Sunday #04

Hello everyone. Happy Sunday! 

Hope you are all doing well and keeping yourself busy as us Indians say "Khali Dimag Shaitaan Ka Ghar". So keep busy in something and everything will be better in times to come. Here we are with today's set. 

Q1.  X’s iconic status as the “Forces’ Sweetheart” was due to the success of her radio series, Sincerely Yours, which linked the soldiers at the front with their loved ones at home. In 1944, she visited the troops in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, which kindled her lifelong commitment to the welfare of veterans, especially those of the Burma campaign. Above all, her celebrity was due to her hit songs. Such numbers as "We'll meet again" caught and moulded a national mood, despite the harsh criticism her crooning style provoked from some politicians and BBC managers.After the war, her friend Harry Secombe liked to joke that “Churchill didn’t beat the Nazis. X sang them to death.”

Who is X? 

Q2. This mustache is actually two styles, a Petit Handlebar (albeit a tad bushier), and a Handlebar with scalloped edges on the bottom. Give the name of the famous brother duo who flaunt this moustache. 

Hint- Everyone has played this game

Q3. According to folk etymology, the name "X" means "desiccated land". In the Rajatarangini, a history of X written by Kalhana in the mid-12th century, it is stated that the X wad formerly a lake. According to Hindu mythology, the lake was drained by the great rishi or sage, Kashyapa. When X had been drained, Kashyapa asked Brahmans to settle there. The name of Kashyapa is by history and tradition connected with the draining of the lake, and the chief town or collection of dwellings in the valley was called Kashyapa-pura, which has been identified with Kaspapyros of Hecataeus (apud Stephanus of Byzantium) and Kaspatyros of Herodotus (3.102, 4.44). How do we know this place today? 

Q4. “A surreal world in which all your control patterns, all your plans, the whole way in which you have configured your own behavior, begins to fall to pieces, when you find yourself against a force that does not lend itself to the way you perceive the world.”You don’t give up; you don’t lie down and die. What you do is struggle against this with all of your equipment, with whatever you have. But of course you don’t stand a chance. That’s X.”

X is a term which gets it's name from a very famous author whose major works project this idea. Example(and hint!)-a traveling salesman wakes up one morning to discover that he has turned into a huge bug. And things go downhill, from there... 

Q5. On 10th June, this movie topped the US Box Office. What is so special about this movie Unsubscribed? 

Answers

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1.Dame Vera Lynn. She died recently aged 103. She was a close friend to the Queen of England. Friends made sure the Queen was first to know the news of her death. 

 

2. Super Mario and Luigi

3. Kashmir

4. Kafkaesque - Franz Kafka

5. Unsubscribed was shot entirely on Zoom with a zero budget. 

Perhaps you could make one such movie too! Hope you enjoyed the set.

-SM