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Identify him.
• His grandfather Brigadier Gurdayal Singh was a reputed army engineer who had fought against the Japanese, in Burma, during World War II. The GCF (Gun Carriage Factory) in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh has the ‘Gurdayal Gun’ an artillery gun named after the Brigadier, since he had designed it.
• His maternal grandmother was Dutch and is sometimes credited for his Greek God looks.
• He is a successful Bollywood actor but found fame earlier in a different field.
Name the service• __________ is a global broadcast data startup currently being
incubated by the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF), a United States-based impact investment fund and non-profit organization established in 1995.
• It’s goal is to provide free access to content from the Internet through geostationary and Low Earth Orbit satellites, made available effectively to all parts of the world…….FREE
Why the delay?• Bridgemanite an extremely
dense magnesium iron silicate, is the most abundant mineral on earth• Scientists believe that about
70 percent of Earth’s lower mantle, or about 36 percent of the planet's total volume, is made of it.• This mineral was known to
geologists since 1946 but was named formally only in 2014
According to the International Mineralogical Association, a
mineral cannot be given a name before the physical proof of its
existence is obtained.This mineral was found in a meteorite that crashed to earth recently. On
the Earth it is found 670 kilometers below the surface.
“I am not here to defend myself or neither am I here to blame somebody, but to tell you the truth.” “First of all, the other
day what happened was I was not made to rehearse thoroughly, then I did not know most of the dignitaries present at this
prestigious event. Five minutes before the event started, the instruction mike stopped working. Producer did not have any way to tell me who’s coming next, that was one big mistake.
Yes, I did make mistake. I apologize for the same,”
Whose words?
Aayenah Pahuja• The Doordarshan anchor
who made one blunder after the other, while covering IFFI (International Film Festival of India) at Goa
Alec Guinness, Robert Carlyle, Anthony Hopkins and Ian McKellen have all played which 20th century historical figure
In August 2007, a series of anti-government protests started in Myanmar.
The immediate cause of the protests was mainly the unannounced decision of the ruling party to remove fuel subsidies, which caused the price of diesel and petrol to
suddenly rise as much as 66%, and the price of compressed natural gas for buses to increase fivefold in less than a week.
What were the protest called by the world media?
This European Space Agency mission
shares it’s name with a pre-Italian
Renaissance painter who could draw
perfect circlesName the mission or the painter
GiottoGiotto di Bondone, known as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Ages.
He had observed Halley's Comet in 1301 and was inspired to depict it as the star of Bethlehem in his painting Adoration of the Magi.
Little Worms, Cooking Pot, Little
Tongues, Butterflies and Little Pies
These are English translations of what?
Omkara (2006, Hindi), Maqbool
(2003, Hindi), _______ (2014, Hindi)
and Angoor (1982, Hindi)Identify the missing one and the link between them
Adaptations of Shakespearean
Plays
Omkara (Othello)
Maqbool (Macbeth)
Haider (Hamlet)
Angoor (Comedy of Errors)
Fishbeds are the mainstay of India. India
also has Fulcrums, Flankers and
Floggers as well as Candids, Clines and
Mainstays and Midas(es)What are we talking about?
NATO reporting names of
Russian Military Jets
Fishbed – MiG 21
Fulcrum – MiG 29
Flanker –Su-30
Flogger – MiG 27
Candid – Il-76
Cline – An-32
Mainstay – Beriev A50
Midas – Il-78
What did Barrack Obama do
during his state visit to Ireland in
2011 that the Queen refused to
during her visit?
He directed a film that Ronald Reagan even quoted the film in his 1986 State of the Union Address. In 2007, the Library of Congress selected this film for preservation in the National Film Registry, and in June 2008 the American Film Institute's special AFI's 10 Top 10 designated the film as the 10th-best film in the science fiction genre.
He was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1991 and Sweden's Karolinska Institutet gave him a honoris causa doctorate for his work in advocating a cure for Parkinson's disease.
Gave his voice to Stuart Little
Which movie and Who ?
A professor from MIT, Y. W. Lee, bet his life savings on this
scientist’s effort and that’s how the dream of the son of an
Indian political dissident who was raised in Philadelphia came
true.
Who was the scientist?
Founded in the 1880’s, this clothing company
owns brands like Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein,
IZOD, Arrow, Timberland.
