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2. Wallops Flight Facility at Wallops Island in
East Coast, Virginia is the base for NASA's
sounding rocket program. There, in its
reception lobby is a painting which depicts a
battle with few rockets flying in the
background. The main feature of the painting
is a warrior who is very well known in and
from India. Who is he??

3. Tipu Sultan
Who pioneered rocket warfare in his battles
against the British, more commonly known as
Mysorean rocket

4. Where can you find all these symbols
in the same place ??

5. Wikipedia Logo

6. ID the voice

7. Dipa Karmakar
#YouRock

8. TIME magazine’s ‘All-Time 100’ movies
list featured 106 films, with four
entries being films with multiple parts.
Three of them are Olympia, part 1 and
2 (1938), The Godfather Part I and II
(1972, 1974), and The Lord of the
Rings film trilogy (2001–2003). Name
the fourth.

10. This film, which release this year is the
biopic of which great Olympic legend ?

11. Jesse Owens (remember the 1936
Olympics in Germany ?? Adolf Hitler ??)

12. Only tigers, lions, leopards and jaguars
have this ability due to the incomplete
ossification of the hyoid bone as well
as the morphological features of the
larynx. Which ability?

13. Roar !!!

14. The company, which was active for
more than 2 centuries in India was
brought by a certain Sanjiv Mehta in
2005. Although dissolved in 1874, a
small remnant of the company lived
on, consisting of its trading name. The
company now deals in luxury foods,
tea varieties, chocolates and spices.
It’s a very important company in the
history of India.

15. The British East India Company

16. Originally appearing as morale-
boosting posters during WWII, most of
them were eventually destroyed.
However, in early 2005, a bookseller
from Barter Books stumbled across a
copy with a further 15 copies showing
up later. Which 5-word term has made
a resurgence as a result?

18. X is an artistic gymnastics vault consisting of a
front handspring onto the vaulting horse and
two front somersaults off.
The vault currently has a 7.0 D-score, and is
considered the hardest vault performed in
women's artistic gymnastics.
It is named after the first person to complete it
successfully in 1999.
Currently 5 athletes have successfully attempted
X and 2 have attempted and failed in it.

19. Produnova

20. The following is the stock value of which company in
July 2016? (Psst.. Notice the dates and the surge and
decrease in the values)

22. What does this list comprise of ?
• 1987 - Ore Oru Gramathile
• 2006 - The Da Vinci Code
• 2011 - Dam 999
• 2013 - Vishwaroopam
• 2013 - Madras Cafe

23. List of movies banned in Tamil Nadu
• 1987 - Ore Oru Gramathile: It banned for criticizing caste based
reservations. The Supreme Court of India later allowed its release.
• 2006 - The Da Vinci Code: It was banned after concerns that it may
hurt religious sentiments. Later, Madras High Court allowed its
screening.
• 2011 - Dam 999: It was banned for allegedly spreading fear among
people regarding the Mullaperiyar dam
• 2013 - Vishwaroopam: The film was banned after objections were
expressed by Muslim groups regarding the portrayal of the Muslim
community in a bad light. The movie was later released after seven
scenes were cut
• 2013 - Madras Cafe: The film, which is set in the backdrop of the
Sri Lankan Civil War, was not released in the state after several
groups protested that the film portrayed the Tamil Tigers in a bad
light.

24. Who is the first Indian to get the pilot
license for driving aeroplanes/
aircrafts?

25. JRD TATA

26. A proclamation by the Governor of
Ohio on June 26, 2010 ends as follows:
Now, therefore, I, Ted Strickland, Governor of
the state of Ohio, in recognition of her concert
at the Palace Theatre in Columbus, Ohio do
hereby proclaim Sunday, June 26, 2010
throughout the state of Ohio as
________________ day.

27. Shreya Ghoshal
#MassVoice

28. Whose knowledge and skills is being
described here ?
1. Knowledge of Literature – nil.
2. Knowledge of Philosophy – nil.
3. Knowledge of Astronomy – nil.
4. Knowledge of Politics – Feeble.
5. Knowledge of Botany – Variable. Well up in belladonna, opium and poisons
generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening.
6. Knowledge of Geology – Practical, but limited. Tells at a glance different soils
from each other. After walks, has shown me splashes upon his trousers, and
told me by their color and consistence in what part of London he had received
them.
7. Knowledge of Chemistry – Profound.
8. Knowledge of Anatomy – Accurate, but unsystematic.
9. Knowledge of Sensational Literature – Immense. He appears to know every
detail of every horror perpetrated in the century.
10. Plays the violin well.
11. Is an expert singlestick player, boxer and swordsman.
12. Has a good practical knowledge of British law.

29. Sherlock Holmes, as described by
Arthur Conan Doyle in A Study in
Scarlet

30. These are the other names of ?
• Dreamland
• Paradise Ranch
• Home Base
• Watertown
• Homey Airport
• Groom Lake.

31. Area 51

32. Who posted
this
matrimonial
and who was
it for?

33. Rana
Daggubati for
Bahubali

34. This is the Kankaria Lake, formerly
known as Hauz e Qutub, the second
largest lake in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
What logo did this lake inspire?

35. SBI