6. RULES
1.Top 6 Team Will Qualify For Final Round.
2.Star Mark Qustions Will Use Only For Tie Breaking.
3.Total 20 Questions in Elimination Round.
4.No Negetive Marks.
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8. *1
Jennifer Egan's book "A Visit From the Goon Squad"
won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The book is a
set of stories about Bennie Salazar, a music
executiveand one-time-rocker, and characters
connected to him An interesting aspect to the book is
the presence of a chapter (about a girl's diary)set in a
particular form, which has probably never been used
in a mainstream literary novel. Some critics thought
of it as a gimmick, while others have laudedthe idea.
Egan says she was inspired from how the 2008
Obama campaign benefited from one such document
to spur a turnaround in their fortunes.What form is
this chapter in?
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10. 2
Traveller's diarrhoea is the most common
illness affecting travelers.It is called by
several interesting names like
"Montezuma's Revenge“ in
Mexico, "Kurtz Hurtz" in
Uzbekistan, "Karachi crouch" in
Pakistan, "Suryavarman's Revenge" in
Cambodia, “Kabulitis" in
Afghanistan.What is it called in India?
Clue--Indirectly connected to a bollywood movie.
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16. 5
"Saakshaat" is a mission of the Indian
government to promote education through
information and communication technology.
Which is why "Saakshaat" was the earlier
rumoured name for a product associated with
the mission. This product will be available for
purchase under the name "Ubislate"
(Datawind, the manufacturer, already has a
product called "Ubisurfer").But by what name
has it become known in India?
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20. 8
Kishore Biyani,in his autobiography, 'IT
Happened in India', he openly admits
that Saravana Stores of Chennai gave
him the big idea of his enterprise.
Who/What?
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22. 9
What does the site TrackGandhi.com, a
website which was launched in January
2007, do?
Clue- The American counterpart of this site is
named “Where's George?”
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30. 13
Train number 17303/4, an Express of the
Indian Railways, plies between
Yeshwantpur (Bangalore) and Mysore in
Karnataka. This comes under the South
Western Railway.In 2011, this train was
given a more endearing name, something
fitting to that particular section of the
country. Perhaps a tiger or M.K.Gandhi
will one day board the express.What
name?
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32. 14
Elvis Presley flew into a similar rage
whenever X‟s name was mentioned.
Presley was against X‟s anti-war
feelings, and the way he expressed them
every chance he got. He allied himself
with the FBI director Edgar Hoover and
encouraged him to have X thrown out of
the USA.
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34. 15
X is a marketing concept that was first
proposed as a theory to understand a
pattern among successful advertising
campaigns of the early 1940s. It states that
such campaigns made unique propositions
to the customer and that this convinced
them to switch brands. The term was
invented by Rosser Reeves of Ted Bates &
Company. Today the term is used in other
fields or just casually to refer to any aspect
of an object that differentiates it from similar
objects.
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36. 16
The Canadian Postal System claims to
provide the one and only correct address
for him. It is also said that Canada is the
only country, with the only Postal
System, with a dedicated postal
code, "HOH OHO" for all mails marked to
him.Who am I referring to?
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38. 17
Trisha Ziff is a short film maker and producer. Her
movies include The Mexican Suitcase. She
directed movie based upon X in 2008.She made
the following quote about X. "People wear the
image for all kinds of reasons. To some, X is
saint-like. People quote from X‟s writings and
aspire to his X‟s systems. To others anti-
establishment. And for many, the image has
become so diluted, it's just a hip and cool looking
image. A lot of younger people don't even know
who it is they are wearing across their chests. We
live in a culture today where understanding
symbols doesn't necessarily matter." Identify X.
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40. 18
1. Edward Donne
2. Bill Fairbanks
3. Jason Walters, Jack Mason
4. Fredreck Wardner, Scarlett Papava
5. Stuart Thomas
6. Alec Trevelyan,Major Jack Giddings
7. _____________
8. Bill Timothy
9. Peter Smith
10. John Wolfgramm
11.Cederic
12. Sam Johnston
13. Jonathan Hunter
Identify what list is this and fill in the blank..
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51. 3
T.Rajeevnath is a 54-year-old movie director who
has been acclaimed for his Malayalam films,
including „Janani‟, the story of seven nuns who
care for an abandoned baby, which won a
national award. He is currently planning a movie
about Nobel Prize Laureate and Catholic Saint
Mother Teresa. After using computers to match
the facial features of many current actresses to
that of the Albanian-born nun, Rajeevnath has
zeroed in on a suitable candidate to play the lead
role in his film because according to him, her
features closely match that of Mother Teresa.
Who is the actress in question?
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55. 5
Donald Ray Pettit is an American chemical engineer and a
NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of a six-month stay
aboard the International Space Station.Pettit's first
space mission was as a mission specialist on
ISSExpedition 6 in 2002 and 2003. During his six-month
stay aboard the space station, he performed
two EVAs to help install external scientific equipment.
