11. 5
Avtar Kishan was awarded the Padma
Bhushan in 2006. In February 2011, he
'walked' the ramp in a wheelchair for fashion
designer Riyaz Ganji for the latter's summer
line in Mumbai. How do we know Avtar
Kishan better?
15. 7
Huffington Post has recently brought out a list titled ‗10
Foods Around the World to Try Before You Die‘.
9 of them are:
China – Peking Duck
France – Escargots
Greece – Moussaka
Italy – Zucchini flowers
Japan – Teppanyaki
Malaysia – Seafood curry laksa
Thailand – Som tam
Australia & New Zealand – Pavolva
USA – BBQ ribs
What is the 10th item? (specific answer)
19. 9
Agumbe is a village located in the Shimoga district
in the state of Karnataka. Lying in the
Thirthahalli taluk and the Malnad
region, Agumbe is among the places in India that
get a lot of rain. It is also called 'Cherrapunji of
the South'.
Early in the 1980's, John Devraj, a
sculptor, musician, art director and town
planner, visited Agumbe, a village roughly 400
km from Bangalore, with a population of about
180 families.
For what purpose did Devraj visit Agumbe?
20. To create the fictional town of Malgudi for the shooting of the tv serial
'Malgudi Days.
21. 10
SHE IS BIBI RUSSEL,FAMAMOUS
MODEL OF BANGLADESH.SHE
POPULARIZED IN GLOBALLY
WHICH BANGLADESHI PRODUCT?
23. 11
Last year, Times brought out a list titled 'Top
10 Bad-Ass Wives.'
The list included both present day and
historical people like Eleanor
Roosevelt, Queen Isabella of Spain, June
Carter Cash, Cleopatra, Sarah Palin, Ellen
de Generes and Portia de Rossi, Michelle
Obama, Melinda Gates, Elin Nordegren. Who
completes the list of ten?
27. 13
Wycinanka is a traditional form of paper
cutting parctised in rural areas of eastern
Europe.This art form symbolises the fauna
and flora of the local regions in a tribute to
mother nature, representing the worship of
the land and true respect for continuous
growth, prosperity and fertility.This art form
provides the inspiration for the official logo
of which international competetion.
29. 14
In spite of having a very successful career in
films, Dharmendra has won only 2 Filmfare
Awards till date. One is of course the
'Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award.' For
what did he win his first Filmfare award?
33. 16
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had convened a meeting to launch X. Many top
officials were carrying bulk files and different sets of designs for Indira
Gandhi to see and finalise one of them. Nylon was quite popular those days.
Kasbekar, a joint secretary in the banking department then who also
attended the meeting, was wearing a nylon shirt. Indira Gandhi looked at
Kasbekar's pocket and her gaze stayed transfixed there. Kasbekar became
uneasy along with others, suspecting that something had displeased the
prime minister. Surprisingly, she ordered Kasbekar to take out a colourful
envelope that he had in his shirt pocket. Kasbekar gave the envelope to her
without knowing why. Indira Gandhi's face lit up and she said, ‗This is the
colour scheme and design I like.‘ The meeting ended and the selection had
been made. Kasbekar had actually kept a wedding invitation in his shirt
pocket which was orange in colour with a dash of red and saffron. This
colour combination that is used in wedding cards in Maharashtra and other
southern Indian states is considered auspicious. Most wedding cards are
printed using several combinations of these colours. Origin of the colour
scheme and design for what?
41. 20
The image below shows Harri Holkeri, the Prime Minister of Finland
during the time, making a phone call to Kaarina Suonio on July 1st
1991.They discussed the benefits of the new technology like superior
voice quality and security.This was the first phone call over a
commercial network using the new technology.What are we talking
about.
51. 24
1.Declaration of independent of America
2.French complement to america
3.Great deal between america and canada
4.Industrial revolution in America
5.Victory of 2nd world war
All these are very problamatic for the
primary school children of america So
Education dept. Want to help ---------------- to
visualise thisTopics.
Fill in the blanks?
53. 25
First the dress was changed to a blue drape. In
1936 a shimmering light was placed behind in
place of the more artificial-looking rays of
light projecting from the handheld. In 1993
she was repainted digitally by New Orleans
artist Michael Deas. Although it very nearly
resembling Dorothy Kilgallen and it has been
rumoured that Annette Benning was the
model, in fact, Deas used a model name
Jenny Joseph and said, he used a composite
for the face.
55. 26
What or who is being talked about?
Mahendra Mapugunaratne from Toronto coined the
term and quickly and wittily framed it as: ―Anyone
for ______? Tastier than the best of sundaes..‘.
Although there are those closest to the man in
question, who call it the ―Starfish‖, because ‗a
starfish has no brain‘.
69. 33
What is transmitted using MPEG-2 digital
compression technology, from the satellite
INSAT 4A at 83.0°E?
71. 34
In 2008, a statue of Mayawati was replaced from a park in Lucknow as she did
not like the face and body of the statue. The original statue was also missing a
vital accessory which according to her, gave her a more professional look.
This was then added in the new statue. What accessory was this?
78. 1. Jibonanada Das
2. Goutam Buddha
3.Pritam Chakroborty
4.horse
In 2006, the original Moheener
Ghoraguli song Prithibi ta naki was
remade as Bheegi Bheegi by the
music-director Pritam Chakrabarty
for the Hindi film Gangster which
went on to become a chartbuster. The
song was sung by Bangladeshi singer
James of Nagar Baul fame.
This group was formed by a group of
Kolkata musicians led by Gautam
Chattopadhyay towards the end of
1974. Initially, they called themselves
'Saptarshi', and finally settled on the
name 'Moheener Ghoraguli' proposed
by Ranjon Ghoshal. The name was
borrowed from a poem 'Ghora' by
Jibanananda Das
83. 40
A brand launched in 1975.Endorsed by Kapil
Dev in 1995 and now by Amitabh Contains
Black pepper,black salt, ginger and cummin
seeds Flavours include lemon ,raw
mango, pudina , tamarind .identify the
brand?