WELCOME ONE AND ALL 
To This HURRICANE Quiz...1st of all, 
I would really like to thank the teams 
which have come from quite far in 
only a day's notice. The questions are 
set in just an evening...so....KEEP 
CALM
HERE COMES THE FINALS....
PATTERN: 
• WRITE BROTHERS.... 
• INFINITE BOUNCE ( CLOCKWISE ) 
• LVC 
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WRITE BROTHERS: 
• WRITTEN ROUND OF 5 QUESTIONS 
• 5 POINTS FOR EACH CORRECT 
ANSWER 
• 30 POINTS IF YOU WRITE ALL 5 
CORRECT...
HERE WE GO....
1. GOOGLE DOODLE ON:
2. ID THE CHARACTER?
3. KIRSTEN DUNST PLAYING WHOM?
4. BOOK COVER OF ??
5. POSTAGE STAMP ON:
PLEASE EXCHANGE YOUR SHEETS:
HERE COMES THE ANSWERS:
1. GOOGLE DOODLE ON:
LEO TOLSTOY
2. ID THE CHARACTER?
MAHARAJA OF GAIPAJAMA
3. KIRSTEN DUNST PLAYING WHOM?
MARIE ANTOINETTE
4. BOOK COVER OF ??
LES MISERABLES
5. POSTAGE STAMP ON:
JAIPRAKASH NARAYAN
CLOCKWISE ROUND
WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY..LET'S START 
• READY TO
1. STARTING WITH AN AUDIO.... 
• ID THE FEMALE VOICE...
AND THE ANSWER IS:
SULAKSHANA PANDIT...
2. 
• The person in the pic wrote 
sometimes under the pen-name 
J.R. Johnson. He was an 
Afro-Trinidadian historian, 
journalist, socialist theorist and 
essayist. His writing on the 
Communist International stirred 
debate in Trotskyist circles, and 
his history of the Haitian 
Revolution, The Black 
Jacobins, is a seminal text in 
the literature of the African 
Diaspora. However one of his 
books written on completely 
different field is cited as the 
best book on that field ever 
written.
AND THE ANSWER IS:
3. 
• Grigory Chukhrai, director of the Immortal 
Ballad of a Soldier, was heading the jury. 
The members included Stanley Kramer, 
director of The Defiant Ones and Guess 
Who’s Coming to Dinner, and Satyajit 
Ray. The high humanism of these names 
added weight to the awards: Grand Prize 
for Fellini’s 8 and a half, Best Actor Steve 
MacQueen in the Great Escape, Best 
Actress ____________
AND TNE ANSWER IS:
4. 
• In 1927, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle selected 
what he regarded as his best Sherlock 
Holmes short stories for Strand Magazine 
of London. He set them down in 
descending order of merit with his all-time 
favorite listed as number one. 
• What was no. 1?
AND THE ANSWER IS:
5. 
• When in 1192, Prithviraj Chauhan lost the 
battle from Md Ghori, he left for jungle. There 
he met one old person with a scar on his head. 
Being a very good doctor Prithviraj Chauhan 
confidently asked him that he can cure his 
scar. The old man agreed. But even after 
week’s medication it remained as it is. 
Prithviraj was surprised and understood the 
details. He asked old man if he is 
________.The old man told that he was 
_________ and then he went away. This 
description is given in “Prithviraj Raso” the 
book written in 12th century on him.
AND THE ANSWER IS:
ASHWATTHAMA
6. 
• Which book starts with ''I hope I shall 
be able to confide in you completely, 
as I have never been able to do in 
anyone before, and I hope that you 
will be a great support and comfort to 
me.''?
AND THE ANSWER IS:
7. 
• Though over times, it has been 
attributed to iron hydrogen 
phosphate, but researchers from IIT 
Kanpur discovered a thin layer of 
Misawite, a compound of iron, oxygen 
and hydrogen behind this mystery.
AND THE ANSWER IS:
8. ID BOTH OF THEM....NO PART POINTS
AND THE ANSWER IS:
MEHDI HAASAN AND AMEEN SAYANI
SCORES PLEASE...
