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Gustavo Santaolalla’s theme

Save Tonight

Everybody

A R Rahman is said to have copied from these songs.


Exactly 25 years ago to this day, a phenomenon called Black Monday happened around the world. Originating in Hong Kong, it quickly spread to Europe and culminated in the US. A group of 33 eminent professionals from various nations met in Washington, D.C. in December, and collectively predicted that “the next few years could be the most troubled since the 1930s”. What are we talking about?

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Black Monday refers to the largest percentagewise crash of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

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What comes next?


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“That’s one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind.”


This famous fictional character was created on the lines of Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot and Father Brown by GK Chesterton by a famous Indian novelist. Initially serialized in the literary magazine Basumati, the stories and novels were all eventually published in hardcover editions. He wrote a total of 33 stories involving this character, and it was adapted into a TV series by Doordarshan. Who and what character?

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Byomkesh Bakshi, written by Saradindu Bandopadhyaya

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• Linus Pauling• John Bardeen• Frederick Sanger

One more person would make this list exhaustive. Who and why?

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• Linus Pauling• John Bardeen• Frederick Sanger• Marie Curie

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X “one who yawns” was a prominent leader of the Bedonkohe Apache who fought against Mexico and the United States for their expansion into Apache tribal lands for several decades during the Apache Wars. X was the name given to him during a battle with Mexican soldiers. His Chiricahua name is often rendered as Goyathlay or Goyahkla. His name was recently mired in controversy because of its usage by US Security forces as name of a mission, also known as Mission Neptune Spear in 2011. Who is X?

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X is Geronimo.

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This 1998 British neo-noir film was directed by X on a shoestring budget of $6000. Scenes were heavily rehearsed so that just one or two takes were needed, thus economising on 16 mm film stock, the production's greatest expense. Without expensive professional lighting equipment, X mostly used available light. Apart from providing the script and direction, X also did the photography, editing and production himself. It has had a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 76% and an IMDb rating of 7.6, and is considered as one of the greatest no budget films of its time. Identify X and the film.

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X is Christopher Nolan and the film is The Following.

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Identify the person.


Rajkumar Hirani

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They created a game X as an expansion of a classic selection method game Y to reduce the chances of a draw, popularised by a sitcom Z. Identify X, Y and Z .

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Sam Kass Karen Bryla


X = Rock, Paper, Scissors

Y = Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock

Z = The Big Bang Theory

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What happened in therest of the match?


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X claimed that Y to the Z’s name came from a 1971 incident while he was going around Europe as a young man with a copy of Y to Europe, and while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck and looking up at the stars, thought it would be a good idea for someone to write Y to the Z as well. However, X later claimed that he had told this story so many times that he had forgotten the incident itself, and only remembered himself telling the story. What are X, Y and Z?

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X = Douglas Adams

Y = Hitchhiker’s Guide

Z = Galaxy

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Waiting for Godot is an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett, in which the lead characters wait endlessly for someone who never comes. In 1979, a theatre group called Motley founded by Tom Alter, Benjamin Gilani and X performed it at Prithvi Theatre. This play was referenced in a 2008 youthful romcom in its last scene, starring both X and his wife (who, however, are not the lead pair). Name X and the film.

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X = Naseeruddin Shah

The movie is Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na.

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When an ad agency Advertising and Sales Promotion clinched the deal, the owner of the agency Sylvester da Cunha and Art Director Eustace Fernandez executed an idea, with suggestion from Y, which they thought would grab the attention of every housewife in the country. It did, and now it is the world’s oldest running ad campaign. Identify the ad campaign and the person Y.

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X = Dr Verghese Kurien

The ad campaign are the Amul ads and specifically, the Amul girl.

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This featured in the blog of a very famous website. Which website?


www.thepiratebay.se

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His elder brother is an actor and an Academy Award winning director. He decided to follow a career in Natural Science, and is best known for writing and presenting Life series on BBC. He is the only person to have won BAFTA in Black and White, Colour, HD and 3D. He is considered a national treasure in Britain and was named among the 100 Greatest Britons. Name him.

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David Attenborough

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Who and in what language?


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J R R Tolkien reciting in Elvish


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Identify the logo.


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MGM’s short lived “Stylized Lion” logo.


In the Valmiki Ramayana, Ravana drags Sita out of her cottage and takes her into his Vimana. Tamil poet Kamban was not pleased with this arrangement as he did not want Ravana to touch Sita at all. So in his version of Ramayana, he made a slight change in the kidnapping scene. What?

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In his Ramayana, Ravana uproots their cottage and takes it with him to Lanka.

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The premise of the 1988 British comedy film Without a Clue is that X is a fictional character created by Y to enable him to solve crimes incognito during a period when he was applying for a post at a reclusive medical practice. Although he failed to get the position, to satisfy public demand to see Y in person, he hires alcoholic unemployed actor Reginald Kincaid to play him, but later on fires him, only to bring him back for a mystery involving the Bank of England. Actor Micheal Caine played the role of the alcoholic actor and Z played Y. Identify X,Y and Z.

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X = Sherlock Holmes

Y = John Watson

Z = Ben Kingsley

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Mahatma Gandhi on silver screen

1.Rachit Kapoor - Making of The Mahatma

2.Raju Hirani - Lage Raho Munnabhai

3.Naseeruddin Shah - Hey Ram

4.Richard Attenborough - Gandhi

5.Ben Kingsley - Gandhi

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