THE 18th Entry ---TT31Aug 2006

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1.Who is the person and what has been Hidden?


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2. Identify the captain of this ship on which Charles Darwin travelled and documented most of his findings?

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3. Identify the person and what is his claim to fame?

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4.Who is this famous hollywood actress?

5. What unit of measurement literally means "To embrace" and is defined by an act of the British Parliament as "the length of a swain's arms around the object of his affections" ?

6. What famous computer software is owned by NULLSOFT?

7. Who was the first poet to be buried in the Poet's corner of Westminster's Abbey?

8. I am the greatest Sitar player of the generation. I refused the Padma Vibushan, because the Government chose to honour Pandit Ravishankar with the Bharat Ratna and I would not accept anything less than that.
Who is he?

9. “I started my working career in August 1951. I married in October 1952. Both my working career and marriage are concurrent and successful. Success has mainly been possible because of a woman who married me. She is Swarn.
She is understanding, a motivator and comforting when the going gets tough or rough. I am grateful to Swarn for all these years of togetherness and happiness”
This is a such a lovely piece of expression by someone who had shaped Indian IT sector! He was born in Peshawar, the author of “The IT Revolution in India”, started his career with Tata Power and a Padma Bhusan recepient in 2002 . Identify the person.

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10. Identify the family

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12. This leading joint-stock company based in London had changed its flag thrice. Identify


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13. Identify this award

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14. Which English term was coined from this connection?

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15. This is a rock band former by three Australian cricketers. Shane Lee, Brett Lee, Gavin Robertson. The name came from the rule of the club cricket, that if you hit a Six, you are out. Name it.

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16. Identify the brand

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17. Name this stadium located in Bolton, Lancashire.

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18. Who is she and how is she infamous?

19. What are the tricks of divide and rule, importance of being careful in making friends, perils of natural enemies becoming friends, losing what you already have in hand and disastrous effects of saying things without proper forethought together called ?

20. Her real name was Rhodopis. One morning while bathing in the Nile, the beautiful Rhodopis saw an eagle snatch up one of her slippers which she had left on the sand. The bird carried the sandal to Memphis, 500 miles away, and there he dropped it into the lap of the Egyptian king Mycerinus as he sat administering royal justice. After many difficulties, the king married Rhodopis and made her the Queen of Egypt. It was in honour of her that he built the Third Pyramid of Gizeh. But who was Rhodopis ?

the 17th enrty ---Quiz.ppt

conducted by Gitanjali Singh ??

1. There is no theory of evolution just a bunch of animals __ __ allows to live.
The chief export of __ __ is pain.
Guns don’t kill people __ __ kills people.
__ __ has two speeds Walk and Kill.
__ __ does not sleep. He waits.
__ __ does not go hunting people. __ __ goes killing.

2. What is known as Double Quink or Parker 51 ink?

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4. Frigga the Norse goddess of love and fertility had a son called Baldur. When he was born Frigga made every plant, animal and inanimate object promise not to harm Baldur, but she overlooked the __ plant. Loki the mischievous god tricked other Gods into killing Baldur using a spear from __. Baldur the vegetation deity died bringing winter in the world. Frigga’s tears became the plant’s white berries and restored Baldur’s life. After which Frigga pronounced __ sacred ordering that from now on it should bring love rather than death, thus came the famous tradition of kissing under the __ whenever a couple passes under the plant.

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5. This internationally acclaimed mascot is an advertising icon and mascot of __. When poked in the stomach, he makes a short giggling noise, lightly grabs his stomach, and smiles. Thought up by a copywriter of Leo Burnett when he was sitting in his kitchen under the pressure to create a campaign and imagined a dough boy popping out.
Name the mascot.

6. What am I doing – the term for this activity.
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7. Identify the pair.

8. There are groups of women in US who often go up in arms for the cause of Women's rights and other exploitation issues. Once this group staged a massive protest against the publication of Playboy which they said portrayed women as sex objects. Playboy in turn argued that the magazine was not only bought by people for the pictures but for the educative and informative articles in them. They gave a very strong proof to support this argument. What ?

9. What do you get if you count the number of times a cricket chirps in one minute, subtract it by 40, then divide it by 4 and finally add 50?