9. 
• The person in the pic 
is Theodore Van Kirk, 
also called 'Dutch'. He 
died on 28th July at 
the age of 93. He was 
the last surviving 
member of 
something, which 
became his c2f?
AND THE ANSWER IS:
• The last surviving member of the crew that 
dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. 
• He was 24 years old when he served as 
navigator on the Enola Gay, the B-29 
Superfortress that dropped the first atomic 
bomb deployed in wartime over the 
Japanese city of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 
1945.
10. 
• Born in Bhagalpur in 1951 and brought up in Kolkata 
upto the age of 27, then to Mumbai. 
• Studied in La Martiniere and then in Presidency. 
Wrote his 1st book of poems "Of Gods and Olives" 
at the age of 17. One of his books, Lonesong Street, 
sold a million copies. 
• Padma Shree at the age of 25... 
• Something 1st in India was started by him in 1996 in 
Hotel Leela Kempinski in Mumbai.
AND THE ANSWER IS:
PRITISH NANDY
11. 
• The first one in Rome was brought in by 
Julius Caesar in 46 BC and exhibited to 
the public. In 1414, a ______ was shipped 
from Malindi to Bengal. It was then taken 
to China by explorer Zheng He and placed 
in a Ming Dynasty zoo. The animal was a 
source of fascination for the Chinese 
people, who associated it with the mythical 
Qilin. ______ continue to have a presence 
in modern culture. Dali considered the 
______ to be a symbol of masculinity. It is 
the National animal of Tanzania.
AND THE ANSWER IS:
GIRAFFE
12. ID THE SINGER...
AND THE ANSWER IS:
YESUDAS
13. 
• He is best known for his book Les Propheties, the first 
edition of which appeared in 1555. At the age of 15 he 
entered the University of Avignon to study for his 
baccalaureate. After leaving Avignon, he(according to 
his own account) travelled the countryside for eight years 
from 1521 researching herbal remedies. By 1566, his 
gout, which had plagued him painfully for many years 
and made movement very difficult, turned into edema, or 
dropsy. On the evening of 1 July, he is alleged to have 
told his secretary Jean de Chavigny, "You will not find 
me alive at sunrise." The Almanacs, by far the most 
popular of his works, were published annually from 1550 
until his death.
AND THE ANSWER IS:
14. 
• If Italy= Napoleon Bonaparte. 
Pakistan= M. A. Jinnah, 
Bangladesh= Shibnarayan Das 
India=???
AND THE ANSWER IS:
PENGALI VENKAIAH
15. 
• Joseph Karimpani was a schoolmaster in 
India. He was instrumental in bringing on 
several future stars, including Mohd. 
Azharuddin. 
• Currently, he is again in the news....
AND THE ANSWER IS:
COACH OF VATICAN CITY CRICKET TEAM
16. ID THE MOVIE...
AND THE ANSWER IS:
A KING IN NEW YORK
SCORES PLEASE...
17. 
• X once said of Y, "He's been with me 
throughout my career. I didn't find him. He 
found me... I would say he symbolises the 
mute millions of India, or perhaps the 
whole world, a silent spectator of marching 
time."
AND THE ANSWER IS:
RK LAXMAN ON COMMON MAN
18. 
• Killed in action at Gallipoli, Turkey, by a 
sniper in 1915, X worked with Ernest 
Rutherford at Manchester University, and 
his research provided confirmation of the 
previously theoretical concepts of atomic 
number and the periodic table of the 
elements. At the outbreak of World War I 
he enlisted in the Royal Engineers. It is 
speculated that because of X’s death, the 
British and other world governments 
began a policy of no longer allowing their 
scientists to enlist for combat.
AND THE ANSWER IS:
MOSELEY
19. 
• Deborah Baker is a biographer and essayist. 
