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25 QuestionsQuestions 10 and 20 are star questions

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1.In the Savoy Hotel in Mussoorie In 1911, a Miss Frances Garnett-Orme, a 49-year-old spiritualist, came to stay with her companion from Lucknow, Miss Eva Mount Stephen , also a spiritualist. One morning after Miss Mount Stephen had returned to Lucknow, Miss Frances was found mysteriously dead, an autopsy revealed that she’d been poisoned with prussic acid, a cyanide-based poison. Apparently, Rudyard Kipling had written to X urging him to write a story about a “murder by suggestion”. Though X never visited to investigate, he mentioned it to Agatha Christie and the detective story The Mysterious Affair at Styles was the result.Name X

2.Airbus have came up with the first 3D printed aircraft which stands for Test of High-tech Objectives in Reality.The aircraft is completely 3D printed, except the electrical elements, which are built from a substance called polyamide.By which popular character the aircraft is named?

3.In the Soviet era ,Ussuri beach near the naval port of Vladivostok in the east was dumped with truckloads of broken vodka bottles and cracked porcelain .But now the place is a tourist attraction due to something that happened over the years.What happened?

4.What do these four flowers represent?

5.Mata Amritanandamayi and M.S. Faizal Khan , Pro Chancellor of Noorul Islam University are the two in a list of four exclusive Malayali achievers.Identify the other two in the list.

6. This is a liqueur flavoured with the dried peel of the laraha citrus fruit.It comes from an island in the southern Caribbean Sea where the sailors affected with scurvy used to get down for cure. This liqueur often added with a colour is a popular mix for cocktails.Name the liqueur

7.This song was originally written by Shyamlal Parshad Gupta. The Indian National Congress adopted the song as the official flag song in 1924 and it was first sung at the Jallianwala Bagh Martyrs' Day on 13 April 1924 by Sarojini Naidu.Later, the song was featured in the film, Azadi ki Raah Par, released in 1948.Identify the song.

8.Cadbury of Birmingham, Fry's of Bristol and Rowntree's and Terrys of York were the three top selling chocolate manufactures of Britain.The move into chocolate began with cocoa drinks in the 19th Century as a reaction against the perceived misery and deprivation caused by alcohol by the religious group in which the founders of these three companies belong .The other advantage in business was their reputation for honesty and reliability running parallel with their quest for justice, equality and social reform.Identify the religious group.

9. Sardar K M Panicker was the first President of Kerala sahitya academy as well as an Indian novelist, journalist, historian, administrator and diplomat.However people in Kerala know his nephew better because of his literary as well as other contributions.Identify the person

10.The Malayalam singer Jayachandran said in an interview: “ I once heard a Bhajan by X starting with the word Y. I later found out that Y is the name of X’s Father. So I decided to name my son Y.”Identify X and Y.

11. Resembling a twisted teardrop, the fig-shaped design is of Persian origin. But its western name derives from the town of X, in West Scotland, a centre for textiles where this designs were produced. In India it is called mango motif also.Name X.

12.Devageetha (ദേ�വഗീത) written by Changampuzha Krishna Pillai is based on which famous work?

13.His official name was Singanalluru Puttaswamayya Muthuraju.

He won the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer in 1992 for the song "Naadamaya" from the movie Jeevana Chaitra.

He is also credited for being the only Indian actor who stayed away from acting the vicious acts of drinking, smoking and uttering swear words in all the roles he performed in his long spanning career of close to 50 years and 220 movies.

How do we better know him?

14.Kainchi Dham Ashram in Nainital, Uttarakhand was built in 1964 with a Hanuman temple.

However , recently it was in news because X told Prime minister Narendra Modi in USA that he visited this place on advice of Y. Identify X and Y

15.Mr Burger, a burger chain in Australia, is now offering ten people the chance to get their hands on free burgers for life. You’ll just have to do one tiny thing.What?

16.“Letters From Rosemary an upcoming movie tells the heart breaking story of “Rosemary” Kennedy, sister of John F Kennedy who had personally suffered intellectual disabilities.What world event is said to be inspired from her which was started by her sister Eunice Kennedy?