10. This liquor gets its name from Dutch for “fire wine or burnt wine” and usually contains 40–60% ethyl alcohol by volume. Unless specified otherwise, it is made from grape wine. It is normally consumed as an after-dinner drink and sometimes filled with chocolate. Kirschwasser, Himbergeeist, Cognac and Armagnac are types of this drink. Best drunk at cool room temperature. Often it is slightly warmed, by holding the glass in the cup of the palm or gently heating with a candle. Fruits like apple, plum, peach, cherry, raspberry, blackberry, and apricot can also be used to make this drink. Which spirit is being described here?
"Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink _____." – Samuel Johnson

11. Frederich Kekule witnessed a snake seizing it’s own tail in a dream, which was primarily an ancient symbol called Ourobros. He claimed that this helped him discover the shape of the molecule of an organic chemical compound. Which one?

12. Which famous brand used this ad line?
`Probably the only long-term relationship Marilyn ever enjoyed‘

13. For the first time in more than a hundred years, the product is Going Green! Organic cotton, coconut shells, recycled cardboard and natural compound-dyes will be the key ingredients. What are we talking about?

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14. ____ are areas of cereal or similar crops that have been systematically flattened to form various geometric patterns. They are used for advertising. Circlemakers.org founded by John Lundberg (UK) is into advertising by means of ___. They created numerous ___ since the mid 1990s for movies, TV shows, music videos, adverts and PR stunts. Clients to date have included Microsoft, Nike, Shredded Wheat, AMD, Hello Kitty, Pepsi, Weetabix, BBC, The Sun, Mitsubishi, O2, Big Brother, National, NBC-TV, Orange Mobile, History Channel and the Discovery Channel.

15. Back during the Internet boom days, _____was truly dynamic and innovative. And they proved it by doing things like advertising their website on fruit labels. What was innovative about their offerings was that they allowed a searcher to do natural language searching: enter a question instead of a search query.

16. What are known as ‘Old Maids’ ?

17. Fahrenheit 451 is an apocalyptic movie about a future where books are burnt out. What is so special about the credits of this movie ?

18. Which electronic gadget was earlier known as ‘Lazy Bones’ ?

19. On July 21, 1969 a song called ‘Something In The Air’ by Thunderclap Newman was the No. 1 single in the UK. What’s the special incident that led to this ?

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the 16th entry --- tt3

conducted by Biswabijoy Sen
The name of which music band was inspired by a loud call made by a Bengali cricketer while running between the wickets?
GOTCHA!!!!! IT WAS A PJ. LET ME HEAR THE ANSWERS
ITS “DURAN DURAN” – Du Run, Du Run, got it wise folks? ;-)

1. Which cricketer has led his country in the maximum number of one day internationals?

2. The name of which company is a derivation from the phrase “New Legend”?

3. What cricketing feat connects Ramnaresh Sarwan, Sandip Patil and Chris Gayle?

4. The Ecuadorian town of Cuenca is the main producer; however, the town of Montecristi has the reputation of producing the finest quality of these. They became very popular during the construction of a famous canal. What am I talking about?

5. He is known by the title "Father of Surgery.“ He is also the father of Plastic Surgery and Cosmetic Surgery since the technique that he used to reconstruct noses that were amputated as a punishment for crimes, is practiced almost unchanged in technique to this day. The first known description of several operations, including the removal of the prostate gland, the removal of cataract lenses and the draining of abscesses can be attributed to him. Who is he?

6. She wrote a coaching manual, Tennis (1928), in which She personally drew all of the illustrations. Her autobiography is called Fifteen-Thirty: The Story of a Tennis Player (1937), and she also wrote a mystery, Death Serves an Ace (1939, with Robert Murphy). She wrote articles for the Saturday Evening Post and other magazines and painted all her life, giving exhibitions of her paintings and etchings in New York galleries. Who am I talking about?

7. This former playback singer, primarily of the 80s has recently turned into prolofic gospel singer with albums such as "Nache Gayen Hum Yeshu Ke Naam, "Yeshu Jaldi Ayega" and "Keval Yeshu" among others. Who am I talking about?

