Dry-Fit

Dry weather is here so keeping up with nature shudnt the quiz b dry for a change.
So heres a new set straying from the trail of picture quizzes,a dry quiz.So send in the answer ASAP to preetam.jena@wipro.com

1...First published in Agra in 1869 and sold 2200 copies priced at 1 anna each.British Forcescracked down upon it calling it bazaar trash and Gandhiji said its filth in litterature,but still it sold more than any chronicles of truth.It was supposed to be called "Dil behlao" but later a different name was chosen,which still stands till date.
Ans..The 1st one is my fav question.Answer is MASTRAM.Its famous catchline was "MASTRAM masti mein,aag lagaye basti mein".Still its a widely circulated magazine in Delhi and UP.

2...Dr.Comfort and Lurid Revelations is a band.Quite an obscure one to that.But one of its band member is quite famous.Tell me who he is?
Ans...The easiest of the lot answered by almost all,thanks to google off course.Its the English spinner GRAEME SWANN.

3...Khuswant Singh was told about someone
"Had she even applied for a clerk's job she wouldnt have got it coz she wasnt even a matriculate...She couldnt fathom a woman more good looking than her at her near vicinity.She had even once insulted Gayatri Devi calling her a bitch and a glass doll."
For whome were these kind words for???
Ans...Who else but INDIRA GANDHI.

4...An honorary editor of British Royal Statistics once recounted"I recall hearing a commentator on radio saying surely someone could come up with something better and I soon realized that it was a Maths problem"What did he come up with???
Ans...Toughie here.Its Frank Duckworth off the Duckworth-Lewis method.Only Subhrajit could get it,good work pal.

5...Stating on the emotional moment of the last of its rolling out from factory,Its makers famously proclaimed that the product had lost relevance in this new age just like Volkswagen Beetle.Tilll date it has sold more than 10 million units.What products were they talking about?
Ans...Its the nostalgic CHETAK,HAMARA BAJAJ.

6... One Dr.B was once a very popular doctor in the remote and tribal areas for he healed people with locally found herbs.Working on the popularity of his home made medicines,He decided to venture into entrepreneurship and started his own company and named it taking the initials of what his patients used to call him.I want either the name of the company,the man or what his patients used to call him.
Ans...People used to call him DAKTAR BURMAN and from here he got his company's name DABUR.

7... Connect the authors;
H. Rider Haggard, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Bram Stoker, Dante, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson and H.G. Wells.
Ans...These were the authors who penned some very beautiful novels and great heroes of their novels assembled in a film the film is called "THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN"

8... For which news agency does Sunil Gavaskar write his columns for.
Ans...Everyone reads him daily and noone knew.Go check the newspaper today.Its GAMEPLAN a news syndication company.

9... Nimbus 2001, Cleansweep 7s and Nimbus 2000 are some models available in market. Firebolt being the bestseller. Reebok got associated with it a while ago in marketing of some top of the line sports gear. Which sport are we talking about ?
Ans...Yes its QUIDDITCH.

10... The Metropolitan Motor Works is a gift to his son by his father.Identify?
Ans...Easy one to end the show.Its Rabindranath and Rathindranath Tagore.

The set was really difficult but still kudos to people for scoring really high here.Most of the questions I framed are straight out of articles in newspapers that i have read over the years so google wasnt off much help I guess.Anyways heres the scoreboard.

Subhrajit Mishra...6
Manas Sahoo...5
Deepak das...5
Pradeep Pati...4
Swayamprav Bhatta...3
Gagandeep Bhatia...3