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3. 1. * "Koru"* "Silver Fern (Black, White,
Blue)* Red Peak* Silver Fern (Red, White,
Blue)* Silver Fern (Black, White)These is
the 5 entries that were shortlisted in Sept
2015. One of them will be selected by a
vote in late 2015, and go into a final face-
off in March 2016. What is this all about?

4. • New Zealand is looking for a potential
replacement of its national flag - these are 5
of the contenders.

5. 2. "Inside Out" is Pixar's 2015 film release, about
a 11-year old and her 5 key emotions,
personified by various characters. Each
emotion's character, according to the film's
director, was conceptualised based on a shape: if
Sadness was based on a teardrop, and Anger by
a brick, Disgust was partly based on a stalk of
which vegetable?

6. • Broccoli

7. 3. The Indian low cost airline AirAsia
India made public its fourth aircraft in
Mar 2015. Called "The Pioneer", this
airline paid tribute to one of the first
Indians to fly by putting his portrait on
the aeroplane. Which Indian's face
would you see on "The Pioneer"?

8. • JRD Tata

9. 4. Starting from Jan 1, 2016, this has officially
been 'doubled' in China, thus modifying a
restriction that was in place from about 1978.
(Previous exemptions to this restriction
involved girls in rural areas or ethnic
minorities). What am I talking about?

10. • the one child policy was removed

11. 5. What is this?

12. • India’s first floating atm by SBI

13. 6. Kraków is the home to the Sukiennice museum,
which features a variety of 19th century Polish art.
The museum holds paintings which have different
stories behind them. The museum owners found out
that the people who visited museums found it very
boring. So while renovating, they kept a X beside the
painting which made the painting come alive. This
entertained the crowd. What did they do??

14. • They placed a QR code beside the painting
and the QR code is scanned through their
phones and a video depicting the stories is
played

15. 7. ID the author?

16. • Arnab Goswami

17. 8. Reality Tours & Travels is one of the few
operators who provide guided tours of a
specific area, and charges of the tour may
vary from Rs 500 per person for a short
tour to Rs 1000 per person for a private
long tour. Which area do they operate?

18. • Dharavi

19. 9. This is something called the Redstar.
What is redstar and why is it famous ?

20. • Redstar is an operating system and it is the
only operating system which is allowed to be
used in North Korea

21. 10. Many methods were proposed to stabilise it:
-One of them was the addition of 800 tonnes of lead
counterweights to the raised end of the base.
-next the bells were removed to relieve some weight, and
cables were cinched around the third level and anchored
several hundred meters away.
-The final solution was to slightly straighten it to a safer
angle, by removing 38 cubic metres of soil from
underneath.
None of them worked. What am I talking about?

22. • The Leaning Tower of Pisa

23. 11. This is a Google doodle’s tribute to whom?

24. • Beethoven

25. 12. This a
minimalist poster
of which movie?

26. • Home alone

27. 13. A Seattle native, he exhibited an early interest in theoretical physics,
especially quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity. His childhood
heroes were Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, and Richard Feynman. After
observing a series of teleportation experiments conducted by the Institute for
Experimental Physics at the University of Innsbruck, the transmission of matter
became hid obsession. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology with a Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Physics. His doctoral thesis on
the teleportation of matter through extremely dense elements was titled
Observation of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Entanglement on Supraquantum
Structures by Induction Through Nonlinear Transuranic Crystal of Extremely
LongWavelength (ELW) Pulse from Mode-Locked Source Array. Who am I
talking about?

28. • Gordon Freeman _ a character in Half life

29. 14. Id him?

30. • Chief Justice of India – TS Thakur

31. 15. Connect?

32. • Kings present on all the pack of cards

33. 16. Genesys International Corporation has announced the launch
of WoNoBo.com that brings Google Street View-like 360-degree
walkthroughs to Indian cities. Users will be able to search, explore
and share 'points of interest' across 12 major Indian cities and will
soon be expanded to 54 cities. With WoNoBo, users get full blown
360-degree views of destinations. They can access, tag and review
points of interests like hotels, retail outlets, monuments, parks,
etc. and also view the interiors of several key locations. Which
company recently invested in Genesys International and hence
gained a lot of profit ?

34. • Quikr - quikrhomes

35. 17. In Buddhism, this word means "place of
the deathless" and has philosophical
significance. It later became the name of a
place in India with Buddhist temples. In
Hindu myths, it is the city with the court of
Indra.In 2015, a place with this name is
formally coming to being. Which place?

36. • Amaravathi -under construction capital of AP

37. 18. In 2004, Inoue went to Harvard University to accept
an Ig Nobel Peace Prize for "inventing X, thereby
providing an entirely new way for people to learn to
tolerate each other." His rendition there of "I'd Like to
Teach the World to Sing" earned a standing ovation.
Master of ceremonies Marc Abrahams indicated it was
the longest standing ovation the Ig Nobels had ever seen;
the audience of largely Nobel Prize laureates responded
by serenading Inoue with a chorus of "Can't Take My Eyes
off You“. What did he invent?

38. • Karaoke Machine

39. 19. “All Nippon airways” is an airline
company headquartered in Tokyo,
Japan. A week back this airline
company became viral. What is the
unique event achieved by “All Nippon
NH 106 airways”?

40. 5
• The plane departed at tokyo on jan 1st 2016
and arrived at los angeles on dec 31st 2015.

41. 20. Andy Weir worked as a software engineer,
while also writing science fiction. In 2011, he self-
published a book, serializing it on the web and
later publishing it on Kindle for the minimum
price. Thanks to fan interest, the book was finally
noticed and re-released in 2014.And now
everyone's heard of it. Which book?

42. • The Martian