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1. * "Koru"* "Silver Fern (Black, White, Blue)* Red Peak* Silver Fern (Red, White, Blue)* Silver Fern (Black, White)These is the 5 entries that were shortlisted in Sept 2015. One of them will be selected by a vote in late 2015, and go into a final face-off in March 2016. What is this all about?

• New Zealand is looking for a potential replacement of its national flag - these are 5 of the contenders.

2. "Inside Out" is Pixar's 2015 film release, about a 11-year old and her 5 key emotions, personified by various characters. Each emotion's character, according to the film's director, was conceptualised based on a shape: if Sadness was based on a teardrop, and Anger by a brick, Disgust was partly based on a stalk of which vegetable?

• Broccoli

3. The Indian low cost airline AirAsia India made public its fourth aircraft in Mar 2015. Called "The Pioneer", this airline paid tribute to one of the first Indians to fly by putting his portrait on the aeroplane. Which Indian's face would you see on "The Pioneer"?

• JRD Tata

4. Starting from Jan 1, 2016, this has officially been 'doubled' in China, thus modifying a restriction that was in place from about 1978. (Previous exemptions to this restriction involved girls in rural areas or ethnic minorities). What am I talking about?

• the one child policy was removed

5. What is this?

• India’s first floating atm by SBI

6. Kraków is the home to the Sukiennice museum, which features a variety of 19th century Polish art. The museum holds paintings which have different stories behind them. The museum owners found out that the people who visited museums found it very boring. So while renovating, they kept a X beside the painting which made the painting come alive. This entertained the crowd. What did they do??

• They placed a QR code beside the painting and the QR code is scanned through their phones and a video depicting the stories is played

7. ID the author?

• Arnab Goswami

8. Reality Tours & Travels is one of the few operators who provide guided tours of a specific area, and charges of the tour may vary from Rs 500 per person for a short tour to Rs 1000 per person for a private long tour. Which area do they operate?

• Dharavi

9. This is something called the Redstar. What is redstar and why is it famous ?

• Redstar is an operating system and it is the only operating system which is allowed to be used in North Korea

10. Many methods were proposed to stabilise it:-One of them was the addition of 800 tonnes of lead counterweights to the raised end of the base.-next the bells were removed to relieve some weight, and cables were cinched around the third level and anchored several hundred meters away. -The final solution was to slightly straighten it to a safer angle, by removing 38 cubic metres of soil from underneath.None of them worked. What am I talking about?

• The Leaning Tower of Pisa

11. This is a Google doodle’s tribute to whom?

• Beethoven

12. This a minimalist poster of which movie?

• Home alone

13. A Seattle native, he exhibited an early interest in theoretical physics, especially quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity. His childhood heroes were Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, and Richard Feynman. After observing a series of teleportation experiments conducted by the Institute for Experimental Physics at the University of Innsbruck, the transmission of matter became hid obsession. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Physics. His doctoral thesis on the teleportation of matter through extremely dense elements was titled Observation of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Entanglement on Supraquantum Structures by Induction Through Nonlinear Transuranic Crystal of Extremely LongWavelength (ELW) Pulse from Mode-Locked Source Array. Who am I talking about?

• Gordon Freeman _ a character in Half life

14. Id him?

• Chief Justice of India – TS Thakur

15. Connect?

• Kings present on all the pack of cards

16. Genesys International Corporation has announced the launch of WoNoBo.com that brings Google Street View-like 360-degree walkthroughs to Indian cities. Users will be able to search, explore and share 'points of interest' across 12 major Indian cities and will soon be expanded to 54 cities. With WoNoBo, users get full blown 360-degree views of destinations. They can access, tag and review points of interests like hotels, retail outlets, monuments, parks, etc. and also view the interiors of several key locations. Which company recently invested in Genesys International and hence gained a lot of profit ?

• Quikr - quikrhomes

17. In Buddhism, this word means "place of the deathless" and has philosophical significance. It later became the name of a place in India with Buddhist temples. In Hindu myths, it is the city with the court of Indra.In 2015, a place with this name is formally coming to being. Which place?

• Amaravathi -under construction capital of AP

18. In 2004, Inoue went to Harvard University to accept an Ig Nobel Peace Prize for "inventing X, thereby providing an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other." His rendition there of "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" earned a standing ovation. Master of ceremonies Marc Abrahams indicated it was the longest standing ovation the Ig Nobels had ever seen; the audience of largely Nobel Prize laureates responded by serenading Inoue with a chorus of "Can't Take My Eyes off You“. What did he invent?

• Karaoke Machine

19. “All Nippon airways” is an airline company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. A week back this airline company became viral. What is the unique event achieved by “All Nippon NH 106 airways”?

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• The plane departed at tokyo on jan 1st 2016 and arrived at los angeles on dec 31st 2015.

20. Andy Weir worked as a software engineer, while also writing science fiction. In 2011, he self-published a book, serializing it on the web and later publishing it on Kindle for the minimum price. Thanks to fan interest, the book was finally noticed and re-released in 2014.And now everyone's heard of it. Which book?

• The Martian