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1) The seven Rishis (Sapta Rishis) became quite proud because they believed that they were extremely pious people and they were always detached because of their penance. Their wives had the idea that there were no women more virtuous than they, and there could be no wives so loyal as they were. Such pride would be inexcusable in anyone, and for sages and their wives to have such pride was unthinkable. So Shiva and Vishnu decided to teach them a lesson. Shiva took the form of a Bikshandar while Vishnu came as Mohini.
Now, the sages took a look at Mohini's beauty and forgot themselves, and about their penance.
As for their wives, the moment Siva as Bikshandar made His appearance before them, they too began to admire His good looks, forgetting that they had not so long ago claimed that they were among the most virtuous in the land!
But among the sages, X was not tempted by Mohini. And among the women, Y, the wife of X was not tempted by Bikshandar.
Due to this Y was given an exalted position, beside X.
i Where?
This is the story behind a certain marriage ritual.
ii Which?
2) The guy standing next to MJ is a mystic and psychic who claims that he is doing the stuff he does by using actual psychic powers. Now this guy tried to sue Nintendo over a certain pokemon.
He claimed that the pokemon was an unauthorised appropriation of his identity The katakana for the character's name, ユンゲラー, is visually similar to the transliteration of this psychic's own name into Japanese (ユリゲラー). He is quoted as saying: "Nintendo turned me into an evil, occult Pokémon character. Nintendo stole my identity by using my name and my signature image." The lawsuit was thrown out of court.
Identify the pokemon and this dude.
3) Explain (apologies to the non Madras fellows )
how this guy
became a barber because of this (and local Tamils) :
4) Sitter. What is this providing an explanation for?
5) Born in Nagoya, Japan, the guy in the image began taking lessons in the electronic organ from the age of five. He improved his skills in the instrument in a cover band that played jazz and rock music. He was never classically-trained or particularly dedicated to music. However, he gained some experience in composing and arranging pieces, using both the piano and a computer to assist him.
He cites rock bands Deep Purple and Emerson, Lake & Palmer as major musical influences. He has also cited as influences the works of the Russian romantic composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, particularly his four piano concertos.
Identify this legend or any of his major works.
6) On March 31st, 2012, computer programmer Will King took photographs of runners at the annual Cooper River Bridge Run in Charleston, South Carolina. King uploaded a set of almost 100 photos to Flickr and Facebook, where one of his friends dubbed a certain man as a “Ridiculously _____ Guy.” On April 3rd, 2012, King submitted the Flickr photo to the /r/pics subreddit in a post titled “My friend calls him ‘Mr Ridiculously ________ Guy’”, which received over 40,000 up votes.
According to an interview with King published by Charleston City Paper, King posted it to Flickr around lunchtime and within an hour, it had reached 300,000 views.
The day after the image was posted to Reddit, the man in the photo was identified as 25-year-old New York resident ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, by the Charleston City Paper. The article went on to claim that they were looking for ,,,,,,,,,,,, in order to conduct an interview about his newfound Internet fame. On April 5th, The Daily Mail reported that they spoke with ,,,,,,,,,,,,’s father, who revealed that his son was in a committed relationship of five years and was seeking a job in the public relations industry in New York.
Fill up the ______s and ,,,,,,,,,,,s .
7 a) A connect. Unsure if the list is exhaustive.
And a fourth scientist you'll have to get from question 7b.
7b) X and Y had a bet. If X won the bet, he would get four years of the magazine Private Eye. If X loses, Y will get one year of Penthouse. When X made the bet in 1975, we were 80% certain that Cygnus was a ____ _____.
X later said that "although the situation with Cygnus X-1 has not changed much since we made the bet in 1975, there is now so much other observational evidence in favour of ____ ____ that I have conceded the bet. I paid the specified penalty, which was a one year subscription to Penthouse, to the outrage of Y's liberated wife."
X is what I want. Fill up the blanks and give me Y if you want.
8) Its most striking feature is the ____ which is actually its intestines showing through its semi transparent skin. The _____ looks clearer after it eats, and the skin is very elastic so that it will not break the creature is bitten.
As the creature evolves, the direction of the _____ on its abdomen, created by its internal organs showing through the skin, reverses. The skin on most of its body is moist, due to an oily fluid; however, the skin on its belly spiral feels smooth.
The creature gets its name from a term for a certain creature in larval stage.
The blank and the creature(s) being spoken about.
