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Utsav Pathak4th Year

What late 1990's event was summarized by a newspaper with a headline 'AK-74'?

ANIL KUMBLE 10-74

Chirayu Jain, student at some law college in Bangalore, recently filed a consumer complaint against HUL after having purchased a box of crayons - he alleged that he found it racially offensive, and is claiming lakhs in compensation.

What was the issue?

He found a crayon named ‘Skin Color’

The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) is a North American non-profit organization devoted to the promotion of public interest in archaeology, and the preservation of archaeological sites. The American Journal of Archaeology is published by the institute. Who is the only non-archaeologist in the present Governing Board of the AIA?

Harrison Ford

Non Exhaustive List• "If you build it, they will come." (from Field of

Dreams)• "Play it again, Sam." (from Casablanca)• "Luke, I am your father." (from The Empire Strikes

Back)• "Hello, Clarice."(from The Silence of the Lambs)• "You want the truth? You can't handle the

truth!" (from A Few Good Men)• "Greed is good." (from Wall Street)• "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of

them all?" (from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)

Misquoted Dialogues

• "If you build it, he will come.“• "Play it once, Sam, for old times' sake, play As Time Goes

By.“• "Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father."

"He told me enough. He told me you killed him." "No. I am your father.“

• "Good evening, Clarice.“• "You want answers?" "I want the truth." "You can't handle

the truth!" • "The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a

better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works." • "Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?"

We all know about the BRICS nations. However, last year, during the filing of Facebook IPO papers, the term SICK nations was coined to describe a group of 4 countries which have something in common.I want you to give me the full form of the acronym (SICK) and the story behind it.

SICK Nations

• Syria• Iran• China • Korea(North)Because FB is banned.

People can be divided into two groups believers (theist) and non believers (atheist). Well but that is not true for nations. All the nations do believe in the lord whom we all praise. However there is one nation, the Constitution of which doesn't mention the name of god even once. Can anyone identify it.

INDIA

With what unit of measurement would you associate this person. Name the person too.

Will Wheaton

No. Of Twitter followers is measured in Wheatons.1 Wheaton = 500,000 followers

• Jan-Fishan Khan, born Sayyid Muhammed Shah, was a 19th-century Afghan warlord who participated in the First Anglo-Afghan War and the subsequent Indian Rebellion of 1857.His family has historically claimed descent from Ali ar-Ridha, the eighth Imam. Exiled from Kabul ever since the British retreat from Afghanistan, Jan-Fishan Khan eventually came to settle in Sardhana, a town near Meerut in the North-Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, and was given the hereditary title of nawab in recognition of his services.

• Name his two famous descendants.

• You all must be familiar with the name of Lee Harvey Oswald. Well if not then he was the man who assassinated the famous J.F Kennedy. When he was tried in the court of law he was condemned with the charge of "conspiring to injure a federal officer while he was acting in the line of duty". Why wasn't he charged with the crime of assassinating the U.S President?.

• In 1963, there was no US law that would convict a man of assassinating or attempting to assassinate the president.

"Aucking Fwesome", "Fhitty Sace", "Nucking Futs"...... the list goes on.... What is this switching or interchanging letters so make something less offensive known as?

Spoonerism

Known as Great Wall of India. Where?

Kumbhalgarh Fort, MewarRajasthan

What is this style of mango cutting called?

Hedgehog Pattern

Id this famous architect.

Otto Konigsberger

Put Funda

• A: Yes, Aunt ___.B: Excuse me. Do you mind? Everywhere else is full.C: Has anyone seen a Toad?----------xxxx----------A: Ready?B: Here they come.C: I’m gonna miss you

First and Last lines of Harry, Hermione, Ron

Translate into English"Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus "

Never tickle a sleeping dragon.

What? Where?

Mills End Park in Portland, Oregon, U.S

Smallest Park in the World with a total area of 452 sq in (0.292 m2).

It is a mansion featuring 250 rooms spanning an area of 175,000 sq.ft built by George Washington Vanderbilt. Who

lives in this house along with his parents and servants?

The City of X is a fictional American city. The coordinates are fictionally given as 32°N by 212°W . The city skyline is the opening scene of mostly every episode. This city is most famous for an active volcano. It is also famous for its crime rates. X is almost like Los Angeles, CA, New York, NY and Seattle, WA together.

The Narrator always opens each episode with these four words. ‘‘Some people think that X is a Town, but it's a City.’’

TOWNESVILLE

ID X and Y.

How did the name X come up? "I was takin' a shit. I swear to God. And the f**kin'

name just popped into my head. Then I started thinkin' of twenty million things that rhymed with it".

Why does he have two names? Everybody in his clique had an alias. They said he

couldn't just be Y, he had to be Y a.k.a. somebody else. X is just the evil thoughts that come into my head. Things I shouldn't be thinking about. Not to be gimmicky, but people should be able to determine when I'm serious and when I'm f** kin around.

Slim ShadyEminem

He was one of the British generals during the American war of Independence. He is stamped in US history as the general leading the British troops who surrendered to the American force, symbolically ending the war.

He surrendered to General Washington and the French commander on 19 October 1781, after the Siege of Yorktown.

He returned to Great Britain in 1782.

Tom Wilkinson played him in the movie “Patriot”.

Who is he? We know him in an entirely different context.

Lord Cornwallis, Governor General of India.- Defeated Tipu Sultan in Mysore war.

Arthur Wellesley, brother of Richard Wellesley (Governor General of India), led the British forces in the fourth Anglo-Mysore War in 1799.

This was saw the death of Tipu Sultan during the Siege of Srirangapatnam. Wellesley was the one who confirmed the death of Tipu Sultan, checking his pulse.

Wellesley became the Governor of Srirangapatnam and Mysore.

But, Tipu Sultan was not his major conquest. He is known for defeating a person much more popular. Who?

Napoleon.

Wellesley became the Duke of Wellington, who defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

He went on to become the Prime Minister of Britain in 1828.

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Movie?

Movie?