KRITI GENERAL QUIZQM : Dhrubojit Bhattacharya

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RULES 30 Questions. First 25 Questions are for participants(+1/0), last 5 for the audience Score carried forward by a factor of 5

Q1X is the longest route of the Y Network, running 20,557 km (12,774 mi) from Tokyo, Japan via Korea, China, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran to the border between Turkey and Bulgaria west of Istanbul. It enters in India first in the NorthEast through Moreh in Manipur, and leaves India through Dawki, and after passing through Bangladesh, re-enters India through Pentapole, WB and exits through Attari, Punjab.X = ?

Asian Highway 1

Q2This painting by Francois Nicolle Riss shares it’s name with a kind of song. These songs are usually in triple meter or 6/8 time, giving them a "characteristic swinging or rocking motion."

Lullaby

Q3In Greek, the phrase is "krata tin porta”, in German it is "halt das tor”, Portuguese it is “segure a porta”, in Spanish it is “aguanta el portón” and Turkish it is “orada dur”. Many of these lead to various translation problems. What phrase are we talking about?

Hold the door

Q4X is a fictional island mentioned within an allegory on the hubris of nations in Plato's works Timaeus and Critias, where it represents the antagonist naval power that besieges "Ancient Athens", the pseudo-historic embodiment of Plato's ideal state. In the story, Athens repels the X attack unlike any other nation of the (western) known world, supposedly giving testament to the superiority of Plato's concept of a state. At the end of the story, X eventually falls out of favor with the gods and submerges into the ocean.

Atlantis

Q5What product?

Vanishing Spray

Q6X was an Indian politician, barrister and academician, who served as Minister for Industry and Supply in Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s cabinet. X wrote a letter to the British Government as to how they should respond to "Quit India" movement. In this letter, dated July 26, 1942 he wrote:“Let me now refer to the situation that may be created in the province as a result of any widespread movement launched by the Congress. Anybody, who during the war, plans to stir up mass feeling, resulting internal disturbances or insecurity, must be resisted by any Government that may function for the time being”X is?

Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

Q7“Sing for the Moment” contains samples of the song ___________. Joe Perry plays the guitar solo at the end of the song, and a sample of Steven Tyler singing is used as the chorus for this song. Eminem says "sing" when Tyler starts to sing the chorus, and Eminem also says "sing with me" and "come on". Eminem says the words in his live performances as well. The song also contains a sample of the same song at the beginning. Which song?

Dream On, by Aerosmith

Q8X is typically seen as a contemporary and supporter of the late-12th-century king Richard the Lionheart, X being driven to outlawry during the misrule of Richard's brother John while Richard was away at the Third Crusade. This view first gained currency in the 16th century. It is not supported by the earliest ballads. The early compilation, A Gest of _______, names the king as "Edward"; and while it does show X accepting the King's pardon, he later repudiates it and returns to the greenwood.The Gest sums up about X“he was a good outlawe,And dyde pore men moch god.”Give me X

Robin Hood

Q9Sam was a bald human with wide eyes, large ears, and a big nose. Others included Yorick, Harry the Hipster, Professor Madcliffe, Chicken Liver, and a saurian character named Kermit (who later evolved into Kermit the Frog).Who portrayed these characters?

Jim Henson

Q10X was a science writer, who was both an avid populariser of space travel and a futurist of uncanny ability. On these subjects he wrote over a dozen books and many essays, which appeared in various popular magazines. In 1961 he was awarded the Kalinga Prize, an award which is given by UNESCO for popularizing science. These along with his science fiction writings eventually earned him the moniker "Prophet of the Space Age". His other science fiction writings earned him a number of Hugo and Nebula awards, which along with a large readership made him one of the towering figures of science fiction. For many years X, Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov were known as the "Big Three" of science fictionX is?

Arthur C Clarke

Q11What has been blanked out?

X Girls Y Cups

Q12Kazuhito Kosaka better known by his stage name Daimaou Kosaka is a Japanese comedian. He is most famous for X. He needs a BGM for fitness programs, he created X to allow trainers have fun but at the same time, he wants everyone to stay healthy.What is his creation?

