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Try the quiz without googling Otto Königsberger was born in Berlin in 1908, and

trained as an architect there at the Technical University, graduating in 1931. In 1933, he won the Schinkel Prize for Architecture for a design for the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. However, with the rise to power of the Nazi Party, Königsberger was forced to leave the country, as was his uncle, physicist Max Born.

Königsberger later worked in India and helped in Town planning of 2 cities.Jamshedpur and which other city?

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Ans is Bhuvaneswar

A sweet questionAccording to one of the legends, Goddess Laxmi gets

upset because her husband Lord Jagannath goes on a 9-day sojourn (the ratha yatra) without her consent. So, she locks Jai Vijay Dwar, one of the temple gates and prevents his convoy from re-entering the sanctum sanctorum of the temple. To appease her, Jagannath offers her Khira Mohana

What dish now in controversy had such divine origins?

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Rasagulla

This one should be a low full toss for Cricket lovers

Ian Redpath by Charlie Griffith(1968)Brian Luckhurst by Greg Chappel(1974)Derek Randall by Ewan Chatfield(1977)Sikandar Bhakt by Alan Hurst(1978)Grant flower by Dipak Patel(1992) What are we talking about?

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All Out Mankaded

Located on a very busy street in the Lal Darwaza area of Ahmedabad, the Sidi Saiyyed Mosque is an unpretentious, small mosque that, at first glance, does not seem to offer anything extraordinary. If you look closely, though, you will notice the fine lattice windows of the mosque, which tourists from across India and abroad come to see.One of the windows in the Mosque inspired a famous Logo.Which one

(i cant show that window because then it will become too damn easy)

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Explain the Connect 5

Connect... Not very far fetched

All of them have have directed films on Steve Jobs

2015: Steve Jobs: a feature film directed by Danny Boyle, with a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin. Jobs is portrayed by Michael Fassbender.

2013: Jobs: an independent film directed by Joshua Michael Stern. Jobs is portrayed by Ashton Kutcher.

2013: iSteve: a satirical film in which Jobsdirected by Ryan Perez .Jobs is portrayed by Justin Long.

1999: Pirates of Silicon Valley: a TNT film directed by Martyn Burke. Jobs is portrayed by Noah Wyle

Whats the connect Roosevelt Ambassador Biltmore Grauman's Chinese Shrine Pantages Santa Monica Dorothy Chandler

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All Oscar award venues) 1929: Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel1930–1943: Alternated between the Ambassador Hotel and the Biltmore Hotel1944–1946: Grauman's Chinese Theatre1947–1948: Shrine Auditorium1949: Academy Award Theater1950–1960: Pantages Theatre1961–1968: Santa Monica Civic Auditorium1969–1987: Dorothy Chandler Pavilion1988–2001: Alternated between the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the Shrine Auditorium2002–present: Dolby Theatre (also known as Kodak Theatre, 2002-2011; Hollywood and Highland Centre, 2012)

Identify the very famous ? awards 7

That was easy

The Golden Raspberry Awards, often shortened to the Razzies, is an award ceremony in recognition of the worst in film.

Founded by American copywriter and publicist John J. B. Wilson in 1980, the annual Razzie Awards ceremony in Los Angeles precedes the corresponding Academy Awards ceremony by one day. The term raspberry in the name is used in its irreverent sense, as in "blowing a raspberry". The awards themselves are in the form of a "golfball-sized raspberry" which sits atop a Super 8 mm film reel, the whole of which is spray painted gold

May force you to think a bit In 1866, George McGill

received U.S. patent 56,587 that was a precursor to the modern staple.He showed his invention at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.This device weighed over two and a half pounds .

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What was the device

Stapler

Geeks will crack this one...Most likely the first one was QWERTYIOP.This was often misquotedWho used it and what are we talking

about

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Probably the first emailRaymond Samuel Tomlinson (1941-)[1] is a US programmer who

implemented an email system in 1971 on the ARPANET. It was the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts connected to the ARPAnet

It was not preserved and Tomlinson describes it as insignificant, something like "QWERTYUIOP". This is commonly misquoted as "The first e-mail was QWERTYUIOP".[3] Tomlinson later commented that these "test messages were entirely forgettable and I have, therefore, forgotten them

The cartoon drawn by Gabriel from Brentford Middlesex had these words Freedom is in Peril, Defend it with All Your Might' was used by an Indian firm on its Logo.Which firm are we talking about

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The final one

National Herald

..a quizzing venture• Started as quizmaster in ‘Quest ‘a club in Wadia

college Pune where the most passionate quizzers

had trivia as their four square meals

• In 2010, rediscovered the passion at a

summer school camp in kerala

• 40 quizzes at school, college, business schools

in Kerala and Mumbai followed in the next 4 years….

• Helped me to improve as a quizzer also.Won the

ultimate TATA Crucible Kochi round last year.

• Works as Brand manager for living in Malayala

Manorama handling the ULTIMATE encyclopedia..

Manorama Yearbook

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