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2. Belinda Clark was the first, who only other 2? (Hint: Both are Indians) ___________________________________________
3. This company based in Kyoto, Japan was founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi. The name of this company translated from Japanese to English means "Leave luck to Heaven". It is the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners, a Major League Baseball team. ___________________________________________ 4. X was a successful French scrivener and manuscript-seller who developed a posthumous reputation as an alchemist due to his reputed work on the philosopher's stone. According to legend, X purchased a 21 page book from a Jewish converso and made it his life's work to understand the text of a mysterious book. Around 1378, he travelled to Spain for assistance with translation. On the way back, he met a sage, who identified the book as being a copy of the original Book of Abramelin the Mage. With this knowledge, over the next few years, X and his wife Perenelle allegedly decoded enough of the book to successfully replicate its recipe for the Philosopher's Stone, producing first silver in 1382, and then gold. It is claimed that they were even able to produce the Elixir of Life, which grants immortality to its drinker. Identify X, who is a very famous fictional character.
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6. X was born in a Tamil speaking Kerala Iyer family in Thirunellai, Palakkad district, Kerala on December 15, 1932. He studied at Basel Evangelical Mission Higher Secondary School. X graduated from the Madras Christian College. He then went to study at Harvard University on Edward S. Mason Fellowship where he earned a masters degree in public administration (Class of 1968).X is a retired Indian Administrative Service officer, who held several public offices in the Government of India. He was the 10th Chief Election Commissioner of India from December 12, 1990 to December 11, 1996.He is widely known for his commitment to and was largely successful in ending electoral malpractices in India. He used this to hone his political ambitions by contesting for the post of President of India in 1997 (though he lost to K.R. Narayanan). He came up with the vision of an election-card for every rightful voter in India. He won the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award for Government Service in 1996.Identify X? X: ___________________________________________ 7. The character Y is said to have been inspired by a police officer named X, who in 2009 was appointed as the first chief of Indias National Investigation Agency. Xs excellence while probing the Polakulam Peethambaran murder case and SI Soman murder case, when he was the Superintend of CBI Kochi, attracted the attention of many. His "Dummy-to-Dummy" experiment in Polakulam Peethambaran murder case was used in a movie in which the character is the protagonist. X was also associated with the probes into Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and hijacking of Indian Airlines plane to Kandahar. Identify Y? Y:___________________________________________
8. X is a 1984 Malayalam novel by Y. It is widely credited as his masterpiece. It was translated into English in 1997.X won Vayalar award for his work in 1985.The novel is set as a retelling of the Indian epic Mahabharata, from the view of Bhima, the second Pandava. Identify X and Y? X : ___________________________________________ Y:___________________________________________
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10. X is a vegetable stew or chowder based on a broth made with tamarind and pigeon peas, and is very popular in the cooking of southern regions of India, especially in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Each state in South India prepares it with a typical variation, adapted to its taste and environment. The origins of this dish are uncertain, although legend has that it originated in the kitchen of Thanjavur Marathas ruler Shahuji, during the 18th century from the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Identify X? X: ___________________________________________
11. Kerala has the largest number of these approximately 51 of them. Advocate T.K.Krishnan, a Communist leader of Trissur and N.S.Parameswaran Pillai, the state secretary of the India Coffee Board Labour Union were the founders of these in Kerala. The first of its kind was started in Trissur in 1958.It was inaugurated by A.K.Gopalan on 8 March, 1958.What are we talking about? ___________________________________________
12. X is a 1997 Malayalam movie directed by Jayaraaj, and starring Suresh Gopi, Manju Warrier, Biju Menon and Lal.The film is an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Othello against the backdrop of the Hindu Theyyam performance.In 1998 Suresh Gopi won the national award for the Best Actor, and Jayaraaj the award for Best Director for their on the film. Identify X? ___________________________________________
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14. Which 'Educational Institutions logo says "Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus"? ___________________________________________
15. Who or what holds the record for winning the most Nobel prizes? ___________________________________________ 16. How many times has Kerala won the Santhosh Trophy? A) 4 B) 5 C) 6 D) 7
