Slide 1:Gen 9 (ppt)


Slide 2:In Greek mythology, the centaurs are a race of creatures composed of part human and part horse. In early Attic vase-paintings centaurs were represented as human beings in front, with the body and hind legs of a horse attached to the back. The depiction of centaurs on painted vases changed after the Archaic period: from the sixth century BCE onwards, centaurs were depicted with a horse's body and a human torso joined at the waist to the horse's withers where the horse's neck would be. The _________, is a turban clad king with over-sized moustache and a royal dress. "He may look like royalty, but he isn't royal" - these are the words of Bobby Kooka, the man who conceived the _________. This figure first made his appearance 1946, when Bobby Kooka as the company’s Commercial Director and Umesh Rao, an artist with J.Walter Thompson Ltd., Mumbai, together created the _______. The two paragraphs above describe something associated with which company ?


Slide 3:The mascot and logo of AIR INDIA


Slide 4:2. _________ is the traditional Arabic name for the region of northeastern modern-day Syria and northwestern modern-day Iraq. It covers northern Mesopotamia, extending from the Euphrates to the Tigris. Its major settlements are Mosul, Dayr az Zawr, Ar Raqqah, Al Hasakah and Qamishli. ________ is characterised as a plain, quite distinct from the Syrian Desert and lower-lying central Mesopotamia. The region has several parts to it. In the northwestern part, is one of the largest salt deserts in the world. Further south, extending from Mosul to near Basra is a huge sandy desert similar to the Empty Quarter, where temperatures can reach 58 degrees Celsius in the summer. __________ is also one of the 26 states of Sudan. The state lies between the Blue Nile and the White Nile in the east-central region of the country. It has an area of 23,373 km² and an estimated population of approximately 3,300,000 (2000). The name comes from the Arabic word for peninsula. Wad Madani is the capital of the state. All blanks are the same. What it is ?


Slide 6:3. Logo of what product ?


Slide 7:DARJEELING TEA


Slide 8:4. What is so unique about this pen drive ?


Slide 9:First album to be released in the form a pen drive by the band WIZO.


Slide 10:5. Connect the owners of the 2 companies shown below.


Slide 11:Space Tourists


Slide 12:6. Identify the makers of this bike who are now leaders in an associated field, but no longer manufacture motorcycles.


Slide 13:BRIDGESTONE BIKE


Slide 14:7. Sonoma County Airport (IATA: STS, ICAO: KSTS) is an airport located a few miles northwest of Santa Rosa serving Sonoma County and the surrounding areas of Wine Country in California. The airport has 2 runways. Currently, it is exclusively used for general aviation, but has in the past and will in the future be served by commercial airlines. The last commercial airline service was by United Express and was cancelled due to low ridership, and recently Horizon Air planned on returning commercial aviation service to Santa Rosa by having flights to Seattle-Tacoma, and Los Angeles. All beginning on March 20th, 2007. What is the official name of this airport ?


Slide 16:8. In one disputed version, this term is believed to relate to former West Indian spin bowler Ellis "Puss" Achong. In the 1933 Old Trafford Test match, Achong, a left-arm orthodox spinner and the first Test cricketer of _______ ancestry, bowled an unexpected wrist-spin delivery turning from off to leg, and had the English batsman Walter Robins stumped by Ivan Barrow as a result. Legend has it that Robins, as he walked back to the pavilion, remarked "Fancy being done by a bloody ________".The 1987 obituary of Achong in Wisden says that the dismissal of Robins gave the term currency in England. Both blanks are esentially the same. What it is ?


Slide 17:CHINAMAN


Slide 18:9. Date of birth 12 July 1980 Aix-en-Provence, France. Actress – filmography : 1. Valley of Flowers (2006) (as ___________) .... Ushna 2. Filles du botaniste, Les (2006) .... Min Li 3. Détective: Contre-enquête, Le (2005) (TV) (as _______).... Angèle 4. Cavalcade (2005) .... Soraya 5. 36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004) .... Jade 6. Rivières pourpres II - Les anges de l'apocalypse, Les (2004) .... Pénélope ... aka Crimson Rivers 2: Angels of the Apocalypse (International: English title) ... aka Fiumi di porpora II - Gli angeli dell'apocalisse, I (Italy) 7. "Sous le soleil" (1996) TV Series .... Laeticia Valanski Whose filmography ?


