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2 kids made a cardboard representation of _________ because their parents
wouldn't buy it for them.

What product am i talking about?

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Nintendo Switch
2
Genentech Inc. is this world’s first biotechnology company
founded in 1976 by a venture capitalist Robert Swanson and
biochemist Herbert Boyer. What was its ticker symbol on the
NYSE?
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DNA
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This common word originates from the fact that ancient Greek poetry was usually
recited with the music of the lyre.

What’s the good word?

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Lyrics
4
The basketball is covered by the material which is said to be the darkest in the
World absorbing 99.655% of the visible spectrum.

What material?
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Vantablack
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Members of this species of fish have snouts to suck up food and a coronet on
their heads that is distinct for each member. They are unique in the animal world
because it is the male that becomes pregnant and gives birth to live young adults
which are almost fully developed.

ID the species
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Seahorse
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The phrase _________ commonly found on the back of trucks has been banned in
Maharashtra. The reason being that “it encourages people to honk every time you
pass a truck or a tempo. It send a wrong message to people”. If this phrase is
present on the truck, then the fitness certificate is not awarded and a fine of
Rs100 is also levied.

What phrase?
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Horn OK Please
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Bookshop turns classics into X to get people reading.

X is defined as content whose main purpose is to attract attention and encourage

visitors to click on a link to a particular web page.
Jungle Book by

Rudyard Kipling
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Clickbait
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It is the only entity of its type to get a patent. It is made in a guarded room called
‘Potu’. It has been distributed for 300+ years. The list of per day consumption of
ingredients to make this are

● 10 tonnes of Gram Flour

● 10 tonnes of sugar
● 150 kg of cardamom
● 300-500 L of ghee
● 500 kg of sugar candy
● 540 kg of raisins
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Tirupathi Ladoo
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● Gambler and other low lives
● City guard or policeman
● Innkeeper
● Merchant/ Moneychanger
● Doctor
● Weaver/Clerk
● Blacksmith
● Worker/Farmer

Where in the world of sports would you find the above mentioned practitioners in
that order from left to right.
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Pawns in CHESS
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Steve Wilhite, who is accepting a lifetime achievement award at The Webby
Awards, told the NY Times how annoyed he was at the debate over the
pronunciation of X:

“The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations. They are wrong. It is
a soft ‘G,’ pronounced _____. End of story.”

What is X?
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GIF
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This man spent 10 years trying to reinvent Mathematics starting at the most
basic. It took him over 360 pages to prove something which we use almost
everyday and even a kid from nursery could tell the ‘ proposition’ he was trying to
prove. His work is considered to be one of the most important and seminal works
in logic since Aristotle’s ‘Organon’.

What was he trying to prove?

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Bertrand Russell was trying to prove that 1+1=2
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Where would we have seen this photo innumerable times?
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Indian rupee note
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This are some features in a coding language based on X

● No floating point numbers, only integers. America never does anything

halfway.
● All numbers must be strictly greater than 1 million. The small stuff is
inconsequential to us.
● There are no import statements allowed. All code has to be home-grown and
American made.
● The language is completely case insensitive.
● Instead of True and False, we have fact and lie

ID X.
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The Ignobel Prize of 2016 for Chemistry was awarded to ________ for solving the
problem of excessive automobile pollution emissions by automatically,
electromechanically producing fewer emissions whenever the cars are being
tested.

Fill in the blanks.

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Volkswagen
15.
This poster is based on a recent

Discovery by NASA.

What discovery is it depicting?

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Discovery of the 7 earth like planets
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This is the statue depicting a fearless girl was erected in wall street as part of
International Women’s Day to encourage the wall street companies to hire more
women as part of its workforce. It stands opposite an even more famous statue
depicting the competitive nature of Wall Street.

What is the statue?

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Charging Bull
17. Video Question
What is being represented in the video?
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Amazon go
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________ claims former Google employee Anthony Levandowski downloaded
14,000 technical files from a company server, then used the information to launch
the autonomous truck startup Otto. Uber acquired Otto a few months later and
tapped Levandowski to lead its robo-car program.

This is the reason of a lawsuit between ______and Uber regarding intellectual

property.

Which company?
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Waymo
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National Depository Centres of India are institutions that receive a copy of every
book, newspaper and periodical published in the country. There are 4 such
centres:

National Library of India:Calcutta

Asitic Society of Bombay

Delhi Public Library

What’s the fourth one?

