the Z gen quizzing: Z-Gen Quizzing Edition 6

Here is the next set of questions. This time an unsuall number "17" and from wider spheres of life. A fewquestions here are not mine so would like to give the credit to the orignal creator but at after a week's time as it may uncork the answers. Hope you people like it, rules are the same one week's time and shoot in your replies at deepanshu_4_u@yahoo.co.in

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1. This tall and slim athlete grew up in a poor household in Gobindpura, Muzzaffargarh district, now in Pakistan. With the coming of independence, he lost his parents and three brothers in the genocide that followed Partition. He, however, managed to escape death by lying among the dead. Bearing immense hardship he finally reached New Delhi.

Having lost everything in life, he decided to join the Army, but was turned down because the authorities felt that he was too thin. However, when he tried again, he was selected in 1952.

As a jawan in Electrical Mechanical Engineering, Secunderabad, he reached the pinnacle of glory in athletics through sheer dedication and hard work. "What I am today," admits X, "is all thanks to the Army. It is the Army that discovered me, groomed me, and trained me. Before that I had not even heard of the Olympics or Asian Games or National Games. Havaldar Gurdev Singh was the one who groomed me, and trained me. That was all the training that I had. I set myself punishing schedules. I used to train so hard that several times I had to be carried home on a stretcher."

X shot into limelight when he took part in a sporting event in 1954 in Patiala. The Maharajah of Patiala was on the look out for young sportspersons for the Melbourne Olympics. He was impressed with X's action, and, thanks to him, he was sent for a coaching camp in Bangalore.

Identify him.

2. Where you can find this painting and also tell the artist.

3. Identify the advertiser.

4. Identify this robot and whats special about it.

5. Whose artistic impression is this?

6. US-Seals

UK-Royal Marines

India-??

7. Which character was blonde and thin, with a very long neck, and thought her sister was a freak?(harry potter)

8. According to rumours both Rowan atkinson and John malkovich were considered for the role X in a film, but none of them got it. In simpson's 13th season titled "treehouse of horror XII" montgomery burns appeared as X. X was voted as the favourite literary villain in 2006 by bigbadread poll. Identify X

9. Connect

10. In 1998, The US EPA alleged that this company had not filed a Pre-Manufacturing Notice (PMN) before it began manufacturing and exporting chemicals and penalized them with $2.5mn. Which company I am talking about?

11. 5 business men set out to mine minerals for grindingwheel abrasives, but finding it as a non-profitable venture, focused on selling sandpaper products. Name the company.

12. The logo of this company has a Hindi alphabet to represent it as uniquely Indian. It also has an infinity symbol. The symbol tells that the company has infinite ways to meet

man’s infinite needs. Identify the Company.

13. Identify the advertiser.