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• He was awarded the Indian version of the World Heavyweight Championship on 15 October 1910. Undefeated in a career spanning more than 50 years, he has been billed as the greatest pahalwan of his time.

• Bruce Lee was an avid follower of his training routine. Lee read articles about him and how he employed his exercises to build his legendary strength for wrestling, and Lee quickly incorporated them into his own routine.

• On 6 February 2014, it was announced that actor John Abraham will be playing the role of this person in a feature film to be directed by Parmeet Sethi.

• Gama Pehalwan

• ________ is a mantra from the ancient Indian scripture MundakaUpanishad. The slogan was popularized and brought into the national lexicon by Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya in 1918 when serving his second of four terms as President of the Indian National Congress.

• Satyamev Jayate

• In many industries, extremely successful businesses often face problems maintaining their success. Of the companies in the 1966 Fortune 100, 66 no longer existed by 2006. Fifteen still existed but were no longer on the list, and only 19 remained on the list

• The X is a neologism coined by Danny Miller in his 1990 book by the same name. The term refers to the phenomenon of businesses failing abruptly after a period of apparent success, where this failure is brought about by the very elements that led to their initial success.

• Icarus Paradox

• Supplying a conclusion to Y has occupied writers from the time of X's death to the present day.

• In 1873, a young Vermont printer, Thomas James, published a version which he claimed had been literally 'ghost-written' by him channellingX's spirit. A sensation was created, with several critics, including Arthur Conan Doyle, a spiritualist himself, praising this version, calling it similar in style to X's work; and for several decades the James version of Y was common in America.

• Dickens

• Arrakis In Frank Herbert’s Dune

• Dejah Thoris In Burroughs’s John Carter Series

• Rhett Butler In Gone With The Wind

• Gandalf From The Lord Of The Rings

• Ming The Merciless InFlash Gordon

• All inspirations for Star Wars

• In 2007, filmmaker Sanjeev Sivan released his documentary AchtungBaby: In Search of Purity on the phenomenon of German women travelling to Indian villages by the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir to get impregnated by men.

• The German lady in Sivan’s film had not only paid the man for his services, she was gracious enough to bring gifts for his family and children. The Brokpa man is happy with the arrangement. “I have no expenses to pay,” he says. “I have nothing to lose. I want to keep doing this. My children will come to visit me one day and take me to Germany.”

• For what reason do German women want to get impregnated?

• They believe Brokpas are pure Aryans

Ronald Ross Memorial

• In 2011, the Howrah bridge was endangered by the actions of pedestrians. The problem had become such a menace that the hanger bases had reduced to 50% of their original size in just three years.

• To save the bridge, port engineers came up with the idea of covering the steel hangers with fiberglass and covering it with images of Gods and Goddess.

• What were the pedestrians doing?

• Spitting paan

• In 1977, the Morarji Desai government asked Coca-Cola to hand over the controlling stake of its Indian operation to Indian investors as per the provisions of the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act. This would have meant that Coca-Cola might have had to share the secret Coca-Cola formula with its Indian partners. Coca-Cola refused and was asked by the government to cease its operations in India.

• Which indigenous soft drink was launched to fill the void left by Coca Cola?

• Double Seven

• X and Y had just won custody of their daughter when she was kidnapped by X’s first husband Tony Cox. They launched a worldwide manhunt they announced during TV interviews with Mike Douglas and Dick Cavett. By 1980, Y realized that the publicity had only scared Tony into hiding. “We chased him all over the world,” he told Playboy shortly before his murder. “God knows where he went. So, if you’re reading this Tony, let’s grow up about it. It’s gone. We don’t want to chase you anymore, because we’ve done enough damage.”

• It turned out that the daughter and her dad had joined a cult—which they later renounced—called the Walk. According to London’s Sunday Mirror, X and her daughter reunited in 2000, after 29 years, when she phoned out of the blue.

• Yoko Ono and John Lennon

•Ze'ev Friedman

•David Berger

•Yakov Springer

•Eliezer Halfin

•Yossef Gutfreund

•Kehat Shorr

•Mark Slavin

•Andre Spitzer

•Amitzur Shapira

• Athletes assassinated at the Munich Olympics.

• According to the stories, British soldiers fighting in the Indies were constantly dealing with malaria. The British at the time had X water that contained a compound called quinine, which was extremely effective at fighting malaria. The only problem was that X water tasted pretty much as awful as anything can, so the British soldiers mixed Y with it to make it palatable. After the war, many British men ordered it upon returning home and a famous cocktail was born.

• Which drink?

• Gin and Tonic

• It must be cut from the body of a criminal on the gibbet; pickled in salt, and the urine of man, woman, dog, horse and mare; smoked with herbs and hay for a month; hung on an oak tree for three nights running, then laid at a crossroads, then hung on a church door for one night while the maker keeps watch in the porch-"and if it be that no fear hath driven you forth from the porch...then the hand be true won, and it be yours“.

