5. In 2004, he joined the All India
Trinamool Congress , a party in West
Bengal,India.He is currently the vice-
president of All India Trinamool
Congress. In 2009 he was made the
head of the Passenger Services
Committee of the Indian Railways,
under Railway and Trinamool
Congress leader Mamata Banerjee.In
July 2011, he was nominated for one of
six seats in the Rajya Sabha from West
Bengal by the Trinamool Congress.He
was sworn in as Member of
Parliament on August 19, 2011.
identify this person.
11. The Mullaiperiyar dam, the subject of so
much controversy in recent times, is located
in Kerala, but has been leased to Tamil Nadu
after a 1886 treaty between the then
Travancore State and the Madras Presidency.
For how many years is this lease?
13. During an audience interview at the Edinburgh
Book Festival (15 April 2004) the author said:
"Does anyone know where X came from? It is
an ancient spell in Aramaic, and it is the
original of Y, which means 'let the thing be
destroyed.' Originally, it was used to cure
illness and the 'thing' was the illness, but I
decided to make it the 'thing' as in the person
standing in front of me. I take a lot of liberties
with things like that. I twist them round and
make them mine.“
Id X or Y.
18. Energy giving food items.
Ladoos – Chotta Bheem
Spinach – Popeye
Poppins – Ram and Shyam
19. If Burj Dubai : Dubai
Taipei 101 : Taiwan
India tower : Mumbai ( under construction )
Burj Al hind : Calicut ( tallest in Kerala )
---------------- : Trivandrum . ( CURRENTLY )
( VISUALS FOLLOW )
22. Born Aliaune Badara Thiam as the son of Senegalese
percussionist Mor Thiam, he was raised in a musical
setting and taught to play several instruments
including the djembe . Most of his songs begin with
the sound of the clank of a jail cell's door. Lady Gaga
and T-Pain are two artists who were given their chance
at fame by him . Just name this artist.
24. The original concept was developed by Jaakko Iisalo and
its mechanics is said to have been inspired from a
previous game called Crush the Castle. Identify this
game that Salman Rushdie claims to be a master at.
26. This is a new font
devised by a team led
by Leo Burnett and
was called X font
because it resembled a
commodity possesed
by X . Identify X or the
font .
28. A list of some of the major honours received by this
gentleman. Who, and what is the missing honour?
Guggenheim Fellowship (1991-92)
Fellow of the Royal Society (elected 2003)
Member, National Academy of Sciences, USA (elected
2004)
Datta Medal and Lecture, FEBS annual meeting, (2007)
Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine (2007)
Heatley Medal, British Biochemical Society (2008)
Foreign Member, Indian National Science Academy
(elected 2008)
Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge (elected 2008)
_____________ (2009)
Knight Bachelor for services to Molecular Biology (2012,
Queen's New Year Honours List)
29. The missing award is the Nobel prize for chemistry and
the person is Venketaraman Ramakrishnan .
32. Madan mohan Malavya went to the Nizam of Hyderabad
asking for a donation . Nizam got angry at this gesture and
threw his footwear at Madan .Madan picked up the
footwear and left silently .He went to the marketplace
directly and began to auction the footwear .When the
Nizam heard of this he became uneasy. He thought that it
would be an insult if someone bought his footwear for a
pittance . So he sent one of his attendents with the
instruction , “ Buy that footwear no matter what the
bidding price may be” Thus Madan managed to sell the
Nizam’s own footwear to him for a huge amount . For what
purpose did he use that money ?
34. This happened for the first time in 1938 due to floods
, in 1968 due to Martin Luther King’s assasination and
in 1981 due to the Reagan assasination attempt . What
are we talking about ?
36. ‘Up he got and
Home he did trot
To old Dame Bob
Who patched his knob
With vinegar and brown paper’
These are the less popular last lines of which song ?
Give an 8 letter word for ‘ a nervous disorder with
seizures accompanied by changes of electric currents
in the brain’ .