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With the help of 13 men he attempted to overthrow the goverment of Equato rial Guinea by making an attempt to kidnap its president Francsico Marcias Nguem a.200,000 dollars were invested in the scheme which unfortunately came a cropper coz a Spanish co conspirator failed to procure the ammo. That was in 1972.In 1974 he wrote a bestsller fictionalising the entire i ncident.Who? FREDRICK FORSYTH. 2.An Italian chemist Johann Maria Farina came up with this concotion.The or iginal ingredients were 12 drops each of bergamot,neroli,orange and rosemary wit h one dram of malabar cardamoms thrown in for good measure.The whole lot was the n distilled together in a gallon of rectified spirits.What? EAU DE COLOGNE 3.Who was assassinated by one Sirhan Bishara Sirhan in 1968 for his pro Israeli leanings? ROBERT KENNEDY 4. Name the Roman diety who guarded infants in their cribs and lulled them t o sleep. CUBA 5.You must have heard of a light year.But what is a Pack Year? A 20 CIGARETTE PACK SMOKED DAILY FOR A PERIOD OF 1 YEAR. 6.Willhelm Apollinaire de Kostrowitsky in the introduction to his drama "Les Mamelles de Tiresias" meaning "The Breasts of Tiresias" used which word for th e first time? SURREALISM 7.To populate this city its founder provided an asylum for runaway slaves an d homicides.For them he procured wives by seizing women from a festival to which the neighbouring tribes of the Sabines were invited.Which city? ROME 8.Which landmark theatrical production is based on T.S. Eliot's book of vers e for children entitled "Old Possum's book of Practical Cats"? ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER'S CATS 9.Who was the New Zealand high comissioner to India from 1984 to 1988? EDMUND HILLARY. 10.Who was born in this rather interesting manner: The Chedi prince Uparichar a was hunting one fine day in the forest.The king lay down to rest and had an er otic dream.When he awoke,he found that his seed had left him.He picked up the le af onto which it had fallen and asked a hawk to carry it to his queen.The hawk d ropped the leaf when it was attacked in mid flight.The seed fell into the Yamuna and was gobbled up by a fish.The fish swam upstream where it was caught and cut open by a fisherman.The fisherman found a baby girl inside the fish and raised her as his own.... SATYAVATI....MATSYAGANDHA 11.During the middle ages dishes,cups and jugs used to be made out of a thic k orange clay known as pygg.Later on people started storing money in these jars. Some enterprising person then pushed this good thing along and gave a particular shape to these jars.What resulted? PIGGY BANK. 12.First correspondence to Rosselini, from whom? Dear Mr Rosselini,

I saw your films OPEN CITY and PAISAN and enjoyed them very much.If you n eed a Swedish actress who speaks English very well,who hasn't forgotten her Germ an,who is not very understandable in French and who in Italian knows only 'Ti am o' I am ready to come and make a film with you. INGRID BERGMAN 14.A character as enigmatic as the codes he used to break,this genius was ar rested for homosexuality and was given a choice of either going to jail or under going hormonal therapy. He opted for the latter and started developing feminine breasts!!Subsequently his mental state began to deteriorate.He finally comitted suicide by eating a cynaide laced apple! Who? ALAN TURING. 15.1938:destructive floods almost washout Los Angeles.... 1968:Dr.Martin Lut her King assassinated,funeral on the 8th of April.... assassination attempt on President Ronald Raegan.... Three reasons for the only three times when something had to be postponed. What? OSCAR AWARDS 16.Traditionally, what is graded according to the number of trees a monkey c an jump to before falling dead?!! STRENGTH OF CURARE. ( no one got this one) 17.In pschoanalysis this term to the image of the parent buried in the uncon scious from infancy and bound with infantile affect. The word comes from the wax potrait busts of their ancestors the ancient romans carried in funeral processi ons.An adult winged insect is also reffered to by the same name.What? IMAGO 18.Which rock group is the book "Hammer of the Gods" all about? LED ZEPPELIN 19.Which Indian God's mount is a crocodile named makara? VARUNA 20.Who while planning the music for his funeral said "Most of the people wh o will walk after me will be children.so make the beat keep time with short step s...."? HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN.