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

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?

147.

The concept of X is found in almost every human race in one form or the other. University of Florida anthropologist David E.Jones says that certain aspects of X is shared in every culture. He says that even the Inuit, people who dwelled in the Arctic with very little chances to see reptiles have an X like creature in their tales.

He further goes on to say, in his book, Instinct for X, that common characteristics and traits of X and X-like creatures present in different cultures are basically inspired from the characters of the predators of ancient hominids, for instance, great cats, serpents and raptors. He goes against the arguments that X were created by the ancient discoveries and misinterpretations of Dinosaur fossils.

He further proposes that X legends came to existence in different cultures, by the inheritance of the fears of animals like great cats, serpents and reptiles and birds of prey from hominids. He suggests sociological reasons as reasons for the different kinds portrayal of X in various cultures. For instance, X are considered to be bad and evil in European folklore while they are kind and good in the Oriental culture.

Identify X.

(I think the question is pretty workoutable)

79.COUNT ....

Vlad X also known as Vlad the Impaler, was the ruler of Wallachia, a small region in Romania. When he was young, his father and elder brother were killed before his eyes by Ottoman Turks. Then he grew older ascended the throne and had his revenge on the Ottomans and the boyars by raiding Transylvania and wiping out the boyars. His favourite method of killing was impalement and was hence known as the Impaler. When he died, he was buried in Wallachia. But when his grave was unburied in 1900 for research, the researchers found nothing. This gave birth to a famous legend with his surname X. A picture of his bust can be found below. Identify X and the legend(both are same).

66.NOT A TALE

According to a legend, X were formed during the Noah's Ark period. As per God's instructions Noah collects a pair of animals from each species. Likewise Noah had done so and had collected every species. But when the Ark was about be closed, two cats were late and hence during the closure of the Ark, had lost their Ys. Thus the new species of X was formed. X have been honored with a stamp from a nation with the below flag. Identify X.