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The document contains trivia questions about various topics including advertising, aviation incidents, tennis, Olympics history, cinema, literature and politics. It asks the reader to identify people, products, events and other details based on clues provided in the questions.

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David Ogilvy, an Advertising Guru, created one of the most successful ads of all times which said "At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this new car come from the electric clock". Name the car. Rolls Royce 2. " We are trying Le Bourget" are the last words of Christian Marty when he was involved in a famous incident recently.Can you identify the incident ? The Concorde air crash at Paris recently.These were the last words of the pilot to the control tower. 3. Which one time Asian tennis champion was awarded the Magasaysay Award for Community Leadership in 1995? Kiran Bedi 4. The former exotic dancer turned web entrepeneur, Danni Ashe entered the Guinness Book of World Records in a new category.Name the category. Dannis Ashe is the "Most Downloaded Woman on the Web" with 840 Million downloads during the period of Feb 1996 to Jun 2000. However the actress Cindy Margolis who was given the same honour by Yahoo Internet Life contests this claim. 5. In the 1983 U.S. Open, a linesman Richard Verthein was hit by a tennis ball in his stomach. He died later. Name the player who hit that unfortunate shot. Stephan Edberg 6. "In Praise of Public Life" is a book written by which famous Jewish politician? Joseph Liebermann, the Democrat VP candidate in the American Presidential elections. He is the first American Jewish candidate to run for this post. 7. Where can you expect to see, close together, Shiva Temple, Brahma Temple, Vishnu Temple and Deva Temple ? The Grand Canyon in Colorado USA. These are the names given to the ridges. 8. Evan Harris, British member of parliament, recently entered the annals of medical history. How? He became the first human to be tested for the AIDS vaccine (meant for the African strain of the virus). 9. At the Athens Olympics of 1896, one country's unofficial team almost did not make it to the games since it was unaware that Greece was still using the Julian Calendar which was ahead of the Gregorian calendar by 11 days. They just made it and won many gold medals. Name the country. United States of America 10. According to famous Ghazal singer, Jagjit Singh, there are only three things that will be remembered about the 20th century.Two of these are

the breaking of the third.

Berlin wall and man's conquest of the moon. Name the

The birth of Lata Mangeshkar 11. In the 1962 Filmfare Awards, the legendary actress Meenakumari set a record that has been unbroken tiil now. What is it? She won all the nominations in the Best Actress category ( Aarti, Main Chup Rahungee and Sahib,Bibi aur Ghulam). 12. 11 year old British actor Dan Radcliffe has been catapulted to instant fame. How? He has been chosen to play Harry Potter by Warner Brother's for the cinematic adaptation of J K Rowling's bestseller " Harry Potter and the Socerers's Stone 13. In spy jargon who are referred to as "Sisters"?

The lower-ranking females in the service who often have to perform the dirtier jobs - like sleeping around. 14. In 1994, investment banker David E. Shaw asked two of his managers to come up with ideas of how to exploit the net. One of them Charles Ardai, backed by Shaw, created Juno, the first provider of free internet access while the other left D.E. Shaw to implement by himself the idea that he had thought of. Name this person and the company that he founded. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com 15. Before he became President, he was a Defence Attorney and he used his empirical knowledge to write his only detective story, "The Trailor Murder Mystery". Name him. Abraham Lincoln

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