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1)Titusville is a small town in Pennsylvania, with a population of just over 6000 residents. Mostly known for lumbering and saw mills, it however created history in 1859, due to Edwin Drake and William Smith. What happened.
FIRST TIME OIL WAS STRUCK HERE
2) It was mentioned for the first time in a World Map by Lucas Janszoon. One theory states that this island got it’s name from the sounds made by the white parrots living there. Another theory indicates that it comes from the Sanskrit word for crab. Another indicates it comes from a Malay word for white winged ant. It shot into fame in 1883, due to an incident here. Name the island.
KRAKATOA
3) Born in London, he started one of Britain’s first car dealerships, when he started to import and sell French made vehicles. He is a well known aviator, and one of the founders of the Royal Aero Club, and the second Britisher to have a license to fly. On June 2, 1910, he became the first man to make a non stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane. He died at Bornemouth in an air crash, making him the first Britisher to die so. Name this person, who is also famous in another way.
CHARLES ROLLS
4) This fictional character was born on July 4,1776 in Kent. He was tutored in mathematics, French and well versed in Greek and Latin. Characterized by a self doubting nature, he remains a loner throughout. He suffers from sea sickness like Nelson, is a good whist player, tone deaf and finds music an irritant. His best friend is William Bush, and among other famous sea battles, he also takes part in Battle of Trafalgar. He first made his appearance in a book called The Happy Return(1937), which was called as Beat to Quarters in the US. Who is he?
HORATIO HORNBLOWER
5) This song from the soul genre, has music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. With over 500 versions, it is one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century. It was used as a theme song for the first time in a 1955 prison movie, from which the song gets it’s name in fact. The vocals were given by Todd Duncan. Harry Belafonte sang it at the 1956 Academy Awards. In 1990 it shot into the Billboard, when the Righteous Brothers version of this song was used for the movie Ghost.
UNCHAINED MELODY
6) Whats happening in the picture above?
LYNDON JOHNSON TAKING THE OATH AFTER KENNEDY'S ASSASINATION ON AIR FORCE ONE
7) Self portrait of an artist whose real name is Tiziano Vecelli. He was also called as Da Cadore, after his birthplace of Pievi Da Cadore.
TITIAN
8) Born in Canton, South Dakota, he received his doctorate from Yale, and worked as an asst. professor there. One of the youngest professors at Berkeley in 1928, he was nicknamed as the “Atom Smasher”. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1939, for his work on the cyclotron. He was responsible for introducing Robert Oppenheimer into the Manhattan Project. The Chemical element 103, was named in his honor. Who?
ERNST LAWRENCE
9) This Rajput clan was originally called as Guhilot and owes it’s origin to Bappa Rawal. After Allaudin Khilji, attacked and sacked the fort of Chittor in 1303, also famous for Rani Padmini’s Jauhar, some of the Rajputs survived the massacre. One of them was Hamir, who later re occupied Chittor after 23 years of Muslim rule. The dynasty he founded takes it’s name from his native village. Name this clan.
SISODIAS
10) Often called the Father of Modern Chemistry, he was a student of the sciences, and later graduated from University of Paris in 1763 in Law. He was elected to French Academy of Sciences at age of 25, for his essay on street lighting. Famous for his discovery of oxygen, his Elementary Treatise of Chemistry, is considered to be the first modern chemical textbook. He worked as a tax collector, and is responsible for introducing metric system of weights and measurements. He was later convicted and beheaded during the French revolution.
ANTOINE LAVOISIER
THE SCORES
Ramgopal-8
Sumant-9
Jacob-2
Sadashiv-4
Suraj Menon-4
Kamal-9
sandip & Jaya-10
Udayan-3
Prasoon-6
Nishanth-8
Pradeep-7
