QUIZ 21

Q1
___________ was born on 16th September, 1945, to Mr. L. Ct. L. Palaniappa Chettiar and Mrs. Lakshmi Achi in Kandanur in the Sivaganga District, in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. He was born into an affluent business family. __________ did his schooling from the prestigious Madras Christian College Hr.Sec.School, Chennai. After graduating with a B.Sc. degree in Statistics from The Presidency College, he completed his Bachelor of Law (B.L.) from the University of Madras. And a MBA from Harvard University. Who are we talking about?

Q2
"I can't see any downside to this to be honest, going from a cult football club that black cab drivers in London all like and patronise you [about], to being the richest club in the world is just staggering. I always kind of knew that 40 years of loyalty would be repaid somehow and I always knew that a day would come when we stagger everyone in football. It'll be nice to know that every gallon of petrol a Manchester United fan buys is going into our transfer kitty." Who said this is and what is he/she talking about?

Q3
His backstory in The Complete Visual Guide indicates he was born on a pirate ship during a typhoon in the Indian Ocean, and that he was trained to fence by an Italian. Rob Kidd wrote an ongoing book series, about him and his crew on the Barnacle as they battle sirens, mermaids and adult pirates while looking for various treasures. The first book, The Coming Storm, was published on June 1, 2006. On the website for the movie, it is explained that he once worked for the East India Trading Company and captained the Wicked Wench. When he refused to transport slaves, he was branded a criminal and his ship was ordered sunk by Lord Cutler Beckett, a company agent. He then bargained with the Flying Dutchman to raise his ship. Who are we talking about?

Q4
It destroyed 13,200 houses, 87 parish churches, 6 chapels, 44 Company
Halls, the Royal Exchange, the Custom House, St Paul's Cathedral, the
Guildhall, the Bridewell Palace and other City prisons, the Session
House, four bridges across the rivers Thames and Fleet, and three city
gates, and made homeless 100,000 people, one sixth of the city's
inhabitants at that time. It happened around today, in the year 1666.
What happened?

Q5
Unsubstantiated sources cite different models for the face. One indicated the then-recently widowed Isabella Eugenie Boyer, the wife of Isaac Singer, the sewing-machine industrialist. "She was rid of the uncouth presence of her husband, who had left her with only his most socially desirable attributes: his fortune and -- his children. She was, from the beginning of her career in Paris, a well-known figure. As the good-looking French widow of an American industrialist she was called upon to be Bartholdi's model for..........what?

Q6
Herbert George was a teacher, artist, game maker and author. He wrote Floor Games (1911) followed by Little Wars (1913). Little Wars is recognised today as the first recreational wargame and he is regarded by gamers and hobbyists as "the Father of Miniature War gaming." But we know him better for the science fiction he created. Who are we talking about?

Q7
In the 1950s, ____ contained a patented, mild cleansing ingredient, into the soap category. It was positioned - then and now - as a "beauty bar" with one-fourth cleansing cream that moisturizes skin while washing as opposed to the drying effect of regular soap. Advertisements reinforced the message by showing the cream being poured into the beauty bar. In 1979, the phrase "cleansing cream" was replaced with "moisturizer cream". In 1979, a Pennsylvania dermatologist showed that ____ dried and irritated skin significantly less than ordinary soaps, based on which Unilever started aggressive marketing and won more than 24% of the market by 2003. FITB.

Q8
Robert Ford shot James in the back of the head-- killing him on April
3, 1882. How do we better know his as?

Q9
Due to superstition it is mostly avoided by builders. Based on an internal review of records, Dilip Rangnekar of Otis Elevators estimates that 85% of the buildings with their elevators do not have......what?

Q10
The "Mountains of the Moon" are poetically known to geographers as
Mount Ruwenzori. Besides being the source of the Nile, they constitute
an amazing phenomenon. What is it?

Q11
Identify the person in the above image.

The Early Bird: Nikhil, Mumbai

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