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Chanderi is a town in Madhya Pradesh, whose weaving tradition is very famous. The weaving community became associated with an event held in India, by supplying something that was used in large numbers during the event, usually in groups of three. The design was by Mohammad Furqan, using a software application meant for creating weaving patterns. What event and what was supplied?

The angavastrams or scarves presented to the medal winners during the Delhi

Commonwealth Games

• Dr. Vipin Gopal is currently the Vice President, Clinical Analytics at Humana, a Fortune 500 company that markets and administers health insurance in the United States.

• What is considered as his famous contribution to Tourism in India, but the origins of which have actually been traced back to early 19th Century in Ireland?

Kerala: God’s Own Country

• He’s credited with coining the tagline “God’s Own Country” in 1993 when he created the first Web page about Kerala, on CMU website.

• But, the phrase was first used to describe Wicklow Mountains of Ireland by Edward du Bois in a book in 1805.

Id Who?

• He was born in Uganda, and his current residence is in San Francisco.

• He is owner of a bungalow worth $ 3.5 million, with a heated swimming pool and maple wood flooring in the living room.

• He owns a 6496 cc Lamborghini.

• His business card reads- Vice President, Rockledge Corporation.

Name the device?

Air Umbrella.

Id the singer……….

Hariharan

•While most sports goods get made in Jalandhar or Meerut ; one particular item has been dominated by the merchants of Uluberia; West Bengal. •This was because of the ready availability of a raw material . •The industry is now under threat because water bodies in the country side are getting filled to promote real estate. • Identify the principal raw material and the item.

Shuttle Cock, Feathers

Identify both X and Y X sent Y a greeting card on his birthday on September 21, 2011 with hand-written message stating – “The foundation of our relations is eternal and soon we shall be just ourselves.”. It got leaked out and fuelled wild speculations about an extra marital affair between X and Y. While X is a co-owner of a restaurant chain named : Polo Lounge, her husband and father-in-law owns a controversial company called Galaxy Textile Mills. Y originates from the Arabic word meaning “saint” or alternatively means “one without an equal”.

X : Hina Rabbani Khar Y : Bilawaal Bhutto

In January 2014, it was revealed that the Indian government commissioned the development of an internet surveillance project designed to analyze online messages for use by intelligence agencies. It has been jointly developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation's Research and Development Establishment (R&DE), and IdeaForge, a Mumbai-based private firm. It was featured in the hit movie 3 Idiots. What is the apt name of the network traffic analysis software, which aims to be an all-seeing system?

"Netra", apparently an acronym for Network Traffic Analysis

What connects Velcro, the number 43, Shrub , Dubya and King George?

Nicknames of George W. Bush.

Id the personality? Autobiography • ………………………... (1992). • Values, vision & verses of …………….: India's man of destiny. (2001). • India's foreign policy: New dimensions. (1977). • Assam problem: Repression no solution. (1981). Poetry • Twenty-One Poems. (2003). ISBN 978-0-670-04917-2. • Kya khoya kya paya: …………………………., vyaktitva aura kavitaem (Hindi Edition). (1999). ISBN 978-81-7028-335-5. • Meri ikyavana kavitaem. (1995). • Meri ikyavana kavitaem (Hindi Edition). (1995). • Sreshtha kabita. (1997). • Nayi Disha – an album with Jagjit Singh (1999) • Samvedna – an album with Jagjit Singh (2002)

Atal Bihari Vajpayeee

What connects the words Jambudvipa , Nabhivarsha ,Tianzhu with reference to India?

Ancient names of India

Jambudvipa Jambudvipa was used in ancient scriptures for the name of India before Bharata became the official name scriptures began using. Nabhivarsha According to the Bhagavata Purana, before India was called Bharatvarsha, it was known as Nabhivarsha after Nabhi Rajah, the son of Agnidhara (ruler of India) and father of Rishabha. Tianzhu Tianzhu (天 竺) Chinese name for ancient India, translates roughly to "heaven centre(of)" (i.e. spiritual centre); used especially during the Tang dynasty in reference to the Indian origins of Buddhism.

Recently Australian Prime Minister Tony Abott handed over to his Indian Counterpart two antique statues of Hindu Deities. The statues _____________&_____________________ were allegedly stolen from temples in Tamil Nadu and their return was sought by India in March. Be Specific Pounce if you Know Both…

Nataraja & Aradhnarishwara

This image on the left is of the "Menara Kuala Lumpur" or the "KL Tower". One of the twenty-most tallest buildings in the world, it is a telecom tower whose antenna significantly contributes to its height. A smaller replica of this tower functions as a TV tower in Delhi, and is named after the Pitampura area. This Tower (on right) featured in the news around 2010.Why?

It was the site for India's first ever BASE jump, by Lt. Col. Satyendra Verma.

For NetJets fractional ownership private jets co , _________ had appeared in an ad, as he is the largest shareholder in the co ?

Warren Buffet

Id the logo?

Mensa International Mensa is the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world. It is a non-profit organization open to people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardized, supervised IQ or other approved intelligence test.

What’s this?

Neck tie Knots

The system was based on a method of communication originally developed by Charles Barbier in response to Napoleon’s demand for a code that soldiers could use to communicate at night called night writing. Barbier’s system was too complex for soldiers to learn, and was rejected by the military. In 1821 he met a very famous person X, who identified the major failing of the code and added his modifications including the representation of characters in 6

bits. Identify the system

In early 2013, the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests issued a circular banning the use of these "government servants". The Ministry of Urban Development was trying to get it implemented in New Delhi, where these are primarily used. Who are these 'government servants'?

