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 Question 1
Jimmy Zhingchack is a one-shot comic book written by Saurav Mohapatra. It was originally published by Virgin Comics in 2008 in collaboration with UTV Spotboy. The title character of the comic book parodies which famous Bollywood actor?

Question 2
What may be blanked out in this Amul ad?

Question 3
A very popular Russian story is that it was X who came up with the 40% standard strength of Y in 1894, after having been appointed Director of the Bureau of Weights and Measures with the assignment to formulate new state standards for the production of Y. This story has, for instance, been used in marketing claims by the Russian Standard Y brand that, "In 1894, X, the greatest scientist in all Russia, received the decree to set the Imperial quality standard for Russian Y and the 'Russian Standard' was born", or that the Y is "compliant with the highest quality of Russian Y approved by the royal government commission headed by X in 1894." Identify X and Y.

Question 4
The statue in the following image has been in the news recently due to what reasons? Also, whose statue?
 
Question 5
This is the list released by SportsPro which features Top 10 Most Marketable Athletes of 2015. Which athlete is ranked 6th on this list?


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  1. Unknown20 May 2016 at 01:43

    2. My "Obsession"

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    1. Unknown20 May 2016 at 03:54

      Look at the hints in the image and refine answer a bit

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  2. Unknown20 May 2016 at 01:54

    5. "Virat Kohli" is in 6th position.

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  3. Unknown20 May 2016 at 12:57

    1. Mithun da

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  4. Unknown20 May 2016 at 21:59

    Answers:
    1) Gourang Chakraborty, better known by his stage name Mithun Chakraborty
    2) Seshan- So the hints in image were the man beside Amul girl, who is former Election Commissioner of India, Mr. T.N.Seshan, widely known to bring reforms in elections in India and the word 'election' highlighted in the right corner in red.
    3) X-Dimitri Mendeleev & Y-Vodka
    4) The protest movement #RhodesMustFall and the statue is of Cecil Rhodes. It was a movement to 'decolonize' education in South Africa.
    5) Indian cricketer Virat Kohli

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