Bollywood
The first Indian to win an Oscar, won in this category.
Costume Design
This man holds the highest ever ELO rating in the history of Chess(2882)
Magnus Carlsen
Yuri Gagarin was the first man in Space. Less than a month later, this man became the first American in space.
Alan Shepard
Playing with Little Richard till 1965, this guitarist reportedly left Little Richard, allegedly because he had begun to overshadow Little Richard during the concerts.
Jimi Hendrix
According to the Greek historian Appian,X used this phrase in a letter to the Roman Senate after he had achieved a quick victory in his short war against Pharnaces II of Pontus at the Battle of Zela.
Veni,Vidi,Vici
This 2006 film became the first Bolly film to be screened at the UN
Lage Raho Munnabhai
With the average speed of cars on this track being 273kmph, this F1 track is rightly known as the "Temple of Speed".
Monza(Italian GP)
Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2 images
Sputnik 2 sent up Laika
The Beatles 1966 US tour was their last such tour, and post this, they became a studio only band, and never again performed live in front of an audience. There were many reasons for this, but one particular was linked very closely to the bands ability to perform, and they said they couldn't enjoy it, because of the crazy number of people that would come to watch them. What was the problem?
They couldn't hear themselves perform due to the audience cheering.
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history. The march was organized by A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, who built an alliance of civil rights, labor, and religious organizations that came together under the banner of "jobs and freedom." The most widely cited estimate of the attendance is 250,000 people.
What historic words were those 250000 people witnesses to?
"I have a dream" speech by MLK Jr.
Yaadein(1964) is a soliloquy of a man who comes home to find that his wife and son are not at home, he assumes that they have left him and reminiscences his life with them, and scared of his life without them, he regrets his past indiscretions.
Give me the star of the film, and what made it gain entry to the Guinness Book of World Records
Sunil Dutt - Only guy to appear on screen
The NBA logo is modeled on this man
Jerry West
Russian Cosmonauts have a certain ritual that they perform on the way to the launch vehicle, where they get out out of the bus transporting, move towards the right-back tire of the bus, and _____. This is done by every cosmonaut, since Yuri Gagarin ended up doing it out of necessity on the way to his famous launch.
What and why could there have been a break in the tradition just 2 years into it?
Urinate - Valentina Tereshkova
X is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist and separately as a member of two different bands.
Eric Clapton
This event's organizers had named former Secretary of State Edward Everett to be the main attraction. Everett a famed orator and former President of Harvard, wrote a two-hour speech full of beautiful language and logic, that explained the event and other happenings of that time. However, his 13000+ word speech is barely remembered and was forgotten by most barely minutes after he finished delivering it. Why?
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address followed it
Daily Double!!
Sangam(1964) is a film starring Vayjayanthimala, Raj Kapoor and Rajendra Kumar in leading roles. It was also Raj Kapoor's first film shot completely in colour.
However, the movie had another first for Bollywood, which resulted in increased audience viewings.
What?
First one to be filmed in foreign locations
Connect with respect to Tennis
1877-1906
1934-1936
2013
2016
British Men Winning Wimbledon Singles title
Yuri Gagarin was the backup pilot for the new Russian space vehicle, the Soyuz 1. The pilot who eventually flew on the Soyuz, met an unfortunate death when the capsule parachute failed during reentry, making him the first human casualty in space travel. Who?
Vladimir Komarov
X, together with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, have been referred to as the "unholy trinity of British hard rock and heavy metal in the early to mid-seventies".They were listed in the 1975 Guinness Book of World Records as "the globe's loudest band" for a 1972 concert at London's Rainbow Theatre and have sold over 100 million albums worldwide.
Deep Purple
Daily Double!!
"X" is a Latin phrase attributed to Marcus Iunius Brutus, one of the people who assassinated Julius Caesar. It can be translated as "Thus always to tyrants". It became infamous in the modern world due to its use by another assassin, post the assassination. Who?
John Wilkes Booth
In the Line of Fire(1993) - video
Palat scene - DDLJ
Below is an exhaustive list of something in cricket
1997 - Mumbai
X - Y
2011 - Indore
2013 - Bangalore
2014 - Kolkata
2017 - Mohali
Give me X and Y
Sachin - Gwalior
In 2000, Sergei Krikalev was part of the Expedition 1 crew, that became the first crew to have a prolonged stay on the ISS. However, Krikalev was not an amateur, and was already well versed with prolonged stay in space, when he was forced to end up staying for 311 days at stretch on the Mir, double of what was originally planned.
Why?
Collapse of the USSR, and the shutting of the Baikonour Cosmodrome.
In first Madagascar film, Marty the Zebra, escapes from the zoo, and is shown walking around Manhattan with a particular walk,clearly paying homage to the character played by John Travolta in the movie X. The song in the background is also the same as the one played in the background while Travolta walks in X.
Give me X and the song.
Stayin Alive - Saturday Night Fever
This use of chiasmus can be seen even as a thesis statement of X's speech – a call to action for the public to do what is right for the greater good. (This appears to be an elegant rephrasing of Franklin D. Roosevelt's acceptance speech at the 1936 Democratic National Convention: "To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.")
"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. " - JFK