She is the author of A Blue Hand: The Beats in 
India, a biography of Allen Ginsberg which 
focuses on his time in India and In Extremis: The 
Life of Laura Riding, a finalist for the Pulitzer 
Prize in biography in 1994. She also writes for 
the Los Angeles Times. Her latest book, The 
Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism (2011), 
is a biography of Maryam Jameelah (born 
Margaret Marcus) a Jewish woman from New 
York who converted to Islam. 
• However her husband is more famous. ID HIM..
AND THE ANSWER IS:
20.ID THE MOVIE... AUDIO CLIP
AND THE ANSWER IS:
RUPKOTHA NOY
21. 
• A certain person 
named Bill Finger 
found a photograph 
of actor Conrad Veidt 
wearing make-up for 
the silent film The 
Man Who Laughs, 
and it was from this 
photograph that the 
character was 
modeled. Which 
character?
AND THE ANSWER IS:
22. 
• "We should have the ability to carry on a 
big bank, to manage efficiently crores of 
rupees in the course of our national 
activities. Though we have not many 
banks amongst us, it doesn't follow that 
we are not capable of managing crores 
and tens of crores of rupees." 
• These inspiring words were spoken by 
Mahatma Gandhi when he inaugurated 
the head office of a bank in 1921. Their 
tagline is 'Good people to bank with'.
AND THE ANSWER IS:
UNION BANK OF INDIA
23. 
• In a blog post, Facebook released the list 
of books named by its users in a recent 
popular tag that asked users to name 10 
books that have 'stayed with them'. After 
the analysis of 1,30,000 statuses, 
Facebook's data science team ranked the 
books by the number of times they have 
appeared in lists. The Harry Potter series 
came 1st, and the LOTR series came 
third. Which was 2nd?
AND THE ANSWER IS:
24. ID THE PAINTER
AND THE ANSWER IS:
UPENDRAKISHORE ROYCHOWDHURY
SCORES PLEASE...
END OF CLOCKWISE ROUND...
HERE COMES THE LVC... 
• 8 VISUALS 
• POINTS ON CRACKING LVC ARE 
GIVEN IN THE RESPECTIVE SLIDES.. 
• THE LIST IS NON-EXHAUSTIVE...
1. +40/-20
2. +35/-18
3. +30/-15
Anyone going for the connection...
4. +25/-12
5. +20/-10
Anyone going for the connection...
6. +15/-8
7. +10/-5
8. +5
AND THE ANSWER IS:
AMITABH BACHCHAN AS VIJAY
SCORES PLEASE...
HERE COMES THE 
ANTICLOCKWISE ROUND
25. 
• When Indian economist Amartya Sen was 
awarded the Nobel Prize in 1998, he 
chose lines from a poem to open his 
dinner speech. He wasn't the first to have 
done so. Fifteen years earlier, the Indian 
physicist, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, 
quoted the same poem, perhaps the best 
known in Modern India.
AND THE ANSWER IS:
WHERE THE MIND IS WITHOUT FEAR
26. 
• In 1991 Feroz Abbas Khan met A.R. 
Guerney in Mumbai, and the producer 
started working on the play, based on 
Guerney’s ‘Love Letters’. Feroz approached 
playwright and screenwriter Javed Siddiqui 
to work on script. Siddiqui in turn also liked 
the play and wrote it as a new play, set in 
Indian context to be produced under the 
banner of Javed Siddiqui 
Productions. Shabana Azmi and Farroque 
Shaikh agreed to play the leads. The central 
character of the play is reportedly based on 
a bohemian Indian painter.
AND THE ANSWER IS:
TUMHARI AMRITA
27. 
• David Katoatau won 
Gold weightlifting's 
105kg Group A, in this 
year's Commonwealth 
Games at Glasgow. 
Incidentally, he is the 
1st medallist from his 
country, which attained 
its independence in 
1979.
AND THE ANSWER IS:
KIRIBATI
28. ID THE MUSIC DIRECTOR
AND THE ANSWER IS:
KISHORE KUMAR
29. 
• International best-selling novelist Sophie 
Hannah recently released " The 
Monogram Murders". Why is this book in 
the news?
