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__________ is a popular Hindi novel by Devaki Nandan Khatri. It is considered to be the first work of prose in the modern Hindi language, and may have significantly contributed to the language's popularity .It was made into a popular TV series of the same name directed by Sunil Agnihotri which starred Irfaan Khan in a important role.Name the series

Chandrakanta

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 It was the first serial in English to be produced in India. Aired on the state-owned Doordarshan TV channel and based on the script by Ashok Banker, the serial deals with the lives, loves, ideals and aspirations of the post-independence generation of Indians, people in their mid-thirties who straddle the twin worlds of conventional Indian society as well as the urban westernized ethos.It was dirceted by Mahesh Bhatt among others and starred Rahul Bose,milind Soman,Ayesha Dharkar and Samir Sono

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A Mouthful of Sky

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Otis Wilbury - Jeff Lynne Lefty Wilbury - Roy Orbison Charlie T. Jr. - Tom Petty Lucky Wilbury - Bob Dylan Who was Nelson Wilbury ?? -All of them part of the supergroup

Travelling Wilbury’s

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George Harrison

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Francis Scott Fitzerald Curious Case of Benjamin Button

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They formed the group "Tom and Jerry" in 1957, and had their first taste of success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl". As ______, the duo rose to fame in 1965, backed by the hit single “_________”. Their music was featured in the landmark film The Graduate, propelling them further into the public consciousness. That Hit single has been recently featured in a 2009 superheroes movie.

Simon and Garfunkel

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Painter,Poet,song writer,rock musician and has been around since the start of the cold war till date.His original name is Robert Allen Zimmerman . Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was, at first, an informal chronicler and then an apparently reluctant figurehead of social unrest.

Bob Dylan

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He was born to an unmarried mother and adopted by his Russian uncle and aunt. He still does not know who his father is. He once briefly dated Sharon Stone and has had three wives so far. His favorite chat-up line is “Can I buy you a car?” he owns a bachelor pad in Pacific Heights in San Francisco. The house is a technical marvel: when the key is inserted, the opaque glass door turns transparent revealing a Japanese rock garden in the middle. Who is this “self-proclaimed god” whose company is named after something in ancient Greece?

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Larry Ellison

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This documentary was based on a 16 day event held in 1936 but was released only in 1938. When it was taken to film festivals, people tried to disqualify it on the grounds that it was Nazi propaganda. What was the subject of this documentary?

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It is the documentary Olympia which is based on the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

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In March 1953, his first story “Dileas” won the first prize in a contest run by Glasgow Herald. He wrote a book for children on “Lawrence of Arabia” and also wrote a biography of Captain James Cook. He was a torpedo operator aboard the ship HMS Royalist. Who?

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Alistair Mclean

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He was paid half a guinea for the first piece that he ever wrote “Some Aspects of Game Captaincy” published in the “Public School Magazine”. He was 19 then. He was a medium fast bowler for Dulwich College who might have gone on to Oxford and won a Blue if his father’s business had not collapsed and he himself had not been forced to seek employment with Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank. He once wrote that he dreamt of having a house near Lords Cricket ground. Who?

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PG Wodehouse

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Speaking about this movie, Omar Sharif later said "If you are the man with the money and somebody comes to you and says he wants to make a film that's four hours long, with no stars, and no women, and no love story, and not much action either, and he wants to spend a huge amount of money to go film it in the desert- what would you say?". Which movie?

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Lawrence of Arabia

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This complex was developed by Italian firm SGI in the early 1960’s. Italian architect Luigi Moretti designed six buildings at this site which included a hotel and retail center. It gets it name from the nickname given to the last lock which diverted water from the Potomac River into the Tidal Basin during flood tide. Which building is this?

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Watergate

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On a certain August 15th, the following was performed:-Raag Puriya-Dhanashri - Gat In Sawarital for 11 minutes, Tabla Solo In Jhaptal for 9 minutesRaag Manj Khamaj / Alap Jor / Dhun In Kaharwa Tal / Medium & Fast GatIn Teental for 30 minutes.Who were the performers and where were they performing?

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Pt Ravi Shankar and Ustad Allah Rakha at Woodstock

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When “cumilonimbus” clouds reach a height of 30,000 to 40,000 feet above the ground, they appear as glorious white mountains in the sky. What word does the US weather bureau use to describe these clouds?

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Cloud Nine

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The seaweed kombu has been used in Japanese cuisine for hundreds of years now. In 1908, the active ingredient in kombu was isolated and commercial production began shortly after. This active factor is said to stimulate receptors for umami — the ‘fifth’ taste identified by Ikeda — a savoury,broth-like, meaty flavour, thus signaling the presence of proteins to the digestive system. Identify the active factor.

