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Question 1 According to David Baldwin his true identity was ROGER GODBERG, A yeoman farmer. He was once said to be captured while poaching a deer along with his assistant Walter Devyas. What is ROGER GODBERG’s other identity?

Question 2 A few possible conclusions drawn by this restless soul are as follows:- The Horses of North Africa weren’t as sturdy as the Moroccan ones. The melons of Samarkand were sweet and juicy but didn’t smell like those from Morocco Indian Women were thick-lipped, voluptuous and well-disposed but could not match their Moroccan counterparts.

Question 3 The US based website Hunch.com, after analyzing a response of 7,00,000 odd members came up with the conclusions that if you prefer it thin (crust) you are a liberal while if you prefer it dense and deep you are a conservative. Once during a candid chat with GursharanKaur, Kaur confessed of having learnt its recipe from Sonia Gandhi. What is been talked about?

Question 4 The MANGANYIAAR community of Rajasthan got their name from their ancestors’ practice of asking for grants after singing at the king’s court. What was their maiden contribution to Bollywood music?

Question 5 Vaibhav Bedi,26,sought 26,000 euros from Hindustan Unilever Limited in November 2009,citing “Depression and psychological damage” caused due to one of their products. What was this product and how did it lead to the person’s “Depression and psychological damage” ?

AXE According to him THE AXE EFFECT was a false. No girl was attracted to him for all the seven years of AXE-use leading him to “Depression and psychological damage”!!! :D

Question 6 If your name is "47" and your mission is to execute Dr. Otto Wolfgang Ort-Meyer, Who would you be?

Question 6 Goraxanath, was a hindunath yogi and was one of the 4 innovators of the Indian Religion along with Krishna, Buddha and Patanjali. His first appearance was believed to have been at this very place and that's why every year on the day of Baisakhpurnima the place hosts a huge festival called "ROT MAHOTSAV" Name this place that I am referring to.

Answer 7 Gorkha (The inspiration behind the coinage of the term “Gorkhaland””)

Question 7 The COQUIS are a tribe who flourished in Puerto Rico years ago. What’s the secret to their unique nomenclature?

FROG WORSHIP The word COQUI is a somewhat distorted form of the cry of Frogs. They worshipped frogs and were known for their frog tales!

Question 8 Legend has it that at the site of the current NeemtalaGhat this fellow used to hold his court and smoke the hookah. In his later days he is said to have suffered from insomnia as a result of which he flogged his servants, as their moans and cries would put him to sleep.(To be continued in next slide)

Question 8 The inscriptions on his grave reads:“Ouipostam insolo non suoperegrinatusessetdiu,reversusestdomumsuaeaeternitatis” Sorry for the length of the Question! Identify the person I am talking about.

Question 9 Indian Prince Dharma, as penance for his late night debaucheries, became a monk and went off to China to preach Buddhism and vowed never to sleep again. But one day while crossing the Himalayas he fell deep asleep. After waking up, extremely angry with himself, he cut both his eyelids and buried them. What was the consequence?

THE FIRST EVER TEA PLANT WAS BORN

The prince later added “BODHI” to his name and became BODHIDHARMA.

Question 10 He had planned a chain of super-resorts accommodating 20,000 people at a time and in the process wanted to take on Thomas Cook. The Project was planned under the name “Seaside resort for the common man” and the group in-charge was named” Strength through Joy”. Identify this fierce competitor.

The FUHRER himself !!ADOLF HITLER.

Question 11 He is said to have been successful in trans-mutating base metals to gold and the following has been quoted as his words immediately after he succeeded in his maiden effort.(continued in next slide)

"In theyear of our Lord 1382, April 25, at five inthe afternoon, this mercury I truly trans- muted into almost as much gold, much better, indeed, thancommon gold, more soft also, and more pliable. I may speak itwith truth, I have made it three times, with the help of Perrenelle[his wife] who understood it as well as I, because she helped me in my operations…”

Question 12 Yuen Ren Chao wrote a Mandarin poem entitled "The Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den", What was so special about it?

