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Question 1
What is medically recognized as amental/emotional state defined as a
profound sense of well-being. Technically,this is an affect, but the term is oftencolloquially used to define emotion as anintense state of transcendent happiness
combined with an overwhelming sense ofcontentment.
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Answer 1
Euphoria
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Question 2*
In the old theatres a mixture of
CaCO3 and Phosphorous wasused to produce certaineffects on stage. Which phraseoriginates from this?
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Answer 2
In the limelight.
CaCO3 burns to give CaO which is Lime.
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Question 3
The X is an amalgamation of both theDevanagari consonant and the Latin
letter without the vertical bar. The twohorizontal lines in X are supposed torepresent equality.
What is X ?
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Answer 3
The Rupee Symbol
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Question 4*
Music: Louis Banks
Lyrics: Piyush Pandey
Director: Suresh Mullick
Camera: Vikram Bangera
Agency: Ogilvy & Mather India
Producer: Lok Sewa Sanchar Parishad
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Answer 4
The original Mile Sur Mera Tumhara
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Question 5
Who said about whom?
"Nahin jeetega! Chote ki naseeb main jeetnahin hai!", which translates into: "He won'twin! It's not in the small one's destiny"
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Answer 5
Azharuddin on Sachin during Sachin’s tenure as captain.
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Question 6*
His middle name is Fauntleroy. His father'sname is Quackmore. Who am i talking
about?
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Answer 6
Donald Duck
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Question 7
The Ouroboros is an ancient symboldepicting a serpent or a dragon
swallowing its own tail. A famous organicchemist claimed one night that hedreamt of the Ouroboros, and that ledto his discovery of something huge the
next day. What was the discovery?
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Answer 7
It was Kekule who gave the BenzeneCyclic Structure
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Question 8*On 22nd Feb., 2010 skaters Meryl Davis and
Charlie White won the Olympic Silver in theFigure Skating Ice Dance Category at the
Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.In the process, they repeated somethingthat first gained popularity during theBeijing Olympics via a group of Israeligymnasts.What did they do?
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Answer 8
Figure skating on Indian songs
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Question 9
Which industrialist began his career ass anattendant for Burma Shell Gas in
Aden(Yemen)?
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Answer 9
Dhirubhai Ambani
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Question 10*
If you find yourself in an Infinite Loop inthe Bay area, where would you be?
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Answer 10
Apple Headquarters
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Question 11*
When X was termed as the female Big Band the second Madhubala she calmly
replied: "I want to be remembered as Xnot the second Madhubala." And "It'sgood to be acknowledged as the femaleAmitabh but would Amitji like it if he was
called the male X?" Who is X?
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Answer 11
Madhuri Dixit
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Question 12
The foundation stone was laid by ShriArjun Singh ,HRD minister on December
1,2007 and was formally inaugurated onJuly 4, 2008 by Dr Donkupar Roy.
What am I talking about?
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Answer 12
IIM SHILLONG
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Question 13 Every year, wood of specified trees like
phassi, dhausa, sal, etc. are brought fromthe ex-princely state of Dasapalla, by aspecialist team of carpenters who have
hereditary rights and privileges for thesame. Thus, Nandighosa (832 woodenpieces and 13.5 metres tall), Taladhwaja(763 wooden pieces and 13.2 metres tall)
and Padmadhwaja (593 wooden piecesand 12.9 metres tall) are constructed.What is being referred to?
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Answer 13
The Puri Rath Yatra
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Question 14
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Answer 14
Magalore Air Crash
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Question 15
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Answer 15
Smirnoff
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Question 16
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Answer 16
Camlin Marker
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Question 17
How do we better know Shivaji RaoGaekwad ?
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Answer 17
Rajnikanth !!!!!!!!!!!!!!