17. X was 3rd in google search for India in 2016.People are debating over her existence and wondering whether she is real or not.Name X who appeared in tweets of celebrities in connection with demonetisation.

18.Name the digital application platform , a brainchild of Infosys co-founder and former CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan, which chronicles the History of Indian Information Technology sector.

19.Kingfisher Towers-Residences at UB City, was in news recently as the home of India's flamboyant business tycoon, Vijay Mallya.What is this building popularly called?

20.Bechdel Test named after the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel, (in whose comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For it first appeared in 1985 )checks the portrayal of women in popular fiction.On what basis the test is being done?

21. Lukla Airport, is a small airport in eastern Nepal. The airport is popular because Lukla is the place where most people start the climb to Mount Everest Base Camp.The airport is now named after Tenzing–Hillary. History Channel in 2010 rated it as ___________.

22.Valmik Thapar the Indian naturalist, conservationist and writer recently came up with a book called ____, A Celebration of Indian Birds.Its name sound similar to an auto biography by a very famous Indian of a different field.Name it.

23.Movie director Hansal Mehta (of Aligarh and Shahid)came up with a 10-minute-long video tribute titled ' Reach For The Stars‘ recently . Whom is he paying tribute?

24.Virachand Raghavji ____was a Jain scholar who represented Jainism at the first World Parliament of Religions in 1893.A barrister by profession, he worked to defend the rights of Jains, and wrote and lectured extensively on Jainism, other religions, and philosophy. He participated in Pune session of Indian National Congress in 1895 as a representative of Bombay state. A drama based on his life, _____ Before_____ was performed 200 times throughout the world.

Fill in the blanks. (One word)

25.Khao Ping Kan is an island in Thailand. It is popularly called after a character of fame because this place was featured in one movie in 1974. Name it.

1.In the Savoy Hotel in Mussoorie In 1911, a Miss Frances Garnett-Orme, a 49-year-old spiritualist, came to stay with her companion from Lucknow, Miss Eva Mount Stephen , also a spiritualist. One morning after Miss Mount Stephen had returned to Lucknow, Miss Frances was found mysteriously dead, an autopsy revealed that she’d been poisoned with prussic acid, a cyanide-based poison. Apparently, Rudyard Kipling had written to X urging him to write a story about a “murder by suggestion”. Though X never visited to investigate, he mentioned it to Agatha Christie and the detective story The Mysterious Affair at Styles was the result.Name X

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

2.Airbus have came up with the first 3D printed aircraft which stands for Test of High-tech Objectives in Reality.The aircraft is completely 3D printed, except the electrical elements, which are built from a substance called polyamide.By which popular character the aircraft is named?

THORTest of High-tech Objectives in Reality

3.In the Soviet era ,Ussuri beach near the naval port of Vladivostok in the east was dumped with truckloads of broken vodka bottles and cracked porcelain .But now the place is a tourist attraction due to something that happened over the years.What happened?

The glass pieces were smoothened by the waves and now the beach is full of smooth glass pebbles

4.What do these four flowers represent?

They are the national symbols of the United Kingdom’s constituent countries (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland)

5.Mata Amritanandamayi and M.S. Faizal Khan , Pro Chancellor of Noorul Islam University are the two in a list of four exclusive Malayali achievers.Identify the other two in the list.

V K Krishna menon and Sashi TaroorPeople who spoke in UN General assembly

6. This is a liqueur flavoured with the dried peel of the laraha citrus fruit.It comes from an island in the southern Caribbean Sea where the sailors affected with scurvy used to get down for cure. This liqueur often added with a colour is a popular mix for cocktails.Name the liqueur

Blue Curacao

7.This song was originally written by Shyamlal Parshad Gupta. The Indian National Congress adopted the song as the official flag song in 1924 and it was first sung at the Jallianwala Bagh Martyrs' Day on 13 April 1924 by Sarojini Naidu.Later, the song was featured in the film, Azadi ki Raah Par, released in 1948.Identify the song.

