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The answers are in A-Z Format.

This is a 13-feet tall bronze sculpture in Illinois, by Lorado Taft, depicts a mother-figure wearing academic robes and flanked by two attendants

Learning and Labor. This is basically a term that originates from

ancient Rome as a title for mother goddesses like Ceres, later the term was used in

Christianity for Virgin Mary. Identify the statue.

ALMA MATER

Jeopardy! is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin. The show features a quiz competition in which contestants are presented with general knowledge clues in the form of answers, In a show of April 19, 2011 B(a political party) was a clue for $2000 in a category called “Mad Tea Party”.B was founded in objection to new policy changes by the Libertarian Party announced at its Oregon convention in 2006 by a group of former Libertarian Party (LP) members, Thomas L Knapp was its founder, however the party dissolved in July 22, 2012. The party focused on Ronald Paul’s campaign for Liberty i.e. Educate Americans in freedom, sound money, non-interventionism, free markets, and related positions of candidates at all levels of government.

BOSTON TEA PARTY

C is a French word which appear to have had antecedents in Mexico and Central America around the 9th century, in North America they were using plants but in Spain they introduced fine paper in 17th century and the product was called papelate, in 1830 when it crossed France it took the name in which we know it today, manually 27 of them could be made in a minute before Bonsack built this machine which increased its production to nearly 8times with 200/minute, he took the patent in 1880 and his invention revolutionized the industry.

CIGARETTE

Tom sums up his life as a "great Horatio Alger story," his father died on Christmas Eve when he was 4. His mother sent him to a Michigan orphanage run by Polish nuns, after being a college dropout he joined Marine Corps before supervising newspaper boys for the out-of-town papers. One day in 1960, his brother told him about a shop in Ypsilanti, Mich that a friend of his was running, having financial problems he joined the shop. ”The plan was for me to work half the night and my brother to work the other half. But it didn't work because he didn't want to leave his full-time job as a mailman. Within about eight months he wanted out, and I bought him out by giving him the Volkswagen we used for deliveries. I bought another place and then another. All three were in the same county, and I wanted to get them all under the same name, I decided we'd put three dots on the logo because we had three stores, and every time we added one, we'd add a dot.”

DOMINOS

The deadly Ebola virus is no joking matter in today's circumstances, but in 1995 it was apparently a different story. Few people knew or cared about Ebola, with one exception being Pierre, who for some reason had a fascination with the virus. When Pierre launched E in 1995, it wasn't a site we know it today. It was mostly an assortment of information on things that interested him, with Ebola being high on the list, an "offbeat tribute to the Ebola virus", including a photo of the virus and links to news stories on outbreaks. How do we better know the site?

He Suffered from asthma, earaches and sinus problems. A doctor treated his sinusitis by inserting a pellet of radium into each of his nostrils. Nasal imagery and references appear in his music and lyrics, childhood diseases may have been due to exposure to mustard gas, released by the nearby chemical warfare facility.Introduced by Vachlav Havel was one of the special ambassadors of culture and tourism in Czechkoslovakia, a band PPU in Prague took its name from one of his songs.When he was asked to fill in the Fathers religion in his sons birth certificate, the atheist wrote “MUSICIAN”

FRANK ZAPPA, The Plastic People of the Universe(PPU) took its name from Zappa’s Plastic People

The Biggest Loser is an American competition reality show that debuted on NBC October 19, 2004. The show features obese people competing to win a cash prize by losing the highest percentage of weight relative to their initial weight.In September 2012 they used a mansion named after an American businessman G(surname) purchased in 1926 based on Spanish Colonial Revival Architecture, after G’s death it was successively sold to director Clarence Brown, Bob Hope, Elizabeth Clare Prophet before it was opened to the public for Park in 2007, G is famous for a major discovery in 1901 and forming his own company in 28 September, 1901

Gillette/Gillette mansion

Hocus Pocus is a term currently used by magicians, usually the magic words spoken when bringing about some sort of change. It was once a common term for a magician, juggler, or other similar entertainer. It is believed the word H was coined in the late 18th century as a contraction of the verb hocus, which means "to cheat", The term is occasionally used in reference to urban legends and rumours.

