Saarang India Finals 2014

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SAARANG INDIA QUIZ 2014

The first female war correspondent. She
interviewed and photographed Mahatma
Gandhi for LIFE magazine in 1948 just hours
before his assassination. Identify this
pioneering American photographer.
Additionally, Identify the actress who
portrays her in the 1982 movie Gandhi

Margaret Bourke-White
Candice Bergen

A phrase derived from Persian
which literally means “far be the
evil eye”.
frequently uttered as a protective
phrase when a loved one or friend
succeeds, has good luck or
otherwise receives praise, because
those events are said to invite
jealous attention.
What Phrase

A play by A. R. Gurney that was a
finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for
Drama.
The play centers on two
characters, Melissa Gardner and
Andrew Makepeace Ladd III.
Using the epistolary form
sometimes found in novels, they
sit side by side at tables and read
the notes, letters and cards – in
which over nearly 50 years, they
discuss their hopes and ambitions,
dreams and disappointments,
victories and defeats – that have
passed between them throughout
their separated lives.
Identify this play and the long
running Indian adaptation

Contemporaries. Friends. Both were tried for obscenity.
She for Lihaaf. He for Bu.
“They could not be more similar in their fictional art. Few
Urdu writers can match them in their ability to leave a reader entirely
clueless, to arouse his wonderment and suspense and then, in the end,
suddenly change this wonderment and suspense into joy.”

Identify the Islands at the center named after the trees found on it.
We are reminded of Amir Khusrau's famous couplet
“gar firdaus bar roo-e zameen ast,
hameen asto hameen asto hameen ast”

Char Chinari, Srinagar
“If there be paradise on earth,
it is this, it is this, it is this“

Started in 1978. Name the Indian magazine devoted to feminism as well as to
gender studies and activism started by these two academics.
Bonus Points : Name them

Manushi
Madhu Kishwar
Ruth Vanita

“He’s a famous writer, you know,” she said fishing out a paperback copy
of Franny and Zooey of her handbag and thrusting it at me. I was idly
watching the traffic on the street, not really taking her seriously and
murmuring distractedly that she must be kidding. I remember the
shock I felt, like a deepening chill, when she said she wasn’t joking.
Even before I could ask her to explain, I saw Greta waving to a tall man
bounding out of the brownstone. Lanky, slightly greying, a little
hunched, and holding an umbrella in his left hand, he nodded and
walked quickly towards us. The long, angular, handsome face with
those dark, gentle, searching eyes so familiar from the photograph on
the back jacket of ___________ seemed to leap out at me.
I learnt that he had, in the early years, frequently taken classes and
attended retreats at the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Centre (first in the
city, and later at the Vivekananda Cottage in Thousand Island Park)
because of his deep interest in Vedanta.
And to my eternal regret, I misplaced that piece of paper naming
______ favourite South Indian snack: just two words written in that
unmistakable, angular handwriting: Rasam vada .

There are 1094 Kendriya Vidyalayas. 1091 in India.
Name the ones abroad. Intended for children of embassy staff
and expatriate employees

The story revolves around X, the grocer's son from Amloki. Wanting to
be a singer but with no talent, he is driven out on a donkey for
disturbing the king.
Exiled into a forest, he meets Y, another exile from nearby Hortuki sent
to the forest for playing the drum badly. They start singing and
drumming, initially to scare off a roaming tiger, and in the process
attract a group of ghosts who are fascinated by their music.
The king of ghosts grants them three boons:
They can get food and clothes by clapping their hands,
They are given a pair of magic slippers to travel anywhere,
They can hold people in awe with their music.
They travel to Shundi, where a benevolent king appoints them court
musicians. What are we talking about?

