BENCH QUIZ

I am the substitute they sent for the other

guy...
You can ask for cues as and when you pease, uness
someone vetoes you down.

ROUND 1 DRIES (15)

ROUND 2-TRAILBLAZER (1)

ROUND 3- DRIES (15)

ROUND 4 3 n 1 (8*3=24)

ROUND 5- DRIES(15)

ROUND 6- THEME (6)

ROUND 7- WRITTEN (20)

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ROUND 1- DRIES

Estabshed n 1920 ;advertsed by

tagnes ke 'a necessty for each
househod';';trusted by mons
every snce'

A______ s consdered a symbo of

strength and ths pcture on the
package means that t offers
strong protecton.

Macho ______, who formed the

_______ Cavary Guards , are
beeved to have nspred the
company to go for the ogo .
AND THE ANSWER IS
NEGRO IN THE ZINDA TILISMATH LOGO

Or shoud we say 'back man' to be potca

correct

The Negro n ths ogo was nspred from the

Afrcan Cavary Guards of Nzam

On) Ths was nvented as eary as 1890.

But the frst commerca dspay of the modern

versons, crcuar and U-Shaped ddnt occur as ate as
1939 Newyork word far.

Spra verson was nvented n 1973 as a response to

o crss, but the parent company refused to market
t. That turned out to be a huge mstake because n
1995 some chnese companes got wnd of ths, and
made mons snce then.

Snge-turn doube hex, doube-turn, trpe-turn,

quad-turn, crcuar, and butterfy are currenty the
standard shapes of ths.

What are we takng about?

AND THE ANSWER IS
CFL LAMPS

On)

Ths has a network of over 33 branch offces, 208

customer reaton centers and 41 depots spread
across Inda.

Once dscontnued n 1998, the X was brought

back by the company n 2004 but now apparenty
the tme has come to move on.

At the tme ths was aunched, dong ths was a

matter of prde for Indans.

Thngs have changed n the ast 20 years due to

berasaton whch has expanded market for
both domestc and goba brands as we as
spendng capabtes and dong ths s no more a
sub|ect of ______ _______ and

Hence Sddharth and Rtu

AND THE ANSWER IS

TV s no
more an
OWNERS
PRIDE.

Hence
Sddharth
and Rtu
are the
two new
coupe
who are
endorsng
Onda
Ads

In Ramayana, ______ was sad to be born when Hanuman

whe extngushng hs burnng ta n the ocean, a drop of hs
sweat fe nto the waters, eventuay becomng _______, who
perceves Hanuman as hs father.

But ater durng the war when Rama and Lakshmana are
captured by ahravan and kept prsoners n Pataa, hanuman
who comes huntng them meets _____as guardng
pataa.When Hanuman ntroduces hmsef to _______, the
atter asks hs bessngs, but fghts hm to fuf the task of
guardng the gate. Hanuman defeats and mprsons hm to
gan entry.After rescung Rama and Lakshmana, on Rama's
behest Hanuman crowns ______ as the kng of Pataa.

_______ s a we-known norganc preparaton of the

Ayurvedc Pharmacopoea. Chemcay, t s red suphde of
mercury and god n uncombned form. It s a submed
product made from pure mercury, suphur and god.A
vauabe tonc n debtatng condtons and convaescent
patents after acute ness, n fang crcuaton and cardac
asthena; t ncreases the red bood corpusces and mproves
genera nutrtona status.
AND THE ANSWER IS
MAKARDHWA|

On) Apparenty one who has a ____ ____

___ dspays forttude n the face of
adversty, or exercses sef-restrant n
the expresson of emoton. The phrase
s most commony heard as part of the
dom keep a ____ ____ ___, and has
tradtonay been used to descrbe an
attrbute of (partcuary upper mdde
and upper cass) Brtsh peope, who
are sometmes perceved by other
cutures as beng reserved and brave

Cue next sde f needed

____ ____ ___, |eeves s a nove by P. G.

Wodehouse, pubshed on March 22, 1963
AND THE ANSWER IS
STIFF UPPER LIP
q
Ths started on 18 February 1946 and found
support throughout Brtsh Inda, from Karach
to Cacutta.

q
Ths was ntated by the ratngs on 18
February 1946. It was a reacton to the
treatment meted out to ratngs n genera and
the ack of servce factes n partcuar.They
were |oned by thousands of dsgrunted
ratngs from Bombay, Karach, Cochn and
Vzag.

q
It started wth Akbar, then spread onto
Tawar,Hndustan ,Bahadur,Kathawar ,Kumaon
,Chamak and Hmaaya.

q
What are we takng about?

q
Tawar,Hndustan ,Bahadur,Kathawar
etc were HMIS vz Hs Ma|estys Indan
Shps

On) Currenty havng haf a mon customers, EFY

Enterprses Pvt. Ltd. was set up n 1969 at New Deh
wth the ntatve of Mr. S.P. Chopra (Charman) and
hs son Mr. Ramesh Chopra (Managng Drector). Mr.
S. P. Chopra had an extensve experence n
|ournasm whereas Mr. Ramesh Chopra s an aumn
of Indas premer technoogy nsttute IIT Madras.

