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Saarang Online Quiz 2011

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1. Vinay Lathi, IIT Madras

2. Swaroop Ramasamy, IIT Madras


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X refers to the World Center Of Vedic Learning. The site of the building was 50km

away from Jabalpur and marked the centre of India geographically. The building was

intended to be the tallest in the world upon completion, but was never completed.


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A: Non-Rectangular, Hexagonal, 3D, Triangular are all variations in the PCgame Minesweeper

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C : A minesweeperB USS Pivot, a minesweeper ship

The connect is MINESWEEPER.


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3The connect is Rio de Janerio.

E River, F January

Rio de Janerio means River of January

A 2016 Olympics Logo, 2016 Olympics is to be held in Rio de Janeiro.

B The song is Cidade Maravilhosa(meaning Marvellous city), the official song of Rio.

Rio is also often called the Marvellous City.

C Famous Monuments found in Barcelona, St Petersburg, Beijing.

Barcelona, St Petersburg and Beijing are sister cities of Rio.

D Poster of 2012 depicting Christ, the Redeemer and landscape of Rio.

EF


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This is the logo of the VH Group of companies which nowown Blackburn Rovers.4




The guy in middle is Bill Watterson, author of Calvin and Hobbes.

The comic-strip was named after John Calvin(left) and ThomasHobbes(right).5




The connect is the movie The Terminal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminal

The movie is based on the life of Mehran Karimi Nasseri and stars

Catherine Zeta-Jones.

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A Mehran Karimi Nasseri, an Iranian refugee who

lived in the departure lounge of Terminal One in

Charles de Gaulle Airport from 8 August 1988 until

July 2006
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C A Great Day in Harlem, which is a black and

white group portrait of 57 jazz musicians and was a

key object in The Terminal.

B : Catherine Zeta-Jones


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A

B

The connect is Christmas Price Index.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Price_Index

The Christmas Price Index is a tongue-in-cheek economic indicator,

maintained by the US bank PNC Financial Services, which tracks the cost of

the items in the carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas."

A Logo of PNC Financial Services.

B Cost of Christmas over the last 25 years.

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1 Partridge in a pear tree

2 Turtle Doves

4 Calling Birds

French Hen


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5 Gold Rings

6 Geese-a-Laying

Maid Milking

7 Swans Swimming


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9 Ladies Dancing

10 Lords-a-Leaping

Drummer Drumming

Piper Piping


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The connect is Danny Boyle.

Danny Boyle is the artistic director for the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony.

Vikas Swarup wrote Q&A, the book Slumdog Millionaire was based on.

Aron Ralston is the subject of his latest movie 127 hours.

A Beach, B Sunshine

Beach & Sunshine are movies directed by Danny Boyle

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2012 Olympics Logo


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B

A

The guy in the above pic is Aron Ralston, an American

mountain climber and public speaker. He gained fame in

May 2003 when, while canyoneering in Utah, he was

forced to amputate his lower right arm with a dull knife

in order to free himself after his arm became trapped by

a boulder.


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The Great Stalacpipe Organ is an electrically actuated lithophone located

in Luray Caverns, Virginia, USA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Stalacpipe_Organ

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