8. Their real surname is Nagrath, but what surname is this Bollywood family more famously known by?

9. Which movie is the first joint production between India and Pakistan?

10. His first film as a director was, the Raj Kapoor starrer “Chhalia” in 1960. However, he hit big success only a decade later, in 1970. Out of the 20 films he made, 13 were stupendous hits, giving him an amazing 65% hit ratio. When he died he was engaged to be married to actress Nanda. Who?

11. The famous Italian restaurant chain “Olive Garden’ uses a quip by Sophia Loren on her famous figure, "Everything you see, I owe to ________" . Fill in the one missing word.

12. Which Indian company has the catchline “Building Bonds”?

13. Which extremely famous business personality was born Cara Carleton Sneed?

14. She is a gynaecologist by profession and she won the 2001 Mrs. World contest as Dr. Sarah Muffazal Lakdawala – her married name. Who am I talking about?

15. Which publication published three of the short stories from the Pulitzer prize winning book “Interpreter of Maladies”?

16. Revived after 17 years in 2005, which brand – having their main factory in jadavpur, was started by Nanigopal Maitra and Sankaracharya Maitra, who sold products made by their wives Purnima and Urmila and sister-in-law Kalpana?

17. Which bowler who once held the world record for the best bowling in ODIs now suffers from tetraplegia, which means “Paralysis of the four limbs”?

18. In what genre of music would connect the following artistes – Donna Summer, Gloria Gaynor, BoneyM, Yvonne Elliman, Bee Gees. The list is not exhaustive.

19. What is Spanish for “Higher View”?

20. Gidget the dog is the model for which brand?

the 15th entry ---TT_07803

1. Germanic and Latin speaking countries use their languages' equivalents: German Donnerstag, torsdag in Scandinavia, Italian giovedì, Spanish jueves, French jeudi. What is it in English?

2. In corporate terminology, what is the process of ‘sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible’ called?

3. What was introduced to cricket by a Kent cricketer, John Willes who actually learnt it from his sister, Christina Willes who found that her skirt was getting in the way when she tried to do something, and hence as she tried to do something new?\

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4. He was a good motorcycle racer. Racing at the Altvater in Germany in 1928 he nearly beat the German champion Walfred Winkler, but he stopped a lap early thinking that the race was over. He is the inspiration behind a celluloid masterpiece, thought that is not about his sporting achievements! Who?

5. This term owes its origin to the slaves given to Roman soldiers to reward them for performance in battle. Eventually, a person who was a slave to anything became known as this. Which word?

6. The "special" message tone of NOKIA is actually the morse code for what?

7. This term traces its origin to a opera by French composer Edmond Audran, who was a unknown entity till he churned this production out in 1880. The plotline revolves around a farm girl who would bring good luck to whoever had possession of her, provided that she stayed a virgin. The term has become integral to sports and sporting events. what?

8. The cathedral bell of the church at Emila-Romagna in Italy is rung on a special occasion apart from the usual business of the church. When?

9. Connect "aryan", "iqbal", "stumped", "the cricketer", "mujhse shaadi karogi“ and “gopichand jasoos”?

10. Lewis Hamilton, after a series of scintillating GP2 victories last season, is slated to race for Mclaren this season. There is a certain "first" associated with his debut, though some sections claim that this unique place in F1 history belongs to American William Theodore Ribbs Jnr, better known as Willy T. Ribbs. What am I talking about?

11. "There are three ways of knowing a thing. Take for instance a flame. One can be told of the flame, one can see the flame with his own eyes, and finally one can reach out and be burned by it.In this way, we seek to be burned by God."
--- said to be the guiding philosophy behind which
school of thought/mystic tradition/sect?

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14. The first known mention was in the 2nd century A.D. in a poem called De Medicina Praecepta by Serenus Sammonicus, physician to the Roman emperor Caracalla, who prescribed that the sufferer from the disease wear an amulet containing the word written in the form of an inverted cone. Possible sources are : Aramaic for "i create as i speak" or Hebrew for "it will be according to what is spoken" or even "hurl your thunderbolt even unto death". What am I talking about?