PenPinappleApplePen (PPAP)

Q13X is a series of three American action-comedy films. The films were directed by Jay Roach; produced, written by and starring Mike Myers as both the title character and Dr. Evil; and distributed by New Line Cinema.The franchise parodies numerous James Bond, Derek Flint, Matt Helm, and Jason King, films, characters, and incorporates myriad other elements of popular culture as it follows a British spy's quest to bring his nemesis down. The character represents an archetype of 1960s Swinging London, with his advocacy for free love, his use of obscure impressions and his clothing style.The films poke fun at the outrageous plots, rampant sexual innuendo, and two-dimensional stock characters characteristically associated with 1960s spy films, as well as the cliché of the ultra-suave super spy. Contrary to the handsome, super-smooth leading men of the James Bond genre, X is not conventionally attractive.Give me X.

Austin Powers

Q14Born in Stettin, Pomerania, Prussia as Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg, she came to power following a coup d'état when her husband, Peter III, was assassinated. Russia was revitalised under her reign, growing larger and stronger than ever and becoming recognised as one of the great powers of Europe.She is the only other female ruler (apart from Tamar of Georgia) to be known as ‘the Great’. Her rule is often considered the Golden Age of the Russian Empire and the Russian nobility. The Manifesto on Freedom of the Nobility, issued during the short reign of Peter III and confirmed by her, freed Russian nobles from compulsory military or state service.Name her.

Catherine Romanov

Q15X compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member club of the league's Western Conference Southwest Division. The team plays its home games at the AT&T Center.X are one of four former American Basketball Association (ABA) teams to remain intact in the NBA after the 1976 ABA–NBA merger and the only former ABA team to have won an NBA championship. X‘s five NBA championships are the fourth most in history behind only the Boston Celtics (17), Los Angeles Lakers (16), and Chicago Bulls (6).Give me X.

San Antonio Spurs

Q16X is an Australian Aboriginal word, meaning the eternal dreamtime. It also is the name of an Australian Palaeontology journal, a magazine on ethnopoetics published from 1970-1980. What is it more famous as in India?

Alcheringa

Q17Tata SIA Airlines Limited, operating as __________, is an Indian domestic airline based in Gurgaon with its hub at Delhi-Indira Gandhi International Airport. The carrier commenced operations on 9 January 2015 with its inaugural flight between Delhi and Mumbai. The airline had carried more than two million passengers by June 2016 and as of April 2016, has a 2.3% share of the domestic carrier market. The airline operates to eighteen destinations with a fleet of Airbus A320-200 aircraft. It was the first airline to introduce premium economy seats on domestic routes in India.Fill in the Blank

Vistara

Q18X is a fictional antihero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by artist/writer Rob Liefeld and writer Fabian Nicieza, the character first appeared in The New Mutants #98 (cover-dated February 1991). Initially X was depicted as a mercenary when he made his first appearance in The New Mutants and later in issues of X-Force, but later evolved into his more recognizable antiheroic persona. X is a disfigured and mentally unstable mercenary with the superhuman ability of an accelerated healing factor and physical prowess. He is known as the "Merc with a Mouth" because of his talkative nature and tendency to break the fourth wall, which is used by writers for humorous effect and running gags.

Deadpool

Q19Charles Dickens describes him thus: "The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, made his eyes red, his thin lips blue, and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice...".His last name has come into the English language as a byword for miserliness and misanthropy. He is a cold-hearted miser who despises Christmas.Whom am I talking about?

Ebenezer Scrooge

Q20He started his career in Bollywood as a producer and actor with the film Deshdrohi in 2008. He also appeared in a film by Mohit Suri titled Ek Villain. He made his television debut in Season 3 of Indian reality TV programme Bigg Boss.He has been accused of making derogatory caste-based remarks and defamatory remarks against South Indian actor Dhanush in his review of the latter's movie Raanjhanaa, posted on YouTube. Identify this ‘celebrity’.

Kamal Rashid Khan

Q21Identify this Hindi/Urdu poet and lyricist best known for writing songs for Bollywood films including Jab We Met, Chameli, Love Aaj Kal, Rockstar, Aashiqui 2 and Raanjhnaa.