AND THE ANSWER IS:
• 1ST EVER OFFICIAL AGATHA 
CHRISTIE CONTINUATION NOVEL. 
HERCULE POIROT MAKES A 
COMEBACK HERE...
30. 
• Tagore visited this city 3 times, from 1916 
to 1927. Even the plaque is there in the 
building still now, where he stayed. After 
the death of his parents, Sarat Chandra 
Chatterjee took the job of a clerk and 
came here. You can associate this place 
with an important centre for the Azad Hind 
as well. Bengalees were so much related 
to this place that there's a road, called 
'Calcutta Street', still existing.
AND THE ANSWER IS:
RANGOON
31. WHOSE VOICE IS THIS?
AND THE ANSWER IS:
OM PURI
32. ID THE PERSON WITH MR. EINSTEIN
AND THE ANSWER IS:
LE CORBUSIER
SCORES PLEASE
33. 
• Ideal Toy Company was founded as Ideal Novelty and 
Toy Company in New York in 1907 by Morris and Rose 
Michtom after they had invented the Teddy bear in 
1902.The company changed its name from "Ideal 
Novelty and Toy Company" to Ideal Toy Company in 
1938. In 1982, the company was sold to CBS Toy 
Company, which in turn sold Ideal to Viewmaster 
International in 1987, which renamed itself View-Master 
Ideal in the process. View-Master Ideal was later bought 
by Tyco Toys, Inc. of Mt. Laurel, New Jersey. The Ideal 
line remained part of Tyco until Tyco’s merger with 
Mattel, Inc., in 1997. Their first doll was “Yellow Kid” from 
the “The Yellow Kid” comic strip by Richard Felton 
Outcault. In 1980 what did they buy from its inventor and 
continues to manufacture it???
AND THE ANSWER IS:
34. 
• It was an exhibition sport way back in 
1936 Berlin Olympics. In 1982, it was 
demonstrated in the Asian Games, and in 
2005, at the 1st Afro-Asian Games. Kiran 
More played in the national championship 
as part of the team from Vadodara. 
Sandeep patil, Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin 
Tendulkar all played this sport in their 
schooldays. Yuvraj was playing this to 
warm up in 2006 when he was seriously 
injured.
AND THE ANSWER IS:
KHO-KHO
35. LEGO TRIBUTE TO THE 50TH 
ANNIVERSARY OF WHAT?
AND THE ANSWER IS:
36. 
• There was a cultural function going on in 
protest of fascism at Shraddhananda 
Park. For singing songs, Hemanga Biswas 
brought X, originally from Srihatta. That 
was the humble beginning. He acted in 
Utpal Dutt's 'Angar' and even sang songs. 
Co-incidentally, he and his equally-famous 
son died at the same age, 59.
AND THE ANSWER IS:
NIRMALENDU CHOUDHARY
37. ID ALL OF THEM...
AND THE ANSWER IS:
• INGRID BERGMAN 
• ROBERTO ROSELLINI 
• JEAN RENOIR
38. 
• When Sardar Patel, K. M. Munshi and other leaders 
of the Congress went to Gandhi with the proposal 
Gandhi blessed the move,but suggested that the 
funds for the construction should be collected from 
the public and should not be funded by the state. He 
expressed that he was proud to associate himself to 
the project. However, soon both Gandhi and Sardar 
Patel died and the taskcontinued under K. M. 
Munshi, who was the Minister for Food and Civil 
Supplies in the Nehru Government. In May 1951, 
Rajendra Prasad, the first President of the Republic 
of India, invited by K M Munshi, performed the 
installation ceremony.
AND THE ANSWER IS:
SOMNATH TEMPLE.
39. CONNECT apart from being US 
President
AND THE ANSWER IS:
DIED ON THE 4TH OF JULY 
• JOHN ADAMS 
• THOMAS JEFFERSON 
• JAMES MONROE
40. ID THE BAND
AND THE ANSWER IS:
EAGLES
SCORES PLEASE
41. 
