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• Gerrrrrrrrrrrrronimo !

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Q1 - wedding
Whats going on ?
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• T-Mobile spoof ad based on the Royal wedding.

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• The actual and official name of this area in
  Bangalore is Subhash Nagar.
• However this area is most commonly referred to by
  the name of an old and famous theatre near this
  area which has also lent its name to various
  other landmarks in the vicinity.
• Which locality?

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• Majestic

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• A is often confused with B.
• C is where the original B is now.
• A,B and C?

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A
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C
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• A
• Tower Bridge,a combined bascule and suspension
  bridge in London over the River Thames.
• It is close to the Tower of London, which gives
  it its name.
• Tower Bridge is sometimes mistakenly referred to
  as London Bridge,which is actually the next
  bridge upstream.
• B
• London Bridge is a bridge over the River Thames,
  connecting the City of London and Southwark, in
  central London.
• C
• London Bridge in Lake Havasu City, Arizona,
  United States.
• It is based on the 1831 London Bridge that
  spanned the River Thames in London, England until
  it was dismantled in 1967. The Arizona bridge is
  a reinforced concrete structure clad in the
  original masonry of the 1830s bridge, that was
  bought by Robert P. McCulloch from the City of
  London.
• McCulloch had exterior granite blocks from the
  original bridge numbered and transported to
  America.

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• The Cubbon park police station on Kasturba Gandhi
  road just outside Cubbon Park, next to the fish
  aquarium, was originally a guard post built by
  the British in the early 20th century.
• For what purpose was it built?

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• To protect the statue of Queen Victoria, erected
  in 1906,which still stands outside Cubbon Park.
• The UB group has recently restored the police
  station.
• A board outside the PS has these facts listed on
  it.

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Q5

• Who?

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Clue?
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• Detail of the Fountain of the Four Rivers,
  showing the river-god Ganges.
• The Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi or "Fountain of the
  Four Rivers" is a fountain in Rome and located in
  the urban square of the Piazza Navona.
• It was designed in 1651 by Gianlorenzo Bernini
  for Pope Innocent X.
• The base of the fountain is a basin from the
  centre of which travertine rocks rise to support
  four river gods and above them, an ancient
  Egyptian obelisk surmounted with the Pamphili
  family emblem of a dove with an olive twig.
• Collectively, they represent four major rivers of
  the four continents through which papal authority
  had spread the Nile representing Africa, the
  Danube representing Europe, the Ganges
  representing Asia, and the Plate representing the
  Americas.

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• What controversy did this book stir up when
  published in 2009?

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• Mallory v/s Hillary!
• In the book,Jeffrey Archer claims that George
  Mallory,an Englishman, was the first to conquer
  Mount Everest,way back in 1924 much before Sir
  Edmund Hillary.
• During the 1924 British Mount Everest Expedition,
  Mallory and his climbing partner disappeared
  somewhere high on the North-East ridge during
  their attempt to make the first ascent.
• Their last known sighting was only a few hundred
  metres from the summit.
• Mallory's ultimate fate was unknown for 75 years,
  until his body was finally discovered in 1999 by
  an expedition that had set out to search for the
  climbers' remains.Whether or not they reached the
  summit before they died remains a subject of
  speculation and continuing research.
• Mallory is famously quoted as having replied to
  the question "Why do you want to climb Mount
  Everest?" with the retort "Because it's there",
  which has been called "the most famous three
  words in mountaineering".

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• Spin a whole yarn around all the following photos
  and the audio.
• Full fundae please!

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• In August 1969,in LA,Charles Manson along with
  his gang The Manson family,murdered movie actress
  Sharon Tate,who was eight and a half months
  pregnant at the time.
• The song is "Helter Skelter," by The Beatles.
• Manson misconstrued the lyrics to be about an
  apocalyptic race war he believed the murders were
  intended to precipitate.
• Sharon Tate was the wife of famed Polish-French
  film director Roman Polanski.
• In 1968,Polanski directed the Oscar winning
  horror film Rosemary's Baby,starring Mia Farrow.
• The film's plot is about a couple that move into
  a Gothic, 19th century New York City apartment
  building with a history of unsavory tenants and
  mysterious events.
• The Dakota,an Upper West Side apartment building
  known for its famous tenants,was used for the
  exterior shots in the movie.
• The building was the home of John Lennon from
  1973 onwards.
• On 8 December 1980,as Lennon and Yoko Ono
  returned to The Dakota,Mark David Chapman shot
  Lennon in the back four times at the entrance to
  the building.
• One of the influences for Chapman to murder Lenon
  was the JD Salinger novel The Catcher in the Rye.
• On the morning of December 8, 1980,Chapman bought
  a copy of The Catcher in the Rye from a New York
  book store, in which he wrote "This is my
  statement" and signed it "Holden Caulfield", who
  is the protagonist of the novel.He also
  re-enacted some scenes from the novel.

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• What is this picture depicting?

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• In 1998, Titanic topped Star Wars as the 1 box
  office movie of all time.
• George Lucas bought this full-page ad in Variety
  congratulating James Cameron, in which the Star
  Wars crew jumps out of the sinking ship and into
  the ocean of second place.
• Apparently, it is a Hollywood tradition for
  directors who have their 1 records smashed to
  take out full page ads congratulating the new
  record-holders.
• When Star Wars broke Jaws record, Steven
  Spielberg congratulated George Lucas by taking
  out a full-page ad with a picture of R2-D2
  snagging Jaws on a fishing line.

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• When Star Wars Special Edition reclaimed 1 in
  1997.

