For Whom the Bell Tolls

According to the New Testament of the Bible, X were beings summoned as omen of the Last Judgement. Historians, however, have connected X to the fall of the Roman Empire, which had taken place at the same time as the New Testament.
X have been featured heavily in the popular culture such as the name of the team of magicians in a 2013 movie with a sequel planned for this year. Thrash metal bands Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax and Slayer are often called by a variation of X, while Metallica and The Clash have songs with the name X.
Id X.

When solution becomes a trend...

This drink is believed to get its name because it was made for the workers in a steel works in Glasgow. These workers were dying from the large amounts of beer drunk to quench their thirst from the heat of the steel works and this was introduced as an alternative by A.G. Barr.
Identify the drink.

Glen Jacobs

His real name is Glen Jacobs. He earned a degree in English Literature at Northeast Missouri State University, where he played both basketball and football. Most fans are aware that he is very outspoken in terms of politics and is even a member of the Free State Project. He hosted a podcast titled The Tiny Political Show under the pseudonym Citizen X (from March 16, 2007 to March 13, 2008) and ran a blog called The Adventures of Citizen X at AdventuresOfCitizenX.com and is also a contributor to LewRockwell.com.
If all that wasn’t surprising enough, he even owns an insurance company with his wife called The Jacobs Agency, which is located in Tennesse.
How do we know him better?

Daedalus

In the movie Birdman, the character of Michael Keaton has been compared to X, who in Greek mythology is the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the creator of the Labyrinth. X and his father attempt to escape from Crete by means of wings that his father constructed from feathers and wax. X's father warns him that he should fly neither too low nor too high, because the sea's dampness would clog his wings or the sun's heat would melt them.But X ignored his father's instructions not to fly too close to the sun, resulting in the wax in his wings getting melted and him felling into the sea. Who is X ?

Railway to Hell

The Thai–Burma railway was built in 1942–43 to supply the Japanese forces in Burma, bypassing the sea routes which had become vulnerable when Japanese naval strength was reduced in the Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway in May and June 1942. Aiming to finish the railway as quickly as possible the Japanese decided to use the more than 60 000 Allied POWs who had fallen into their hands in early 1942. A particular stretch called the Konyu Cutting was the deepest and the most dramatic of the many cuttings and clearings to make way for the railway lines. Groups of men worked around the clock for 16-18 hours to complete excavation of the 17 metre deep and 110-m long cutting through solid limestone and quartz rock. Sixty nine men were beaten to death by Japanese guards in the six weeks it took to build the cutting, and many more died from cholera, dysentery, starvation, and exhaustion. Forced to work at night, Konyu Cutting was nicknamed X because of the mixture of hammering noise, lighting from fires, oil fired bamboo torches and carbide lamps that created an eerie illumination that looked like the fires of hell.

Lanka And India

Nuwara Eliya is a town located in the central province of Sri Lanka. It is the main hill resort of Sri Lanka and is the heart of the tea industry. The topography of the town is such that black soil forms the top layer here. One of the most famous attractions of the town is a temple, situated close to a botanical garden, which was supposedly built in the memory of X, who was kept prisoner in the area.

Identify X.

impossibly long ash........

Though he loved cigar, he used to smoke only half of each cigar but kept the butts. No matter where we went - anywhere in the world - his staff had to collect all the butts and put them in a special box. That box was brought back and the butts were handed to one of the gardeners, who used to smoke them in his pipe.
He prepared for difficult negotiations by sticking a hatpin into a cigar, then later lighting and smoking the cigar until the attention of the entire audience was on the impossibly long ash (wondering when it would fall off) and not on any of the points his opponent was trying to make.Yeah, he was smart !!

Who was he ?

Funny Ser *Must've heard of him*

X of La Mancha, is a Spanish novel by Y. It follows the adventures of a nameless hidalgo who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to set out to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring justice to the world, under the name X. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthy wit in dealing with X's rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood. X, in the first part of the book, does not see the world for what it is, and prefers to imagine that he is living out a knightly story. The story implements various themes, such as intertextuality, realism, metatheatre, and literary representation. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, X is considered one of the most influential works of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. Y said that the first chapters are taken from "The Archive of La Mancha" and the rest translated from the Arabic from the Moorish author Cid Hamet Ben Engeli. This metafictional trick appears to be designed to give a greater credibility to the text, by implying that X is a real character and that the story truly occurred several decades back. Yet it is obvious to the reader that such a thing is impossible, because the presence of Cide Hamete would have caused numerous temporal anomalies. It was a common method at the time because of the disapproval the novel genre was subject to.
Give us 'X' & 'Y'.

Nasika...

Kaushik Basu is a renowned economist who has worked with GoI in the past and is currently engaged with the World Bank. Mr. Basu is also credited with modifying the Su-doku and making it a two player game called Dui-doku. Apart from this he has also taught at Cornell Univ. In a newspaper article he recalled his meeting with a renowned personality and his curiosity about the surname of that person led to the revelation that it's origin lay in a Sanskrit word "nasika" (for nose). 

Basu's meeting with whom was he describing?

