IDry Round

• Recently (June 2011) this train entered its 100th year of service. It is the first train to achieve this distinction on Indian Railways' broad gauge network Once the preferred service for British officials, it once connected two great cities of India and Pakistan.

Identify the train and its source and destination stations.

• Punjab Mail which now connects Mumbai CST to Amritsar once connected Bombay and Peshawar before 1947.

• Something happened for the first time in India between the then Weat Bengal CM CPI (M) chief Jyoti Basu and Union minister Sukh Ram on July 31, 1995. What was the incident?

• This was India's first cellular phone call, inaugurating Modi Telstra's MobileNet service in Calcutta.

• The initial total budget estimated for this Event was 1,620 crore (US$361.26 million). Business Today magazine estimated that the Event cost 60,000 crore (US$13.38 billion). (A jump of 37 times.) This became the most expensive event of its type.

The 2010 Commonwealth Games, New Delhi

The red bar which lies closest to the mast, symbolizes the place as it is today. The green and blue symbolize future stages should humanity have the will and ability to undertake such a task. Flag of?

• Proposed Mars flag

• Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is a research institution of higher learning located in Bangalore, India. It was established in 1909. This was funded and established by Jamsetji N. Tata after a chance meeting between him and X on a ship in 1893 where they discussed Tata's plan of bringing the steel industry to India, Tata wrote to X five years later:

• “ I trust, you remember me as a fellow-traveller on your voyage from Japan to Chicago. I very much recall at this moment your views on the growth of the ascetic spirit in India... I recall these ideas in connection with my scheme of Research Institute of Science for India, of which you have doubtless heard or read ” Impressed by X views on science and leadership abilities, Tata wanted him to guide his campaign. X endorsed the project with enthusiasm.

Swami Vivekananda, its official website also mentions both the names.

• The Munich massacre is an informal name for events that occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Bavaria in southern West Germay, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually killed by the Palestinian group X. X called the operation "Ikrit and Biram", after two Christian Palestinian villages whose inhabitants were killed by the Haganah in 1948. The kidnappers had killed eleven Israeli athletes and coaches and a West German police officer. Five of the eight members of X were killed by police officers during a failed rescue attempt. Identify X by whose name the incident is popularly known.

• Black September Organisation

• How did Nargis Yadav of Dauraha village of UP, born on October 31, make world headlines?

• She was symbolically chosen by the UB among several children around the world to be the seven billionth child on the planet.

• Four poets of Hindi literature were symbolically said to be the four pillars of Hindi romanticism towards nature “Hindi chhayawaad sahitya ke char stambha”. The three of them were Sumitra Nandan Pant, Mahadevi Verma, Suryakant Tripathi Nirali. Who was the fourth one?

• Jai Shankar Prasad, he has wonderful works like Kamayani, Titli, Kankal.

• Name the author of the book which was removed from the University of Mumbai’s English syllabus after complaints from the family of the Hindu nationalist politician Bal Thackeray as the book contained some racial comments against Maharashtrians and him.

Rohinton Mistry Such a Long Journey

• Pierre Cardin is world-renowned for having licensed over 840 products - from fashion to food to furniture.

• He was recently hired by an Indian company to design something for the company. He spent the day with top-of-the-line Indian designers Tarun Tahiliani, Satya Paul and Ritu Beri for the same purpose.

• Which company and what was he supposed to design?

• He was hired by Air India. He would be sketching his silhouettes for the flag carrier's flying staff. Air-India, the country's flag-carrier, will soon sport a glamorous new look with his designs.

• U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt in his April 7, 1932 radio address, The Forgotten Man, in which he said “These unhappy times call for the building of plans that rest upon the forgotten, the unorganized but the indispensable units of economic power....”

He used a term for the first time which is widely used even now? What was the term.

• The phrase “bottom of the pyramid” “These unhappy times call for the building of plans that rest upon the forgotten, the unorganized but the indispensable units of economic power...that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.”

According to Greek mythology, X is a monstrous fire-breathing female creature, composed of the parts of multiple animals: upon the body of a lioness with a tail that ended in a snake's head, the head of a goat arose on her back at the center of her spine. The term X has also come to mean, more generally, an impossible or foolish fantasy, hard to believe.****

• Chimera

• Born as Chandra Mohan Jain in 1931, a professor of philosophy, he travelled throughout India in the 1960s as a public speaker. His outspoken criticism of socialism, Mahatma Gandhi and institutionalised religions made him controversial. He also advocated a more open attitude towards sexuality: a stance that earned him the sobriquet "sex guru" in the Indian and later international press. How is he commonly known as?

• OSHO Rajneesh

• He graduated in Physics B.Sc Hons. from IIT Kharagpur (class of 1969) where he was the recipient of Director's Gold Medal.

• He received a M.Sc degree also in Physics from IIT Kanpur.[3]

• He topped the IAS examination in 1972 and was assigned the Andhra Pradesh cadre.

• In 1978, he did a Masters degree in economics from Ohio State University, United States.

• He was given a career extension of two years by the PMO for his efficient job and foresighted plans.

• Identify him and the post for which he was given extension.

• Duvvuri Subbarao• Current Governor of Reserve Bank of India

• Sri Lanka defeated India in the historic semifinal of wills 1996 Cricket World Cup at The Eden Gardens, Kolkata. In reply to Sri Lanka’s 251/8 India had scored 120/8 in 34.1 overs when the match was awarded to Sri Lanka by the match referee Clive Lyod without the match getting completed. What was the reason for the abrupt stop of play?

• The match was awarded to Sri Lanka by match referee Clive Lloyd when play could not continue due to the rioting crowd. The crowd set ablaze a part of stadium with the disappointment over India’s poor performance. The cheerful Calcutta crowd was highly criticized for that.

