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ELIMINATION ROUND

Rules and Regulations Total 20 questions-(including 4 star questions as tie-breakers(2,6,9,15)

Write your answers legibly, if we cant read it, its wrong.

The top 5 teams will be qualified for the finals. Always keep your quizzing ethics Quiz masters is the only God!!!

I have every right to command you..turn off your Cell phones!!!

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All terms derived from Portuguese Influence

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The Portia tree was dense with foliageIf you looked closely, you could see the yellow trumpetlike flowers with their flared mouth and the dropping fading red one with their inviting smiles Portia flowers always grow more beautiful as they fade.Kali leaped up and plucked one.Spot this work and its author.

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Perumal MurukanOne Part Women

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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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The word X is derived from a Farsi word X-1, means Pre designed-X got its first textual reference inAncient Iranian text Avestha The South Indian Sangham text Puramnanooru associates X with Perumchottu Uthiyan Cheralathan, a legendary Chera King.The 16th century Mughal biographical textAin-i-Akbari also refers X Sivaganga districtof southernTamil Nadu, Talakkathecheri of Malabar and Baghnagar of Telungana are he hotspots of XIdentify x!!!!!

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BIRIYANI

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Name this Programme launched on October 11th 2014

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6 Identify the map and its significance!!!

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The person x was travelling to England in 1912 with his son Y to meet William Rosenstein (an amazing painter of 20th century)During his travel X was keeping a manuscript called Z in an attache case-On their arrival at London X forgets his attach case at the railway station-The very next year the person X got his rare fortune to deliver a Banquet Speech at Grand hotel Stockholm- Now Its your turn - What is the official connection between Y and Jawaharlal Nehru!!!!!

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X-Rabindranath TagoreY-RathindranathTagore(His son)Z-Geethanjali(Manuscript)ANSWERRathindranathTagore was the former Vice chancellor of Visva-BharatiUniversity-and the Indian Prime minister and Jawaharlal Nehru holds the post of its chancellor!!!

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8Where in this universe you can find the following epigraphs together-Victoria written in Devanagiri scriptA text of bible verse in Hebrew suggesting In the face of adversityA black and white image of the Christ inspired from Mathew Brooke's painting the man of sorrows

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David Beckhams body!!!

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This route map will tell you what?Your clue-RaghavanKrishnan NairThevarthundiyil Titus

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Gandhijis Dandi march-Sabarmathi to Dandi

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The Red Sari is an unauthorized dramatized version of Sonia Gandhis biography- which already initiated some controversies in and around Indian Politics-Identify its author?

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Javier Moro

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What is common to these pictures ? 11

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12Identify the person behind this voice-He was a former History professor of Kashmir University and later joined as the news reader of Akashavani

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GOPAN( AIR)

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When A and B met together, they started complementing each otherA to BWhat I admire most about your art is its universality. You do not say a word and yet the world understands youNow B to AIts true, but your fame is even greaterThe world admires youwhen nobody understand you!!!!Now its your Turn-Who is A and Who is B

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AB

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10This was coined for the first time by James Kieran, a New York Times journalist.In US this means an advisory council for the President.But in UK, this was started as a TV show by BBC.But among us this is known in a very different way.What is it ?

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X was the best known animal to serve as a Ys trademarkHe was companys longest lived trademark, having appeared since 1957He was captured in the Namibian jungles and brought to the United States in 1921..The first animal of its kind to have been transported by airIdentify X and Y

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X-Leo the Lion Y-Metro Goldwyn Mayer

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CONNECT

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12 Sir Arthur Rowland was an unpopular and highly corrupt British civil servant who served as the Revenue Member of the Executive Council of the Governor of Madras State Presidency from 1923 to 1926..His unpopular persona contributed a negative term to Malayalam vocabulary derived from his name-What is it?

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12 !!!

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24th February 2010 8th September 2011 22th November 2013 13th November 2014 ?Fill the fifth date!!!!!

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24th February 2010 8th September 2011 22th November 2013 13th November 2014 ?

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Name the CEO of National Institution for Transforming India Aayog?

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Sindhusree Khullar

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Our national Anthem was first appeared in a journal, Tatvabodhini Patrika First sung in 1911 Dec 27, in an annual session of Indian National Congress.Tagore wrote down its English translation in 1915- He was assisted by a famous Irish lady-She married to James Cousins, an English poet and a literary critic-Identify her name?

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Margaret Elizabeth Cousins

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