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JAN 2 MAR

What did Krishna Prasad & Uma Chigurupati

accomplish across 7 continent in Jan 2015 ?

Ran 7 Half-Marathons, Across 7

Continents, In 7 Days!

What controversy did this selfie

create at the Miss Universe
pageant.

Miss Israel
photo
bombing
Miss

What was Zaltan highlighting when

he
had
50
names
temporarily
tattooed on his body on Feb 14, 2015

50 names of real people who are

suffering from hunger around the
world
Campaign of UN World Food Program

4
Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (Nonresident
Indian
Day),
is
celebrated in India each year to
mark the contribution of the
overseas Indian community to
the development of India.
Why is it
January?

celebrated

on

9th

The day commemorates the return of

Mahatma Gandhi from South Africa in
Bombay on 9 Jan 1915.

What army did Christoph Graf takeover

from Col. Daniel Rudolf Anrig on Feb. 7,
2015

The Vatican announced Feb. 7, 2015 that

Pope Francis has promoted the No. 2 officer
of the Swiss Guards to commander of the
colorful, 500-year-old army, whose members
take an oath to protect pontiffs. Christoph
Graf, who joined the Guards in 1987, takes
the place of Col. Daniel Rudolf Anrig who

6
Following an unveiling on January
18, Twitteratis had these to say
about what/whom?
looks like those wannabe actors
form Lokhandwala, with gym
bags & a moustache to copy
Ranveer Singh.
looks like a press photographer
in a Madhur Bhandarkar movie
looks like a loan collection agent
looks like a NY cab driver
(comparing it to Aamir Khan)

Air India Maharajah

INDIA

1
Grassroots, a tourism company
that specialises in rural tourism
operates this particular tour to
Purushwadi, Maharashtra. The
tour is organised only for 3
weeks from the last week of May
over the nights, since you see
the "spectacle" only during those
hours.
.

What

tour/festival

do

they

Festival of a Million Fireflies

23 May - 7 July, 2015

2
India gave 12 villages to the
Pakistan in 1960s in exchange
for the village of Hussainiwala, a
small village in Punjab.
.

What made this village

special for India to have?

so

Burial site of the three

martyrs
Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev &

Where in India did Thebaw, the

last king of Burma stay when he
was exiled by the British

Thebaw House, Ratnagiri

4
When the British wanted to
purchase land for settling down
in Kashmir, they were not
allowed to do so by the Maharaja
of Kashmir, a tradition which
continues till date as Kashmiris
rarely sell land to outsiders.
.

What did the British do when

refused?

They started living on

houseboats
This is the story behind the origin of

Nigambodh
Kashmiri
Mori
Kabuli
Lahori
Ajmeri
Turkman
Dilli

List of what?
(Non-exhaustive
exhaustive list)

selection

of

an

Gates of the Walled City of

Delhi

6
What started as a cottage industry in
Koonamavu, a small village, few
kilometers to the north of Kochi, has
now become a big business with more
than 2000 women making this
product.
.

Each piece of this product fetches

Rs.1.60 to Rs.3.50. An expert can
make only one piece every 10
minutes. Among these, only few make
the famous "Thudal Kettu" version.
The product is exported to many

Rosaries
Koonamavu is fondly called as "Little
Rome"

MIXED BAG

1
In South Africa they are called
that country's "national flower"
and there were moves to ban
them.
.

In the USA they call them urban

tumbleweeds, witches britches or
witches knickers.
.

Somaliland residents became so

used to them they re-named them
"flowers of Hargeisa" after their

Plastic Shopping Bags

2
His great-grandfather W. D. Smiles was a
member of the Assam Legislative Council.
Though he was born and brought up in UK,
after leaving school, he considered joining
the Indian Army and spent a few months
hiking in the Himalayan mountains of
Sikkim, West Bengal, Assam.
.

On 16 May 1998, he climbed to the summit

of Mount Everest, 18 months after
breaking three vertebrae in a parachuting
accident. At 23, he was at the time among
the youngest people to have achieved this
feat.
.

Edward Michael "Bear" Grylls

3
XY appears in many legal cases as well
as in some hospital records all over
the world and is widely famous
especially in the United States and
Canada.
.

Joe Bloggs works in the UK instead of

XY, as well as in Australia and New
Zealand. In India, Ashok Kumar is used
as an alternative.
.

In 1941, Frank Capra directed and

produced an American comedy drama
film named "Meet XY

3
John Doe.
The
name
is
used
as
a
placeholder name for a party
whose true identity is unknown
or must be withheld in a legal
action, case, or discussion. The
name is also used to refer to a
corpse or hospital patient whose
identity is unknown.

4
The Indian currency when the
British invaded was the X. It was
worth nothing compared with the
pound sterling. When someone
tried to sell a shoddy product to
the
soldiers
they
would
sometimes respond that they
would not even pay a single X for
it, kind of like saying "I wouldn't
give you two cents for that.

