GREYCELL #82

The word "X” owes its origin to a Latin word, meaning “breeding ground” or “plant nursery,” which itself comes from the Latin word ____ , meaning “of seed.” What rather educative word?

GREYCELL #81

Back in the 1950s, while filming a fire sequence for the movie X, the wind changed direction and Y was trapped in a raging blaze. Without a thought for his own life, Z, who played her wayward son Birju, dashed in with only a blanket to ward off the flames and carried her off to safety. Z ended up with painful burns and the love of his life, as within a year Y became Mrs Z. 

GREYCELL #80

                           

                                                              Id the blanked out parts. 

GREYCELL #79

At the 86th Oscars, Gravity won 7 Oscars without winning Best Picture, the second most in history after which film?
ID the film that the record-holder lost to.

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GREYCELL #78

                                    Identify the place where this structure is present.

GREYCELL #77

"X" is a wonderful customized Boeing 757 owned by the band "Y", used to transport the band, 60 member crew and 12 tons of equipment as they tour the world. It’s named after Y’s infamous mascot “Z” and is piloted by "A". Identify X, Y, Z and A. 

GREYCELL #76

With which particular "disorder" would you associate them. 

1. Roy Jenkins, British politician
2. Stephan Jenkins, singer/songwriter/musician
3. Shane MacGowan, singer 
4. Kele Okereke, lead singer of band Bloc Party
5. Jonathan Ross, British television personality
6. Joe Strummer, singer (The Clash)
7. Barbara Walters, television personality
8. Matthew Bellamy, lead singer of band Muse
9. Elmer Fudd - fictional character in Looney Tunes 

GREYCELL #75

What has been blanked out from the twitter snapshot? Put Funda.

GREYCELL #74

The mythic creation of X is addressed in the song snippet: 

"Prepare the patients scalp
To peel away
Metal caps his ears
He'll hear not what we say
Solid steel visor
Riveted across his eyes
Iron staples close his jaws
So no one hears his cries"

Y's mother used to say to him _____ when he was headbanging. "Don't do that or you'll _______  something up in there!" This then led to the expression "to _______ one's head" meaning head-bang. Identify X and Y. 

GREYCELL #73

X, under construction is inspired from the Angkor Wat Temple in Cambodia and Rameshwaram and Minakashi Temples in India. X will comprise of 18 homes for various Hindu gods with focus on Lord Ram and Sita. The plan is spearheaded by Acharya Kishore Kunal. Patna based, Mahavir Mandir Trust first proposed the project, under the name of _____ Angkor Wat Ram Mandir in Hajipur, the twin city of Patna. But temple trust acquired 110 acres of land in East Champaran district and therefore the earlier site of Islampur near Hajipur was moved to Kesariya, Bihar. Identify X and what is its claim to fame?

GREYCELL #70

Manager Pankaj Gupta asked the Lord Mayor at a function if his team could meet X. X came to City Hall to meet the Indian team and had a picture taken with Y, a memento which Y cherished all his life. In the evening, at the cricket ground, India played a match, which was X's first hockey match. So impressed was X by Y's style of play that he told him, "You score goals like runs in cricket." Years later, Y considered meeting X was one of the most exciting moments of life. Id X and Y. 

GREYCELL #69

Simple one. Print ad for? 

GREYCELL #68

"X" baby syndrome, is characterized by multiple, symmetric, circumcision skin creases, or bands, on the forearms, lower legs, and often the neck that are present at birth. The creases disappear later in life. Associated abnormalities vary and may include facial dysmorphism, upslanting palpebral fissures, hypertelorism, cleft palate, genital anomalies, mild developmental delay, ureterocele, smooth muscle hamartoma, nevus lipomatosus, Laron syndrome and other defects. Identify X. 

 

GREYCELL #67

SITTER :
This is a "Portuguese water dog". Give its name and the claim to fame.

                               

GREYCELL #66

Folklore traces "X" to the Lord Shiva who is said to have taught X to his son Murugan. While disguised as an old man, Murugan passed the knowledge of X to the sage Agastya who then recorded it and disseminated the skill among his students. X literally means "art of vital points". and is a component of traditional massage, medicine, and martial arts in which the body's pressure points are manipulated to heal or cause harm.Usually taught as an advanced aspect of unarmed Indian fighting systems, strikes are targeted at the nerves, veins, tendons, organs and bone joints. What is X?  

GREYCELL #65

X lost part of his "nose" in a sword duel against fellow Danish nobleman Manderup Parsberg. X had earlier quarrelled with Parsbjerg over the legitimacy of a mathematical formula, at a wedding dance at professor Lucas Bachmeister's house. Since neither had the resources to prove the other wrong, they ended up resolving the issue with a duel. Though the two later reconciled, the duel two days later, resulted in X losing the bridge of his nose. From this event X  became interested in medicine and alchemy. For the rest of his life, he was said to have worn a replacement made of silver and gold, using a paste or glue to keep it attached. Nonetheless, after chemically analyzing "a small bone sample from the nose" from the body exhumed in 2010, reported the prosthetic was "made out of brass". Identify X. 

GREYCELL #64

What has been blanked out ? 

GREYCELL #63

If X-mode is activated in the recent version of temple run, it makes the runner invincible, provides a coin magnet, and turns on auto-guidance for limited period of time. What is X? 

GREYCELL #62

Sitter connect.