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1. This is the headquarters of an extremely famous British IT company. Identify the company.

2. Which classic book by J. M. Barrie opens with the line “All children, except one grew up”?

3. After the surrender of Japan to the United States, US imposed heavy censorship on Japanese press about the aftermaths of the atomic bomb. But the radiation scars grew once again in 1954 when US detonated a nuclear device in Bikini Atoll which affected a Japanese boat crew and their tuna catch, which were radioactive. At the height of its fear, Japanese director Ishiro Honda created a character to intentionally represent the thermonuclear weapons and its disasters. The character’s skin resembled the keloid scars that the radiation causes and the weapon that the character carried was an atomic heat beam generated by the nuclear energy inside the character. This representation bypassed the censorship and the character was created. Which character?

4.  A treaty was signed between Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan in 1922 and formed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Who was the first chairman of USSR?

5. X is a seed covered by a blue outer fruit when they are ripened and are sometimes called blue berry beads. The seeds are produced by several species of large, evergreen, broad leaved tree in the genus Elaeocarpus. The seeds are associated with Hindu lord Shiva. They are valued similar to semi-precious stone. Identify X.

6. If ‘Operation Blue Star’ - Carried out to remove separatist religious leader from the buildings of the Harmandir Sahib complex in Amritsar, Punjab.  ‘Operation Pawan’ - Indian Peace Keeping Force to take control of Jaffna from the LTTE ‘Operation Vijay’ – Kargil War  Then ‘Operation Black Tornado’ was for what?