Infact recenty at ther 41st annversary they came up

wth an ad whch read "Thankyou IITMadras, because
t was n one of your hoste rooms that the dea for
_____ was conceved"

They proudy say that even Teevson manufacturng

started n Inda after they came out wth ther frst
verson n1969

What product?
AND THE ANSWER IS
ELECTRONICS FOR YOU
MAGAZINE

EFY group

SMS and MMS (thats what frends ca

them) are both vegetarans, teetotaers,
and devout foowers of the Radha Soam
Satsang n Beas.

Snce they ook very ake, to avod beng

dressed dentcay ths addng to the
confuson for others, they nevtaby
rngup each other every mornng.

They pay to use ther own |ets because

ts a busness venture, not a festye
statement.

Gve me 3 Names, 5+5

AND THE ANSWER IS
RANBAXY BROTHERS

SMS- Shvnder Mohan Sngh

MMS- Mavnder Mohan Sngh

5 Pont for Ranbaxy,5 for SMS and MMS

On)

Butea monosperma, known as

Poash/Poash n West Benga, s an
extravagant red fowerng tree.

Known as the Fame of the forest, n

West Benga t s assocated wth
Sprng, especay through the
poems and songs of Rabndranath
Tagore, who kened ts brght
orange fame-ke fower to fre.

What was the most mportant

contrbuton by ths tree n Indan
hstory?
AND THE ANSWER IS
BATTLE OF PLASSEY

Snce the brtsh cudnt pronounce Poash,

they started cang t PLASSEY

On) What area/|ursdcton,

currenty endng at Fase Dv
Pont at eastern coast of
Inda, woud have n
800-1300 AD been extended
from Madves to Maay
Archpeago.

Interestngy t s now
famous n another area, vz
fnance ?
AND THE ANSWER IS
CHOLAMANDALAM

Lteray the |ursdcton of Choas

Current name s Coromande coast.

On )
On) AD for?
AND THE ANSWER IS
O 26

Reeased around
an year back by
Matte, Ths toy
comes wth the
hammer and you
are expected to
make t to peces
wth a the anger
you can muster.
Who s made as
ths toy ?
ANS

Berne Madoff

On) Ths company, odest of ts

knd n Inda, was orgnay founded
by Abdu Karm Abdu Shakur |ama
under the name of |ama's
_____Company mted. Later t was
renamed n 1909.

Ths company was orgnay based

out of Burma. But they were forced
to reocate to Inda wth
headquarters n Kokota ,durng
WW2 because the then Brtsh govt
wanted to bombard and destroy the
refneres n Rangoon.
AND THE ANSWER IS
IBP PETROL

Inda Burma Petroeum Co. Ltd

Mythology: Vaivasvata, the seventh incarnation

of Manu, once found a tiny fish in his bathing
water. The fish told him to look after it with
devotion, for one day it would do him a great
service. The seventh Manu cared for the fish
until it grew so huge that he released it into the
sea. Before departing, the fish warned Manu of
an impending deluge when the entire world
would be submerged and bade him to build a
seaworthy ark. Manu and the gods were towed
to dry ground atop a mountain by a giant fish,
which was the seventh avatar! of the god
Vishnu. "e is supposed to have survived when
the world was drowned in #lood.

$egend has it that after the flood sage Manu

stepped off his ark at this place and hence it got
its name%%%%%%
AND THE ANSWER IS
MANALI
FROM
ABODE OF MANU
TRAILBLAAAAZEEEERRR

On paper

8 Ids A to H

The Mentor A was the Frst Chanceor of Aahabad

The Mentor A was the Frst Chanceor of Aahabad
Unversty
Unversty

Incdentay, he was aso the ony Non-Hndu

Incdentay, he was aso the ony Non-Hndu
nomnated to the GauRaksha ( Cow Protecton )
nomnated to the GauRaksha ( Cow Protecton )
commttee by B, the second "Sarasanghachaak" or
commttee by B, the second "Sarasanghachaak" or
Head of the RSS.
Head of the RSS.