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15. It is a little known fact that he was a staunch Naxalite. But tragedy struck his family when his only brother got accidentally electrocuted and killed in a freak accident. He returned to his family and left the Naxalite fold, even though doing so meant a grave risk to his own life from the Naxalites, because this was considered a one-way road (it was an unwritten law somewhat like an Omerta, that one could not abandon the Naxalite cause once it had been embraced). This proved to be a turning point in his life and became one of the prime causes that led to his iconic status. Another lesser known fact is that he had undergone expert training in martial arts. The Highest Tax payer of the country for consecutive years from ’94 to ’99, Who am I talking about ?

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17. A. “The Eyemouth Disaster, a severe European windstorm that struck the southern coast of Scotland, specifically Berwickshire, on October 14, 1881”
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The Johnstown Flood disaster (or Great Flood of 1889)
C. The fires of January 13, 1939, in Victoria, Australia, are considered one of the worst natural bushfires (wildfires) in the world, and most certainly the single worst in Australian history as a measure of land affected.
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Oct 5, 1945
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The Edmonton tornado (31st July 1987)

F. A series of mass protests that occurred on September 8, 1978 (17 Shahrivar 1357 AP) in Tehran, Iran. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, declared martial law in response to protests against his rule. The military of Iran used deadly force, including tanks and helicopter gunships, to break up the largely peaceful demonstrators.

Negative Question :

The 14th entry--Thursday thriller final

1)This word was coined by Alfred Sauvy a french demographer. to distinguish nations that aligned themselves with neither the West nor with the Soviet Block during the Cold War Today, however, the term is frequently used to mean a completely different meaning.What’s that?

2) What is the more popular form of the word derived from these words (gaellic) uisge/uisce beatha and ( Latin) aqua vitea ?
3)This Book was published by Mc Millan & Company ,dedicated to William Rothnstein and with a splendid preface by William Butler Yeats ……..Enough said .Just Identify the book.

4)This Executive Vice President of Citibank was declared 'Finance Minister of the Year' by Euromoney and Banker's Magazine.On of the better known alumni of IBA ,he played an instrumental role in uplifting the Economic situation of his country.Identify him.

5) What is the literal meaning of the word Esplanade?

6) Massey Sahib, In Which Annie Gives it, Those Ones, Electric Moon and 'Banyan Tree',
7) This type of poetry draws its name from a north Irish Town. The rhyme scheme is usually "A-A-B-B-A", with a rather rigid meter The first, second, and fifth lines are three metrical feet the third and fourth two metrical feet.In Bengali Satyajit Ray was one of the exponents of this form.

8) El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz was a Muslim Minister and National Spokesman for the Nation of Islam. He was also founder of the Muslim Mosque, Inc. on February 21, 1965 on the first day of National Brotherhood Week he was assassinated.One of his famous quotes is “You can’t drive a knife into a man’s back nine inches, pull it out six inches, and call it progress”.Give me the name he is more commonly known as.

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9)The ship is named after the short shirt worn by the fleet-footed witch featured in the poem Tam o' Shanter written by Robert Burns. She was designed by Hercules Linton and built in 1869 at Dumbarton in Scotland, by the firm of Scott & Linton, for Captain John "Jock" "White Hat" Willis, and launched November 23 of that year.It was destined for the China tea trade, at that time an intensely competitive race across the globe from China to London, with immense profits to the ship to arrive with the first tea of the year.

10) One of the illustrious students of legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg,and his co-star in one movie ,he found acting a therapeutic outlet in a youth which saw him depressed and so impoverished he could barely afford the bus fares required to get him to his next audition. Yet by the end of the decade, he had won an Obie award for his stage work in “ The Indian Wants the Bronx” and a Tony award for “Does the Tiger Wear a Necktie?” On the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains, he is only the second actor to have three appearances on both lists.Enough said about this legend of all times.

11) Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, David Garnett, Clive Bell and John Maynard Keyns. Together they are known as ?

12) OCIC Award - Special Mention, Kinema Junpo Award, Golden Gate Award ___________________________ just fill in the blanks.

13) Photography is not like painting," he told The Washington Post in 1957. "There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative," he said. "Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever." The first person to shoot live the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp he escapes sure death from the Nazi predators six to seven times.According to Satyajit Ray he is photography personified.Identify this UN special envoy exclusively sent for Gandhi’s funeral.

