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• The name of which archipelago is derived

from Latin for “island of the dogs” ?
• It is a part of Spain
• Canary Islands
• About which event on 30th June 1997 did
Chief guest Prince Charles make this
remark :
• an "awful Soviet-style" performance
• The handing over ceremony of Hong
Kong, by the British to China
 Sarengi
• Also the name of Laxmi Bai’s horse
• Which country is nicknamed the
“Shell-fare” state because of a welfare
system that includes free health care,
education and even help from the
government with buying a house ?
• The head of state has assets of more than
20 billion US$, a personal collection of
over 6000 cars and is the 4th richest royal
alive
• Brunei
• Shell-fare because of the huge interests
Shell oil has in this country
Who is missing ?
• 37.578 Kmph
 Usain Bolt
• Laureus sportsmen of the year since 2000
Mural depicting whom ?
• Harvey Milk
• He was born in Tianjin in China in 1902.
• In 1943 the Japanese took over the Shaochang
missionary station where he was working as a
protestant missionary. He led the internment camp
spiritedly before his untimely demise on 21st February
1945, five months before liberation.
• Recently, before the Beijing games, it was revealed
that he had been offered freedom by the Japanese
but ceded his place to a pregnant woman.
• Who ?
• "I believe that God made me for a
purpose, but He also made me fast. When
I run, I feel His pleasure."
• Eric Liddel
• He was a friend of Pythagoras and once
saved his life. He possessed superhuman
strength and was a 6 time Olympic champ
between 536 & 520 B.C.
• Who ?
• Inspired the name of a Nestle product
Milo
• Who is the only person to have his works
simultaneously topping the TV charts, Box
office & book sales in the USA ?
• This was in 1994
• Michael Crichton
• ER
• Jurassic Park
• Disclosure
Dry
• Antonio Carbajal who played 5 world cups
for Mexico
Aloe vera
• Whose epitaph reads
• “He lies here somewhere”
• ??
Werner Heisenberg
• What is this style of painting called ?
• Ragamala depicting ragas
 Connect
• Vauxhall, Chelsea, Southwark, London,
Waterloo, Blackfriars, Tower,
Westminster, Battersea, Albert, Lambeth,
Millennium, Kew, Barnes.
• Not an exhaustive list
• All bridges on the London Thames
• Kareena Kapoor
 Complete these taglines
• “____ This”,
• “Hot as ____”,
• Mile High ____”,
• “Lucky ____”,
• “Fun Comes Usually Kneeling”,
• “____ on the beach”.
FCUK
• Who or what displaced King Gyanendra
on the Bank Notes of Nepal ?
• Mt Everest
• The worst defeat in the U.S. Presidential
elections was sustained by John Quincy
Adams in the 1820 elections. He won only
one electoral vote in a straight election.
This vote was given to him for a specific
reason. What?
• So that George Washington would remain
the only US President to have been
elected unanimously. James Monroe was
the winner in 1820.
• For what specific reason was Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle knighted in 1902 ?
• For his services in the Boer War
• Who made his acting debut along side
Amir Khan (his first role as an adult) in
Ketan Mehta's 1984 film 'Holi ‘ ?
• Ashutosh Gowarikar
“He has only 2 expressions, one
with the hat and one without it.”

