6. •Described as tall and thin, between 6 ft 4 in
and 6 ft 6 in (193–198 cm) in height and
weighing about 165 pounds (75 kg), olive
complexion, left-handed and usually walking
with a cane. His personality was described as
soft-spoken, respectful and mild-mannered in
demeanor and used to follow Arsenal Football
Club.
•His nicknames include the Lion (after his
name), the Prince, the
Leader, Commander, Pilgrim, Governor, Direct
or and the Lord of the struggle, Samaritan, the
Guided One etc.
10. According to University of Maryland:
It travels at 650 miles per second, 3,000
times the speed of sound continuously for
31 hrs. from east to west and carries a
payload of 353,430 tons which is four
times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth II
ocean liner.
What?
12. Its website, launched in 2006 under The
Sunshine Press organization, claimed a
database of more than 1.2 million documents
within a year of its launch.
X describes its founders as a mix of Chinese
dissidents, journalists, mathematicians, and
start-up company technologists from the United
States, Taiwan, Europe, Australia and South
Africa.
Identify X and this rather infamous
organization.
14. Ralegan Siddhi is a village in the Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra.
Till 1975, the village was riddled with poverty and severely affected by
drought. Standards of living were extremely low. However, with the
contribution of social activist Kisan Bapat Baburao _______, the
village started to rebuild. The village carried out programs like tree
planting, terracing to reduce soil erosion and digging canals to retain
rainwater. It also adopted non-conventional sources of energy with all
its street lights being completely solar powered.
Kisan Bapat Baburao _______, more commonly referred to as _____
_______, was thus awarded the Padma Bhushan for his efforts in the
building of Ralegan Siddhi.
FITB.
16. It caused the sales of pencils in the UK to shoot up by around 52% in
2006.
The very first letter of complaint against this accused the publisher of
making the complainant miss a station as he was engrossed in it.
In 2008 in an Australian drugs related trial of over 1 million A$ had to
be rescheduled as it was found that the jury was engaged in this
instead of the proceedings..
The first video game featuring this sold over 8 million copies.
It even had a TV show based on it where the winner took away
37000$.
What is this epic thing?
18. _____________ are special ammunition that are
built with a small pyrotechnic charge in their
base. Ignited by the burning powder, the
phosphorus tail burns very brightly, making the
projectile visible to the naked eye. This enables
the shooter to follow the bullet trajectory relative
to the target in order to make corrections to his
aim.
They also lend their name to a very common
phrase used by commentators is a certain sport.
Name the object/give the phrase.
19. That went
to the
boundary
like a
Tracer
Bullet!
20. While it featured in the original format of the show in
almost every franchise and was credited with the revival
of fortunes of AT&T on its format in the US, the recent
formats have decided to not continue with this as the
participants were using internet sources such as Google
to search for the answers.
What concept is this?
28. “I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I
believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve
success and those that don't. Please don't call me
arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a
Special One.”
“People will say that I caused the volcano to erupt. If
not they will say I have a friend inside the volcano who
helped me”.
Whose (infamous) quotes are these?
39. X visited this temple in when X s career was at an all-
time low The image below is the deity of the temple and
inspired X to create something which is a very visible symbol
everywhere today
Identify X and what was the creation?
40.
41.
42.
43.
44.
45. Tiananmen Square is the largest and
Macroplaza, Mexico is the second largest
public square. Which is the next one?
46.
47. X and Y are a brother and sister duo, very famous in
the political circles of a South East Asian country.
The brother, the elder sibling, is the more famous for
being Like Donald Trump , very rich and big
spending.
He also held a powerful position in his country’s
government which is now held by his sister.
Id. X and Y.
51. She just replaced her compatriot as the head of a major
international institution. The man she replaced didn’t leave in
the most pleasant of circumstances. Identify him
57. Constructed in the Dravidian style of architecture this
Temple is glorified in the Divya Prabandha, the early
medieval Tamil literature canon of the Tamil Alvar saints.
The temple gave its name to Kerala’s state capital
Thiruvananthapuram.
Traditionally managed by the Royal Family of
Travancore,
Id this temple whose assets are currently a matter of
debate.
