2. Identify this famous
couple whose wild
crime run inspired
many other couples
who took to
crime, not to
mention the
plethora of movies
and novels they
have inspired. They
feature in a case
solved by the Hardy
Boys.
4. During the old regime in the USSR it was popular
amonst prisoners to tattoo their body and these
tattoos had meaning.
Barbed wire across the forehead signifies a
sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of
parole.
Cat-a career as thief. A single cat means the bearer
worked alone; several cats mean the bearer was
part of a gang.
Why would someone in the prison tattoo their body
with the images of Lenin, Karl MarX or Friedrich
Engels?
5. These images were usually tattooed across the
chest or over vital organs because the firing
squad could not shoot the images of USSR's
founding fathers
6. In Syldavia, the reigning king must possess the X
to rule or he will be forced to abdicate, a
tradition established after King Y used his X to
defeat a would-be assassin. Every year he rides
in a parade during St. Vladimir's Day carrying it.
Agents of the neighbouring
country Borduria, Syldavia's long-time political
rival try to steal the X which is part of a major
plan for a takeover of Syldavia by Borduria.
What are we talking about here?
7.
8.
9. Some of the students who were shot had been
protesting against President Richard Nixon, other
students who were shot had been walking nearby or
observing the protest from a distance.
There was a significant national response to the
shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high
schools closed throughout the United States due to
a student strike of four million students, and the event
further affected the public opinion—at an already
socially contentious time—over the role of the United
States in the Vietnam War.
My question is what were the protests about?
11. Bhim, who was the chief of the Mahemi
tribe, had an interesting ritual whenever he
had to assign a difficult task, he would call a
meeting at his Mahim fort where warriors
used to be given a sumptuous feast. After the
feast, a plate containing a betel leaf would be
placed in the middle of the gathering and the
man who picked the leaf was entrusted with
the difficult task. This is a proposed
explanation of the origin of a popular term
what?
13. A famous
gangster he is the
only real-life
character depicted
in The Adventures
of Tintin series. He
is thought to be
the hand behind
St. Valentines day
massacre.
18. • Lord Carnarvon, financial backer of the excavation team
who was present at the X’s opening, died on 5 April 1923
after a mosquito bite became infected; he died 4 months
and 7 days after the opening of the X.
• Prince Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey of Egypt died 10 July 1923:
shot dead by his wife.
• Sir Archibald Douglas-Reid, a radiologist who x-rayed X
died on 15 January 1924 from a mysterious illness.
• Sir Lee Stack, Governor-General of Sudan, died on 19
November 1924: assassinated while driving through Cairo.
• Howard Carter opened the X on 16 February 1923, and
died well over a decade later on 2 March 1939;
however, some have still attributed his death to the Y.
• A. C. Mace a member of Carter's excavation team, died in
1928 from arsenic poisoning.
• Richard Bethell, Carter's personal secretary, died on 15
November 1929: found smothered in his bed.
All these deaths have been attributed to what?
19. The curse of the pharaohs refers to an
alleged curse believed by some to be cast upon
any person who disturbs the mummy of
an Ancient Egyptian person, especially
a pharaoh.
In this question the deaths were specifically
related to Tutankhamen's "curse“.
21. The 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States.
Anthrax is an acute disease caused by the
bacterium Bacillus anthracis. Most forms of the
disease are lethal, and it affects both humans
and animals.
22. “X" originated with miners, who needed to warn
their fellows that a charge had been set. Also thhe
first cannons developed were discharged, shot or
exploded by placing a flaming torch to a small hole
packed with gunpowder and leading to the main
powder charge. This caused the main charge to
explode, propelling the cannon ball to the
enemy, or sometimes, blowing up the cannon and
all standing nearby. Hence, X was both a command
to the torch man, and a warning to all around.
24. X is an American security consultant known for his history
as a former confidence trickster, check
forger, impostor, and escape artist. He became one of the
most famous impostors ever, claiming to have assumed
no fewer than eight identities as an airline pilot, a
doctor, a U.S. Bureau of Prisons agent, and a lawyer. He
escaped from police custody twice (once from a taxiing
airliner and once from a U.S. federal penitentiary), before
he was 21 years old. He served fewer than five years in
prison before starting to work for the federal
government. He is currently a consultant and lecturer for
the FBI academy and field offices.