This Chinese text consists of 92 characters, all with the sounds shī, shí, shǐ and shì (the diacritics indicate the four tones of Mandarin), like the tongue twister poems.

Question 13 The word ________ was introduced to the public by the Czech interwar writer Karel Capek in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal ______), published in 1920,but he himself did not coin the word.He wrote a short letter in reference to an etymology in the Oxford English Dictionary in which he named his brother, the painter and writer Josef Capek, as its actual originator.In an article in the Czech journal Lidovénoviny in 1933, he explained that he had originally wanted to call the creatures labori,though he did not like the word.So he asked his brother Josef and he suggested the name.The first digital and programmable ______ was invented by George Devol in 1954 and was called the Unimate. Devol sold the first Unimate to General Motors in 1961.The term became very famous in India after ______ was released on 1st october,2010.Identify ___________.

Question 14 It sprang in many countries of the world independently and predates the religions practiced in these regions now. Some aspects of it can be found in later religions .Its name means “a belief in souls”? It is also believed that Satyajit Ray himself was an ardent believer in this religion.

Question 15 This dish is described in the writings of AfanasiyNikitin, a Russian adventurer who travelled to the Indian subcontinent in the 15th century. It was very popular with the Mughals, especially Jahangir. Ain-i-Akbari, a 16th century document, written by Mughal Emperor, Akbar’s vizier, Abu'l-Fazlibn Mubarak, mentions the recipe for this dish, which gives seven variations."BisiBele Bath" is a famous variant of this dish from Karnataka.The name is the Benarsi local name of the MakarSankrantifestival.Identify the dish.

Question 16 This is a question about 2 terms, you would not find them in dictionary yet. The terms are 'birthers' and 'deathers', both of them refer to groups of people who believe in 2 separate American controversies. What are they?

Birth-ers are those people who do not believe that Obama was born in Hawaii and claim that he is ineligible to be US President because he was born outside US. Death-ers believe that Osama Bin laden was not shot dead on 1st May 2011 in Pakistan and the alternatives are that he was either captured alive or killed before these events supposedly happened.

Question 16 A.F.C. Darwen is a football club from north England. They play their home games at the Anchor Ground. The club originally played rugby football as well as cricket. It adopted Association rules in 1875.In 1875 they played a representative team from Blackburn in their Barley Park ground. This match, though is not important for any academic purpose it actually experimented with something that was way too modern for those times. What was that?

THE USE OF FLOODLIGHTS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN SPORT

Question 17 Sale Mohammad Motorwala Yusuf is an umpire who was mostly active in first class cricket. His decision to call a medium pacer a suspected action bowler had a huge impact in history of cricket. After a match the umpire told." In his second over I have called him 4 times, After calling him he came and asked me. 'What is wrong'? I told him "I have doubts about your action." What resulted after this?

Anil Kumble turned to Leg Spin bowling

Question 18 Dr Walter Semkiw, in his book, "Born Again: Reincarnation Cases Involving International Celebrities, India's Political Legends and Film Stars" depicts Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam as a reincarnation of this great Indian. He had perfected the rocket's use for military purposes and used it effectively against his opposition. After his death, his rockets were seized and taken back to London for re-engineering. One of his rockets is still preserved with the name “India's War Rocket“ (pic up next) at the Woolwich Museum, London. Who am I talking about?

Question 19 X, a famous American actor, had just finished his evening performance in New York one night during the Civil War. He had just got into a train to his hometown Philadelphia when it gave a violent jerk, resulting in a young boy falling between the train and the platform. X grabbed the young boy by his collar, pulled him up onto the moving train & saved his life. A few days later he received a letter informing him that he had saved the life of the country’s Premier’s son. This letter was to be a great consolation for him in the following days of disgrace he and his family would face. (Continued in next slide)

Question 19 Who is this saviour and what disgrace was to come upon his family?