Its name however, comprises of its most
famous brand yet.Name the company
Liaoning, Charles de Gaulle, Vikramaditya,
Giuseppe Garibaldi, Admiral Kuznetsov,
Juan Carlos, George H.W. Bush, Ronald
Reagan, Harry S. Truman, John C. StennisCONNECT?
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty
and blue, was the ______. I put up my thumb and
shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the
_____. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very
small?Fill in the blank
The largest ____ , according to the Guinness World Records, was held at the Flanders Expo Halls in Ghent, Belgium, on 11 December 2010 with 2,280 participants. The winning team Café
De Kastaar from Leuven was composed of Marnix Baes, Erik Derycke, Eric Hemelaers, Bart
Permentier and Tom Trogh.
In 1972, on April12, the first programme of the “_____ _____ _____" went on air with the legendary
Hamid Sayani, and later his brother Ameen Sayani. Soon it became the most popular
English programme on Vividh Bharati. Teams of three students each from 52 schools from
Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai participated.
What?
The Bournvita Quiz Contest
It was 20 years later in June 1992 that it aired first on Zee TV with Derek O’ Brien anchoring.
This country refused a seat on the UN
Security Council for the UN’s alleged inaction
in the Syrian conflict. This is a first in world
history where a country refused a UNSC seat.
WHICH COUNTRY?
Maria Sharapova runs a
confectionery business that sells
premium lollypops, candies,
gummies, etc etc.UNDER WHAT BRAND?
Once upon a time in America (circa 1900),
which extremely expensive edible product,
known then as 'Albany Beef', was sold for a
penny a pound and was often used in saloons
like salty beer nuts today ?HINT: Iran is the largest producer of this product today followed by
Russia.
Whenever I ask about Pepsi-Cola or Coca-Cola, people
immediately say it is an American or European drink. This is not
true. The kola is African. They have taken the cheap raw
material from us. They produced it, they made it into a drink,
and they sell it to us for a high price. Why are Pepsi-Cola and
Coca-Cola expensive? Because they have taken our kola,
produced it, and sold it back to us. We should produce it
ourselves and sell it to them.Whose golden words?
This royal is the President of the ______ Dachshund Club. Yet he revealed in 2006 that he loved dogs…..grilled or sautéed.
ISOBAR – Denoting places with same atmospheric
pressure
ISOTHERM – Denoting place with same temperature
ISOHYET - ????
This Benedictine monk has probably made the
greatest personal contribution in making
Champagne. So much so that one of the most
famous of Champagnes is named after him.
NAME HIM
What did Barack Obama show US
television viewers on the 27th of
April 2011?
This was in response to lot of speculation among general public and the media on his legitimacy for the
top job
Zuccotti Park in New York became the
center of a famous protest movement that
began on September 17, 2011 against
social and economic inequality worldwide.WHICH
A briefcase follows the American
President everywhere they travel. It
contains nuclear launch codes that
authorizes nuclear launchesWHAT IS THE MORE COMMON TERM FOR IT IN THE MEDIA?
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, the revolutionary hero,
took part in guerrilla wars in Cuba, Peru,
Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua,
Honduras and El Salvador and was killed
fighting Bolivian troops, but what nationality
was he?
The Persian word Shahenshah
means “King of Kings”. Who was
the first King to be called with this
title?
Which American writer who could speak
Chinese before she learned English won the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938 for her
great work set in China: The Good Earth
The Warren Commission theory that there
was a single shooter in JFK’s assassination
was blown by a film shot by a private
citizen named Abraham Zapruder. Why?THIS GAVE RISE TO THE VARIOUS CONSPIRACY THEORIES
SURROUNDING HIS DEATH
This island is the third largest in the
Balearic Islands off Spain’s southern
coast is globally known for its nightclubs
and trance music.Identify
Which fictional character apart
from Sherlock Holmes, apparently
plunged to his death at the
Reichenbach falls?
Traditionally on which three
holidays do Americans consume
the most amount of food. NEED ALL THREE, ESPECIALLY THE THIRD
This whisky brand born in 1988 was created
with the “… idea was to provide a feel of high
status to a product that was priced low,”
This is the largest whisky brand in the world in
terms of volume sales