17. Mitra-bheda, The Separation of Friends Mitra-samprapti, The Gaining of Friends Kakolukiyam, Of Crows and Owls Labdhapranasam, Loss of Gains Aparikshitakaraka, Hasty Action Of what are these five parts? ___________________________________________
18. How many American presidents have been assassinated? A) 2 B) 3 C) 4 D) 5 19. The Battle of Nuremberg, a football match between Netherlands and Portugal holds a dubious record in the world of football. What is it? ___________________________________________
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23. Ray-Ban "Predator 2" glasses where the sunglasses used in a film released in 1997 after the film released, Ray-Ban reported that sales of these glasses tripled, from $1.6 million to $5 million. What is the name of the film? ___________________________________________
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___________________________________________ 25. X was initially grown only in Americas. The Spanish introduced it to Europe in the 16th century. X was slow to be adopted by distrustful European farmers, but soon enough it became an important food staple and field crop that played a major role in the European
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26. It was once considered a letter in the English language. The Chinese call it a little mouse, Danes and Swedes call it 'elephant's trunk', Germans a spider monkey, and Italians a snail. Israelis pronounce it 'strudels' and the Czechs say 'rollmops...What is it? ___________________________________________
27. Luca Pacioli taught X mathematics. Student and teacher duo later published a treatise titled "De divina proportione".He was one of the few people of his time to disagree with the general view that the Great Flood (mentioned in the Bible) was what must have deposited seashells on the mountains. used to wear pink to make his complexion look fresh. He was never married or had a romantic relationship with anybody! It is in fact speculated that he was gay. ID X. ___________________________________________
28. I Poker is a social game developed by I as an application for the social-networking website Facebook as well as Android, iPhone, MySpace, Tagged, and Google+. It launched in July 2007 with 35 million monthly active users, I Poker is the largest poker site in the world. Give me the real form of I? ___________________________________________
29. This company was founded in 18 october,1922 by merging six companies namely -Marconi, Radio Communication Company, Metropolitan-Vickers (Metro Vick), General Electric, Western Electric, and British Thomson-Houston. Besides its area of works, this company is known for its contributions to the world in charity. This company Sponsored the most widely adopted school computer in the UK in the early 1980`s...Name the company? ___________________________________________
30. Michael O'Brien created history during a rugby match at England's Twickenham Stadium. OBriens seemingly innocent act launched a phenomenon that remains with us today, observed in other sports like tennis, football, cricket,etc. What phenomenon? ___________________________________________
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32. Beec,Chemno,Janowska,Majdanek, Maly Trostenets ,Sajmiste,Sobibor,Treblinka,Warsaw are all names of what? (The most famous name among them is missing from the above list) . ___________________________________________ 33. The pair Mr Montague and Miss Capulet is the famous protagonists of this famous play. The play, set in Verona, begins with a street brawl between Montague and Capulet supporters who are sworn enemies. Its plot is based on an Italian tale and retold in prose in Palace of Pleasure by William Painter in 1582. Prince Escalus, Count Paris, Mercutio are other characters in the same play. ID the play. ___________________________________________
34. What does the above map depict? (Think sports!!) ___________________________________________ 35. An idea was patented by a lawyer who suggested it as a solution to reduce kidnapping incidents. Though it was supported by various organizations, it could not be implemented on a large scale, primarily because of its dependence on palindromes. But, the innovative idea was so effective that almost immediately; viral hoax emails flooded the internet world suggesting that the technology in question had already been deployed universally. However,
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36. BackRub was an IT product/system developed in the Stanford University during 1990s. It was the predecessor for which famous product/system? ___________________________________________
38. Felix Hoffmann became world famous for the discovery of a drug in 1897.What is the name of this drug? ___________________________________________
39. This item of food originates from the two local words for To lay and Steam. Although the precise history of the modern dish is unknown, the Kannada king and scholar Someshwara III included a recipe in his encyclopedia, the Manasollasa, written in Sanskrit ca. 1130 A.D. (I am sure all of you have had this dish). ___________________________________________
40. Throughout history, the best pictures have always come in a yellow box. Whose ad line? (Hint : They indeed have the best pictures :P)