LIST IT #1

List Test Cricket Captains of India (Men's team)
31 in all
(Score: +2/-2)

List of Test Cricket Captains
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Ajit Wadekar

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Srinivas Venkataraghavan
Sunil Gavaskar

CK Nayudu
Maharajkumar of Vizianagram

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Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi

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Lala Amarnath

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Bishen Singh Bedi

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Vijay Hazare

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Gundappa Viswanath

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Vinoo Mankad

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Kapil Dev

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Dilip Vengsarkar

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Ravi Shastri

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Krishnamachari Srikkanth

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Ghulam Ahmed
Polly Umrigar

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Hemu Adhikari

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Datta Gaekwad
Pankaj Roy

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Mohammad Azharuddin

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Gulabrai Ramchand

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Sachin Tendulkar

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Nari Contractor

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Sourav Ganguly

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Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi

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Rahul Dravid

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Chandu Borde

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Virender Sehwag

Anil Kumble
MS Dhoni

Richard Dawkins calls him the “Marco Polo of neurology”.
Author of Phantoms In the Brain (1999) and
more recently The Tell-Tale Brain (2010).

He took on Facebook over the use of his name in 2011. He won.
_____ had asked to use his middle name ______, which he is most
recognised by. He described his online identity crisis in a series of
messages posted on Twitter, among them
"Dear #Facebook, forcing me to change my FB name from ____ to
Ahmed ____ is like forcing J. Edgar to become John Hoover" and "Or, if
F. Scott Fitzgerald was on #Facebook, would they force him to be
Francis Fitzgerald? What about F. Murray Abraham?" Messages such as
these were then circulated online.
Facebook eventually relented and allowed him to use the name by
which he is universally known.
Who are we talking about?
What pseudonym did he use between 1988 to 1998 in honour
of two famous names from world literature?

From Jeffrey Archer's 'A Quiver full of Arrows':
An unnamed Oxonian has an ambition to succeed as a cricketer for
Oxford and follow his famous cricketer father's footsteps. He wishes to
make a name for himself in the Oxford vs Cambridge cricket match.
In his first year he makes the team and has a terrific season but
somehow injures his finger before the final match. In his second year
he is in poor form and asks his captain to drop him from the finals. In
his third year he is the captain.
He struggles with the ball and with the bat getting out cheaply for a
duck in the first innings. In his second innings- set a total of 214 to gethe struggles and nearly gets out- but after hooking a boundary- begins
to score runs briskly. At his score on 99, he is stranded in the middle of
the crease and the ball is with the opposition captain Robin Oakley who
instead of running the captain out and thereby putting Cambridge in a
winning position chooses to allow the captain to go back to the crease.
The Captain hits a boundary, scores his hundred and deliberately gets
out hit wicket to honour the opposition.
The match ends in a draw as rain pours down- thereby being the ideal
situation expected for one and all.
Story based on which Oxford classmate of Jeffrey Archer?

Mansoor Ali Khan,
Nawab of Pataudi jr.
'Tiger' Pataudi

I sowed my wild oats
Before I was twenty.
Drunkards and turncoats
I knew in plenty.
Most friends betrayed me.
Each new affair
Further delayed me.
I didn't care.
I put no end to
The life that led me

Identify the Poet

Miss India 1954
Her father was a nuclear physicist who served as
scientific adviser to UNESCO. Her mother was a
French Indologist. She grew up in Europe and in her
teens, took acting lessons from the great Jean Renoir.
In the prime of her beauty and youth, when she had
just made a splash in Hindi cinema, she was chosen
by Vogue magazine as one of the five most beautiful
women in the world.
David Lean wanted to cast her as Tonya in Dr
Zhivago. Salvador Dali used her as a model for the
Madonna. Satyajit Ray wanted to make a film with
her and Marlon Brando. And a smitten Raj Kapoor
wanted to sign her up for four films, she turned him
down. She translated Ionesco and Grass.
Learnt Bharatanatyam from Balasaraswathy.
Was an accomplished pianist.
“Beauty is one of the most subjective abstractions
and standards change,” she points out.
Identify her

