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Identify the actress

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Identify the character played by Raj Kumar.

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What is the inspiration for this forthcoming TV series?

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Identify the speaker.

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Title song from which well known TV series?

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All of us know this song as the original IDEA song. Identify this movie & the debutant director.

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Audience clip: Identify the famous TV clip from its title song.

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Mitra Publication of Allahabad was a pioneer name in Indian publication history. Magazines and novels, the likes of 'Jasoosi Duniya,______ _______,Maaya and Manorama' etc were the glorious names from the Mitra Prakashan stable._______ _______ was launched in 1957 to capture the market using human psychology where crime stories titillate the nerve of common man. Soon _______ __________ became the largest selling Hindi magazine of India pouring out lakhs of copies per month. After the advent of TV, video and the Internet Mitra Prakashan suffered a major setback as all other publications did and gradually all these big names 'Maaya, Manorma,______ _________ and Satyakatha' were lost in the sands of time.

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"Those days (1967-68), they would not take young people for news reading but only ones with mature voices. Pratima Puri and GopalKaul were regular faces then. But Kaul never wanted to read news so once, when it was time to read news, he entered the office with a shaven head! The panic-stricken producer started looking for someone to replace him and they zeroed in on me. I was asked to give a quick audition. When I came back to the control room after the audition, I witnessed a pin-drop silence and everyone sitting stunned. With a chocking voice I asked what happened, and was told that I read the 15-minutes news so quickly that they could not even start the roll! DD finally realized that they should train people for news reading too!”

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Salma Sultana

Poruvazhi Temple, Kollam

The water from River Tons which flows close to the temple at Mori is not used for drinking even today. What connects these two temples?

Mori, Uttarkashi

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A bachelor to the end, X fell in love with writer Y andsinger Sudha Malhotra, relationships that neverfructified in the conventional sense and left him sad.Ironically, the two ladies' fathers wouldn't accept him,an atheist, because of his perceived religion. Theyoung lady (Y), madly in love, wrote his namehundreds of times on a sheet of paper whileaddressing a press conference. They would meetwithout exchanging a word, he would puff away;after his departure, she would smoke the cigarettebutts left behind by him. After his death, she said shehoped the air mixed with the smoke of the buttswould travel to the other world and meet him.

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Sahir Ludhianvi & Amrita Pritam

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Founded in 1888, the KGS (Kanpur ________Society) is closely linked to Hindu nationalistorganizations RSS and BJP.

The KGS product profile ranges from mosquitocoils to aftershave lotions, from face packs tophenyl. But their latest offering, Goloka Pay hasreally put them on the map. It is a cold drinkconcentrate laced with X (5% of total volume)which is doing reasonably well in the market.

The idea of creating a soft drink first camewhen Baba Ramdev lashed out at Coke andPepsi. “That was when we began work on thishealthy alternative. Along with X it containsherbs like tulsi, brahmi & shankhpushpi,” saysthe KGS general secretary.

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Cow Urine (KGS: Kanpur Gaushala Society)

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Born in New York, she was the first foreigner (of her profession) to be permitted in to the Soviet industry. In 1946 working for the Life she came to India on an assignment to capture the fall of the British Empire. Identify this lady who was portrayed by Candice Bergen in the 1982 movie Gandhi. Also what was her most famous contribution to Indian history?

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Margaret Bourke-White