1. He was a Nasrani, a rationalist who came in the limelight for his endeavor to expose several God-like fake people in India and Srilanka. An NGO declared an award by his name for the secular artists wherein Kamal Hasan was the first recipient.

He is known for his paranormal challenge to anyone, where he announced a hefty sum for anybody who proves God or supernatural powers.

What recent wonder/hit did this person inspire?

Aamir’s character as in PK!(He is doctor Abraham Thomas Kovoor)

2. When he was just a ten-year-old lad, he showed interest in cricket. One nice morning, he was taken by his father who was working in Pakistan at that time to watch a local match. It happened to be the one in which Hanif Mohammad scored the mammoth 499, a record for first-class cricket that stood until 1994, when Brian Lara hit 501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston.

Identify the person associated with Warwickshire then who experienced both the instances.

BOB WOOLMER

3. Connect these Hollywood films

All these films are inspired from John Grisham’s novels.

The Chamber, The Client, The Pelican Brief, Skipping Christmas, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury, A Time to Kill and The firm!

4. The use of nitrate of Mercury dominated the manufacturing process of felt hats in the 18th

century. Mercury was a chemical that could soften stiff rabbit fur hairs while keeping them joined together – a process that made the fur flexible, tractable, and easily molded but the element of poison can never be neglected.

Thus mercury spread out the felt and as users inhaled felt dust and licked the points of finishing brushes, the poisonous substance used to mix with their blood and they used to feel become insane.

Which phrase originated thus?

Mad as a hatter/ Mad hatter

5. This man on the left invented something and named it after a place (Flag of the place on the right) where nuclear explosion testing was done in the mid 1940’s. He expected an explosive commercial and cultural reaction for his invention.

What was the invention?

Bikini

6. The name of this place is said to be derived from the Sanskrit term Malav, which means “part of the abode of Lakshmi”. This is a natural region in west-central northern India occupying a plateau of volcanic origin. Geologically, the Malwa Plateau generally refers to the volcanic upland north of the Vindhya Range.

Which great Indian’s ancestors belonged from this region and hence were called by a surname and still holds till date?

MalaviyasMadan Mohan Malaviya

7. First Person is an ex-Mexican President. Second and third person were famous Italian social activists.

Which world famous political leader was named after these three personalities?

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini.

They are respectively,

Benito Juárez

Andrea Costa and

Amilcare Cipriani

8. He kept X for 18 years before passing away in 2010. His family has been holding the position to keep X since pre-islamic times and currently his brother is entrusted to keep it.

What is X and what is it meant for?

He is Sheikh Abdul-Aziz Al-Sheibi belonging from Bani Shaiba tribe who are entrusted to hold the keys to the Kaaba.

9. Which 21 year old sports record did these athlete break in 2014 ?

(It was held in the same place where the previous record was made and the competition is founded by the previous record holder himself)

He is Renaud Lavillenie, who has broken Sergey Bubka's 21-year-old pole vault world record (indoor) of 6.15 m with a leap of 6.16 m last year.

10. She received the Golden X award for her contribution to the Mexican food industry and inventing a world famous Snacks item.

Which food item?

She is Rebecca Webb Carranza who invented and popularized the triangle shaped tortilla chip.

11. This country had to change it’s National flag from (I) to (2) after they found that their flag is similar to another country’s flag when they took part in an International event in mid 1930’s.

Which country?

(I) (2)

Liechtenstein

In 1936 summer Olympics, they found that their flag is exactly same as that of Haiti and thus the change in the national flag in the next year.

12. This painting is an ornamental portrait of a second empire Victorian home by an American artist.

What pop culture icon did these painting serve as the inspiration for?

The famous Norman Bates’s house in the film psycho inspired from Edward Hopper’s painting “House by the railroad”

13. This Vase is located in Golders Green Crematorium and Mausoleum which was the first crematorium to be opened in London.

What does this Vase contain?

The Vase contains the ashes of Sigmund Freud and Martha Freud

14. What Russian entity did Y carve out from a design made by X inspired from a Japanese entity?

Matryoshka doll

X is Sergey Malyutin

Y is Vasily Zvyozdochkin

The concept of the entity inspired from the Japanese Daruma Doll.

15. This is the logo of an American company. What recent phenomenon came into existence as a result of an experiment performed by them in the 80s?

VAPE, Oxford’s word of the year, 2014.

Nabisco came up with the word when they first experimented with smoke less cigarettes thus giving the word Vape.

16. This kid played a small role in Batman Begins but after 7 years from the release of the film, he played a famous character in a TV show.

The character he played in the TV show was inspired from this roman empire shown.

Name the character he played.

He is Jack Gleeson who played the character of Joffrey Baratheon

17. She is a former former Miss USSR and a Russian business woman known for her affair with a French banker (became famous when he was found dead after a BDSM bondaged session).

Whom did she marry recently?

She is Julia Leminova who married Martina Navratilova recently.

18. This was an Italian aircraft used in the second world war.

What entity linked with animation industry is named after it ?

The name Ghibli for Studio Ghibli of the Japanese Animation Legend Hayao Miyazaki got inspired from Caproni Ca.309 Ghibli, the Italian aircraft used in World War II.

19. Which major airline carrier in the world presents all it’s world business class passengers with this miniature traditional houses?

KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines), the flag carrier airline of the Netherlands presents it’s World class passengers with these Delf Blue Houses.

20. Connect these entities (non-exhaustive list)

Hipgnosis, the English art design group who designed all these album covers.

21. These checked jackets were designed by Vivienne Westwood who is an English fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream.

After which English artist is the Jacket named after?

David Hockney

22. This is a novelty pair of horn-rimmed glasses with attached eyebrows, plastic nose, and bushy moustache. First marketed in 1940s, they are often used as a shorthand for Slapstick.

What?

Groucho Marx

23. The lady on the left kept X’s marble set ( shown in the right pic) for 70 years and returned it last year to a local Museum.

X, 14 then came to the lady and asked her to keep the marble set for a little while as she was scared that those might fall in wrong hands

Identify X.

Anne Frank

24. This profession lasted during the industrial revolution in Britain and Ireland. They used baton, bamboo and pea-shooter mostly. Even Great Expectations by Charles Dickens finds it’s mention.

Which profession?

A knocker up or a Human Alarm.

25. Who or which class of people wears these shoes?

Ballet Dancers.