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According to Hindu mythology, X is the daughter of Kadru and Kashyap. She is the mother of Y, who is the mount of a Hindu god. She is also named after a river in India. Id X & Y both.WE DEDICATE TODAY’S EFFORT TO THE

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Mahindra and Mahindra is all set for a test of a very different consumer market. It launched its first product under the brand name SABORO, which means TASTE in Paris. WHAT IS THIS PRODUCT?

A

A

PBorder Roads Organisation (BRO) has a project named Himank in Ladakh region, which looks after the maintenance and repair of the roads in this region including Khardung-La, Tanglang-La and Chang-La. The road signs used in this project are the main subjects of a comedy book of Ajay Jain. Name the book.

P

PP’s father named him after the swimming pool in France. By the time he reached secondary school, he changed his name to P (Due to problem of pronunciation of his name). P is raised Hindu and vegetarian, but at the age of 12, he introduced to Christianity and Islam and decided to follow all the religions as he just wanted to love God. Who?

P

PIE PATEL

L

Identify the actress.

L

Leela Naidu

*E

Saratchandra Chattopadhyay described in his novel Devdas that, the night Parvati left for her husband’s house, Devdas spent the whole night at a place in Calcutta. Name the place.

E

E‘E’ is a dense black hard wood and dense enough to sink in water. It is finely-textured and has a very smooth finish when polished, making it valuable as an ornamental wood. The word ‘E’ is derived from ancient Egyptian and Greek. It is traditionally used to manufacture black chess pieces, inlay, tool handles, canoes, violins and black keys for the piano. Popularly the usage of ‘E’ wand is mentioned in Harry Potter series and states that “E is unquestionably accepted as the most powerful wood when it comes to magic. The user of this wand will have limitless power as well as unprecedented protectoral qualities." Now a days ‘E’ became a very popular term in a restricted field. Identify ‘E’.

E

A__ ________! ___ ________! our fearful trip is done;The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won;The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:

But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red,

Where on the deck my _________ lies,Fallen cold and dead.

This is the first stanza of a poem written by Walt Whitman in the year 1865. What is the subject of this poem and also fill in the blanks.

A

Subject- Abraham Lincoln assassination

Blanks- ‘O captain ! My captain’

*THenry Saint Clair Fredericks (born May 17, 1942) is an American Blues musician. He often incorporates elements of world music into his works. A self-taught singer-songwriter and film composer who plays the guitar, piano, banjo and harmonica among many other instruments, he has done much to reshape the definition and scope of blues music over the course of his almost 50-year career by fusing it with nontraditional forms, including sounds from the Caribbean, Africa and the South Pacific. One day he dreamt about Gandhi, India, and social tolerance in 1959. After that he started to use a special stage name. what is his stage name? Picture on next slide.

T

E

Identify the band.

E

RIt is arguably the most popular recorded song in Odisha written by Mitrabhanu Gauntia, composed by Prabhudatta Pradhan and sung by Jitendra Haripal & Krishna Patel. The song was first recorded for All India Radio in the mid-1970s. After its popularity, Indian Record Manufacturing Company Ltd from Kolkata recorded the song in 1976. This song is also going to be released in Chinese. During the 7th World Water Forum at Daegu in South Korea. Korean dancers danced to the tune of the song. The song is also featured in Bollywood movie ‘Kaun Kitne Pani Mein’ directed by Nila Madhaba Panda. The song was remade by composer Ram Sampath featuring Sampath himself, Sona Mohapatra and Rituraj Mohanty for MTV India's Coke Studio Season 4. The song has also been used as the cheer song during an international cricket match in Barabati Stadium, Cuttack. Identify the song.

R

SWhen the publishing house Juggernaut books, came to her with the idea of writing 12 short stories, she took it up as a challenge and finished them in a span of three months. “Juggernaut came to me and proposed the idea of 12 short stories in this genre. It was a personal challenge for me to be able to do it. I took about three months to write those. The story, ‘7 E’, was the most difficult because that was the first one”, she said. She says the stories in the book X, currently available exclusively on the Juggernaut app, are fictional and have “nothing that is derived from” her life. Who is the writer? Also name the book X.

