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25 Questions and a total of 31 points Cyber searching is prohibited. If caught red

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X left Lisbon to India on 7 April 1541, his thirty-fifth birthday, with a new motive. In India, X soon learned that along the Pearl Fishery Coast, which extends from Cape Comorin on the southern tip of India to the island of Mannar, off Ceylon, there was a Jāti of people called Paravas, and worked for their upliftment.. The memory of X still remains immortal in Goa in a specific monument.

Y could be termed as a counter reformist and a close ally of X. In 1949 he was the subject of a Spanish biographical film in which he was played by Rafael Durán.

Alfonso Salmeron, Diego Laínez, Nicolás Bobadilla, Peter Faber, Simão Rodrigues,X and Y were initial members of this group(Z).

As the epicenter of Hampi's attractions, Vittala Temple is the most extravagant architectural showpiece of Hampi. Something related with Vithala Temple is very famous now in India as it can be seen on something whose dimensions are 66 mm x 135 mm . Tell me where can we see it ?

(Image slide follows)

X was started in Tiruvarur on 10 August 1942, during the World War II, by 18-year old under the pen name Cheran. Since then, X has played a significant role in advancing causes championed by Periyar E.V. Ramasamy’s Dravidian movement and Tamil politics.

There are century-old newspapers in the country. What is special about X is that the founder is still alive to witness its platinum jubilee.

ID X and its founder

X founded the SwatantraParty and was one of the first recipients of India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna. He vehemently opposed the use of nuclear weapons and was a proponent of world peace and disarmament. During his lifetime, he also acquired the nickname 'Mango of Krishnagiri'. So who is the person in question?

Rizwan Ahmed, is a property dealer who lives in a modest rented house in a packed Muslim-dominated neighbourhoodin Uttar Pradesh’s Allahabad. A spat between him and his wife Shayara Bano, led shayara to go back to her paternal house.

Few months later Shayara received a letter from Rizwan and content of the letter turned out to be a game changer and subsequent acts made both Rizwan and Shayara to be the talk of the town.

All this created a major change very recently. What was the change?

Which city in India has recently been recognised as the world heritage city tag by UNESCO, a first in India?

This township which means “city of dawn" was founded in 1968 by Mira Alfassa and designed by architect Roger Anger. The place is governed by an autonomous body under the ministry of Human Resources and Development through an act of the Indian Parliament. It works on the principle of service of Truth, beyond all social, political and religious conviction. The community is divided up into neighbourhoods with English, Sanskrit, French and Tamil names like Aspiration, Arati, La Ferme, and La Ferme and Isaiambalam.

(Image slide follows)

Train no(s). 16317/16318 is a weekly express train of the Indian Railways running between Kanyakumari to Shri Mata Vaishno Devi, Katra. It is currently the second longest running train on the Indian Railways in terms of distance and time.

The train travels through states of Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Name India’s 2nd longest running train?

X was a legendary emperor of ancient India who ruled with Ujjain as his capital. He is also known as Bikramjit .X means "the sun of valour”. Some legends describe him as a liberator of India from mlechchha invaders; the invaders are identified as Shakas in most, and the king is known by the epithet Shakari ("enemy of the Shakas").

The earliest work to mention X was probably Brihatkatha, an Indian epic written between the first century BCE and the third century CE in the unattested Paisaci language.

Baital Pachisi is a collection of 25 stories in which the king tries to capture and hold a special being who always puzzled with tales ending up with a quiz on X’s morality.

Poora Sach is 4 paged Hindi daily owned by RamchandraChatrapati. A news that reported by Chatrapati in 2002 made an initial uproar and was carried by the mainstream news media.

Chatrapati was shot dead on November 24th2002.

The newspaper was closed due to financial crisis in 2014, but back into attraction quite recently for the news that they reported way back in 2002 initially.

“If you look at any other country in the world, they’ve all memorialized the experiences that have defined and shaped them. Yet this event that has so deeply shaped not only our subcontinent but millions of individuals who were impacted has had no museum or memorial” said Mallika Ahluwalia, CEO of the X.

X, first of its kind in India opened about a month back, is housed in the red-brick Town Hall building in the north Indian border city of Amritsar, include photographs, newspaper clippings and donated personal items meant to tell the story of...?

This is a type of white marble of high quality, popular for use in sculpture and building decor. The Marble is named after the place in Rajasthan, from where it is mined and was used in the construction of several iconic monuments such as the Taj Mahal and the Victoria Memorial.