Irshad Kamil

Q22In 2005, she became the eighth Indian player to be awarded the Woman Grandmaster title. She won India's National Women's Premier Chess Championship in 2006 and 2007. In 2007 she also won the Women's Asian Chess Championship with 6½ points out of nine rounds in Tehran. She was conferred with the prestigious Arjuna Award in 2009. In 2016, She won the best woman's prize at the Reykjavik Open and won the Commonwealth women's champion title in Kalutara.Whom am I talking about?

Tania Sachdev

Q23Literally translating to ‘Essence of Taste’, X is a Japanese food and chemical corporation which produces seasonings, cooking oils, TV dinners, sweeteners, amino acids, and pharmaceuticals. In particular it is the world's largest producer of aspartame, with a 40% global market share.X’s main product, monosodium glutamate seasoning, was first marketed in Japan in 1909, having been discovered and patented by Kikunae Ikeda. He found that the most important compound within seaweed broth for common use was actually a glutamate salt, which he identified with the taste umami, a word meaning 'pleasant taste' or 'savoriness'. As the simplest such salt for human consumption, the popularity of MSG helped the company rapidly expand to other countries.Give me X.

Ajinomoto

Q24X owns the distilled beverage division of the former corporation Seagram (including brands like Chivas Regal), along with many other holdings. In 2005, the company acquired a British-based competitor, Allied Domecq plc. In 2008, X announced its acquisition of Swedish-based V&S Group, which produces Absolut Vodka. In 2013 X joined leading alcohol producers as part of a producers' commitments to reducing harmful drinking. Popular Indian brands under this are Blenders Pride, Imperial Blue and Royal Stag.Which conglomerate?

Pernod Ricard

Q25_______ is a pharmaceutical company in India based at New Delhi. The company has products in therapeutic areas ranging from gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, dermal, to erectile dysfunction medications. It is the 4th largest drug maker in India as per IMS-HEALTH, 2015. Also it is No.1 Company of India as per Prescription/Doctor/Month audit of IMS-Health, 2012FITB.

Mankind

Jab Mai Chotta Bachha ThaAudience Prelims

Rules Childhood pics of various celebrities shown on the slide (5 in total) +2/0 +5 bonus for all correct

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Audience Prelims Answers1. Katrina Kaif2. Diego Maradona3. Atal Bihari Vajpayee4. Yuvraj Singh5. Tom Cruise

FINALS

RULES 36 Questions, 2 audience rounds, one after 12th, other after 24th Question +20/-15 on Pounce +10/0 on Bounce

Q1At age 13 he won a "brilliancy" that became known as "The Game of the Century". Starting at age 14, X played in eight United States Championships, winning each by at least a one-point margin. At age 15, X became both the youngest grandmaster up to that time and the youngest candidate for the World Championship.In 1972, he captured the World Chess Championship from Boris Spassky of the USSR in a match held in Reykjavík, Iceland, publicized as a Cold War confrontation, which attracted more worldwide interest than any chess championship before or since.Who is X?

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Bobby Fischer

Q2X, written by Agatha Christie, opened in the West End of London in 1952, and has been running continuously since then. It has by far the longest initial run of any play in history, with its 25,000th performance taking place on 18 November 2012.  The play is known for its twist ending, which the audience are traditionally asked not to reveal after leaving the theatre.In 1960, the Bengali author Premendra Mitra directed a film Chupi Chupi Aashey, based on the radio play and short story. This uncredited adaptation is possibly the only notable film version of XX=?

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The Mousetrap

Q3Sir Henry Morgan was a Welsh pirate, privateer and buccaneer. He made himself famous during activities in the Caribbean, primarily raiding Spanish settlements. He earned a reputation as one of the most notorious and successful privateers in history, and one of the most ruthless among those active along the Spanish Main.Why/how is he known in the world of alcohol?

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Captain Morgan Rum

Q4X is an Australian hard rock band from Sydney, New South Wales. Formed in 2000 by vocalist and guitarist Andrew Stockdale, bassist and keyboardist Chris Ross, and drummer Myles Heskett, the group currently includes Stockdale, bassist and keyboardist Ian Peres, and touring drummer Alex Carapetis. AskMen rank the band as the second top Led Zeppelin "rip-off" band.Which band am I talking about?

