310.

She is the inspiration behind the lead character of a contemporary book. Id the book.

306.

This is the Besant Theosophical College in Madanapalle, Andhra Pradesh. In 1919, X was invited by the Irish poet James H. Cousins who was the principal of the college. On February 28, 1919, X sang Y at the college in presence of the students. The authorities of the college who were impressed by Y, selected Y as their prayer song. Id X and Y.

280.

Dan Kavanagh is a contemporary British writer and has written books like "Duffy","Fiddle City","Putting the Boot In" and "Going to the Dogs". He married his literary agent, Pat Kavanagh and his brother Jonathan is a philosopher. How did this author shoot to fame?

272.

Connect

Confusion hi confusion hai. Solution kuchh pata nahin. Solution jo mila to saala. Question kya tha pata nahin!!!

271.

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

This is a Victorian poem by William Ernest Henly. This poem lends its name to a 2009 movie and has strongly influenced one of the most famous leaders in the world. The leader said that this poem has been his inspiration and has helped get through tough times.

Identify the poem and the leader.

270.

Of what place is this a map of??

258.

Identify whose voyage is shown in the picture

257.

Id the blanked out space

242.

Whose monogram?

241.

In NASA Ames Research Centre, a research paper named "Knowledge Representation in X and Artificial Intelligence" was published by Rick Briggs.

Its abstract is given below..

In the past twenty years, much time, effort, and money has been expended on designing an unambiguous representation of natural language to make them accessible to computer processing, These efforts have centered around creating schemata designed to parallel logical relations with relations expressed by the syntax and semantics of natural languages, which are clearly cumbersome and ambiguous in their function as vehicles for the transmission of logical data. Understandably, there is a widespread belief that natural languages are unsuitable for the transmission of many ideas that artificial languages can render with great precision and mathematical rigor. But this dichotomy, which has served as a premise underlying much work in the areas of linguistics and artificial intelligence, is a false one. There is at least one language, X which for the duration of almost 1000 years was a living spoken language with a considerable literature of its own. This article demonstrates that a natural language can serve as an artificial language also, and that much work in AI has been reinventing a wheel millenia old. First, a typical Knowledge Representation Scheme (using Semantic Nets) will be laid out, followed by an outline of the method used by the ancient grammarians to analyze sentences unambiguously. Finally, the clear parallelism between the two will be demonstrated, and the theoretical implications of this equivalence will be given.

Solve for X.

239.

X is a small town in South India, a few hours journey from Madras. It is located on the shore of the river Sarayu. Mempi Forest is nearby.

Market Street is the central street of X, the location of several big shops including Bombay Anand Bhavan and Truth Printing Works. Kabir Street is the residence of the elite of X, while Lawley Extension is a new upcoming lane housing the rich and the influential. Ellammn Street, home to the oil-mongers, is the last street and beyond it lies the river Sarayu. Other streets include Grove Street and Kalighat Lane.

Between Ellammn Street and the river lie Nallappa's Grove and the cremation ground.

Palace Talkies was built in 1935 to replace the old Variety Hall. Albert Mission School and Albert Mission College are the more popular educational institutions. There is also the board school and the town elementary schools.

X has a small railway station. The statue of Mr Lawley, seated on a horse, forms another major landmark. Another important place is 'The Boardless', a small restaurant without any board. Boardless is a centre of discussion for current events in X.

Identify the town X

235.

This is a novel by Ashwin Sanghi alias Shawn Haigins, which has been topping the list of bestsellers in India for four months. This book follows the tale of a Brahmin from Uttarpradesh, Gangasagar Mishra, who trains a poor,little girl from Kanpur to become the Prime Minister of India. This book simultaneously draws a parallel between a famous historical incident and is named after one of the most influential figures of Indian History as " _______ Chant". Identify the name of the book or Fill in the Blanks.

223.

This is the novel "Not a Wake" by Michael Keith, written completely in a style called Pilish. The following is a poem also written in the same literary style.

But a time I spent wandering in bloomy night; Yon tower, tinkling chimewise, loftily opportune. Out, up, and together came sudden to Sunday rite, The one solemnly off to correct plenilune.

What does this literary style deal with?

222.

The following are the attempts made to figure out the hidden meaning of this particular piece of “a great puzzle”…

A description of the medieval 'Great' or 'Old Custom' wool tax of 1275, which survived until the fifteenth century. Contrary to some commentaries, this tax did not involve the collection of one-third to the king, and one-third to the church, but a less punitive sum of 6s 8d to the Crown per sack, about 5 per cent of the value. This theory also depends on it surviving unrecorded and even unmentioned in extant texts for hundreds of years.