• Pursuit of Happyness is a 2006 American biographical drama film based on Chris Gardner's nearly one-year struggle with homelessness. The film features Will Smith as Gardner. Chris Gardner reportedly thought Smith, an actor best known for his performances in action movies, was miscast to play him. However, he said his daughter Jacintha "set him straight" by saying, "If Smith can play X, he can play you!“ Which role X did Smith play which was also highly appreciated?

• 2001 American film Ali, where Will Smith Played Muhammad Ali, the boxing legend.

• According to an apocryphal story, it owes its existence to a section of tightly packed seats behind the homeplate at Fenway Parkin Boston. The seseats were so close together that whenever a fan had to stand up to get a beer, it caused annoyance to people nearby. It caught world wideattention in 1986. What phenomenon am I talkingabout?

• Mexican Wave

• The Oxford English Dictionary records the use of this term as a suffix attached to anything to indicate ‘scandal involving’ since 1973. What term?

• -gate

IIPoster, poster on the wall

IIIConnect ‘em all

Connect and give me the name of the City

Istanbul

• What connects all these three logos?

• Chrysler.

Connect

• Chris Van Allsburg

Connect

• How the Whale got his throat• How the First letter was written• How the Camel got his hump• How the Alphabet was made• The tabu tale

• Just so stories by Rudyard Kipling

Connect these symbols

Olympic Logos

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IVRapid Fire

1. Which Indian company formed a joint venture with the Hershey Company of North America (famous for their chocolates)?

2. Connect Shine.com, Fever104 Fm, Mint, Desimartini.com.

3. Which is the only country in the world whose English name starts with the letter O?

4. If you were facing the main office of ArcelorMittal, which country would you be in?

5. Which famous tourist destination is home to the volcano Mount Etna?

6. Who owns the Indian Cricket League?7. The largest city in Morocco is also the name of an Oscar

winning movie and has a famous port. Which city?

1. Which Indian company formed a joint venture with the Hershey Company of North America (famous for their chocolates)? Godrej

2. Connect Shine.com, Fever104 Fm, Mint, Desimartini.com. HT Media Ltd, Hindustan Times

3. Which is the only country in the world whose English name starts with the letter O? Oman

4. If you were facing the main office of ArcelorMittal, which country would you be in? Luxembourg

5. Which famous tourist destination is home to the volcano Mount Etna? Sicily

6. Who owns the Indian Cricket League? Subhash Chandra (Zee)

7. The largest city in Morocco is also the name of an Oscar winning movie and has a famous port. Which city? Casablanca

1. What is Rabindra Setu more commonly known as?

2. What U.S. state was named for Queen Elizabeth I?

3. Connect the Indian Hotels Company, Westside, Voltas, and Ginger.

4. The second in line to the throne of the head of state of Gibraltar is… ?

5. Which small island, near the northeast coast of the United States, which now houses among the costliest real estate was once bought for a paltry sum of twenty four dollars?

6. What do we know baazee.com as now?

7. Which two companies bring the Mobile Store chain of stores?

1. What is Rabindra Setu more commonly known as? Howrah Bridge

2. What U.S. state was named for Queen Elizabeth I? Virginia3. Connect the Indian Hotels Company, Westside, Voltas, and

Ginger. Tata4. The second in line to the throne of the head of state of

Gibraltar is… ? Prince William5. Which small island, near the northeast coast of the United

States, which now houses among the costliest real estate was once bought for a paltry sum of twenty four dollars? Manhattan

6. What do we know baazee.com as now? Ebay India7. Which two companies bring the Mobile Store chain of

stores? Virgin and Essar

1. If you were born in St. Petersburg in 1903, educated in Petrograd, worked in Leningrad, and died in 1992 in the same city that you were educated in, where did you die?

2. Connect TV Channel Zing, DNA Newspaper, Asian Sky Shop, Water Kingdom.

3. What is the official name of the country which was earlier called Formosa?

4. The English translation of which South American country’s capital’s name is good air?

5. Which company has built the Bandra-Worli Sea Link?

6. Which sports league is the highest earning league in the world?

7. In which city is Marco Polo airport?

1. If you were born in St. Petersburg in 1903, educated in Petrograd, worked in Leningrad, and died in 1992 in the same city that you were educated in, where did you die? St. Petersburg

2. Connect TV Channel Zing, DNA Newspaper, Asian Sky Shop, Water Kingdom. Essel Group, Subhash Chandra, Zee

3. What is the official name of the country which was earlier called Formosa? Republic of China

4. The English translation of which South American country’s capital’s name is good air? Argentina

5. Which company has built the Bandra-Worli Sea Link? HCC6. Which sports league is the highest earning league in the

world? NBA7. In which city is Marco Polo airport? Venice

1. What is the largest country (by area) in the world that borders only one other country?

2. In which hemisphere would you find the Sea of Vietnam?

3. Connect Lumiere, Showbiz, Arabia, MetroNation and Hindu.

4. Which South American country’s name translates to Little Venice?

5. Which company bought chocolate giant Cadbury to become the world’s second largest food company?

6. The former name of this city in India gave a fabric its name. How do we know this city now?

7. What is the full form of DLF?

1. What is the largest country (by area) in the world that borders only one other country? Canada

2. In which hemisphere would you find the Sea of Vietnam? None

3. Connect Lumiere, Showbiz, Arabia, MetroNation and Hindu. NDTV

4. Which South American country’s name translates to Little Venice? Venezuela

5. Which company bought chocolate giant Cadbury to become the world’s second largest food company? Kraft Foods

6. The former name of this city in India gave a fabric its name. How do we know this city now? Kozhikode

7. What is the full form of DLF? Delhi Leasing and Finance