Edwin Booth, brother to the infamous John Wilkes Booth X was Edwin Booth, the famous brother of the infamous John Wilkes Booth.The boy he had saved was Robert Todd Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln’s son. The disgrace that was to come upon their family was that of his brother’s killing of Abraham Lincoln.

Question 20 X is a historic area in the Indian hill state of Uttarakhand. Approximately 400 km (250 miles) from Delhi, a cluster of six small villages forms this place. 116 such villages combine to form the Development Block of Dwarahat, which falls under the District of Almora in Uttarakhand, India. Ancient forests and pristine landscapes define the area which has been a favorite haunt of mystics, writers, philosophers and poets over the millennia. Located at a height of 8,000 feet (2,400 meters) above sea level, X is famous within Kumaon for its temple of Shakti – known here as X Devi.? Identify X.

Dunagiri Dunagiri . The famous place from where Hanuman had taken the Sanjivani.

Question 20 Born in San Carlos, California, she was the only child of a paint factory manager and a librarian. She enrolled at San Francisco Art Institute (SFIA) in the fall of 1970 and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in December 1972. While enrolled at SFAI, she was accepted into the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study scholarship program in New York City. She entered the graduate film program at Columbia University, where she studied theory and criticism and earned her master's degree. Her professors included Vito Acconci, SylvèreLotringer and Susan Sontag and she worked with the Art & Language collective and noted conceptualist Lawrence Weiner. She also taught at the California Institute of the Arts. Identify her?

Kathryn Ann Bigelow The first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director in 2010 for the film The Hurt Locker.

Question 21 The software was invented and developed by Estonian developers AhtiHeinla, PriitKasesalu and Jaan Tallinn, the same individuals who together with the Swedish entrepreneur NiklasZennström and Dane Janus Friis were also originally behind the peer-to-peer file sharing software Kazaa.X as a company was founded in 2003 by Zennström and Friis. In April 2003, x.com and x.net domain names were registered. In August 2003, the first public beta version was released. In September 2005, X was banned in South China. In October of the same year, eBay purchased X for $2.6 billion. (In 2011, the ArsTechnica estimated the purchase price at $3.1 billion, not $2.6 billion.) In April 2006. Till April 2010 it has 663 billion registered users. Name X?

Question 22 This was written by English composer Tony Britten. In 1992,he adapted George Frideric Handel's "Zadok the Priest" from the Coronation Anthems, and the piece was performed by London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and sung by the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields(ASMF). The chorus is in the three official languages English, German, and French. The complete anthem is about three minutes long, and has two short verses and the chorus. The anthem has never been released commercially in its original version. Identify the Anthem.

UEFAChampionsLeagueAnthem. The anthem has never been released commercially in its original version. However, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields chorus can be heard singing the original "Zadok the Priest" on the 2002 album World Soccer Anthems.

Question 23 Connect the following ,[object Object]

Name of a 2004 novel by Michael Chabon It was a detective story that in many ways pays homage to the writings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and other writers of the genre.

A hit song by Sabaton from their Album Coat of Arms,[object Object]

Question 24 When X was formed in 1996 they described themselves to serve as the "Ambassadors of the Indian Air Force" and to "showcase the professionalism, the caliber and the mettle of the Indian Air Force”? Name X.

Surya Kiran Aerobatic Team (SKAT) Surya Kiran Aerobatic Team (SKAT). Today among the three renowned nine-aircraft public display aerobatic teams in the world (the other two being the British Red Arrows and the Canadian Snowbirds.

Question 25 During 12th and 13th Centuries, the Chinese soldiers slipped rice paper messages into moon cakes to help co-ordinate their defence against Mongolian invaders. Which modern day item, according to its makers, is said to have drawn inspiration from this act.

Question 26 Historian Robert Poole has called the Peterloo Massacre, one of the defining moments of its age. It was also named in ironic comparison to the Battle of Waterloo. Arguably “the greatest political poem ever written in English language” by Shelley-The Masque of Anarchy was an outcome of it. What was its other famous outcome?