What unique distinction do the following 19 Indians share?
Only 511 in the world totally. Think Mathematics.
ALLADI, KRISHNASWAMI
BABU, GUTTI JOGESH
CHOWLA, SARVADAMAN D. S.*
GUPTA, HANSRAJ*
KHARE, SATGUR PRASAD
LASKAR, RENU CHAKRAVARTI
MALDE, PARESH J.
MURTY, MARUTI RAM PEDAPROLU
MURTY, VIJAYA KUMAR
RAMACHANDRA, KANAKANAHALLI
RAO, SIDDANI BHASKARA
REDDY, A. R.
SARKAR, AMITES
SHARMA, AMBIKESHWAR*
SINGHI, NAVIN MADHAVPRASAD
SUBBARAO, MATUKUMALLI VENKATA*
TETALI, PRASAD VENKATA SITARAM
VARMA, ARUN KUMAR*
VIJAYAN, KAIPILLIL

1977: 5
1975: 3
1950: 3
1976: 1
1976: 1
1983: 4
1987: 2
1987: 2
1987: 1
1975: 2
1992: 1
1973: 11
1999: 1
1965: 1
1977: 2
1972: 2
1990: 2
1986: 2
1985: 3

In 1913, he went to University College
Dublin to study law, but was expelled
from Ireland in 1916 after becoming
involved with the Sinn Féin movement.

Upon returning to India, he became
heavily involved in the labour
movement, becoming general secretary
and then president of the All-India
Railwaymen's Federation
Bharat Ratna
Identify

Union Leader who led the Coal Miners strike from 1977 in Chattisgarh.
On September 28, 1991, as he fell asleep under a mosquito net in his room on
the ground floor in the Bhilai industrial township, in the early hours of the
morning, a young man rode up to the house, looked in through the bedroom's
well-lit window and shot him dead
Nearly 150 thousand people followed the funeral procession as the body was
taken for cremation at Dalli Rajhara where the Chatisgarh Mukti Morcha was
founded 14 years earlier.
In 2005 the Supreme Court held that there was insufficient evidence to convict
the industrialists and commuted the assassin's sentence
to life imprisonment.

Popularly known as Doctorsaheb
He led the The Great Bombay Textile Strike in 1982 which involved 250,000
workers and more than 50 textile mills forever changing the face of Bombay
In 1997, he was gunned down outside his home by contract killers working for
the Chotta Rajan gang.

"All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole
purpose of achieving a union of hearts."
He started this non-violent movement in 1951 from Pochampali
Identify the person and the movement

LIST IT #2

List Param Veer Chakra Awardees
21 in all
(Score: +3/-2)

List of PVC
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Major Som Nath Sharma

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Lance Naik Karam Singh

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Second Lieutenant Rama Raghoba Rane

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Yogendra Singh Yadav

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Rifleman Sanjay Kumar

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Captain Manoj Kumar Pandey

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Major Ramaswamy Parameshwaran

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Naib Subedar Bana Singh

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Major Hoshiar Singh

Captain Vikram Batra

Naik Jadu Nath Singh
Company Havildar Major Piru Singh Shekhawat
Captain Gurbachan Singh Salaria
Major Dhan Singh Thapa

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Subedar Joginder Singh

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Major Shaitan Singh

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Company Quarter Master Havildar Abdul Hamid

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Lieutenant-Colonel Ardeshir Burzorji Tarapore

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Lance Naik Albert Ekka

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Flying Officer Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon

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2/Lieutenant Arun Khetarpal

The Roots music Festival, brainchild
of Lou Majaw, celebrated here on
24th May, every year since 1972.
Where? What is it about?