The Mentee C s youngest offsprng of E, one of

The Mentee C s youngest offsprng of E, one of
Inda's Fnance Mnsters
Inda's Fnance Mnsters

The Mentor, estabshed ths Insttuton D n 1965 &

The Mentor, estabshed ths Insttuton D n 1965 &
headed t for the next 33-odd years. C currenty
headed t for the next 33-odd years. C currenty
heads the nsttuton though C and A fe apart after
heads the nsttuton though C and A fe apart after
neary thrty years of assocaton.
neary thrty years of assocaton.

F,Unce of A,
F,Unce of A, served as Inda's Frst Raway
Mnster and subsequenty as Inda's Fnance
Mnster.

G, the Son Of F started an educatona nsttuton H

G, the Son Of F started an educatona nsttuton H
near to D and was ts frst drector.
near to D and was ts frst drector.
AND THE ANSWER IS
A- AMUL/E!"HE#E $U!IEN
B- M.#."%L&AL$A!/"U!U'I
C- AM!I(A )A(EL
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E- H M )A(EL
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"- !AI '%HN MA(HAI
H- IIM Ahme/aba/
END OF TRAIL BLAZER

X means cay pot and Y means fourth nght

after the fu moon. It gets ths name because
ths happens on fourth nght after the fu
Moon n the month of kartk n the Hndu
caendar

One of the Purported orgns go ke ths:

Once Xs husband was caught by a crocode.

X bound the crocode wth a cotton yarn. She
then asked Yama to send the crocode to
he. Yama refused. X threatened to curse
Yama. Yama, afrad of beng cursed by X,
sent the crocode to he.

Who/What?
01
AND THE ANSWER IS
KARVA CHAUTH
02

&andlal Bose was one of the leading lights of the

renaissance of art in 'ndia.

"e served as the principal at (ala Bhavan,(ala

Bhavan in )antiniketan, )antiniketan between *+,,
and *+-*.

"is works have been displayed at several national as

well as international e.hibitions. )ome of them include
those at /rystal 0alace of 1ngland, )ociete des
0eintres 2rientalistes #rancais at 3rand 0alais in
0aris, The &etherlands 4 'mperial 'nstitute of 1ngland,
'ndian )chool of 2riental 5rt, 5merican #ederation of
5rt, 5thenee 3allery of 3eneva, /entenary
6etrospective 1.hibition, &ational 3allery of Modern
5rt in &ew 7elhi, etc.

"is partner was better known than him though8

who9what did they two do together:
AND THE ANSWER IS
THEY WROTE THE CONSTITUTION OF
INDIA

Cagraphy by Prem Behar

Naran Razda, umnated by
Nand La Bose. ...

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#ill in this =uote by the *>th century philosopher and

satirist #ran?ois8Marie 5rouet, better known as Voltaire:

The instruction we find in books is like fire. Ae fetch it

from our neighbors, %%%%%%%%%it at home, communicate
it to others, and it becomes the property of all.B
AND THE ANSWER IS
KINDLE

On )

Ezeke 25:17

"The path of the rghteous man s beset

on a sdes by the nequtes of the
sefsh and the tyranny of ev men.
Bessed s he who n the name of
charty and goodw shepherds the
weak through the vaey of darkness,
for he s truy hs brother's keeper and
the fnder of ost chdren. And I w
strke down upon thee wth great
vengeance and furous anger those
who attempt to poson and destroy my
brothers. And you w ."
AND THE ANSWER IS
PULP FICTION

Ths s the daogue Samue |ackson says before

he pumps n meta n Pup Fcton

Cerve|a do Bras, was orgnay

produced n Braz by the Companha
Cerve|ara ______ whch was founded
n 1888 . The ______ webste states
that ______ was created by |oseph
Vager. ______ shares ts name wth
______, whch s one of n Sao Pauo's
most famous ocatons.

Apart from a ths, some sources say

that the founder |oseph Vager was a
huge hndu sprtua guy, and hence
named t after gods from Hndu
Panthenon-

What?
08/27/10
B!AHMA BEE!

