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1

What ceramic

material could one

possibly connect this

image to ?

Nuclear Meltdown known as CHINA SYNDROME .

Ceramic , therefore is CHINA .

2

Take direction from

A to B’s water body .

A B

Take direction from Sir Edwin Southern ,

inventor of the Southern Blot – SOUTH

Water body of Cathay Pacific – PACIFIC

So , you get SOUTH PACIFIC

3

Which two places does this bridge connect ?

This is the BRIDGE OF NO RETURN in the

Demilitarized Zone and connects North and

South Koreas .

4

Where did he

get operated ?

Operation Paul Bunyan or the Axe Murder

Incident happened near Panmunjom , a village

in the DMZ between North and South Korea .

The figure , of course , is of Paul Bunyan , the

mythological American Lumberjack .

5

This is not to be

measured in water

or air .

What may result ?

Electronystagmography ( ENG ) , ie the

measurement of nystagmus , when done

on LAND , would give us ENG + LAND =

ENGLAND

6

Take out the head from A ,

take out the jumbled nail from

B’s cycle pattern and take out

the mgmt institute from C .

What would you end up with ?

A

B

C

• Take out the head , ie Cephalon from Diencephalon ( A ) , you get DIEN

• Carrot ( B ) takes 2 yrs to complete a life-cycle . So , its a Biennial plant . Take out the jumbled nail , ie nial from Biennial , you get BIEN

• Take out the mgmt institute from the floating Phumdi , you get PHU ( mgmt instt being MDI , Gurgaon )

• So , you end up with DIEN BIEN PHU

7

The maiden decided to go offline and add

the animal as a pet with the condition that

it come without the unknown .

What happened as a result ?

• Brooke Shields’ maiden name is Brooke . She decided to go offline , so drop the ‘e’ and we get BROOK . If she decides to add a Lynx to her kitty sans ‘x’ which is the unknown qty , you get LYN .

• BROOK + LYN = BROOKLYN

8

Where ?

• DISNEYLAND

9

• What would a pest affecting his brother be known as ?

• Attila the Hun’s brother was BLEDA , known as BUDA in native language ( Hungarian ) . So , a pest affecting him would be BUDAPEST .

10

What would happen if somebody took the

numberless A to B’s capital to avoid a knock-out ?

A B

• A – Amino acid Alanine , take out the number which here is Nine and we end up with ALA

• B – Mali , capital being Bamako , avoid the knock-out or KO , you have BAMA

• ALA + BAMA = ALABAMA

11

This klingon got bored

of his name and decided

to reverse his alias .

What was his new

name ?

• Tom Lister Jr . , famous wrestler , played the role of Klaang , the first ever klingon to make contact with the humans in the pilot episode of the TV series Star Trek : Enterprise .

• His alias is ‘Zeus’ . Reverse it and you get SUEZ

12

• A’s most famous creation decided to drop B as a friend and instead adopt C as a friend .

• What resulted ?

A B C

• EB White’s ( A ) most famous creation Stuart Little decided to drop Stuart Law ( B ) as a friend and befriend Kid Rock ( C ) instead .

• So , we get ( Stuart Little – Stuart + Rock ) = Little Rock

13

What ?

• The Bridge over River Kwai

14

• He went anonymous after giving away the first blood group from his surname .

• How would we then know him ?

• If Sebastian Loeb went anonymous by loosing the first blood group ( O in this case ) from his surname , he would be known as Leb + Anon = Lebanon

15

A + B + C = ??

• Bear + Flag + Republic = Bear Flag republic , alternate name for the California Republic , the precursor of modern day California

16

• Use the blood group instead of the indefinite article .

• This is the CONGA . Use the blood group ( O here ) instead of the indefinite article ( A ) . So , Conga becomes CONGO .

17

• Er , No , the later one .. Just keep the rest .

• Take out the -er from Berliner , you get Berlin

18

• What’s being ridiculed here ?

• The Bay of Pigs invasion

19

A + B + C = ??

A B

C

• Assam Rifles ( AR ) + Antibody ( AB ) + Indian Airlines ( IA ) = ARABIA

20

Just identify the man / place .

• Max Yasgur at his farm , the venue of WOODSTOCK in 1969

21

• What would this scary author be known as if he had pallor ?

• If RL Stine had pallor , he would become Pale + Stine = Palestine

22

• If A named his autobiography the same way B named his , then what would A’s autobiography be known as ?

A B

• Steve Wozniak’s ( B ) autobiography was named iWoz taking the first three letters of his surname , so Naved ul-Hasan Rana’s ( A ) autobiography would be known as iRan / Iran .

23

• What does this Russian monument commemorate ?

• The Soviet War in Afghanistan ; monument in Moscow

THE THEME• China

• South Pacific

• North Korea

• South Korea

• Panmunjom

• England

• Dien Bien Phu

• Brooklyn

• Disneyland

• Budapest

• Alabama

• Suez

• Little Rock• Bridge over River Kwai• Lebanon• California• Congo• Berlin• Bay of Pigs• Arabia• Woodstock• Palestine• Iran• Afghanistan

Places mentioned in the Quizzer’s Song ,

Billy Joel’s “We didn’t start the fire”

THANK YOU !