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The Beating Retreat dates back to 16th century England when troops were called back inside the castle at sunset but in India it denotes the official end of the Republic Day festivities. The buggy itself has a history of its own. At the time of Partition, regiments under the Governor General’s Bodyguards (now known as the President’s Bodyguards) were divided in a 2:1 ratio.

However when it came to the viceroy’s buggy, neither country was willing to give up its claim. Partition anecdote has it that the first commandant of the GGBG and his Muslim deputy (who went on to join the Pakistani forces) finally solved the problem and India won the buggy.

Give me the way with which ownership of buggy was given to India ?

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Following the recommendation of the 10 member-Acworth Committee in 1920-21, headed by British economist William Acworth The "Acworth Report" led to reorganisation of _______. A practise which continues in independent India till date.

What was started by Acworth Committee?

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It is one of the most famous incidents in the Indian Independence struggle. A ‘smarak’ was made in the names of the peasant martyrs only in 1993, Sampat Chamar, Abdullah, Vikram Ahir, Meghu Tiwari, Lal Muhammed, Sahdeo Kahar being some of them.

However, the British made a memorial in the name of the policemen who died and a famous revolutionary couplet by poet Jagdamba Prasad Mishra now adorns the place:

Shahidon ke chitaaon par lagenge har baras mele, watan pe marne walon ka yahi baki nishan hoga

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Which German app was started by this Group ?

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Dubsmash

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Tejashwi Yadav

The current Governor of Rajasthan Kalyan Singh recently made a few comments on the national anthem that kicked up some controversy.

Citing that its lyrics were outdated, he called for the replacement of a word that referred to the erstwhile British rulers and felt the anthem should not be honouring them.

Which word?

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Adhinayak : Leader

One of the rare occasions when Amul got into trouble for its tongue-in-cheek ads , this 1979 print ad is remembered for the huge uproar it caused at home , prompting Amul to issue a public apology in form of a follow-up ad.

The original print ad referred to something followed by the UK Government , at places such as Heathrow Airport.

What was the practice? Why was the UK govt. following such a

practice?

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UK authorities conducting virginity tests on Indian women arriving at London airport.

To check whether Indian women claiming to be brides or fiancées of British subjects were indeed so.

The picture shows the ruins of a palace which is called Namak Haram Deorhi. Whose palace was it?

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X was an Indian politician who served as the Speaker of the Lok Sabha from 1996 to 1998 and Chief Minister of Meghalaya from 1988 to 1990.

The NCP general secretary was expelled from the Congress on 20 May 1999, along with Sharad Pawar and Tariq Anwar for raising the banner of revolt against Sonia Gandhi over her foreign origin issue.

He was one of the founders of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) along with Sharad Pawar and Tariq Anwar in 1999, after their expulsion.

He contested against Pranab Mukherjee for the post of the President. On 5 January 2013, He launched National People's Party on national level.

ID X ?

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A Brighton-based chocolatier has created a 400g ‘_______bunny’ Available in white, milk and dark chocolate each ‘______bunny' comes complete with an edible 22 carat gold bow-tie and lustre dust. 

Chocolatier Jen Lindsey-Clark says she created the figures after creating a full-size chocolate sculpture of the actor with Plunge productions last year for a TV channel.

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_________is a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh.

The __________community saw radical social changes in the 17th century, the Hindu ______ took up arms against the Mughal Empire during the late 17th and early 18th century.The Hindu _________ kingdom reached its zenith under Maharaja Suraj Mal of Bharatpur (1707–1763).

The ________ community of the Punjab region played an important role in the development of the martial Khalsa Panth of Sikhism; they are more commonly known as the ____ Sikhs.

By the 20th century, the landowning_______became an influential group in several parts of North India, including Haryana, Punjab, Western Uttar Pradesh,Rajasthan, and Delhi Over the years, several ______ abandoned agriculture in favour of urban jobs, and used their dominant economic and political status to claim higher social status.

