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1.

What is the Chinese word for ‘Don’t speak’?

2

PA Sangma is not the first person from Meghalaya to contest the Presidential elections. In 1992, a Meghalaya politician and a former deputy speaker of Lok Sabha was the joint opposition candidate to Shankar Dayal Sharma. Name him?

3.

Which country located in South America literally means ‘Land of many waters’ in the native language of that country?

4

What is called as ‘clothing closure’ by its inventor?

5 He was given his name because of an unfortunate

incident. Before he was born, his parents had three sons and a daughter, with all three boys dying in their infancy. Fearing a curse that targeted male children, young Ramachandra was brought up as a girl for the first few years of his life, including having his nose pierced and being made to wear a nose-ring . It was then that he earned the nickname literally "Ram with a nose-ring". After his younger brother was born, they switched to treating him as a boy. Who is he?

6This disease was named after an

Austrian pediatrician. Hans Lorna wing popularized this term in the English speaking medical community in her 1981 publication of a series of case studies of children showing similar symptoms. What?

7

As in a Pen drive, What is a lanyard?

8 I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of

a good Family, tho' not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull; He got a good Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, whose Relations were named …………….., a very good Family in that Country, and from whom I was called …………………. Kreutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in England, we are now called, nay we call our selves, and write our Name_____, and so my Companions always call'd me.” Which famous novel starts thus ?

9. Dedicated to whom?

10

Which music band is named after a flea market in Orlando, Florida?

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