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  1. Claque: meaning a group of people hired/paid to applaud a performance. These have evolved into the Laughtracks on US sitcoms.

  2. First test ever. Eng vs Aus, MCG,March 1877. Shaw bowled the first ball to Bannerman(aus). Hill took the first wicket and the first catch too.

  3. X = Cadbury. Y= Drinking chocolate, Z= Bourn, A = Bourneville.

  4. X= Moby dick, Z= Starbo Y= Starbuck

  5. The bet was this: if Arjuna's bridge should collapse, he should jump into fire. If it didn't Hanuman would become the motif/emblem on Arjuna's flag. As it happened, the bridge broke, and Arjuna was about to jump in , when a boy entered and said he should not jump since there was no witness. He offers to be the witness, and Arjuna builds the bridge again. This time it doesn't break. Hanuman realizes the boy must be Lord Rama, who has come to bless them and teach them humility. So, this everything ends well. This is why Arjuna's flag has Hanuman on it.

  6. This was the man who was rumored/believed to be Subash Chandra Bose living incognito. Or atleast one of the many such babas.

  7. Cricket. The wicket is named after the wicket gate.

  8. These are names of Korean cars, who are expanding internationally in a bigway, these names are Eng/Latin/Greek mix: GM Daewoo Tosca = Tomorrow'ss tandard car; Rodius = Road + Zeus; Terracan = Terra + Khan

  9. NY-NJ Line war

  10. The best-known example: How many piano tuners are there in Chicago? These are questions that have recently become popular in interviews especially in tech/consulting jobs, where you have to make realistic assumptions and arrive on a fair estimate of arbitrary things. Named after Enrico Fermi, who asked his students a lot of such questions in class.

  11. Asok, the Dilbert guy.

  12. Interactive Urine Communicator. Marketing using the pisspot.

  13. The color of school bus, the Standard School Bus Chrome/Yellow.

  14. Stethoscope.

  15. Nature of free-will. How much control do we have on our actions?

  16. Michelangelo.

  17. Al-Wahhab, and Wahhabism. He believed in radical Islamic principles, which we today associate with the idea of Jihad, and was instrumental in brining it back to life.Some of his thoughts were that Jihad could be waged against unorthodox Muslims/non-believers etc.

  18. X = M F Hussain. Rs. 100 crore for 100 paintings.

  19. X= Allauddin Khilji, Y= Malik Kaffur, Haripala Deva wrote a book called Sangita Sudhakara which makes the first reference to Hindustani and Carnatic music.


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