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A scandal in the grey cells.

15 Q’s.Other rules as spoken

Q.1.

•Manimajra is a small town in Chandigarh,India. The town also has an old fort which is undergoing restoration construction. •At around 11am on the morning of February 25th 2013, a chai shop owner in Manimajra, started distributing free chai and samosa to everyone, while many shops had hoardings written in Urdu while burqa-clad women and men in skull-caps were teeming in the area. Why?

Sherlock says us the Answer is-

Ans.1

That area in Chandigarh had been converted to the Abottabad bazaar in the movie Zero Dark Thirty. As a result, various stall owners had made huge profits. The celebration was a result of ZDT winning an oscar.

Q.2. It is a swimming pool and hotel complex located in Porte Molitor.

The pool is known for its Art Deco designs and the popular introduction of the bikini by Louis Réard on 5 July 1946.(A)

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucke is the only complete novel written by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaling ship called the Grampus. Various adventures and misadventures befall Pym, including shipwreck, mutiny, and cannibalism, before he is saved by the crew of the Jane Guy.(B)

How would you connect them?

A B

Ans.2. The Connection is Inspiration For characters of Life of Pi.

The First picture(A) is called “piscine Molitor in French,after which Yann Martel named the protagonist in his novel, “Piscine molitor"Pi" Patel.

The second Picture (B),is a cover of the book The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucke , in which there is also a tiger who goes on abroad a ship with his masters.

Q.3.

The guy on the left, Nikita Khrushchev made a telephone call on august 1,1961 and suggested something to Walter Ulbricht .

What happened as a result?

Formation of Berlin Wall.

The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin.On 15 June 1961, Walter Ulbricht stated in an international press conference, "Niemand hat die Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten!" (No one has the intention of erecting a wall!). It was the first time the colloquial term Mauer (wall) had been used in this context.The record of a telephone call between Nikita Khrushchev and Ulbricht on 1 August in the same year, suggests that it was from Khrushchev that the initiative for the construction of the wall came.

Q.4.

Bhagwanji, also known as Gumnami Baba, was a mysterious Indian monk who in 1985 lived at Ram Bhawan in Faizabad, near Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh. Till date, his real identity and activities remain obscure. A great number of people percieve that he some else, living incognito. Some people believe that Bhagwanji died on 16 September 1985, while some dispute this.There had been at least four known occasions when Bhagwanji reportedly claimed he was the person people percieved him to be. Handwriting analysis expert and former Additional Director of the National Institute of Criminology and Forensic Science, Dr B. Lal deposed before the Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry that probed into the disappearance of _____, that the handwritings of Bhagwanji and ______ did match.However, the commission did not accept the claim that Bhagwanji was _____, for want of any clinching evidence. At the same time, the commission also rejected the official view of the Indian government that ______ died . In light of the commission's rulings, the obscurity left behind by Bhagwanji makes enough reason for a debate even today.

Who is Gumnami Baba believed to be?

Subhas Chandra Bose.

Q.5.

Hermann _____ (February 19, 1834 – January 18, 1908) was a Dutch ophthalmologist who introduced the ______ chart to study visual acuity (1862). Since its inception, more copies of the ________Chart have been sold in the United States than any other poster. It has remained a ubiquitous standard in medical offices into the 21st century.

FITB or what is his most famous contribution in the medical world?

Snellen’s Chart.

Q.6.

Edward Donne Bill FairbanksJason Walters Jack MasonAidan FlemmingsStuart Thomas Major Jack Giddings_______ Bill TimothyPeter Smith Briony ThorneCederic Sam JohnstonRaoul Silva

FITB and Missing Link?

James Bond 00 agents.

Q.7.

Darbar ritual is the name given to the bi-annual exercise, which was started during dogra rule in 1872 by maharaja ranbir singh.

It continues to be debatable one as economic and political commentators dub it as ‘burden on state’s exchequer’.

While some believe that trend was unavoidable, others believe that this practice has been one of the reasons that made state’s exchequer to grapple with resources.

What happens during the ritual ?

Ans.7

Shifting of capitals of jammu and kashmir from srinagar in summer to jammu in winter.

Q.8.Osborn Street (centre right), George Yard (centre left),Hanbury Street (top), Buck's Row (far right), Berner Street (bottom right), Mitre Square (bottom left), and Dorset Street (middle left).

Ans.8

These are the locations of murders commited by Jack The Ripper.