Brain over brawn

During the Vietnam War, the Americans had the technological upper hand but they could not foresee the guerilla tactics employed by the locals. One of the most famous strategies employed by the Vietnamese was a thousand kilometer long set of trails which the Americans called X after the Vietnamese resistance leader. The trail was a supply route to connect the North Vietnam to the South. Hidden from the US Air Force by three canopies of tree cover, it turned out to be a decisive factor in the War. Decoy trails were also set up to fool the Americans. Although the US Air Force used the notorious Agent Orange to burn down the forests around the trails, new trails were quickly created. Identify X, named after the first leader of the unified Vietnam.

Scachs d'amor

Isabella, the Queen of Castille, a 15th century monarch, was one of the most powerful leaders of history. It was due to her and Ferdinand, King of Sicily and Aragon, her husband that in the later years Spain became a united entity. The Americans should be thankful to them as they encouraged Columbus to take a voyage to India, whose folly later became a legend.
During her rein a poem was written, titled 'Scachs d'amor'.The subject was love which was expressed through a metaphor. It consisted of sixty four stanzas, nine verse each. It's believed that this poem set the modern rules of a game and Isabella's grand stature became a major influence on it.

What was the metaphor used in the poem which bore the stamp of Isabella's strength?

Lost city of...

A city formed as early as the 1st century BC, X was a thriving city state in the present day Jordan near the Dead Sea with a lot of the spice trade being carried out majorly from X. the people of X were called Edomites (Edom meaning red), due to the colour of the rocks found in the region. The city flourished under the subsequent Roman rule but after a series of earthquakes from 3rd to 7th century AD destroyed the city, it was lost in time. X was discovered in 1812 by a Swiss explorer and has since then become famous for its unique hydraulics systems and the unique architecture. It is most well-known for its treasury which is built right inside the desert rocks. Id X.

*Looks like we have another Cersei*

Born in 1729, Sophie von Anhalt-Zerbst commomly known as 'Y' enjoyed numerous marital prospects due to her mother’s well-regarded bloodlines. Y and her new husband had a rocky marriage from the start. Though the young Prussian princess had been imported to produce an heir, eight years passed without a child. Some historians believe her husband was unable to consummate the marriage, while others think he was infertile. Desperately unhappy in their married lives, the husband and Y both began extramarital affairs, she with Sergei Saltykov, a Russian military officer. When Y gave birth to a son, Paul, in 1754, gossips murmured that Saltykov—not the husband—had fathered him. There is little debate over the paternity of Y’s three additional children. It’s believed that none of them were fathered by the husband. Give us 'Y'.

History time

Id the encircled ones and give the significance of it?

Legends come true!

Baba Sain Mir Mohammed Sahib, a famous Sufi Saint was invited to lay the foundation stone of this celebrated structure. 

According to legends, the mason picked up the stone to place it in a straight line. When the man responsible for the construction of this structure saw this, he chided the mason and said, 'How can you change what a true man of God, a true dervish, has decided? Because of what you have done, the foundation will always be shaky'.

Subsequent attacks on the structure corroborate and verify this apprehension and forecast. Which famous structure are we talking about?

It all begins here.

In 1791, a Dublin theater owner named James Daly made a bet that he could introduce a word into the language within twenty-four hours. He then went out and hired a group of street urchins to write the word X, which was a nonsense word, on walls around the city of Dublin. Within a day, the word was common currency and had acquired a meaning(since no one knew what it meant, everyone thought it was some sort of test) and Daly had some extra cash in his pocket. However, there is no evidence to support the story, and the term was already in use before the alleged bet in 1791.

ID X.

Name X.

X’s letters are often credited for initiating the 14th-century Renaissance in public affairs, humanism, and classical Roman culture. As the legend goes, X was being carried away on a litter (palanquin) when he was finally tracked down by Mark Antony’s men. He calmly ordered his men to put the litter down, and held his neck out to be cut in a gladiatorial gesture. His last eloquent words are said to be “There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly."

According to Cassius Dio, Antony's wife took X's head, pulled out his tongue, and jabbed it repeatedly with her hairpin in final revenge against X's power of speech.

This one goes out for the myth lovers (and non-lovers alike) :D

X is a legendary reptile reputed to be king of serpents and said to have the power to cause death with a single glance.
A mythical account of the existence of X goes like this-
According to the Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder, the X of Cyrene is a small snake, "being not more than twelve fingers in length," that is so venomous, it leaves a wide trail of deadly venom in its wake, and its gaze is likewise lethal.

Its weakness is in the odor of the weasel, which, according to Pliny, was thrown into the X's hole, and the hole was recognizable because all the surrounding shrubs and grass had been scorched by its presence.

X is also the name of a famous manga and anime.

Can you guess the name of "the king of serpents" ?

What is this known as? What is its significance?

Articles 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124 and 153 of the Constitution of the _________ are suspended until further notice. It is therefore permissible to restrict the rights of personal freedom [habeas corpus], freedom of (opinion) expression, including the freedom of the press, the freedom to organize and assemble, the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications. Warrants for House searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed.

The gesture first appeared 4000 years ago, found in clay tablets of the Indus valley civilization. It is performed as part of a physical yoga practice with an aim to achieve several benefits. It helps to alleviate mental stress and anxiety and is therefore used to assist the practitioner in achieving focus and coming into a meditative state.
The physical execution of the pose helps to promote flexibility in the hands, wrists, fingers and arms.
What is this gesture?