Spqc Session 1

• -logo by Karishma Mehta

• QM-Mayuresh• 62 question• IR• No Connects• No time on passes.

1• A – Made of 200 individual pieces of rubber, fiberglass,

and nylon and metallic mesh, it’s main element is Nomax, an advanced infantry armor system with a neoprene base, much like what a SCUBA diver wears. It includes anti night-vision detection.

• B – Glue was applied to Nylon parachute fabric and a very fine, hair-like material was pasted onto it. Then an electrostatic charge was run over it to give it a seamless look and a distinctive, velvety sheen. This was attached to A.

• These are the latest in a series of long attempts to create the ultimate _______

Answer

• The latest batsuit

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• "Should guilty seek asylum here, like one pardoned, he becomes free from sin. Should a sinner make his way to this mansion, all his past sins are to be washed away. The sight of this mansion creates sorrowing sighs; And the sun and the moon shed tears from their eyes. In this world this edifice has been made; To display thereby the creator's glory".

Who, about what in 1653?

Answet

• Shah Jahan on the Taj

3• There once was much debate about what the song was about, one

of the most common initial beliefs being that it is about the events of 9/11. In the liner notes, the song is dated September 10, and it is track 11 on the album.

However, ______________ has confirmed to the public that the song was written as a memorial anthem about his father, a jazz musician and minor league baseball catcher, who died of esophageal cancer when _______ was only ten years old.

In this ballad, ________ revisits his painful childhood and thinks about the day he lost his innocence when his father died.

What is being talked about?

Answer

• Wake me up when September ends

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• The sound produced by them has been compared to "a stampede of noisy elephants," "a deafening swarm of locusts,""a goat on the way to slaughter"and "a giant hive full of very angry bees. Some Freddie "Saddam" Maake claims to have invented it by adapting an aluminium version from a bicycle horn after removing the black rubber to blow with his mouth. He later found it to be too short and joined a pipe to make it longer. What am I talking about?

Answer

• Vuvuzelas

5• It is Arabic for "sign of god." The name originates from the Quran

where human beings can also be regarded as signs of God, the literal translation of the title. 51:20-21 of the Quran states:

On the earth are signs (___) for those of assured Faith,

As also in your own selves: Will ye not then see?

But, the fact that a rock or a tree is just as much a sign of god (_____) is a sobering notion at times lost.

What word?

Answer

• Ayatollah

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• Muthaih Muralitharan • These are the people he dismissed at the either ends of

his ODI and Test careers...

TESTS1 - Craig McDermott (Australia)800 - P Ojha (India)

ODI1 - PK Amre (India)515 - Shakib Al Hasan (Bangladesh)

7.

• Ad for?

• Dettol Hand sanitizer

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• Print ads for?

• Pedigree lite

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• "I swear by Apollo, the healer, Asclepius, Hygieia, and Panacea, and I take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses, to keep according to my ability and my judgment, the following Oath and agreement:To consider dear to me, as my parents, him who taught me this art; to live in common with him and, if necessary, to share my goods with him; To look upon his children as my own brothers, to teach them this art..."

• What is this?

• Hippocratic oath

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• A brain Child of Miki Mehandjiysky , X was launched in late 2003 stirred a revolution in communication industry. Targeting the developing countries, X sold a Whopping 200 million pieces since its launch beating Sony's Play station 2 (115 million) and Apple's iPod (110 million) by a great margin. What's 'X' ?

• NOKIA 1100

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• Significance?

• First male on the cover of Playboy-Peter Sellers,April,1964

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• This began in 1939 with the birth of a new book company called MLJ Magazines - named after its three partners and founders, Maurice Coyne (M), Louis Silberkleit (L) and John Goldwater (J). The company’s first title was called Blue Ribbon, which was followed by Top Notch and then, in January 1940, Pep. While MLJ produced their own brand of superheroes to compete with the likes of Superman, Batman Wonder Woman etc, its founders realized that in order to entertain younger readers and in particular, female readers, they needed to head in an entirely different direction. John Goldwater wanted to create a character that was grounded in reality and prove that an ordinary person could be just as popular. What did it lead to?

• Archie Comics

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• These have made appearances in Hollywood films; the first dates back to the 1961 movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s, staring Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly. Later, the popularity was confirmed in the Hollywood hit Blues Brothers staring Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. Later, Tom Cruise added his own contribution in 1983 hit Risky Business. In July 2004, this officially became partners with the Honda Racing F1 Team.