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The term %%%% %%%%%is fre=uently applied to

semiconductor laser diode based on gallium
nitride. These new devices have applications
in many areas ranging from optoelectronic
data storage at high8density to medical
applications

These things usually operate at CD-

nanometers but in general the operation of
these devices was demonstrated between EFD
and C>D nm. 't is worth noticing that the most
popular CD- nm laser is not in fact %%%%%%, but
appears to the eye as %%%%%, a color for which
a human eye has a very limited sensitivity.
AND THE ANSWER IS

;n<

Bwana 7evil is a *+-, drama

based on the true story of the
Tsavo maneaters

't stars 6obert )tack, Barbara

Britton and &igel Bruce.

The film!s tagline was: The Miracle

of the 5geGGG 5 lion in your lapG 5
love in your armsG

Ahy did they say so:

AND THE ANSWER IS
FIRST 3D FILM

't shouldHve been any of the ones

shown above. But in the current
one the animal is screaming in
pain as its head has been severed
from its body while red blood
ooIes from its eyes and mouthG EE
bullets are kept around the head
as if to indicate the number of
remaining cartridges after killing
the animal

Ahat are we talking about:

AND THE ANSWER IS
LTTE-TAMIL EAALAM FLAG

;n<

The conference was hosted by J on the

auspicious day of Kanmashtami in *+FC. )everal
representatives from the "indu, )ikh and Kain
faiths were present in the meeting, as well as the
7alai $ama. J e.plained that Lall faiths of 'ndian
origins need to uniteL, saying that the people of
L"industanB applied to adherents of all the above
religions

't was further decided that it shall be a non8

political organiIation and that no office bearer of
any political party shall be simultaneously an
office bearer in this.

Master Tara )ingh was one of the co8

founders,).).5pte the first general )ecretary and
M the first 0resident.

Aho9what am i talking about:

AND THE ANSWER IS
V"08V')"A5 "'&7N
056')"57

J8 ).). 3owalkar

M8 )wami /hinmayanada

V"0 was started as an

organiIation for people of
"industan

The edest one |m pays the

keyboard, hs mmedate sbng
Sharon, the von, and the other
two sbngs, Andrea and Carone
pay Tn Whste and Drums
respectvey.

Who/What am I takng about?

AND THE ANSWER IS

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The scientific name of this animal is

Tamias

Minimus.

Tamias is 3reek for Lstorer,L a reference

to the animals! habit of collecting and
storing

They were also referred to as %%%%

%%%%%possibly in reference to the sound
they make while making food for winter
use
AND THE ANSWER IS
CHIPMUNK

Chp and Munch/Munk

Spashng, swrng and swshng n the rncer

a bouche are consdered mproper.

Fower petas can be used as an ngredent,

but emon s what s mosty used.

Typcay gven on a doy.

What are we takng about?

Cue next sde f no veto

On)

Ths was nvented ntay as a compment to

the rch men who vsted vages, that they
ddnt have to eave ther seat before the
whoe process s over.
AND THE ANSWER IS
FINGER BOWL

The foundaton of the _______ Group was ad

back n 1971, when Padmashree Dr. BV Rao
gave shape to hs vson by settng up ths -
the fagshp company of the _______ Group.
The group's greatest success has been ts
abty to ndgenze the Babcock (ayer)
breeds,

Apart from the man portfoo, they have a

human bo theraputcs portfoo aso.The
Forbes busness magazne of USA ranked
_______'s (Inda) Lmted as 67th among the
100 best goba sma companes n the year
1999-2000. Uttara,Shvak, Eastern, are other
names assocated wth ths.

The Latn motto of Y s "Arte et abore",

meanng "By Sk & Hard Work".
AND THE ANSWER IS
EN$34# AN* BLAC$BU!N
!%E!#

VEncobb

French word for "ghtnng" s

surprsngy used n an entrey
dfferent fed now, vz a ong
thn pastry made wth choux
dough fed wth a cream and
topped wth cng.

In Inda t s known for a smar

thng-A sgn n front of whose
factory descrbes t as "the
sweet wth heart on the nsde
AND THE ANSWER IS
ECLAI!
q
We are ookng at two reated words.

q
The frst word X comes from the Greek for,
"madness"

q
The second word Y comes from Greek for 'I
SPLIT'

q
Snce the symptoms of both are very
smar, doctors have a tough tme
generay dfferentatng one from another.