• One brilliant filmmaker about another

brilliant filmmaker.
• Give me both names.
• Sergio Leone about Clint Eastwood
• Concert for Bangladesh at Madison
Square Garden in 1971
• Which word meaning a newcomer is
derived from certain pieces in Chess that
are almost always played towards the end
of the game ?
• Rookie from rook
• Bentley
• Who is till date the only person to have
received the Nobel peace prize
posthumously ?
• Dag Hammarskold
• In the Quran, there are two chapters
called "Injil" and "Tawrat".
What are they better known as?
• The Old & New Testaments of the Bible
• What animal is this ?
• Liger a cross between a lion & a tigress
• ID this Swiss
Tourist spot
• Reichenbach falls
• Which entertainment movement began
with all its works dedicated to Rosa
Parks ?
• Gangster Rap
• What is this exhaustive list of events depicting :
1926 - At a desk in a newsroom
1927 - Walking past a tennis court, carrying a walking stick
1929 – Being bothered by a small boy as he reads a book in the subway
1930 – Walking past the house where the murder was committed
1935 – Tossing some litter while Robert Donat and Lucie Mannheim run from the theater
1938 – Outside the court house, holding a camera
1938 – In Victoria Station, wearing a black coat and smoking a cigarette
1940 – Walking near the phone booth
1940 – Leaves the hotel, wearing a coat and hat and reading a newspaper
1941 – Midway through, passing Robert Montgomery in front of his building
1941 – Mailing a letter at the Village Post Office
1942 – Standing in front of the Cut Rate Drugs in New York
1943 – On the train to Santa Rosa, playing cards
1944 – In picture ad in the newspaper for Reduco Obesity Slayer
1945 – Coming out of an elevator at the Empire Hotel, carrying a violin case and smoking a cigarette
1946 – At a big party , drinking champagne and then quickly departing
1947 – Leaving the train and Cumberland station, carrying a cello
1948 – Trademark can be seen on a neon sign board
1950 – Looking at the maid
1951 – Boarding a train carrying a double bass fiddle
1953 – Crossing the top of a staircase
1954 – On the left side of the class reunion photo
1954 – Winding the clock in the song writer’s apartment
1955 – Travelling by bus
1955 – Walking past the parked Limousine of an old man who is looking at paintings
1956 – Watching acrobats in the Moroccan marketplace
1958 – Walking on the street in a gray suit
1959 – Missing a bus
1960 – Wearing a cowboy hat, passing by the office window
1963 – Leaving the pet shop with two white terriers
1964 – Entering the hotel corridor from the left
1966 – Sitting in the Hotel d’Angleterre lobby with a blond baby
1969 – Is being carried on a wheel chair in airport
1972 – In the centre of the crowd wearing a bowler hat, he is the only one not applauding the speaker
1976 – In silhouette through the door of the Registrar of Births and Deaths.
?
• Cameos of Alfred Hitchcock
• Aravind Adiga
• During the days of vaudeville in the US in
the 1880s audiences often heckled
performers on stage by booing and
throwing cheap foodstuff.
• A term “…………. gallery” (named after
the thrown food) was used for this kind of
unappreciative audiences which inspired
the name of a comic strip.
• Which comic strip ?
• Incidentally the strip’s author hated the
name as he thought it was undignified
• Peanuts
• It was originally called Lil folks
• Who are the only 4 players to have won
both junior & senior Wimbledon titles ?
• Borg, Pat Cash, Edberg & Fedex
• Which singer released an album titled
E=MC2 last year ?
• Mariah Carey
• As a child why did Lewis Carroll receive
the somewhat cruel nickname “Dodo” ?
• His real name was Charles Lutwidge
Dodgson & he used to stammer getting
stuck at “Do…Do….” while saying his own
name
• The proper Sanskrit term for what was
“Sahagamana” ?
• Sati
• * 24 April 1964 – it’s head was sawn off and stolen by politically oriented artists of
the Situationist movement, amongst them Jørgen Nash. The head was never
recovered and a new head was produced and placed on the it.
• * 22 July 1984 – her right arm was sawn off. The arm was returned 2 days later by
two young vandals.
• * 1990 – another attempt was made to cut her head off, which resulted in an 18 cm
deep cut in the neck.
• * 6 January 1998 – she lost her head for the second time, the culprits were never
found, but the head was returned anonymously to a nearby TV station, and on 4
February the head was back on.
• * Paint has been thrown on her several times, including one episode in 1961 where
her hair was painted red and a bra was painted on her.
• * 11 September 2003 – it was blasted off its rock, possibly with dynamite.
• * In 2004, it was draped in a burka as a statement against Turkey joining the
European Union.
• * May 20, 2007 – it was found draped in a Muslim dress and head scarf.

• All vandalism attempts on what ?

The Little Mermaid statue in
Copenhagen Harbour
• In relation with English grammar connect
deer, moose & sheep
• Singular n plural same words
• What Guru dakshina did Barbareek the
grandson of Bhim offer Krishna before the
start of the Kurukshetra war ?
• His own head
• Archers in medieval England used to have
a spare bow-string which they used in
case they tore the original. Which phrase
arose from this ?
• Second string
Round on musical instruments
• Bones
Balalaika
Ukulele
• Fire treated clay from Manmadurai &
Panruti are used to make which
instrument ?
Ghatam
Didgeridoo
Bob Burns playing his bazooka
• This instrument consists of an air supply
pipe, a chanter, a drone & one other item
from which it gets it’s name.
• Which instrument ?
Bagpipes
 Connect
• Devdatt
• Paundra
• Sughoshmani
• Pushpakau
• Anantavijaya
5 conches of the Pandavas
Banjo
Mohun Veena
Theme
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