Ep siz1.2 answers

Identify?

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The Voyager Golden Records are phonograph records which were included aboard both Voyager spacecraft, which were launched in 1977. They contain sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth, and are intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form, or for future humans, who may find them.

The one on the left was named Abys mal, what was the name of the other character?

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ABNOR MAL (ABYSMAL & ABNORMAL )

Queen Mary1 of England was a staunch catholic and she violently persecuted Protestants. Three protestant noblemen were convicted of plotting against her and executed. This event leads to the origin of something which is quite comontoday as well. What??

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The nursery rhyme – 3 Blind Mice

Connect

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The Connect is the Bombay Theme Music

The track "Bombay Theme" is an instrumental orchestral piece composed and arranged by A. R. Rahman. The track became an internationally sensational work and has featured in several compilations. It was also sampled by many major artists. It was featured in the Palestinian film Divine Intervention in 2002, and in the Nicolas Cage film Lord of War, in 2005. Rahmanreused the track as "Bombay Theme Intro" in the score of the 1996 film, Fire, by Deepa Mehta.It also appeared on a French TV commercial for Volvic starring Zinedine Zidane in 2000.

The first mention of it in writings occurs ca. 920 A.D., and it seems to have started as a dish made only of fermented urad dal. One description ca. 1025 says the lentils were first soaked in buttermilk, and after grinding, seasoned with pepper, coriander, cumin and asafoetida. There is no known record of rice being added until some time in the 17th century. It may have been found that the rice helped speed the fermentation process. Although this dish has changed in ingredients, the preparation process and the name remained the same. What??

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Idli

What is this?.....Something very horrendous

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These are the clothes of Rajiv Gandhi after he was assassinated

In 1955 Loksabha and Rajyasabha MPs issued an unique appeal to increase their salary by Rs 1. What was the reason??

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The salary was Rs 420, they demanded it to be increased by Re 1

Identify

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This is the DUCKWORTH LEWIS Graph

This is a print ad for which iconic brand??

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Durex

When the Babri Mosque was demolished in 1992, the Government of India asked the Rajputana Rifles to go to Ayodhya and control the situation there. For the first time in history, a regiment refused to follow the government order citing a very strange but valid reason. What was the reason given by Rajputana Rifles for not obeying government's order?

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The reason was their war cry “ Raja Ram Chandra ki Jai” which they said would only worsen the situation in Ayodhya

Connect

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The connect is BARODA,

1. Vijay Hazare

2. That’s a Banyan Tree, Baroda originated from two words Vat which means the Banyan tree, and Aodh, which means a tent/canopy.

3. Rahul Dravid is the brand ambassador of bank of Baroda

4. That’s the symbol of the kingdom of Baroda

All three have a common unique achievement to their credit, what achievement? The list is not exhaustive

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All 3 have taken a wicket with their first ball in international cricket

Connect to something very common in business parlance

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This is FREEBIE MARKETING, i.e. distributing an article free to push the sales of a complementary good,

1. a brownie camera.. one of the first models sold by Kodak.. they also adopted this strategy, sold cameras very cheap to create demand for film rolls

2. that lamp is called Mei Foo Lamp.. it was sold by Standard Oil in China at very low price, sometimes even free, to generate demand for kerosene. It had the desired effect, and China became one of the largest market for Standard Oil..

3. That person is King C Gillette who used this to popularize disposable blades, by giving away free razors

Hindu, Pile, Irish, Mongean, Riffle, Weave, Stripping, Chemmy, Overhand, Faro, Wash, Chemmy. Connect

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Ways to shuffle a deck of cards (I guess this was easily googleable)

Name this doll & the brand which used it for promotion

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She is Ruby, the anti Barbie Doll used by Body Shop

Identify this Gentleman whose biggest contribution is mathematically represented as below.

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That is P C Mahalanobis and that is the formula for Mahalanobis Distance

Once upon a Time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo

Starting Lines of which Book?

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man-James Joyce

Its title is a play on the words to a song from the Disney musical “The Three Little Pigs”. The play ends with Martha answering the titular question with, "I am, George, I am.” The play involves the two couples playing "games," which are savage verbal attacks against one or two of the others at the party. These games are referred to with sarcastically alliterative names: "Humiliate the Host", "Get the Guests",, and "Bringing Up Baby. What?

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• Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?

• This is a flag based on the hammer & sickle of communism. Where have we come across this flag ?

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• In Orwell’s Animal farm

• The Vahanas of which deity are Nandi the bull as well as a lion ?

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• Ardhanarishwar

Ratilal Ghelabhai Mehta, remembered him as "a dashing cricketer" who "evinced a keen interest in the game as a school student". He was, it seems, "good both at batting and bowling", and had an uncanny understanding of the game's uncertainties . In 1923, he was partially responsible for P Vithal to be made captain of the Hindus. When Vijay Merchant's sister Laxmi asked for his autograph, he chose the page of her book containing the signatures of the 1933-34 M.C.C. team, selecting himself as its 17th member. Who?

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did they produce? ______” .complete the Orson welles quote.

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The cuckoo clock.

The name of the brand was probably taken from the word

meaning force, energy, vigour. It was one of the first products

created by William Lever .Francis Bacon (painter) is reputed to have used this as a substitute

for toothpaste.

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Vim

• ID the book

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Connect the Pics in the next slide

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• Answers in the Quiz in Slumdog Millionaire

• Amitabh Bachchan, Jack Hobbs, Surdas, Aramis (Charlie Sheen played Aramis in a 1993 Disney production), Samuel Colt, Bow, Ben Franklin, Cambridge Circus London and Truth Alone Triumphs