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Whose statue?
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Bhupen Hazarika
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Id X & Y
X (1997) is the debut novel of Y. It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" that lay down "who should be loved, and how. And how much." The book is a description of how this negligible things in life affect people's behaviour and their lives. The book won the Booker Prize in 1997. X isY‟s first book and, as of 2012, is her only novel. Completed in 1996, the book took four years to write.
Estha,Rahel & Ammu are the main protagonist of X
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The God of Small Things (1997) is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy
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He was born in Lahore, Punjab, British India his mother Sheel Kanta, a journalist and stage actress. He started his career working with a multinational oil company. He moved to Great Britain in 1970, and spent several years working as an accountant and management consultant. He started his career as an actor in the movie Jaan Hazir Hai(1975)and later in Toote Khilone, in Bollywood. but failed to flourish as an actor.
In 2005, he worked with Okan Quail on Hunji!, a story of a young Indian maid who idolised Sachin Tendulkar.
he got Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in India, in 2000.he had a docu film named ..
2011 Bollywood: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told (documentary)who?
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SHEKHAR KAPOOR
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Name the Movie …& the Music Director…. No part Marking …
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NAMTE NAMTE, SINGR – SIDHU,MUSIC - CACTUS
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The Sanskrit term has been in use in English since 1871, replacing gammadion (from Greek γαμμάδιον).
Other names for the shape are :
crooked cross, hook cross or angled cross (German: Hakenkreuz).
cross cramponned, in heraldry, as each arm resembles a crampon or angle-iron
(German: Winkelmaßkreuz).
The term is coined in the 19th century
based on a misunderstanding of a Renaissance manuscript.
sun wheel, a name also used as a synonym for the sun cross.
It literally meaning "four legged", especially
when composed of four conjoined legs (compare triskelion(Greek: τρισκέλιον)).
The Tibetan form is known as g-yung drung
Geometrically, it can be regarded as an irregular icosagon or 20-sided polygon.
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Swastika
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Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri aka Jhumpa Lahiri
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Id the phrase…
X is an idiom of British origin describing a foolhardy or pointless action.[the phrase was first recorded in 1538,[2][3] 15,000 tonnesof coal were being exported annually from the area[4]—and therefore any attempt to sell coal to Newcastle would be doomed to failure because of the economic principle of supply and demand. Timothy Dexter, an American entrepreneur, succeeded in defying the idiom in the eighteenth century.
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carrying coal(s) to Newcastle
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connect
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Bond movies named after villains
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Name the Singer & the Movie, Part marking available …
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Singer – Swanand KirkireMovie – Paanch Addhay,1st Bengali Movie by Diya Mirza
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The villain's death scene, was cut from the film by the Censor Board. The reason is that the censors claimed there are rules about people taking the law into their own hands and not being punished for it; this was not permitted as it may corrupt naive viewers.
For this reason the ending of the film had to be
reshot for a 'U' Rating.” • ID the movie.
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Sholay
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. This Chelsea rising star created a very unique record when he made his first team debut against Zilina in the Champions League on 15/9/2010. What „unique‟ record did he create?
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First player to be born after the start of the Champions League to play in it.
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NAME THE FILM … & DIRECTOR
His invention :the active pixel sensor technology that produced the world's smallest camera and has been inducted to the US Space Technology Hall of Fame.Now it is used from cell-phone cameras to movie cameras (such as those used by RED) to those in space telescopes.he was the executive producer of the award-winning film Amu in 2005.He was the principal researcher for the documentary called Lifting the Veil on the impact of globalization in India, and the writer of the book titled „Behind the events in Kashmir‟. He directed critically acclaimed film X starring Manoj Bajpai,[Vega Tamotia,[NawazuddinSiddiqui, Barry John and Dibyendu Bhattacharya.he, shot the film with the same digital imaging technology that he with other NASA scientists had invented.
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FILM= CHITTAGONGDIRECTOR = BEDABRATA PAIN
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Name the Band …
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FUN ….
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1st ever open heart surgery by a Robot.Patient‟s name : Natalie Jones.Robot‟s name : Da Vinci
Place : England
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Who?
X is a UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador and social activist. She is also an accomplished Bharatnatyam and Manipuri dancer. X made her Bollywood debut with the top-grossing drama Saudagar . In 2010, she made her foray into Malayalam cinema with Shyamaprasad's Elektra, a psycho-sensual drama based on Sophocles's ancient Greek tragic play Electra. She met her husband through the online social networking website, Facebook. The couple divorced in 2012.
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Manisha Koirala
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Id him…and his feat…
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Tom Longfield….1st Ranji Trophy Winning captain of Bengal
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In November 2006, X accepted a position as an accessory buyer with the clothing chain Jigsaw.She also worked part-time until January 2011 as a catalogue photographer, webpage designer and marketing officer for Party Pieces. Despite this, at one point X was nicknamed "Waity X" by the media for X‟s apparent lack of work ethic and seeming lack of desire to work, in preference for awaiting a wedding proposal.Xwas awarded the accolade of „Best Celebrity Smile‟ in May 2012 after placing first in a poll by Bupa.[
who am I talking about?