What appear to be true is that between Aug. 31, 1888, and Nov. 9, 1888, five women -- Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly -- were stabbed to death within one-fourth of a mile from each other in the Whitechapel neighborhood of London.Past attempts to identify the man who supposedly terrorized London in the late 19th century have implicated artist Vincent Van Gogh, Alice in Wonderland author Lewis Carroll and even relatives of Queen Victoria.

Q.9.

Gerard Adriaan ________ was the founder of ______. In 1864 he decided to purchase the 'Den Hoyberg.' Here he started to make the first ________’s. He was independentist.Soon,Gerard Adriaan ____'s emphasis on quality was rewarded with _________winning important international prizes. Four of them are still mentioned in the ________ today.They are-

Medaille d'Or (English: Gold Medal) in Paris in 1875Diplome d'Honneurs (English: Honorary Diploma) at the International Colonial Exposition in Amsterdam in 1883Grand Prix (English: Grand Prize) at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889Hors Concours Membre du Jury in Paris in 1900

He was also the world's first person to find his own laboratory for quality control. He attracted a pupil of Louis Pasteur to head this laboratory. This scientist, Doctor Elion, isolated a yeast strain of superior quality, the Heineken A-yeast.At that time of Gerard Adriaan _____'s death, ______ had grown to become one of the largest and most important of its in the Netherlands.

Ans.9. Heineken.

Q.10.Rush is a 2013 biographical sports drama film . It was written by Peter Morgan, directed by Ron Howard and stars Chris Hemsworth as X and Daniel Brühl as Y. The plot is centered on the rivalry between race two race car drivers X and Y during the 1976 Formula One motor-racing season.X and Y are two highly skilled race car drivers who first develop a fierce rivalry in 1970 at a Formula Three race at the Crystal Palace circuit in England, when both their cars spin out and X eventually wins the race. X is a brash, young Englishman with a tendency to vomit before every race, while the Austrian Y is a cool, calculating technical genius who relies on precision. After a falling out with his father, Y takes a large bank loan and buys his way into the BRM Formula One team, meeting teammate Clay Regazzoni for the first time. Meanwhile, Hesketh Racing, the fledgling racing team X drives for, enters Formula One as well. Y then joins Scuderia Ferrari with Regazzoni and wins his first championship in 1975. Hesketh closes shop after failing to secure a sponsor, but X manages to land a driving position in McLaren after Emerson Fittipaldi leaves the team. During this time, X marries supermodel Suzy Miller, while Y develops a relationship with socialite Marlene Knaus.

Give me X and Y.

Ans.10X-James HuntY-Niki Lauda

Q.11.

He began his career as a small town photographer in Godhra but had to leave business after the death of his first wife and child in an outbreak of the bubonic plague. Soon after, he had the opportunity to work with the Archeological Survey of India as a draftsman. However, restless with his job and its constraints, he turned to the business of printing. He specialized in lithography and oleograph, and worked for painter Raja Ravi Varma.

While pursuing his dreams at Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay, in 1885,he acquired a variety of interests and even became adept at magic. He also experimented with a variety of special effects. His usage of mythological themes and trick photography delighted his audience. He also met the German magician Carl Hertz, one of the 40 magicians employed by the Lumiere Brothers. Neglecting his printing business, he turned a magician hoping to make a living out of fantasy under the curiously name, “Professor Khelpa”.

Who?

Dadasaheb Phalke.

Q.12Where would this ticket get you to?

Q.13.

Tat Moh, who is also sometimes known as Boddhidharma,began life as a prince in Southern India, but became a devoted Buddhist, renouncing his royal heritage to take up the simple lifestyle of a monkIn those days, it was common for Indian monks to travel to China where their Buddhist teachings were eagerly received. In the year 520 A.D. Tat Moh made just such a journey, right through India and China, finally settling at the monastery called X - which means 'little forest'. He was disappointed, however, to find the monks very weak and unable to withstand the austere ways of Buddhism - a life which often consisted of long fasts and frugal living.Tat Moh therefore retired into a cave and meditated in isolation in order to find a solution to the problem. When he emerged after nine years of hard study, he had devised a set of exercises for the monks.

What originated thus?

Shaolin Kung-Fu.

Q.14.Who are these two golfers?

Che Guevera and Fidel Castro.

Q.15.

This is song called “A Marriage Has Come to Town” from the 2004 movie Bride and Prejudice.

•Identify the Lyricist.

Farhan Akhtar.

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