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Gustavo Santaolalla’s theme
Save Tonight
Everybody
A R Rahman is said to have
copied from these songs.

Exactly 25 years ago to this day, a phenomenon called
Black Monday happened around the world. Originating in
Hong Kong, it quickly spread to Europe and culminated in
the US. A group of 33 eminent professionals from various
nations met in Washington, D.C. in December, and
collectively predicted that “the next few years could be the
most troubled since the 1930s”. What are we talking about?
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Black Monday refers to the largest percentagewise crash of
the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
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What comes next?

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“That’s one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind.”

This famous fictional character was created on the lines of
Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot and Father Brown by GK
Chesterton by a famous Indian novelist. Initially serialized
in the literary magazine Basumati, the stories and novels
were all eventually published in hardcover editions. He
wrote a total of 33 stories involving this character, and it
was adapted into a TV series by Doordarshan. Who and
what character?
Connect 1

Byomkesh Bakshi, written by Saradindu Bandopadhyaya
Connect 1

• Linus Pauling
• John Bardeen
• Frederick Sanger
One more person would make this list exhaustive. Who and
why?
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• Linus Pauling
• John Bardeen
• Frederick Sanger
• Marie Curie
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X “one who yawns” was a prominent leader of the
Bedonkohe Apache who fought against Mexico and the
United States for their expansion into Apache tribal lands
for several decades during the Apache Wars. X was the
name given to him during a battle with Mexican soldiers.
His Chiricahua name is often rendered as Goyathlay or
Goyahkla. His name was recently mired in controversy
because of its usage by US Security forces as name of a
mission, also known as Mission Neptune Spear in 2011.
Who is X?
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X is Geronimo.
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This 1998 British neo-noir film was directed by X on a
shoestring budget of $6000. Scenes were heavily
rehearsed so that just one or two takes were needed, thus
economising on 16 mm film stock, the production's greatest
expense. Without expensive professional lighting
equipment, X mostly used available light. Apart from
providing the script and direction, X also did the
photography, editing and production himself. It has had a
Rotten Tomatoes rating of 76% and an IMDb rating of 7.6,
and is considered as one of the greatest no budget films of
its time. Identify X and the film.
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X is Christopher Nolan and the film is The Following.
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Connect 2
Identify the person.

Rajkumar Hirani
Connect 2

They created a game X as an expansion of a classic
selection method game Y to reduce the chances of a draw,
popularised by a sitcom Z. Identify X, Y and Z .
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Sam Kass Karen Bryla

X = Rock, Paper, Scissors
Y = Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock
Z = The Big Bang Theory
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What
happened in
the
rest of the
match?

X claimed that Y to the Z’s name came from a 1971
incident while he was going around Europe as a young
man with a copy of Y to Europe, and while lying drunk in a
field in Innsbruck and looking up at the stars, thought it
would be a good idea for someone to write Y to the Z as
well. However, X later claimed that he had told this story so
many times that he had forgotten the incident itself, and
only remembered himself telling the story. What are X, Y
and Z?
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X = Douglas Adams
Y = Hitchhiker’s Guide
Z = Galaxy
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Waiting for Godot is an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett,
in which the lead characters wait endlessly for someone
who never comes. In 1979, a theatre group called Motley
founded by Tom Alter, Benjamin Gilani and X performed it
at Prithvi Theatre. This play was referenced in a 2008
youthful romcom in its last scene, starring both X and his
wife (who, however, are not the lead pair). Name X and the
film.
Connect 3

X = Naseeruddin Shah
The movie is Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na.
Connect 3

When an ad agency Advertising and Sales Promotion
clinched the deal, the owner of the agency Sylvester da
Cunha and Art Director Eustace Fernandez executed an
idea, with suggestion from Y, which they thought would
grab the attention of every housewife in the country. It did,
and now it is the world’s oldest running ad campaign.
Identify the ad campaign and the person Y.
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X = Dr Verghese Kurien
The ad campaign are the Amul ads and specifically, the
Amul girl.
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This featured
in the blog of
a very
famous
website.
Which
website?

www.thepiratebay.se
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His elder brother is an actor and an Academy Award
winning director. He decided to follow a career in Natural
Science, and is best known for writing and presenting Life
series on BBC. He is the only person to have won BAFTA
in Black and White, Colour, HD and 3D. He is considered a
national treasure in Britain and was named among the 100
Greatest Britons. Name him.
Connect 4

David Attenborough
Connect 4

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Who and in what language?

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J R R Tolkien reciting in Elvish

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Identify the logo.

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MGM’s short lived “Stylized Lion” logo.

In the Valmiki Ramayana, Ravana drags Sita out of her
cottage and takes her into his Vimana. Tamil poet Kamban
was not pleased with this arrangement as he did not want
Ravana to touch Sita at all. So in his version of Ramayana,
he made a slight change in the kidnapping scene. What?
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In his Ramayana, Ravana uproots their cottage and takes it
with him to Lanka.
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The premise of the 1988 British comedy film Without a Clue
is that X is a fictional character created by Y to enable him
to solve crimes incognito during a period when he was
applying for a post at a reclusive medical practice. Although
he failed to get the position, to satisfy public demand to see
Y in person, he hires alcoholic unemployed actor Reginald
Kincaid to play him, but later on fires him, only to bring him
back for a mystery involving the Bank of England. Actor
Micheal Caine played the role of the alcoholic actor and Z
played Y. Identify X,Y and Z.
Connect 5

X = Sherlock Holmes
Y = John Watson
Z = Ben Kingsley
Connect 5

Mahatma Gandhi on silver screen
1.Rachit Kapoor - Making of The Mahatma
2.Raju Hirani - Lage Raho Munnabhai
3.Naseeruddin Shah - Hey Ram
4.Richard Attenborough - Gandhi
5.Ben Kingsley - Gandhi
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