1) The seven Rishis (Sapta Rishis) became quite proud because they believed that they were extremely pious people and they were always detached because of their penance. Their wives had the idea that there were no women more virtuous than they, and there could be no wives so loyal as they were. Such pride would be inexcusable in anyone, and for sages and their wives to have such pride was unthinkable. So Shiva and Vishnu decided to teach them a lesson. Shiva took the form of a Bikshandar while Vishnu came as Mohini.
Now, the sages took a look at Mohini's beauty and forgot themselves, and about their penance.
As for their wives, the moment Siva as Bikshandar made His appearance before them, they too began to admire His good looks, forgetting that they had not so long ago claimed that they were among the most virtuous in the land!
But among the sages, X was not tempted by Mohini. And among the women, Y, the wife of X was not tempted by Bikshandar.
Due to this Y was given an exalted position, beside X.
i Where?
This is the story behind a certain marriage ritual.
ii Which?
2) The guy standing next to MJ is a mystic and psychic who claims that he is doing the stuff he does by using actual psychic powers. Now this guy tried to sue Nintendo over a certain pokemon.
He claimed that the pokemon was an unauthorised appropriation of his identity The katakana for the character's name, ユンゲラー, is visually similar to the transliteration of this psychic's own name into Japanese (ユリゲラー). He is quoted as saying: "Nintendo turned me into an evil, occult Pokémon character. Nintendo stole my identity by using my name and my signature image." The lawsuit was thrown out of court.
Identify the pokemon and this dude.
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| guy on left |
3) Explain (apologies to the non Madras fellows )
how this guy
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| this guy |
became a barber because of this (and local Tamils) :
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| barber maker |
4) Sitter. What is this providing an explanation for?
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| funda |
5) Born in Nagoya, Japan, the guy in the image began taking lessons in the electronic organ from the age of five. He improved his skills in the instrument in a cover band that played jazz and rock music. He was never classically-trained or particularly dedicated to music. However, he gained some experience in composing and arranging pieces, using both the piano and a computer to assist him.
He cites rock bands Deep Purple and Emerson, Lake & Palmer as major musical influences. He has also cited as influences the works of the Russian romantic composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, particularly his four piano concertos.
Identify this legend or any of his major works.
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| identify his major work |
6) On March 31st, 2012, computer programmer Will King took photographs of runners at the annual Cooper River Bridge Run in Charleston, South Carolina. King uploaded a set of almost 100 photos to Flickr and Facebook, where one of his friends dubbed a certain man as a “Ridiculously _____ Guy.” On April 3rd, 2012, King submitted the Flickr photo to the /r/pics subreddit in a post titled “My friend calls him ‘Mr Ridiculously ________ Guy’”, which received over 40,000 up votes.
According to an interview with King published by Charleston City Paper, King posted it to Flickr around lunchtime and within an hour, it had reached 300,000 views.
The day after the image was posted to Reddit, the man in the photo was identified as 25-year-old New York resident ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, by the Charleston City Paper. The article went on to claim that they were looking for ,,,,,,,,,,,, in order to conduct an interview about his newfound Internet fame. On April 5th, The Daily Mail reported that they spoke with ,,,,,,,,,,,,’s father, who revealed that his son was in a committed relationship of five years and was seeking a job in the public relations industry in New York.
Fill up the ______s and ,,,,,,,,,,,s .
7 a) A connect. Unsure if the list is exhaustive.
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| $1 million prize winner in Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? |
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| elegant universe |
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| Jr. Sagan. Though he looks like someone with Indian origins, is not. |
7b) X and Y had a bet. If X won the bet, he would get four years of the magazine Private Eye. If X loses, Y will get one year of Penthouse. When X made the bet in 1975, we were 80% certain that Cygnus was a ____ _____.
X later said that "although the situation with Cygnus X-1 has not changed much since we made the bet in 1975, there is now so much other observational evidence in favour of ____ ____ that I have conceded the bet. I paid the specified penalty, which was a one year subscription to Penthouse, to the outrage of Y's liberated wife."
X is what I want. Fill up the blanks and give me Y if you want.
As the creature evolves, the direction of the _____ on its abdomen, created by its internal organs showing through the skin, reverses. The skin on most of its body is moist, due to an oily fluid; however, the skin on its belly spiral feels smooth.
The creature gets its name from a term for a certain creature in larval stage.
The blank and the creature(s) being spoken about.
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