14)Labelled as the most dangerous man in Europe by the allied inteliigence Colonel Otto Skorzeny took part in various daring operations in the later part of the second world war.Those include the successful abduction of Benito Mussolini from Granama prison,and two very near successful attempts to assassin and kill Marshall Tito and General Eisenhower.However he is regarded as a pioneer of a certain kind of military operations. What’s that?

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15) This student of University Of Granada had been the youngest pilot of R.A.F. For his first novel he was awarded the Edgar Allan Poe award for best novel. Incidentally he is the only person to receive it twice. Second time for a lesser-known one named there are no snakes in Ireland. He was under heavy surveillance from Interpol on suspicion that he ran an international passport forgery racket. Identify?

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16) With the greatest interest and with never slackening attention I read *****'s book, ************. Unreservedly do I recommend it to the workers of the world. Here is a book which I should like to see published in millions of copies and translated into all languages. It gives a truthful and most vivid exposition of the events so significant to the comprehension of what really is the Proletarian Revolution and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. These problems are widely discussed, but before one can accept or reject these ideas, he must understand the full significance of his decision. ***'s book will undoubtedly help to clear this question, which is the fundamental problem of the international labor movement. V. LENIN. End of 1919.

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19) An absolute master of the game he placed the significance of his sports above all political ideologies. He took part in many championships held in a country, which was at that time absolutely a forbidden territory. Unfortunately he found himself a persona-non - grata to the organizers afterwards. Identify this legend.

20)Discount Stores,Super center and Neighborhood Stores are the kinds of what?

21)Based on Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness this is one of the better war movies of all times and definitely the most controversial Vietnam movie that has been made till date.Undoubtedly a magnum opus for both the director as well as the lead role actor.And we are talking about?

22)Connect Guy Dole,Paul Reuters,St.Xavier’s College Kolkata

23)Complete the lines Some flew east, Some Flew west ……………………….

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The 13th Entry -- sad TT

1.HIT Entertainment was launched in October 1989 by the former sales team of Henson International Television, a subsidiary of Henson Associates, producers of internationally acclaimed family programming including The Muppet Show, Muppet Babies and Fraggle Rock.
The phenomenally successful catalogue of HIT preschool characters includes Bob the Builder, Barney, Kipper, Angelina Ballerina, Percy the Park Keeper, and The Magic Key. New projects in various stages of production include Oswald, Rubbadubbers, Pingu and Sheeep.
However there is one division of HIT entertainment which I guess breaks all records in terms of popularity ……Which one ???

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What is being described here ???
Top row:
Sri Yukteswar Giri (guru)
Aleister Crowley
Mae West (actress)
Lenny Bruce (comedian)
Karlheinz Stockhausen (composer)
W. C. Fields (comedian/actor)
Carl Gustav Jung (psychologist)
Edgar Allan Poe (writer)
Fred Astaire (actor/dancer)
Richard Merkin (artist)
The Vargas Girl (by artist Alberto Vargas)
Leo Gorcey (actor) (removed)
Huntz Hall (actor)
Simon Rodia (designer and builder of the Watts Towers)
Bob Dylan (singer/songwriter)
Second Row
Aubrey Beardsley (illustrator)
Sir Robert Peel (British Prime Minister)
Aldous Huxley (writer)
Dylan Thomas (poet)
Terry Southern (writer)
Dion (singer)
Tony Curtis (actor)
Wallace Berman (artist)
Tommy Handley (comic)
Marilyn Monroe (actress)
William S. Burroughs (writer)
Sri Mahavatar Babaji (guru)
Stan Laurel (comedian/actor)
Richard Lindner (artist)
Oliver Hardy (comedian/actor)
Karl Marx (political philosopher)
H.G. Wells (writer)
Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (guru)
Sigmund Freud (psychologist) - barely visible below Bob Dylan
Anonymous (wax hairdresser's dummy)

