Question 143

Connect :

1) Rafael Nadal's victories

2) Spain's Davis Cup victory

3) Carlos Sastre of Spain winning the tour

4) Spain's Euro 08 victory

5) Sergio Garcia winning the Player's Championships

Connect:Spain's triumphs in sports

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Question 142

This covered appeared on the Time magazine on what date?What does it signify?

Answer:Time's cover on 15th August 1947 denoting the partition of India.

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Question 141

Gustavo Kuerten(Brazil),who won the French Open thrice received a trophy when he played his last match at Roland Garros last year.What does the trophy signify?

Answer: The trophy depicts the ground layers of a clay court. Rafael Nadal too got a similar trophy.

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Question Set 137 to 140

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1)This French food is a buttery flaky pastry, named for its distinctive crescent shape. It is also sometimes called a crescent or crescent roll:
"On a small table at her side a tray had been left, with the remains of dejeuner; a jug stained brown with streaks of coffee; a crumbled crescent roll..."
Crescent-shaped breads have been made since the Middle Ages, and crescent-shaped cakes (imitating the often-worshiped Moon) possibly since classical times:
Hebrew women, in the time of Jeremiah, made in honor of the pagan goddess Astarte(queen of heaven, queen of the moon) cakes in the form of a crescent. What?


2)It was first published by Sarah Josepha Hale on May 24, 1830, and was inspired by an actual incident of Mary Sawyer (later Mrs. Mary Tyler) Mary recalled:
"Visiting school that morning was a young man by the name of John Roulstone, a nephew of the Reverend Lemuel Capen, who was then settled in Sterling. It was the custom then for students to prepare for college with ministers, and for this purpose Mr. Roulstone was studying with his uncle. The young man was very much pleased with the incident of the ____; and the next day he rode across the fields on horseback to the little old schoolhouse and handed me a slip of paper which had written upon it the three original _______ of the ____..."
There are two competing theories on its origin. One holds that Roulstone wrote the first four lines and that the final twelve lines, more moralistic and much less childlike than the first, were composed by Sarah Josepha Hale; the other is that Hale was responsible for the entire thing.What?


3)The word X derives historically from "gum benjamin", an aromatic resin known to European pharmacists and perfumers since the 15th century as a product of southeast Asia. It is itself a corruption of the Arabic expression "luban jawi," or "frankincense of Java." An acidic material was derived from it by sublimation, and named.What is X?


4)This phrase is a placeholder for multiple unspecified people; it plays the same role for one unspecified person. The phrase most commonly occurs as "every ___, ____ and _____", meaning everyone, and "any ___, ____ or ______", meaning anyone. The masculine names in these phrase do not in themselves imply exclusion of females, but use of either version when the context implies necessarily being female − for example, "Your mother could be any ____ ____ or _____" − would normally be seen as careless or ironic.Which phrase?

That's all folks!
Rohan

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1)Croissant which is the French word for Crescent.
2)The nursery rhyme "Mary had A Little Lamb.."
3)Benzene
4)Tom,Dick and Harry

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Question Set 131 to 136

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1)Google Doodle for anniversary of what?

Answer:Anniversary of Linux. The penguin is Tex.

2)Who are the 2 people in the second box?

Answer: The Thompson twins from Tintin comics.

3)What? and Where?

Answer:The 1st meeting of Indian National Congress at Mumbai.

4)This is a laser project for restoration of what?

Answer:The Bamhyan Buddhas

5)This is a Government of India advertisement for which safety campaign?

Answer:Dont talk on the phone while driving because the network(Vodafone dog) cant follow you everywhere.


6)Which event?

Answer:Assassination of Julius Caesar


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Rohan

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Question 130

Here's an interesting one for all the Hollywood buffs:

Connect:
1)Actor in picture 1
2)Person X in picture 2 ( it's a film based on X )
3)________ in pic 3 (Name comes from the place where it was first found)
4)The dinosaur in pic 4
5)The Roman Emperor in pic 5
6)Mysterious Statues in pic 6
7)Age of Emperors Character in pic 7
8)Famous world leader in pic 8

Ben Stiller

Christopher Columbus
The Neanderthal Man

T-rex

Augustus

Maori statue on Easter island

Atilla the Hun

Theodore Roosevelte

Connect is the film The Night At The Museum

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Rohan

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Question Set 126 to 129

Questions:

1)Whose caricature?

Joseph Stalin

2)Who are the people in the red box?

The Beatles

3)Google Doodle for what day?

Teacher's Day

4)Hand-drawn map of what?

Hogwarts School of witchcraft and Wizardry

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Rohan

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Question Set 121 to 125

Questions:

1)Who is the circled person?
Diego Maradona

2)Who is the man with the broom?(Bonus points for guessing what he is trying to do)

Lenin cleaning the world of monarchy , nobility

3)Google Doodle for what event?

LHC experiment @ CERN, Geneva

4)What was the result of this certificate?

Liverpool FC changing name from Everton Athletic

5)What are the Roman soldiers doing?

Playing musical chairs.

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Rohan

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Question 107 to 120

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1)Logo of which organisation?

The Ministry of Magic

2)Who? Lokmanya tilak

3)Google Doodle on what occasion?

Diwali

4) _____ Coral.Fill in the blank: Brain Coral

5)* and / or rather:Asterix and Obelix.What does Julius Caesar say in the lower part?
Latin: Et tu Brute? English: You too, Brutus?

Referring to Caesar's last words.


6)X and Y is a game originated in ancient India where it was known as Mokshapat.It was played as early as the 2nd century B.C.It is supposed to be invented by saint Gyandev.Originally,it was used as a part of moral instruction to children.X was supposed to stand for evil and Y stood for a virtue.X outnumbered Y in the original Hindu game.It was transported to England by colonial rulers in the 19th century.The modified game was stripped of its moral and religious aspects and number of X and Y were equalized.It was introduces in U.S.A. in 1934.Which game?

Snakes and ladders





7)This sport was originally played in the Indian city of X.Colonial rulers called it X after the city.It was taken to England where it was introduced in the Y House.There it was modified and it got the name Y.The name has stuck ever since.Which city?Which sport?





8)How do you better know The all England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club?





9)What is triskaidekaphobia?





10)What were the names of the two limited edition cars launched by Daewoo Motors in Korea in the 1990s specialized as one for 'Him' and one for "Her'?





11)Which disease was referred to by Sushruta(the great Indian surgeon) as Madhumeha?






12)After the French Revolution,the King,the Queen and the Jack disappeared from the pack of playing cards at least in France.They were replaced by which three elements which were characteristic of the french revolution?





13)On being asked about event A, person B commented:"If a _____ was involved, then it was definitely God's"Which event?Which person?

14)Connect:

• DLF Indian Premier League
• Augusta Masters
• Tour de France

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Rohan

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Question 106

Hi all,

This is something for the football fanatics

Guess these famous footballers:

Zinedine 'Zizou' Zidane

Francesco Totti

Ronaldinho

Iker Casillas

Paolo Maldini

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Rohan

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