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  • 1. QUIZ 6

2. Identify this young singer . 3. Neevan Nigam 4. In 2004, he joined the All IndiaTrinamool Congress , a party in WestBengal,India.He is currently the vice-president of All India TrinamoolCongress. In 2009 he was made thehead of the Passenger ServicesCommittee of the Indian Railways,under Railway and TrinamoolCongress leader Mamata Banerjee.InJuly 2011, he was nominated for one ofsix seats in the Rajya Sabha from WestBengal by the Trinamool Congress.Hewas sworn in as Member ofParliament on August 19, 2011.identify this person. 5. Derek o brien 6. The Protestant 7. Question 4 James Murray with his unique Scriptorium , with more than 1000 pigeon holes constructed in house for what ? ( He created a book ) 8. The Oxford English Dictionary 9. The Mullaiperiyar dam, the subject of somuch controversy in recent times, is locatedin Kerala, but has been leased to Tamil Naduafter a 1886 treaty between the thenTravancore State and the Madras Presidency.For how many years is this lease? 10. 999 11. During an audience interview at the EdinburghBook Festival (15 April 2004) the author said:"Does anyone know where X came from? It isan ancient spell in Aramaic, and it is theoriginal of Y, which means let the thing bedestroyed. Originally, it was used to cureillness and the thing was the illness, but Idecided to make it the thing as in the personstanding in front of me. I take a lot of libertieswith things like that. I twist them round andmake them mine.Id X or Y. 12. X Avada KadaveraY Abra Cadabra 13. Identify the logo .( Hint : IT company whichBecame popular recently ) 14. Datawind 15. Energy giving food items.Ladoos Chotta BheemSpinach PopeyePoppins Ram and Shyam 16. If Burj Dubai : Dubai Taipei 101 : Taiwan India tower : Mumbai ( under construction ) Burj Al hind : Calicut ( tallest in Kerala )---------------- : Trivandrum . ( CURRENTLY )( VISUALS FOLLOW ) 17. India Tower Burj Alhind Taipei 101 18. Co bank towers 19. Born Aliaune Badara Thiam as the son of Senegalese percussionist Mor Thiam, he was raised in a musical setting and taught to play several instruments including the djembe . Most of his songs begin with the sound of the clank of a jail cells door. Lady Gaga and T-Pain are two artists who were given their chance at fame by him . Just name this artist. 20. Akon 21. The original concept was developed by Jaakko Iisalo and its mechanics is said to have been inspired from a previous game called Crush the Castle. Identify this game that Salman Rushdie claims to be a master at. 22. Angry Birds 23. This is a new fontdevised by a team ledby Leo Burnett andwas called X fontbecause it resembled acommodity possesedby X . Identify X or thefont . 24. Gandhi font 25. A list of some of the major honours received by thisgentleman. Who, and what is the missing honour?Guggenheim Fellowship (1991-92)Fellow of the Royal Society (elected 2003)Member, National Academy of Sciences, USA (elected2004)Datta Medal and Lecture, FEBS annual meeting, (2007)Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine (2007)Heatley Medal, British Biochemical Society (2008)Foreign Member, Indian National Science Academy(elected 2008)Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge (elected 2008)_____________ (2009)Knight Bachelor for services to Molecular Biology (2012,Queens New Year Honours List) 26. The missing award is the Nobel prize for chemistry and the person is Venketaraman Ramakrishnan . 27. Connect 28. Six sixes in an over 29. Madan mohan Malavya went to the Nizam of Hyderabad asking for a donation . Nizam got angry at this gesture and threw his footwear at Madan .Madan picked up the footwear and left silently .He went to the marketplace directly and began to auction the footwear .When the Nizam heard of this he became uneasy. He thought that it would be an insult if someone bought his footwear for a pittance . So he sent one of his attendents with the instruction , Buy that footwear no matter what the bidding price may be Thus Madan managed to sell the Nizams own footwear to him for a huge amount . For what purpose did he use that money ? 30. The Hindu Benaras University 31. This happened for the first time in 1938 due to floods , in 1968 due to Martin Luther Kings assasination and in 1981 due to the Reagan assasination attempt . What are we talking about ? 32. Oscars got cancelled 33. Up he got andHome he did trotTo old Dame BobWho patched his knobWith vinegar and brown paperThese are the less popular last lines of which song ?Give an 8 letter word for a nervous disorder withseizures accompanied by changes of electric currentsin the brain . 34. Jack and Jill went up the hill 35. Give an 8 letter word for anervous disorder withseizures accompanied bychanges of electriccurrents in the brain . 36. Epilepsy 37. What recoed does hehold in the IPL ? 38. Maximum runs in an over. 39. CONNECT . 40. NATO Phonetic alphabetsC ChaplinB- BravoO- OscarE EchoG- GolfI - India