During free time on his stay aboard the ISS, he
conducted demonstrations showing how fluids react in
an extremely low gravity environment in a series he
called "Saturday Morning Science".He demonstrated
something on board of the International Space Station
which was recorded and it become popular,why he
became famous?
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57. 6
This dish is described in the writings of Afanasiy
Nikitin, 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-Fazl ibn Mubarak, mentions the
recipe for this dish, which gives seven
variations."Bisi Bele Bath" is a famous variant of
this dish from Karnataka.The name is the Benarsi
local name of the Makar Sankranti festival.Identify
the dish
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59. 7
Before start olympic contest 2012, there
was a controversy and so so that the
scheduled match was started one hour
later.which was the controversy?
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60. ANSWER
FLAG EXCHANGE BETWEEN
SOUTH KOREA AND NORTH KOREA AN
OPENING MATCH THATS WHY olympic
starts 1 hour later
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61. 8
This particular incident has never happened in International
Cricket, even though the Laws of Cricket permit it. There have been
only five instances of this particular incident in First Class Cricket
history. The Law 31.1a states allows the occurance of this
particular incident.
1. Andrew Jordaan - Eastern Province v Transvaal at Port Elizabeth in
1987–88
2. Hemulal Yadav - Tripura v Orissa at Cuttack in 1997
3. Vasbert Drakes - Border v Free State at East London in 2002
4. AJ Harris - Nottinghamshire v Durham UCCE atNottingham in 2003
5. Harold Haygate – Sussex v Somerset at Taunton 1919.
Identify the incident.
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73. 15
Prof. Mathieu Deflem is a sociology professor
at the University of South Carolina, whose
main interests were terrorism, policing, and
the internet. In a change of theme, he
recently began offering a course that was
initially called "The Sociology of Fame". But
later, the course was changed to fully focus
on his main case study. Given the fame (or
infamy) of the subject in question, this has
brought the course a lot of media attention.
Who is the subject?
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79. 18
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?
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87. 22
Edward Michael ___Y__, born 7 June 1974 is an
English adventurer, writer and television
presenter. He was the youngest Briton to climb
Mount Everest, doing so at age 23.In July 2009,
he was appointed the youngest ever Chief Scout
at the age of 35. After leaving school, he
considered joining the Indian Army and spent a
few months hiking in the Himalayan mountains of
Sikkim and West Bengal, Assam. In an episode of
his show for which he is most famous featuring
Hollywood actor Will Ferrell, he said his sister
gave him the nickname “X" when he was just a
week old.identify the x?
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89. 23
"Memory can change the shape of a room;
it can change the color of a car. And
memories can be distorted. They're just
an interpretation, they're not a record, and
they're irrelevant if you have the
facts." the quoetd from bollywood
film, identify
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97. 27
The film "Chittagong" is directed by Bedabrata Pain and
features Manoj Bajpai and Barry John among others. It
was ready as far back as 2010, but was not released
then. It was alleged that Amitabh Bachchan had a hand
in ensuring it did not come out as this film directly
clashed with his son's film releasing around the same
time. The director said it was merely a pragmatic choice
by the distributors.
Finally scheduled to release in February 2012, what is
the central theme of this film and which is the Abhishek
Bachchan film being referred to?
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98. ANSWER
MOVIE WAS KHELE HUM JEE JAAN SE
DIRECTED BY ASHUTOSH GOWARIKAR
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99. 28
These are the components of what?(Japan makes 90% of
these)
1.top stop
2.slider
3.pull tab
4.tape
5.chain width
6.bottom stop
7.bottom tape extension
8.single tape width
9.insertion pin
10.retainer box
11.reinforcement film
12.top tape extension
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107. 32
The international association (established in 2007)
for this "sport", along with some of its leading
exponents, has made a petition to the
International Olympic Council earlier this year
asking for this discipline to become a test event
at the 2012 London Olympics. They hope this
might pave the way for it to become a full-fledged
Olympic sport by 2016. (National championships
for the sport have already been held in countries
like the US, and a couple of international events
have also been held.)The petition states that "like
the horizontal bar (in gymnastics), the vertical bar
should have a place in international sport." What
"sport"?
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113. 35
The ancient Chinese made it from the necks of cold
climate pigs. The French were the first in Europe to
promote it in the 17th and 18th centuries.It wasn‟t
until after World War II it was not became popularly
used in the united States, though. Soldiers
returning from war brought back the enforced habit
of it. It began to spread throughout the country and
became normal.What I am talking about?
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115. 36
This is a term coined by Rohit Bhargava, a
senior vice president at Ogilvy, for the
practice of brands using social media to
create an affinity with customers who share
the same sentiments with friends.Which
term?
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