Scientistology

To commemorate whom?


and ID the following.Longitudinal section of?


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Mayur

Answers:
Darwin and HMS Beagle

Old Factory and Devil's Abode?

1.Ad for?



2.ID the following?(Hint:If you want a tag here it is :Art, Architecture, Film, Fashion.)




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Mayur

Johny Walker gets one.
Answers:
1. Axe
2. This the Prada Transformer. In simple terms it's a piece of architecture that has
four bases.The building can rotate and kept on any base.Check it out on Prada Transformer

T-Lex

Image (X)(open in a new tab to enlarge) shows a handwritten spreadsheet involved in the making of (Y).
ID (X) and (Y).
Also ID (Z) who are associated with a very popular form of (Y).

X


Z


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Johny Walker craxx
X-is the work of Alfred Butts-Scrabble inventor,the frequency of letters determined the number and value of the Scrabble tiles
Y-Scrabble
Z-Jayant and Rajat Agarwalla- creators of Scrabulous(now Lexulous)

Hi

Ingredients.
72 g haricot beans
101 eggs
108 g lard
111 cups oil
32 zucchinis
119 ml water
114 g red salmon
100 g dijon mustard
33 potatoes

Method.
Put potatoes into the mixing bowl. Put dijon mustard into the mixing bowl. Put lard into the mixing bowl. Put red salmon into the mixing bowl. Put oil into the mixing bowl. Put water into the mixing bowl. Put zucchinis into the mixing bowl. Put oil into the mixing bowl. Put lard into the mixing bowl. Put lard into the mixing bowl. Put eggs into the mixing bowl. Put haricot beans into the mixing bowl. Liquefy contents of the mixing bowl. Pour contents of the mixing bowl into the baking dish.

Serves 1.

Which programming language? What does it do?

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Mayur

Miraj Vora crax:
Answer- The Chef Programming Language, one of the many esoteric programming languages.This particular one is the "Hello World" program in Chef.

Dub and Dubber

The following image depicts a ceremony which gives a word to English meaning "honor" or "praise".Name the word.



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Mayur

Answer:"Accolade"
The main act in the ceremony of Knighting involved an "Accolade"-the tapping of the flat side of a sword on the shoulders of a candidate or an embrace about the neck.More on wiki.

woodstock and the sutras

1.
Wood from the ship (X) was utilised to make (Y) which is also called the "X desk", a symbol of friendship between England and the States.ID X and Y.
X




Y



2.
The introduction of software (A) has been viewed as a challenge to Adobe and AIR who own almost the whole of this "market."The software came in the news recently for being involved in a massive online directory associated with (B) for its zooming capabilities.ID A and B.

A


B



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Mayur-hoisted by his own retards

Johny Walker crax both:
1.The "Resolute Desk" from the Oval Office is named so as it is made from the wood of the ship HMS Resolute.
Recently, Gordon Brown presented Obama with a wooden pen holder made from the wood of HMS Gannet( anti-slave ship)- the sister ship of HMS Resolute.

2.Microsoft Silverlight is Microsoft's answer to Flash. Recently got associated with playboyarchives.com

Jaago Re

1.
Guru Shree Bharatdasji Bapu is a priest living in the middle of the Gir Forest near Banej village in the Una segment of Junagadh Lok Sabha constituency, Gujarat.What unique distinctions do the Guru and the polling station at Banej hold?

2.
ID the mascot.


3.The website is committed to keep the worst contestants of this show alive by asking everyone to vote for the person who actually deserves the least.The website was started in 2004 during the third season of this show( and its still on).Which website and which show?

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Mayur

Answers:
1.The polling station at Banej has only one registered voter- the Guru.

2.That's Hoog Lee, mascot for Kolkata Knight Riders

3.votefortheworst.com and the show is American Idol.....need something like this in India too.

Have you learnt,mama?(Episode 3)

1.The gentleman in the middle(the tallest one, with curly hair) had been in the news for some reason .Identify.

2.Brand name X was conceived when its founders were starting their first business, a record shop. They named the group X because they considered themselves Xs in the business.The logo of X was originally sketched on a paper napkin and remains largely unchanged from the original style used.Identify X.

3.Name this instrument-

4.What comes next in the following list : Manesar , Pushkar, Mount Abu , Varsoda , Silvassa, -------?

Have you learnt, mama?(Episode 2)

With mama bringing doom upon the blog with his plagiarised qs(now that visitors are pointing out his plagiarist ways),here is time for the next set of questions in our series:-

1. What connects the following places :

- Jardin de Luxembourg

- Ile des Cygnes

- Bordeaux

- Barentin,Rouen

- Saint Cyr-sur-mer,Marseilles

- Colmar

2.Location and Significance?

3.Identify both the lady and the gentleman in the background:

4.Identify the man resting on the lady's lap :

ANSWERS-

1.Replicas of Statue of liberty in France

2.Pont De L'Alma  Tunnel in France where Diana and Dodi died in a car crash

3.Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr.

4. Harvey Milk (of Milk , the oscar nominated movie fame)

Uncle ?

1.
Padma Bhushan awardee Satyanarayan Gangaram is credited with producing the following.





ID the images and how do we know Satya better?

Connect if u can

Connect the following (exhaustive list)-
















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ANSWER:- The 12 labours of hercules
bang on ,prince!

Have you learnt mama?(Episode 1)

This is the first in a series of questions aimed at teaching mama: Watch this space daily for new questions-

1.Rajkumari Hira Kunwari Sahiba, was born on October 1 ,1542 as the eldest daughter of Kachhwaha Rajput, Raja Bharmal, Raja of Amber. Her name is written in Mughal chronicles as Mariam-uz-Zamani Begum Sahiba.She even has a mosque constructed in her honour in the walled city of Lahore. How do we know her better as?

2.Which famous person is the author of the books - 'Sunny days', 'Idols', 'Runs n Ruins' and 'One Day Wonders'?

3.The structure was built between 1887 and 1889 as the entrance arch for the Exposition Universelle, a World Fair.Its was originally planned to build it in Barcelona, for the Universal Exposition of 1888, but those responsible at the Barcelona city hall thought it was a strange and expensive construction, which did not fit into the design of the city.Name the structure in question.

4.Pseudotsuga menziesii, Abies balsamea, Abies fraseri, Abies grandis, Pinus edulis, Pinus jeffreyi, Pinus sylvestris, Pinus pinea (list not exhaustive): Commonly used types of what?

ANSWERS 1.JodhaBai of Jodhaa Akbar fame
2.Sunil Gavaskar
3.Eiffel Tower
4.Christmas Trees

TrueBlue

1.
The origin of this phrase dates back to the 1930s when live football commentary depended on numbered grids( The field was divided into many grids).When the ball went out of play and it was time for the goal kick the commentator would say-" So the game's __________________".FITB.


2.
Connect


and




3.
Y started this beverage company and named it after his two sons.Also give its subcontinent cricket connection.



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Mayur

Learn mama, learn!

1. Founded by Dr.Roland Berill, an Australian barrister and Dr.Lancelot Ware, a British scientist and lawyer, the aims of this organisation are to create a non-political society free from all social distinctions (racial, religious, etc.) The name of this organisation is derived from the Latin word for 'table' which indiates that it is a round table society of equals. What are we talking about?



2.Author?



ANSWERS-
1. The Mensa
2.Aravind Adiga