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Disambiguation

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Q5 This is an exhaustive list of?• Breaking Bad• Hannibal• Game of Thrones• Person of Interest• Six Feet Under• Suits• Gravity Falls

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Coldplay

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Venues for Commonwealth Games

Q5 This is an exhaustive list of?• Breaking Bad• Hannibal• Game of Thrones• Person of Interest• Six Feet Under• Suits• Gravity Falls

TV series having episodes with rating of 9.9 or above.

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1The Penrose Stairs which appear in the movie 'Inception' were also a part of a movie released in the late 1980s produced by George Lucas. For the lead role of the movie many musicians were considered including Sting, Mick Jagger and MJ but finally X was considered for the role as THE GOBLIN KING. Id the movie and X.

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1Movie – Labyrinth

X- David Bowie

2In reference to what?

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2The eight story in the Harry Potter series, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” debuts in 2016 as a play. Casting for the play created a controversy as Noma Dumezweni acting as Hermione Granger is a black actress and caused a stir on twitter. The tweet was J. K. Rowling’s response.

3• The exact age of this event is unknown. It derives it roots from Hindu

mythology. Its exact dates are determined from combination of zodiac positions of Jupiter, Sun and Moon. It is termed as the "The World's Largest Congregation of Religious Pilgrims." What am I talking about?

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3• Kumbh Mela

4MARCOS (short for Marine Commandos), previously named as Marine Commando Force (MCF), is the special forces unit of the Indian Navy. created for conducting special operations such as Amphibious warfare, Counter-terrorism, Direct action, Special reconnaissance and more. The MCF is specially organised, trained and equipped for the conduct of special operations in a maritime environment. The force has gradually acquired experience and a reputation for professionalism over the two decades it has been in existence. The MARCOS are capable of undertaking operations in all types of terrain, but are specialised in maritime operations in Jammu and Kashmir through the Jhelum River and Wular Lake. Some MARCOS personnel are also attached with the Army special forces units conducting counter-terrorism operations in the area. MARCOS are widely feared among the terrorists, who call them X.What is X?

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4• Dadiwali Fauj or Bearded Army

5• Similar to the Gulabi gang and Red Brigade, the Bhumata brigade has

protested against the high prices of onions and other vegetables, exploitation of farmers, for the Lokpal Bill with Anna Hazare etc. They were in the news recently. Why?

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5• Providing Entry to women in Shani Shingnapur.

6• What/ Who connects the countries in the opening and final matches

of the 2011 Cricket World Cup?

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6• Rabindranath Tagore• Tagore wrote the national anthems of India and Bangladesh• At the insistence of Ananda Samarakoon, Tagore wrote a song in

Bengali which was later translated to Sinhalese and eventually became the anthem.

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List names of versions of Mac OS X+5 for each correct answer

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If Correct Guesses > 10, extra +10

If All Guesses Correct, extra +20

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Answer• Kodiak – public beta• Cheetah – 10.0• Puma – 10.1• Jaguar – 10.2• Panther – 10.3• Tiger – 10.4• Leopard – 10.5• Snow Leopard – 10.6• Lion – 10.7• Mountain Lion – 10.8• Mavericks – 10.9• Yosemite – 10.10• El Capitan – 10.11

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1• What is the significance of the old Nokia SMS ringtone of 'bip bip bip

beep beep bip bip bip‘ ?

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1• Morse code for the letters SMS

2• X was India's first aircraft carrier commissioned in 1961. It was

decommissioned in 1997. After the Navy expressed inability to maintain it as a museum it was sold to the highest bidder.• Around the 67th Republic Day, Y launched a video campaign where

the voiceover says “We at Y , were determined to not allow history to fade away into oblivion. So we took X's metal, melted it and gave it a new face.• What is this new face?

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2• Bajaj V – The invincible

• X- INS Vikrant• Y- Bajaj

3• Which Movie am I talking about?

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3• The Dark Knight

4• X is the only player who has batted in all positions (from Opening to

No. 11) in ODI’s

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4• Abdul Razzaq

5• In Oct 2015, the Oxford University Press announced the longlist for its

annual "Place of the Year" vote (something they do along with the publication of new editions of the "Atlas of the World". On the shortlist were places such as Cuba, Palmyra (Syria), and the Spratly Islands. Which is the non-Earth place in this list, because of something that happened last year in July?

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5• Pluto, because of the "fly by" in July by the New Horizons probe.

6• Conspiracy theorists came up with a Reddit post regarding the spread

of X.• It led masses to believe that 3 of the largest conglomerates in the

world were involved and openly sold X. One of them was a company called Oxitec, the other two being Y and Z foundations. It is also believed that the net worth of Y is $500 trillion and controls major financial institutions in all countries.• Id X

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6• Zica Virus