CONNECT
AND THE ANSWER IS

Dfferent Engsh Language Optons on

Facebook

Engsh (US), Engsh (UK), Engsh (Prate),

Engsh (Upsde Down)
14
AND THE ANSWER IS
STATE FLAGS IN INDIA

|&K, Karnataka
YOU ONLY LIVE
THRICE

Three CLUES

Wont pass

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+20-5

+10-5
27/08/10
CLUE 1
CLUE 1

Robert George ________Ws MBE,
known as Bob Ws s a former
Engsh crcketer who payed for
Surrey, Warwckshre, Northern
Transvaa and Engand. A rght-
handed and aggressve fast bower
wth a notaby ong run-up, Ws
spearheaded severa Engand bowng
attacks between 1971 and 1984,
across 90 Test matches n whch he
took 325 wckets at 25.20 runs per
wcket, at the tme second ony to
Denns Lee

In addton to the Test arena, Ws

payed 64 One Day Internatona
matches for hs country, takng 80
wckets, and was a profc Lst-A (one
day) crcketer wth 421 wckets
overa at 20.18
CLUE 2

Shabta Zse
ben Avraham
CLUE 3

!obert A55en Zimmerman;

AND THE ANSWER IS
CLUE 1
CLUE 1

When |akob von Uexku

approached the Nobe
Foundaton wth a proposa to
estabsh two new awards he
was turned down.
CLUE 2

1678

#e5f-Em95oye/ &omen:s Asso;iation /

E5a Bhatt- In/ia

&angari Maathai / "reen Be5t

Mo<ement $enya

167=

Lo>ayan / !a?ni $othari In/ia

1670

La/a>h E;o5ogi;a5 *e<e5o9ment "rou9

/ He5ena Norberg-Ho/ge In/ia

167@

Chi9>o mo<ement In/ia

1661

Narma/a Ba;hao An/o5an In/ia

1662

an/ana #hi<a In/ia

1668

*r. H. #u/arshan / "$$

,i<e>anan/a "iri?ana $a5yana
$en/ra- In/ia

$en #aro-&iAa / Mo<ement for

the #ur<i<a5 of the %goni )eo95e
%goni5an/B Nigeria

1660

)eo95e:s #;ien;e Mo<ement of

$era5a ,$era5a #asthra #ahithya
)arisha/- In/ia

CDD8

#Aami Agni<esh / Asghar A5i

Engineer In/ia

CDD0

!uth Manorama In/ia

CDD7

$rishnamma5 'agannathan an/

#an>ara5ingam 'agannathan
LA.(I In/ia
CLUE 3
CLUE 2

He then estabshed the ______________,

sometmes referred to as "The Aternatve
Nobe Prze".
AND THE ANSWER IS
CLUE 1
CLUE 1
CLUE 2

|ohn Denver wrote a song caed Caypso as a

trbute to ________, the shp, and her crew

Vanges (who was heavy nvoved wth

________ n the 1990s) reeased abums
ncudng orgna numbers honorng ________:

In Star Trek, the captan's yacht of the USS

Enterprse-E s named ________.

In 2007, the Internatona Watch Company

ntroduced the IWC Aquatmer Chronograph
"________ " Speca Edton. The tmepece
ncorporated a sver of wood from the
nteror of ________'s Caypso research vesse.
CLUE 3

He was a French
nava offcer,
exporer, ecoogst,
fmmaker,
nnovator,
scentst,
photographer,
author and
researcher who
studed the sea
and a forms of
fe n water. He
co-deveoped the
aqua-ung,
poneered marne
conservaton and
was a member of
the Acadme
franase.
AND THE ANSWER IS
'ACQUE#-3E# C%U#(EAU
CLUE 1
CLUE 2
CLUE 2

Gudo van Rossum ALSO known as Benevoent

Dctator for Lfe (BDFL).
CLUE 3
CLUE 3
AND THE ANSWER IS

The programmng
anguage PYTHON
nvented by Gudo van
Rossum was named after
hs favorte show
CLUE 1

X teray meanng "restructurng",refers to

ma|or changes to the structure and functon
of both the potca and economc contro
aowng more ndependent actons from the
varous mnstres and eventuay to the
dsmantng of the panned economy and ts
repacement wth a market economy.

Y teray meanng 'Openness'was the pocy

of maxma pubcty, openness, and
transparency n the actvtes of a
government nsttutons n together wth
freedom of nformaton

sTechnca defntons of what?

CLUE 2

On) After hs ascenson of offce n 1985, he

became ncreasngy popuar n a not so
expected pace, vz Germany (the so-caed "Y
mana"), partcuary n connecton wth
German unfcaton n the ate eghtes.

