The passage provides details about an archery contest organized by X after defeating Y. Z told a poem to the blinded Y informing him about X's location, allowing Y to shoot and kill X with his arrow. X, Y and Z refer to historical figures from India - X is Ghori, Y is Prithviraj Chauhan, and Z is Chand Bardai.
3. Question 1
โข At around 11 am, on the morning of February
25th 2013, a chai shop owner in Manimajra,
Chandigarh, started distributing free chai and
samosa to everyone.
โข Why ?
4.
5. Answer
โข That area in Chandigarh had been converted
to th Abottabad bazaar in the movie Zero Dark
Thirty. As a result, various stall owners had
made huge profits. The celebration was a
result of ZDT winning an oscar.
6. Question 2
โข Dr. K. A. Hamied was a nationalist and anti-imperialist
Indian Scientist, who graduated from Allahabad
University and held M.A. and PhD degrees from
the Humboldt University of Berlin. He was a disciple of
Gandhi and strongly believed that India needed to become
self-sufficient in supplying medicine to its people. His
family raised money to send him to study chemistry in
England in 1924. Instead, he changed ships and went to
Germany, then the world's leader in chemicals. On a Berlin
lake, he met a Lithuanian Jewish socialist, whom he
married. They fled as the Nazis rose to power in Germany,
came back to Mumbai and founded _____, which is Indiaโs
largest pharmaceutical company today.
โข FITB.
9. Question 3
City square
โข List of largest
city squares
in the world.
โข Id X and Y.
City
Country
Area
Xinghai
Square
Dalian
China
1,100,000
mยฒ approx.
Merdeka
Square
Jakarta
Indonesia
Dimensions
1,000,000
mยฒ approx.
Praรงa dos
Girassรณis
(Square of Palmas, Toc
Brazil
antins
the
Sunflowers
)
570,000 mยฒ
approx.
approx. 833โ802 m by
718โ643 m
X
-------------
-------------
440,000 mยฒ
880 m by 500 m
Macroplaza
Monterrey
Mexico
400,000 mยฒ
Y
------------
------------
306,600
mยฒ
approx. 625m
diameter
10.
11. Answer
City square
City
Country
Area
Dimensions
Xinghai Square
Dalian
China
1,100,000 mยฒ
approx.
Merdeka
Square
Jakarta
Indonesia
1,000,000 mยฒ
approx.
Praรงa dos
Girassรณis
(Square of the
Sunflowers)
Palmas, Tocanti
Brazil
ns
570,000 mยฒ
approx.
approx. 833โ
802 m by 718โ
643 m
X = Tiananmen
Square
Beijing
China
440,000 mยฒ
880 m by 500
m
Macroplaza
Monterrey
Mexico
400,000 mยฒ
Y = India
Gate Complex
New Delhi
India
306,600 mยฒ
approx. 625m
diameter
Notes
12. Question 4
โข Droste B.V. is a Dutch chocolate manufacturer
which is famous for something called the โDroste
Effectโ, which started thus :โข In 1904, an image of a woman in nurse clothes,
holding a serving tray with a cup of hot chocolate
and a box, appeared on Droste products. The
image became a household notion and was
maintained for decades with slight variations.
โข What is the Droste effect ?
15. Question 5
โข X is a sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley, published in
1818 in London. It is probably Shelley's most famous
short poem. The poem is supposedly inspired by a
colossal statue of Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II, so
much so that it paraphrases the inscription on the base
of the statue : "King of Kings am I, X. If anyone would
know how great I am and where I lie, let him surpass
one of my works."
โข X is also the name of a fictional character created
by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons for DC Comics. X is
ranked number 29 on Wizard's Top 200 Comic Book
Characters list and number 21 on IGN's Top 100 Villains
list. Who is X ?
18. Question 6
โข _____ was a user and advocate of marijuana. Under the
pseudonym "Mr. X", he contributed an essay about
smoking cannabis to the 1971 book Marijuana
Reconsidered. The essay explained that marijuana use had
helped to inspire some of _____'s works and enhance
sensual and intellectual experiences. After _____'s death,
his friend Lester Grinspoon disclosed this information to
_____'s biographer, Keay Davidson. The publishing of the
biography, _____ : A Life, in 1999 brought media attention
to this aspect of _____'s life. Not long after his death,
widow Ann Druyan had gone on to preside over the board
of directors of the National Organization for the Reform of
Marijuana Laws (NORML), a non-profit organization
dedicated to reforming cannabis laws.
โข FITB
21. Question 7
โข Prem Ganpathy, a class 10 passout from
Nagalapuram in Tamil Nadu came to Mumbai to
follow his dream. He was robbed and left
stranded. After doing a couple of low paying jobs,
he started his own business, making and selling
_____s from a handcart. The business grew and
he eventually rented a small place and named it
Prem Sagar ____ _____. From here, the business
grew by leaps and bounds and today it is a 30-40
crore company.
โข Id.
22.
23.
24. Question 8
โข According to a popular urban legend, When Apollo
Mission Astronaut Neil Armstrong first walked on the
moon, just before he re-entered the lander, he made a
very enigmatic remark - "Good luck Mr. Gorsky.โ, he
said.
โข People at NASA thought it was a casual remark
concerning some rival Soviet Cosmonaut. However,
upon checking, there was no Gorsky in either the
Russian or American space programs.
โข At a later point of time, Armstrong once explained why
he had actually said it. What was the reason ?
25.
26. Answer
โข In 1938, Armstrong lived as a young boy in a
midwest town, where he had Mr. and Mrs.
