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TV Series
1. The coffee shop in the popular TV series Friends has inspired a real life coffee chain with outlets across Asia, America, Australia, Africa and Europe. Name the coffee shop.

2. Kelly Clarkson was the first and Ruben Studdard was the second what?

3. Which series is called Gran Hermano in Argentina and Spain, Loft Story in Canada and HaAh HaGadol in Israel. What is it called in India?

4. Desperate Housewives is set in a quiet neighbourhood of Wisteria Lane in a fictional town in the Eagle State. Name the town.

5. Michael Scofield deliberately gets into a jail to rescue his brother who has framed plot of which fast paced TV series?

6. Sarah Michelle Gellar played the eponymous role in all the 144 episodes of which TV series?7. How did the TV serial drama West Wing gets its name?

8. Which television character is a palaeontologist at the New York Museum of Prehistoric History?

9. ‘No soup for you’, ‘Not that there’s anything wrong with that’, ‘Master of your domain’ are all popular catch phrases coined and first heard on a popular American TV series. Which one?

10. Candace Bushnell has authored several novels including Lipstick Jungle, Four Blondes, Trading Up. Name her most famous book which has been turned into an even more famous TV series.
Anything Goes
1. After the death of Jesse Owens in 1980, a city named a street in his honour. Which city?

2. Which late world figure’s ancestral home was Althorp house in Northamptonshire?

3. Martial art legend and actor Bruce Lee had died during shooting of a movie. Which movie?

4. Which trading house was started in 1894 as a joint venture between Tata Sons and Volkart Brothers?

5. The umpires offer “this” to the batsmen at the crease which when accepted, the play for the day comes to a close. What is “this”?

6. Galapagos Islands known for its unique wildlife is part of which country?

7. He was the captain of Johan Cruyff’s dream team that won Barcelona’s first European Cup in 1992. He was the captain of the Spanish football team that won the gold medal in the Barcelona Olympics in the same year. In 2009, he has spellbound the football pundits by his magic touch. Can you name him?

8. What is Yellow Cake?
ANSWERS

TV Series
1. Central Perk. The base line of the Coffee Chain is ‘Where friends meet’
2. American Idol
3. Big Boss. All versions of Big Brother
4. Fairview
5. Prison Break
6. She played the role of Buffy Summers in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer
7. West Wing is set in West Wing of the White House, which house the Oval office and offices of other senior presidential staff. West Wing TV series captures the life and times of fictional US President Josiah Bartlet
8. Ross Geller of Friends
9. Seinfeld
10. Sex and the city
Anything Goes
1. Berlin
2. Diana, Princess of Wales
3. King of Death
4. Voltas
5. Light
6. Ecuador
7. Pep Guardiola, the current manager of FC Barcelona8. Uranium Oxide

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Q. Identify this assamese person.

Q1: What is Australian woman cricketer Belinda Clarke’s record in ODI ?
Ans: One & only player to score a double hundred in ODI.
Q2:When Sahid Afridi broke the record of Sanath Jayasurya of the fastest
century in ODI , who delivered the 37th record making ball?
Ans: Sanath Jayasurya himself.
Q3:In the world of Hockey ,who are known as “ Charlie’s Angels”?
Ans:The Australian woman’s Hockey team coached by Rick Chalesworth.
Q4: Which grand Slam tennis winner was nicknamed “ Little Mo”?
Ans: Maureen Connoly
Q5:Which English football club has a dinosaur mascot called “
Gunnersaurus”?
Ans: Arsenal
Q6:What is a “ Chicane” in Formula-1?
Ans:A sharp S bend that reduces speed by forcing drivers to drive through in
a single line.
Q7: What was founded as the Imperial Cricket in 1909 by representatives
from England, Australia and South Africa?
Ans: ICC

WORLD QUIZ LEAGUE

1. Famously mentioned in a 1982 song by The Clash, what name is given to the walled citadel of many North African cities and towns, specifically the one in Algiers?

2. Mensa’s second president, who is the only architect to have a family of molecules named after him?

3. Along with the Philippines, which is the only predominantly Roman Catholic country in Asia?

4. According to Islamic tradition, the Quran, the holy book of Islam, was revealed to Muhammad by which archangel?

5. What replaces white wine to transform the cocktail Kir into a Kir Royal?

6. Traditionally, if a Jewish man earned his living as a “Mohel”, what “sacred” act would he be performing as part of his work?

7. She has modelled for Victoria’s Secret; what is the Czech supermodel Karolina Kurková lacking that almost all of the rest of us have?

8. Receiving a flurry of Academy Award nominations in 2009, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is based on a short story by which acclaimed author?

9. In 1994, who founded the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation to videotape and preserve testimonies of Holocaust survivors and witnesses?

10. Which island nation’s name derives from the Spanish for “Ancient and Bearded”?

11. What is the northernmost capital of all the world’s independent nations?

12. The name of which battle, fought in 490 BC between the Persian army of Darius I and the Greek army lead by Miltiades, became a word in most languages of the world?

13. Which Dutch company, established in 1602, was regarded as the first multinational company in the world and was the first company to issue stock?

14. Which is the only predominantly Muslim city to have been the host of an Olympic Games?

15. Faster than trot but slower than the gallop, what do we call the three-beat gait of a horse, with speed varying between 16-27 km/h?

16. It had never won a gold medal in it is Olympic history until… Which country won not one but two gold, on consecutive days, in the tennis at the Athens Olympics in 2004?

17. Which specific animal is known for performing a ‘waggle dance’ or a ‘round dance’ to indicate the distance and direction of food?

18. The castle of Dürnstein near Vienna, held which famous prisoner from December 1192 to early 1193?

19. He announced his retirement in April 2009. During his career he won 10 world titles in six different weight classes, and an Olympic title. Which boxer is a co-owner of the MLS soccer Houston Dynamo through his company Golden Boy Promotions?

20. Which historic leader was the founder of the Persian Empire’s Achaemenid dynasty and is remembered for his lasting legacy to the Jewish religion through his Edict of Restoration?

ANSWERS

1. Casbah

2. Richard Buckminster Fuller (molecules being Fullerenes or Buckyballs)

3. East Timor

4. Jibril

5. Champagne

6. Circumcision

7. Belly button or navel

8. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

9. Steven Spielberg

10. Antigua and Barbuda

11. Reykjavik, Iceland

12. Marathon

13. Dutch East India Company

14. Sarajevo

15. Canter

16. Chile

17. Bees

18. Richard Lionheart

19. Oscar de La Hoya

20. Cyrus the great