• Satyajit Ray was approached by the 
freelance producer Henri Fraise to make a 
film for a French TV Channel, France3. 
Ray said in his biography, that when Henri 
Fraise approached him to make a film, he 
briefed Ray by saying ".... you can place 
your camera at your window and shoot the 
house-next-door, we will accept that. " 
• As a result, which film was made by Ray?
AND THE ANSWER IS:
PIKOO
42. 
• ID YUSUF....
AND THE ANSWER IS:
MS SATHYU
43. 
• The Dewey Decimal System was 1st 
published in 1876 in US by Melvin Dewey. 
It has been revised and expanded through 
23 major editions, the latest issued in 
2011, and has grown from a four-page 
pamphlet in 1876 to a four volume set. 
This is used in atleast 135 countries. What 
is it used to categorise?
AND THE ANSWER IS:
BOOKS IN LIBRARY
44. 
• Franz Reichelt(1879 – February 4, 1912), 
was an Austrian-born French tailor, 
inventor and parachuting pioneer, now 
sometimes referred to as the Flying Tailor, 
who is remembered for his accidental 
death. How did he die???
AND THE ANSWER IS:
• By jumping from the 
Eiffel Tower while 
testing a wearable 
parachute of his own 
design
45.. 
• The Night of the Long Knives, sometimes 
called Operation Hummingbird was a 
purge that took place in Nazi Germany 
from June 30 to July 2, 1934, when the 
Nazi regime carried out a series of political 
murders. Bernhard Stempfle,was 
murdered during the Night of the Long 
Knives. What is his claim to fame?
AND THE ANSWER IS:
EDITOR OF MEIN KAMPF
46. ID THE LYRICIST AS WELL AS 
THE SINGER
AND THE ANSWER IS:
• NAWAB WAJID ALI SHAH 
• BHIMSEN JOSHI
47.WHERE CAN YOU FIND THIS 
PAINTING?
AND THE ANSWER IS:
FELUDA'S DRAWING ROOM
48. LAST OF THE LOT... 
• MUSIC DIRECTOR PLZ
AND THE ANSWER IS:
HEMANTA MUKHERJEE
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Finals@27/09/14

  • 1.
    WELCOME ONE ANDALL To This HURRICANE Quiz...1st of all, I would really like to thank the teams which have come from quite far in only a day's notice. The questions are set in just an evening...so....KEEP CALM
  • 2.
    HERE COMES THEFINALS....
  • 3.
    PATTERN: • WRITEBROTHERS.... • INFINITE BOUNCE ( CLOCKWISE ) • LVC • RETURN OF INFINITE BOUNCE ( ANTICLOCKWISE )
  • 4.
    WRITE BROTHERS: •WRITTEN ROUND OF 5 QUESTIONS • 5 POINTS FOR EACH CORRECT ANSWER • 30 POINTS IF YOU WRITE ALL 5 CORRECT...
  • 5.
  • 6.
  • 7.
    2. ID THECHARACTER?
  • 8.
    3. KIRSTEN DUNSTPLAYING WHOM?
  • 9.
  • 10.
  • 11.
  • 12.
  • 13.
  • 14.
  • 15.
    2. ID THECHARACTER?
  • 16.
  • 17.
    3. KIRSTEN DUNSTPLAYING WHOM?
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  • 19.
  • 20.
  • 21.
  • 22.
  • 23.
  • 24.
    WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY..LET'SSTART • READY TO
  • 25.
    1. STARTING WITHAN AUDIO.... • ID THE FEMALE VOICE...
  • 26.
  • 27.
  • 28.
    2. • Theperson in the pic wrote sometimes under the pen-name J.R. Johnson. He was an Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist, socialist theorist and essayist. His writing on the Communist International stirred debate in Trotskyist circles, and his history of the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins, is a seminal text in the literature of the African Diaspora. However one of his books written on completely different field is cited as the best book on that field ever written.
  • 29.
  • 31.