• Ray-Ban sunglasses

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• The ‘fixing’ started on 12 September 1919 and takes place twice daily. These days, the proceedings take place by phone and the five participants are Scotia-Mocatta, Barclays Capital, Deutsche Bank, HSBC and Societe Generale. The chair always ends the meeting with the phrase “There are no flags, and we’re fixed”. What is being ‘fixed’?

• The price of gold

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• Book of the Childhood• Book of life in ____• Book of the Forest • Book of life in the kingdom of “Forest

Dwellers”• Book of Auspiciousness• Book of the War• Book of the Afterword

• What are we talking about?

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• Victor Gruen designed the first of these in 1956, impelled by his hatred of cars and his hatred of American suburbs. The structure that he put up at Edina in Minneapolis was envisioned as an air-conditioned centre where community would be possible. This structure is still in use. What did Gruen thus create?

• Shopping mall

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Originally, the mark was referred to as ‘the strip’ but was later changed to its present name to describe the fibers used. The logo and name were originally in white, overlapping with each other. In the early 1980s they alternated between name and logo in white with name above and a red box above logo. They no longer carry the name, just the logo. What?

• The nike swoosh

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• Patients suffering from a rupture of the bicepstendon may develop a bulge in their arm.This is the retracted muscle bunched up in the arm, and is sometimes referred to as a_____ Muscle in medical circles becausethe muscle is more pronounced than normal.Fill in the blank.

• The Popeye Muscle

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His true name is Anung un Rama and he was brought to Earth as an infant by Nazi occultists. He smells of dry-roasted peanuts.

His looks and personality were inspired by the creator's dad, a cabinet maker who often returned home from work with tales of horrific on-the-job accidents, told in a nonchalant, unflappable manner.

He is known as the "world's greatest paranormal investigator".

Who?

• Hellboy

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The original five in 1981 were Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, J. J. Jackson and Martha Quinn. Jackson died in 2004 and the others have since joined Sirius Satellite Radio.

What were these people the “original five” to do?

• First five Video Jockeys on MTV

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Arthur Wynne born Liverpool, was a British editor in his home country and the United States of America.

He worked for the New York World, and one day was asked to invent a new game for the paper. Wynne thought of a game he had played in his childhood and soon came up with the _____, which was first issued in the December 21, 1913 issue of the World.

It was originally called a Y-X and was diamond shaped and had no black spaces. Soon, it became X-Y then XY, and had black spaces.

What did he come up with?

Word-Cross; Cross-word; Crossword

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Over a spat with Goddess Mahalakshmi, Lord Vishnu confined himself in an anthill. Though Lord Shiva and Brahma came to his rescue in the form of a cow and a calf, an angry cowherd hit the anthill with an axe, wounding Vishnu’s head. Goddess Parvathy appeared then and did something.

What present day practice continues because of this legend?

• Tonsure at Tirupati

23Francis Joseph _______ was an English first class cricketer. He started his career in 1883 with Nottinghamshire and played for ten years during which time he had a one year stint at Derbyshire. In 1903 he moved to New Zealand where spent a season with Otago, and died in Christchurch in 1937.

Mordecai Sherwin was born 26 February 1851 in Greasley, Nottinghamshire, England and died 3 July 1910 in Nottingham, England. He was a professional footballer and cricketer who played for Nottinghamshire and played three Test matches for England on the tour to Australia in 1886/7. He was named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1891.

What is their ‘contribution’ to literature?

• Francis Joseph Shacklock and Mordecai Sherwin.

• Supposedly, AC Doyle took the name of Sherlock Holmes from these two cricketers

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The Christ Child was sitting on Mary's lap one day and said that he wished that future generations could see her eyes. He touched her eyes and then waved his hand and ______ appeared, hence the name.

Henry IV adopted _____ as his symbol during his exile in 1398, and retained the symbol upon his return to England the following year.

Legend has it that in medieval times, a knight and his lady were walking along the side of a river. He bent down to pick _____, but because of the weight of his armour he fell into the river. As he was drowning he threw them to his loved one and shouted “____”.

• Forget me not

25• In the 1930s Abdulla Currimjee, a Mauritian Indian

businessman, bought a run down French-owned cement plant. In his attempt to turn the plant around, he went to Denmark and hired himself a bright young Danish engineer.

• When the cement plant had finally been revived, the young Dane told Currimjee that he had fallen in love with Mauritius and planned to settle down there. Currimjee persuaded him that he would be wasting his life, and that the best place for man of his considerable talents would be India.