But Henke Soehnen had sod X snce 1960

(X s the German speng of Y). In the
seventes and eary eghtes, annua saes of
the brand hovered around 2 mon. Durng
Y's presdency, saes cataputed to more than
10 mon bottes and remaned at that eve
even after he eft offce and became
unpopuar n Germany

What brand, havng a recent foray nto Inda,

are we takng about?
CLUE 3

A port-wne stan or naevus fammeus s a vascuar

brthmark consstng of superfca and deep dated
capares n the skn whch produce a reddsh to
purpsh dscoouraton of the skn. They are so
caed for ther coour, resembng that of port wne.
It s part of the famy of dsorders known as
vascuar maformatons, specfcay an
arterovenous maformaton.

The two terms are not aways equated. Sometmes

the term "naevus fammeus" s dvded nto two
categores: port-wne stan and samon patch

The crmson brthmark and coarse back spder-ke

hars on the top of hs head were the source of
much satre among crtcs and cartoonsts.Though
some suggested that he have t surgcay removed,
X opted not to, as once he was pubcy known to
have the mark, he beeved t woud be perceved as
hs beng more concerned wth hs appearance than
other more mportant ssues
AND THE ANSWER IS
STAIN ON THE FOREHEAD OF
GORBACHEV
PERSTROIKA AND GLASNOST

Two reforms by Gorbachev

WODKA GORBATSCHOW
CLUE 1
CLUE 1

_____ has an odd facty for accurate assumptons, as

every wd guess he makes turns out to be true. As a
student at Cambrdge Unversty he attempted to acqure
money by seng exam papers for the upcomng tests.
Hs feow undergraduates were convnced that he had
produced the papers under hypnoss, whereas n reaty
he had smpy studed prevous papers and determned
potenta patterns n questons. However, whe nnocent,
he was arrested and sent to prson when hs papers
turned out to be exacty the same as the rea ones, to the
very comma

_____ bs hmsef as a "hostc detectve" who makes use

of "the fundamenta nterconnectedness of a thngs" to
sove the whoe crme, and fnd the whoe person. Ths
nvoves runnng up arge expense accounts and then
camng that every tem (such as needng to go to a
tropca beach n the Bahamas for three weeks) was, due
to ths "nterconnectedness," actuay a vta part of the
nvestgaton.

_____ _____ (rea name Svad C|e, aso known as _____

C|e) s a fctona character created by Dougas Adams
and featured n the books _____ _____'s Hostc Detectve
Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Tme of the Sou.
CLUE 2
q
He earned a Monty Python wrtng credt for a sketch caed
"Patent Abuse"; he was one of ony two peope, outsde the
orgna Python members to get a wrtng credt .Hez had two
bref appearances n the fourth seres of Monty Python's
Fyng Crcus
q
Snce he had dffcuty seng |okes and stores, he took a
seres of odd |obs, ncudng as a hospta porter, barn
buder, and chcken shed ceaner.
q
scrpt edtor for Doctor Who
q
A memora servce hed for hm at St. Martn-n-the-Feds
Church, Trafagar Square, London became the frst church
servce of any knd broadcast ve on the web by the BBC
q
the ast song payed durng hs funera program was
paperback wrter by Beates
CLUE 3

In hs work, he ncuded a drect reference to Pnk Foyd , n

whch he descrbes the man characters surveyng the
andscape of an aen panet whe ther androd companon,
hums Pnk Foyd's "Shne on You Crazy Damond".offca
bography shares ts name wth the song "Wsh You Were
Here" by Pnk Foyd.He was frends wth Pnk Foyd gutarst
Davd Gmour and, on the occason of hs 42nd brthday he
was nvted to make a guest appearance at Pnk Foyd's
concert at Ears Court n London, payng gutar on the songs
"Bran Damage" and "Ecpse".chose the name for Pnk Foyd's
1994 abum, The Dvson Be, by pckng the words from the
yrcs to one of ts tracks, namey "Hgh Hopes". Gmour aso
performed at hs memora servce foowng hs death n 2001.

TOWEL Day s ceebrated every 25 May as a trbute by

fans of ths ate author . On ths day, fans carry a TOWEL
wth them to demonstrate ther ove for HIM
DOUGLAS ADAMS
DIRK GENTLY
TOWEL DAY
DOUGLAS ADAMS
CLUE 1

Havng made hs fm debut n the 1985 fm The

Good Father, OTHER appearances ncude n A
Fsh Caed Wanda;narrator n the 2005 fm
verson of The Htchhker's Gude to the
Gaaxy;V for Vendetta;Stormbreaker;was
offered a roe n Vakyre but was unabe to
partcpate;starred n the Tm Burton verson of
Ace n Wonderand,;w pay Mycroft Homes n
the seque to Sherock Homes drected by Guy
Rtche.

has become known to Amercan audences for

hs recurrng guest roe as Dr. Gordon Wyatt on
the Fox crme seres Bones.

