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- 3. Your favourite bombay theater which only screens amazing south indian movies
- 4. Original Portuguese name for Bombay. Also sounds like how a townie sobo snob would pronounce bombay
- 6. A popular dish that quickly hit the spot in the British palate. This soup originates from the Tamil words mullaga/milagu and thanni, which translate to “pepper-water”. The British loved this pepper water so much that they asked their cooks to add chicken or mutton to it to further enhance the taste.
- 8. Where is the oldest jail in india? Where was the first manufacturing plant of BMW was set up? Ashok Leyland, Caterpillar, Daimler, Ford, Hyundai, BMW, Renault Nissan and Mitsubishi, have transformed this city into an automobile hub. The city’s location, proximity to the port, infrastructure and facilities make it the perfect place to operate from.
- 11. Asia’s largest library. This eight acre, nine-floor library can accommodate 1.2 million books.
- 15. Your favourite daily financial (?) newsletter
- 16. What would you be reincarnated as in another life?
- 17. One of your favourite indian coffees. Dramatic and unique style of pouring and cooling. Udipi classic. You had one at your desk in the Bombay Bloomberg office and would take special coffee breaks to use it.
- 18. Chennai was formerly a fishing village called by the name of ?
- 21. One of your favourite tamil informal words of affection reserved for the male species.
- 25. In March 1859, in a letter to Lord Macaulay, Lord Trevelyan, the Governor of Madras wrote: Among the many elusive and indescribable charms of life in Madras City, is the existance of my favourite book shop ‘_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _’ on Mount Road...Althogether a delightful place for the casual browser and a serious book lover.
- 26. These men are so good at their job, that harvard did a case study about them. They save people from hanger.
- 28. This water body in singapore shares a name with another water body in another place in india (clue: first name of the water bodies). You love this place in india.
- 29. singapore’s iconic emblem. mythical creature with a lion’s head and a fish's tail. inspired by the city’s Sanskrit name, Singapura, which means ‘lion city’. This Sanskrit name is thought to have been given by a Sumatran prince Sang Nila Utama, who ruled Temasek, a settlement on the Singapura island during the early 14th century. While hunting for animals, the prince spotted a strange creature moving quickly, which was identified as a lion by his advisors. However, there were no records of lions native to Singapore. It might have been a tiger that he saw, for tigers used to be found in the wild in Singapore, up until the 1930s.
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- 1. This modern architectural marvel (or monstrosity, depending on who you ask) is made of 90,000 tonnes of cement and steel wire, equal to the girth of the earth. The marvel has a length of 5.6kms.
- 2. This famous english author was born in Mumbai. He’s known for writing one of the most popular children’s books about animals, trees, and a boy.
- 5. the world’s second largest urban beach. It has a 12 km stretch. It is a sandy beach and one of the most crowded in the world, seeing 30,000 visitors during the weekends. During the summer, it sees 15,000 to 20,000 people daily.
- 7. One of the greener and cleaner areas in bombay, has a famous university campus, has lots of corporate offices, autos are allowed to travel in this area, better roads and footpaths than the rest of the city, has a dog park
- 9. which beautiful birds migrate to bombay every year?
- 10. Special language in Singapore
- 12. World heritage site in singapore - Singapore _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
- 13. Safari at an odd time of the day - _ _ _ _ _ Safari
- 14. Your Queen
- 16. Singapore has how many offshore islands?
- 19. Udipi on bombay which uses the most ghee, and which we love the most
- 20. What is the dish that you, Anil and Shreyas loved and ate for lunch regularly from the Indiabulls canteen, almost everyday. To the point where it almost made you constipated.
- 22. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ or beaches? You’ll always pick the first
- 23. Your favourite hero
- 24. Chennai has the biggest artificial ? (2 words, 3 letters, 4 letters)
- 27. India’s first ever train ran between mumbai and ?