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On February 23, 1993, It celebrated a "topping off" ceremony with the placement of the last panel of emerald green glass hoisted onto one of the 30-story hotel towers. A total of 5,005 green balloons were released, each containing a gift certificate valid for one complimentary stay in one of the rooms. At that time it had an extensive Wizard of Oz theme, including the green "Emerald City" color of the building and the decorative use of Wizard of Oz memorabilia. After entering the casino's main entrance, one would find themselves in the Oz Casino and facing the "Emerald City". Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion were seen in front of the city. The "Emerald City" attraction featured an elaborate yellow brick road walk through. Complete with a cornfield, an apple orchard, the haunted forest as well as audio-animatronic figures of the Scarecrow, Dorothy, the Wicked Witch of the West, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion. It would end at the door of the city, leading inside for a performance of "The Wizard's Secreats". When It began its extensive refurbishment in 1996, the Oz Casino was the first to go. The Emerald City was completely demolished, and the "Emerald City Gift Shop" was moved to a new shopping section of the casino. The store remained open until early 2003. Which Hotel ?

A-MGM Grand

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Billions of black spots littering the streets all over the world are the consequence of improperly disposed ones. Certain of these products are not bio-degradable and are therefore not able to break down in nature. This poses a potentially serious threat to specific ecosystems as some ingredients can be harmful to the members of their food chain. The city of Cologne in Germany has imposed fines up to €500 for discarding it on the street. Which Product ?

A-Chewing Gum

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In a viral video doing the rounds on YouTube, Reebok has recently announced the launch of Reebok's XperReements series. Harbhajan Singh is in the first video. What is the Video titled ?

A-Teesra

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It was started on June 1, 1930 as a weekend train for the Britishers during the British rule in India, to ferry race-fans from Bombay to Poona . The first service of the train was conducted from Kalyan and Pune. It is one of the longest running trains on the Indian Railways to have never run on steam power. From the beginning, It has been run using electric locomotives. The color of its rake has seen a lot of changes, from red colour to yellow and then to blue. It is one of the trains in India having ISO 9000 certification and a dining car. Its Marathi name is Dakhkhanchee Raanee. What am i talking about ?

A-Deccan Queen

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The New York Times, moved to more spacious offices across Broadway in 1913. However, the area was besieged by crime and corruption, in the form of gambling and prostitution; one case that garnered huge attention was the arrest and subsequent execution of police officer Charles Becker. The general atmosphere changed with the onset of the Great Depression in the 1930s. It acquired a reputation as a dangerous neighborhood in the following decades.

From the 1960s to the early 1990s, the seediness of the area, especially due its go-go bars, sex shops, and adult theaters, became an infamous symbol of the city's decline. In the mid-1990s, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (1994–2002) led an effort to "clean up" the area, increasing security, closing pornographic theaters, pressuring drug dealers and "squeegee men" to relocate, and opening more tourist-friendly attractions and upscale establishments.


A-Times Square

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He grew up in a two-bedroom apartment in Chicago's South Shore middle-class Jewish neighborhood. Louis, his adoptive father, was a modest government employee who had made a small fortune in Chicago real estate, only to lose it during the Great Depression. He left the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign at the end of his second year, after not taking his final exams because his adoptive mother had just died. After spending a summer in Northern California, where he lived with his friend Chuck Weiss, he attended the University of Chicago for one term, where he first encountered computer designing. In 1964, at 20 years of age, he moved to northern California permanently. Who ?

A-Larry Ellison