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Wolfmother

Q5________ is a type of curry served in a thin, pressed-steel wok. It is served in restaurants throughout the United Kingdom. The name may have come from the metal dish in which the curry is cooked, rather than from any specific ingredient or cooking technique. _______ curries are cooked quickly using vegetable oil rather than ghee, over high heat in the manner of a stir-fry, and any meat is used off the bone. This combination differs sharply from a traditional one-pot Indian curry which is simmered slowly all day._____ ___is eaten in northwestern India and Pakistan, as well as other parts of the world, such as Great Britain.FTB

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Balti Cuisine

Q6The Greek question mark Erotimatiko has Unicode entity number &#894 while ________ has Unicode entity number as &#59. So while they may look extremely similar, replacing __________ with the Erotimatiko leads to several compilation errors. FITB.

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Semicolon

Q7X is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group with distribution from one of the company's main labels, Atlantic Records. The label, founded in Gainesville, Florida, is now based in New York City.Famous active artists signed under this label are Gym Class Heroes, Nate Reuss and Twenty One Pilots.Which record label am I talking about?

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Fueled by Ramen

Q8Walking down Giridih's choked, bumpy road near the district court and government hospital, and you'll see a string of eateries named ‘X' screaming out their gimmicky appellation from large, colourful signboards: X, X No1, X, Shri X, Om X, X Badshah, Sabse Bada X. Interestingly the name, rather than putting off customers, seems to attract them - every X hotel does brisk business, spurring other hotel owners in the town to rename their own properties with the X tag.

X is a popular hindi word. Gimme X.

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Bewakoof

Q9What has been blacked out?Image on the next slide

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NicePeter and EpicLLOYD

Q10X was founded as _____________ Cricket and Foot-Ball Club on 13 December 1899 by English expatriates Alfred Edwards and Herbert Kilpin, who came from the English city of Nottingham. In honour of its English origins, the club has retained the English spelling of the city's name.X is the joint-second most successful club in their league along with their fierce city rivals. In season 1988-89, the club won its first European Cup in two decades, beating Romanian club Steaua București 4–0 in the final. X retained their title with a 1–0 win over Benfica a year later and remain the last team to win back-to-back European Cups.X is?

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AC Milan

Q11He first appeared at the September 20, 1978, San Anselmo Country Fair parade. The character appeared on television two months later, animated by Nelvana Studios for the Star Wars Holiday Special as a mysterious figure who betrays Luke Skywalker after saving him, Chewbacca, C-3PO and R2-D2 from a giant monster, only to be revealed working for Darth Vader.He stems from initial design concepts for Darth Vader, who was originally conceived as a rogue bounty hunter. While Vader became less a mercenary and more of a dark knight, the bounty hunter concept remained, and he became "an equally villainous" but "less conspicuous" character.Whom am I talking about?

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Boba Fett

Q12He has won 11 singles titles and was runner-up at the 2014 US Open, making him the first male player representing an Asian country to reach a Grand Slam singles final. He also became the first man from Asia to qualify for the ATP World Tour Finals and reached the semi-finals in 2014. He first reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 4 in March 2015.

Whom am I talking about?

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Kei Nishikori

‘Who tweeted this shit?’Audience Round 1

RULES 5 tweets You have to write who tweeted them. +10/0 for each +20 bonus for all correct

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Q13X was an Indian character actor and vaudevillian. He performed on the Mickey Mouse Club as a plate spinner and juggler.X owned an Indian restaurant, Cosmic Cup (now Cosmic Cafe) in Dallas, Texas which Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson frequented. Anderson cast X in Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and The Darjeeling Limited. He has also worked in the 2010 Bollywood movie Anjaana Anjaani, the acclaimed independent 2011 film Another Earth, and the Terminal (2004).A short documentary named KUMAR:MKE, which focused on his connection to the Milwaukee film scene, was released in 2015.He died on 10 October 2013 at his home in California, aged 94

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Kumar Pallana

Q14X is an American educator, author, businessman and speaker, primarily known as the partner of media mogul Oprah Winfrey. X and Winfrey were engaged to be married in November 1992, but later decided they would rather have a "spiritual union".He has authored several self-help books such as You Can Make It Happen Every Day (1998), Teens Can Make It Happen: Nine Steps for Success (2000), Who Are You? (2005), Diversity: Leaders Not Labels: A New Plan for the 21st Century (2006) and Identity: Your Passport to Success (2012)Give me X.