I don't give a dam[n]

What was Google seen to be

subtly criticising through this
doodle?

Anti-gay legislation in Russia

6
German
scientist
and
philosopher
Georg
Christoph
Lichtenberg's idea forms the
basis for the standard size
series, based on an aspect ratio
of the square root of 2. The
significant advantage offered
through this system is that each
entity in this series when
divided into two yields the next
size.

The A series of paper

7
A waggle dance involves running
through a small figure-eight
pattern: a waggle run (aka
waggle phase) followed by a
turn to the right to circle back to
the starting point (aka return
phase), another waggle run,
followed by a turn and circle to
the left, and so on in a regular
alternation between right and
left turns after waggle runs.
.

Bee Hive

8
The X campaign was launched in
social networking websites in
August 2014 as a token of support
for people in Gaza suffering from
Israeli air strikes. It was an
imitation of a similar campaign
that was viral during that time.
.

The concept was intended as a "a

campaign to raise awareness
about the war on Gaza where
people are bombed inside their

Rubble Bucket Challenge

FUN WITH FLAGS

FUN WITH FLAGS

A has rejected EU membership twice. The

Grandiosa frozen pizza is the unofficial
national dish. Every year since 1947, A has
presented England with a Christmas tree for
Trafalgar Square. A is regarded as the birth
place of modern skiing. A also lays claim to
a section of Antarctica known as Queen
Maud Land. Until 1814, A included the Faroe

Norway

B
B

B is the world's largest archipelago. The

Equator cuts straight across the middle of
it. B is part of the Ring of Fire and is world's
largest producers of nutmeg. The Sangiran
Early Man Site, situated in B, has the status
of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. B is home
to Komodo Dragon, the largest lizard in the
world and to Rafflesia Arnoldii - World's

B
B

Indonesia

C
C

C national anthem was originally penned by

Jzef Wybicki in Italy, where General
Dbrowski and his troops were helping
Napoleon conquer Italy at the end of the
18th century. One of the most famous
performances of C is Not Yet Lost came in
1945, when famed pianist Artur Rubinstein
performed at the opening concert at the

C
C

Poland

D
D

D was one of the last region of Europe to be

Christianised, in the 12th century. D has
only been an independent country since
1918. Before that it belonged to Russia or
Sweden. When driving in D you must keep
your headlights on at all times. D has been
at the top of the Press Freedom Ranking list
every year since the publication of the first

D
D

Finland

E
E
E has hosted 5 times the Summer Olympic
Games, 3 times the Winter Olympic Games,
and twice the FIFA World Cup. The 45th
parallel north, which marks the theoretical
halfway point between the Equator and the
North Pole, is said to be the limit between
Northern E, where the Ol dialects are
spoken, and Southern E, where the Occitan

E
E

France

F
F

The national flag of F dates from 1572 and

is also the oldest tricolour flag. Gin was
invented in F under the name of Jenever. It
was first sold as a medicine. Prostitution is
legal however, prostitutes must be at least
18, and clients must be at least 16. Samesex marriages was legalised since 2001 and
euthanasia since 2002. F airlines is the

F
F

Netherlands

G
G

Movies that have been filmed in G include

The Killing Fields (1984), Rambo: First Blood
Part II (1985), Good Morning Vietnam
(1987), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The
Beach (2000), Alexander (2004), Bridget
Jones: Edge of Reason (2004), Star Wars:
Episode III Revenge of the Sith (2005),
Stealth (2005), and The Hangover Part II

G
G

Thailand

F&B

1
X is so named because it was a
speciality of the one-armed chef late
Haji Murad Ali. The ingredients of X
distinctive masala prepared by the
women in the family is a closely
guarded secret.
.

It is part of Awadhi cuisine. It is said

to
incorporate
160
spices.
Ingredients include finely minced
lamb, plain yogurt, garam masala,
grated
ginger,
crushed
garlic,
ground
cardamom,
powdered

Tunday Kabab

2
Approximately 80 are randomly
selected at birth from thousands
and are trained to handle loud
noises, flash photography and
large crowds. From the 80, the
20 largest and best behaved are
chosen and eventually narrowed
down to two finalist.
The finalist for 2014 were Mac &
Cheese, for 2013 were Popcorn &

Thanksgiving Turkey

3
In 1965, after approvals a 450 ton
consignment of Lerma Rojo and Sonora 64
left to India & Pakistan but was stopped at
Mexico, then went by a 30 truck convoy to
Los Angeles, reaching LA after a detour due
to the Watts riots.
.

At LA, a Mexician bank refused to honour

the Pakistani payment of US $ 100,000 due
to a misspelling on the cheque, but still the
shipment was loaded on a freighter and
shipped to Bombay and Karachi.
.