S

AIn Hinduism and Sikhism, this word pair is used as a synonym for creator and to describe the characteristic of God and self, known as the spirit. The first word means “sightless” and the last word means “spotless”. The last word is also another name of Lord Shiva. The name was adopted in Indian films as well. What is the holy word pair?

A

*QQ is a book written by conservationist and travel writer Mark Shand and the corresponding BBC documentary Q, based on the life of the first female mahout in recent times Parbati Barua of Kaziranga. The book went onto win the Prix Litteraire d’Amis award. Name the book.

Q

U

Identify the movie.

U

I

Fill in the blanks.Clue? Enough in the picture.

I

Italy’s goalkeeping

ZThere is a jungle in China, where one can find top class automobiles of the world, like Land Rover, Bentley, Mercedes etc. But one will feel terrible seeing the condition of the cars. It is like a graveyard. In China, if a person finds no interest to his vehicle or if it is not working properly, they go to that jungle and leave them there. People assume that there are vehicles which worth in millions. There are atleast 200 cars. In which popular name people of China call the vehicles which they leave in the jungle?

Z

Zombie cars

*C

Name the episode of the Loony Tunes and from which movie it is parodied from?

C

**O

Identify the voice.

O

Omkarnath Thakur

M

This is an illustration from the text ‘Kalpasutra’ by Bhadrabahu. What is depicted in this picture?

M

Mahavir’s Birth

MPhanindra Bikash Roychowdhury was a freedom fighter in his early life. His birth centenary is being observed in this year. He was the founder father of a small business house in Kolkata in 1945, which we all know very well today. The adline of the company is “Karone, Okarone” or “for every rhyme and reason” and has branches in West Bengal, Assam, Tripura, Delhi, Rajasthan and Haryana. Identify the company.

M

U‘U’, also known as Ayers Rock, is a large sandstone rock formation in the southern part of the Northern Territory in central Australia. It lies aerially 335 km south west of the nearest large town, Alice Springs, 450 km by road. Kata Tjuta and U are the two major features of the U-Kata Tjuta National Park. U is sacred to the Anangu, the Aboriginal people of the area. The area around the formation is home to an abundance of springs, waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. U is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. What is U?

U

Uluru

N

Identify the movie.

N

I‘I’ is a 2011 Hindi film produced by Smile Foundation and directed by Nila Madhab Panda. The film sets X as the role model, at the same time it never delves deep into his life history or goes to give him a documentary-length tribute. X's reference is only used to the extent that it can serve as an apt motivation for Chotu. The film merely mentions how X faced difficulties as a child yet went on to become the most important person in the country. Also, the noble choice of the inspiration sets the film a class apart from other juvenile attempts like ‘Nanhe Jaisalmer’ which had a similar theme and setting. X also made a cameo appearance at the end of the film. Identify the film.

I

T‘T’ is a 1990 Academy Award winning novel by Debesh Roy. A 2000 drama by Suman Mukhopadhyay is based on this novel and also shares the name. Stage design was done by Hiran Mitra and music was of Debojyoti Misra. Life of the people living on the banks of a river is depicted in the drama. Name the drama.

T

*YAccording to wikipedia the 2nd half of this movie was inspired by a 1958 film by Bimal Roy (for which Rinki Bhattachariya threatened to take legal step). 2000 prints (including digital) of this movie were released across the world which created a record, breaking all other contemporary and previous Indian movies. We can see V. Manikandan directing a movie named ______ __ in this movie . A dialogue from this movie had become so popular that Fox Star Studio in 2009 produced a movie in the direction of Sasanka Ghosh on the basis of this dialogue casting famous character artists like Clint Eastwood. Identify the dialogue.

Y

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