15. Bhavna Thakur is the Founder and artistic director of Alter Ego Productions, which recently staged David Freeman's play "A First Class Man" in New York. It is based on the relationship between an Indian and a British guy. Whose famous fame and fortune story?
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18. The null hypothesis for this experiment is no ______ ability. The device shown can be done without, but improve the overall experiment by minimizing the confounding variables. Name the devices, the circuitry is a tangential hint.
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30. In medieval France, 'breaking on the wheel' was a custom where the felon was placed on a cart-wheel, limbs stretched out along the spokes, one by one over two sturdy wooden beams. In August 1788, Charles-Henri Sanson, while breaking a prisoner on the wheel, was assaulted by an angry mob who freed the prisoner, and destroyed and burned the wheel. What happened as a consequence to curb public discontent regarding ‘human rights’?
46. What is the name of the watchdog at the entrance of Hades who prevents any of the dead from going out again? And how is this enshrined in the software we use every day?
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49. India’s first armoured capsule based light bullet proof vehicle to provide protection to Defence, Para Military and Police forces against small arms fire and under belly grenade attacks. Manufactured by a company known more for allied products, this represents the first indigenous development of the APC. Identify Company and Product
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52. This famous writer cum mathematician wrote a pamphlet "Lawn Tennis tournaments - the true method of assigning prizes, with proof of the fallacy of the present method". Among the lesser known of his books are 'Curiosa Mathematica' and 'Notes on the First 2 books of Euclid'. Who is this 'Famous 'Mathematician'?
58. This astronomer is responsible for calculating (in 1927) the mass and size of our galaxy and the sun's distance from its centre. He did so by observing the observing the obscure movements of stars around the centre of the Milky Way. His team mapped the spiral shape of the galaxy from radio waves given out by inter-stellar hydrogen. He is most famous however for postulating the presence of an astronomical phenomenon that now bears his name. Who is he?
70. The Problem The Solution What is the above a reference to?
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73. With which democratic innovation is the famous Tamil writer and novelist Sujatha Rangarajan associated with ? He also wrote the script and dialogue for movies like Sivaji and Dasvatharam.
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76. is an amino acid originating in putrefying and rotting flesh, and is quite literally, the smell of death
