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Q.M. ASHOKE SANYAL

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There are currently only seven of their kinds. They arelocated at1. Wilmette, Illinois USA

2. Kampala, Uganda3. Sydney, Australia4. Langenhain, Germany5. Panama City, Panama6. Tiapapata, Samoa7. New Delhi, IndiaWhat are we talking about?

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Bah' Houses of Worship

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In the old royal navy of the 1700s and 1800s,sailors who wanted to fight with each otherwould often take huge iron bars, which wereused to hold and melt iron for cannonballs,and use these as weapons to try and hiteach other. What phrase meaning

"enemies" or "adversaries" originated fromthe name given to these bars?

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Loggerheads - to be at loggerheadsoriginally meant that sailors would fighteach other with these.

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The capital of Mongolia is Ulan Baturwhich can be translated from theMongolian as Red Hero. The word Baturin a modified form came to India with theMoghuls, and was commonly used as atitle gifted by the Moguls and then theBritish. Which one?

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Bahadur

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Dr. Surendra Katekar, a former teacher at theChristian College in Indore, remembers that the

supervisor of the college canteen once lent astudent a very specific sum of money. Whenthe student did not pay him back immediately,

the canteen supervisor often asked for themoney back. How was this immortalised later,once the student left college?.

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The student was Kishore Kumar. The

sum, to be exact, was paanch rupaiya,baarah anna.

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This place in India gets its name from thesanskrit words for blood and city. Legendhas it that the original name of this placewas Sonitpur(sonit in sanskrit also meansblood), but when the battle betweenKrishnas army and Banasura was foughtfor rescuing Aniruddha (the grandson of krishna) there was so much bloodshedthat the whole place was stained red.

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Tezpur

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He was born on July 4, 1898 in Sialkot in thePunjab Province of British India.He is remembered for something that happenedin 1964 and the same was repeated after 2 yrs.later and has never happened since.The duration on both occasions were the same for13 days each.

Who is he and what was the event that wasrepeated?

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Gulzari Lal Nanda. Took over as interim PMafter the death of Nehru. He also took over asinterim PM after Lal Bahadur Shastris death.

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This fictional character was born on May28,1908 to a Polish father and Greek motherin Gdynia,Poland. He shares his birth date

with that of the author who has createdhim.His name was inspired by the surnameof the authors classmate. Who is he?

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ERNST STAVRO BLOFELD. Named afterTom Blofeld (father of Henry Blofeld-Cricket Commentator), who attendedEton College with Fleming. Ernst Blofeld

shares same birthday with Ian Fleming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Blofeldhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eton_Collegehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eton_Collegehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Blofeld

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GANGS OF NEW YORKDEPARTEDTAXI DRIVERRAGING BULL

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In the early 1900s, he was considered tobe a future England test cricket player.Among his centuries for Worcestershirewas a knock of 179* in which he hit JWHT

Douglas for 4 sixes. In WWI, he lost anarm and his playing career was cut short.He went on to become famous in another

area of the same sport and was known forhis dry sense of humour. Who?

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This city was originally named

after the British Lt. Governor ofPunjab in 1880. Now this city isnamed after the late King of

Saudi Arabia since 1977.Identify both the names.

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Lyallpur & Faisalabad.

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An English rock band got its name froman English Football Club since theirmembers were ardent fans of the club.This is perhaps the only band getting itsname from a football club. Give me thename of the band specifically.

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Simply Red from ManchesterUnited

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THIS ANIMAL MAY GET ITS NAME FROM LATINWORD FOR "FAT" OR FROM WELSH WORD FORWHITE

-HEAD. THE LESS POPULAR TYPES ARE

---CHINESTRAP, GENTOO, SOUTHERN ROCKHOPPER,FIORDLAND, SNARES, MACARONI, GALAPAGOS,HUMBOLDT, MAGELLANIC ETC. WHICH ANIMAL I AM

TALKING ABOUT ?

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PENGUIN

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Which annual event has the tagline TheGreatest show on Earth?

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With what activity is associated theterm Heimlich Maneuver ?

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Tata, Oberoi, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kashmir?.Common to these.

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All administrative units of Doon School.

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THATS ALL FOR TODAY.