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It is an explosive charge placed within one or several connected tubes. It is used by combat engineers to clear obstacles that would otherwise require them to approach directly, possibly under fire. It was first devised by Captain McClintock, of the Madras Sappers and Miners in 1912, who invented it as a means of exploding booby traps and barricades left over from the Boer and Russo-Japanese Wars. Named after the city in which it was invented, it is depicted in many Hollywood movies, including Saving Private Ryan, during the D-Day invasion scenes.

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Bangalore Torpedo

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Haggis is a savoury pudding containing sheep's heart, liver and lungs; minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, and traditionally encased in the animal's stomach and simmered. Considered the national dish of its country, it is traditionally served as a main course in ceremonies like this held to commemorate a certain poet, whose poem "Address to Haggis" is recited quite dramatically as you just saw.

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Robert Burns

In the 1950s and 1960s, whenever she attempted to turn to filmmaking, she was faced with resistance, public protests and sharp criticism. She then turned to photography and started living as the first white woman in the remote valleys of the central Sudan among the mysterious Nuba tribe with a special permission issued by the Sudanese government. She studied their way of life and published two photography books, The Last of The Nuba and The People of Kau, which became bestsellers. She was also granted Sudanese citizenship for her services to the country, becoming the first foreigner to receive a Sudanese passport.

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Leni Reifenstahl

In January 1957 the New Zealand Air Board announced that it had developed a new national emblem – a white fern and this would be placed on the central red of the roundel of the aircrafts of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, shown below. Because of remarks that this looked like a white feather, a symbol of cowardice, the colour was changed to silver, but on aircraft fuselage this looked like peeling paint. So, another symbol was suggested but even this wasn't considered appropriate by many.But the support for this won out and this continues to be the roundel in use to date. What is the symbol and why was it considered inappropriate?

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Kiwi. Flightless bird

Viswakarma's daughter Sanjana was married to Surya, the Sun God. Due to the Sun's blazing light and heat, she was unable to go near the Sun. She complained to her father about this. Viswakarma took the Sun and made him shine less so that his daughter would be able to hug the Sun. The left over Sun "dust" was collected by Viswakarma and he made three things out of it. The first one was the famous aerial vehicle Pushpaka Vimana, the second being the Trishula (Trident) of Lord Shiva. What was the third object, comprising 10 million spikes in two rows moving in opposite directions which gave it a serrated edge?

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Sudarshana Chakra

Excerpts from a rather unforgiving review of a debut novel, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker 2012:

  “ His prologue begins with the words “Bombay, which obliterated its own history by changing its name and surgically altering its face, is the hero or heroin of this story,” causing me to spend some time wondering about jackasses who act like they’ve lost a kidney every time some Anglophone name goes Indian. The prologue is a long gob-burst of words, essentially our narrator spraying commas across the page like a teenager who has discovered the existence of spermatozoa. ”

The Booker jury on the other hand admired the author's "perfumed prose from the drug dens and backstreets of India's most concentrated conurbation".

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Jeet Thayil’s Narcopolis

They are an ethnic group living mainly in the US state of Louisiana. They consist mainly of descendants of French colonists in Acadia, a New France colony now in Eastern Canada. Since their establishment in Louisiana, they have developed their own dialect and culture including folkways, music and cuisine. Identify this group whose name you're very likely to have come across in many restaurants in our country.

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Cajun

What is the hat that these three men are wearing called?

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Copolla hat

X spent seven years preparing for this sculpture of Y, studying Y’s life and work, posing models who resembled him, and ordering clothes to his measurements though ultimately, X’s aim was less to create a physical likeness of Y than to communicate an idea or spirit of the man. Several studies for the work were nudes, but X finally clothed the figure in a robe inspired by the dressing gown that Y often wore when writing. The work came under criticism when it first came but today is considered by many to be the first truly modern sculpture

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X – Rodin, Y - Balzac

According to this product’s inventor, X was well known for eating two burgers before every match, which made him a good candidate for spokesperson for this product. Endorsed with the iconic lines “It’s so good I put my name on it!” it sold over a million units, earning the endorser over a $200 million. Just name it.

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George Foreman Grill

In his 56 year old reign, he introduced reforms in his country’s constitution  and expanded its economy beyond its traditional gambling base. While gambling accounted for 95% of the nation’s revenue when he ascended the throne in 1949, it accounted for about only 3 % in the recent past. Name this monarch known to us for other reasons.

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Albert Rainier III, husband of Grace Kelly

He was an editorial cartoonist hailed as the “Father of the American Cartoon”. Among his notable works are the creation of the modern version of Santa Claus and the political symbol of the elephant for the Republican party. He also popularized the usage of Uncle Sam, Columbia(the female personification of American values) and the Democratic donkey. An English word, meaning offensive or foul is believed to be derived from his name due to the tone of his cartoons. This is wrong however, since this word in question is known to have origins from an old French word, a shortened form of villenastre, meaning infamous or spiteful.

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Thomas Nast

X was involved in a bizarre swindle devised by a mathematician friend, who, in 1728, realized that the French government had authorized a lottery in which the prize was much greater than the collective cost of the tickets. So X and the mathematician formed a syndicate and bought up as many of the tickets as they could. They ended up being very rich and X became a moneylender to the great houses of Europe, no longer having to rely on writing to earn money.

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Voltaire

Brooklyn artist Chitra Ganesh in her work Tales of Amnesia, combines characters and backgrounds from X to veer away from their traditional purpose as an education tool and reinvent them with a decidedly feminist bent. However unlike X , what we see are dark nipples, heads on ritual salvers in the hands of gentle ladies, monstrous bodies composed of fragments of the pink limbs that all heroines in X had. Describing her work, she says “X disseminate prescriptive models of nationalism, religious expression and sexuality. I’d like to create mythology that poses questions rather than clear answers.” Identify X, the basis of her work, which is sometimes criticized for depicting prejudices of mainstream Indian culture and for its stereotypical and weak depiction of women.

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Amar Chitra Katha

In 1912, art competitions were held at the Olympics and medals were awarded in the categories of architecture, literature, music, painting and sculpture for works inspired by sports-related themes. Which Frenchman, who entered his poem Ode to Sport by the pseudonym “Georges Hohrod” and “Martin Eschbach” from Germany, won the gold medal in Literature?

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Pierre de Coubertin

While serving as deputy postmaster for the British American colonies, Benjamin Franklin heard a curious complaint from the Colonial Board of Customs that it took British packets several weeks longer to reach New York from England than it took an average American merchant ship to reach Newport, Rhode Island. So Franklin spoke to experienced ship captains and worked with them and charted something for the first time and also gave it the name by which we know it today. What?

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Gulf Stream

The credits for this movie were read out and no text was shown. Which movie?

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Fahrenheit 451

The following is a sonnet composed in 1936 by David Shulman, lexicographer and

champion scrabble player. It refers to this scene in the painting Washington Crossing

the Delaware. What is special about it?

Washington Crossing the Delaware

A hard, howling, tossing water scene.Strong tide was washing hero clean.

"How cold!" Weather stings as in anger.O Silent night shows war ace danger!The cold waters swashing on in rage.Redcoats warn slow his hint engage.

When star general's action wish'd "Go!"He saw his ragged continentals row.

Ah, he stands – sailor crew went going.And so this general watches rowing.

He hastens – winter again grows cold.A wet crew gain Hessian stronghold.

George can't lose war with's hands in;He's astern – so go alight, crew, and win!

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Every line is anagram of the title