Third row:
Stuart Sutcliffe (artist/former Beatle)
Anonymous (wax hairdresser's dummy)
Max Miller (comedian)
The Petty Girl (by Artist George Petty)
Marlon Brando (actor)
Tom Mix (actor)
Oscar Wilde (writer)
Tyrone Power (actor)
Larry Bell (artist)
Dr. David Livingstone (missionary/explorer)
Johnny Weissmuller (swimmer/actor)
Stephen Crane (writer) - Issy Bonn (comedian) - his hand is above McCartney's head
George Bernard Shaw (playwright)
H.C. Westermann (sculptor)
Albert Stubbins (soccer Player)
Sri Lahiri Mahasaya (guru)
Lewis Carroll (writer)
T.E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia")
Front row:
Wax model - Sonny Liston (boxer)
The Petty Girl (by George Petty)
Wax model - George Harrison
Wax model- John Lennon
Shirley Temple (actress and diplomat)
Wax model - Ringo Starr
Wax model - Paul McCartney
Albert Einstein (physicist)
John Lennon
Ringo Starr
Paul McCartney
George Harrison
Bobby Breen (singer)
Marlene Dietrich (actress/singer)
Gandhi (Indian Leader) (removed)
Tin Tan (Mexican Actor) (Changed )
Legionnaire from the Order of the Buffalos
Diana Dors (actress)

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The historical period dates back to the Great Plague of London in 1665 (bubonic plague) or even before when the first outbreak of the Plague hit England in the 1300's. The symptoms of the plague included a rosy red rash in the shape of a ring on the skin . Pockets and pouches were filled with sweet smelling herbs which were carried due to the belief that the disease was transmitted by bad smells. The death rate was over 60% and the plague was only halted by the Great Fire of London in 1666 which killed the rats which carried the disease which was transmitting via water sources.

What was done to commemorate this event
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8. A story as fresh as the girls in their minis.Strap line for which book ????

9. What was the favorite past time of unmarried women in medieval europe ?????? Hint Gandhiji !!

10. According to myth, in the 7th century a dragon rose from the waters of the Seine River in France. Unlike the typical dragons, this one breathe water. The monster proceeded to lay waste to the countryside around Paris by drowning it. St. Romain, the Archbishop of Rouen, accompanied only by a condemned prisoner, set out to stop the beast. Upon confronting the monster, the Saint formed a cross with his two index fingers, taming it. The dragon was led back to Paris, where it was slain and burned. The head, however, was saved and mounted on a building. In commemoration of this event, architects began to design gutter spouts in the shape of the dragon, and eventually in the shape of all manner of bizarre creatures. Identify the word that derives from the name of this dragon.

11. This expression is derived from an ancient Greek expression: "ta syka syka, te:n skaphe:n de skaphe:n onomasein". This is first recorded in the Aristophanes' play 'The Clouds' (423 BC), and was used by Menander and Plutarch, and is still current in modern Greek. In ancient times the phrase was often used pejoratively, to denote a rude person who spoke his mind tactlessly. In the Renaissance, Erasmus confused Plutarch's 'skaphe:n' with the Greek word for 'digging tool', i.e., 'skapheion'. Hence, it was translated into English in 1542 by Nicholas Udall in his translation of Erasmus' version as what?

12. Juno, once saw her husband Zeus, with the nymph Io in the form of a cow and asked to have it as a gift and Zeus consented. She asked Argus who had a hundred eyes in his head, to keep watch on Io. Zeus was troubled at the sufferings of his mistress, and called, Mercury to go and despatch Argus. Mercury assumed the form of a shepherd and strolled on blowing his Syrinx or Pandean Pipes, which were supposed to lull people. As Argus slept, Mercury cut his neck and freed Io. Juno took the 100 eyes of Argus and did what

13. In 1907, Rolls Royce unveiled a car that was officially called 40/50. What did it come to be known as?

14. William ______________ Jr. came to Chicago from Philadelphia in the spring of 1891. He was 29 years old, had $32 in his pocket and unlimited enthusiasm and energy. He also had great talent as a salesman. His father was a soap manufacturer, and at the start of his new business in Chicago, Mr. _____________ sold ___________'s Scouring Soap. As an extra incentive to merchants, Mr. ___________ offered premiums. He knew his customers would be more likely to carry __________'s soap if they received a little "something for nothing." One of these premiums was baking powder. When baking powder proved to be more popular than soap, he switched to the baking powder business. Then one day in 1892, Mr. __________ got the idea of offering two packages of _________ _____________ with each can of baking powder. The offer was a big success.
How Do we Know the Company today ???????

