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1

What ceramicmaterial could onepossibly connect thisimage to ?

Nuclear Meltdown known as CHINA SYNDROME .

Ceramic , therefore is CHINA .

2

Take direction from A to B’s water body .

A B

Take direction from Sir Edwin Southern ,inventor of the Southern Blot – SOUTH

Water body of Cathay Pacific – PACIFIC

So , you get SOUTH PACIFIC

3

Which two places does this bridge connect ?

This is the BRIDGE OF NO RETURN in the Demilitarized Zone and connects North and South Koreas .

4

Where did he get operated ?

Operation Paul Bunyan or the Axe MurderIncident happened near Panmunjom , a villagein the DMZ between North and South Korea .

The figure , of course , is of Paul Bunyan , themythological American Lumberjack .

5

This is not to be measured in water or air .

What may result ?

Electronystagmography ( ENG ) , ie the measurement of nystagmus , when done on LAND , would give us ENG + LAND = ENGLAND

6

Take out the head from A , take out the jumbled nail fromB’s cycle pattern and take out the mgmt institute from C .

What would you end up with ?

A

B

C

• Take out the head , ie Cephalon from Diencephalon ( A ) , you get DIEN

• Carrot ( B ) takes 2 yrs to complete a life-cycle . So , its a Biennial plant . Take out the jumbled nail , ie nial from Biennial , you get BIEN

• Take out the mgmt institute from the floating Phumdi , you get PHU ( mgmt instt being MDI , Gurgaon )

• So , you end up with DIEN BIEN PHU

7

The maiden decided to go offline and addthe animal as a pet with the condition that it come without the unknown .

What happened as a result ?

• Brooke Shields’ maiden name is Brooke . She decided to go offline , so drop the ‘e’ and we get BROOK . If she decides to add a Lynx to her kitty sans ‘x’ which is the unknown qty , you get LYN .

• BROOK + LYN = BROOKLYN

8

Where ?

• DISNEYLAND

9

• What would a pest affecting his brother be known as ?

• Attila the Hun’s brother was BLEDA , known as BUDA in native language ( Hungarian ) . So , a pest affecting him would be BUDAPEST .

10

What would happen if somebody took the numberless A to B’s capital to avoid a knock-out ?

A B

• A – Amino acid Alanine , take out the number which here is Nine and we end up with ALA

• B – Mali , capital being Bamako , avoid the knock-out or KO , you have BAMA

• ALA + BAMA = ALABAMA

11

This klingon got boredof his name and decidedto reverse his alias .

What was his new name ?

• Tom Lister Jr . , famous wrestler , played the role of Klaang , the first ever klingon to make contact with the humans in the pilot episode of the TV series Star Trek : Enterprise .

• His alias is ‘Zeus’ . Reverse it and you get SUEZ

12

• A’s most famous creation decided to drop B as a friend and instead adopt C as a friend .

• What resulted ?

A B C

• EB White’s ( A ) most famous creation Stuart Little decided to drop Stuart Law ( B ) as a friend and befriend Kid Rock ( C ) instead .

• So , we get ( Stuart Little – Stuart + Rock ) = Little Rock

13

What ?

• The Bridge over River Kwai

14

• He went anonymous after giving away the first blood group from his surname .

• How would we then know him ?

• If Sebastian Loeb went anonymous by loosing the first blood group ( O in this case ) from his surname , he would be known as Leb + Anon = Lebanon

15

A + B + C = ??

• Bear + Flag + Republic = Bear Flag republic , alternate name for the California Republic , the precursor of modern day California

16

• Use the blood group instead of the indefinite article .

• This is the CONGA . Use the blood group ( O here ) instead of the indefinite article ( A ) . So , Conga becomes CONGO .

17

• Er , No , the later one .. Just keep the rest .

• Take out the -er from Berliner , you get Berlin

18

• What’s being ridiculed here ?

• The Bay of Pigs invasion

19

A + B + C = ??

A B

C

• Assam Rifles ( AR ) + Antibody ( AB ) + Indian Airlines ( IA ) = ARABIA

20

Just identify the man / place .

• Max Yasgur at his farm , the venue of WOODSTOCK in 1969

21

• What would this scary author be known as if he had pallor ?

• If RL Stine had pallor , he would become Pale + Stine = Palestine

22

• If A named his autobiography the same way B named his , then what would A’s autobiography be known as ?

A B

• Steve Wozniak’s ( B ) autobiography was named iWoz taking the first three letters of his surname , so Naved ul-Hasan Rana’s ( A ) autobiography would be known as iRan / Iran .

23

• What does this Russian monument commemorate ?

• The Soviet War in Afghanistan ; monument in Moscow

THE THEME• China• South Pacific• North Korea• South Korea• Panmunjom• England• Dien Bien Phu• Brooklyn• Disneyland • Budapest• Alabama• Suez

• Little Rock• Bridge over River Kwai• Lebanon• California• Congo• Berlin• Bay of Pigs• Arabia• Woodstock• Palestine• Iran• Afghanistan

Places mentioned in the Quizzer’s Song ,Billy Joel’s “We didn’t start the fire”

THANK YOU !