Dated August 29th, 2007

1. A number of families from a puritan community in the Kentish Weald emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony area of the United States in the early 17th century, and many of their descendants later settled at A. Due to a hereditary quality, this led to the development of what is today abbreviated as MVSL, which is now extinct. But, MVSL played an important role in the development of AMESLAN, which is very widely used. At A, the particular feature, which led to MVSL, has diluted over time, and today it is better known as a summer colony. In the late 1990s, it was it enjoyed great popularity in news reports in connection with certain regular visitors there. Identify A.

Martha’s Vineyard

2. Forrest J Ackerman is a legendary fan of a certain genre of fiction and was influential, not only in the organization and spread of its fandom, but in the cultural and cinematic acceptance of this genre. He is also known as the editor-writer of the magazine “Famous monsters of filmland”. In the 1950s, he is credited to have coined a term “A”, in analogy with another word, which was current at that time, for the genre. This was variously criticized and welcomed, and is widely known today. Identify A.

Sci-fi

4. The Guinness book of world records lists this as the “longest measure of time”, as 4.32 billion solar years. This is drawn from a mythological tradition, but the same unit is mentioned in another closely allied tradition where there are 4 different lengths of it possible. (If needed, at the end of this time, the world is said to be destroyed, and renewed)

Kalpa

5. Chagossians are a group of creole-speaking people. As part of a 1965 deal, they were exiled from their homeland between 1967 and 1973 for the purpose of establishing an US air and naval base on one of their islands. Although they were settled in Mauritius, and conferred UK citizenship under the british overseas territories act 2002, they continue to agitiate for return to their homeland. Identify their territory/US naval base there.

Diego Garcia

6. Connect: Corner of 5^th avenue and 57^th street, George Peppard, Mr.Yunioshi
   

Breakfast at Tiffany's

7. This educator and women’s rights activist became famous after filing, and winning, a lawsuit against the inheritance legislation pertinent to her community, in the supreme court. She is also the founder and director of a popular school, previously known as “Corpus Christi high school”, and now known by a name, which in some languages, translates as school. Her brother-in-law is a famous television newscaster. Identify her.

Mary Roy (Pallikoodam)

8. LeCorbusier was a pioneer in theoretical studies of modern design, and was dedicated to providing better living conditions to residents of crowded cities. Among his famous designs is this city, which, in the 1950s, was commissioned to reflect a modern, progressive outlook. The administrative status of the city was to be changed in 1985, but has been held up because of some disagreements. Identify the city.

Chandigarh

9. Yang Yang and Long Hui moved from China to Austria in 2003. Their travel was facilitated by a system set up by China in 1984. Recently they created a European record, a first of its kind in Europe. Explain.

Giant Pandas lent by China

10. Connect the following:

“Longed for him. Got him. Shit.”

“As God is my witness, as God is my witness they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.”

“Why, land is the only thing in the world worth workin' for, worth fightin' for, worth dyin' for, because it's the only thing that lasts”

Margaret Mitchell

11. In 1964 J D Tippit, a police officer with Texas Police Department was posthumously awarded the Medal of Valour from the National Police Hall of Fame and also received the Police Medal of Honor, the Police Cross, and the Citizens Traffic Commission Award of Heroism. He was decorated mainly because he was the second victim of a famous assassin. Who?

Lee Harvey Oswald

12. He was the Junior National champion in Diving for 6 years in a row from the age of 11.He also got a bronze medal at the lone National Games, in which, he participated. He rightfully claims to have been among the top 3 divers in the country until he retired at the ripe old age of 19. His sporting excellence got him an admission to St. Stephen’s college and he later went on a year long scholarship to Davidson college, North Carolina. He played lot of first division club cricket for the Calcutta Cricket and Football Club and when he was in Hyderabad, he played for the Vazir Sultan Tobacco which was in the A-division of Hyderabad Cricket Leagues. He embarked on a new career altogether during the 9th Asian games in 1982. His career took off from the Commonwealth Games in ’82. Today he is one of the most recognized personalities in his field

Charu Sharma

13. This father of the nation is not revered much in his country. Having hailed from a family with revolution in its blood (his great uncle was beheaded for fighting the British) he took part in revolutionary activities right from his college days. He assumed the title of Thakin, a politically motivated title that proclaimed that the native people were the true masters of their country, not the colonial rulers who had usurped the title for their exclusive use. He opted for an armed liberation of his homeland and sided with Japanese to raise an Army. He attended the 1940 Indian National Congress Assembly at Ramgarh in India. The British tried to capture him but he fled back to his homeland. Later he abandoned his Japanese friends and helped the British to rout the Japs out of the country. Shortly after the war he negotiated Independence with the British. But he was assassinated at the age of 32 before his country could attain Freedom. The reason why he is not recognized by the present rulers of his country might be attributed to his only daughter. Who is this?

Aung Sang

14. Sir Clifford was wounded in the First World War and became paralyzed from waist down. His wife Connie Reid fell into loneliness and finally found solace in the hands of the gamekeeper Oliver Mellors, thus leading to a passionate affair. How do we better know Connie Reid?

A: Connie Reid is better known as Constance Chatterley. The book is “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” by D.H.lawrance

15. In the Star Trek-The Next Generation series,the USS Ambassador,USS Adelphi, USS Enterprise, USS Excalibur, USS Exeter, USS Valdemar, USS Yamaguchi, USS Zhukov and the USS ______ (also know as NCC 26632) were ships that belonged to the ambassador class of vessels which were mainly used for peaceful and non-violent purposes. The NCC 26632 which had been deputed for a mission in the Lagana sector was also a former assignment of Lt. Riker. Who or What was it fittingly named after?

A: USS Gandhi. The words "peaceful and non-violent" should have given the answer.

16. One on football. The boy was born on July 7,1994 as the third son of the family. He was later christened 'Mateus', supposedly after Lothar Mathaeus, one of his father’s favorite footballers. Why would we be still, remembering the birth??!!

A:The father was Bebeto.The famous cradle celebration involving Bebeto,Romario and Mazinho during Brazil vs Holland in the '94 WC was dedicated to the birth of this boy.(Ya, beats me why Bebeto wud have chosen a german!!)

17. In March 1967, a tribal youth named Wimal Kesan went to plough his field after obtaining a judicial order. The goons of the local landlord beat him up. The incidents that followed soon brought global attention to this village and contributed a new word to the English language. Which village/word?

Naxalbari

18. The earliest settlers in the Valley of the Sun were the Hohokam Indian people, who lived there as early as 300 BC and later, disappeared mysteriously. In 1867, Jack Swilling of Wickenburg founded a small farming colony here. The town that grew out was named _____, memorializing the birth of a new civilization from the ruins left by the Hohokam. It is now the 6th largest city in the US, largest capital city by population, and the third-largest capital city by area in theU.S

.Pheonix, Arizona

19. In 2000, the organization changed its name to Aleph (the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet).Its earlier name roughly translated into Supreme truth.Identify.

A:Aum Shinri Kyo,the Japanese cult founded by Shoko Asahare.They were responsible for the Sarin gas attacks in the Tokyo subway.Aum is supposed to be derived from the Sanskrit word Om.

20. Dear Mr. X,

I saw your films Open City and Paisan, and enjoyed them very much. If you need a Swedish actress who speaks English very well, who has not forgotten her German, who is not very understandable in French, and who in Italian knows only "ti amo", I am ready to come and make a film with you.

Y

This letter was the beginning of one of the most popular stories in cinema lore, ID X and Y.

Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman