Practice Quiz - 1

The Ratapani Tiger Reserve, located in the Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh, in Vindhya Range in central India, is one of the finest teak forests in the state and is less than 50 km. away from the capital Bhopal.

Apart from its varied flora and fauna it is famous for housing a UNESCO World Heritage Site of almost 30,000 years which point to the existence of our predecessors in a “creative way”.

Which World Heritage Site are we talking of?

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Founded in 1761 at Stein near Nuremberg by cabinet maker Kaspar X, the enterprise has remained in the X family for eight generations. It opened branches in New York, London, Paris, and expanded to Vienna and St. Petersburg. It opened a factory in Geroldsgrün.

It expanded internationally and launched new products under Kaspar X's ambitious great-grandson, Lothar. In 1900, after the marriage of Lothar's granddaughter with a cadet of the Counts of Y, the A.W. Y enterprise took the name of XY and a new logo, combining the X motto, Since 1761, with the "jousting knights" of the Ys' coat- of-arms.

Identify this famous brand XY.

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Originating from a collaboration between Scandinavian entrepreneurs and a small team of engineers in Tallinn, this pioneering software quietly transformed how the world connected across distances without wires or postage.

Initially acquired by eBay in 2005, it has passed through the hands of several global giants.

On May 5, 2025, after years of serving millions worldwide, this once-innovative platform was officially retired, marking the end of an era in digital communication history. 

Name this software. 

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The genesis tale for the name X begins in 2018, when the LAFC and LA Galaxy blogs of SB Nation jointly published a fan poll to crowdsource a nickname for the newly emerging rivalry between the two Los Angeles-based MLS teams. Four options were presented to voters with one of them being X.  

Drawing inspiration from both a legendary Spanish rivalry and the infamously congested highways of Los Angeles, X, despite being the most irreverent of the four, struck a chord with fans and won the poll with 51% of the vote.  

What started as an internet joke quickly gained traction on social media and in mainstream sports coverage. Thanks to its cultural resonance and catchy, memeable nature, X became the widely accepted nickname for this intense football rivalry. 

ID X

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X is an Urdu word meaning “co-passenger”.

The first X Express train service was inaugurated on December 16, 2016 to provide an enhanced AC 3-tier travel experience and cater to the middle-class passenger.

It was launched between Gorakhpur and Anand Vihar Terminal in New Delhi. At present 41 pairs of X Trains are running over Indian Railways. It features a distinct blue and orange color scheme. 

ID X which might remind of you some romantic Bollywood songs. 

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This garment originated in 19th century British India as the European style court dress of nobles and royals of northern India.

The name of the attire is possibly derived from Shirvan, a region of present-day Azerbaijan due to the folk dress of that area.

The garment may also be a direct derivative of the Caucasian dress due to ethnic and cultural linkages.

What am I talking about?

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In the 1980s, spearheaded by the then sports minister Margaret Alva, the Sports Authority of India started an athletic program for a particular community, whom they saw as medal-winning hopefuls.

However, bogged down in administrative failures and secrecy, the ambitious plan crumbled before it could soar high. The collateral, however, was that for the first time ever, this community mostly pocketed in Gujarat and Karnataka had a chance to explore their shared ancestry. While the people of this community living in Gujarat are mostly Muslims, the ones in Karnataka are Catholics.

So to which tribal community was this programme aimed at?

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“Carpet Sahib” was a moniker given to X by his subordinates, many of whom were witnesses of his exploits in a certain region of the country.

The region, initially named after Sir Malcolm Hailey, the Governor of United Provinces, came to be renamed after X, post-independence.

 

In his honour, the Indochinese Y subspecies has the scientific name Panthera tigris X.

Who am I talking about(X)?

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Strabismus, also known as crossed eyes, is a condition in which the eyes do not properly align with each other when looking at an object. The eye which is focused on an object can alternate and only one eye maybe used in processing the visual scene.

However this allows people to recreate three dimensional shapes in two dimension more accurately.

After a recent study in October 2018 of six works of which famous personality is it being assumed that he/she might have suffered from this condition, thus explaining the mastery of the field?

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This song was first sung at the Utkal Sammilani Conference at Balasore in 1912, This song was used as a powerful weapon by the Utkal Sammilani to emancipate Odisha.

In a meeting at Bhadrak, where the poet X was felicitated, the then young leader of Odisha Harekrushna Mahtab admitted that the poet X's patriotic songs have inspired him a lot. In the past, Marathas, Mughals and Britishers ruled Odisha and its geographical boundaries changed from time to time accordingly.

But one will find in this song Y that Odisha's natural beauty, God's bounty and boundaries remained unchanged. Odisha's high tradition of arts and crafts in the temples, culture or literature and the peaceful social living, all these things exist in this beautiful song which inspires and attracts everybody.

ID the song.

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