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Stedman Graham

Q15X is a neighbourhood on the West Side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It is traditionally considered to be bordered by 34th Street to the south, 59th Street to the north, Eighth Avenue to the east, and the Hudson River to the west. The area provides transport, medical, and warehouse infrastructure support to Midtown's business district. A particularly infamous tenement at 39th Street and Tenth Avenue was initially called X because the entire section was "probably the lowest and filthiest in the city." X is also the name of a reality television show that uses a progressive elimination format to narrow down a field of twelve to twenty aspiring chefs to a single winner over the course of one season.Gieve me X.

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Hell’s Kitchen

Q16S was born in Paris and began his career at the age of eight for JS Suresnes, he remained at the club for 11 years. S joined the reserve team of Boulogne in 2010.He made his professional debut in the last game of the Ligue 2 season on 18 May 2012, a 1–2 home defeat for his already relegated team to Monaco. In 2013 he joined Ligue 2 side Caen and played all 38 games in his first season as they came third in Ligue 2, earning them promotion to Ligue 1. The following season, S played 37 games as Caen remained in the top flight; his one absence was suspension through being sent off in a 0–1 home loss to Rennes on 30 August.S was scouted for Premier League club ________ by Steve Walsh, who recently joined Everton as a scout. On 3 August 2015, he joined ______ on a four-year contract, for an undisclosed fee reported to be €8 million (£5.6 million)Who is S?

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N’Golo Kante

Q17X literally meaning Foxtail Millet, is a smartphone brand, and the third largest smartphone maker in the world. The founder linked the first part of the name to the Buddhist concept that "a single grain of rice of a Buddhist is as great as a mountain," suggesting X wants to work from the little things, instead of starting by striving for perfection, while the second part of the name stands for Mobile Internet and also Mission Impossible, referring to the obstacles encountered in starting the company.Give me X.

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Xiaomi

Q18His most significant accomplishments during his reign included his military victories, his reorganization of Prussian armies, his patronage of the Arts and the Enlightenment in Prussia, and his final success against great odds in the Seven Years' War. He was the last titled King in Prussia and declared himself King of Prussia after achieving full sovereignty for all historical Prussian lands. Prussia had greatly increased its territories and became a leading military power in Europe under his rule. He was a patron of music as well as a gifted musician who played the transverse flute. He composed more than 100 sonatas for the flute as well as four symphonies. His court musicians included C. P. E. Bach, Johann Joachim Quantz, Carl Heinrich Graun and Franz Benda. A meeting with Johann Sebastian Bach in 1747 in Potsdam led to Bach's writing The Musical Offering. Name this ruler

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Frederick II the Great

Q19The term “X" first appeared in a Latin text from the southern Italy town of Gaeta in 997 AD, which states that a tenant of certain property is to give the bishop of Gaeta twelve X every Christmas Day, and another twelve every Easter Sunday.In 16th-century Naples, a galette flatbread was referred to as a X. Known as the dish for poor people, it was sold in the street and was not considered a kitchen recipe for a long time. This was later replaced by oil, tomatoes (after Europeans came into contact with the Americas) or fish.The outer edge of the X is sometimes referred to as the cornicione. Often the dough used to make X contains sugar, both to help its yeast rise and enhance browning of the cornicione.What is X?

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Pizza

Q20In Greek mythology, X is both a deity and a place in the underworld. In ancient Orphic sources and in the mystery schools, X is also the unbounded first-existing entity from which the Light and the cosmos are born. As far below Hades as the earth is below the heavens, X is the place where, souls were judged after death and where the wicked received divine punishment. The gods of Olympus triumphed over the Titans and Kronos and many of the other Titans were banished to X. What place is X?

