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►There will be 15 questions .
►Question 8-12 are *ed questions used for tiebreaking.
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What’s happening here?

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Who are these persons and what was their claim to
fame?

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What is happening here?

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• X’s history began in 1886 when the curiosity of an Atlanta pharmacist, Dr.
John S. Pemberton, led him to create a soda that could be sold at soda
fountains. He created a flavored syrup, took it to his neighborhood
pharmacy, where it was mixed with CARBONATED water and deemed
“excellent” by those who sampled it. Dr. Pemberton’s partner and
bookkeeper, Frank M. Robinson, is credited with naming the beverage “X” as
well as designing the trademarked, distinct script, still used today.

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• If a Quora post is to be believed , the identity of the picture was a 4 years 3
months old Neeru Deshpandey from Nagpur.
• However Mayank Shah , group product manager put all the folklore to rest
and said that ; it was an illustration of Everest back in the 60’s.
• It is one of the largest selling products in the world . If the number
equivalent to its annual sales is kept from end to end,192 is the number of
times one can go around the world . Identify the Product.

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On which country’s national day?

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• TIME magazine ran a cover sometime in March 2013 with the title written as
“Man , Superman , Gunman” , along with a photo of a individual . Which
Individual?
Identify…

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Identify Him….

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• Published in 1998,The Polyster Prince, an unauthorised biography by Hamish
MacDonald , was never sold in India as the book was about a famous
busines family in India . They threatened legal action .Nevertheless it
continues to be a popular book around the world . This book is about
X.Who?

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• In late 1949, as India prepared to transform itself from a
dominion, where the British monarch was head of state,
to a full fledged republic, Nehru and Patel had a major
disagreement as to who should be the first president of
independent India. Much to Nehru‟s annoyance, Patel
ensured that his close friend Rajendra Prasad became the
new head of state, even though Nehru had already
promised the presidency to somebody else. Who?

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• This word entered the English language during the Irish Land War, derived
from the name of an unpopular land agent who, upon attempting to evict
eleven tenants from the land, faced social ostracism being shunned by
everyone in the locality. The word has come to mean an act of voluntarily
abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organisation, or
country as an expression of protest. Which word?

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Who?

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This is an image taken at the French alpine resort of Meribel. What
has been shown here?

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Author?

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• When the Hollywood Walk of Fame project was being conceptualised, it was
realized there were many more people who were leaders in their fields who
would never earn a star on Hollywood Boulevard. It was decided that this
situation should be rectified with the creation of an award given by the
music industry similar to the Oscars and the Emmys. Initially, the working
title for the award was the Eddie, to honour the inventor of the phonograph,
Thomas Edison. But eventually the name of Emile Berliner‟s invention was
chosen. Which award?

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