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questions will qualify• If a tie still persist, sudden death would be applied.• Quizmaster’s decision is final and binding.

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Which town in the Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradesh was founded by the grandfather of an ex-IPL commissioner?

2

Gustav Eiffel was the architect behind the magnificent Eiffel Tower. His one another famous work was X, who’s sculptor is said have used his mother as an inspiration for X’s face and his wife for X’s body.

What is X?

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What vehicle did J C Bamford gave his name to?

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The motto of which famous organization reads “Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity” ?

5

The puzzle, known as Number Place in the US, was first published in New York in the late 1970s by the puzzle publisher Dell in its magazine Math Problems and Logic Puzzles. It became immensely popular in the UK in 2005, stimulating international interest.

What is its popular name which is also the Japanese for ‘single number’?

6This event has recently gone viral on social media and has become a pop culture phenomenon, particularly in the United States, with numerous celebrities, politicians, athletes, and everyday Americans posting videos of themselves online and on TV participating in the event.According to The New York Times people shared more than 1.2 million videos on Facebook between June 1 and August 13 and mentioned the phenomenon more than 2.2 million times on Twitter since July 29.

Mashable called the phenomenon "the Harlem Shake of the summer”.

What famous event which has very made its way through Bollywood as well?

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According to the Stress Management Centre in the US, the country suffers a loss of approx. $800-900 million on this particular day, due to people avoiding business.

Also, on the same day in Holland, accidents are fewer as people tend to be more careful.

Which day?

8

X is a worldwide movement for the planet organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). It was famously started as a lights-off event in Sydney, Australia in 2007. Since then it has grown to engage more than 7000 cities and towns worldwide.The event is held worldwide towards the end of March annually, encouraging individuals, communities, households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights for one hour.

Give X.

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With a chemical name of p-acetylaminophenol, this drug is used for the relief of headaches, other minor aches and pains and is a major ingredient in numerous cold and flu remedies. The toxicity of this drug is the foremost cause of acute liver failure in the Western world.

How do we commonly know this drug?

10

X, the CEO of Y, took an online test and realized that he was red-green colorblind. According to The New Yorker, X had quoted “_____ is the richest color for me, I can see all of it,” during one of his interviews.

Hence the prominence of _____ in Y.

Identify X and Y?

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If it was not '#twerk', '#showrooming', '#Bitcoin' or ‘#binge-watch'. Then what was it?

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In the phonetic alphabet, A is referred as Alpha, B as Bravo, C as Charlie and so on.

One alphabet is referred to by the name of a country.

Which alphabet and country?

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This word is of Italian origin, and in Italian refers to a male or female "bartender", who typically works behind a counter, serving both hot drinks (such as espresso), and cold alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.

This word is also the name of a well known brand in India.

Identify.

14

This large global skin-and-body care brand is named after its flagship product, a creamy white emulsion of water, added with Eau De Toilette and named after Nivis, the Latin term for snow.

Name this brand

15

These are the other titles from .GEARS Studios. What is their most famous title?

16

This movie was an official remake of which Indian movie?

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This was an ad by Quikr after which event/incident?

18This is a 1934 logo of a company depicting Bodhisattva Kwan’on. Which company?

19

Simply identify the person on left.

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Identify the advertiser.

21

What do these images collectively depict?