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• Which scientist was invited by Sri Chithira Tirunalto become the first VC of Travancore Varsity ( now KERALA UNIVERSITY) for a monthly pay of Rs. 6,000 that became an unsuccessful bid?
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• Which scar faced personality was called “Snorky" by his closest friends?
• Which event was led by him in 1929@ Lincoln Park, Chicago?
Al Capone & St. valentines day massacre
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• STEPHEN HAWKINGS
4.Coat of arms of which educational institution?????
HOGWARTS
• Which test /measurement unit(named after him) in 1912 was developed by this researcher while working at the ParkeDavis pharmaceutical company?
• He authored The Art of Compounding and Extract and Perfumes.
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The Scoville scale
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• The logo of Apple Inc is often erroneously referred to as a tribute to x, with the bite mark a reference to his method of suicide. Steve Jobs said, "God, we wish it was intentional.“
• The x Rainbow Festival,was held in Madurai in 2012 to celebrate the LGBT cause.
Alan Turing
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• VENUS FLY TRAP
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• This UNESCO World heritage site plays a key role in the Sherlock Holmes mystery The Sign of the Four. It was featured in the music video for HabibiDa, a hit song of Egyptian pop star Hisham Abbas.Two of it's gates are notable: the "Delhi Gate" and the "Lahore Gate(Amar Singh gate)."After the First Battle of Panipat, Mughals captured the Koh-i-Noor from this building.
AGRA FORT
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• He was an expert in Caribbean birds and wrote the definitive book on the subject: Birds of the West Indies. His friend, a British Naval Intelligence officer, gave his name to the prime character in a book and commented "It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed”.
Name this American ornithologist.
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• This sweet is called "jeri" in Nepal, a word derived from jangiri, and the Mogul Emperor Jahangir. In ancient India, it was called Kundalika or Jal-vallika. One of the earliest known Indian references exists in an AD 1450 Jain work — Priyamkarnrpakatha — by Jinasura. This work was subsequently cited in cookery books published in later centuries including the 17th-century classic Bhojan-kutuhala by Raghunatha.
Jilebi
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• FREDDY MERCURRY
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stove is lighted by burning the mix of specially developed documents and chemicals?
New pope is elected.
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• This ramayana character is worshipped in temples located in Jodhpur, Kanpur, Khonpura,kakinada and some other places. In Ramakien, ( the ramayana popular in Thailand), he is the father of Seetha.
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• Which company’s history traces back from this garrage?
This garrage is often referred as the birthplace of silicon valley.
The founders x and y tossed a coin to decide the ordering of their company’s name xy or yx.
On the advice of a soviet secret agent to act deaf and dumb, and let his beard grow to mimic those of the tribesmen, he traveled to Moscow on a fake Italian passport. Few days later, this man claiming to be an Italian diplomat arrived in Berlin and Nazi officials listened carefully to his plans, which sought to create a government in exile and launch a military strike against a shared enemy.He was transferred to the Japanese submarine from a German submarine. This was the only civilian transfer between two submarines of two different navies in World War II.
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17. ID the flag
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• SHADKALA GOVINDA MARAR
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The name comes from an Order of friars(logo shown…) in the Roman Catholic Church referring to the colour of their habits influenced by Francis of Assissi. It originated in the Viennese hotels as a change to the traditional Ottoman preparation of the drink.
• A close friend of Nicola Tesla, he patented three inventions, including an "Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments”,aself-pasting scrapbook and a history trivia game.
FAMOUS QUOTES:
“Honesty is the best policy-when there is money in it.”
“Don’t go to sleep; so many people die there.”
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MARK TWAIN
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• IRELAND
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born in Aabgah village near Sopore town, Jammu and Kashmir in 1969, got enrolled in medical college for MBBS. He was bestowed the title of Shaheed-e-Watan (martyr of the nation) by his supporters. who is this personality associated with 'Operation Three Star‘?
Afzal Guru
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• This is a new religious and spiritual movement founded in Japan on 6 October 1986 by RyuhoOkawa. Its political wing is Happiness RealisationParty. Okawa claims to channel the spirits of Muhammad, Christ, Buddha andConfucius and claims to be the incarnation of the supreme spiritual being called El Cantare. It was blamed for a reservation mix-up with the Ugandan athletes preparing for 2012 Olympics.
Happy Science
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• The---------Martyrs were tried for heresy in 1555 and subsequently burnt at the stake in this city, for their religious beliefs and teachings.
The three martyrs were the Anglican bishops Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley and Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
ID This place often known as the "city of dreaming spires", a term coined by the poet Matthew Arnold
OXFORD
25.This flower is recently named after a famous Indian freedom fighter. Who?
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• JESSEE OWENS
• 1936,Berlin olympics
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• What was introduced by the Japanese polymath and educator Jigoro Kano?
• Rabindranath Tagore is credited with the introduction of this in India.
JUDO
• In which literary work did the author originally considered titling it He do the Police in Different Voices?
• The author makes extensive use of Scriptural writings including the Bible, the Book of Common Prayer, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, the Buddha's Fire Sermon, and of cultural and anthropological studies.
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Self portrait of X dedicated to Y
• Their interest in each other quickly developed into an affair. But before long, X grew tired of Y, whom she called "the old man."
X-Frida Kahlo Y-Leon Trodsky
