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Identify the man in the picture who is a coworker of somebody who is remembered today.

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A modified form of the guest question contributed by Subramanya.K.P!! (Thanks buddy!!!)

This is the cast and crew of a small budget Tamil movie named “Snehithiye” released back in 2000, directed by Priyadarshan. Identify the blanked out name.

§ Jyothika as Vani Subramaniam

§ Sharbani Mukherjee as Radhika

§ Tabu as Gayathri

§ Ishita Arun as Geetha

§ Major Ravi as Ramesh

§ Shweta Menon

§ Lakshmi as Malathi

§ Manorama

§ Vadivukkarasi

§ Bharati Achrekar

§ Mita Vasisht

§ Sukumari

§ Jomol

§ Deepti Bhatnagar in a special appearance

§ ---------------------- in a small cameo

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During 2006, Dr. Manmohan Singh visited Japan and gave a speech at Diet, the Japanese parliament. He declared 2007 as the Year of India-Japan friendship and the year of India-Japan tourism exchange. He made a mention to some of the entertainment and food aspects that binds both the nations together. An excerpt from his speech follows:

"The friendship between people is the cornerstone of any strategic partnership. I am delighted to hear of the popularity of ---------- among young people here. Our children were delighted to see your own "Odru Asimo" - the dancing robot! Believe the number of Indian restaurants in Japan has increased phenomenally.

Tempura and Sushi are becoming really popular among Indians."

Come to the question now.

Who is being referred to in Dr. Manmohan Singh’s speech?

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What is this?

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What is being depicted here?

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I felt that the blog doesn't have a lot of business questions. So I am posting this question.

"One day my dad went into a roadside saloon to celebrate a sale and had too much to drink. When the bar closed, he found that his entire rig — horse, buggy, and samples — had been stolen. Wheeler and Wilcox fired him and dunned him for the lost property. Word got around, of course, and it took Dad more than a year to find another steady job."

This was the cause given by X’s son for the shift of X from his original company. Y was the company which was headed by X.

"This anecdote never made it into Y lore, which is too bad, because it would have helped explain Father to the tens of thousands of people who had to follow his rules."

Thus alcoholism was banned in Y.

X summarized the complete Y philosophy in one word- Z. A monthly magazine called Z is distributed to the employees. Y stationery and scratch pads carry the same inscription. Every Y employee carries a Z notebook.

A recent technology from Y, which is capable of cracking almost all the questions present in all such blogs is named after X.

Identify X,Y and Z.

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Well, this is a sitter. Identify the blanked out space.

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The columnist Ramachandra Guha writes about X's cricketing interests in the following paragraph.

The only evidence of X’s interest in cricket that I know of is contained in a newspaper essay of 1958 by the Gujarati journalist Harish Booch. Booch had just met one of the X’s classmates at Alfred High School, Rajkot. This man, Ratilal Ghelabhai Mehta, remembered X as “a dashing cricketer” who “evinced a keen interest in the game as a school student”. He was, it seems, “good both at batting and bowling”, and had an uncanny understanding of the game’s uncertainties as well. Mehta spoke of a match they had watched together as schoolboys, played between Rajkot city and Rajkot cantonment. Apparently, “at a crucial moment in the match, as if through intuition, X said a particular player would be out and hey presto, that batsman was really out!”

Identify X

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Feeling really bad and I want to take a leaf out of this man's books. This question is my tribute to that man who has inspired me a lot of late.

Whose childhood dreams are these?

1. Being in zero gravity

2. Playing in the National Football League.

3. Authoring an article in Encyclopedia.

4. Being Captain Kirk.

5. Winning stuffed animals

6. Being a Disney Imagineer.

This is my favourite quote of his. "Be good at something, it makes you valuable...Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.

Identify this man I am talking about.

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Some consider this animal to be mythical. But, by the confirmation of several hunters, these species is now widely acknowledged to exist. They are reported to be found in Fujian province of China. This is an artist's version of the particular species being talked about. Identify this species.

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X, created by Y, loves Z in a way A, not B. Scientists, especially biochemists and Z lovers have investigated the difference between A Z and B Z and gave the results. According to a study at Department of Biochemistry, University of Western Ontario in Canada, to determine the way of preparation of Z has an influence on Z's antioxidant capacity, the A Zs were able to break down hydrogen peroxide and leave only 0.072 percent of it behind, compared to B Zs which left 0.157 percent of hydrogen peroxide behind. The study was done at that time because moderate consumption of Z appears to reduce the risk of cataract and cardiovascular diseases and X had none of it. Another reason attributed to X preferring Zs in the way A and not B because, Y liked A Zs better than B Zs. Some believe that making Zs in the way A is a violation of a socially accepted norm and making Z in way A makes Z more bitter. One more reason given to this preference is, in 1960s, Z was actually refined from potatoes and it made Z oily. Aing it made Z lose its oiliness. Aing also made Z more cold.

Identify X,Y,Z,A,B and the phrase involved with it.

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X is a phrase in Swahili which translates to "There are no worries". This phrase was used as a refrain in a song Jambo Bwana by the Kenyan Band Them Mushrooms. Some time later, German Band Boney M wanted to release the same song in English with its name as "Jambo-X". In 1980s, X appeared in Swedish Comics "Bamse". Later X went on to become a cult phrase due to a movie. The movie featured X in one of its chief songs written by Elton John and Tim Rice. This song was nominated for an Academy award and is listed as 99th best ever song in the list of Best Songs by the American Film Institute. The makers of this particular movie learnt this phrase from a safari guide in Tanzania.

Identify X.

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Though it looks very similar to a famous game, it involves something else too. Identify the game.

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§ Propulsion. X's maximum acceleration is 0.02g, or 0.1962 m/s², using an unknown form of reactionless drive, which seems to operate by generating a field around X that negates the inertia of the mass that it captures. Whatever the nature of its engineering, X could freely control its velocity, rotation and heading.

§ Power. X can refuel by absorbing energy and material en masse directly from a star. When traveling between stars, virtually all of its systems and mechanics are shut down, and it effectively becomes a dead relic; its temperature reaches nearly absolute zero. Whether it can merely store energy or generate it, most likely via nuclear fusion like the suns it siphons, is unknown. The most likely source of both Xs power and propulsion seems to be the Horns.

§ Defense. Passive. X's hull, except around the Cylindrical Sea and the North Pole , is at least 2 km thick, completely solid (according to seismic tests), and composed of an unidentified alloy that could withstand direct radiation from Sol up to a radius of 5 million km. X could also activate a "cocoon" of perfectly reflective material, in which it passed nearly adjacent to the sun unharmed. The cocoon also is able to negate the effect of a nuclear weapon which was fired at it in X II

§ Offense. X has displayed zero hostile capability of any kind, although its size makes it a defensive threat.

Identify X.