Slide 19:MYLENE JAMPANOI


Slide 20:11. Logo of which “group” ?


Slide 22:12. Connect the following pics…


MAESTRO :MAESTRO


Slide 25:And we reverse direction now … 1. While it's not known exactly how ______ got their name, it is a popular theory that _______ was named for the sound or motion of the chocolate being deposited during the manufacturing process.


Slide 27:2.Identify the town.


Slide 28:NOKIA


Slide 29:3. To punish mankind, Zeus ordered the other gods to make ________ as a poisoned gift for man. _______ was given several traits from the different gods: Hephaestus molded her out of clay and gave her form; Athena clothed her and the Charites adorned her with necklaces made by Hephaestus; Aphrodite gave her beauty; Apollo gave her musical talent and a gift for healing; Demeter taught her to tend a garden; Poseidon gave her a pearl necklace and the ability to never drown; Zeus made her idle, mischievous, and foolish; Hera gave her curiosity; Hermes gave her cunning, boldness and charm. Thus the name _______—"all gifts"—in Hesiod's version derives from the fact that she received gifts from all deities. The most significant of these gifts, however, was a pithos or storage jar, given to _______ either by Hermes or Zeus. Fiil in the blank.


Slide 30:PANDORA


Slide 31:4.Name : Tomas Berdych. What’s his unique achievement in the world of tennis ?


Slide 32:Only stud to have beaten both Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal when they were ranked 1 and 2 respectively.


Slide 33:5. “”In villages it is the custom for women not to tell their names to strangers. On this cold November night she is busily preparing food for the six mujahidin, _______ freedom fighters, who have escorted me across the Pakistani border to the embattled Paktia Province and into this small village in the Jaji region. But in the darkness and snows of December, she will give birth to her tenth child. If the child comes in the safety of the night, it will be born here, in this earthen house warmed by an iron stove. If her baby comes in the day, she is likely to be in the damp bomb shelter hewn into the ground under the fields outside the village, her birth pangs accompanied, perhaps, by the roar of jets and bombs. She pauses to pour me a glass of steaming black tea. “When the planes come, I can’t run very fast to the bomb shelter any more,” she says. “I am too big and heavy. What can I do?” She speaks in a lilting accent, the rhythms of her native language.”” Excerpts from an interview. What happened next ?


Slide 34:Steve McCurry photographed Sharbat Gula


Slide 35:7. X has the following features – Approved By: AVP® Bladder: TPU Construction: Hand Sewn Cover Material: Full Grain Leather Lining: 3ply Poly Cotton X has made only one appearance in a Hollywood film and doesn’t have a single dialogue. X is even known to have come on South Park and has been gracious enough to poke fun at his character in his only movie. X ?


Slide 36:WILSON the Volleyball from the movie Cast Away


Slide 37:8.John Heartfield was a campaign designer in Nazi Germany and shown below are some of his creations. One particular such design for the Third Reich has proved to be a source of inspiration in the world of New Age “Chinese Fast Food” Music. What it is inspired ?


Slide 38:1st System of A Down album Cover.


Slide 39:9. This term originated from a precise, but slightly different, meaning in the 18th Century. The carriage of a cannon was normally constructed so that the muzzle was elevated slightly even when the carriage was on a horizontal surface and the elevation screw turned fully down. When it was fired, the ball would travel in a parabola, initially rising above the line of sight connecting the end of the barrel with the target. The point where it rose above the line - immediately in front of the muzzle - was called the first _____ _____ primitive. The point where it fell below it, or sometimes where it struck the ground and bounced, was the second _____ _____ primitive. _____ _____ range was the distance out to the second ______ _____ primitive. The phrase may also have originated form the French word for the center of a Bullseye. What it is phrase ?


Slide 40:POINT BLANK


Slide 41:10. M is derived from _____, jargon that arose in the computer game, Netrek. Originally meaning a kamikaze attack and later, more generally, to do something forcefully possibly without consideration of the drain on future resources. N is named after a Discworld character, High Priest _____ in Small Gods. ID M&N and put fundae….


Slide 42:The new Audio Format Ogg-Vorbis.


Slide 43:12. Identify the movie which documents a landmark court decision against the industry.


Slide 44:THE INSIDER


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