June 24, 2008

A Bit Too General

1)He was born Pushpa Kamal Dahal and his nom de guerre means the fierce one. ID the person given below.

2)What happened after the implementation of this plan?

3)What is this the icon of?
4)Connect all the images given below

5)Where would you find this gate??

6)Who is the guy below? (though he is not exactly famous by name, whatever he did certainly helped social people)(You may even tell what he did)
7)A ruler falls in love with a local dancer named Bhagmati who lives in the village of Chichlam. He builds a city and names it Bhagyanagar after her. Sometime later she converts to Islam, (due to the ruler's insistence) following which the city is given a new name based on her new Muslim name. Identify the city, now a state capital in South India.

8)____ ______ : Gold
Sergi Brugerra : Silver
Leander Paes : Bronze

9)The main bodies were hewn directly from the sandstone cliffs, but details were modeled in mud mixed with straw, coated with stucco. This coating, practically all of which was worn away long ago, was painted to enhance the expressions of the faces, hands and folds of the robes; the larger one was painted carmine red and the smaller one was painted multiple colours. The lower parts of the statues’ arms were constructed from the same mud straw mix while supported on wooden armatures. It is believed that the upper parts of their faces were made from great wooden masks or casts. This description was true till 2001. What?

10)What is " Nomophobia"?

11)His filmatography reads
2005- The longest Yard
2008- Get Smart

Besides he is rather famous on Indian Television among kids.He was born in Punjab but has now migrated and changed his name. Who?

12)In a rare event in brazillian grand prix 2003 ,winner Kimi Raikonnen was unceremonously adjudged 2nd and some other driver was declared winner, who and why.

13)This very popular actor today made his small screen debut for throat drops 'smyle', who??

14)When asked if there were any real x this person replied that i have never heardof a newborn baby named x, there is a barrister in london who became cool in his grandchildren's eyes, a soldier who died in WWII and a clockmaker who worked in the last century(1800's).identify x??(quite a workable one and that is the hint)

15)A cryptic question, what got into itself after 19 years of its existence??

16)Which comic was initially named as m l j comics?

17)Ok now a tough one(but a workable one)
63:vengicillion
100:___???_______

18)The Universal Tube and Rollform Equipment Corporation has had all sorts of problem with maintaining their web presence since 2006. What has caused these difficulties?

19)Who founded Harpo Productions and hosts a famous talk show?

20)Which athlete has a brand of designer clothes called 'aneres'?( you'll get it if you apply the same logic as you did for the one above) (if you did !!!)

21)They are essentially the tops of submerged mountain range that is a continuation of the Arakan Yomas in Burma. They occupy an area of 3185 square miles and lie 121 km south of Cape Negrais. What are we talking about?

22)The airport that serves Venice is named after which famous explorer and traveler who lived in the city?

23)Complete this quote, attributed to one of the wives of the Persian king Nader Shah: “If a strong man should take five stones, and throw one north, one south, one east and one west, and the last straight up into the air, and the space between filled with gold and gems, that would be equal the value of ______”

24)This word X is slang for a low-paying, low-prestige job that requires few skills and offers very little chance of intra-company advancement.The term X derives its name from McDonald's, but is used to describe any low-status job — regardless of the employer where little training is required.."X" was in use at least as early as 1986, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, which defines it as "An unstimulating, low-paid job with few prospects"The word X is....

25) Where would you be at 3.316° N 95.854° E, approximately 100 miles in the Indian Ocean just north of Simeulue island, off the western coast of northern Sumatra, 19 miles below mean sea level?

26)The best test to find the authenticity of --------- is to get it X-rayed and count the number of compartments inside. If they are equal to the number of lines outside the -------- is real. What?

27) Which famous Indian Bazaar claims that “The Edge is Efficiency”?
That's all for today
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