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A picture of the proposed Star Centre mall, astones throw from Trinity Circle, Bangalore.
What name does the mall have, reflecting its
enviable address?
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#1, MG Road
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MW Travers, AG Bourne and MO Forster werethe first three.
Who was the fourth, from 1933-1937 and whatlist is this?
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Till 1890, the _________ came only till Jolarpet,before it was extended to a point in Bangalore.This helped the British officers fulfill theirrequirements for various kinds of helpers,
workers and administrative staff.
Fill in the blanks. What demographic inBangalore is this a probable explanation for?
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Railway line from Chennai
Tamilians in Bangalore, specifically aroundthe Cantonment area
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A new launch proposed by Richard Branson...
What is the company called?
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Virgin Oceanic
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What name was given to the Indian teamstour of England in 1974, possibly inspiredeither by the movie on top and/or by Indiasperformance in the Test shown? (bigger pics
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Summer of 42
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What is themessage in thisBMW ad?
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Use Original Spares
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Harihareshwar in Konkan Nanjangud in Karnataka
Janardana Swamy temple town, Varkala
Vemulawada temple town of Karimnagardistrict
What common sobriquet do they have?
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Dakshin Kashi
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The Islamic Republic of Kamistan was the MiddleEastern nation led by Omar Hassan, and then hiswidow Dalia Hassan following his assassination,during Day 8. Despite a strong domestic
opposition, the Hassans pledged cooperationwith the United Nations and the United States togive up its nuclear arms programs and terroristaffiliations.
Why do we know Omar Hassan?
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Role played by Anil Kapoor in the
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It was originally invented by Johnson &
Johnsons Permacel division and first came out ingreen during WWII, and was named for its ability
to shed water. Soldiers returning home broughtit back with them.
A manufacturer then got the bright idea to startselling it for a specific use relating to air-conditioning and heating in many of the newhomes being built, giving it a new name andsilver color.
What?
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Duck Tape
Duct Tape
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American Paul Siple and his fellow explorer Charles
Passel, while on an expedition in the Antarctic in1940, suspended bottles of water outside a hut attheir base station and measured how long it tookthe water to freeze under various conditions.
The idea of expressing as an equivalenttemperaturethe language we hear on the newsdidnt start until the 1970s.
The coldest recorded till now is -150 in Antarctica.What?
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Wind Chill the felt air temperature onexposed skin due to wind
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The inside of the fruit Garcinia Indica looks like this.Popular in an Indian region, an average tree bearshundreds of fruits; Green when tender, they getbeautiful purple as they ripen. Dried separately, theskin is as a souring agent, and the seeds are used tomake oil/butter. The most popular variant is thejuice. Identify the fruit and the region
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Kokum
Konkan Region
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When Petra Kvitova won the 2011 Wimbledon
Championships, she was the first left handedplayer to win the title since Martina Navratilovasince 1990 and the first Czech player to win a
Grand Slam since Jana Novotna in 1998.What other unique claim to fame did she achieve,one that is the first for any Grand Slam winner ofeither gender?
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First Grand Slam winner to be born in the1990s
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German playwright Benjamin Frank Wedekinds
most well known play set Erdgeist(Earth Spirit)& Die Bchse der Pandora (Pandoras Box) tellsthe story of an enticing dancer who rises insociety through her relationships with powerful
and wealthy men but eventually falls intopoverty and prostitution.
The collective name by which these plays are
known inspired what musical collaboration?(Name collaborators and their work)
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The plays were called the Lulu set. Metallica &Lou Reeds album Lulu is inspired by the plays
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A refugee from Nazi Europe named Leslie Buckcreated it in the 1960s and it is an icon in NY City. It
was first designed by Mr. Buck for the SherriCompany, adopting the colors of the Greek flag.
It was blue, with a white meander ringing the top andbottom; down each side was a drawing of the Greek
vase known as an _____.
The original had simple lettering on it which said WeAre Happy To Serve You. 200 million of these were
sold in 2005 now its made only on request. What is it called, a distortion of the name of the Greek
vase?
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Anthora coffee cups, named after Amphora
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In 1974, Roger Penrose produced a periodic
tiling in 2 dimensions using tiles of just twoirregular shapes , popularly called the Penrosetiles.
Dan Schectman, who first identified similarshapes in 3 dimensions in 1984, was ridiculed byLinus Pauling who stated : There is no suchthing as a ______- _____, only _______-
scientists.Fill in the first 2 blanks.
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Quasi-Crystals for which Schectman won the2011 Nobel in Chemistry. Pauling called
Schectman a quasi-scientist.