HOAX

‘I’ never wrote an autobiography nor did he authorize any official written account of his life, so there are discrepancies regarding when and where he was born, he was born to Andreas who converted from Roman Catholicism to Islam, he was forced to join the British Army in WWII and served in Burma Campaign, he was an Athlete in the British Army, 6ft 4 inchs tall he was the light heavyweight boxing champion of his country from 1951-60, and was also a Swimmer, and with that a brilliant Rugby Forward, played for Nile RFC. There is a myth that he was replaced for the East African team in the 1955 Rugby match against British Lions though his name doesn’t feature the list nor does he feature in the photograph. He was a huge fan of Hayes Football club.

[A very bad hint: Sourav Ganguly]

IDI AMIN DADA

Recently Inzamam Ul Haq released his Best XI on “Greats who never won a World Cup”, SaaedAnwar, Sourav Ganguly, Lara, Kallis, Dravid, Crowe, Botham, Kumble, Waqar, Donald, Ambrose.Who is the 12th man?

JONTY RHODES

Cricket plays an integral role as both the match & the film is set in the same time period. The director had even shot some dummy scenes lest he wasn’t allowed to use the original footage, but thankfully, it wasn’t required. The director confirms, “We’ve got the rights to the famous match. It was a historic win for the Indian team, and I’m very thankful to the BCCI.” “We could not have used the general footage as everyone in India remembers that match ball-by-ball,” said Manish Hariprasad, creative director(UTV). Which match? Which film?

KAI PO CHE!, KOLKATA TEST 2001

The guy below is a Swedish teacher, aged 23, Jonathan Brack."I wanted to place hundreds but my friend told me not to waste my money on such a stupid thing."After he left I placed 80 Kronas (£7) on the bet.“Jonathan says he now intends to spend some of his winnings travelling to a Premier League game in England."I hope I can get someone to travel with me."I've never been to Old Trafford before so that could be nice.“ said the die hard ManU fan who was one of the 167 people to benefit from the incident. Which incident is talked about here?

LUIZ SUAREZ WILL BITE IN WORLD CUP 2014

Miss Grable and Mr. Haymes are neither given nor deserve a script if the caliber of their performances is a valid criterion, and several other minor actors behave ridiculously in silly roles. There is no more voltage in "The Shocking Miss Pilgrim" than in a badly used dry cell.- This was a 1947 review of New York Times, talking about minor actors being silly who made debut in this movie as a telephone operator?

MARILYN MONROE

Past Continuous is a 1977 novel originally written in Hebrew by Israeli novelist Yaakov Shabtai(translated in English). Past Continuous happens to be another popular novel about an orphan called Ritwik Ghosh, who grows up in the by lanes of south Kolkata amid a crowd of suspicious and nosy relatives. He escapes to Oxford on a scholarship, but grows up suddenly as he discovers his true self and chooses to be an illegal gay wanderer on the streets of London and in its public toilets. The book was released in a different name in UK, but this book won the Vodafone Crossword Prize. Identify the author.

NEEL MUKHERJEE

(O) is the 15th letter of the greek alphabet, in Greek numericals it has a value of 70, It is rarely used in mathematics because it is indistinguishable from the Latin letters O, o and easily confused with the digit 0. The upper-case letter of (O) was originally used in mathematics as a symbol for Big O notation . (O) is frequently used to designate the fifteenth star in a constellation group, the last of these stars(better known as Atik) is well-known due to its use as a setting in science fiction, including Star Trek, Mystery Science Theater3000, Transformers, and Futurama. Just like Omega means Great O, this is the opposite-“Little O”.

OMICRON

Souram Singh(Hanumanta) is a retired army subedar born in 1959 who presently resides in the Jhansi district of Uttar Pradesh. His dad too was an Indian soldier who loved having multi-colored German icecreams, icecreams with gulabjamun, had fascination for softy icecreams. Height of 6ft 1inch his dad also had a record of reaching a bar of icecreamto a senior officers residence within 5 mins allowing it to not melt, who was his infamous dad who joined army for Food?

