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They say fortune favours the brave, so a sitter for team 1 to start off with

1. Whose neighbor is Uncle Wilson, a retired gentleman who is always troubled by the protagonist?

No 2. ID??

3. Which TELCO product is named after its long time chief Sumant Moolgaonkar?

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5.This famous Islamic leader was known for his fondness for bacon and good claret. He avoided the Mosque every Friday and did not even a single verse of the Koran by heart

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Round 2

1. Dominance, cold and clammy, crusher, queen's fingertips and keep back are varieties of what??

2. What is tricology??

• Study of hair and scalp

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4. What exactly is russian roulette??

5. Put Funda

6.Logo ID maadi??

7. In an acidic solution, the “lawsone” molecule can react via a process called Michael addition with keratin to create a stain. The Lawsone molecule is also known as Henatonic acid What do we know this process as?

8.If

then

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9.Which company's logo contains sun, hand, bee, DNA, hair, palm tree, sauce, bowl, spoon, spice and flavours, fish, sparkle, bird, tea, lips, icecream, recycle, particles, frozen, container, heart, clothes, wave, liquid all within it??

11 Connect

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What is this?? Give me something unique about this for another 5 points into the bag..

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Round 3

1. Initially made out of the skin of animals, leather versions were first introduced in the East by the Dutch. Their expensiveness and unreliability ensured their usage only among the upper and middle class. First described in the late 1600’s, the German military was the first official body to promote it’s use.

2. This historical drama based on a true story was halted for more than 20 years because the wife of the chief protagonist did not want it to be made while she was alive. Name the movie.

3. In Aug 2010, The Vatican released a list of items that Britons mustn't bring with them while attending papal appearances in Glasgow, London and Birmingham. Which series of books featured in this list??..

4.What is going on here??

5.Born Eldrick Tont _____ to Earl _____ and Tilda _____(originally from thailand). This makes him half Asian (one-quarter Chinese and one-quarter Thai), one-quarter African American, one-eighth Native American, and one-eighth Dutch. He was nicknamed X in honor of his father's friend Col. Vuong Dang Phong,who had also been known as X.

6. What is a hotdog shot??

7. In 1966, snack vendor Ashok Vaidya and his family, who used to sell potato fritters in Dadar railway station, were faced with a special request from a customer, who wanted his fritters along with another common food item. Thus, a new delicacy was born.Vaidya started selling this regularly from 1971 onwards. What?

8. Id this woman??...

9.Which national holiday?? Happened very recently..

10. The CIA men heaved a huge sigh of relief as Renegade, Renaissance, Radiance and Rosebud made it through unharmed after another hectic day. How do we know them as??

11.” When we created the _____, we thought it would be cool to have a feature without any specific purpose. People interpret the _____ in many different ways, and we encourage you to come up with your own meanings.” – Mark Zuckerberg

12. At the beginning of most Konvict Muzik (A music label) songs there is the sound of the clank of a jail cell, followed by ______uttering "Konvict“. _____ ‘s real name is Aliaune Damala Badara Thiam.

13. X had a keen interest in cars even though he did not like to drive. Once, he teamed up with Ferdinand Z to make changes to Z’s original design to make it more suited for the working man. This resulted in Y. Tell me who X is and what is Y?

14. William Patrick _____ was born in Liverpool, the son of Alois ____ Jr., and his Irish-born wife Bridget Dowling. They met in Dublin when Alois was living there in 1909; they were married in Marylebone and moved back north to Liverpool, where William was born in 1911. William was allegedly recalled by elderly former neighbors, and allegedly known in

Liverpool folklore as "Billy" or "Paddy" _____. William later moved to Germany and subsequently escaped, eventually going to the United States where he enlisted in the navy to fight in WWII. After leaving the navy William later changed his last name to Stuart-Houston, married and lived a normal life till his death in 1987.

15. The __________Symphony's opening was used as a call-sign in the European broadcasts of the BBC during World War II in reference to Winston Churchill's "V for Victory".