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Connemera Public Library-chennai
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Members of the genus malus are known to reduce the risk of colon, prostrate and
lung cancer. They contain ursolic acid which increases skeletal muscles and
brown fat,and decreases white fat, obesity, glucose intolerance and fatty liver
disease. A rich source of dietary fibre and Vitmanic C, they can prevent oxidative
damage by increasing production of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine.

Tribute was paid to these facts by the folks of Pembrokeshire, and this appeared
in print for the first time in Feb 1866 edition of Notes and Queries Magazine. What
is this famous saying?
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An Apple a Day keeps the Doctor Away
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The works of Michelangelo, Rubens, Durer,etc of Adam and Eve are highlighted a
particular aspect of their creation, one that has been the cause of great
theological debate for centuries. Those in favour cite connections to God, the
process of creation of Eve itself and the exile from the Garden of Eden as reasons.
However the church was against this view, prompting many painters to use extra
foliage and long hair in their depictions.

What is this issue that challenges the very foundations of Christianity

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Depiction of Adam and Eve with Belly Button
22.
This tweet was accompanied by a photograph where Djokovic demonstrated the
extreme heat levels at the tournament. What did he do?
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In the wizard of Oz, Scarecrow is one of the characters who join Dorothy in her
quest. He asks the wizard for a brain but the wizard gives him a diploma instead.

By virtue of his newly attained intelligence, the scarecrow tries to recite something
postulated by a philosopher in 6th century BC, but gets it slightly wrong.

What does he recite?

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Pythagoras Theorem
He says “ The sum of the square roots of two sides of an isosceles triangle is
equal to the sum of the square root of the remaining side”
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Elon Musk recently started a new startup to merge human brains with computers.

The startup plans to implant tiny electrodes within the brain to one day upload and
download thoughts.

What’s the name of this company?

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Neuralink
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April Fools Special
1.
In 1980 the BBC reported that Big Ben, in order to keep up with the times, was
going to be modified. The announcement shocked listeners, who protested the
change. The BBC Japanese service also announced the clock hands would be
sold to the first four listeners to contact them. One Japanese seaman in the
mid-Atlantic immediately radioed in a bid.

What reported modification?

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To digitalise BIG BEN
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An article by sports writer Bob Peel in the Syracuse Post-Standard warned anglers
to stay at least three feet away from the banks of streams and to absolutely NOT
go in the water. An "accidental mix-up" at the hatchery had led to several dozen
man-eating _______ being released along with the thousands of trout set free in
preparation for trout-fishing season. The _______, the article warned, could
"completely devour an ox in less than five minutes." Even the fountain outside the
downtown Courthouse was potentially not safe because it had been stocked with
a few fish.
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Piranhas
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Google announced that X will become the default font for all Google products.
Google also created a Google Chrome extension which changes the font to X on
all webpages.

What is the font which was also used to during the presentation of the discovery
of the Higgs Boson particle.
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Comic Sans
4.
X ran ads in British papers announcing that "in accordance with EEC Council
Regulation (EC) 631/95" they would no longer be producing mints with holes. This
regulation supposedly required that all producers of "tubular foodstuffs" delete the
holes from their products. To satisfy the regulation, all the existing stock of X
would be supplemented with a "EURO-CONVERSION KIT" containing twenty 7mm
"Hole Fillers" to be placed inside each X. A "detailed instruction leaflet" would also
be included.

ID X
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Polo
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The X Corporation took out a full-page ad that appeared in six major newspapers
announcing it had bought the Liberty Bell and was renaming it the X Liberty Bell.
Hundreds of outraged citizens called the National Historic Park in Philadelphia
where the bell was housed to express their anger. Their nerves were only calmed
when X revealed, a few hours later, that it was all a practical joke.

ID X.
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Taco Bell
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The BBC announced that camera crews filming near the Antarctic for its natural
history series Miracles of Evolution had captured footage of X taking to the air. It
even offered a video clip of these flying X, which quickly became one of the most
viewed videos on the internet. Presenter Terry Jones explained that, instead of
huddling together to endure the Antarctic winter, these X took to the air and flew
thousands of miles to the rainforests of South America where they "spend the
winter basking in the tropical sun."

Which bird?
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Penguins
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