7. Q2.
• Which media tycoon and one of the most powerful media proprietors of the twentieth century
once famously quoted from a 1976 meeting with the Australian Cricket Board, "There is a
little bit of the whore in all of us, gentlemen. What is your price?“
• Clue: This Person was a keen polo player. In 1992, he and Gonzalo Pieres Sr. founded
Ellerstina, a polo team that has claimed multiple titles at the Argentine Open and other high-
handicap tournaments. Outside Polo he is still remembered for his contribution in Cricket ,
Rugby, Boxing although he struggled academically, possibly due to undiagnosed dyslexia.
10. Q3. Because election is coming…………
• Sadhan Chandra Gupta was an Indian lawyer and politician, he studied at Presidency
College and Calcutta University (Law). He became involved in radical politics during his
student days, joining the Communist Party of India in 1939. He served as president of the
Bengal Provincial Students Federation.
• Gupta was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Calcutta Southeast constituency in a 1953 by-election,
held after SP Mukherjee died Gupta received 58,211 votes (55.24%), In the election he had
defeated Radhabinod Pal, who was a senior lawyer.
• When the Left Front came to power in West Bengal in 1977, Gupta played an important role in
maneuvering the various legal challenges put against its land reform programs and Operation
Barga. In 1979 he was named as Additional Advocate General of West Bengal.
• Now my question is why Mr. Sadhan Gupta is so unique as an MP or so special in the history
of India’s Lok Sabha election ?
Clue: In parliament, Gupta was noted for his flawless English.He would softly type in a Tactical Writing
System whilst listening to the debates.
11.
12. Answer : Sadhan Gupta was the first blind
parliamentarian in independent India in 1953, and later
served as first blind Advocate General of West Bengal.
• Gupta founded the National Federation of the Blind and became the first president of
the organization. He also became the first president of the Indian chapter of Disabled
Peoples' International. Sadhan Gupta became permanently blind after
contracting smallpox during his childhood. Gupta went to school at the Calcutta Blind
School.
16. Q5.
• was a Pakistani theoretical physicist. He shared the 1979 Nobel
Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to
the electroweak unification theory. He was the first Pakistani and the first Muslim from
an Islamic country to receive a Nobel Prize in science and the second from an Islamic
country to receive any Nobel Prize, after Anwar Sadat of Egypt.
• Salam took the Nobel Prize medal to the house of his former professor, X, who taught
him at the Y College in Lahore, and placed the medal around his neck, stating "Mr X
this medal is a result of your teaching and love of mathematics that you instilled in
me".
• Clue: The name (Y) of the college is _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (7), _ _ _ _ _ _(6) very famous in
India specially after 2014 also unfortunately became part of current time politics and
one community proudly say they belong to Y.
19. Q6.
•
• P. K. Basu is a fictional detective character created by Bengali writer X. These
detective stories are popularly known as the Y series. Some of the stories were
inspired by the novels of Erle Stanley Gardner and Agatha Christie.
• Basu's full name is Prasanna Kumar Basu and by profession he is an indomitable
criminal side barrister of the Calcutta High Court. In the first story
named Nagchampa, Basu is shown to be an old, unmarried man but since the novel
of Sonar Y, the writer changed the character of Basu to an aged Barrister, whose
wife Ranu is physically challenged & Suborna alias Mithu, their only daughter, has
died in a car accident.
• Clue: Books of Y series: Sonar Y, Pather Y, Macher Y, Ghorir Y, Kuler Y……………
22. Q7.
• is a Nepalese folk dance of the Gurung community of Sikkim, India and western Nepal. The dance is
performed mainly during Baisakhi Purnima festival. The dancers are selected on the day of Shree
Panchami and then trained for three/four months. Alongside Gurung community, the dance is also
performed by people of Magar, Dura, Balamiand Kumal communities.
•Y: This Dance form X is also performed on 29th May every year in Nepal in honor of the remarkable
achievement of someone great.
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•Xis known for his ability to 'predict' the future as his old tweets have often found a way to baffle cricket fans
on the internet.
• Whose Tweet? Why the 1st tweet in the image was trending few days ago?
34. Q1.
• was an Indian biochemist who in 1939 became the first Indian woman to receive a
PhD in a scientific discipline. Her acceptance into and work at the Indian Institute of
Science, Bengaluru, paved the way for women to be accepted into the institution for
the first time in its history. X once said "Though Raman was a great scientist, he was
very narrow-minded. I can never forget the way he treated me just because I was a
woman”.
