What feat is common to Peter Jackson, Gore Verbinski, Lee Unkrich, Tim Burton, Rob Marshall, Michael Bay, James Cameron, David Yates, George Lucas and Josh Wheddon?

Since the mid-90s, the Bernardo Award is given to the best artistes in this folk dance influenced by the Italian minuet and the Devadasi art. It derives its name from a Sanskrit word that means circular movement. The men use colorful handkerchiefs and the women use toy fans. Name it.

Identify the poet ( a Civil Service guy in north India, like Arvind Kejriwal) :

Sons of Ind, why sit ye idle,
Wait ye for some Deva's aid?
Buckle to, be up and doing!
Nations by themselves are made!

Are ye Serfs or are ye Freemen,
Ye that grovel in the shade?
In your own hands rest the issues!
By themselves are nations made!

"Rajpramukh" was a honorary title conferred by the Govt of India on which erstwhile ruler for about six years ( so that he would have a grandiose title even after the monarchy ended), then the guy retired altogether from public life.

Someone who voluntary engages in one-to-one with the group leader/therapist in a Gestalt group session - what do they have in common with a phrase recurringly used by Amitabh Bachhan on a television programme in India?

Clues: it's also US slang for the main equipment in capital punishment.   And these days, the term refers to a multiplayer mode in gaming where players take their turns one by one.

A term from the 1920s that came in from life sciences into the vocabulary of social organisation, it was coined in German by a Norwegian scientist called Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe - he studied defence and aggression in fowl behaviour and the establishing of a dominance hierarchy. What two-word phrase in English is thus derived?

Andreas Pavel, an inventor from Brazil, had obtained a patent on his invention ( in entertainment electronics) in 1972 in some countries, but not in several others. About a decade ago, a Japanese manufacturer whom he sued, had to shell out over $10 m. to him and acknowledge that he was the original inventor. Name the item (launched in 1979) or the most widely used brandname under which it sold.

As another year has rolled in...

Longacre Square near Seventh Avenue in New York City underwent a change of name in 1903. A prominent publisher prevailed upon the city's Mayor to rename it because he had opened a new office in that location. What has it been called since ?