Gorsky as neighbours.
โข Once young Armstrong heard Mrs Gorsky
shouting at Mr Gorsky. "Sex! You want sex?!
You'll get sex when the kid next door walks on
the moon!โ.
30. Question 10
_____ _____ is an American science fiction/adventure
animated television series about a boy who accompanies
his father on extraordinary adventures. It was produced
by Hannah-Barbara Productions for Screen Gems, and
created and designed by comic book artist Doug Wildey.
It was highly controversial because it featured much
more realistic violence than other Hannah-Barbara
cartoons.
Its developer aimed to "go beyond cartooning and into
animated film-making" for the show's storytelling. It was
the first cartoon ever to hint the concept of virtual
gaming. The show was remade twice for TV, once in 1986
and then again in 1996 (the one we are familiar with).
33. Question 11
โข According to a report by the Times of India,
the French author Jean-Yves Ferri (who is
currently writing a new Asterix and Obelix
story) wants to โset a new adventure in oldtime Indiaโ where he will introduce a new
character in the Asterix universe named
______, inspired by the โmost famous
Indian.โ
36. Question 12
โข X is a progressive rock band that started in London in 1968.
One of the most experimental and diverse bands ever, it
has incorporated varying influences and instrumentation
during its history including everything from jazz and folk
music, classical and experimental music, to psychedelic
rock, hard rock and heavy metal, to New
Wave, gamelan, electronica and drum and bass.
โข The bandโs lineup has never been constant, and a total of
20 musicians have at some point or the other been a part
of it. Despite garnering little radio or music video airplay,
the band has a huge following.
โข One of the most famous quotes about X is : "Everything
you've heard about X is true; it is an absolutely terrifying
place.โ Id X.
42. #1 (+40,-10/ +20,-0)
โข In what has been often described by cricket pundits and
fans as โThe greatest over in Test historyโ, a 41 year old X
faced a fierce Y, in Bridgetown, 1981.
โข The first ball was a three-quarter-pace loosener which
nevertheless rapped Y on the gloves and dropped just short
of the slips. Each succeeding ball after that was quicker and
had more swing than the previous one. The second beat Y
outside the off stump, and the third cut back and struck
him on the inside of his right thigh. The fourth and fifth
both hurried Y, but he just about managed to keep them
out.
โข Just when Y thought he had survived, X bowled the final
ball, the coup de grace at a fearsome pace, it went through
him and sent his off stump cartwheeling almost 20 yards.
โข Who are X and Y ?
45. #2 (+60,-20)/(+40,-10)/(+20,-0)
โข In the season 4 finale of Family Guy, Brian the dog goes to
heaven and meets A, B and C.
โข The conversation that takes place is this :
โข Brian: (in heaven) Look at me, hanging out with A, B and C.
But it does seem like we all ended up here earlier then we
should have.
A: Well, I finally collapsed under the weight of my own
genius, and shot myself.
B: I couldn't reconcile my passion with the way people
around me were living, so I shot myself.
C: I couldn't stand the idea of my music becoming some bland
corporate tool, so I shot myself.
Brian: Yeah, I... got into the garbage and ate some chocolate.
โข A is an author, B a painter and C a rock musician. Id each.
46.
47.
48. Answer
โข A = Ernest Hemingway
โข B = Vincent Van Gogh
โข C = Kurt Cobain
49. #3 (+60,-20)/(+40,-10)/(+20,-0)
โข According to Zโs famous poem, after X had defeated Y,
taken him back to his kingdom and blinded him, X
organized an archery contest. Z told X that Y was so
skilled an archer, that he could take aim based only on
sound. X disdained to believe this, and agreed to
personally give Y the order to shoot at some iron plates
which would be struck by a hammer. At this point of
time, Z composed a couplet in his native language and
sang it to Y, informing him of the position where X was
sitting. Y thus shot the arrow and killed X.
โข X,Y,Z = ?.
50.
51. Answer
โข X = Ghori
โข Y = Prithviraj Chauhan
โข Z = Chand Bardai
52. #4 (+60,-20)/(+40,-10)/(+20,-0)
โข โHe said that he had a paramount desire for Y, and
although he claimed music was evil he spoke of someday
spending vast amounts of money to go to America and
try to arrange a meeting with the superstar,โ Boof wrote.
โ He said he wanted to give Y a mansion that he owned
in a suburb of Khartoum. He explained to me that to
possess Y he would be willing to break his colour rule
and make her one of his wives.โ Of course, Y was already
married, to Z, but X had a plan to take care of that, too โ
he would simply have Z rubbed out. โYโs name was the
one that would be mention constantly. How beautiful she
was, what a nice smile she has, how truly Islamic she is
but is just brainwashed by American culture and by her
husband Z, whom X talked about having killed, as if it
were normal to have womenโs husbands killed,โ Boof
revealed.
53.
54. Answer
โข X = Osama bin Laden
โข Y = Whitney Houston
โข Z = Bobby Brown
63. Q3
โข A rock like this, made
up of a large no of
individual rocks, gives
name to a famous
business term where
the same thing
happens with
companies. ID
87. Answer
โข International cricket grounds in India.
Brabourne,
Mumbai
Chinaswamy,
Bangalore
Madhavrao Scindia,
Rajkot
Gwalior
Chidambaram,
Chennai
Sawai Man
Singh, Jaipur
Sahara Stadium,
Pune
Dr D Y Patil,
Mumbai
Eden Gardens, Kolkata