Unlike the infamous Colonel Dyer, his father Ed Dyer is much less known. He started making a product in India that connoisseurs in the field would have come across, even if they were not aware of the person who started it. The business is now owned by the Mohan Meakin group.

What product is this?

This massive arch was built by Muhmmad QuliQutb Shah, in 1591 to commemorate the end of Plague in the city.

Constructed in the intersection of the historical trade route that connects the markets of Golconda with the port city of Machilipatnam

In 2007, a certain Muslim community living in Pakistan constructed a small-scaled quasi replica of the structure at the main crossing of the Bahadurabad neighborhood in Karachi. Which is the monument in question?

Leo Burnett was on a campaign for Reebok during 1996-97. They where supposed to give each guy a certain character. Azhar was named as ‘the assasin’ where as Anil kumblewas christened as ‘the viper’ and X was named as ‘_____________’.

Master blaster once revealed that he and X used to converse in Marathi when they plays Pakistan rather than having conversation in Hindi.

‘Conversation with the crow’ is a book by Gregory Douglas, which tells about the assassination of a famous Indian scientist.

Douglas, a journalist who taped his interviews with former CIA operative, Robert Crowley, over a period of 4 years, recorded their telephonic conversations and later published their transcribes in the book.

Crowley claimed that CIA was responsible for eliminating him , when he was going to attend a Vienna conference and also eliminating Lal Bahadur Shastri, who died at Tashkent summit in 1966. Crowley claimed that U.S. was "wary" of Indian nuclear progress and the defeat of their ally Pakistan, in 1965 war. U.S. was worried that India could well "dominate" the Indian Subcontinent along with Russian think-tanks, if India develops nuclear capabilities, thus bringing "instability" to the region.

It is largely because of X's work and activism that the International Labor Organization adopted Convention No. 182 on the worst forms of child labor, which is now a principal guideline for governments around the world. In addition, he established Good Weave International (formerly known as Rugmark) as the first voluntary labeling, monitoring and certification system of rugs manufactured without the use of child-labor in South Asia. In 2015, he was recognized for his good deeds.

Who is he? (Image slide follows)

X (1st June, 1842 – 9th January, 1923) was the first Indian to join the Indian Civil Service. He was an author, song composer, and linguist, and made a significant contribution towards the emancipation of women in Indian society during the British Raj. His brother Y is more famous worldwide. Y has a first to his name as the “first Asian” to win a renowned prize.

According to anthropologist Ritu Gairola khaunderi; “clad in dhoti and a plaid jacket, the puzzled X is no dupe. His sharp observations miss no detail of the political circus”.

When Times of India celebrated its 150TH anniversary in 1988, the postage stamp featuring X was released. X became one of the most recognized feature on the Times of India.

X was the mascot for the low budget airline Air Deccan to symbolize its commitment to the common people.

X can be found at Bandra Worli sea face and the moor’s last sigh .

Way before India attained independence, E.V. Ramasamy (famously Periyar) requested Muhammed Ali Jinnah to partition India as three. If Pakistan was one of the proposed state, what were the other two: _____________ and _________________.

(1 point each)

On 26 June, 2016 Chief Minister SarbanandaSonowal announced X as the latest district in Assam, taking the total number from 32 to 33. In the process, X became the only river island district in the country and the Assam government has initiated a project to make X the country's first ever Carbon Neutral district by 2020. Also, X is the world’s largest riverineisland. What is X?

Flipkart Snapdeal Hike Mu Sigma InMobi Ola Paytm Renew Power Zomato Shop clues

On february11,1948, a special train from Delhi to Allahabad was arranged for a specific purpose.

What purpose?

X has portrayed one of the most influential evil character in a 1991 Mani Ratnam classic. Lawyer by profession, X, has been conferred with PadmaSri in 1998 for his contibutions to the career spanning more than four decades.

Hats off to the titan of Indian cinema,turning 66 today, who immortalised G.krishnamoorthy,theepic author Vaikom Muhmmad Basheer, B.R.ambedkar(earning him the 3rd National Award), a mercenary warrior and a Malabar king who was the nightmare of Tipu.

The book was written by A.L.Basham aiming western audience. Basham, in the book, has attempted to correct the negative stereotypes of India created by authors like James Mill, Thomas Macaulay and Vincent Arthur Smith.

