3. 2.
• An asteroid given the provisional designation
2001DA42, discovered by the Lincoln Near
Earth Asteroid Research project, or LINEAR.
It's a relatively unremarkable space
rock, orbiting 224 million miles (358 million
kilometers) from the sun in the main asteroid
belt, between Mars and Jupiter. But its name
held triple significance.How?
4. 2001 was the year of his death and 42-
the answer to everything
9. 5.
• This recipe is generally attributed to
restaurateur _____Cardini,
an Italian immigrant who operated restaurants
in Mexico and the United States. Cardini was
living in San Diego. His daughter Rosa (1928–
2003) recounted that her father invented the
dish when a Fourth of July 1924 rush depleted
the kitchen's supplies. Raw egg and
Worcestershire sauce are some of the secret
ingredients. Which?
11. 6.
She first worked at a German bakery, a Jiffy
Lube, and later a tax and retirement firm while
studying to be a Pediatric nurse in Orange
County. Her first mainstream appearance was
in 2005, when she was a red carpet reporter
for the MTV Awards on MTV India. She has
also had a cameo in the film The Girl Next
Door, performed in Ja Rule's video "Livin’ It
Up" and a video for Kidd Skills. Who?
13. 7.
• Dodgson's method is a voting
in which each voter submits an
ordered list of all candidates
according to their own
preference (from best to
worst). The winner is defined
to be the candidate for whom
we need to perform the
minimum number of pair wise
swaps (added over all
candidates). Dodgson
proposed this voting scheme
in his 1876 work "A method of
taking votes on more than two
issues“. His most famous
work?
14.
15. 8.
• X, an automobile enthusiast and
avid collector apparently owns
the largest Porsche collection He
rented a hangar at the Santa
Monica Airport for an extended
period of time during the 1990s
for. It is reported that X’s
collection includes Porsche
911s from various
years, 10 Porsche Boxsters each
painted a different color, and the
famous 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder.
The Discovery Channel television
show "Chasing Classic Cars"
claims that X owns the first and
last original Porsche 911s
produced. Who?
16.
17. 9.
• This Kiwi, who made his debut in 2009; was involved in
a forklift accident at the age of 13 resulting in the loss
of 3 toes. This has since earned him the nickname "Two
Toes" within the Black Caps team. When he was in the
hospital, his father asked Jeff Crowe if a New Zealand
player could visit him. Stephen Fleming, the then New
Zealand captain, visited him at the hospital the next
day. On his ODI debut, this bloke surpassed Fleming's
record for the highest individual score by a New
Zealand debutant (122 not out).
• Who be he?
18.
19. 10.
• The first mass produced ones used the
whittled thighbone of a cow and the hair in its
tail. A further improvised version used the
same bones but the hair from Siberian boars.
This practice caught on in USA only after
soldiers came back from the world war. The
first synthetic version was produced by Du
Pont. What am I talking about?
23. 12.
• This cow was presented
to him, on being the
first sportsperson of the
country from the field
to win an international
event. He affly called it
‘Juliette’. The gift was
given Lieu of one of the
country’s specialties.
Who?
27. 14.
______is a label given to the
various rebel groups
opposing Nicaragua's FSLN
(Sandinista National Liberation
Front) government following
the July 1979 overthrow
of Anastasio Somoza Debayle's
dictatorship. Among the
separate ______ groups,
the Nicaraguan Democratic
Force (FDN) emerged as by far
the largest. In 1987, virtually
all _____ organizations were
united, at least nominally, into
the Nicaraguan Resistance.
28.
29. 15.
• The Tió de_____ meaning
"Christmas Log“ is a character
in Catalan mythology relating to a
Christmas tradition widespread
in Catalonia. Beginning with the
Feast of the Immaculate
Conception one gives the tió a
little bit to "eat" every night and
usually covers him with a little
blanket so that he will not be cold
at night. On Christmas one puts
the tió partly into the fireplace
and orders it to "shit“.To make
him "shit", one beats him with
sticks, while singing various
songs. _____ is also the surname
of a famous sportsperson of
those parts. Who?
39. 20.
• The Imagine Peace Tower is a
memorial to X from his widow and is
located on Viðey
Island near Reykjavík. It consists of a
tall "tower of light", projected from a
white stone monument that has the
words "Imagine Peace" carved into it
in 24 languages. Buried underneath
the light tower are upward of
500,000 written wishes that his
widow gathered over the years in
another project, called "Wish Trees“
and she plans to have the tower lit
every year from 9 October. The Tower
consists of 15 searchlights with
prisms that act as mirrors, reflecting
the column of light vertically into the
sky from a 10-metre wide wishing
well.
40.
41. 21.
How are the encircled
places etymologically
related ?
No answers like…same
founder, same spelling
etc
Enlarged pic follows
49. 24.
Possible reasons for placing a figure representing a person in the act
of ________ are:
• Tradition.
• Perceived humour.
• A fun spectacle, especially for children.
• The Caganer, by creating____, is fertilizing the Earth.
• The Caganer represents the equality of all people: regardless of
status, race, or gender, everyone defecates.
• The Caganer reinforces the belief that the infant Jesus is God in
human form, with all that being human implies.
• A humorous allusion to the Spanish proverb (in translation), “____
is no saint, but where it falls it works miracles”
What is being talked about ?
53. 26.
Les Horribles Cernettes (The
Horrible CERN Girls) which is
an all-female parody pop
group at CERN. The group is
self-labeled “the one and only
High Energy Rock Band” and
was founded by employees of
CERN to perform at the CERN
events. Interestingly, the
initials of this pop group’s
name, LHC, is the same as that
of the Large Hadron Collider
which was later built at CERN.
The claim to fame ?
54. • 1st pic to be uploaded to Internet(by Tim
Berners Lee)
55. 27.
• X Y at her Music is a
painting by the Dutch
artist Johannes Vermeer. It
was painted in
the baroque style between
the years 1660 and
1661, using oil on canvas.
The painting was the
inspiration for the title
of Susanna Kaysen's
memoir about her stay
at McLean Hospital for
psychiatric treatment, X
Y, immortalized by Winona
Ryder on screen.
Decode.
56.
57. 28.
“Save as _____, Save a Tree” is the tagline for
this new file type.
Technically _____ is same as PDF format with
the print option is completely blocked. The
aim behind developing new file format is to
stop documents being printed out
unnecessarily.
Identify the three letter extension.
58.
59. 29.
Id the water body.
This accounts for the
world’s 90% _____.
The Beluga _____ is by
far the most
expensive, prices
ranging for $7,000 to
$10,000 per kg.
60.
61. 30. Which dish’s recently obtained GI
tag description?
Only goat meat
The ratio of meat to wheat must be 10:4
The ghee used must be certified by a lab as
100% pure
The ‘H’ must be cooked for 12 hours in a
copper vessel over firewood