1. Winner of the Asian Tennis Championship at the age of 22, Honored by the UN Peace keeping department for outstanding service , A PhD holder from IIT in Social Sciences in 1993, Law Degree holder from Delhi University in 1988 - These are only some of the accolades on this person's Resume. This person was a Lecturer of Political Science before having an illustrious career in a different field. Identify this person who started the organizations 'Navjyoti' and 'India Vision Foundation' to support the poor and drug addicts and subsequently went on to receive the Magsaysay award.Who?
2. The condition to publish this short story of author X as a book was that, the book could be published only when the theatrical performance of the story was finished running in a theatre and not replayed for 6 months. Following that condition, the short story has not been published yet. The short story started as a radio broadcast program in honor of Queen Mary, wife of King George V. The original name of this short story:"The 3 blind mice “was disputed as not being original and hence the name was changed to Y. It was originally written as a birthday present for Queen Mary on her 80th Birthday. Identify this not-yet-published book Y, that has become world famous by its theatrical version! Who is X and HER book Y?
3. In 1938 Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett (founders of Hewlett & Packard) released their first product called a Resistance-Capacity Audio Oscillator which tests sound equipments. X was trying to make a big difference in his field using sound equipments. When he heard of this product he became the first customer of this product and he used it for his pet project. In the 1920s a lot of movies were silent and this person was trying to introduce sound into his movies as the next big thing. Although he was beaten in the race to introduce sound, he became one among the first to introduce sound in Y movies. Identify X & Y! (Clue: His company is named after him)
4. A was the person given the responsibility of building X where the Head of the Country would reside. To complement the place another monument Y at the end of the same road was to be built in commemoration of soldiers who died in WW I, such that both buildings could be seen from each other. A trusted the construction of the commemorative monument to his good friend B while he got involved in constructing X. Although X & Y were built fine and according to design, due to a severe miscommunication, the height of the road between them was not accounted for and the heights of the buildings X & Y were such that, one could not be seen from the other due to the crest in the road. A & B became foes. B is not so well known. Guess A, X and Y. (Clue: Chandigarh)
5. Robert Fitzroy was conscious of how unforgiving the sea was, extended periods of sea-voyage could disturb the sanest of minds. He knew what caused Captain Stokes & his uncle Viscount Castlereagh to commit suicide. So, for this next voyage, he approached Beautfort and asked him to find a suitable gentleman who would share his scientific tastes and provide him good companionship. Many of those who were first approached turned down Fitzroy’s offer and Fitzroy finally approved an eager X for the position. Who is X?
6. The first official color program of the United States was scheduled to be the Victory Parade of World-War II on a particular date. But a couple of days before the parade another incident happened and it was decided that the unprecedented / unique event should be the first color televised program. What was that incident that led to it being a well-deserved first color program?
7. If Doctor's take the Hippocrates's Oath, what oath do nurses take?
8.This picture depicts an incident that inspired the creation of something that is probably the fantasy of most children for a companion. What is the incident and what was the inspiration?
9. His public appearance was at the age of 10 as a trapeze artist and he called himself the "The Prince of Air". He performed card tricks and worked in a circus until he met his manager who asked him to concentrate on X [specifying X would be a give-away] which would become his forte. The "Milk Can”, the “Suspended Straight jacket" were some of his famous performances and many were performed across Europe and USA. A close friend of Arthur Conan Doyle once, they broke their friendship when he ridiculed "Spiritualism" which Arthur C. Doyle firmly believed in. Who was this dynamic person who was also a very well known Ghost-buster?
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1)Kiran Bedi
2)Agatha Christie and her most famous play Mousetrap
3)Walt Disney and Y is animation
4)Edmund Luyten(architect of Chandigarh) and Rajpath Bhavan and India Gate,both in Delhi.
5)Charles Darwin
6)Death of John Logie Baird(inventor of Television)
7)Florence of Nightingale Oath
8)Theodore Roosevelt.On a hunting trip he refused to shoot a bear cub.A paper published this story and christened the bear cub as 'Teddy's (Theodore Roosevelt was affectionately callled Teddy) Bear' leading to the onvention of teddy Bear.
9)Houdini
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