Shillong,
Happy Birthday Bob Dylan

Identify this Critically Endangered species, only around 250 are said to be present
in the wild, owing to over hunting and loss of habitat
Ardeotis nigriceps
One of the nominees for National Bird of India

Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis
The species was described from specimens collected in the Idukki district of Kerala
by S.D. Biju from the Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute in Palode,
India and Franky Bossuyt from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2003.
Give common name

Mohd Rafi was an ardent fan of _____. When _____ sang the song "Orayiram Parvalyile"
from the film "Vallabhnukku Vallabhan" in a stage show at Bombay,
Mohd Rafi embraced ______ and commented,
"You born for singing, your expression and modulation in the song is amazing and
effective"
.
Mohd Rafi sang the Hindi version of that song "_______ _____ ___ ____"
in the film Ustadonge Ustad.
Fill in the blanks

Origin of which modern day sport?

Which famous story from the Mahabharata? The Artist?

Nala Damayanti
Raja Ravi Varma

Made popular by Fazal Shah Sayyad's famous quissa.
Unhappily married to a man whom she despises, she swims every night across the river
where her beloved, herds buffaloes. One night her sister-in-law replaces the earthenware
pot, which she uses to keep afloat in water, with a vessel of unbaked clay, which dissolves
in water and she dies in the whirling waves of the river
Which tragic love story is being described here.

Waris Shah is also called Shakespeare of the Punjabi language because of his great
poetic love story. Some critics say that through this story of romantic love, he tried to
portray the love of man for God.
“Awwal hamad Khuda da vird kichay
Ishq kita su jag da mool mian
Pehlaan aap he Rabb ne ishq kita
mashooq he nabi rasool mian”
Some historians say that Waris Shah wrote his poem based on the tragedy of the star
crossed lovers in 1766 A.D. Some 200 years after the event.
It is also said by some historians that intensity of feelings and depth to his lyrics was
inspired by his own love for a woman named Bhaag Bhari at the time.
Which story? (Bonus : Both actors shown)

Gets it's name from a thorny plant. Inspires a cuisine.
Identify the town where this palace is located and the cuisine

In the Court of Additional Sessions Judge/Special Judge,
Anti-Corruption, C.B.I., Ghaziabad
Present: S. LAL, H.J.S.
Sessions Trial No. 477 of 2012
The State of U.P. Through the C.B.I.
Vs.
_________ & Another
R.C. No.1(S)/2008/SCR-III/CBI/NEW DELHI U/ss 302 r/w Section
34, 201 r/w Section 34
& 203 I.P.C.
The mise en scene is Flat No. L-32, Jalvayu Vihar, Sector 25,
N.O.I.D.A., a suburb of New Delhi.
The parties are ad idem that the case is based on circumstantial evidence
School bag and whim-whams were in the bed
On the dinning table one bottle of Ballentine Scotch Whisky
was found but there was no any tumbler
She has also admitted that lock of the door of _____ room was like that of hotel
which if locked from outside could be opened from inside
but could not be opened from outside without key

Most famous for his street theatre
founding member of Jana Natya Manch (People's Theatre Front; Janam for short) in
1973, which grew out of the Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA).
He was brutally murdered in Ghaziabad, near Delhi
while performing a street play, Halla Bol.

Identify this genre of Indian tribal martial dance which is popular in the Indian states of
Odisha, Jharkhand and West Bengal. Featured in a 'Ranbir' Kapoor movie.
#ArulManiStylez : the name is derived from Sanskrit for shadow, image or mask, but
according to Sitakant Mahapatra, it is derived from the Oriya word for military camp.

First synthesized in India in 1951 by Indra Kishore Kacker and Syed Hussain Zaheer, for
use as an antimalarial drug. It was soon introduced to Japanese and European consumers
as a safe barbiturate substitute.
In 1965 a __________/ antihistamine combination was sold as the sedative drug Mandrax,
by Roussel Laboratories (now part of Sanofi-Aventis).
In 1972 it was the sixth-bestselling sedative in the USA, where it was legal under the brand
name ________.
“accounted for less than 2% of our sales but created 98% of our headaches”
is a depressant that increases the activity of the GABA receptors in the brain and nervous
system. When GABA activity is increased, blood pressure drops and the breathing and
pulse rates slow, leading to a state of deep relaxation. These properties explain why
methaqualone was originally mainly prescribed for insomnia
The drug was sometimes used during sexual activity due to heightened sensitivity and
lowered inhibition coupled with relaxation and euphoria.
Infamous in the Roman Polanski sexual abuse trial.
Disco Biscuits in the 1970s
soapers in the U.S.
mandrakes and mandies in Great Britain.
What are we talking about?