    3. • GrigoryChukhrai, director of the Immortal Ballad of a Soldier, was heading the jury. The members included Stanley Kramer, director of The Defiant Ones and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, and Satyajit Ray. The high humanism of these names added weight to the awards: Grand Prize for Fellini’s 8 and a half, Best Actor Steve MacQueen in the Great Escape, Best Actress ____________
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    4. • In1927, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle selected what he regarded as his best Sherlock Holmes short stories for Strand Magazine of London. He set them down in descending order of merit with his all-time favorite listed as number one. • What was no. 1?
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    5. • Whenin 1192, Prithviraj Chauhan lost the battle from Md Ghori, he left for jungle. There he met one old person with a scar on his head. Being a very good doctor Prithviraj Chauhan confidently asked him that he can cure his scar. The old man agreed. But even after week’s medication it remained as it is. Prithviraj was surprised and understood the details. He asked old man if he is ________.The old man told that he was _________ and then he went away. This description is given in “Prithviraj Raso” the book written in 12th century on him.
  • 38.
  • 39.
  • 40.
    6. • Whichbook starts with ''I hope I shall be able to confide in you completely, as I have never been able to do in anyone before, and I hope that you will be a great support and comfort to me.''?
  • 41.
  • 43.
    7. • Thoughover times, it has been attributed to iron hydrogen phosphate, but researchers from IIT Kanpur discovered a thin layer of Misawite, a compound of iron, oxygen and hydrogen behind this mystery.
  • 44.
  • 46.
    8. ID BOTHOF THEM....NO PART POINTS
  • 47.
  • 48.
    MEHDI HAASAN ANDAMEEN SAYANI
  • 49.
  • 50.
    9. • Theperson in the pic is Theodore Van Kirk, also called 'Dutch'. He died on 28th July at the age of 93. He was the last surviving member of something, which became his c2f?
  • 51.
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    • The lastsurviving member of the crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. • He was 24 years old when he served as navigator on the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the first atomic bomb deployed in wartime over the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.
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    10. • Bornin Bhagalpur in 1951 and brought up in Kolkata upto the age of 27, then to Mumbai. • Studied in La Martiniere and then in Presidency. Wrote his 1st book of poems "Of Gods and Olives" at the age of 17. One of his books, Lonesong Street, sold a million copies. • Padma Shree at the age of 25... • Something 1st in India was started by him in 1996 in Hotel Leela Kempinski in Mumbai.
  • 54.
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    11. • Thefirst one in Rome was brought in by Julius Caesar in 46 BC and exhibited to the public. In 1414, a ______ was shipped from Malindi to Bengal. It was then taken to China by explorer Zheng He and placed in a Ming Dynasty zoo. The animal was a source of fascination for the Chinese people, who associated it with the mythical Qilin. ______ continue to have a presence in modern culture. Dali considered the ______ to be a symbol of masculinity. It is the National animal of Tanzania.
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    12. ID THESINGER...
  • 60.
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    13. • Heis best known for his book Les Propheties, the first edition of which appeared in 1555. At the age of 15 he entered the University of Avignon to study for his baccalaureate. After leaving Avignon, he(according to his own account) travelled the countryside for eight years from 1521 researching herbal remedies. By 1566, his gout, which had plagued him painfully for many years and made movement very difficult, turned into edema, or dropsy. On the evening of 1 July, he is alleged to have told his secretary Jean de Chavigny, "You will not find me alive at sunrise." The Almanacs, by far the most popular of his works, were published annually from 1550 until his death.
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    14. • IfItaly= Napoleon Bonaparte. Pakistan= M. A. Jinnah, Bangladesh= Shibnarayan Das India=???
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    15. • JosephKarimpani was a schoolmaster in India. He was instrumental in bringing on several future stars, including Mohd. Azharuddin. • Currently, he is again in the news....
  • 69.
  • 70.
    COACH OF VATICANCITY CRICKET TEAM
  • 71.
    16. ID THEMOVIE...
  • 72.
  • 73.
    A KING INNEW YORK
  • 74.
  • 75.