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KATE MIDDLETON
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What is this tennis shot called?
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Tweener
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X was born on 30 April 1870 in chitpavanBrahmin family . He began his career as a small town photographer in Godhra but had to leave business after the death of his first wife and child. , he had the opportunity to work with the Archeological Survey of India as a draftsman. He specialized in lithography and oleograph, and worked for painter Raja Ravi Varma. X later started his own printing press, made his first trip abroad to Germany, to learn about the latest technology and machinery.
Who?
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DADASAHEB PHALKE
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ID THE VOICE
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ERIC CLAPTON
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Who am I talking about?
She is trained in Hindustani classical music.[Having always wanted to become an investment banker,[13] she went on to study at the Manchester Business School in the UK and obtained a triple honours degree in Business, Finance and Economics.[14] Due to the 2009 economic recession, she was unable to get a job and returned to India and joined Yash Raj Filmsas a publicist.. she never wanted to become an actress and even used to hate actors, stating that if the recession had not happened, she would never have landed in Mumbai,althoughshe was signed by Aditya Chopra for a three-films contract with Yash Raj Films …..
She is one of my favourite actress…
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Who am I talking about?
Recently there was a world record occurred in the Golf world… in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship 2012, X,anon pro.golf player hit a 159ft.shot,which directly inserted into the hole…its just unbelievable . And thus X broke the long standing record of Terry Wagon…after took his retirement in 2012 from his field,he again created a record…he just loves to create records…
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MICHAEL PHELPS
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Which thing am I talking about?
“X“‟s Possible translations include "giving life to flowers“. The spiritual aspect of X is considered very important to its practitioners. Silence is a must during practices of X. It is a time to appreciate things in nature that people often overlook because of their busy lives. The truth about the origin of X is unidentified. The offering of flowers on the altar in honor of Buddha was part of worship.the first classical styles of X started in the middle of the fifteenth century;X is shown on television and taught in schools. It has some styles named : Moribana upright style, Moribana slanting style, Nageire upright style, Nageire slanted style, Nageire cascading style…
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IKEBANA
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Id X…I want the full name
X first name, meaning "grief stricken",[11] after a Pashtun poetess and warrior woman. she used to watch the Star Plus television channel and her favorite drama was Raja Kee Aye Gee Barat, which she translated as "My dream boy will come to marry me".[33]
On 15 October 2012, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, now the United NationsSpecial Envoy for Global Education, launched a petition in X's name and "in support of what X fought for".[88] Using the slogan "I am X",
She also received many prizes recently…
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Malala Yousafzai
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Put funda
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The currency note of the Free India Govt set
up by the Indian National Army.
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Id the fielder…
On the second day(1974) of the First Test at the Queen's Park Oval in Trinidad, the West Indies had cruised to a first innings lead of 143, thanks mainly to 142 not out from Alvin Kallicharran. With four wickets still in hand, the home team was in a dominant position when the last ball of the day was bowled to Bernard Julien, who blocked it past X(fielding in close on the off side) and then headed off to the pavilion with Kallicharran. However, X fielded the ball, whirled around, threw down the stumps, and appealed for a run out decision against Kallicharran.[2] Umpire Douglas Sang Hue gave the batsman out, and a near-riot broke out in the crowd. The spectators stormed the ground and laid siege to the pavilion, calling for the decision to be revoked.
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Name THE SINGER …
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KAUSHIKI DESIKAN
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Who am I talking about?
He hails from Ottapalam, Palakkad, a district of the state Kerala.[2]
he joined the Indian Police Service in 1955 and passed out as the best all-round officer of his batch. After a brief stint as Sub-Divisional Police Officer in the erstwhile State of Madras, he went on deputation to the Intelligence Bureau in February 1959. He headed the Intelligence Bureau (IB) from 1987 to 1990, before heading the Joint Intelligence Committee. He became Chief of the IB again in 1991, before retiring in 1992. He was the Special Advisor for Internal Security to the Prime Minister of India beginning in May 2004.[4] He grew infamous when he wanted to sack the then RAW chief C. D. Sahay. According to the Outlook magazine, he asked investigative agencies to go slow when they zeroed-in on Hindutva organizations for SamjhautaExpress bombings in 2007.
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Mayankote Kelath Narayanan
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Who am I talking about?
He was born in Ballimaran, Kotgarh Old Delhi,[1]
into a wealthy Punjabi family. He was academically gifted, especially in mathematics. A chance meeting with the writer, Wali Mohammad Wali, who worked for Dalsukh Pancholi, at a shop in Hira Mandi, Lahore, led him to winning his first role as a villain in Dalsukh Pancholi's Punjabi film Yamla Jat (1940), , Pancholi cast him in Khandaan (1942), which was the first Hindimovie in which he became a romantic hero. His biography, ...and ____ was so named because, in at least 250 of the 350 movies that he acted in, he was the last name in the cast portion of the credits, with the words "...and _____"
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Pran Krishan Sikand
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These are the rare & only films where Mahayak died (not in reality)
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He is an Austrian skydiver, daredevil and BASE jumperHe set the world record for skydiving an estimated 39 kilometres(24 mi), reaching an estimated speed of 1,342 kilometres per hour (834 mph), or Mach 1.24, on 14 October 2012, and became the first person to break the sound barrierwithout vehicular power on his descent.[2][3] He is also renowned for the particularly dangerous nature of the stunts he has performed during his career. Name him…
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Felix Baumgartner
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NAME THE BAND …
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RED HOT CHILLI PEEPERS
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Who am I talking about?