The Manchester Guardian newspaper, now known as The Guardian Newspaper

The Alaska deed It happened 30th March 1867 - Alaska was purchased from Russia for sum of $ 7.2 million

Question 28 The universally-applied nickname arose from the M9 variant's vague resemblance to the tubular musical instrument of the same name invented and popularized in the 1930s by US comedian Bob Burns. Also referred to as the "Stovepipe", this innovative instrument was amongst the first-generation of rocket-propelled anti-tank weapons used in infantry combat.

Question 29 This song-bird, along with edibles like macaroon, was a metaphor for delicacy during the FRENCH REVOLUTION. Name it.

Ortolan That was a picture of ORTOLAN BUNTING. Only ORTOLAN will do.

Question 30 The language has its main source of inspiration from Vidyapati's lyrics on the love of Radha and Krishna which influenced the Bengali poets of the medieval period a great deal. Jnandas, Balaramdas and Narottamdas are a few names familiar with this language. Tagore wrote his BhanusingherPadabali in this very language. Which language am I referring to?

Question 31 An English professional cricketer who played 58 test matches for England between 1899 and 1930.With 39969 runs and 4304 Wickets

Question 33 Elaine Showalter regarded her writing as "a major text of English feminism, a link between Mary Wollstonecraft and Virginia Woolf.". Beginning in 1968, the U.S. Air Force operated a fleet of 20 aircrafts named after her. Her image appeared on the reverse of Series D £10 banknotes issued by the Bank of England and was in use for about 19 years. (Her voice to be played as a clue up next)

Question 34 Initially “THIS” was not a part of the very thing we nowadays associate it with. Its introduction is however believed to have been made by Hans Gieng in 1543 in one of his works at Gerechtigkeitsbrunnen,although it’s requirement is questioned till date. Initially the carrier of “THIS” had to referretives -to luck and nemesis later “THIS” was added to a reference to Fortuna. What is “THIS”?

The cloth blindfolding Lady Justicia’s eyes

Question 35 Inspired by the success of IPL, some people along with Maharashtra Association for sports organized a similar league of 6 teams in Maharashtra along with player auctions. Teams are as follows:- Daring Doves, Gorgeous Gannets, Fabulous Falcons, Inspiring Eagles, Flamboyant flamingoes, Sensational skylarks. The Matches were held in Navi Mumbai and Pune 2 months ago. Which sport?

Question 36 It is an all purpose boat built in Maldives. Apart from its use in fishing, inter-island transport and the movement of cargo, they are used as diving boats, live-abroad cruise vessels, passenger ferry boats and deep-sea fishing craft complete with outriggers and fighting chairs. In India, the "NAME" is very famous. Name the boat.

Question 37 This medical term evolved from Chang and Eng Bunker, born in Thailand. They traveled with P.T. Barnum's circus for many years and were billed as this special medical term. Due to the brothers' fame and the rarity of the condition, the term came to be used as a synonym for this type of persons. What am i talking about?

Siamese Twins These two brothers were born in SIAM, presently Thailand. That is why they were termed as Siamese Twins

Question 38 "American president coming to India. If I had known, I wouldn't have gone looking for him all over America & met him in Andheri or Ghatkopar".-What is the funda?

Sharukh khan's tweet on president Obama's visit to India referring to his character in "My name is Khan"

Question 39 Mr. X was previously known as MaqsoodMehmood Ali who was born on Sep 19, 1958. He was the second of the eight children of his Father Mehmood,the famous bollywood comedian , and mother Mahelaka, was part Bengali and part Punjabi, the sister of a popular Indian actress of the 1960s - MeenaKumari. He got into the drug habit pretty young, causing a lot of tension between him and his dad. He used to breed race horses, run a carpet cleaning business, and work in an oil rig before ending up doing what made him famous. Has two wives, both of whom converted to Islam after marriage. His first movie role was in ‘YehiHaiZindagi’ (1977), alongwithSanjeev Kumar and UtpalDutt. Identify “X”.