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Tartarus

Q21 ________ is an ongoing Japanese superhero parody webcomic created by an author using the pseudonym One which began publication in early 2009. The series quickly went viral, surpassing 7.9 million hits in June 2012.A digital manga remake of the series, illustrated by Yusuke Murata, began publication on Shueisha's Young Jump Web Comics website in 2012. Viz Media has licensed the remake for English serialization in its Weekly Shonen Jump digital magazine._______ first season aired in Japan between October 5, 2015 and December 21, 2015 on TV Tokyo, airing at later dates on TVO, TVQ, KBS, BS Japan, and AT-X and ran for 12 episodes.

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One Punch Man

Q22In Norse mythology, S is a goddess associated with earth. In both the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda, S is the wife of the thunder god Thor and is known for her golden hair.In the Prose Edda, S is named as the mother of the goddess Þrúðr by Thor and of Ullr with a father whose name is not recorded. The Prose Edda also recounts that S once had her hair shorn by Loki, and that Thor forced Loki to have a golden headpiece made for S, resulting in not only S's golden tresses but also five other objects for other gods.

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Sif

Q23_____ is referenced in the Smallville television show. In the episode "Justice", Green Arrow and the team (Aquaman, Cyborg and Impulse) proposition Clark Kent to come with them to help break up one of Lex Luthor's operations targeting people with superhuman abilities, stating: "Gentlemen, our first target is a large facility on the island of _____. You guys know the drill, wheels up in thirty-five minutes".In the TV series Arrow, in the episode "Lone Gunmen", Oliver Queen mentions that the mercenary Deadshot operated in _______. In the TV series "Supergirl", in the first episode of the second season, Alex Danvers mentions that the "international assassin for hire" John Corben was linked to "genocide ____".Which fictional place am I talking about?

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Corto Maltese

Q24Voiced by Cathy Cavadini, Tara Strong and E.G. Daily in the original make, these three are made of ‘sugar, spice and everything nice’, and the additional addition of ‘Chemical X’ by their ‘creator’ inside the series, named after them. The series got a reboot on April 4, 2016, in the United States, along with Latin America and Brazil with the same day, and April 25, 2016 in the United Kingdom.The series was created by Craig McCracken for Cartoon Network. Name this triumvirate.

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Powerpuff Girls

Let’s Football (or Basketball)Audience Round 2

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Q25This check post accounts for more than half of the $4-billion (nearly double the trade volume with Pakistan) trade with Bangladesh. This is the largest land port of Asia. The landport alone accounts for nearly 60 per cent of the bilateral trade between India and Bangladesh.[3] According to study by RITES, the goods traffic is approximately 400 trucks per day both ways, while the 2006 passenger traffic was about 1,159 people per day (both incoming and outgoing). The total traffic in 2029-30 has been projected as 2,938 trucks per day and the passenger traffic by then will be 3,924 people per dayName this Landport.

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Petrapole

Q26Consisting of members Aviv Geffen, Steven Wilson, Seffy Efrati, Tomer Z and Eran Mitelman, this band started when Geffen invited Wilson to peroform in Israel in 2000. Striking a friendship with him, they started recording music together. Geffen performed backing vocals on two tracks on the In Absentia album, "The Sound of Muzak" and "Prodigal". Geffen, interested in growing a fanbase outside of Israel, approached Wilson about starting their own project, which would become this band. Originally planned as an EP for a 2001 release, it eventually evolved into a 2004 self-titled full-length recording. Wilson provided lead vocals on all but two songs, and played guitar or piano on every song except "Scars", which had instrumentation provided by Geffen's band "The Mistakes.”Name this collaborative band

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Blackfield

Q27______, a Brahmin, received an axe after undertaking terrible penance to please Shiva, who in turn taught him Kalaripayattu (the mother of all martial arts).______ is most known for ridding the world of kshatriyas twenty-one times over after the mighty king Kartavirya Arjuna, not the famous one of Mahabharata, killed his father. As per the Mahabharata, He single-handedly successfully conquered the entire world and killed crores of kshatriyas. He conducted hundreds of Ashvamedhas and gave away the entire earth he conquered as alms to sage Kashyapa.Whom am I talking about?