Drector of Norwch Cty Footba Cub

CLUE 2

As of August 2010, he s the hghest pad actor n a drama

seres on US teevson

1980 Oxford and Cambrdge Boat Race+member of the |unor

coxed par that won the Brtsh natona tte before
representng Brtan's Youth Team at the 1977 |unor Word
Rowng Champonshps.Forced to abandon rowng durng a
bout of ganduar fever, he |oned the Cambrdge Footghts,
whch has been the startng pont for many successfu Brtsh
comedans.

pays the pano, gutar, drums, harmonca and saxophone.

has wrtten one fu-ength nove, The Gun Seer, whch has
undergone mutpe prntngs from severa pubshers. Hs
second nove, Paper Soders (US: The Paper Soder), was
schedued for September 2009, but has yet to appear.
CLUE 3

He has two oder brothers, Rodney, a

Eurosceptc economst who narrowy ost the
Unted Kngdom Independence Party eadershp
eecton n 2000, and Rupert.studed eectrca
engneerng at Newcaste Unversty. frst met
Sunetra Sastry n the 1980s, who was workng
as a make-up artst wth the BBC

tHE name ____ may refer to two of the speces

1) Vpera berus, a venomous vper speces
found n Europe and Asa.2) Heterodon
patrhnos, a non-venomous snake found n
the Unted States.tHE other cam to fame of
ths name s __________ITC, an OpenType font
BLACK ADDER

A the 3 guys atknson, fry and hugh aure

debuted through TV Seres back adder
CLUE 1

Ncco d Bernardo de ________ was an

Itaan phosopher and wrter based n
Forence.He was a dpomat, potca
phosopher, muscan, and a paywrght, but
foremost, he was a cv servant of the
Forentne Repubc. Wrote two treatses -art
of war, and The Prnce.
CLUE 2

n psychoogy, t denotes a personaty type

CLUE 3

Sxteenth-century contemporares adopted

and used the ad|ectve ________an (n the
sense of devous cunnng), often n the
ntroductons of potca tracts offerng more
than government by "Reasons of State",
most notaby those of |ean Bodn and
Govann Botero. Contemporary, pe|oratve
usage of ________an s a msnomer
descrbng someone who deceves and
manpuates others for gan; (persona or not,
the gan s mmatera, ony acton matters,
nsofar as t affects resuts).
AND THE ANSWER IS
MACHIAVELLI
BACKUP ONS FOR 3 IN 1
CLUE 1
CLUE 2

Le Duc Tho a Vetnamese revoutonary, genera,

dpomat, and potcan, and _____ are the ony
two peope to do ths thng.
CLUE 3

|ean-Pau Chares Aymard ______was a French

exstentast phosopher, paywrght,
novest, screenwrter, potca actvst,
bographer, and terary

crtc.

He was awarded the 1964 Nobe Prze n

Lterature but refused the honour.
AND THE ANSWER IS
|EAN PAUL SARTRE
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On)
@
_____was the 25th Presdent of the Unted States.
He was the frst presdent to be assassnated n
the 20th century, wth |ohn F. Kennedy beng the
ast.

@
But he s st remembered for a name gven to
somethng n Aaska by an ade of hs, durng the
1897 Presdenta campagn.Ths ade, durng hs
campagn,ostensby had met many sver mners
who zeaousy promoted Democratc presdenta
canddate Wam |ennngs Bryan's dea of a
sver standard, nsprng hm to retaate by
namng the ______ after a strong proponent of
the god standard. He sad he wanted to name
somethng much bg and conspcous that peope
cant forget t.

AND THE ANSWER IS

MT. MCKINLEY

The taest peak n North Amerca, named

after Wam McKney, the 25th Presdent of
the Unted States

@
Ths s the pcture of whom as n Vanty Far, October
1876.
Who?
more cues next sde f needed

@
Ths s the pcture of one Sr Mr Turab A Khan,
_____ ____ I, as appeared n Vanty Far,
October 1876.

@
He was an Indan statesman , descendant of a
famy whch had hed varous appontments,
frst under the Ad Shah kngs of B|apur, then
under the Deh emperors .He was consdered
the greatest Prme Mnster of ______.

@
What tte was awarded to hm by the Presdent
of the country for hs contrbutons n varous
wars/campagns?
AND THE ANSWER IS

SALAR |UNG

@
_____ ____ _____ _____ s an Amercan western fok
baad where the words are those of a bereaved
over sngng about hs darng, the daughter of a
mner n the 1849 Caforna God Rush.