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41. George Moore and Robert Noyce started an electronics company which they initially named Moore Noyce. However the name sounded too much like more noise, which is particularly undesirable in connection with electronics. What did they eventually rename the company? ___________________________________________
42. MgFeTi2O5 is a mineral named Armalcolite. Where it was first discovered? How does it get itsname? Place : ______________________________________ Reason: _____________________________________
43. He was born in Marktl, Bavaria, Germany in the year 1927. In 1941, he was conscripted into the Hitler Youth. As a German soldier, he was put in a POW camp but was released a few months later at the end of the war in the summer of 1945.He became a professor at the University of Bonn in 1959. He rose to power and became the head of state in the year 2005. Who?. ___________________________________________
44. Lady Gaga. Justin Beiber. Katy Perry. Rihanna. Britney Spears. Shakira. Barack Obama. Kim Kardhashian. Taylor Swift. Youtube. Top 10 list of what? ___________________________________________ 45. Jacob collaborated with his brother Johann to publish papers on transcendental curves and isoperimetry. Their brother Nicolaus was a painter at the royal court in Paris.Johanns son Daniel was a pioneer in fluid mechanics, probability and statistics. His
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46. Fill in the last name in this exhaustive list: Archie Hahn, Ralph Craig, Percy Williams, Eddie Tolan, Jesse Owens, Bobby Joe Morrow, Valery Borzov, Carl Lewis, ______. ___________________________________________ 47. X died in a car accident while on the Tanami Road northwest of Alice Springs, Australia in July 1997. On July 31, 1993 some of his ashes were carried to the moon by the Lunar Prospector space probe in a capsule designed by Carolyn Porco.To date he is the only person to have been buried on the Moon Identify X. ___________________________________________ 48. They were traditionally made from bone, quill, ivory or gold and silver, if you could afford such ostentation. Mass production is traced to the American entrepreneur Charles Forster who noticed young boys selling similar objects made of Spanish willow while travelling through Brazil. He returned to Boston in 1870 and set up a factory that used white birch as raw material because it was tasteless. What business did Forster thus begin? ___________________________________________
49. Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. The Fourteen Points was a speech given by him to a joint session of Congress on January 8; 1918.The address was intended to assure the country that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for post-war peace in Europe. What did the 14th point in his speech deal with? ___________________________________________
50. A line of action figures produced by the toy company Hasbro. The initial product offering represented four of the branches of the U.S. armed forces with the Action Soldier (U.S. Army), Action Sailor (U.S. Navy), Action Pilot (USAF), Action Marine (USMC) and later on, the Action Nurse Identify the toy. ___________________________________________
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51. X' is a Canadian multinational telecommunications equipment company headquartered in Waterloo,Ontario,Canada founded by Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsille.It manufactures,designs and markets wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile and telecommunication market.'X' is famous for its product 'Y' which has become a sensation among the 'youngsters' and 'corporates. Identify 'X' and 'Y'? X: ___________________________________________ Y: ___________________________________________
52. "Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me. Who said these words? ___________________________________________
53. Inside the X is a gas generator containing a mixture of NaN3 (Sodium Azide), KNO3 (Potassium Nitrate) and SiO2 (Silicon Dioxide). When the undesired event happens, an electric circuit is turned on by a sensor, and a series of chemical reactions generate nitrogen gas that fills X in 20 to 30 milliseconds. What is X? ___________________________________________
54. After all, tomorrow is another day is the last line in which celebrated film? ___________________________________________
55. The origin of this game goes back to Persia as early as the 1st century AD. It was at first a training game for cavalry units, usually the king's guard or other elite troops. The modern version of the game, though formalized and popularized by the British, is derived from Manipur where the game was known as 'Sagol Kangjei', 'Kanjai-bazee'. The anglicized form of the name of the wooden ball which was used was adopted as its name in the west. Sultan Qutb-ud-din Aibak, the Turkish Emperor of North India, who ruled as an emperor for four years, from 1206 to 1210 died accidentally in 1210 playing this game. Which is this game? ___________________________________________
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Identify the creation of his, which became famous during DLF IPL Season 2. ___________________________________________
57. In his autobiography, published in 1909, X said, I came in with Y in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Y. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.' Identify X and Y.
