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.
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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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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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