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1)This stadium is the home ground if a recently promoted football club.
Connect this stadium with the Roman name for England and a Indian biscuit.
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2)Which 3-time French open champion played his last match on French Open 2008 Day 1 against Paul Henri Mathieu?
3)What starts with-"The appointed day has come......" and ends with-"we bind ourselves afresh to her service"?
4)Charles de Gaulle,the president of France once said-"My only international rival is X."
Who is X?
5)The term X is used in both outdoor ball sports,A and B.In sport A,the term X is merely a part of the playing area not marked by a distinct line.In sport B,the term X is an offence or a foul comitted by a player.Identify X,A and B.
6)Who is this man?
7)The term X was coined in 1944 by the chairman of the United States Smaller War Plants Corporation. In a memo banning "X language".The chairman later used the word in the New York Times Magazine in 1944 as part of a further complaint against the obscure language used by his colleagues. His inspiration, he said, was his neighbor of Dutch descent named ______ De ______. He explained, "De ______ was always outside working on his tulips, talking aloud, incessantly, about something he apparently thought was important, but no one could understand a word he said, as we neighbors called it, he just spoke a bunch of ______ De ______."
Clue:(Albus Dumbedore and Bartemius Crouch)What is X?
8)The term X means "I create as I speak." which is thought to be in reference to God creating the universe.An alternative spelling is Y.But Y would mean "I destroy as I speak".Rather than being used as a ill word, the term is believed to have been used as a means of treating illness.The author A of book B, stated that the term Y came from the term X which she stated originally meant "let the thing be destroyed."I dont want who is A and what is B.I want the terms X and Y.
9)What did Julius Caesar say on January 10, 49 BC as he led his army across the River Rubicon in northern Italy, entering Italy at the head of his army in defiance of the Roman Senate and began his long civil war against Pompey and the Optimates?
10)X,Y and Z are first person perfect tense forms of the three Latin verbs venīre, vidēre and vincō.X?
Y?
Z?
11)What was the effect of this advertissement in a Spanish newspaper? (I have blanked out a word on the 3rd-4th line)
Thats all!
Good luck!!
Answers:
1.Britannia Stadium(Stoke City)
2.Gustave Kuerten
3.Jawaharlal Nehru's speech to the press on 15th August 1947
4.Tintin
5.Offside in Football and Cricket
6.Carl Lindberg
7.Gobbeldegook( Gobbel De Gook )
8.Avada Kedavra and Abra Cadabra
9.Alea Jecta Est(Wiki for more details)
10.Veni,Vidi,Vici(I came,i saw and i conquered)
11.FC Barcelona was founded
11.FC Barcelona was founded