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In medieval music, the Guidonian hand was amnemonic used to assist singers to learn howto sing by viewing notes, in which each portionof the hand represented a specific note withinthe hexachord system.
The lowest note in this scale was representedby the Greek letter followed by ut and wouldspan 3 octaves.
This notation gave rise to a word that wasinitially used in music to represent the entiremusical scale but has gone on to be usedbeyond music as well. What word?
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Gamut that came from Gamma+ut
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It is the term used to describe internationalpolicy that openly uses economic aid and
investment between countries to carrydiplomatic favor.
The term was prominent during Gulf War I whenboth Germans and Japanese were unable tocommit troops to the war effort due torestrictions placed into their constitutions postWW II. Instead they volunteered large amounts
of financing of war effort.In recent times, Gaddafi had used the same inAfrica to bring many African nations to theArabic/Muslim nation fold.
What 2 word term?
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Checkbook Diplomacy
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One of the more humorous explanations given
for this word/name origin is as follows.
..many of them had married Indian women
and settled down here
after 1947, they hadpangs to go back to their nativecountriessome went to Australia, some wentto England, some to Canada and the others
______
Explain
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Dingos for Anglo Indians
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This annual auction event used to be a huge
revenue generator for middle men, as a result ofwhich the trust board decided to make it an e-auction to rake in the money itself, a decision thatresulted in a 30 crore revenue jump over last year.
Auctioned items are graded into five varieties,each of which is then graded for color, texture andlength.
The primary bidders are from the fashion andstyle industry in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia,USA and Western Europe.
What auction and who/what conducts it?
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Hair auctions by the Thirumala ThirupathiDevasthanam
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He rode side by side with the Soviet Red Army
and would be called the Red Hero as a result.What capital city does he give his name to?
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Ulanbataar (meaning Red Hero) , from thename Damdin Sukhbataar
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On October 4th this year, the man apparentlytook down all his websites, deleted online coderepositories he owned, killed his Twitter &Google+ account and disabled various addresses.
More intriguingly, he set his servers to respond toincoming browser requests with an enigmatic
status code number 410 a status code thatindicates permanent expiry, or gone .
Concerned well wishers raised an alarm online,
which sent police scampering to the man
s home,only to find him hale and healthy and a tadannoyed at the invasion of privacy. Who be thisopen source god?
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Mark Pilgrim, free software advocate andPython guide guru
The popular legend goes that this
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The popular legend goes that thismeat dish made from finelychopped or minced raw beef wasnamed after a nomadic CentralAsian tribe who ate raw meatbecause they rode their horsescontinuously and hence did nothave time to stop and cook.
A variation of this story goes thatthe meat was kept under thehorses saddles to be tenderized bya days riding.
Name this dish that involvesmarinating slices of meat in wine,spicing them and serving withonions, capers and seasoning,sometimes with a raw egg yolk.
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Steak Tartare
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In 1966, when Alexander Courage was first askedto compose the music for this, he entered into adeal with X, who said hed write the lyrics. Thelyrics were never used, but they went as follows:Beyond the rim of the starlight,My love is wandring in star flight.I know he'll findIn star clustered reachesLove, strange loveA starwoman teaches.
I konw his journey ends never.His ____ _____ will go on forever.But tell him whileHe wanders his starry sea,Remember,Remember me.
Name X and what were these the supposed lyrics
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Gene Rodenberry
Star Trek
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Located 29 km from Honnavar in current dayUttar Kannada district, this small town was thecapital of the Saluva dynasty between the 13th
and 17th century. The town was closest towhere the British had a bungalow under theBombay Presidency and hence a tourist
attraction near the town was initially namedafter the town itself, later changed to what weknow it by.
In recent times, the name of the town has come
into international focus in relation toaserendipitousdiscovery that has unearthedclose to 155 Mn of sunken treasure.
Name the town
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Gairsoppa, after which SS Gairsoppa wasnamed. Gairsoppa Falls was the old name for
Jog Falls.
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In the 90s, Russian readers were able to buytantalising offerings as We call her Scarlett, Thelast love of Scarlett, all written by Yuliya
Hipatrick, a consortium of 30 Russian andBelarussian writers in Minsk who jointly crankedout story after story. According to NYT,
American readers might not immediatelyrecognize Mitchell's devilishly debonair hero
What were the Belarussians writing?
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S l t G ith th Wi d
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Sequels to Gone with the Wind
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Typically it would take more than 45 runs and fourwickets in a school Twenty20 match to get a13-year-old cricketer into the international press.