8.Cadbury of Birmingham, Fry's of Bristol and Rowntree's and Terrys of York were the three top selling chocolate manufactures of Britain.The move into chocolate began with cocoa drinks in the 19th Century as a reaction against the perceived misery and deprivation caused by alcohol by the religious group in which the founders of these three companies belong .The other advantage in business was their reputation for honesty and reliability running parallel with their quest for justice, equality and social reform.Identify the religious group.

9. Sardar K M Panicker was the first President of Kerala sahitya academy as well as an Indian novelist, journalist, historian, administrator and diplomat.However people in Kerala know his nephew better because of his literary as well as other contributions.Identify the person

10.The Malayalam singer Jayachandran said in an interview: “ I once heard a Bhajan by X starting with the word Y. I later found out that Y is the name of X’s Father. So I decided to name my son Y.”Identify X and Y.

Lata Mangeshkar Dinanath Mangeshkar

11. Resembling a twisted teardrop, the fig-shaped design is of Persian origin. But its western name derives from the town of X, in West Scotland, a centre for textiles where this designs were produced. In India it is called mango motif also.Name X.

Paisley

12.Devageetha (ദേ�വഗീത) written by Changampuzha Krishna Pillai is based on which famous work?

13.His official name was Singanalluru Puttaswamayya Muthuraju.

He won the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer in 1992 for the song "Naadamaya" from the movie Jeevana Chaitra.

He is also credited for being the only Indian actor who stayed away from acting the vicious acts of drinking, smoking and uttering swear words in all the roles he performed in his long spanning career of close to 50 years and 220 movies.

How do we better know him?

Rajkumar

14.Kainchi Dham Ashram in Nainital, Uttarakhand was built in 1964 with a Hanuman temple.

However , recently it was in news because X told Prime minister Narendra Modi in USA that he visited this place on advice of Y. Identify X and Y

Mark Zuckerberg and Steve jobs

15.Mr Burger, a burger chain in Australia, is now offering ten people the chance to get their hands on free burgers for life. You’ll just have to do one tiny thing.What?

Officially change your name to Burger(Mr./Mrs.)

16.“Letters From Rosemary an upcoming movie tells the heart breaking story of “Rosemary” Kennedy, sister of John F Kennedy who had personally suffered intellectual disabilities.What world event is said to be inspired from her which was started by her sister Eunice Kennedy?

17. X was 3rd in google search for India in 2016.People are debating over her existence and wondering whether she is real or not.Name X who appeared in tweets of celebrities in connection with demonetisation.

Sonam Gupta. The writing on the notes went viral in social media.

18.Name the digital application platform , a brainchild of Infosys co-founder and former CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan, which chronicles the History of Indian Information Technology sector.

19.Kingfisher Towers-Residences at UB City, was in news recently as the home of India's flamboyant business tycoon, Vijay Mallya.What is this building popularly called?

Whitehouse in the sky

20.Bechdel Test named after the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel, (in whose comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For it first appeared in 1985 )checks the portrayal of women in popular fiction.On what basis the test is being done?

The Bechdel test asks whether a work of fiction features at least two women or girls who talk to each other about something other than a man or boy.

21. Lukla Airport, is a small airport in eastern Nepal. The airport is popular because Lukla is the place where most people start the climb to Mount Everest Base Camp.The airport is now named after Tenzing–Hillary. History Channel in 2010 rated it as ___________.

The most dangerous airport in the world

22.Valmik Thapar the Indian naturalist, conservationist and writer recently came up with a book called ____, A Celebration of Indian Birds.Its name sound similar to an auto biography by a very famous Indian of a different field.Name it.

23.Movie director Hansal Mehta (of Aligarh and Shahid)came up with a 10-minute-long video tribute titled ' Reach For The Stars‘ recently . Whom is he paying tribute?

24.Virachand Raghavji ____was a Jain scholar who represented Jainism at the first World Parliament of Religions in 1893.A barrister by profession, he worked to defend the rights of Jains, and wrote and lectured extensively on Jainism, other religions, and philosophy. He participated in Pune session of Indian National Congress in 1895 as a representative of Bombay state. A drama based on his life, _____ Before_____ was performed 200 times throughout the world.

Fill in the blanks. (One word)

25.Khao Ping Kan is an island in Thailand. It is popularly called after a character of fame because this place was featured in one movie in 1974. Name it.