The Governor General had this to say, “From the earliest
times it has been also an emblem of permanence, and the poet has seen in the ring of
light a true symbol of eternity. May therefore, we and those who follow us witness, so far
as we may, the fruition of these twin conceptions.”
Black marble came from Gaya, the white and the lined marble, lining the walls from
Makrana, the timber (teak and other varieties) used for doors from Assam and Burma, and
the black Shisham wood from South India.
Designed by Lutyens and Baker in 1912
Inaugurated by Lord Irwin in 1927
What heritage structure?

On 25 May 2013, Mahendra Karma, a senior INC party leader was killed in a
Naxalite attack along with other party members in Darbha Valley of
Chhattisgarh, 400 km south of Raipur and 50 km from Jagdalpur.
The Naxalites claimed that they had specifically targeted Karma. he had been
stabbed multiple times by a group of women Naxalites.
In 1991, he had founded the 'Jan Jagran Abhiyan', a group of traders and local
businessmen. Later he was responsible for setting up a militia consisting of local
tribal youth, which received support and training from the Chhattisgarh state
government. The use of this militia by the government for anti-naxal operations
was criticised for its violations of human rights, use of child soldiers and poorly
trained uneducated youth for counter-insurgency roles.
On 5 July 2011, the Supreme Court of India declared the militia to be illegal and
unconstitutional, and ordered its disbanding. The Court directed the
Chhattisgarh government to recover all the firearms, ammunition and
accessories.
The name of this militia comes from the Gond word for 'Purification Hunt'.
What's the good word?

Why was this 2005 passage back in the news?
Who is the Author and which Book?
“Leaving everything else for later, I went looking for where her hair began and
worked my way through its musky trails to where there was none. And having
found her burning core, and having drunk of it, I left it, and wandered her
body, only to keep circling back to it for sustenance.
We began to climb peaks and fall off them. We did old things in new ways. And
new things in old ways. At times like these we were the work of surrealist
masters. Any body part could be joined to any body part. And it would result
in a masterpiece. Toe and tongue. Nipple and penis. Finger and the bud.
Armpit and mouth. Nose and clitoris. Clavicle and gluteus maximus. Mons
veneris and phallus indica.
The Last Tango of Labia Minora. Circa 1987. Vasant Kunj. By Salvador Dalí.
Draughtsmen: Fizznme.
Fizz screamed silently through it all - through gritted teeth, through wide-open
mouth - and only those who have known a woman screaming silently in
orgasm know how loud it is. It ripped through the room and set me to
pounding frenzies.”

Bad Sex Award
Alchemy of Desire by
Tarun Tejpal

Established on January 15, 1956 to receive and administer funds for scientific,
educational and charitable purposes, all for the public welfare.
Current endowment is $10.9 Billion
In 1967, implicated in a wide-ranging scandal concerning the funding of
domestic and international organizations by the Central Intelligence Agency.
Name this organisation

Ikat, or Ikkat, is a dyeing technique used to pattern textiles that employs a
resist dyeing process similar to tie-dye on either the warp or weft fibres prior
to dyeing. The word ikat derives from the Indonesian word mengikat 'to tie'
Double Ikat is a technique in which both warp and the weft are resist-dyed
prior to stringing on the loom. Double ikat is only produced in three countries:
India, Japan and Indonesia. The double ikat of Japan is a type of kasuri. In
Indonesia it is only made in one small Bali Aga village, Tenganan in east Bali.
What is the Double Ikat of India, primarily woven in Gujarat, called?