Question 40 Mercedes Benz withdrew all their ads for about a month in September 1997. What was the reason?

The death of Princess Diana involved was a black Mercedes

Question 41 After 1912, Stockholm Olympics, there was a change in the rules of javelin throwing in Olympics. What was the rule at that time?

Javelin was separately thrown with both the right hand and the left hand and the marks were added together.

Question 42 The Koothandavar temple of Koovagam village, which houses this idol is a focal point of tourists during the tamil month of Chitrai. What is the reason behind this?

Answer 42 The transgender and transvestite devotees of this deity are wedded to him during this month as he is considered as a patron God of this community. But sadly he his considered dead after a few days of the marriages.

Question 43 A few trees (like phassi, dhausa, etc.) of this place to the west of Cuttack are targeted by a specialist team of carpenters who have a few particular hereditary rights and privileges to their names. The logs then are traditionally set afloat as rafts in the river Mahanadi and later on collected and transported by road. How are these logs dealt with later?

Answer 43 These logs(from a place called DASPALLA) provide wood for the construction of the three chariots of Jagannath , Balaram and Subhadra, during the RATH YATRA, every year.

Question 44 X was previously known as "5972 Olton Hall”, which was a GWR 4900 Class locomotive built in April,1937 and was withdrawn in december,1963.Primarily the Southern Railway locomotive "Taw Valley" was repainted and renamed temporarily to be used as X , but later it was rejected and X was used. By what name is X currently popular to us ?

Question 45 Choudhury Trophy was named after Saloo and NeenaChoudhury in recognition of the couples’ repeated achievements in 1989 and 1991. Identify the sport with which the "Choudhury trophy" is associated.

Circumnavigating of the earth by car. In 1989 they passed through all six continents in 69 days and repeated the same feat in 1991 in 39 days

Question 46 What follows will be a TIME magazine cover. The question here is that which particular occasion is this photo a depiction of?

Partition of India 27th october,1947 TIME Magazine cover by Boris Artzybasheff depicting a self-hurting Kali as a symbol of the partition of India

The company is Vaishnavi Corporate Communications, owned by NiraRadia of the 2G Scam fame!

Question 48 This cricketer was born in 23rd november,1961.On december,1988,he achieved a unique feat in test cricket by completing his hat-trick against West Indies by taking wickets of Curtly Ambrose, Patrick Patterson and Gordon Greenidge in three different overs. Identify the cricketer.

Mervyn Gregory Hughes (Merv Hughes).

Question Extra Although the author didn’t come clear on his association with DEER STALKER but his descriptions of the headgear as “ear-flapped travelling cap” and “close-fitting cloth cap” have encouraged reader like Sidney Paget and Fredric Dorr Steele to depict him as “Deerstalker man”.In fact he served as a pivotal mode of publicity of the Deerstalker in his times.Who am I talking about?

Question Extra The term was first used to express approval/appreciation of good dancing. it's presumed to have started in Johannesburg township culture. It means delight, excitement, agreement, approval or can be used as a greeting/goodbye. It is uniquely South African. This word placed as a prefix to “2010!” came into the spotlight last year. Give me the term.

Question extra The flag is unique as it contains twelve colors, three more than on any other national flag. It is also the only country to have human beings depicted on its national flag, although the flags of British dependencies Montserrat and the Virgin Islands also depict humans. The national motto, Sub Umbra Floreo, meaning “I Flourish in the Shade”, is written in the lower part of the coat of arms. The coat of arms recalls the logging industry that first led to British settlement there. The figures, tools, and mahogany tree represents this industry. Identify the Flag. (Picture in next slide)

Question extra Titled “Jaya” by the author, this work was said to have been narrated by the author’s disciple, Vaisampayan to King Janamajaya who was then conducting a yagna to avenge the death of his father by a snake bite. It was said that the yagna would destroy all snakes on earth. This was when a Nag came and asked him to listen to a recital of “Jaya” as it would help him understand the atrocity he was committing by endeavouring to kill the snakes.What am I talking about?

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