26. This is a cryptic message supposedly
from the killer sent to the San
Fransisco Police Department. There is
still enough in the picture for you to
identify the killer. Identify the name
given serial killer whose case is open.
28. Identify this iconic prison, which is now defunct. It is officially claimed
that no one escaped from this prison, but a 2003 Mythbusters episode
on the Discovery Channel tested the feasibility of an escape from the
island on a raincoat raft, and concluded that it was "possible"
30. X was born in 1955 to a policeman, and was
used initially as a mole to infiltrate gangs and
provide intelligence he broke away to form his
own gang and features in the Interpol most
wanted list. Who?
34. Identify the person whose wiki profile has
been posted below.
Member of Parliament (11th Lok Sabha)
Constituency
Mirzapur
Member of Parliament (13th Lok Sabha)
In office
1999–2001
Constituency
Mirzapur
Personal details
Born
10 August 1963
Ghura Ka Purwa (Shekhpur
Gudda, Jalaun), UP, India
Died
25 July 2001 (aged 37)
New Delhi, India
Nationality
Indian
Political party
Samajwadi Party
Spouse(s)
Putti Lal, Vikram Mallah, Umaid Singh
Occupation
Dacoit (Bandit), Politician
35. Phoolan
Member of Parliament (11th Lok Sabha)
Constituency
Mirzapur
Member of Parliament (13th Lok Sabha)
In office
1999–2001
Constituency
Mirzapur
Personal details
Born
10 August 1963
Ghura Ka Purwa (Shekhpur
Gudda, Jalaun), UP, India
Died
25 July 2001 (aged 37)
New Delhi, India
Nationality
Indian
Political party
Samajwadi Party
Spouse(s)
Putti Lal, Vikram Mallah, Umaid Singh
Occupation
Dacoit (Bandit), Politician
36. Where speed was seen as essential to carrying out the
mission of home defence against enemy bombers, this
aircraft's thin cross-section elliptical wing allowed it a higher
top speed than several contemporary fighters, including
the Hawker Hurricane.
During the Battle of Britain, this aircraft was perceived by
the public as the RAF fighter, though the more numerous
Hawker Hurricane shouldered a greater proportion of the
burden against the Luftwaffe.
Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton (2011),
after the wedding, there was a flyover by this plane, along
with a Hawker Hurricane, and an Avro Lancaster.
38. The officer in command of the submarine service branch of the Pakistan Navy
and the junior officers and commander of _____ had objected to the plan as it
was proposed by the army and naval officers during the briefing session. It was
difficult to sustain such naval operations in a distant area of Bay of Bengal, in
the total absence of repair, logistics and recreational facilities in the vicinity. At
this time, submarine repair facilities were totally absent at Chittagong — the
only Pakistani sea port in the east during this period. To her earlier
commanders, the mission was considered highly dangerous and impossible to
achieve by sending an obsolete submarine behind enemy lines. The
commanders at NHQ overruled the objections, and instead planned a
reconnaissance operation, which led to launching of the submarine operations
in the eastern theater.
What happened due to this negligence ?
39. • Sinking of the Pakistan navy submarine PNS
Ghazi.
40. connect
• General M. A. G. Osmany- first
Commander-in-Chief of Bangladesh
Army and Supreme Commander of
the Mukti Bahini during the Bangladesh
Liberation War.
• General Yahya Khan- Commander-inChief of Pakistan Army and third
President of Pakistan
• General Muhammad Musa Commanderin-Chief of Pakistan Army
• Lt General Ghulam Jilani Khan- Pakistani
martial law administrator
• Tun Hussein Onn- third Prime Minister of
Malaysia
• General Ibrahim Ismail- Chief of Staff of
the Malaysian Armed Forces
42. ArmaLite sold its rights to the AR-15 to Colt in
1959.The AR-15 was first adopted in 1962 by
the United States Air Force, ultimately receiving its
present designation . The U.S. Army began to field
the _________ en masse in 1965 with most of
them going to the Republic of Vietnam, and the
newly organized and
experimental Airmobile Divisions, the1st Air
Cavalry Division in particular.