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One of the earliest known references to paperwork that served in a role similar to that of a _____is found in the Hebrew Bible. Nehemiah 2:7-9, dating from approximately 450 BC, states that Nehemiah, an official serving King Artaxerxes I of Persia, asked permission for ______; the king granted leave and gave him a letter "to the governors beyond the river" requesting safe passage for him as he traveled through their lands.

King Henry V of England is credited with having invented what some consider the first true __________, as a means of helping his subjects prove who they were in foreign lands. The earliest reference to these documents is found in a 1414 Act of Parliament.

FITB ?

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The album, Jaane Aanjane has six songs, written and composed by the winners of _______Idols.

Each song was composed with a video. The tabla player Harnam Singh says,

“Love landed me in this mess, now love has inspired me to pursue music”

FITB

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__________on Monday moved the UN's International Court of Justice in The Hague against India accusing it of accusing it of failing to halt the nuclear arms race.

"The Republic of the ________has instituted proceedings at the International Court of Justice against all nuclear weapon states, including India, contending breach of customary law obligations on nuclear disarmament flowing from Article VI of the Non-Proliferation Treaty(NPT).

The ___________filed cases against all nine nations that have declared or are believed to possess nuclear weapon. But only the cases against the UK, India and Pakistan got to this preliminary stage as the other six declined to take part, according to the ___________' legal team.

FITB

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_________ Upanishad is a book of dubious origin supposedly from Atharvaveda and believed to be written during Mughal Emperor Akbar's reign.

Swami Dayananda Saraswati's book Satyarth Prakash (The Light of Truth) argues that the _______ is not part of the Upanishad canon. It does not even appear in the Atharvaveda.

The Upanishad describes Akbar as a messenger or prophet of God.

In an issue of The Theosophist, R. Ananthakrishna Sastri wrote that the work was written by "Aryan Pandits to escape persecution" during the time of Muslim rule in India. He further remarked that the work was "not in the style of ordinary Upanishads" and its words "appear to sound more like Arabic“

Charles Eliot suggested that the work may have been written in connection with the Din-i-Ilahi movement, and wrote that the work "can hardly be described as other than a forgery".

FITB

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IB REVERSE

______have long played an important role in war. Due to their homing ability, speed, and altitude, they were often used in military.

Racing Homer breed were used in World War I and World War II, and 32 such _______ were presented with the Dickin Medal.One ________, named "The Mocker," completed 52 missions before he was wounded. Another, named "Cher Ami," lost her foot and one eye, saving a large group of surrounded American infantrymen.

The UK maintained the Air Ministry ______ Section during World War II and for a while thereafter. A ______Policy Committee made decisions about the uses of _______ in military contexts. The head of the section, Lea Rayner, reported in 1945 that ______ could be trained to deliver small explosives or bioweapons to precise targets.

FITB

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Harikrishna Giri Goswami was born in Abbottabad, a town in the North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Pakistan, then part of British India. When he was 10, his family had to flee to Delhi due to the partition.

In 1992, he was honoured with the Padma Shri by the Government of India.

Before the 2004 general election in India, it was announced that he had officially joined the ranks of the Shiv Sena.

In recognition of the devotion of Goswami towards Shri Sai Baba, the Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust in Shirdi renamed "Pimpalwadi Road" in Shirdi as “X Goswami Road”

How do we know Mr. Goswami ?

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Its name comes from the _________Forest of Uganda, where it was first isolated in 1947 from a rhesus macaque monkey that had been placed in a cage in the ______ Forest of Uganda, near Lake Victoria, by the scientists of the Yellow Fever Research Institute.

__________had been known to infect humans from the results of serological surveys in Uganda and Nigeria.

A 1952 research study conducted in India had shown a "significant number" of Indians tested for _________ had exhibited an immune response to the _________, suggesting it had long been widespread within human populations.

FITB ?

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X who also uses the Anglicised name Pradosh C. Mitter, is a fictional private investigator starring in a series of Bengali novels and short stories written by Indian Bengali film director and writer Satyajit Ray.

Satyajit Ray had deep interests in crime fiction and he read all of Sherlock Holmes fictions in his school days. And when Ray himself started writing crime fictions, unsurprisingly, the character Sherlock Holmes inspired his writings.X's character resembles Sherlock Holmes.