• And so it was that the Danish engineer moved to India in 1937. What resulted?

• The Danish engineer was Henning Holck-Larsen. and he founded Larsen & Toubro

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• The third largest of the Balearic Islands, it has been a magnet for hedonists since early history.

• The Carthaginians set up a cult to their goddess of sex there in 654BC. It was named after Bez, their god of dance, whose statues still litter the place. Roman aristocracy headed to the place in droves. In the 1960s it became a stop on the hippie trail.

• Which place?

• Ibiza

27• It was originally used for Britain’s Campaign for

Nuclear Disarmament in 1958. Designed by Gerald Holtom, it is a combination of the semaphore signals for the letters "N" and "D. "

• Holtom later wrote explaining the genesis of his idea in greater depth: "I drew myself: the representative of an individual in despair, with hands palm outstretched outwards and downwards in the manner of Goya's peasant before the firing squad...”

• What?

• The peace symbol

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• During World War II, the Soviet Union attacked Finland in November 1939, in the Winter War. The Soviet Foreign Minister claimed in radio broadcasts that Russia was not dropping bombs in Finland, but merely airlifting food to starving Finns. The Finns soon renamed the RRAB-3 cluster bomb “_______ bread basket“. The Finns responded with X, first designed during the 1936–39 Spanish Civil War, as "a drink to go with the food“. They were mass-produced by the Alko corporation, the national alcoholic beverage retailing monopoly in Finland, at its Rajamäki distillery. Identify X.

• Molotov cocktail

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• Identify the person for whom this statue was erected

• Pythogaras

30• an service created in 2000 by Tim Westergren, aimed

at capturing musical identity, and dissecting a song based on melody, harmony, rhythm, instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, singing, vocal harmony etc.

• a punishment for mankind which was a result of Prometheus's theft of the secret of fire from the Gods

• a 1991 offering from "The Bad Boys from Boston"

• connect

• Pandora

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His relatives are:

Father: Andrew X Mother: Monique Delacroix X Aunt: Charmian X

Uncle: Max X Wife: Teresa X Kissy Suzuki

Son: James Suzuki Who is he?

• James Bond

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• Which brand would you associate with 'the essence of taste'?

• Ajinomoto

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• _______ is a torture device, usually a cabinet, with a hinged front. It usually has a small closable opening so that the torturer can interrogate the victim and torture or kill a person by piercing the body with sharp objects (such as knives, spikes or nails), while he or she is forced to remain standing. The condemned would bleed profusely and weaken slowly, eventually dying because of blood loss, or perhaps asphyxiation. How did it achieve fame in 1970s?

• Iron Maiden. Steve Harris attributes the band name to a movie adaptation of The Man in the Iron Mask from the novel by Alexandre Dumas. The group was christened after the purported torture device.

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• Y was developed by engineers at Roke Manor Research Limited of Romsey, Hampshire in the UK, in 2001. The patent is held by Dr Paul Hawkins and David Sherry. Later, the technology was spun off into a separate company, Y Innovations Ltd. as a joint venture with television production company Sunset + Vine. It is based on the principles of triangulation using the visual images and timing data provided by at least four high speed video cameras located at different locations and angles around the area of observation

• Hawk eye

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• When American pioneers pushed west of the Allegheny Mountains following the American Revolution, the first counties they founded covered vast regions. One of these original, huge counties was X, established in 1785 and named after the French royal family. While this vast county was being carved into many smaller ones, early in the 19th century, many people continued to call the region Old X. Located within Old X was the principal Ohio River port from which whiskey and other products were shipped. “X" was stenciled on the barrels to indicate their port of origin. X whiskey was different because it was the first corn whiskey most people had ever tasted. In time, X became the name for any corn-based whiskey.

• Bourbon

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• This term gets its origin from the 17th Century French practice of signatories to petitions against government officials adding their names on a document in a non-hierarchical circle so that none can be identified as a ring leader. The term finds frequent usage in various areas especially in sports.

Which term?

• Round robin

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• When orange trees were transplanted to ________ from Spain in 1527, they did not take to the climate and soil of the southern Caribbean too well, and evolution dictated that they take a green and inedible bitter form called the Laraha.

The dried peels of the Laraha, however, were discovered to be quite pleasantly fragranced, and subsequent experimentation with the extracts of these peels led to the creation of ________ .

