Answers to "The Eighth Entry"

Here are the answers to the eighth one:

1. Vajpayee (All these are surnames originated from the different forms of "kingly" yagyas in the ancient times. chakravaerty from "rajachakeravarty yagya", Rajadhyaksha from "Rajasuya Yagya", Ashwin Rao from "Ashwamedh Yagya and Vajpayee from "Vajpeya Yagya").
2. Kamasutra. One of the 64 arts a lady needs to know is cryptography.
3. Election of the pope in vatican city.
4. Roja.
5. The "cross".
6. Zakir Hussain-the tabla maestro.
7. Madhuri Dixit as featured in M F Hussains Paintings.
8. H5N1 virus (Bird Flu).
9. Types of Quarks.
10. Ram killed Baali in Ramayana, shooting him with an arrow, hiding behind the bushes. Baali re-incarnated was the hunter, Ram ( Vishnu) re-incarnated was Krishna.
11. Blue-tooth technology.
12. Braille.
13. Outlook follywood awards.
14. Arthur Conan Doyle.
15. Religious Controversy. Jyllends Posten was the Danish newspaper carrying Prophet's cartoons. Minelli is the french company recently took out shoes with images of ram.
16. Allahabad, Nasik, Ujjain and Haridwar. The sites of the Mahakumbh Mela.
17. Pakistan.
18. X= Basil D Oliviera. This resulted in the cricketing ban on Y=South Africa.
19. Alice in Wonderland Syndrome.
20. No other words in English rhyme with these.
21. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
22. PINCODE in India.
23. A series of football matches and unruly crowd behavior!
24. No child labour involved.
25. The wood of the cross came from Aspen which was used in Jesus' s crucifixion. Thats why they "tremble in shame".
26. Earlier US crossover points were called "Alpha" and "Bravo". Charlie was the next corresponding to "C" in international phonetic alphabet code.
27. Mangal Pandey.
28. First words spoken on the telephone by A G Bell.
29. Olympian. The frou greek national festivals.
30. Supposedly contains formula 7X. coke's secret formula.