1) What started out during a banquet held in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on May 16,1929?

The Oscar awards. 2) What first did the Tamil film "Karuppu Roja" (1996) achieve in the history of Indian cinema? Clue: related to technology. First Indian film done in DTS, the six-track digital sound system developed by C alifornia-based Digital Theatre Systems Inc. 3) What drink was first advertised as a "cool drink in summer"? TEA. 4) Whose lines about whom: " .............. I see Fame, in the mirror of futurity Wearing the chaplets you have yet to gain And then I feel I have not lived in vain"? Henry Louis Vivian Derozio about his students of Hindu college. 5) The epigraph to the first chapter of which famous Bengali novel is a quote fr om Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors"? Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay s Kapalkundla. 6) In the guilty verdict given against former Pak President,Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, one judge had dissented from the jury's decision.Name him. Justice Davar. 7) Hong Kong billionaire, Li Ka-Shing launched this thing which revolutionised t he Asian media scenario. Name it. Satellite Television Asia Region(STAR) TV,Asia s first satellite TV network. 8) "While the cows are being laoded,I could hear the gurgling of one cow choking on her own blood ........." This narrative of cow slaughter in India by a PETA(People for Ethical Treatment of Animals) investigator is now the cent re of a face-off between Social Justice Minister, Maneka Gandhi & Railway Minist ry.Name this investigator, who is famous for other reasons. Pamela Anderson of Baywatch fame. 9) What is the significance behind a 5,000-mile journey made by a certain Malaba r Princess from Mumbai to London via Cairo & Geneva on 8th June,1948? It marked the inauguration of India s external air service . Malabar Princess was a 40-seater Lockheed L-749 Constellation aircraft. 10) Steven Spielberg modelled the eyes of "E.T." on 3 famous personalities .2 we re Albert Einstein & Ernest Hemingway. Name the third. Carl Sandburg, noted U.S poet.