Both blanks are the same.

• Curacao

38• Shakespeare used the word 'X' to refer to a theater and in the 17th century

there was theater in London with that name. From Henry V :

Can this 'X' hold The vastie fields of France? Or may we cramme Within this Woodden O, the very Caskes That did affright the Ayre at Agincourt?

In the 18th century, 'X' entered naval jargon, denoting the junior officer quarters on the lowest, or orlop, deck of a ship that doubled for the surgeon’s hospital during battle. Presumably, this was because the midshipmen, like roosters, would get into fights with one another. From William Falconer’s 1769 An Universal Dictionary of the Marine:'X' of a ship of war, the apartments of the surgeon and his mates, being the place where the wounded men are dressed.In 1914, the term was applied to airplanes.So the literal sense gave way to a naval metaphor

• Cockpit

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• Identify this face that preserved hundreds of others

• Madame Taussads

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• Connect and complete

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• The images on the back of the Rs. 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 500 bills. The image completing the sequence would be the representation of the “Economy of India” on the back of the Rs. 1000 bill.

• Toy modelled on whom?

• Laloo prasad yadav

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• Occasion?

• Leap year

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• Path of the Knight on a Chess board.

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• It is alternatively called 'Patience'. There is an old tradition in the German or Scandinavian countries to use "patience" as a guide to what the near future has to offer, a kind of "luck" meter. This belief assumes that a person’s "luck" will vary from time to time and important matters should not be initiated or conducted when the cards are not favourable. If there are no winnings in the game for a number of tries it spells caution in what you do. If a win at the first try times are good and “luck” smiles at you, thus the immediate future can be used for important decisions. Timing the game is a further indicator of the strength of the outcome. What am I talking about?

• Solitaire

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• What is happening?

• A Sumo wrestler is announcing his retirement. They have to cut their top knot in public to announce their retirement

46• Graduating from the Cornell Medical College in 1943, this

doctor's wife Jane Murray, co authored a book on alternative medicine, What your doctor won't tell you. He has gained fame for a first aid procedure that is named after him. According to accounts, the doctor first witnessed this at a party in Hawaii, when it was done by Howard Goss, who claimed to have learn it from a Hawaiian police officer. He published his views about the technique in an informal article called "Pop Goes the Cafe Coronary", and in 1974 a Seattle newspaper reported that a former restaurant owner Isaac Piha used the same procedure. Also called as "abdominal thrusts" this was recommended by the American Heart Association. Name the doctor or the procedure named after him

• THE HEIMLICH MANOEUVRE

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• Born in Murud-Janjira to Dankar and his wife Sangana, he graduated from Sir J.J.Institute of Applied Arts in Mumbai. Apart from being known for his acting skills, he also has a Hon. Capt's Rank in the Indian Army, and for his only directorial venture, that had a military background, he underwent the gruelling training needed for the role of Army officer. To date he remains the only actor to have won the Filmfare Award in Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Villian Categories. Name him.

• Nana Patekar

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• During the siege of Belgrade in 1456, John Hunyadi successfully defended the city against the onslaught of the Ottoman Sultan. In order to celebrate a victory, which has been hailed as deciding the fate of Christendom, Pope Callixtus III, ordered this act, which to date is followed in most of the Catholic churches around the world. What act?

• Ringing the church bells at noon

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• More than 500 young students and activists entered the contest held in the Spring of 1970 in Aspen, Colorado. After being evaluated by a panel of judges, a winner was declared. A 23 year old student from the University of Southern California at Los Angeles named Gary Dean Anderson took home the first place prize of a $2500 tuition scholarship. This contest was held by the Container Corporation of America. What did Gary Anderson give to the present world of business?

• The Recycle logo

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• In 1945, the National Research Corporation (NRC) of Boston, Massachusetts, developed a new method of making this particular product. The US Army had a need for 500,000 lb (227,000 kg) of this product for World War II, so NRC created a new branch, the Florida Foods Corporation. Led by John M. Fox, the company won the government contract for $750,000. The war ended and the contract was canceled before the factory could be built, but with investment, the company moved forward with a product. The product got its final name in 1949 and is a widely known brand today. Name the brand.

• Minute-maid

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• In the late eighteenth century, Johann Jacob, a German watchmaker and amateur scientist, developed a process to manufacture carbonated mineral water. He founded the ____________________ Company in Geneva in 1783, but later moved to London to develop the business there. Mainstay products include ginger ale (1870), bitter lemon (1957), and tonic water (The oldest soft drink in the world - 1771).

