FINALS

WRITTEN ROUND with relative scoring THE USUAL QUESTIONSLIST IT

WRITE ABOUT BROTHERS• ALL QUESTIONS ON BROTHERS AND SISTERS• 4*(WRONG/ NO ANSWERS)

1. Whose childhood days?

2. Off-beat family.

3.Arguably Karnataka’s most famous twins. Any major ritual in South Canara begins by taking their names.

4.The more known members of this band called ‘SIX & OUT’

10 QUESTIONS+10 ON PASS OR DIRECT+10 AND -10 ON POUNCE.

DRIES

Identify the sport and name the country where it is the national sport ,which is quite obvious!

BuzkashiAfghanistan of course!

The second edition of the New Oxford American Dictionary published in 2005 contained this entry:

esquivalience – n. the willful avoidance of one’s official responsibilities ( origin: late 19th cent .: perhaps from French esquiver, “dodge, slink away.”)

What is the significance of this?

It is a dummy word deliberately introduced into OED to find out any copyright violators who blindly Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V.

As many of you might have experienced being Brahmins even the sub-division in it is almost a mile long. In this regard, Iyengars are majorly classified into Vadakalai Iyengars and Thenkalai Iyengars . Apart from various theories about the difference in their origins what unique common practice of Iyengars also forms a difference between these two groups that led to a huge conflict in godly affairs as well ?

There was a tiff in MelKote as to which Namam that Cheluvrayaswamy has to sport.

When Chris Bonnington headed a Himalayan expedition in1970 he had used all its components except one. He apologetically pointed out to the manufacturers that there are no fishes in the Himalayas! The largest of this is called a giant and weighs a kilogram. What?

Norman Cousins, a well known journalist introduced the idea to Western medicine after falling ill in 1964. Stricken with a degenerative connective tissue disease in his spine, he hired a nurse to read him stories and had a projector installed in his room so that he could watch films, to distract himself from the pain. Madan Kataria is one of the earliest adopters of this therapy in India. What am I speaking about?

Called the hymenocallis flower , what design is based on it?

Burj Khalifa

A fairly popular brand of shaving cream. What is so special about it’s owner thus what is the associated irony?

It is owned by a third generation Sikh Family!!! I guess the owner has never used his own product.

Thomas Edison recited the first stanza of this poem to test his invention of the phonograph in 1877, making this the second audio recording to be successfully made and played back. Written by Sarah Josepha Hale and inspired by an actual incident, the school in the poem was bought by Henry Ford and relocated. Which poem are we talking about?

This American company is headquartered in Fountain valley California. It is one of the largest players in its field of business. John Tu and David Sun are the founders of this company. Though not very clear ,many say and it is a good argument that the company was named after founder’s favorite travel place as the name of the company/place has absolutely no relation to the kind business they are in. Name the company?

Id the boxer who made his debut against Richard Dawson in Manchester.

Andrew Flintoff

LIST IT

LIST A FINITE SET.+5 FOR EACH CORRECT PAIR.

Name all the six states of Australia along with their capitals.

GOOD BYE!!