It is connected to the slave trade. This explanation was advanced during debates over political correctness, but scholars agree that it has no basis in fact. The adjective that offers pretext of slave trade was modified to many other adjectives like “sad, happy, pink and hopping”

What am I talking about?

220.

From William Shakespeare:

A Midsummer Night's Dream: Titania, Oberon, Puck

The Tempest: (Ariel), Miranda, Caliban, Sycorax, Prospero, Setebos, Stephano, Trinculo, Francisco, Ferdinand

King Lear: Cordelia

Hamlet: Ophelia

The Taming of the Shrew: Bianca

Troilus and Cressida: Cressida

Othello: Desdemona

Romeo and Juliet: Juliet, Mab

The Merchant of Venice: Portia

As You Like It: Rosalind

Much Ado About Nothing: Margaret

The Winter's Tale: Perdita

Timon of Athens: Cupid

The Rape of the Lock(a poem by Alexander Pope):

Ariel, Umbriel, Belinda

Whats common to all these literary characters?

215.

The Pardoner’s Tale is one of the stories found in the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The tale is based on a folk-tale of Oriental origin, although many variations exist. Three drunken and debauched men set out from a pub to find and kill Death, whom they blame for the passing of their friend, and all other people that previously have died, which they were told by the Landlord. An old man they brusquely query tells them that he has asked Death to take him but has failed. He then says they can find death at the foot of an oak tree. When the men arrive at the tree, they find a large amount of gold coins and forget about their quest to kill Death. They decide that they would sleep at the oak tree over night, so they can take the coins in the morning. The three men draw straws to see who among them should fetch wine and food while the other two wait under the tree. The youngest of the three men drew the shortest straw. The two plot to overpower and stab the other one when he returns, while the one who leaves for the town plots to lace the wine with rat poison. When he returns with the food and drink, the other two kill him and drink the poisoned wine, dying slow and painful deaths. All three have found death.

Now this tale has inspired something which is going to be talked about all over the world in a week. What?

200.

First of all, a big thanks to all those people who visited this blog and encouraged me to keep posting!!

We have now reached question 200, which is great !!!!!

Now come to the question.

X attended a Jesuit school. As a teenager, X wanted to become a writer. Upon telling his mother this, she responded with "My dear, your father is an engineer. He's a logical, reasonable man with a very clear vision of the world. Do you actually know what it means to be a writer?" After researching, X concluded that a writer "always wears glasses and never combs his hair" and has a "duty and an obligation never to be understood by his own generation," amongst other things. At 17, X's introversion and opposition to following a traditional path led to his parents committing him to a mental institution from which he escaped three times before being released at the age of 20. X later remarked that "It wasn't that they wanted to hurt me, but they didn't know what to do... They did not do that to destroy me, they did that to save me."

Identify X. The theme of X’s masterpiece is what I would like to wish to all of you and to myself.

191.

X is the founder and chairman of this nonprofit organization named NUMA aiming at preserving maritime heritage.

X claims that NUMA discovered, among other shipwrecks, the Confederate submarine Hunley. This claim is disputed by underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence who first reported finding it in 1970 The first expedition to dig into the site and bring back videographic evidence was the 1994/1995 SCIAA/NUMA H.L. Hunley expedition, directed by underwater archaeologist Dr. Mark M. Newell. That was largely financed by X, thus his claim to have discovered it. Based on sworn statements by Dr. Newell, that expedition relied, at least to some extent, on Spence's maps of his earlier work. The dive team that took the video was led by diver Ralph Wilbanks who is on NUMA's Board of Directors.

Important finds by X's N.U.M.A. include

§ The Carpathia. The ship famed for being the first to come to the aid of Titanic survivors.

§ The Mary Celeste. The famed ghost ship that was found abandoned with cargo intact. (The identification of this wreck as the Mary Celestehas since been disputed.)

§ The Manassas. The first ironclad of the civil war, formerly the icebreaker Enoch Train.

Identify X who is famous for something else.

189.

This is a paper published in the journal of Department of Classics and Ancient History of University of Exeter known as Pegasus, in 1998 named "What was the Name of that Nymph again?". This remains the only published work of X not relating to a particular series. Identify X

187.

This is a movie called August 1 in Malayalam released in 1988. A sequel to this movie titled August 15, was released in 2011. The plot of this movie revolves around Perumal, a police officer, played by Mammooty and a contract based killer played by Captain Raju, who is known by various codenames.

According to the story, KG.Ramachandran played by Sukumaran, is elected as the new Chief Minister of Kerala. He brings out revolutionary changes in administration. The opposition wants to kill KG Ramachandran and hence hires the professional hitman for this job. The killer somehow escapes all police security and manages to get near the CM while he checks the honour guard during August 15(Independence Day). But the police Officer shoots him down thereby saving the CM.

Now, which extremely famous book is this movie based upon?