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1. The word X is a portmanteau of Y and Z, referring to those who profess Y's philosophy in a robot-like manner. An X believes that Y has never done anything wrong and every idea which spawned from Y's head, no matter how mundane the issue, is gospel. Give me X.

2. Some background on A: His father, a medical researcher, is considered a leading authority on intestinal gas. (He bills himself as "The Man Who Gave Status to Flatus and Class to Gas.") One of A's great uncles, Robert May, wrote "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"-the book, that is; another great uncle, Johnny Marks, later wrote the song.
In 2006, he was chosen as one of Time magazine's "100 People Who Shape Our World". Identify A.

3. Has anybody won both the Oscar and the Nobel? If yes, name the person(s).

4. Many of us have read X's essays in school. X had this to say on Sikhism: That if some lucky men survive the onslaught of the third world war of atomic and hydrogen bombs, then the Sikh religion will be the only means of guiding them.
X played himself in a 1967 anti-war movie Aman. He won the Nobel in literature in 1950. Identify.

5. In Japan, what are ‘Soft Beckhams’, ‘Popular Beckhams’ and ‘Hardcore Beckhams’ types of? (Question Credit: indiauncut.com)

6. This controversial parliamentarian was sent to a seminary after schooling, to train as a priest. The rigours of priesthood did not suit him, however, and he rebelled against the authorities of the seminary. He was the first Defence Minister to visit the Siachen glacier, and subsequently visited the glacier 17 more times and took necessay steps to lessen the burden on soldiers patrolling the glaciers. Identify.