VARIED ROUNDS

SHLOKA SACHDEV

ENTERTAINMENT

• This was a popular Indian cultural  magazine  show  hosted by Renuka Shahane and Siddharth Kak, which ran from 1993 to 2001. It was telecast on Doordarshan and later moved to Star Plus on Sunday mornings. One of the reasons of the show's popularity was the weekly quiz open for viewer participation. At that time mobile phones and Internet were not so prevalent in India and viewers would post their responses using the 15 paise postcard of India post. According to the Limca Book of Records the show once received the highest ever documented response in the history of Indian television - over 1.4 million letters in a single week. The Indian postal department was forced to issue a different category of postcards called  "Competition  Postcards"  priced at 2 Rupees each for participating in such contests. Which show?

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Connect

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• Interestingly no strict geographical criterion is imposed in selecting the list, which currently has 38 members. Although there is no agreed definition, the contract for those not part of this list indicates that one of the criteria for being in this list is that members have atleast 500  seats  (some with 499 seats have been grandfathered in, provided they don’t fall below 499). What list?

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Minimalistic poster of

which movie?

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BANGALORE QUIZ

Identify

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• During the World War One, large reserves of a particular commodity accumulated in Karnataka because the could not be exported to Europe. On the advice of Sir M Vishveshwarya, Krishnaraja Wodeyar, the Maharaja of Mysore established a factory in 1916 to manufacture what brand of products? (Hint: A popular Indian Sports personality won a 5 yr long legal battle against this company earlier this year)

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• X is a very popular restaurant and hangout which is a meeting point for journalists, artists, theatre persons, students and foreigners. Known for a British snack, it’s an institution that has a reputation for serving the city’s intelligentsia. Founded in 1940, it retains an old-world charm with huge pillars and large fans. It is said that Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Nikita Khrushchev, Queen Elizabeth II are some of the dignitaries to have dined there. It has also won MTV's award for the Most Stylish Place in Bangalore. Id X.

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Connect

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FOOD & BEVERAGE

• According to the puranas, it was first prepared by the Ashvins, the devas of Ayurvedic medicine. It is named after the rishi for whom the medicine was made. The formula for it was first seen in the Charaka Samhita. What am I talking about?

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• Due to its never-ending experimentation with odd ice cream flavors, what does Ben & Jerry’s do with flavours that seem too odd for their own good?

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• X was first set up in Peshawar in undivided India in 1920 by a Hindu Punjabi Kundan Lal Gujral. Gujral moved to Delhi following the partition of India in 1947 and opened a restaurant in Delhi. According to Gujral, he invented the signature dishes of Indian restaurants, tandoori chicken and butter chicken.

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• This cocktail was allegedly named in the 1950s for oil riggers stationed in the Middle East who used their hardware tools to stir their drinks.

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Screwdriver

SPORTS

Identify

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• K. S. Ranjitsinhji was an Indian prince and Test cricketer who played for the English cricket team. The first-class cricket tournament in India, the Ranji Trophy, was named in his honour.

• It uses technology developed in the military for tank and jet fighter tracking. The technology was founded by French scientist Nicholas Bion, before being worked upon by many companies in Paris and being bought and adopted by the Australian Nine Network. The technology was adapted for television by BBG Sports, in conjunction with Sky Sports. What is it?

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• Hot Spot

Identify the sport

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This is a picture of the English Cricket team back in 1900. Why is this picture have a

special significance?

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• The Great Britain cricket team who won gold at the 1900 Olympic games in Paris. This match was played between France and Great Britain. The first and the last time Cricket was an Olympic Sport. Hence, this was the only cricket team in history to have an Olympic Medal.

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• A tropical paradise in the truest sense of the word is. X is an island nation in the Indian Ocean consisting of a double chain of twenty-six atolls. X is over 99 percent sea with less than one percent land. The emblem of this nation is below.

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• The national flag of which country includes the image of an AK-47 with a bayonet attached to the barrel and is the only national flag in the world to feature a modern rifle? The capital of this nation is Maputo, and roughly 45,000 people of Indian descent reside here.

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Mozambique

• The First volume of the book subtitled Cosmographic Meditations on the Creation of the World and the Image of Creation by Gerard de Cramer of Flanders appeared in 1585. What was the single word title of this series which was the first to be given such a name?

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Atlas