Thomas Trautmann considers this book his primary influence which encouraged him to study India

X left Lisbon to India on 7 April 1541, his thirty-fifth birthday, with a new motive. In India, X soon learned that along the Pearl Fishery Coast, which extends from Cape Comorin on the southern tip of India to the island of Mannar, off Ceylon, there was a Jāti of people called Paravas, and worked for their upliftment.. The memory of X still remains immortal in Goa in a specific monument.

Y could be termed as a counter reformist and a close ally of X. In 1949 he was the subject of a Spanish biographical film in which he was played by Rafael Durán.

Alfonso Salmeron, Diego Laínez, Nicolás Bobadilla, Peter Faber, Simão Rodrigues,X and Y were initial members of this group(Z).

As the epicenter of Hampi's attractions, Vittala Temple is the most extravagant architectural showpiece of Hampi. Something related with Vithala Temple is very famous now in India as it can be seen on something whose dimensions are 66 mm x 135 mm . Tell me where can we see it ?

(Image slide follows)

X was started in Tiruvarur on 10 August 1942, during the World War II, by 18-year old under the pen name Cheran. Since then, X has played a significant role in advancing causes championed by Periyar E.V. Ramasamy’s Dravidian movement and Tamil politics.

There are century-old newspapers in the country. What is special about X is that the founder is still alive to witness its platinum jubilee.

ID X and its founder

X founded the SwatantraParty and was one of the first recipients of India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna. He vehemently opposed the use of nuclear weapons and was a proponent of world peace and disarmament. During his lifetime, he also acquired the nickname 'Mango of Krishnagiri'. So who is the person in question

Rizwan Ahmed, is a property dealer who lives in a modest rented house in a packed Muslim-dominated neighbourhoodin Uttar Pradesh’s Allahabad. A spat between him and his wife Shayara Bano, led shayara to go back to her paternal house.

Few months later Shayara received a letter from Rizwan and content of the letter turned out to be a game changer and subsequent acts made both Rizwan and Shayara to be the talk of the town.

All this created a major change very recently. What was the change?

Which city in India has recently been recognised as the world heritage city tag by UNESCO, a first in India?

This township which means “city of dawn" was founded in 1968 by Mira Alfassa and designed by architect Roger Anger. The place is governed by an autonomous body under the ministry of Human Resources and Development through an act of the Indian Parliament. It works on the principle of service of Truth, beyond all social, political and religious conviction. The community is divided up into neighbourhoods with English, Sanskrit, French and Tamil names like Aspiration, Arati, La Ferme, and La Ferme and Isaiambalam.

(Image slide follows)

Train no(s). 16317/16318 is a weekly express train of the Indian Railways running between Kanyakumari to Shri Mata Vaishno Devi, Katra. It is currently the second longest running train on the Indian Railways in terms of distance and time.

The train travels through states of Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

X was a legendary emperor of ancient India who ruled with Ujjain as his capital. X means "the sun of valour”.He is also known as Bikramjit. Some legends describe him as a liberator of India from mlechchha invaders; the invaders are identified as Shakas in most, and the king is known by the epithet Shakari ("enemy of the Shakas").

The earliest work to mention X was probably Brihatkatha, an Indian epic written between the first century BCE and the third century CE in the unattested Paisaci language.

Baital Pachisi is a collection of 25 stories in which the king tries to capture and hold a special being who always puzzled with tales ending up with a quiz on X’s morality.

Poora Sach is 4 paged Hindi daily owned by RamchandraChatrapati. A news that reported by Chatrapati in 2002 made an initial uproar and was carried by the mainstream news media.

Chatrapati was shot dead on November 24th2002.

The newspaper was closed due to financial crisis in 2014, but back into attraction quite recently for the news that they reported way back in 2002 initially.

“If you look at any other country in the world, they’ve all memorialized the experiences that have defined and shaped them. Yet this event that has so deeply shaped not only our subcontinent but millions of individuals who were impacted has had no museum or memorial” said Mallika Ahluwalia, CEO of the X.

X, first of its kind in India opened about a month back, is housed in the red-brick Town Hall building in the north Indian border city of Amritsar, include photographs, newspaper clippings and donated personal items meant to tell the story of...?

This is a type of white marble of high quality, popular for use in sculpture and building decor. The Marble is named after the place in Rajasthan, from where it is mined and was used in the construction of several iconic monuments such as the Taj Mahal and the Victoria Memorial.