    17. • Xonce said of Y, "He's been with me throughout my career. I didn't find him. He found me... I would say he symbolises the mute millions of India, or perhaps the whole world, a silent spectator of marching time."
  • 76.
  • 77.
    RK LAXMAN ONCOMMON MAN
  • 78.
    18. • Killedin action at Gallipoli, Turkey, by a sniper in 1915, X worked with Ernest Rutherford at Manchester University, and his research provided confirmation of the previously theoretical concepts of atomic number and the periodic table of the elements. At the outbreak of World War I he enlisted in the Royal Engineers. It is speculated that because of X’s death, the British and other world governments began a policy of no longer allowing their scientists to enlist for combat.
  • 79.
  • 80.
  • 81.
    19. • DeborahBaker is a biographer and essayist. She is the author of A Blue Hand: The Beats in India, a biography of Allen Ginsberg which focuses on his time in India and In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography in 1994. She also writes for the Los Angeles Times. Her latest book, The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism (2011), is a biography of Maryam Jameelah (born Margaret Marcus) a Jewish woman from New York who converted to Islam. • However her husband is more famous. ID HIM..
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    21. • Acertain person named Bill Finger found a photograph of actor Conrad Veidt wearing make-up for the silent film The Man Who Laughs, and it was from this photograph that the character was modeled. Which character?
  • 88.
  • 90.
    22. • "Weshould have the ability to carry on a big bank, to manage efficiently crores of rupees in the course of our national activities. Though we have not many banks amongst us, it doesn't follow that we are not capable of managing crores and tens of crores of rupees." • These inspiring words were spoken by Mahatma Gandhi when he inaugurated the head office of a bank in 1921. Their tagline is 'Good people to bank with'.
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    23. • Ina blog post, Facebook released the list of books named by its users in a recent popular tag that asked users to name 10 books that have 'stayed with them'. After the analysis of 1,30,000 statuses, Facebook's data science team ranked the books by the number of times they have appeared in lists. The Harry Potter series came 1st, and the LOTR series came third. Which was 2nd?
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    24. ID THEPAINTER
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  • 101.
    HERE COMES THELVC... • 8 VISUALS • POINTS ON CRACKING LVC ARE GIVEN IN THE RESPECTIVE SLIDES.. • THE LIST IS NON-EXHAUSTIVE...
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    Anyone going forthe connection...
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    Anyone going forthe connection...
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    HERE COMES THE ANTICLOCKWISE ROUND
  • 116.
    25. • WhenIndian economist Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1998, he chose lines from a poem to open his dinner speech. He wasn't the first to have done so. Fifteen years earlier, the Indian physicist, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, quoted the same poem, perhaps the best known in Modern India.
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    WHERE THE MINDIS WITHOUT FEAR
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    26. • In1991 Feroz Abbas Khan met A.R. Guerney in Mumbai, and the producer started working on the play, based on Guerney’s ‘Love Letters’. Feroz approached playwright and screenwriter Javed Siddiqui to work on script. Siddiqui in turn also liked the play and wrote it as a new play, set in Indian context to be produced under the banner of Javed Siddiqui Productions. Shabana Azmi and Farroque Shaikh agreed to play the leads. The central character of the play is reportedly based on a bohemian Indian painter.
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    27. • DavidKatoatau won Gold weightlifting's 105kg Group A, in this year's Commonwealth Games at Glasgow. Incidentally, he is the 1st medallist from his country, which attained its independence in 1979.
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    28. ID THEMUSIC DIRECTOR
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    29. • Internationalbest-selling novelist Sophie Hannah recently released " The Monogram Murders". Why is this book in the news?
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    • 1ST EVEROFFICIAL AGATHA CHRISTIE CONTINUATION NOVEL. HERCULE POIROT MAKES A COMEBACK HERE...
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    30. • Tagorevisited this city 3 times, from 1916 to 1927. Even the plaque is there in the building still now, where he stayed. After the death of his parents, Sarat Chandra Chatterjee took the job of a clerk and came here. You can associate this place with an important centre for the Azad Hind as well. Bengalees were so much related to this place that there's a road, called 'Calcutta Street', still existing.
