1. Arm wrestling tournaments worldwide are held in different categories where players are classified based on their age, gender, weight class and a fourth category X. Find X.
2. The tips tend to be flaky and can break off easily, posing a danger as they might float into someone's nose or eyes. Also, both the lead and wood were flammable and can be a fire risk, something they were keen to avoid. These are two reasons explaining why what a popular urban myth suggested was in fact dangerous and never happened in reality. What are we talking about?
3. As part of the 11,000 page charge-sheet filed against him, X was even booked under the Railway Act, because X entered a railway station’s premises without obtaining a ticket. Who is X?
4. This is a place (refer photo) called Wadi Rum in Jordan. It is famous for its red sands and barren landscape. Its popularity as a tourist destination increased so much recently that it is now featured prominently in a tourism advertisement for Jordan. Where would you have seen Wadi Rum recently?
5. It was always difficult being X and it isn’t much easier now that he is an overworked employee, a husband and father of three school-age children. While X grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.” Who is X? And this is the promotional message for what?
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1. Stronger hand. Right handers / left handers play in separate categories.
2. The myth that the Americans spent billions of dollars on developing the Fisher Space pen, while Russians gave their cosmonauts a pencil. This is untrue.
3. Ajmal Kasab, the terrorist convicted in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks
4. In the film The Martian. Scenes set in Mars were shot in Wadi Rum.
5. X : Harry Potter. Promotional message for ‘Harry Potter and the cursed child’. New sequel to the Harry Potter books in the form of a play to be premiered next year.
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