12 hours into the ship's journey, war broke

out and sender received a telegram from
the Pakistan minister Malik Bucha "I'm

Norman Borlaug
the first dwarf spring wheat strain that
started the Green Revolution in India and
Pakistan.

4
British gunners in WWII were able to locate and
shoot down German planes at night due to the
invention of radar, which the Germans new
nothing about. To cover up the invention of
radar, the British spread about an urban legend
which suggested that the massive increase in
night vision of the pilots were due to ______.
.
This rationale was further popularized by the
British Royal Air Force through a story about the
night vision flying prowess of their skilled
fighter pilot John "Cats Eyes" Cunningham.
.
In response to the story, many British people
began to ______ as they wanted to improve their
vision so that they could see better during the

5
X was a businessman said to
have died of sepsis when an
infection in his toe flared up
after he tried to kick open a safe
he could not remember the
combination to.
The irony is that in his home
town of Lynchburg, Tennessee,
where his "workshop" is located,
you can get all sorts of X

Jack Daniel

6
Printing
of
Indian
Budget
document
begins
with
X
ceremony.
.

The significance of the X dish is

that after it is served, a large
number of officials and support
staff,
who
are
directly
associated with the Budget
making and printing process,
are required to stay in the
ministry and remain cut off from

Halwa

TOMBSTONE

Frank Sinatra

Voices of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety

Bird, Sylvester the Cat, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn
Leghorn, Marvin the Martian,, Speedy Gonzales, and
many of the other characters from the Looney Tunes

William Butler Yeats

Memorial at Hyde Park, London

for whom?

The Animals in War Memorial, located

just outside Brook Gate,
commemorates animals that died in
wars and conflicts.

S P O RT S

1
Yagli Gures is the national sport
of
Turkey.
The
annual
tournament has been hosted
since 1362. Some argue that it
could be the longest running
sports event in the world.
Gures means wrestling.
Yagli is something they use in
the sport.

Olive Oil

2
Mary Kom

: Priyanka

Chopra
Milkha Singh

: Farhan Akhtar

MS Dhoni

: Sushant Singh

Rajput
Md. Azharuddin
fitb

: ____________

Emraan Hashmi

3
The Maharaja of Patiala, a colourful
gentleman by all accounts, was
banished by Lord Kitchener from
Shimla for allegedly molesting an
English girl. [Legend has it that the
girl was Kitchener's own daughter].
.

Enraged, the Maharaja vowed never to

set foot in Shimla again and build
himself his own summer capital.
.

What consequence did this have for

the world of sports and which
Guinness record came to be created in

Chail - highest cricket ground in

the world

4
In the 1984-85 season, India and
Pakistan were playing the 2nd
ODI in Sialkot Indian team was at
210/3 and Dilip Vengsarkar was
94 not out. At this point, the
match was suddenly abandoned.
Why?

Assassination of Indira
Gandhi

5
Which country, in the 2011 World
Cup, set the World Cup record
for the highest successful chase
in CWC history, by chasing down
a target of 329, against England
at the Chinnaswamy Stadium,
Bangalore?

Ireland

6
In 1930, H C Sircar, Bhupendra Singh, A
B Awan, Amarjeet Singh and became the
first five Indians who were accepted into
a famous institution at Cranwell, in
Lincolnshire. A sixth person, J N Tandon,
was rejected.
.

Four of them never really went high in

their career: two died in unfortunate
circumstances in 1933, one left after a
couple of years, another died in action in
WWII.
.

The fifth, however, went on to achieve

Subroto Mukherjee
First Indian Chief of Air Staff, IAF
(pic: Guardian Angel School,
Curchorem that represented Goa in
2011 Subroto Cup, New Delhi)

7
A Quiver Full of Arrows is a 1980
collection of twelve short stories by
British writer and politician Jeffrey
Archer.
.

One of the stories, titled "The

Century"
revolves
around
the
protagonist, an unnamed Oxonian
who has an ambition to succeed as a
cricketer for Oxford and follow his
famous father's footsteps.
.

The aforementioned character is in

Tiger Pataudi

8
On Dec 12, 2013, in a pioneering
initiative in the world of sports
advertising, FC Barcelona has
reached an agreement with X to
become a worldwide sponsor of
the Club, which will help Barca to
become
one
of
the
most
technologically advanced clubs
in the world.

