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1. YANTRA|QUIZZOMANIAC
10th October, 2015

2. PRELIMS ANSWERS
36 QUESTIONS PRELIMS
FIRST 26 QUESTIONS IN A-Z FORMAT
NEXT 10 QUESTIONS IN 0-9 FORMAT
All Questions are researched & originally
framed to the knowledge of the Quiz Master, if
“matches found” with some other set posted in
Slideshare or any other blogs it’s completely
unintentional and coincidental.

3. IF you Go in Google Translate and
type the Italian word for Love what
will be it’s corresponding result?
A

4. AMORE

5.  Blessed by the divine grace of Hazoor Maharaj Sant
Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Ji, Shah Satnam Ji Cricket
Stadium has been constructed by Shah Satnam Ji Education
& Welfare Society in a record period of 45 days.
 It again came into news in September 2015 when B, who
earned the top spot earlier this year was put back to the
second place into the Guiness Book of World Records and
MSG 2 took over the top spot. Give me B and what am I
talking about?
B

6. BAHUBALI, MSG 2 Broke it’s record for
the Worlds Largest Movie Poster.

7.  The Hollywood movie was Frank Coraci’s next venture after Around the
World in 80 days and happens to be the only Adam Sandler movie to be
nominated for Oscar
 The Bollywood movie starring Shreyas Talpade was a box office flop which
is a remake of the 2004 Thai Horror Movie SHUTTER also remade in
Hollywood in 2008
C
(bigger pictures in next slide)

9. CLICK

10.  This is a sculpture situated in Madrid of
some one who was born as Aldonza
Lorenzo but her name was changed to X
by Y who considered her as his lady love
 X lives in El Toboso and Y believes that X
is his queen and lady whose beauty is
superhuman as all the impossible
attributes of beauty which the poets apply
to their ladies are verified in her like her
eyebrows rainbows, her eyes suns, her
cheeks roses, her lips coral, her teeth
pearls, her neck alabaster, her bosom
marble, her hands ivory, her fairness snow.
Give X and Y.
D

11. DULCENIA, DON QUIXOTE

12. In the movie Piku, Bhaskar Banerjee played by
Amitabh Bachchan gets angry in a scene to remark
that he doesn’t wanna die of constipation, his
daughter(played by Deepika) replies no one dies of
constipation. What was his reply to this?
E

13. ELVIS PRESLEY DIED DUE TO
CONSTIPATION AS HE WAS FOUND IN
THE BATHROOM.
(ELVIS PRESLEY gives full points)

14.  The word Sala is considered as a slang in Bengali but in
Spanish it means
auditorium, chamber, hall, house, lounge, room,
saloon, ward.
 Which game thus originated from this term and was first
registered in 1985 in Madrid, Spain though the game had
originally started in Uruguay long back in the 1930’s?
F

15. FUTSAL

16. #The Only One Liner
Which was the first colour movie to win
the Academy Award for Best Picture?
G

17. GONE WITH THE WIND

18.  Sir Thomas Browne was an English Physician who died on his
77th birthday on 1682. His missing skull became the subject
of dispute when in 1840 his coffin was accidentally re-
opened by workmen.
 It was not re-buried until 4 July 1922 when it was
registered in the church of Saint Peter Mancroft as aged
317 years.
 Incidentally he is remembered to the world for introducing
which term (H) into English Language in 1640’s from a Latin
word which mean to wander in the mind?
H

19. HALLUCINATION

20. Why was the director of all
these three films in the
news yesterday?
I

22. John Spilsbury was a British Cartographer who was the royal
geographer to King George III
 He produced an “educational tool” in form of dissected
maps to teach Geography to the King’s children, what
invention is thus credited to him?
 The picture shows Spilsbury’s Map of Europe divided into
four kingdoms. (bigger picture next slide)
J

24. JIGSAW PUZZLES

25. Why does a Dutch Jeweller called Mr.
Cantor hold a significant part in the
Indian history?
K

26. KOHINOOR DIAMOND WAS RESHAPED BY HIM TO
108.93 CARATS FOR QUEEN VICTORIA
(Kohinoor gives half, reshaping of Kohinoor gives
full points)

27. Jean le Rond d'Alembert was a music theorist
who studied the problem of a vibrating string in a
musical instrument and discovered the 1-D Wave
Equation in 1746 known as d’Alembert’s Equation.
He was the first to introduce a concept which
was never invoked by I. Newton and G. W. Leibniz
even though it was implicit already in the works
of Eudoxus and Archimedes.
What did he first propose?
L

28. LIMIT IN CALCULAS

29.  In Nandan Arena there was a kid who used to sell a 50
paise lozenge for 5 Rupees or some times take 10 Rupees
for 2 Rupees Agarbathies, one day he was seen watching
a movie in Nandan sitting in the front Row.
 Kecho has no caste who has a girl friend named Mini who
studies in a good school, an orphan Kecho explains Mini
that his dad is a LATHIAL (plays stick fighting) and is
majestic in many other fields. Who is Kecho’s dad?
M

30. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

31. Which die hard fan of Swami Vivekananda wrote this
humorous piece to letter to a close friend after
dining with Poet Rudyard Kipling?
N

32. NIKOLA TESLA

33.  Which company which earlier came up with the initiatives
Pragati- to provide tailor made loans for it’s employees,
Star- to provide insurance has recently tied up with Avanti
Learning Centres which will enable education of the
children of its employees via its initiative named Gurukul?
 They will provide free after school classes for 9th and 10th
standard kids, and prepare them for the board exams &
also plans to provide free stationery, books, course
material to top performing children.
o