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    32. ID THEPERSON WITH MR. EINSTEIN
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    33. • IdealToy Company was founded as Ideal Novelty and Toy Company in New York in 1907 by Morris and Rose Michtom after they had invented the Teddy bear in 1902.The company changed its name from "Ideal Novelty and Toy Company" to Ideal Toy Company in 1938. In 1982, the company was sold to CBS Toy Company, which in turn sold Ideal to Viewmaster International in 1987, which renamed itself View-Master Ideal in the process. View-Master Ideal was later bought by Tyco Toys, Inc. of Mt. Laurel, New Jersey. The Ideal line remained part of Tyco until Tyco’s merger with Mattel, Inc., in 1997. Their first doll was “Yellow Kid” from the “The Yellow Kid” comic strip by Richard Felton Outcault. In 1980 what did they buy from its inventor and continues to manufacture it???
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    34. • Itwas an exhibition sport way back in 1936 Berlin Olympics. In 1982, it was demonstrated in the Asian Games, and in 2005, at the 1st Afro-Asian Games. Kiran More played in the national championship as part of the team from Vadodara. Sandeep patil, Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar all played this sport in their schooldays. Yuvraj was playing this to warm up in 2006 when he was seriously injured.
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    35. LEGO TRIBUTETO THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF WHAT?
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    36. • Therewas a cultural function going on in protest of fascism at Shraddhananda Park. For singing songs, Hemanga Biswas brought X, originally from Srihatta. That was the humble beginning. He acted in Utpal Dutt's 'Angar' and even sang songs. Co-incidentally, he and his equally-famous son died at the same age, 59.
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    37. ID ALLOF THEM...
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    • INGRID BERGMAN • ROBERTO ROSELLINI • JEAN RENOIR
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    38. • WhenSardar Patel, K. M. Munshi and other leaders of the Congress went to Gandhi with the proposal Gandhi blessed the move,but suggested that the funds for the construction should be collected from the public and should not be funded by the state. He expressed that he was proud to associate himself to the project. However, soon both Gandhi and Sardar Patel died and the taskcontinued under K. M. Munshi, who was the Minister for Food and Civil Supplies in the Nehru Government. In May 1951, Rajendra Prasad, the first President of the Republic of India, invited by K M Munshi, performed the installation ceremony.
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    39. CONNECT apartfrom being US President
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    DIED ON THE4TH OF JULY • JOHN ADAMS • THOMAS JEFFERSON • JAMES MONROE
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    41. • SatyajitRay was approached by the freelance producer Henri Fraise to make a film for a French TV Channel, France3. Ray said in his biography, that when Henri Fraise approached him to make a film, he briefed Ray by saying ".... you can place your camera at your window and shoot the house-next-door, we will accept that. " • As a result, which film was made by Ray?
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    43. • TheDewey Decimal System was 1st published in 1876 in US by Melvin Dewey. It has been revised and expanded through 23 major editions, the latest issued in 2011, and has grown from a four-page pamphlet in 1876 to a four volume set. This is used in atleast 135 countries. What is it used to categorise?
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    44. • FranzReichelt(1879 – February 4, 1912), was an Austrian-born French tailor, inventor and parachuting pioneer, now sometimes referred to as the Flying Tailor, who is remembered for his accidental death. How did he die???
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    • By jumpingfrom the Eiffel Tower while testing a wearable parachute of his own design
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    45.. • TheNight of the Long Knives, sometimes called Operation Hummingbird was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from June 30 to July 2, 1934, when the Nazi regime carried out a series of political murders. Bernhard Stempfle,was murdered during the Night of the Long Knives. What is his claim to fame?
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    46. ID THELYRICIST AS WELL AS THE SINGER
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    • NAWAB WAJIDALI SHAH • BHIMSEN JOSHI
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    47.WHERE CAN YOUFIND THIS PAINTING?
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    48. LAST OFTHE LOT... • MUSIC DIRECTOR PLZ
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