16. Id this world no.1 player

17. During the Indo-pak war of 1965, _______ was posted at the border in the Khem Karan sector. He was the sole survivor of an enemy attack, variously claimed to have been a bomb, an aerial assault and an exchange of fire at the border, while he was driving a truck. The experiences of wartime, coupled with the poverty from which he had come, affected him. He considered suicide at one point but turned instead to pondering the meaning of life and death. He said of the truck attack, “ It sent me thinking. I felt that God wanted me to stay alive for some reason. I was reborn in the battlefield of Khem Karan. And I decided to dedicate my new life to serving people.“ He spent his spare time reading the works of Swami Vivekananda, Gandhi and Vinoda Bhave and became heavily influenced by their ideals.

18.It originally was designated as the “______ X" (X being its internal project number). 82 cars were built as X’s. However, Peugeot protested on the grounds that in France it had exclusive rights to car names formed by three numbers with a zero in the middle. So, instead of selling the new model with another name in France, ______ changed the name to Y. 

19.X is six foot tall, with blue-grey eyes with a hint of anger, a rather cruel mouth, and a lean body weighing around 165 pounds. To keep in shape X has been known to perform a morning routine of 20 slow press-ups, enough straight-leg lifts to make his stomach muscles scream, 20 toe touches and finally arm and chest exercises combined with deep breathing until he is dizzy. He has several visual distinguishing marks; a scar down the right cheek and on the left shoulder and signs of plastic surgery on back of his right hand.

He favours a dark blue suit of serge or tropical worsted or alpaca, depending on the climate, a heavy white silk shirt and a thin black knitted silk tie and black moccasin shoes. X has a few accessories, which are expensive, but unostentatious. These include a Rolex Oyster Perpetual, a wide, thin cigarette-case of black gun-metal and a black oxidized Ronson lighter. X has also been known to carry an attaché case containing thirty rounds of ammunition, two throwing knives, a cyanide pill and fifty gold sovereigns and a tube of Palmolive shaving cream containing a silencer in the case.

20.The ______brothers, Alfieri, Bindo, Carlo, Ettore, and Ernesto were all involved with automobiles from the beginning of the 20th century. Alfieri, Bindo and Ernesto built 2-litre Grand Prix cars for Diatto. In 1926, Diatto suspended the production of race cars, leading to the creation of the first _______ and the founding of the _______ marque. One of the first _______, driven by Alfieri, won the 1926 Targa Florio. Another ______ brother, Mario, an artist, is believed to have devised the company emblem based on one the Fontana del Nettuno, Bologna. n 1937, the _______ brothers sold their shares in the company to the Adolfo Orsi family, who in 1940 relocated the company headquarters to their hometown of Modena where it remains to this day.

21. List of what??

1.Lady Gaga 2.Justin Bieber 3.Katy Perry 4.Rihanna 5.Shakira6.Britney Spears7.Kim Kardashian 8. ________ 9.Taylor Swift 10.selena Gomez 11.Nicki Minaj

22.ID the sport

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24. Connect

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Round 4

1. X Island literally means the island of Pelicans. X Island is an island located in the San Francisco Bay, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) offshore from San Francisco, California, United States. Often referred to as "The Rock", the small island was developed with facilities for a lighthouse, a military fortification, a military prison, and a Federal Bureau of Prisons federal prison until March 21 1963.X has been featured in many movies, TV shows, cartoons, books, comics, and games.

2. The bonds that matured in the year 2007 are called..

 X: Mom, I think of slaying Y ... and winding him up for good and all. He takes my mind from better things.

Mom : You won't! You can't! You mustn't!

4. If Brazilian American Supermodel Gisele Bundchen is second on this list. Then who is the first???

5.Which company has its founder’s signature as its logo??

6. Miami U.S.A along with San Jose, Puerto Rico and X encloses this region called the XY.

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Fin

Thank you!!