His childhood was spent[1] in the tea gardens of Assam.He was proficient in several musical instruments, including flute, the piano, and the esraj. He was also widely acclaimed and admired[1] for his inspirational and original poetry. His short story named "Ricksawala".[he entered Malayalam films in 1964 with Chemmeen.[1] Almost all of his Malayalam songs became popular irrespective of the performance of the films they were made for. He worked in almost 26 Malayalam films, and several Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Gujarati, Oriya and Assamese films.
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Salil Choudhury
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Name the novel
This is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to a republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As a dynamiter, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia. Hemingway biographer Jeffrey Meyers writes that the novel is regarded as one of Hemingway's best works. A film adaptation of Hemingway's novel, directed by Sam Wood, was released in 1943 starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. It was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Actress;
A song adaptation was written by American heavy metal band x for their 1984 album Ride the Lightning.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Id the person beside chris gayle…for what is he famous for in recent times…?
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Hokaito Zhimomi , 1st ever 1st class cricketer from Nagaland…although he plays for Assam in the Ranji Trophy,asthere is no Ranji team in Nagaland…
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X originally requested that Aishwarya Rai be cast opposite him but the director picked Y because she had not previously been paired with the
actor. The elaborate final battle scene employed over
six thousand extras. Some of the actors portraying warriors in the movie were masters of Kalari,
who used their expertise. They were the only ones to use real weapons in the filming. A popular song from this movie was picturised at Bhedaghat in Madhya Pradesh amidst the Narmada River. Identify the movie.
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Asoka
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ID THE VOICE…
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JAYANTA CHAKRABARTY
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Who am I talking about?
He was,born 18 August 1929, Jhelum District, British India, he worked in Delhi as a car mechanic in a garage. 1988, he directed an eponymous television serial X starring Naseeruddin Shah, shown on Indian television channel Doordarshan.he directed his first film Mere Apne(1971). The film was a remake of Tapan Sinha's Bengali film Apanjan(1969). None of the his film were "Blockbuster Hits" on the Indian Box Office. His films told stories of human relationships entangled in social issues.he was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2004 for his contribution to the arts .
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Sampooran Singh Kalra (born 18 August 1929), known popularly by his pen name Gulzar, serial = Mirza Ghalib
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Conrad Hilton, Jr.
Michael Wilding
Mike Todd
Eddie Fisher
Richard Burton
John Warner
Larry Fortensky
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HUSBANDS OF LIZ TAYLOR
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Id X
X is the name of several people in real life and fiction who became shipwrecked, with some of them subsequently being cannibalised by their fellow seamen. In Edgar Allan Poe's only novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, published in 1838, X is a mutinous sailor on the whaling ship Grampus. After the ship capsizes in a storm, he and three other survivors draw lots upon X suggestion to kill one of them to sustain the others. X then gets cannibalized. Writer Yann Martel in his 2001 novel picked up on these occurrences, surmising "So many X‟s had to mean something‟. In 1846, the Francis Spaight foundered at sea. Apprentice X was among the twenty-one drowning victims of that incident, though there were no cases of cannibalism.
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Richard Parker
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Who is he? And why he is recently in the news?
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RICHARD DAWSON
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Who am I talking about?
. Her parents are devotees of Sri Aurobindo. Eventually they settled in Kallatty, a village near Ooty, where she established a business designing hang-gliders and microlight aircraft, Her ancestor Maurice ____, a French structural engineer, designed the Eiffel Tower, although credit is erroneously given largely to Gustave Eiffel.[6]
She studied drama and theatre in Goldsmiths, University of London, where she also worked with a theatre company called Theatre of Relativity for two years. She performed in various plays like David Hare‟s The Blue Room, Marivaux‟s The Dispute and a devised play The Rise of the Wild Huntin her two year stint with the theatre group.[8][9] now she is working as a co-writer of a film…named That Girl in Yellow Boots .
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KALKI KOECHLIN
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Id the VOICE …
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SON OF MR.KALO DUTTA…
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Which film am I talking about?
This film was later dubbed in English as When Love Calls, a 125 minute version, became the biggest hit in the Caribbean market at Guyanaand also dominated the box-office collections at Trinidad and Tobago. The film had also been dubbed in Spanish as Te Amo, the first experiment of its kind. This 125 minute film also proved its universal appeal with a glorious 10 week premiere run at Lima, capital of Peru. In Telugu as Prema Paavuraalu, it crossed the 25 weeks at Visakhapatnam and had 100 plus day run at six centres in Andhra Pradesh. It was also dubbed in Tamil as Kaadhal Oru Kavithai and in Malayalam as Ina Praavukal.[2]
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MAINE PYAR KIYA
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