Intel

PAIR

1
Who are the sisters
Bretton Woods?

of

The

The Bretton Woods Institutions (or

Bretton
Woods
Sisters)
is
the
collective name for the World Bank
Group and the International Monetary
Fund. The financial institutions were
established at Bretton Woods, New

2
The Government Pension Fund Global of
Norway is one of the largest pension funds in
the world deriving its financial backing from
oil profits. One of the investment policy is not
to invest in controversial companies belonging
to following categories:
Production of weapons
Sale of weapons and military material to
Burma
Serious
or
systematic
human
rights
violations
Severe environmental damages
Serious
violations
of
the
rights
of
individuals in situations of war or conflict
Other particularly serious violations of
fundamental ethical norms

Tobacco and ITC

Which two countries are named after

Simn Jos Antonio de la Santsima
Trinidad Palacios Ponte Blanco a
famous military and political leader
of the early 19th century?

Bolivia and Venezuela

Simn Bolvar

4
Funchal
is
the
capital
of
the
autonomous region of Madeira. It was
named by settlers after the local word
for the Fennel plant, which grew in
abundance here. It is today known for
its beaches and the vibrant nightlife.
.

Two sportspersons were born here

the more famous one played for clubs
like Andorinha, National and Sporting
CP in his youth. The other person was
captain of the Australian U-19 team
for the 2006 U-19 World Cup in Sri

Cristiano Ronaldo & Moises

Henriques

5
Issued on January 18, 1962, the
world's first cricket stamp came
from the Portuguese colony of
X, now an independent nation.
.

The first stamp to be released

from a test playing nation
happened a couple of months
later though. Y name was
inscribed in English, Urdu &
Bengali on the same

Cape Verde & Pakistan

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1
One day in 1971, Merle Robbins, an
Ohio barbershop owner came up with
the idea for X and introduced the
game to his family. When his family
and friends began playing X more
and more, Robbins and his family
spent $8,000 to have 5,000 games
made. At first Robbins sold X from
his
barbershop.
A
few
local
businesses sold it as well. Later
Robbins sold the X rights to a funeral
parlor owner and X fan from Joliet,
Illinois, for $50,000, plus royalties of

Uno

2
From a 1995 "book of 101 UnUseless Japanese Inventions" to
making to the Best 25 inventions
of 2014.
What?

Selfie Stick

3
Shiv
Nagar,
a
village
in
Muzzafarnagar district of UP had
water scarcity problem which
was solved by a company by
installing 15 hand pumps in June
2011. As a token of gratitude
villagers named their village
after the name of that company.
What is the new name of Shiv

Snapdeal.com Nagar

4
Khaled Mohamed Said was a young
Egyptian man who died under disputed
circumstances in Alexandria on 6 June
2010, after being arrested by the Egyptian
police. On seeing photos of his disfigured
corpse, Google marketing executive Wael
Ghonim decided to create a Facebook
memorial page for Said, called "We are all
Khaled Said". The page attracted hundreds
of thousands of followers, becoming
Egypt's biggest dissident Facebook page.
Support for Said rapidly spread, with many
Facebook members using his photograph
for their own profiles.

I am Anna

5
Connect:
1936: Wallis Simpson (USA)
1937: Soong May-Ling (China)
1952: Queen Elizabeth II (UK)
1975: American women (USA)
1986:

Corazon

(Philippines)

C.

Aquino

TIME Magazine came out with "Man of

the Year," every year, until 1999, when
they changed it to "Person of the Year"
to make it more gender-neutral.
.

These were the only 5 instances when

they shifted from "Man of the Year" to

6
"Halo" is the name of the new
Concept Sports Car by whom,
which they demonstrated at the
Auto Expo 2014?

Mahindra

7
Apart from the US flag, which
other flag was carried by John
Glenn on the first US orbital
space flight in 1962, and taken
to the moon by Apollo 11
astronauts in 1969?

National Geographic Society

flag

8
X was born in 1950 in Sargodha to a
conservative
Pakistani
Punjabi
family. His family lost 36 of its
members
when
migrating
from
Shimla to Lahore during the Partition
of India. General Mohammad Zia-ulHaq appointed him to the Council on
Islamic Ideology, and he later served
as an Islamic Studies teacher at the
University
of
Engineering
and
Technology, Lahore. One of his
famous quotes is "There cannot be

Hafiz Muhammad Saeed

the founder of the Laskhar-eTaiba.

9
In September 2010, the BBC and
HarperCollins
started
legal
proceedings against each other,
with the BBC attempting to obtain a
judicial injunction to prevent the
publishing of a book entitled The
Man in The White Suit, apparently
authored by a man named Ben
Collins.
.

The BBC eventually lost the case

and Ben Collins went ahead to

The Stig

10

Randall Park has starred in movies like

Dinner for Schmucks, Larry Crowne, Sex
Tape and the popular TV show Veep. He
was in headlines in 2014 for his role in a
particular movie. Which character did he

10

Kim Jong-un

Connect:
Clive Lloyd
Viv Richards
Mohinder Amarnath
David Boon
Wasim Akram
Aravinda de Silva
Shane Warne
Ricky Pouting
Adam Gilchrist
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
.

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11

Man of the match winners at

Cricket World Cup finals.

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