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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

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Event?

Golden Raspberry award for worst acting in 2011.

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Held twice, each year on July 2 and August 16, this traditional European horse race gives its name to a popular car model. What?

Palio.

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In 2009, he named one after Aishwarya Rai, in 2010, one was named after Sachin Tendulkar and he is presently working on one, which he plans to name after Lata Mangeshkar. Who? What?




Kaimullah Khan, horticulturist and breeds of Hybrid mangoes.

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What is the common reason of:
The immense power of Indra’s weapon, the Vajra.
The invincibility of Shakuni in the infamous Mahabharata gamble.

Sage Dadhichi's bones.

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This actor, playwright and political theatre activist was assassinated in full public glare in 1989 and was the subject of this 2008 movie. Who?

Safdar Hashmi.

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One word connect!

GANPAT, a song in SAL, middle name of Kambli and the nickname used for soldiers of Maratha Light Infantry.

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Which popular ladies clothing takes its name from the island shown?

CAPRI, named after Capri islands near Italy.

Monday, March 26, 2012

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A town, in present day Haryana, said to have been founded by the Kauravas, for the king Karna, and named after Karna, flashed into news in February 2003 (as someone’s birthplace) and the tragic reason for this news is connected to the first company to manufacture Ethernet switches. Name the town and the connect.

KARNAL was in news as a birthplace of KALPANA Chawla, after the Columbia space shuttle disaster and the 1st company to manufacture Ethernet switches was ‘KALPANA’ based in Silicon Valley.

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Named after English Mathematician Oliver Heaviside, this function is one of the most basic and widely used function in Control System design and Signal processing.
In the time domain, it is the integral of the Dirac delta function.
Its Laplace transform is the exact reciprocal of the Laplace operator. What?

Unit step function.

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What is the connect?

The illusive Higg's Boson is the subject of the Large Hadron Collider. The Boson is a tribute to Satyandranath Bose and the Higg's Boson is named as a tribute to Dr. Peter Higg.

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1 is the first person to be awarded Nobel prize in two different fields (Chemistry and Peace). 2, is one of the most important Indian scientists of the 20th century, and taking a cue from the works of 1, has major contribution to the analysis of Peptide Polymers. Identify 1&2?

Linus Pauling and G. N. Ramachandran.

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These fundamental constituents of matter come in Six ‘flavours’ : Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, and Bottom. What?

Quarks.