Buildings in New Delhi, especially government buildings, are particularly plagued by monkeys who are known to run amok. To counter them, langur monkeys have been trained to scare them away and have been used for many years. The practice has been somewhat officially sanctioned, but after protests by environmental activists, this has been put an end to.

In 1964 Paris saw a sudden increase in number of road accidents. Despite doubling the police force the number of road accidents doesn’t reduced much. What was the reason for such a sudden increase?

Recruitments of Women as Traffic inspectors was started

for the first time

Samoa Air is a small airline from Samoa that operates scheduled flights between the domestic islands as well as to American Samoa. It also provides charter flights and medical transfer flights. Recently Samoa Air gained global press coverage by becoming the first airline in the world to _______________________________. Although some regarded the decision as novel but it also faced a lot of criticism to which airline claims that it is a fair model.

Charge customers by body weight plus luggage

*wiki says The fare is calculated by multiplying a base fare (depending on the route flown) by the total weight of the passenger plus their luggage. So a passenger flying from Apia to Asau weighing 80 kg and carrying 20 kg of luggage would pay US$ 132 for the flight (100 kg x US$ 1.32 base fare), while another passenger weighing 60 kg and traveling without luggage would pay US$ 79.20 (60 kg x US$ 1.32 base fare) for the same flight.

This group of hotels promoted and managed by the Indian Tourism Development Organization considered several names for their premier chain of hotels. Finally they took a name from Indian History when Hospitality was at its best. Name the famous Hotel chain. Be Specific

The Ashoka Chain of Hotels

When Richard Brandson visited India he quoted a statement “ The Taj Mahal Hotel is a fantastic place and they(builders) found a beautiful location to build it in front of gateway”. He later had to say sorry for the statement!!!! Where did he go wrong?

Actually Taj Hotel was built much earlier than Gateway of India

Taj hotel -Opening - 16 December 1903 Gateway of India - Opening: December 4, 1924

The coffee pot was located in the corridor just outside the so-called Trojan Room within the old Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge. What is so special about this Trojan room coffee pot?

World's first webcam picture

• Deng Senshan, 15, died in less than a day after his parents sent him to the camp in southern Guangxi province, Xinhua News Agency reported.

• Deng was found vomiting and was taken to a clinic where he died. Fellow students said a teacher beat him, Xinhua reported.

• The report quoted the local government as saying several marks were found on the boy's body. It said four trainers from the Qihang Salvation Training Camp in Nanning city have been detained.

• Controversy over the methods used in these camps led the Ministry of Health to issue a notice last month banning the use of electric shock therapy at one hospital in eastern China.

• Tao Ran, director of the country's first of such treatment clinic under a military hospital in Beijing, told The Associated Press that such deaths are bound to happen because few camps employ scientific methods, with most opting for crude military-style discipline.

• Tao said 40% of these patients suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and find it difficult to obey orders at training camps.

STATE the disease from which he and many others in china as well as in whole world suffers?

Problematic Internet Use (PIU) or Compulsive Internet Use (CIU)

Internet Addiction

This is the first short film of a very renowned telugu and Bollywood director and producer. Identify……

RGV

Called the Syamantaka

Owned by:

• Rajas of Malwa,

• Kākatīya king Prātaparuḑra

• Ghiyāth al-Dīn Tughluq

• Bābur

• Shāh Jahān

• Nadir Shah

• Ahmad Shāh Durrānī

• Shujāh Shāh Durrānī

• Ranjit Singh

What am I talking about?

Koh-i-noor

The largest and most luxurious palace in the world... Consists of 1788 rooms with some furnished in gold and diamond-encrusted 257 bath inlaid with gold and silver and a garage to accommodate 110 cars The palace has 650 suites ... each furnished at not less than 150,000 thousand euros.

This guy has also a Boeing 747 worth a hundred million dollars, and then re-designed as a home at a cost of more than one hundred and twenty million dollars. Featured add-ons such as a whirlpool bath of pure gold He also has six small aircraft and two helicopters.

At the special request of him, the Rolls Royce company combined their car designs with that of Porsche. This vehicle is currently in London for use during his stay in Britain.

He has got --

531 Mercedes-Benzes 367 Ferraris 362 Bentleys 185 BMWs 177 Jaguars 160 Porsches 130 Rolls-Royces And 20 Lamborghinis

Well he is like ALLADIN…………….

Identify………

SULTAN OF BRUNEI

Identify this film in which Leander Paes made his debut in Bollywood.

RAJDHANI EXPRESS

The sixteenth edition of this sporting event was held in Guadalajara in October 2011. Like other events of a similar nature, it follows a four-year cycle. The next edition will be in Toronto, in 2015. So what multi-sport event is this?

The Pan-American Games, the equivalent of the Asian Games in the Americas. (Guadalajara is in Mexico.)

We can all recognize this famous Indian on the Google Doodle below. But Indians (like Sir Rabindrabath Tagore) had already featured on Google Doodles before this one. Why was this Google Doodle unique among the other Indo-centric doodles?

• This was the first Global Google Doodle that was Indian-Centric. Till then, all Indian-related Google Doodles were restricted to “www.google.co.in” pages. This was the first Indian Doodle to feature on the global “www.google.com” page.