This consists of a cylindrical shell hollowed out of a solid block of jackfruit
wood. Layers of animal skin (water buffalo on the right, goat on the left) are
stretched across the two sides of the shell using hemp hoops attached to the
shell. The right face of the instrument has a larger diameter than the left side,
and the right drum head is stretched very tightly, while the left drum head is
kept loose to allow pitch bending. The larger face is higher in pitch than the
smaller face.
What Instrument?

Recognised as one among the eight principal Indian classical dance traditions in 2000.
An accompaniment to the traditional Ankia Naat or One Act Play.
Originated in monasteries from which it derives it's name.
Identify the Dance form and state of origin.

Known collectively as the
Travancore sisters because they
grew up in the tharavad mansion
'Malaya Cottage' in Trivandrum
Trained dancers. They learnt under
the tutelage of Guru Gopinath,
Guru T. K. Mahalingam Pillai and
Udayshankar.
Acted in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu
and Hindi movies
Identify

Google recently announced a new
company that will focus on health and
well being, in particular the challenge of
aging and associated diseases.
Arthur D. Levinson of Genentech and
Apple is CEO.
Larry Page, Google CEO said: “Illness and
aging affect all our families. With some
longer term, moonshot thinking around
healthcare and biotechnology, I believe
we can improve millions of lives.“
The name derives from the town of origin
of a plain-woven textile made from
unbleached, and often not fully
processed, cotton. It may contain
unseparated husk parts, but owing to its
unfinished and undyed appearance, it is
still very cheap.
Name the venture

This specific game has a mounted horseman riding at a gallop and using a
sword or a lance to pierce, pick up, and carry away a small ground target or a
series of small ground targets.
From the results of the 2008 International Championships, the world's three
leading national teams are currently Canada, India, and Oman.
In George McDonald Fraser's Flashman novels, title character Harry Flashman
served in a lancer regiment, and frequently mentions it and his broader skills
with the lance
What Equestrian Sport?

An engineer by profession, he was proficient in
the language of technology. Widely read and
knowledgeable, he presented his knowledge in
simple Tamil.
Batchmates with Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam at Madras
Institute of technology
author of over 100 novels, 250 short stories, ten
books on science, ten stage plays, and a slim
volume of poems. He has been associated with
Mani Ratnam (for Iruvar, Kannathil Muthamittal,
Aayitha Ezhuthu, etc.) and Shankar (for Boys,
Anniyan, Indian, Mudhalvan, Sivaji, and Enthiran)
Name him and also the project he supervised,
during his tenure at Bharat Electronics Limited

In the final days of World War II,
Hana, a French-Canadian nurse
finds herself in an abandoned
Italian monastery.
Hana starts a romance with Kip, a
sapper in the British Army
defusing landmines and other
bombs, despite her belief that
anyone close to her will die.
Identify this multiple Academy
Award winning movie and the
Actress who plays Hana

Juliette Binoche
The English Patient

Named by Time magazine as one
of "The 100 Most Influential
People in the World"
Is a lifelong Bruce Springsteen
fan. At an October 2012 concert in
Hartford, Connecticut, Springsteen
shouted, “This is for ____
______!” before launching into his
song 'Death to My Hometown'.
Identify

He directed the movie after his friend
Jeeva appreciated the story.
It won the Third Best Feature Film at the
12th National Film Awards in 1965
The film had no songs with the
background score composed by Chitti
Babu.
A Kamal Haasan movie made in 2009
shares it's title.
What movie? Identify the author

The rule is clear enough. The bowler is permitted, before releasing
the bowl and provided he has not completed his usual delivery
swing to attempt to run out the non striker.
It happened recently in a match between Bengal and Railways.
When Murali Kartik warned Sandipan Deb twice and got him out
under this rule.
This happened for the first time in 1947-48 series in Australia. An
Indian bowler got the non-striker Bill Brown out because he
wanted to ensure Don Bradman retains strike.
What term for this dismissal from the name of the bowler

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