It has been stated that the decision to sell X was a political one, rather than financial one. Both Y & Z, who were involved in the transaction were cordial to neutral towards each other.
Y wanted to get rid of X as it was difficult for them to protect it, due to its proximity to Britain’s empire. While Z thought of it as a bargain, getting it at an equivalent of $129 million in 2023.
Give me X, Y & Z.
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Hosting the Olympic Games is considered a great honour in sports, with 7-10 countries competing in general.
However, when the bid for 2024 Olympics was being decided, the IOC took a decision which was a first in the history of the games.
What was different about the selection process for the 2024 Olympics?
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The word X comes from Old French word meaning leather bag. Over the years, the word X started to mean the contents rather than the bag itself.
In India, X left its etymological roots in 2019 & again in 2021 when it went paperless.
Identify X.
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X was ‘born’ in 1959. Over the years they have held many positions, always keeping up with the trends.
1989 – Pilot
1991 – Navy Admiral
1993 – Medical Sergeant
1995 – Fire Fighter
2004 – President
Can you identify who am I talking about?
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X is a bone found in a majority of mammals, including some primates, however absent in humans.
People have used X from different animals to fashion various kinds of tools.
Some historians also argue that it was infact Adam’s X and not the rib which was taken away to give life to Eve.
Solve for X.
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X has a long list of firsts – the first Black woman to be elected district attorney in California history, first woman to be California’s attorney general, etc.
In 2020, she made the news when her Wikipedia page was edited over 500 times, allegedly to scrub controversial information, including her “tough-on-crime” record.
Who am I talking about?
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During the American Liquor Prohibition period, Southern California elites would go to Tijuana for a drink. It was in this time period that X opened a restaurant in Tijuana.
According to an urban legend, on July 4th, 1924 the restaurant received too many guests & X threw together whatever leftovers he had. The dish was originally supposed to be a finger food, but has become an emperor of a dish.
What am I talking about?
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The name of the album X was an allusion to mental state of the band rather than any relation to the physical place. In fact, it was performed with the suffix A Piece for Assorted Lunatics.
Reaching X has always been a challenge given its ‘hidden’ nature. In 2018, China was the first county to touch base with it.
Identify X.
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X is usually encountered when something unexpected occurs. While the origin of the term is unknown, according to one theory – it was because there was no logical option give to the user on encountering X.
Over the years, the company behind X tried to soften impact of X by adding an emoticon.
Can you guess what am I talking about?
Show AnswerBlue Screen of Death
Officially called the stop screen, or stop error, the blue screen of death (BSOD) is a most unwanted error, second only to malware or ransomware in indicating that a user is in for a very bad day. It comes with no warning and all unsaved work is immediately lost. And given what it indicates, that could be the least of a user's problems.
Read More about the outage faced by millions of users recently.
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Connect the following images to a Brand.
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It’s is no secret that the last time England won the Football World Cup was in 1966.
However, the tournament was also the debut tournament for two teams. The first was Portugal. The second was a country from Asia.
Identify the second country.
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Associated Press photographer Evan Vucci is known for his coverage in the Iraq & Afghanistan wars. He even won a Pulitzer in 2021 for covering the aftermath and protests of the death of George Floyd.
Evan is in the news recently for his coverage of an event which is ‘one for the history books’.
Can you identify the event?
Show AnswerDonald Trump's attempted assassination attempt.
When he heard popping sounds, Vucci, who has covered combat situations in Iraq and Afghanistan, said he knew instantly it was gunfire. He rushed to the right hand side of the stage in front of Trump, but his view of the former president was quickly blocked by Secret Service agents. He sensed that the agents would try to hustle Trump offstage and into a vehicle from the other side, so he darted over there. From that position, he said, “everything kind of opened up for me."
Read More about how photographers covered the assassination attempt.
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While it started more than 100 years ago, this publication still continues to stay relevant in today’s time.
Over the years, they have popularized words like “socialite”, “guesstimate”, “televangelist”, “pundit”, and “tycoon”.
In fact they’re also credited with introducing the names “World War I” and “World War II”, as opposed to older forms like “First World War” and “World War No. 2”.
Id the publication.
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In 2013, United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization released a report “Edible X: Future prospects for food and feed security”.
It talks about X being a very efficient method of turning various forms of vegetable matter into proteins: we do better eating X that has eaten the grass than we would eating the grass directly.
What was the report recommending we eat?
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The original name of this band was Smile. In 1970 Tim Staffell, the lead vocalist left the band and was replaced by X Bulsara.
The band changed their name and became music royalty.
Identify the band.
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In October 2018, an artwork was sold for £1m at London auction house Sotheby’s. However, as soon as the gavel hit the sound-block, the artwork was (partially) destroyed through a remote control mechanism.
The stunt was called “the first artwork in history to have been created live during an auction”. Also, the price of the work increased almost 18-fold in just 3 years.
Can you identify the artist behind this?
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This method of management has been named after the 34th President of US after he gave a speech about it at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 1954.
The exact quote goes on as “I have two kinds of problems, the X and the Y. The X are not Y, and the Y are never X.”
Can you identify the method & name X &Y?
Show AnswerWe're talking about the Eisenhower Matrix, named after Dwight D Eisenhower.
X is Urgent & Y is Important. The quote goes like “I have two kinds of problems, the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent.”
The matrix has been used by many for time management.
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Identify X and give funda.
United States – X
Russia – GLONASS
China – BeiDou
European Union – Galileo
India – NacIC
Japan – QZSS
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This method has been successful due to the abundance of Carbon in organic matter and half life of its isotopes to be 5,730 years.
It has been used for scientific methods, like proving the validity of Dead Sea Scrolls, while also disproving the authenticity of artifacts like the Shroud of Turin.
Identify the method/science.
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Connect the following images to the word of design.
Accepting a one word term or an explanation.
