

A was a Shipowner of welsh descent... In the 1890s, scientists found out that A's Anglicized name gave B it's name even though it was credited to a very popular sailor, C.. Solve for A, B and C...


Answer: A - Richard Amerike , B - America , C - Amerigo Vespucci
Cracked only by Krishna Prasad...

Question 64

The first Indian X was Omdat-ul-Omrah, the Nawab of Carnatic. The second Indian X was M. Bandeh Ali Khan. The first Hindu X was Ranganath Sastry. The first Sikh X was Duleep Singh. Some famous X's from India were Swamy Vivekananda, Motilal Nehru, C. Rajagopalachary, Sir Phirozeshah Mehta, Dadabhoy Naoroji, W.C. Bannerjee, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed & Sir Jamshedji Tata. What is X???


X is Freemason
Cracked by Nevil,Rithvik and Qqsachinn

Question 59

X, is an American entrepreneur who co-founded the social networking website Facebook. It was co-founded as a private company in 2004 by X and his classmates while they were studying in Harvard University. In June 2004, X and a co-founder took a year off from Harvard and moved Facebook's base of operations to Palo Alto, California, hiring eight other employees in the process. They leased a small house that served as an office. Responding to a question on Quora, X said that the film "emphasizes things that didn't matter, and leaves out things that really did. X is also the youngest billionaire in the world as per Forbes 2011.
ID X


Answer : Dustin Moskovitz.... Even though most of u answered it as Mark, the youngest billionaire is Dustin who is 8 days younger than Mark.....(check wiki)... and the first answer will only be considered..... So cracked by Nevil and Nanda...

Question 57

ID

Answer : Roland Garros.... cracked by Aditya, Qsachinn, Kapinjal Chowdhury, Alex, Nanda, Arpit, Matthew, Indian, Suman and Anonymous (pls dont post as anonymous again....)

Question 56

ID the man on the cycle or if you can , then name the comic

Answer:That is Hitler from "The new Adventures of Hitler".. Points given to Arpit, Indian, Mr. Q, Rithvik Kumar & Matthew

Question 55

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, _____________________________________.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another


Answer:


FITB and name the speaker...
This question carries 2 points....


Answer : FITB- I am become death, destroyer of worlds.
              Speaker - Oppenheimer ... Cracked by Nevil, Arpit, Matthew and Nanda