15. The term is based on the Bibical account of Thomas the Apostle, who doubted the Resurrection of Jesus and demanded to feel Jesus' wounds before being convinced . After seeing Jesus alive and receiving the opportunity to touch his wounds — according to the author of the Gospel Of John— Thomas professed his faith in Jesus;Now which term is derived from this .

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17.The Marketing Department of this company wanted to gift something to their top UK clients. Terence Donovan came up with an idea in 1963. The company commissioned Robert Freeman and the first one appeared in 1964. What

18.A9 is a search engine offered by which internet giant ?
19.In 1776 this economist was appointed commissioner of customs of Scotland. His Essays on Philosophical subjects (1795) was published after his death. Identify?

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The 12th Entry- friday thriller

1. Connect Basil D Oliviera and Arthur Ashe

2.According to Garuda Purana, there are 84 lakhs of these, out of which 21 are more dreadful than the others, and the most heinous specimens are seen here...What am I talking about here?

3.This word was first used to describe compositions set to choir music of the church. It derives itself from the Greek 'antiphonos' meaning verse response. Later through latin it got to present situation. Which word?

4.Harvey and Bob had gone to watch Truffaut's Les Quatre Cent Coups anticipating it to be a raunchy French affair, but it turned out to be an antithesis of their expectations. Nonetheless, they were so moved by the film that, after some years, they founded their own film-production and distribution company, This production company was later acquired by the Walt Disney Company. Amongst this company's breakthrough films as distributors are The Crying Game, sex, lies, and videotape, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! and Scandal. It also made film such as Pulp Fiction and Shakespeare In Love before being acquired by Walt Disney. What's this company?

5.This puzzle was invented in 1974 by a Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture. It comes in four different versions: the 2×2×2, the 3×3×3, the 4×4×4, and the 5×5×5. It has been suggested that the international appeal and export achievement of this puzzle became one of the contributing factors in the reform and liberalization of the Hungarian economy between 1981 and 1985, which finally led to the move from communism to capitalism!
What is this famous puzzle ?

6.This concept was first created in a book called 'Symposium', The concept was 'love of the idea of good which lies at the root of all virtue and truth'. The concept /idea / phrase was adapted as the title of his book in 1636 by William Davenant. Which concept/phrase used in contemporary language are we talking about here?


7. When Egypt and Iran had a diplomatic tiff, due to certain reasons, there was a concerted effort to kow-tow with each other. But one of the preconditions laid by Egypt to re-start talks with Iran was that a road in Teheran called the Khalid Eslamboli Avenue should change its name. Iran decided to re-name the Avenue as the ‘Intifada street’. Relations have normalised since then due to the peace talks that resulted. Why this hue and cry about a street name?

9.In the 1970 Mexico city soccer World cup match between USSR and host nation Mexico, which ended 0-0, history was made by two Soviet players Victor Serebriannikov and Anatoli Puzach. What first were they involved in?

10. Tobacco, Firearms, Used underwear, Human parts and Lottery tickets are a few banned items at this place. The list includes over a hundred such items. What is being referred to?


11.Its original title was to be "Stag Party," but an unrelated outdoor magazine, Stag, contacted the founder and informed him that they would legally protect their trademark if he were to launch his magazine with that name. One of the founders and executive vice president Eldon Sellers met to discuss the problem and to seek a new name. Sellers, whose mother had worked for the short-lived _______ Automobile Company in Chicago, suggested the name ___________.

12. Which term derived from East Asia describes a supposedly valuable possession whose upkeep costs exceed its usefulness, and it is therefore a liability?

13. It was developed in 1945 by Earl ________ (1907-1983) and comprised plastic containers used in households to contain food and keep it airtight. The formerly patented "burping seal" is a famous aspect which distinguished it from competitors. Distributors also known as consultants of this company invite friends and neighbors into their home to see the product line and sell it. They also follow a multi level marketing structure in some countries. In most countries, these products come with a lifetime guarantee. Identify the company

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20.This began in London's poor East End just before Queen Victoria's reign. In 1835, Charles Henry, a tea merchant and grocery wholesaler, started his own shop opposite his home in Stepny.Their motto is Omnia Omnibus Ubique - All Things, For All People, Everywhere. It later diversified into various businesses which are now known as ________Bank, _______Estates, ________Casino, _________Aviation and Air _________. Fill in the blanks.