• Procedure to make what?(Pic)

• Hand of Glory

• One of Russia’s strategies during World War II was the anti-tank dog. Dogs were taught to carry explosives to tanks, armored vehicles and other military targets. They were intensely trained by the Soviet army during the 1930s and were used against the Germans during the early ‘40s. But they were a huge failure. Why?

• The tanks the dogs were trained to run under were Russian. So they ended up running under the Russian tanks and blowing them up instead.

• X was the son of Alcimus or Anchialus or Heracles and Asopis. In his old age X was a friend of Odysseus who placed X and Odysseus' foster-brother Eumaeus in charge of his son Telemachus, and of Odysseus' palace, when Odysseus left for the Trojan War. When Athena visited Telemachus she took the disguise of X to hide herself from the suitors of Telemachus‘ mother Penelope. As X, the goddess encouraged Telemachus to stand up against the suitors and go abroad to find out what happened to his father.

• The first recorded modern usage of the term can be traced to a 1699 book entitled Les Aventures de Télémaque, by the French writer François Fénelon In the book the lead character is that of X. This book was very popular during the 18th century and the modern application of the term can be traced to this publication.

• Mentor

• Serving as a legionary in the Roman times was not an enviable job. Soldiers had to hike for over 30 km a day and had to pay for their food. To make things worse, more than one Roman emperor introduced conscription. What did men usually do to avoid serving in the army?

• Men cut off their thumbs. The thumb was very important for sword fighting and hence men without thumbs were as good as useless. Since a lot of men started doing this, recruiters began to kill anyone with no thumbs.

• In 1872, a merchant ship called the Mary Celeste set sail from New York, and four weeks later was found by sailors aboard another vessel to be moving erratically in the Atlantic Ocean. Curious, those sailors boarded the Mary Celeste, only to find nary a soul. The cargo was intact, as were supplies of food and water. But there was no sign of the seven-man crew, the captain, or his wife and daughter, who had gone along for the journey.

• Thus when it started happening in Britain, the phenomenon came to be known there as Mary Celeste Syndrome. Till now no one knows why this is happening though rapid urbanization and increase in use of cellphones has been blamed. It has now been termed as Colony Collapse disorder and shown in many popular references like Doctor WHO. Even Albert Einstein was quoted saying that mankind would be destroyed if the phenomenon continued to happen.

• Vanishing of bees

• X got so fed up with having to finish every gig with that song and being asked about it in every interview that he now refers to it simply as that “damn wedding song.” For decades, he refused a reunion, because he didn’t want to sing Y ever again. In an even more extreme move, X once pledged money to a radio station in Portland in order to get them to never play Y again.

• This caused problems in the band, as the hate wasn’t universal. In fact, guitarist Z absolutely loves it—especially the long, epic, improvised solos he performs live. In fact, that was another reason why X hated the song. On the rare occasions when the band would reunite, X agreed to perform Yonly if it wasn’t played as the finale and if Z showed some restraint during the solo.

• X- Robert Plant

• Y-Stairway to Heaven

• Z- Jimmy Page

• After scoring 100 not out for Gloucestershire's Second XI in 1964, X had a reasonably successful, though late-starting, first class playing career for Gloucestershire, stretching from 1965 to 1979, and though he never came close to international selection he was popular both with his team-mates and the Gloucestershire supporters. One famous incident at the Gloucestershire Cricket Club saw X hitting the ball so hard into the crowd that it knocked out a spectator reading a newspaper. The spectator was taken to hospital and recovered with only minor injuries.

• X was quite superstitious and would tie a matchstick to a finger on Friday 13th, so he would be touching wood to bring good luck all day. X was awarded the MBE for services to cricket in 1987, and he became the President of his home county club Devon in 2006.

• David Shephard

• “My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”

• It’s central tenets are that reality exists independently of consciousness, that human beings have direct contact with reality through sense perception, that one can attain objective knowledge from perception through the process of concept formation and inductive logic etc.

• Which philosophy and who developed it?

• Objectivism

• D was the youngest son of Sage Vishrava, who was the son ofSagePulatsya, one of the Heavenly Guardians. D plays a smallpart in the Mahabharata. Yudhisthira crowned himself as theEmperor of Indraprastha and began preparations for aRajasuya sacrifice. He despatched his brother, Sahadeva to thesouthern kingdoms to subjugate the rulers to his authorityand supremacy. Sahadevas men reached the tip of themainland, wherein Sahadeva stopped and sent hismessengers to Ds kingdom. D gratefully acceptedYudhisthirasauthority and regarded it as "an act of time." Healso sent diverse kinds of jewels, gems, pearls, celestialornaments and costly apparel to Sahadeva and Yudhisthira. D-?

• Vibhishana