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Monosodium Glutamate

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In India, we tend to use this seven-letter word without the prefix motor, unlike in the West. English dictionaries tend to define the word — as we use it — differently. It is glossed as ‘a child’s toy, consisting of a long foot-board between two small end-wheels’ or as a ‘flat-bottomed sailboat with runners for skimming over water or ice’. What word?

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Scooter

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Ernest Lehman, who wrote North by Northwest and Sweet Smell of Success, scripted this film based on a 1956 Broadway musical, based in turn on a 1949 autobiography. Legend has it that Burt Lancaster ran into Lehman at the Fox commissary at around this time and exclaimed “Jesus,you must need the money”, when he heard what his friend was up to. In Hong Kong, this movie bears the title Fairy Music Blow Fragrant Place, Place Hear. Identify movie.

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Sound of Music

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This UNESCO World Heritage Site stretches for more than 30,000 hectares, between the foothills of a volcano and the valley of the Rio Grande River. It is an exquisitely blue landscape shaped by the cultivation of a plant which has found use since the 16th century. What product of the plant is the most popular, worldwide?

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Tequila from the plant agave

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In 1902, Lord Curzon visited it with the intention of filing a report on how it would best serve British interests. He went back with the opinion that it was a lifetime experience and that it would be heinous to interfere. But , a little later, the venerable engineer Sir M. Visveswaraiah scrawled the words ‘What a waste’ in the visitors book. What location?

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Jog Falls

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This person when asked about his actions said “They are never prescript. They just come differently depending on how I feel, what I ate, the noise of the crowd, the heat, the kind of shots that are played. I myself don t know what I will do next so how will anyone else know.” Who?

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Billy Bowden

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They were named alphabetically from the Bible: Adam, Benjamin, Caleb, Daniel, Ephraim, Frank (short for Frankincense, the Bible supposedly having no names beginning with F- due to Hebrew using "Ph" instead, as in Phineas -- however, Felix, Festus and Fortunatus are all mentioned in the Bible), and Gideon .What am I talking about?

Names of the brothers from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

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19 Connect

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Few puzzles in political philosophy are more daunting than the 'Problem of the Loyal Henchmen'. The 'Problem of the Loyal Henchmen' arises when people willingly obey authorities everyone knows to be evil. This is also called Z-ism. Who is Z ?Ernst Z was born on May 28, 1908 to a Polish father and a Greek mother in Gdynia. Z attended the University of Warsaw where he studied economics and political history. He later went to the Warsaw Technical Institute to study engineering and radionics. He then took a communication position with the Polish government, at the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs. He began to use his position for insider trading, buying and selling stocks at the Warsaw Stock Exchange.

Forseeing World War II, Z made copies of top-secret wires and sold them to Nazi Germany. Before the German invasion of Poland in 1939, he destroyed all records of his existence, then moved to Turkey, where he worked for Turkish radio and set up an intelligence organization. During the war, he sold information to both sides. After the defeat of Erwin Rommel, he decided to back the Allied war effort; ironically, he was awarded numerous medals by the Allied powers after the war's end. After the war, Z temporarily moved to South America before founding what he became world famous for.

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Z = Blofeld

The villan in around 7 Bond movies. He founded S.P.E.C.T.R.E, the world-wide criminal organization. 

The problem of the loyal henchmen is widely studied in political philosophy and is referred to as 'Blofeldism'.

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A keen aviator, holds the world record for highest altitude gained travelling in a hot air balloon, notably carried out at the age of 67 he also holds a world record for his solo microlight flight from the UK to India in 1998. He has flight experience of over 5,000 hours. In 1994, he won the gold medal in the Federation Aeronautique Internationale air race covering a distance of 34,000 km spanning 24 days. To mark this occasion he was conferred the rank of Hon. Air Commodore of the Indian Air Force. In 2005, we has awarded the Gold medal of the [Royal Aero Club], and in 2006, Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award by the Government of India.

In March 2007 he was nominated as Chairman of the Governing Council, IIM Ahmedabad succeeding N.R. Narayana Murthy

Vijaypat Singhania

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These are part of a list .What position did they hold.? Dilip Kumar -- 1980 (actor)

Sunil Dutt -- 1982 (actor & politician)

Nana Chudasama -- 1989 (social activist)

Bakul Patel -- 1992 (social worker)

F T Korakiwala -- 1993 (businessman)

Sunil Gavaskar -- 1995 (cricketer)

Usha Kiron -- 1997 (actress)

Kiran Shantaraman -- 2002, 2003 (film-maker)

Jagannathrao Hegde -- 2004 (medical doctor)

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Sheriff of Mumbai

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The Merry Pranksters were a group of people who collected around the novelist Ken Kesey and traveled across the United States in a psychedelic painted school bus named “Furthur”. The original purpose of the trip was to visit the World’s Fair in New York which took place in 1964. The pranksters were heavy users of marijuana and LSD and in the course of their journey converted many people whom they encountered to these drugs. The conversion ceremonies consisted of pumping people up with these drugs and seeing how long they can stand it. The band Grateful Dead formed during the bus trip and supplied the music to these ceremonies. Question is, what is the name given to these conversion ceremonies?