34. OLA CABS

35. The word "grenade" derives from the French
word for a "small explosive shell“. From which
old French word is the term derived which the
English called “Apple of Grenada”?
P

36. POMEGRANATE

37.  Which company acquired by Yahoo! in 2013 released
an iPhone app that automatically turns the pictures
and videos from a user’s camera roll into movies to
share had investors list which included FB co founder
Eduardo Saverin and Youtube co founder Jawed
Karim?
Q

38. QWIKI

39.  He was a pioneer aviator and balloonist
who was a founding member of the Royal
Aero Club in 1903 and was the second
person in Britain to be licensed to fly by
it.
 He was killed in an air crash at
Bournemouth when the tail of his Wright
Flyer broke off during a flying display. He
was the first British to be killed in an
aeronautical accident,11th internationally.
 What is his 5 letter surname?
R

40. ROLLS
Charles Rolls of Rolls
Royce Fame

41. X, an Arjuna Awardee is associated with “Prince O3 Speedport
Black”, he loves Rasogollas and have 4 in a Day, when asked
how being a sportsman he can afford to have 4 Rasgulla’s and
still remain fit he replied “I work out 4 times more and harder
to afford 4 Rasgullas” Who is X?
S

42. SAURAV GHOSHAL

43. Identify.
Hints: The most
frequently sung
song in the World
can give you her
name
#Current Affairs
T

44. TU YOUYOU
The song talked about here is
“Happy Birthday To You You”
This year’s Nobel Prize recipient
for medicine working on malaria

45. VIDEO: INTEL AD.

46. Actor Sunil Narikar is potraying this
person in the Intel Commercial, what is
his contribution to the Technology World?U

47. USB
Ajay Bhatt, the co founder of USB was
potrayed by Sunil Narikar

48. v

49. VOLKSWAGEN

50.  United Nations’ World Intellectual Piracy Organization (UN
WIPO) had taken a case in Geneva, Switzerland in July,
2006 when W took legal action against Welsh actor Huw
Marshall who had registered two domain names W.com
and W.co.uk in April 2002 when W was just 16 years old.
For a time being when W.com/ W.co.uk were surfed it
showed “coming soon”. Who was the “intellectual”?
W

51. WAYNE ROONEY

52. The new ipad app X helps you to land an airplane, it
can be connected to a small plane’s autopilot via Wi-Fi
to help guide the pilot to the nearest airport or safe
landing area. What is this innovative application
called?
X

53. XAVION

54.  In Rig vedic Sanskrit, it meant an instrument for
restraining or fastening, a prop, support or barrier.
 In the medical terminology of Sushruta, the term refers
to blunt surgical instruments such as tweezers or a vice.
 Which term?
Y

55. YANTRA

56. Ali Bachar recalls, “I was in Johannesburg and I
got a call from Mandela's personal assistant
requesting Mandela wanted to call X and
congratulate him. I told the PA to inform Mandela
that X spoke fluent Y.”
“When I met X recently, he reminded me Mandela
had indeed called him and congratulated him.
That was Mandela's initiative, to get on the phone,
find X and convey his congratulations. This was
the president of South Africa.”
Give X and Y (Both can start with Z)
Z

57. ZULU, LANCE KLUSENER(Also known as “Zulu”)
The QM once possessed this Big Fun Card which
eventually got stolen.

58. Film. 0

59. 033

60. The singer of this song released a promotional in World
Music Day 2013. Which singer and which song(starts
with 1)?
Song name: Chaya Bhitu Chaya
Movie name: Aparajita Tumi
1

61. 1 2 3 4 GET ON THE DANCE FLOOR
The singer being Hamsika Iyer

62.  Rakhat Aliyev, the son-in-law of Kazakhstan's president
Nursultan Nazarbayev jailed for corruption was found
hanging in an Austrian jail cell earlier this year.
 Cops reported: "We have found numerous alarm bells and
red flags linking these properties to Rakhat Aliyev and
the Kazakh 'ruling family', yet we still cannot say for
certain who the real owner is. This raises real questions
as to where the money came from to buy the property
and what checks were done.”
 Which property(read address) he claimed to have bought?
2

63. 221B BAKER STREET

64.  The novel was written near the end of the Victorian-
era bicycle craze, launched by the development of the two-
wheeled safety bicycle.
 D. C. Browning writes "The title must be puzzling to many
readers, for ‘BUMMEL’ will not be found in English
dictionaries.“ It is a German word, as he does not explain
until the end of the book
 This Novel X is a sequel of the Novel Y. Give X and Y
3

65. 3 MEN IN A BOAT AND 3 MEN IN A BUMMEL

66. X is a code term that refers to the
consumption of Marijuana, 20th April is
celebrated as National Weed Day in America
4

67. 420

68. What was first introduced by SIGNETICS
Manufacturer and was called “The IC Time
Machine” and later changed it’s name after a
popular Cigarette brand to gain more
popularity?
5

69. 555 TIMER CIRCUIT

70. The Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) announced
that Tribhuvan University Ground would be the
venue for a match played between visiting Aussie
cricketers and players from the Nepalese National
Side. The match was set to be played on April 11,
2015.
How many overs affair was the match?
6

71. 63 OVERS AS A TRIBUTE TO PHIL HUGHES
His cap and bat were kept in Mount Everest

72. 7

73. 7 KHOON MAAF

74. Which 2015 Indian “serial killing thriller”
indirectly inspired from The Silence of the
Lambs had the tagline: “NOT JUST A
NUMBER…”?
8

75. 89

76. What is the CRICKETING CONNECTION to both these
movies?

77. 99, the score Tendulkar was out in
both the movies.