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Parshurama

Q28The name for the website was chosen by voting in April 2008 by readers of Coding Horror, Jeff Atwood's popular programming blog, and was created by him and Joel Spolsky.Users of this website can earn reputation points and "badges"; for example, a person is awarded 10 reputation points for receiving an "up" vote on an answer given to a question, and can receive badges for their valued contributions, which represents a kind of gamification of the traditional Q&A site or forum. All user-generated content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribute-ShareAlike license.Which website am I talking about?

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Stack Overflow

Q29X is an autonomous region of Italy. It’s capital is Palermo.X frequently changed hands after the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, and it was ruled during the early Middle Ages by the Vandals, Ostrogoths, Byzantine Empire. The Norman conquest of southern Italy led to the creation of the Kingdom of X, which was subsequently ruled by the Hohenstaufen, the Capetian House of Anjou, Spain, the House of Habsburg, and then finally unified under the House of Bourbon with the Kingdom of Naples. The flag is shown below:

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Sicily

Q30The fact that X is in central Texas’ Bell County is a funny coincidence. The county was named for Governor Peter Bell, and the town for resident and businessman Zulis Bell and his nephew Bert (no relation to the governor).The Bells ran a general store and hired a local painter named C.C. Hoover to make a sign for their business. Hoover supposedly illustrated the sign with two bells inscribed with the Bells’ names, and then wrote “X” coming out the bottom of the bells. As a rural community grew around the area, the words stuck as a name for the place.Name the city

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Ding Dong

Q31X is a Dutch global semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The company employs approximately 45,000 people in more than 35 countries, including 11,200 engineers in 23 countries. X reported revenue of $6.1 billion in 2015, including one month of revenue contribution from recently merged Freescale Semiconductor.On October 27, 2016, it was announced that Qualcomm will buy X.Name X.

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NXP Semiconductors

Q32X made his Test match debut in 1969, and in his second Test he scored 274 against England, still the fourth ever highest score by a Pakistani batsman. This was the first of four Test double-centuries that X made; only ten men have scored more. The last was an innings of 215 against India in 1983, the first of three centuries in consecutive Tests, and his hundredth first-class century; X and Geoffrey Boycott are the only two batsmen to have scored their hundredth first-class century in a Test match. Whom am I talking about?

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Zaheer Abbas

Q33Born Apeksha, she is an Indian singer. Raised in Jamshedpur, she moved to Mumbai at the age of 13 and completed Master's in Applied Statistics from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, before working as a jingle singer for three years. During her college days, Mithoon offered her to record the song "Tose Naina" from Anwar (2007), making her Bollywood career debut.She rose to widespread prominence with the release of "Khuda Jaane" from Bachna Ae Haseeno (2008). She was nominated for the Best Female Playback Singer award for the song, in 54th Filmfare Awards. The following year, she collaborated with Ilaiyaraaja for Paa (2009), where she performed the song "Mudi Mudi Ittefaq Se" for which she received another nomination in the same category during 55th Filmfare Awards ceremony.Whom am I talking about?

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Shilpa Rao

Q34Amongst the various distinctions this movie holds, it featured Johnny Walker's last role. In end credit scenes, Shruti Hassan appears as a child artist. Music director Vishal Bhardwaj teaches her and other children how to sing the title song.It is also believed to be an adoption of Mrs. Doubtfire. Which Indian movie am I talking about?

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Chachi 420

Q35Three inscriptions on Jaina tirthankara images were discovered from Durjanpur near Vidisha, which mention him as the Maharajadhiraja. A large number of his copper coins also have been discovered from Eran-Vidisha region. This proves that contrary to popular belief, he was the immediate successor to Samudragupta, and not Chandragupta Vikramaditya. Name this forgotten Gupta ruler.

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Ramagupta

Q36 His poetry exuded veer rasa, and he has been hailed as a Rashtrakavi ("National poet") on account of his inspiring patriotic compositions. He was a regular poet of Hindi Kavi sammelan on those days and is hailed to be as popular and connected to poetry lovers for Hindi speakers as Pushkin for Russians. He was elected three times to the Rajya Sabha, and he was the member of this house from 3 April 1952 to 26 January 1964 , and was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1959. He was also the Vice-Chancellor of Bhagalpur University in the early 1960s.Which great poet am I talking about?

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Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’