Sin City: Video, what is so special about this scene which many believe had the worst script but best execution

ONLY SCENE DIRECTED BY QUENTIN TARANTINO

When introducing the iPhone 4, Steve Jobs said the number of pixels needed for a R is about 326 PPI for a device held 10 to 12 inches from the eye. One way of expressing this as a unit is pixels-per-degree (PPD) which takes into account both the screen resolution and the distance from which the device is viewed. Based on Jobs' magic number of 326, the threshold for a R starts at the PPD value of 53 PPD. The distance is calculated by the formula

Raymond Soneira, president of Display Mate Technologies, has challenged Apple's claim. He says that the physiology of the human eye is such that there must be at least 477 pixels per inch in a pixelated display for the pixels to become imperceptible to the human eye at a distance of 12 inches

The astronomer and science blogger Phil Plait notes, however, that, "if you have [better than 20/20] eyesight, then at one foot away the iPhone 4S's pixels are resolved. The picture will look pixelated. If you have average eyesight [20/20 vision], the picture will look just fine, so in my opinion, what Jobs said was fine. Soneira, while technically correct, was being picky."

Born in 1986 this actor started his life as a bus conductor, met with an accident in 2015. While adopting his screen name he used the last 2 letters of his maiden/original name because it meant silence. On his first trip to Bollywood he was not allowed to enter the studio, had glimpses of Raju Hirani, Sanjay LeelaBhansali, Karan Johar and wished to work with them but in vain, his last movie(yet to be released) is SORRY!

He is the dictator of which country?

TOMANIA

Crazy Eights is a game that originated in Venezuela, pre extension of Irish Switch or Mau Mau, while playing this game with his son Merle Robbins(a barber from Ohio) had a heated argument about the rules, to resolve the issue he invented a new game, he saved $8000 to create the first 5000 decks and sold from his barber shop. Merle Robbins passed away in 1984, but his creation is now an addiction in classrooms. What did he invent?

Uno

In the year 1801 Napolean Bonaparte started this Prize(V prize) to honor a great discovery, demonstrated at the French Academy of Sciences, the prize was kept in the name of the person who received it for the first time, in 1880 Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone and received this prize, with the prize money he established the V Laboratory with his V fund, and then the V bureau presently known as Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, a resource, support network and advocate for listening, learning, talking and living independently with hearing loss

VOLTA PRIZE

India and Pakistan have met each other on 6 occasions in World Cups, India winning all 6 times, in these 6 clashes Venkatesh Prasad holds the record for Best Bowling figures in a match for India(in 1999 World Cup), who holds the Best Bowling Figures in a match for Pakistan?

WAHAB RIAZ

Ground was broken on June 28, 1965, and the building-which stands 444 feet above street level-was fully occupied by August 1968. This is the tallest building in Rochester, and third tallest in New York outside New York City. Buckingham Properties took over the property management in August 2013 and has hired an on-site manager for the building, Mark Glickman, who previously worked in facilities management for the University of Rochester

XEROX TOWER

Y is an international celebration held every April 12 to

commemorate milestones in space exploration often called the "World Space Party“, the first time Y was held was on April 12, 2001, exactly 40 years after the launch of Vostok 1. In 2013, Y was celebrated at over 350 events in 57 countries.

YURI’S NIGHT

The method of Z was a cryptologic technique used by the Polish Cipher Bureau before and during World War II, and during the war also by British cryptologists to decrypt messages enciphered on German Enigma machines. It was invented in October 1938. Z's device comprised a set of 26 perforated sheets. The 26 × 26 matrix represented the 676 possible starting positions of the middle and left. The sheets were punched with holes in the positions that would allow a "female" to occur.

[NOT REQUIRED: Female means sometimes (about one message in eight) one of the repeated letters in the message key enciphered to the same letter on both occasions]

ZYGALSKI SHEETS