• Schweppes

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• It was first made by Blue Bell, who acquired the brand when they took over Casey Jones in the mid-1940s. Blue Bell employed Bernard Lichtenstein ('Rodeo Ben'), a Polish tailor who worked closely with cowboys, to help design jeans suitable for rodeo use. What was thus born?

• Wrangler Jeans

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• In September 1997, a Texas company called RT won a patent on X. RT, owned by Prince Hans-Adam of Liechtenstein, faced international outrage over allegations of biopiracy. It had also caused a brief diplomatic crisis between India and United States with India threatening to take the matter to WTO as a violation of TRIPS which could have resulted in a major embarrassment for the United States.Both voluntarily and due to review decisions by the United States Patent Office, RT has lost most of the claims of the patent for X. This was a huge victory for Indian farmers who could have faced enormous economic losses from the patent. What is X?

• Basmati Rice

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• In 1789 during a walk, the Marquis of Lessert drank water from the Sainte Catherine spring on the land of a Mr Cachat. The marquis, who was allegedly suffering from kidney and liver problems, drank regularly of the water while he walked, and claimed that his health improved. Encouraged by Lessert's advocacy of the 'miraculous' water, local doctors began to prescribe it as a health remedy. In response to the growing success of the water, Mr Cachat fenced off his spring and began selling the water. Which brand thus evolved?

• Evian

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• Richard Chee Quee (lead vocals) X (bass guitar/vocals) Y (guitar/vocals) Brad McNamara (guitar/vocals) Gavin Robertson (drums/vocals)

Identify the rock band which is named after a rule from an informal form of their earlier profession. I need both names. No part points.

• Six and OutX – Brett LeeY – Shane Lee

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• It is generally thought to be derived from the Tamil phrase meaning the region of the Chola, an ancient dynasty of southern India. It could also be derived from the term for the coastal region. But most probably the name derives from the Sanskrit for the land which receives the rays of the sun.

Chinese lacquer goods, including boxes, screens, and chests, became known as “_____” goods in the eighteenth century, because many Chinese exports were consolidated at the ports.

• Coromandel

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• The original X was created by Giovanni Maria Farina in 1709. He named it in honour of his hometown in Germany. He said "I have found a fragrance that reminds me of an Italian spring morning, of mountain daffodils and orange blossoms after the rain“. It literally means “The water of X” .Other versions of X have been launched since, and now X is a general term for perfumes of that sort.

• Eau De Cologne

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• In 1688 a Swiss doctor, identified a new medical syndrome also called "hypochondria of the heart". Various displaced Swiss of the seventeenth century suffered from the disease. Sufferers took on a lifeless and haggard countenance, became indifferent to their surroundings, confused past and present, and even hallucinated voices and ghosts. The best treatment for the Swiss was a visit to the Alps. Nowadays the word is used for an emotion.

• Nostalgia

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• If you were sitting cross legged and eating parippu, kaalan, olan, thoran, pulinji, vendakka pachady, injithair, erissery, koottukari, maanga kari, maanga pulisery, naranga oorukai, sakkaravaratty, ada pradhaman, chakkai pradhaman and paal pradhaman all on a fresh banana leaf, at the beginning of the month of Chingam what would you likely be doing?

• Enjoying an Onam feast

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• The French warmonger Duc de Richelieu defeated the British at Port Mahon in 1776. He wanted a grand victory feast and his chef obliged. One preparation was to include a sauce made of cream and eggs. Realizing that there was no cream in the kitchen the chef used olive oil instead. This resulted in a new culinary creation. What was it called?

• Mayonnaise

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• X derives from Italian. Originally used to describe males, it meant “great person” in 1920s. The 1929 silent film Desert Nights describes a wealthy female crook as a X .. The 1950s song “X" by Jim Reeves is about a toddler. Aqua used the word in their song “ Barbie Girl”. Today X usually means a person who focuses on her physical appearance and neglects or stifles the development of other parts of her personality. The good word please.

• Bimbo

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It is one of the most attention catching series in ad history. It includes extremes such as a 33 ft. high ice sculpture in the Swiss Alps, and a huge patch in a corn field in Kansas six football fields long.

Initial suggestions for the product’s packaging (that were dumped of course) included pillaging Vikings on the label and “Czar” themes, until a breakthrough came in the form of a medicine bottle in a Stockholm antique shop window.

What are we referring to?