1) This city is located at confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, and was founded by French settlers in 1764. It was a major river port, on the route to New Orleans. From 1766 to 1768 it was ruled by French Governor, Ange De Bellerive. In 1803, the city was acquired from France by Thomas Jefferson as part of the Louisiana Purchase. The city came into news when it secured funding for Charles Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic. Also famous for the Wainwright Building, and in 1893, Nikola Tesla demonstrated radio communication here.
ST.LOUIS
2) The Great Ormond Street Hospital in London received the copyright to this particular literary work in 1929 from the author himself. This entitled the institution to receive royalties from any performance or publication of the play. When this expired in 1987, the UK Government gave it perpetual copyright to collect royalties. Name the work and the author.( No part points here).
PETER PAN, J.M.BARRIE
3)
Identify this Civil War General who later went on to become the 18th President of the US.
GEN. ULYSEES GRANT
4) On Feb 15, 1933, Giuseppe Zangara, attempted to assasinate X in Miami. He was however unsuccesful and ended up shooting Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak, who died later in hospital. Name X.
F.D. ROOSEVELT
5)
On Feb 15, 1942 , Lt. Gen Arthur Percival surrendered to the Japanese Army, after this place fell after 7 days of fighting. About 80,000 Indian, British, Australian soldiers become POW's making it one of the largest surrender of British forces. Winston Churchill called it the "worst disaster" and "largest capitulation" in British history. After the capture, the Japanese renamed the place as Syonan-To meaning "Light of the South Island". What event i am referring to?
FALL OF SINGAPORE TO JAPAN
6) Connect these 4 pics.
STEVE CHEN, CHAD HURLEY, JAVED KARIM, ALL EX EMPLOYESS OF PAY PAL, WHO STARTED YOU TUBE.
7) Born in Paris in 1877, Louis ____, loved engineering and mechanics, and in 1898, he built his first car, which he called the Voiturette. On Feb 25,1899, he founded the ____ Freres company, along with his brothers Marcel and Fernand. He is credited with many inventions in automobile industry like hydraulic shock absorber, the drum brake and turbocharger. He was decorated with Legion of Honor after WW1, due to the effectiveness of the battle tank developed by him. After France was liberated from Nazi rule his company was nationalized on charges of collaboration and Louis himself was arrested by French Govt on this charges. He later died in prison. In 1996, the company was privatized and it also has an alliance with Nissan. Name the company.
Born into a Jewish family, he was encouraged to participate in the Manhattan Project while he was at Princeton, and was assigned to Hans Bethe's division. He developed the formula to calculate the yield of a fission bomb, named after him partly. He also won the Nobel Prize For Physics in 1965 along with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomanaga for his work on quantum electrodynamics. He developed a pictorial representation for mathematical expressions governing behaviour of sub atomic particles. He is famous for his semi autobiographical books like What Do you Care what Other People Think?. Free spirited in nature he loved to discuss on topics like lock picking, Maya hieroglyphs, percussion, art and biology. Who?
DR.RICHARD FEYMANN
9) What went into service for the first time on Feb 16, 1968 in the small town of Haleyville, in Alabama?
911 WAS USED AS THE EMERGENCY NUMBER
10)
Identify this notorious dictator who was overthrown by the 26th of July movement, and finally resigned on January 1, 1959.
FULGENCIO BATISTA, OVERTHROWN BY FIDEL CASTRO
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Aviral-2
Gautam-6
Animesh-10
Ashwin-4
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