fresher cooker'14 prelims

Fresher Cooker!

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1. A Sitter to start proceedings! ID.

1. Xiaomi

EXCELLENT FOOD. GOOD SERVICE, THE BEATLESGOOD FOOD, SERVICING IS SATISFACTORY. AMITABH BACHANIT WAS MOST UNFORTUNATE THAT I COULD NOT BE HERE FOR MORE

THAN A CUP OF TEA. RISHI KAPOORWE WERE LOOKED AFTER VERY WELL. ENJOYED A TEA AT THIS

___________. BR CHOPRAEXCELLENT FOOD, SERVICE BETTER AND NAAN BEST! ATAL BIHARI

VAJPAYEEVERY VERY COOLING, GOOD SERVICE. SHAMMI KAPOORGREAT FOOD, COURTEOUS MEMBERS. THANK YOU. SUSHMITA SEN

2. What are they talking about?

MOTEL POLARIS

2. What are they talking about?

WHICH WAS THE FIRST ANIMATED MOVIE TO BE NOMINATED FOR THE BEST MOTION PICTURE AT THE ACADEMY AWARDS?

3. Trivia…

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

3. Trivia…

IN 2001, SAUDI ARABIA BANNED X GAMES AND CARDS, ALLEGING THAT THE FRANCHISE PROMOTED ZIONISM BY DISPLAYING THE STAR OF DAVID IN THE TRADING CARDS (A SIX-POINTED STAR IS FEATURED IN THE CARD GAME) AS WELL AS OTHER RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS SUCH AS CROSSES THEY ASSOCIATED WITH CHRISTIANITY AND TRIANGLES THEY ASSOCIATED WITH FREEMASONRY; THE GAMES ALSO INVOLVED GAMBLING, WHICH IS IN VIOLATION OF MUSLIM DOCTRINE.

4*. What is X?

POKEMON

4*. What is X?

5*. Video Clip…

5*. Video Clip…

This was originally the trailer of the first spiderman movie. But it was taken down and changed very soon after its release.

Why?

5*. Video Clip…

Post 9/11 the World Trade Center could not be used in the backdrop!

6. An Avid quizzer and winner of the Director’s Gold Medal, IIT Delhi ‘85.

ID.

6. RBI Governor, Raghuram Rajan…

7.

In the first test match played between Bangladesh and West Indies, the maverick Chris Gayle managed just 24 runs but during that brief knock of his he achieved a unique feat. Something which has never happened in 135 years of test cricket history. What was the unique feat achieved by him?

7.

First cricketer in history to score a sixer(six) off the first ball of a test match!

8.

In computer science terminology, if a set of eight bits is

called a byte, then what is a set of four called?

8.

Nibble

9. X?

The story goes that a Dublin theatre proprietor by the name of Richard Daly made a bet that he could, within forty-eight hours, make a nonsense word known throughout the city, and that the public would supply a meaning for it. After a performance one evening, he gave his staff cards with the word ‘x' written on them, and told them to write the word on walls around the city. The next day the strange word was the talk of the town, and within a short time it had become part of the language.

9. X?

The most detailed account of this supposed Exploit (in F. T. Porter's Gleanings and Reminiscences, 1875) gives its date as 1791. The word, however, was already in use by then, meaning 'an odd or Eccentric person', and had been used in this sense by Fanny Burney in her diary entry for 24 June 1782.

‘X' was also used as a name for a kind of toy, something like a yo-yo, which was popular around 1790. The word is nevertheless hard to account for, and so is its later meaning of 'to question or interrogate'. This emerged in the mid-19th century and gave rise to the most common use of the term today.

9. X = Quiz…

10*. Minimalistic posters for which movies?Part points. Star if both correct!

10*.

11. Who is this disguised as a Sikh to evade arrest during Indira Gandhi’s emergency?

11. NaMo

12. Tribute to whom?

12. Ramanujan

13. Connect.

13. Directors of Bombay Talkies…

14. Funda…

14. Flight plan for MH-370

15. ID.

15. A rare mugshot of Bill Gates!

WHICH ENTITY ENTERED THE GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS WHEN IT HELPED EVACUATE 111,000 PEOPLE FROM AMMAN, JORDAN DURING A 59 DAY PERIOD IN 1990?

16*.

AIR INDIA

16*.

17. What has been hidden?

17. Total Football (The Dutch)

MAHATMA GANDHI NEVER RECEIVED THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE, ALTHOUGH HE WAS NOMINATED FIVE TIMES BETWEEN 1937 AND 1948. A DECADES-LATER NOBEL COMMITTEE PUBLICLY DECLARED ITS REGRET FOR THE OMISSION.

THERE IS ANOTHER INDIAN WHO RECEIVED 11 NOBEL PRIZE NOMINATIONS, BUT NEVER WON ONE.

NAME THE PERSON.

18.

PT. JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

18.

A YOUNG MAN IN HIS TWENTIES WANTED TO EXPRESS HIS GRATITUDE ABOUT THE VICTORIES THE YOUTH OF EGYPT HAVE ACHIEVED ON 25TH OF JANUARY 2011 AND CHOSE TO EXPRESS IT IN THE FORM OF NAMING HIS FIRSTBORN GIRL “X" JAMAL IBRAHIM (HIS NAME.) “X" RECEIVED MANY GIFTS FROM THE YOUTH WHO WERE OVERJOYED BY HER ARRIVAL AND THE NEW NAME. GUESS THE NAME “X” THAT SHOCKED THE ENTIRE WORLD.

19. What is X?

19. X = Facebook

20. Video Clip 2.

20. Video Clip 2.

ID THE VOICE.

20. Video Clip 2.

MICHAEL JACKSON

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