• Y: X received Rashtrapati award for her creation Y . X’s work on the nutritional
benefits of the palm extract called ‘Y' was inspired by the then-president Rajendra
Prasad’s suggestion.
Clue: For Y I can say think about a 2004 movie acted by Bikram Ghosh and his real-life wife based on
Sunil Ganguly’s short story “ Rani o Abinash”
40. Q3 Loksabha election is near…..
• X was an Indian civil servant and bureaucrat who served with the Indian Administrative
Service. He served as the 18th Cabinet Secretary of India in 1989. He was appointed the
10th Chief Election Commissioner of India (1990–96) and became known for his electoral
reforms.
• He redefined the status and visibility of the Election Commission of India. He identified more
than hundred electoral malpractices and reformed the election process. Some of reforms he
implemented include enforcement of election code of conduct, Voter IDs for all eligible voters,
limit on election candidates' expenditure and many more.
• During the 1999 Indian general elections, due to his reforms, 1488 candidates were
disqualified for three years for failing to submit their expenditure accounts also It was reported
that he reviewed more than 40,000 expenditure accounts and disqualified 14,000 candidates
for false information.
• Clue : His autobiography name is Through the broken glass also he won the Ramon
Magsaysay Award for government service in 1996
43. Q4.
• was famous for bowling an unerring line to batsmen which made it nearly
impossible to score. It is often told that he used to put a coin on the pitch when he
practiced in the nets and would practice hitting the coin with every delivery. He had a
career economy rate of less than 2.00 runs per over.
• Once bowled a record 21.5 consecutive overs (131 balls) without conceding a run
against England in Madras later he went on to work as the national team's assistant
manager and was a mentor to Sunil Gavaskar.
• Who is X?
50. Q6
• X was born in Dehradun in Uttarakhand in 1982, to a Punjabi Sikh Khatri family. He
was educated at the Doon School in Dehradun and at St. Stephen's
School in Chandigarh. He studied MBA at the University of Colorado Boulder. X is the
CEO of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ futuristics private limited, an organization that works to bring
science and technology into the sport and healthcare sectors.
• Y: Harshavardhan Kapoor son of Anil Kapoor was so impressed by the autobiography
of X that he showed interest in making movie on X in 2017 and recently few months
ago Harshavardhan announced that he is expecting this movie to be released before
2024 Olympics and for this movie in which he is playing the lead role of (X) in a recent
podcast Harsh said “he had to convince his favorite director Y” who is a Bengali
director, and he came to limelight in 2014 for his till date most famous work.
• On whom this movie is based (X) and who is this Director (Y)?
53. Q7
• is a BBC television and radio program broadcast on the UK feed of BBC News
channel and on the BBC World Service . It provides "in-depth interviews with tough
questions and sensitive topics being covered as famous personalities from all walks of
life , talk about the highs and lows in their lives from March 1997.
• Y: The satire-comedy talk show was loosely inspired by BBC World Service’s X. Each
episode featured same person as the host and same person as a guest
impersonating hundreds of different personalities including Saddam Hussein
, former Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh, Sushma Swaraj etc.
• Identify show X and Y ( Y was very popular in Indian subcontinent)
56. Q8 FITB
• Odhavji Raghavji Patel "ORPatel" known as father of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and popularly
known as ORPatel was an Indian business tycoon who founded _ _ _ _ _ _ Group.
• OR Patel born in Morbi district currently in Gujrat in 1925 and he started his business
of manufacturing _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ in the year of 1971. In his childhood days he
used to visit several historical places specially one place which is rich in ancient Indian
art and currently a UNESCO World heritage site therefore at the time when he was
thinking about his company name, he decided to choose the same name of that
famous UNESCO site with which he has childhood memories.
• _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ by _ _ _ _ _ _ is a household name in India for several years
although there is so many competitors to choose from but still some Indians prefer _ _
_ _ _ _ .
• Clue: MR. Jaysukh Patel is current MD of this group of companies . In the field of Car
Manufacturing one of their product is known as Tata “Nano Killer” .
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• In the quest for finding a deeper meaning to life, this is a true story of an American seeker who forsakes the
worldly life to enter upon an amazing spiritual journey of self realization.
• Clue: In this complex world Kriyananda needs _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ for all the doubts in his mind.