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  • 1. Let us assume for the time being it does happen

2. Dear __________________________I have a dream within a dream within adream within another dream... Whatnow?Sincerely, Leonardo DiCaprioFITB 3. Martin Luther King, Jr. 4. Described as tall and thin, between 6 ft 4 inand 6 ft 6 in (193198 cm) in height andweighing about 165 pounds (75 kg), olivecomplexion, left-handed and usually walkingwith a cane. His personality was described assoft-spoken, respectful and mild-mannered indemeanor and used to follow Arsenal FootballClub.His nicknames include the Lion (after hisname), thePrince, theLeader, Commander, Pilgrim, Governor, Director and the Lord of the struggle, Samaritan, theGuided One etc. 5. Osama bin Laden 6. ManhattanThe Manhattan Cocktail, The Manhattan Skylinechart, The Manhattan ProjectBroadway and Wall St. 7. According to University of Maryland:It travels at 650 miles per second, 3,000times the speed of sound continuously for31 hrs. from east to west and carries apayload of 353,430 tons which is fourtimes the weight of the Queen Elizabeth IIocean liner.What? 8. Santas Sleigh 9. Its website, launched in 2006 under TheSunshine Press organization, claimed adatabase of more than 1.2 million documentswithin a year of its launch.X describes its founders as a mix of Chinesedissidents, journalists, mathematicians, andstart-up company technologists from the UnitedStates, Taiwan, Europe, Australia and SouthAfrica.Identify Xand this rather infamousorganization. 10. X= Julian Assange 11. Ralegan Siddhi is a village in the Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra.Till 1975, the village was riddled with poverty and severely affected bydrought. Standards of living were extremely low. However, with thecontribution of social activist Kisan Bapat Baburao _______, thevillage started to rebuild. The village carried out programs like treeplanting, terracing to reduce soil erosion and digging canals to retainrainwater. It also adopted non-conventional sources of energy with allits street lights being completely solar powered.Kisan Bapat Baburao _______, more commonly referred to as ____________, was thus awarded the Padma Bhushan for his efforts in thebuilding of Ralegan Siddhi.FITB. 12. Anna Hazare 13. It caused the sales of pencils in the UK to shoot up by around 52% in2006.The very first letter of complaint against this accused the publisher ofmaking the complainant miss a station as he was engrossed in it.In 2008 in an Australian drugs related trial of over 1 million A$ had tobe rescheduled as it was found that the jury was engaged in thisinstead of the proceedings..The first video game featuring this sold over 8 million copies.It even had a TV show based on it where the winner took away37000$.What is this epic thing? 14. Level: Medium 15. _____________ are special ammunition that arebuilt with a small pyrotechnic charge in theirbase. Ignited by the burning powder, thephosphorus tail burns very brightly, making theprojectile visible to the naked eye. This enablesthe shooter to follow the bullet trajectory relativeto the target in order to make corrections to hisaim.They also lend their name to a very commonphrase used by commentators is a certain sport.Name the object/give the phrase. 16. That wentto theboundarylike a Tracer Bullet! 17. While it featured in the original format of the show inalmost every franchise and was credited with the revivalof fortunes of AT&T on its format in the US, the recentformats have decided to not continue with this as theparticipants were using internet sources such as Googleto search for the answers.What concept is this? 18. Phone a Friend 19. Ashoka Pillar 20. Presidential Memorials:Washington, Jefferson, Lincolnand F. Roosevelt 21. Before Rahul Dravids unbeaten century in the 1stInnings at the Lords Test, who was the last Indianbatsman to score a century at the venue? 22. Ajit Agarkar :P 23. Im not a defender of old or new football managers. Ibelieve in good ones and bad ones, those that achievesuccess and those that dont. Please dont call mearrogant, but Im European champion and I think Im aSpecial One.People will say that I caused the volcano to erupt. Ifnot they will say I have a friend inside the volcano whohelped me.Whose (infamous) quotes are these? 24. Jose mourinho 25. X visited this temple inwhen X s career was at an all-time low The image below is the deity of the temple andinspired X to create something which is a very visible symboleverywhere today Identify X and what was the creation? 26. Tiananmen Square is the largest andMacroplaza, Mexico is the second largestpublic square. Which is the next one? 27. X and Y are a brother and sister duo, very famous inthe political circles of a South East Asian country.The brother, the elder sibling, is the more famous forbeing Like Donald Trump , very rich and bigspending.He also held a powerful position in his countrysgovernment which is now held by his sister.Id. X and Y. 28. ? 29. AndroidMarketplace 30. She just replaced her compatriot as the head of a majorinternational institution. The man she replaced didnt leave inthe most pleasant of circumstances. Identify him 31. Dominique Strauss-Kahn 32. Rupert Murdoch 33. The steadfast tin soldier, The SnowQueen, The littlematchgirl, Thumbelina, The Ugly Ducklingand the Little MermaidConnect 34. Hans ChristianAndersen 35. Constructed in the Dravidian style of architecture thisTemple is glorified in the Divya Prabandha, the earlymedieval Tamil literature canon of the Tamil Alvar saints.The temple gave its name to Keralas state capitalThiruvananthapuram.Traditionally managed by the Royal Family ofTravancore,Id this temple whose assets are currently a matter ofdebate. 36. VS.