@
The meody for the song has become popuar as
the rhythm for a number of chants by sports
supporters, such as the Barmy Army

@
We know t as the musc of one of the most
famous Hnd musc song, what song?

@
What song?
AND THE ANSWER IS

OH MY DARLING CLEMENTINE

'Ae D Ha Mushk' from the 1956 move CID

s nspred by ths song-"Aye d ha mushk
|eena yahan-Zara hat ke zara bach ke, yeh
ha Bombay mer |aan

@
Internatona burger gant McDonad's and soft
drnks ma|or CocaCoa sponsored the functon
Nov 2009 n Mumba whe cookery experts
tested the ____ usng varous parameters ke
hygene, preparaton methods, quaty of o
and consstency n taste

@
The functon featured a competton among 27
professona ____ makers to fnd one that coud
be used as the standard for the branded ____
to be aunched at 100 outets soon, sad
(MVVS) presdent San|ay Gurav.

@
Ths w be apparenty branded "Shv ____" and
he has promsed to make t a goba
phenomenon soon
AND THE ANSWER IS

SHIV VADA PAV
@
The functon featured a competton among 27
professona vada-pav makers from Mumba,
Thane and Baramat that coud be used as the
standard for the branded vada-pav to be aunched
at 100 outets |anuary 23 next year, sad
Maharashtra Vada-Pav Vkreta Sena (MVVS)
presdent San|ay Gurav.

@
SHIV as n SHIV SENA :-)

@
1. Wtness somethng truy
ma|estc
@
2. Hep a compete
stranger for the good
@
3. Laugh t I cry
@
4. Drve a Sheby Mustang
@
5. Kss the most beautfu
gr n the word
@
6. Get a tattoo
@
7. Skydvng
@
8. Vst Stonehenge
@
9. Spend a week at the
Louvre
@
10. See Rome
@
11. Dnner at La
Chevre d'Or
@
12. See the Pyramds
@
13. Get back n touch
@
14. Vst the Ta|
Maha
@
15. Hong Kong
@
16. Vctora Fas
@
17. Go on a safar
@
18. Drve a
motorcyce on the
Great Wa of Chna
@
19. St on the Great
Egyptan Pyramds
@
20. Fnd the |oy n
your fe

AND THE ANSWER IS

BUCKET LIST

q
A ______ s a terary or other artstc genre that s a
"hodge-podge" or an mtaton. The word s aso a
ngustc term used to descrbe an eary stage n
the deveopment of a pdgn anguage.

q
For exampe, many stores featurng Sherock
Homes, orgnay created by Arthur Conan Doye,
have been wrtten as ______ snce the author's tme.

q
"Boheman Rhapsody" by Oueen s unusua as t s
a ______ n both senses of the word, as there are
many dstnct styes mtated n the song, a
'hodge-podged' together to create one pece of
musc

q
The fms of Ouentn Tarantno are often descrbed
as ______s, as they often pay trbute to (or mtate)
pup noves, baxpotaton and/or Chnese kung fu
fms, though some say hs fms are more of an
homage.
WHO?
08/27/10
AMAR GOPAL BOSE

.

The X s a mechanca engne , nvented by
|oseph Mare X n 1804, that smpfes the
process of manufacturng textes wth compex
patterns such as brocade, damask, and
mateasse.

The X s controed by punched cards wth
punched hoes, each row of whch corresponds
to one row of the desgn.

The abty to change the pattern of the X's
weave by smpy changng cards was an
mportant conceptua precursor to the
deveopment of computer programmng.
Specfcay, Chares Babbage panned to use
cards to store programs n hs Anaytca engne.





An/ the ansAer is


'ACQUA!*:# L%%M

@
wHERE w you fnd the story of
Hank Morgan, a 19th-century
resdent of Hartford, USA who, after a
bow to the head, awakens to fnd
hmsef nexpcaby transported back
n tme to eary medeva Engand ?

AN* (HE AN#&E! I#

C%NNEC(ICU( 3AN$EE IN $IN"
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@
Mark Twan

In the eary 1970s the U.S. Department of

Defense commssoned the deveopment of
ths that coud perform concurrent
processng.

In 1980 the _____|ont Program Offce was

created to aunch and mantan the _______,
named n ______s honor.

Its documentaton became a natona

standard and s stored n document
number MIL-STD-1815 to honor the year of
_______s brth


An/ the ansAer is

name/ after A/a
5o<e5a;e
A*A )rogramming
Language
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