Unlike the infamous Colonel Dyer, his father Ed Dyer is much less known. He started making a product in India that connoisseurs in the field would have come across, even if they were not aware of the person who started it. The business is now owned by the Mohan Meakin group.

What product is this?

This massive arch was built by Muhmmad QuliQutb Shah, in 1591 to commemorate the end of Plague in the city.

Constructed in the intersection of the historical trade route that connects the markets of Golconda with the port city of Machilipatnam

In 2007, a certain muslim community living in Pakistan constructed a small-scaled quasi replica of the structure at the main crossing of the Bahadurabad neighborhood in Karachi.

Leo Burnett was on a campaign for Reebok during 1996-97. They were supposed to give each player a certain character. Azhar was named as ‘the assassin’ where as Anil kumblewas christened as ‘the viper’ and X was named as ‘_____________’. While Kumble’s and Azhar’sname vanished, X’s ‘___________’ stayed on.

Master blaster once revealed that he and X used to converse in Marathi when they play Pakistan rather than having conversation in Hindi.

‘Conversation with the crow’ is a book by Gregory Douglas, which tells about the assassination of a famous Indian scientist.

Douglas, a journalist who taped his interviews with former CIA operative, Robert Crowley, over a period of 4 years, recorded their telephonic conversations and later published their transcribes in the book.

Crowley claimed that CIA was responsible for eliminating him , when he was going to attend a Vienna conference and also eliminating Lal Bahadur Shastri, who died at Tashkent summit in 1966. Crowley claimed that U.S. was "wary" of Indian nuclear progress and the defeat of their ally Pakistan, in 1965 war. U.S. was worried that India could well "dominate" the Indian Subcontinent along with Russian think-tanks, if India develops nuclear capabilities, thus bringing "instability" to the region.

It is largely because of X's work and activism that the International Labour Organization adopted Convention No. 182 on the worst forms of child labour, which is now a principal guideline for governments around the world. In addition, he established Good Weave International (formerly known as Rugmark) as the first voluntary labeling, monitoring and certification system of rugs manufactured without the use of child-labour in South Asia. In 2014, he was recognized for his good deeds.

Who is he? (Image slide follows)

X (1st June, 1842 – 9th January, 1923) was the first Indian to join the Indian Civil Service. He was an author, song composer, and linguist, and made a significant contribution towards the emancipation of women in Indian society during the British Raj. His brother Y is more famous worldwide. Y has a first to his name as the “first Asian” to win a renowned prize.

According to anthropologist Ritu Gairola khaunderi; “clad in dhoti and a plaid jacket, the puzzled X is no dupe. His sharp observations miss no detail of the political circus”.

When Times of India celebrated its 150TH anniversary in 1988, the postage stamp featuring X was released. X became one of the most recognized feature on the times of India.

X was the mascot for the low budget airline Air Deccan to symbolize its commitment to the common people.

X can be found at Bandra Worli sea face and the moor’s last sigh

Way before India attained independence, Periyar E.V. Ramasamy requested Muhammed Ali Jinnah to partition India as three. If Pakistan was one of the proposed state, what were the other two: _____________ and _________________.

(1 point each)

On 26 June, 2016 Chief Minister SarbanandaSonowal announced X as the latest district in Assam, taking the total number from 32 to 33. In the process, X became the only river island district in the country and the Assam government has initiated a project to make X the country's first ever Carbon Neutral district by 2020.. Also, X is the world’s largest riverineisland. What is X?

Flipkart Snapdeal Hike Mu Sigma InMobi Ola Paytm Renew Power Zomato Shop clues

On february11,1948, a special train from Delhi to Allahabad was arranged for a specific purpose.

What purpose?

X has portrayed one of the most influential evil character in a 1991 Mani Ratnam classic. Lawyer by profession, X, has been conferred with PadmaSri in 1998 for his contibutions to the career spanning more than four decades.

Hats off to the titan of Indian cinema,turning 66 today, who immortalised G.krishnamoorthy,theepic author Vaikom Muhmmad Basheer, B.R.ambedkar(earning him the 3rd National Award), a mercenary warrior and a Malabar king who was the nightmare of Tipu.

The book was written by A.L.Basham aiming western audience. Basham, in the book, has attempted to correct the negative stereotypes of India created by authors like James Mill, Thomas Macaulay and Vincent Arthur Smith.

Thomas Trautmann considers this book his primary influence which encouraged him to study India

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