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58. Dennis Gabor (19001979), a Hungarian physicist, received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1971, for his invention in 1947. His invention added a new dimension in consumer products labelling technology. What did he invent? ___________________________________________
59. There was a contest in the 1990s facilitated by Sky and Telescope magazine to rename it with perhaps something more dignified, but nothing ever came of it. The name we use was coined in 1950 by one of its harshest critics, Fred Hoyle, in 1950. George Gamow arrived at the theory by fitting his findings to Alexander Friedmann's solutions to Albert Einstein's field equations of the general theory of relativity. Name this theory. ___________________________________________
60. X was in honour of the Burning Man Festival of 1998. This acquired popularity with every notable festival in the history of mankind, the famous ones being, Charlie Chaplins birthday, Mothers day, Freddy Mercurys birthday, Anniversary of Star Trek,etc. It was designed notify users of their absence in case the servers crashed. Identify X
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61. X is a former Australian cricketer. He was primarily a left hand batsman but also achieved sporadic success as a part time left arm orthodox spinner. Beyond10, 000: My Lifestory is his story. Identify X. ___________________________________________
62. It took place in Washington, D.C on the November 22; 1963.Noone rode the horse which followed the cortege. In the only public viewing, hundreds of thousands lined up in nearfreezing temperatures to view the casket. Over the span of 18 hours, 250,000 people, some waiting for as long as 10 hours in a line that stretched 40 blocks up to 10 persons wide over nearly 10 miles personally paid their respects. What are we talking about? ___________________________________________
63. It is rumoured that there are three flags on the moon. One is the US one, the 2nd the USSR one. Which is the third one? ( Hint: An American University) ___________________________________________
64. A bundle of rods with an axe in it. A mass movement derived its name from the Italian word meaning the previous sentence. Which movement are we talking about? ___________________________________________
65. It is considered to be one of the seven Wonders of the Ancient World and the only one of the wonders that may have been purely legendary, situated near Al Hillah of the Babil Province in modern day Iraq. What are we talking about? ___________________________________________
66. On which world famous monument can you have meals at restaurants Altitude95 and Le Jules Verne? ___________________________________________
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68. He made his debut in 1966 with Aakhri Khat and rose to prominence with his performances in films like Raaz, Baharon Ke Sapne, Ittefaq and Aradhana. He had 35 Golden Jubilee Hits (which means the films ran for more than 50 weeks in theatres across India) in the period 19671975, three more in 7678 and 35 more in the period 19791991. He also had 22 silver jubilee hits (that is films ran in theatres for more than 25 weeks) in the period 1966 1991. He was the highest paid Indian actor from 197079 and shared the honour with Amitabh Bachchan from 198087. He was also a Lok Sabha member of the Indian National Congress from New Delhi constituency from 1992 to 1996. ___________________________________________
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87 - (E) E was once known as Mount Delly by the British and Mount DEly by the Portuguese. It was also the former capital of old Mushika Kingdom. A flourishing port and a centre of trade, it was also the major battlefields of the Chola Chera wars of 11th century. Which place is E? Ans : _____________________________________________________________________________.
88 -(I) What I was developed under the hardware engineering chief Jon Rubinstein and his team of engineers , including Tony Fadell and Michael Dhuey and design engineer Jonathan Ive? It was unveiled on 23 October 2001. An: _____________________________________________________________________________.
89 -(O)Originally from Konya, Turkey, O obtained a B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering and
Information Science from Bilkent University inAnkara. He received both a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.O has also developed the social networking services Club Nexus and inCircle. Who is O?
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90 (U). The word U was coined in Greek by an English author for his 1516 book U, describing a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean. The Republic written by Plato introduced the concept of U for the first time, although, U was nowhere mentioned in his book. Francis Bacon, Samuel Butler, H.G Wells, Aldous Huxley and many other authors have written works based on the concept of U. What is U? Ans: _____________________________________________________________________________.
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