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Print ad showing a shoe and lace for which
Marathon?
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• The Loch Ness Marathon!
• The Loch Ness Marathon is an annual marathon race
  held along the famous Scottish loch,Loch Ness,
  ending in Inverness.
• The event is part of the Festival of Running
  usually held in October and attracts over 8,600
  participants for the main event.

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• Whats so special about this cover of the New
  Yorker?

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• It was generated using an iphone app called
  Brushes by artist Jorge Colombo .

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• Who was Time magazines person of the year for
  2006?

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• X has acquired a Scottish Island for about 2
  million to set up a wellness retreat.
• The Little Cumbrae Island, off the fishing town
  of Largs in Scotland, will also serve as the Xs
  base overseas, where Y will be taught.
• The acquisition of the land itself was carried
  out by a Scottish couple of Indian origin, Sam
  and Sunita Poddar, to expand the base of Y
  abroad. This project will be run by X's UK Trust.
  

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• X - Patanjali Yog Peeth
• Y - Yog
• Baba Ramdev's flagship project is Patanjali Yog
  Peeth (a registered Trust).
• The primary aim of this institution is to build
  the world's largest centre for Ayurved and Yog
  with the facilities of treatment, research and
  training.
• Baba Ramdev calls it 'yog' instead of the more
  popular 'yoga' as he claims that is how the
  scriptures call it.
• He was inspired by the portraits of Ram Prasad
  'Bismil' and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose hanging
  in his room while growing up.

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What does this cartoon depict?
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• The League of Nations (LON) was an
  intergovernmental organization founded as a
  result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended
  World War I, and it was the precursor to the
  United Nations. The League was the first
  permanent international security organization
  whose principal mission was to maintain world
  peace.
• The U.S. President Woodrow Wilson had been a
  driving force behind the League's formation and
  strongly influenced the form it took but the
  United States Senate voted not to join on 19
  November 1919.

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Print ad for?
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3M Post-It notes
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• How are these bunch of dudes collectively
  referred to as in techlore?

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• The Paypal Mafia!
• PayPal Mafia" is an informal term for the
  community of American businesspeople and
  investors centered in Silicon Valley, who were
  founders or early employees of e-commerce service
  PayPal before founding a series of other
  technology companies.
• The PayPal Mafia are often credited with
  inspiring Web 2.0, and for the re-emergence of
  consumer-focused Internet companies after the dot
  com bust of 2001.
• Some commentators consider these credits to be
  exaggerated or partly mythologized.

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• X is known as the Savage Mountain due to the
  difficulty of ascent and the second-highest
  fatality rate among the "eight thousanders" for
  those who climb it.
• For every four people who have reached the
  summit, one has died trying.
• Unlike Y,the mountain with the highest fatality
  rate, X has never been climbed in winter.
• The Y peaks are the world's most dangerous
  mountains to climb. As of 2007, there had been
  153 summit ascents of Y, and 58 climbing
  fatalities on the mountain.
• This fatality to summit ratio (38) is the
  highest of any of the eight-thousanders. Clue?

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• The Vertical Limit is full of food !

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• X - K2
• Y Annapurna
• K2 is the second-highest mountain on Earth, after
  Mount Everest. With a peak elevation of 8,611 m
  (28,251 feet).
• K2 is part of the Karakoram Range, and is located
  on the border between Gilgit, in Gilgit-Baltistan
  of Pakistan and the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous
  County of Xinjiang, China.
• Annapurna is a section of the Himalaya in
  north-central Nepal that includes 8091 meter
  (26,545 ft) Annapurna I,
• Annapurna I is tenth among Earth's fourteen
  eight-thousanders. It rises east of the Kali
  Gandaki Gorge separating it from Dhaulagiri
  massif.
• Annapurna is a Sanskrit name which literally
  means "full of food" (feminine form), but is
  normally translated as Goddess of the Harvests.

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Google Doodle celebrating what?
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• Harry Houdinis birthday!

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Google Doodle celebrating what?
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• The Royal Wedding!

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• Poster for?

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• First Earth Day
• Earth Day is a day that is intended to inspire
  awareness and appreciation for the Earth's
  natural environment,founded by US Senator Gaylord
  Nelson as an environmental teach-in first held on
  April 22, 1970.
• While this first Earth Day was focused on the
  US,an organization launched by Denis Hayes, who
  was the original national coordinator in 1970,
  took it international in 1990 and organized
  events in 141 nations.
• Earth Day is now coordinated globally by the
  Earth Day Network,and is celebrated in more than
  175 countries every year.Numerous communities
  celebrate Earth Week, an entire week of
  activities focused on environmental issues. In
  2009, the United Nations designated April 22
  International Mother Earth Day.

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Why was this McDonalds print ad released around
2004?
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• Super Size Me is a 2004 American documentary film
  directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, an
  American independent filmmaker.
• Spurlock's film follows a 30-day period from
  February 1 to March 2,2003 during which he eats
  only McDonald's food.
• The film documents this lifestyle's drastic
  effects on Spurlock's physical and psychological
  well-being, and explores the fast food industry's
  corporate influence, including how it encourages
  poor nutrition for its own profit.
• Spurlock dined at McDonald's restaurants three
  times per day, eating every item on the chain's
  menu. He would always choose to "super-size" his
  meal if he was offered by a McDonald's employee.
  Spurlock consumed an average of 5,000 kcal per
  day during the experiment.
• As a result, the then-32-year-old Spurlock gained
  24½ lbs. (11.1 kg), a 13 body mass increase, a
  cholesterol level of 230, and experienced mood
  swings, sexual dysfunction, and fat accumulation
  to his liver. It took Spurlock fourteen months to
  lose the weight gained from his experiment with a
  special vegan diet supervised by his future wife
  who was a chef specializing in vegan dishes and
  gourmet.

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