Acid Tests

Identify

200m

John W. Tewksbury ,USA 22.2_______________ 22.8Stanley Rowley, AUS 22.9

200m Hurdles

Alvin Kraenzlein, USA 25.4 _________________ 26.6John W. Tewksbury, USA 26.8

________ set a world record in the second heat of the 200 meter hurdles which was bettered by Kraenzlein in the final. He also reached the final of the 110m hurdles and failed to finish, and participated in 60m and 100m sprint where he failed to qualify for the final.

He later moved to the United States where he became a silent movie actor under the screen name Norman Trevor. He acted alongside Hollywood legends like Ronald Colman in movies like Beau Geste (1927) and Tonight At Twelve (1929). He also appeared in several Broadway shows.

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Norman Pritchard

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“A” started his career by working as an apprentice with cinematographer-director, Manmohan Singh at age 17, for films like Lamhe (1991); before going on to assist director, Pankaj Parashar in film Himalayputra (1997), followed by working in a television production house for three years, doing various jobs. “A” started his acting career in 2008 with a less known film called "The Fakir of Venice" directed by Anand Surapur.

The acting career of “B” began with the role of a child in films like Chirag Kahaan Roshni Kahaan and Bombay Ka Chor. “B” has acted in about 72 films before moving on to scriptwriting and direction. Incidentally “A” happens to be “B’s” son.

“C’s” career as a film director started in 2004. “C” is also married to a film director whose first film as a director was released in 2006. Although the husband and wife have moved to direction recently, they have been associated with film industry for long. “C” has been in the industry since 1992 and “C’s” mother is “B’s” sister.

A = Farhan Akhtar, B= Honey Irani and C= Farah Khan

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“M” started her career with the TV series Chunauti (1987) while still in school. She was a successful model in the early nineties having endorsed many products such as Palmolive soap, Clearasil, Sunrise Coffee, Limca and Colgate toothpaste. She made her breakthrough in films in 1994. She simultaneously pursued a music career in the mid to late 1990s.

  “N” was born in Lahore and did his schooling from Modern School, New Delhi and Doon school.

He did his economics course at St. Stephen's College. At 22, he became a chartered accountant, having studied accountancy to please his parents. He started his career working with a multi-national oil company. He moved to Great Britain, and spent several years working as an accountant and management consultant. He started his career as an actor in the movie' 'Jaan Hazir hai' (1975) and later in 'Toote Khilone' in Bollywood. “N” was married to “M” from 1999 to 2007.

  “O” was born on January 3, 1915, in Gurdaspur in Punjab. After graduating from Government

College Lahore, he also remained a member of Indian National Congress in the 1930s. In the early 1940s, while he was teaching History, he wrote a film script on king Ashoka, which he went on to show to director, Phani Majumdar in Bombay. As luck would have it, Phani Majumdar, instead cast him, as a lead in his Hindi film, Rajkumar, released in 1944. He soon took to film direction with the well-acclaimed movie, Neecha Nagar which bagged the Palme d'Or (Best Film) award, then known as 'Grand Prix', at the Cannes Film Festival in 1946. “N” is “O’s” nephew.

[M= Suchitra Krishnamoorty, N= Shekhar Kapur, O = Chetan Anand]

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A Norwegian mercenary founded X and the British later took it over. During the American Revolutionary War, X was the site of a major battle. Rumors held it to be the site of various occult rites. The person cited as being influential in promoting the unique architecture of X during the pre-American Civil War era was Judge Solomon W. His campaign to reform X came to a head when he met a young architect named Cyrus Pinkney. Some notable buildings in X are The Statue of Justice and the Stonegate Prison.

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Gotham City

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Y is the Princess of Power, the alter-ego of Princess Adora,the defender of Etheria. As a child she was abducted from her parents by the Horde and raised to follow their evil ways, but after being visited by her brother, realizes the Horde's deceit and now fights in the name of justice to free Etheria from the Horde.

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She-Ra

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Oscars by Indians Bhanu Athaiya Gulzar Satyajit Ray

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Won both Nobel and Oscar Al-Gore and Mark Twain

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League of Nations