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Answers of Contest 3 Set 4

Muhammad bin Tuqhlaq Year 1988, Malayala Manorama ( 100th Anniversary ) and The Times of India ( 150th Anniversary ) were the dailies featured on Indian Stamps Suez Canal Shashi Tharoor (a) Mathew Sinclair of New Zealand (214 vs West Indies, Wellington, 1999-00) (b) Tip Foster of England (287 vs Australia, Sydney, 1903) (c) Lawrence Rowe of West Indies (214 vs New Zealand, Kingston, 1972) (d) Jacques Rudolph of South Africa (222 vs Bangladesh, Chittagong, 2003) (e) Brendon Kuruppu of Sri Lanka ( 201 vs New Zealand, Colombo, 1987) are the only players till date to have scored a double-century on their test debut .

Answers of Contest 3 -Set 3

Franz Anton Beckenbauer and Geoff Marsh - both won the world cup both as a player and as a coach in their respective sports - football and cricket Kalinga Mars NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). Connection is Bhanu Athaiya. She was the Costume Designer for Lagaan , 1942: A Love Story , Agneepath and Swades: We, the People and won an Academy Award in 1983 (for Gandhi ).

Answers of Contest 3 Set 2

Simon Jones. Dhirubhai Ambani Kerala. The paper lottery was introduced in 1967 by then Finance Minister P K Kunju Sahib Caroline Kennedy, daughter of John F Kennedy Connection is MTNL ( Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited ) A - Map of Delhi B - Mumbai C - Mobile phone D - Dolphin Dolphin is the postpaid GSM service from MTNL, which opeartes in New Delhi and Mumbai.

Answers of Contest 3 Set 1

Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Award by ICAR , ICAR Award, Norman E Borlaug Award by Coromandel Fertilisers, M. S. Swaminathan Award by Nuziveedu Seeds and the Retired Indian Council of Agricultural Research Association, any one of these answers will be given credit. Marine Drive Golf In a deck of playing cards The person sitting besides Adoor Gopalakrishnan is Mankada Ravi Varma and the photo is taken by Mammotty