44. • In 1956, the German-American physicist Friedwardt Winterberg proposed
a test of general relativity (for time slowing in a strong gravitational field)
using accurate atomic clocks placed in orbit inside artificial satellites.
Without the use of general relativity to correct for time running more
quickly by 38 microseconds per day in orbit, this system would suffer gross
malfunction. Additional inspiration for it came when the Soviet Union
launched the first man-made satellite, Sputnik, in 1957. Two American
physicists, William Guier and George Weiffenbach, at Johns
Hopkins's Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), decided to monitor Sputnik's
radio transmissions. Within hours they realized that, because of
the Doppler effect, they could pinpoint where the satellite was along its
orbit. The Director of the APL gave them access to their UNIVAC to do the
heavy calculations required. Initially, the highest quality signal was
reserved for military use, and the signal available for civilian use was
intentionally degraded (Selective Availability). This changed with
President Bill Clinton ordering Selective Availability to be turned off at
midnight May 1, 2000, improving the precision of civilian _____from 100
meters (330 ft) to 20 meters (66 ft).
46. in loving memory of
• 1983
• Ilam Din also known as ____ was an infamous Indian spy
working from Pakistan. He had eluded being captured many
times but on March 23 at 3 a.m., ______ and two other
Indian spies were apprehended by Pakistani Rangers as
they were illegally crossing into Pakistan from India. Their
mission was to spy and report back on the new military
equipment that Pakistan will be showing in their annual
March 23 Pakistan day parade. ______ after being
thoroughly interrogated was then forced by the ISI to send
false information to his R&AW handlers in India. This
process continued and many more Indian spies in Pakistan
were flushed out, such as Roop Lal.
48. • It commenced on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 (D-Day), beginning at
6:30 am British Double Summer Time (GMT+2). In planning, as for
most Allied operations, the term D-Day was used for the day of the
actual landing, which was dependent on final approval. The
operation, planned by a team under Lieutenant-General Frederick
Morgan, was the largest amphibious invasion in world history and
was executed by land, sea and air elements under direct AngloAmerican command with over 160,000 soldiers landing on 6 June
1944: 73,000 Americans, 61,715 British and 21,400 Canadians. Just
prior to the invasion, General Eisenhower transmitted a nowhistoric message to all members of the Allied Expeditionary Force. It
read, in part, "You are about to embark upon the great
crusade, toward which we have striven these many months."
53. • The Pakistan Navy aircraft Brequet Atlantique
was shot down by an Indian airforce fighter
over the Kuchh area.
54. • In 1862, Henry Dunant published his book, Memoir of the
Solferino, on the horrors of war. His wartime experiences inspired
Dunant to propose:
• A permanent relief agency for humanitarian aid in times of war
• A government treaty recognizing the neutrality of the agency and
allowing it to provide aid in a war zone
• The former proposal led to the establishment of
the _______ in Geneva. The latter led to the First of these
Conventions. For both of these accomplishments, Henry Dunant
became corecipient of the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901.
• The articles of the fourth installment of this extensively defined the
basic, wartime rights of prisoners (civil and military); established
protections for the wounded; and established protections for
the civilians in and around a war-zone
56. • Al-Qaeda had previously attempted a similar but less publicized attack on
the U.S. Navy destroyer USS The Sullivans while in port at Aden on 3
January 2000, as a part of the 2000 millennium attack plots.
• Planning for the attack was discussed at the Kuala Lumpur al-Qaeda
Summit shortly after the attempt, which was held from 5 to 8 January
2000. Along with other plotters, it was attended by future 11 September
hijacker Khalid al-Mihdhar, who then traveled to San Diego where he
established a close relationship with "9/11 imam" Anwar al-Awlaki, who
was later linked to numerous plots and attacks, including the Fort Hood
shootings and the "underwear bomber" of 2009 and put on a targeted
killing list by President Obama as a terrorist threat. On 14 March 2007, a
federal judge in the United States, Robert G. Doumar, ruled that
the Sudanese government was liable for the bombing.
• The ruling was issued in response to a lawsuit filed against the Sudanese
government by relatives of the victims, who claim that al-Qaeda could not
have carried out the attacks without the support of Sudanese officials.