But last week, cricket fanatics were purring over
an all-round performance in the match betweenDhirubhai Ambani International School andChaturbhuj Narsing Memorial School in a district
tournament in Mumbai.
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Th l i ti A j T d lk
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The player in question was Arjun Tendulkar
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He carries a rickshaw puller's hand bell in hispocket at all times. It belonged to Hasari Pal.For him it is a potent reminder of what he callsthe voice of India. For the last 26 years, thisPadma Bhushan recipient, has been using hisroyalties to support 14 charities in rural Bengal.His charities recently celebrated a milestone
the 75,000th tuberculosis patient cured at hismedical centre in the Sunderbans in WestBengal.
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Dominique Lapierre
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What eight-letter word would be used todescribe a creature that has such a system?
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Ruminant
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During the Puja holidays theCTC rolled out the fullyrefurbished Balaka and
Banalata, as a treat for thecommon people.
While the former borrows its
name from Tagores collectionof poems, Banalata referenceswhat?
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The iconic poem Banalata Sen by the poet
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The iconic poem Banalata Sen by the poetJibanananda Das, who was killed by a
speeding tram near Deshapriya Park in 1954.
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Like its exotic origins, the X has been a rare beastin cricket. But it has a double meaning in thebooks context. In Sinhalese, the term konde
bandapu cheena or pony-tailed X meanssomeone who is gullible.
from a review of which book, subtitled thelegend of Pradeep Mathew
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ID the cover
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The family traces its descent from the SheikhOvais i-Quarani of Medina. They were next to thePaigahs in hierarchy. The first in line, Mir Turab Ali
Khan Bahadur gained a repute for his far reachingsocial reforms. His son was a brilliant statesman.The third in line held the office of PM for only twoyears before retiring to a life of travelling theworld, purchasing extraordinary objets dart.
Which family?
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The Salar Jungs
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The Salar Jungs
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Its ideology is "Social Transformation andEconomic Emancipation" of the people whohave been the victims of the "Manuwadi"system for thousands of years.
It created a record of sorts when it fieldedcandidates in all the 234 constituencies for the2011 Tamil Nadu elections.
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Bahujan Samaj Party
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______ ____makes a cheekycomeback wentheadlines a few
weeks ago, relivinga 1978 pop culturesuper seller.
Just fill in theblanks.
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Athenas famous Tennis Girl poster
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One of this products most famous ads with a
one word headline appeared to disparage theproduct itself. On closer read, you learn thatthe companys inspection techniques are sostringent that one in 50 pieces is discardedby engineers as a _____.
Name the product, and give the good word.
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VolksWagen
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Four decades later,this is now being
cited as a key sourceof inspiration forwhat?
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Mad Men
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Who lives here? And how would you associatethis with a premium liquid made in the suburb
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The Polish President
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Its historical moniker was Helen of theWest, because the island, populated
primarily by people of African origin,changed hands between the British andFrench empires 14 times. In a stunningdefiance of statistical probability, the islandhas produced two Nobel laureates DerekWalcott for literature, and the late Sir ArthurLewis for economics. Castries, the capital
city, is hot, congested but still charming. Inthe Central Market, vendors chatter inKweyol, a French patois. Which place?
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St Lucia
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Where is this shot?
(Video removed Sadaa Haq from Rockstar)
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Dharamsala - during the process ofshooting when the locals heard the song, they
all ganged up to convince Imtiaz to convert
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40 - SVC
7 Visuals No maximizers
Show theme in writing to QMs
Set 1: +3, -2
Set 2: +2, -1
Set 3: +1, 0 (Only 1 attempt allowed in Set 3)
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SVC ANSWERS
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERRY
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AMBROSE BIERCE
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LIONEL BUSTER CRABB
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JIMMY HOFFA
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MICHAEL ROCKEFELLER
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AMELIA EARHARDT
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NETAJI BOSE
THEME: Disappearances/Not found dead/Legallydeclared dead etc
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declared dead etc
Antoine De Saint-Exupery Disappeared in 1944after an air shootout, body never found
Ambrose Bierce Last heard from in Mexico,disappeared or executed by fighting squad
Lionel Buster Crabb after a botched minedetonation near a Russian ship, various theories but
none conclusive about how he died, if he is alive Jimmy Hoffa from a parking lot in Detroit Michael Rockefeller disappeared in New Guinea,
presumed dead
Amelia Earhart Last heard from near HowlandIsland
Netaji Bose Alleged plane crash en route to Tokyo
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