Ray directed two movies— Sonar Kella (1974) and Joi Baba X(1978) based on this character. Ray made a series of telefilms and serials on X's adventures. He also made a few full-length Bengali films on the character.

Give me X ?

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Feluda

Potti Sreeramulu (16 March 1901 – 15 December 1952), was an Indian revolutionary. A devout follower of Mahatma Gandhi, he worked for much of his life for humanitarian causes, including support for the "Dalit community.’’

Sreeramulu is revered as Amarajeevi ("Immortal being") in the X region for his self-sacrifice for the X cause.

He became famous for undertaking a hunger strike in support of the formation of X he lost his life in the process. His death sparked public rioting, and Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru declared the intent to form X State three days following.

Give me the X ?

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The reason Frank Neuhauser was often sought for his autograph was because he was the first winner of something in 1925, where he won a bike, some gold, and a trip to the White House. That experience also began a life-long associated with the gladiolus flower: he was greeted with bouquets of gladioli athome after his win, and raised them later in life. What was he the first winner of?

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America’s first Spelling bee winner

Which hollywood star's shoulder? What do the coordinates

represent?

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Angelina Jolie

Tattoo coordinates are adopted children's location

Noma Dumezweni is an acclaimed British stage actress of South African heritage who  has won an Olivier Award for her role in  ‘A Raisin in the Sun’.

However, she became quite known and famous because of a role she’ll be playing in an upcoming play written by Jack Thorne.

Identify the play and the role she bagged?

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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Hermione Granger

He was an Indian lawyer, who's father was a doctor in Cuttack. He went to England to prepare himself for the bar but was attracted to something else, there.

Upon his return to India he was awarded the Padma Shri in 1959 by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Padma Bhushan in 1967 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi

Who was he and what first did he achieve in 1958?

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Mihir Sen – crossed English Channel (first Indian)

The Nassak diamond also known as the Eye of the Idol was considered one of the 30 great stones of the world. It was bought by Harry Winston, re-cut and sold for $500,000 in 1970 making it the second most expensive diamond ever auctioned in the world. Where was the diamond originally from?

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Triambakeshwar shiva Temple, Nasik

When the Y brothers first approached Warner Bros studio about this movie project they had a projected budget of over $80 million. The studio balked at the idea of giving them that much and instead offered them $10 million to shoot the film. The brothers spent the entire $10 million on the film’s opening sequence and impressed the studio so much that they were given the initial asking budget to finish the movie and bring their vision to life.

Which iconic movie project is being talked about ?

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FIFA series vice-president and general manager David Rutter claims that his team has been working to overcome the technical challenges for this addition.

“It’s been in the pipeline for a few years, and really it was just a case of making sure that the game was in a good enough state for it the work properly,” said Rutter. “We needed to have tools and technology in place that could differentiate ______. Plus, we had to factor in the time and effort required for travelling around the world to scan faces and heads, record motion capture, etc. It’s been on the to-do list for a while.”

What will be this major addition to FIFA-16 ?

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FIFA 16 TO ADD WOMEN'S TEAMS FOR THE FIRST TIME. IT WILL INCLUDE 12 INTERNATIONAL TEAMS

X was a Thracian gladiator, who along with the Gauls Crixus, Oenomaus, Castus and Gannicus, was one of the escaped slave leaders in the Third Servile War, a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic

This rebellion, interpreted by some as an example of oppressed people fighting for their freedom against a slave-owning oligarchy, has provided inspiration for many political thinkers, and has been featured in literature, television, and film.

Identify X

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Avani Chaturvedi Bhawana Kanth Mohana Singh These three names are about to make a history

What is the history am talking about?

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India's first three women fighter pilots

Woe betide the Oscar winner who tries to sell their statuette on eBay! Since 1950, each Oscar has been encumbered by the stipulation that if the recipient wishes to sell the award, he/she must sell it to the ____________… for ________(price). When one of producer Mike Todd's heirs attempted to sell Todd's best picture Oscar for Around the World in 80 Days in 1989, the Academy successfully blocked the sale.

FITB.

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Academy and 1$