A quiz by J.Ramanand at the BCQC Pune in June 2015

1. MANORAMICA 2015
You are supposed to know these things.
J Ramanand
Prelims

2. • This is a GK quiz
• You are supposed to know these answers
• 30 qns, 20 minutes
• No points for correct answers
• -1 per incorrect answer
• 6 least worst loser teams go into the final
• No whining, no winning
• There is one way to actually score some
points in the prelims.

3. History, Military, Geography
1. Which Viceroy of India partitioned Bengal in
1905?
2. Who was India’s Army Chief during
Operation Blue Star?
3. What is the capital of the Canadian
province of Quebec?

4. Sports, Business, Science
4. Where will the 2020 Olympics be held?
5. Where is the HQ of the Asian Development
Bank?
6. 1 Astronomical Unit is defined as the distance
between which two objects in space?

5. Capitals, Dates, Who’s Who
7. What is the capital of Burkina Faso?
8. In which year did India first explode a
nuclear bomb: 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976
9. Russian, wrote Dr. Zhivago, declined the
Nobel Prize

6. Characters, Cities, Chief Ministers
10.Lady in Sheridan’s The Rivals with a habit of
mixing up similar sounding words
11.The Lazio football club is based in which
European city?
12.Name the Deputy CM of J&K

7. Awards
13.Which of these directors won the 1972
Academy Award for Best Director: Bob Fosse for
‘Cabaret’ or Francis Ford Coppola for ‘The
Godfather’ or Andrei Tarkovsky for ‘Solaris’
14.Jacobus van’t Hoff won the first Nobel Prize in
which discipline?
15.For which book did Ian McEwan win the Booker
Prize in 1998?

8. Bollywood, Pune, Quotations
16.What is the name of Rajkumar Hirani’s long-
time writing collaborator, a professor of
English?
17.Who is currently Pune’s Lok Sabha MP?
18.Which European leader said: “How can you
be expected to govern a country that has
two hundred and forty-six kinds of cheese?”

9. Words & Phrases
19. A very hard or crucial question to answer is often
nicknamed a ______ dollar question. What’s the
number? (not million or billion, but an odder no.)
20. If “de facto” means “in fact/in practice”, what is
its opposite term, meaning “by law”?
21.“tight trousers made with excess material at the
bottom of the legs, which falls in folds around the
ankles, traditionally worn by people from South
Asia” – which Indian word has been added to the
OED recently?

10. Abbrs., Flags, Maps
22. Expand EBIDTA
23.
24.

11. Media, Music, Medicine
25. Delhi Press, the publishing house behind Caravan
magazine, also produces which English language
mag for children?
26. Nikhil Banerjee was a noted exponent of which
music instrument?
27.In which part of the body will you find the bones
malleus, incus, and stapes?

12. What’s What, Important Offices, Records
28.What kind of a sentence is a Pangram?
29.Who is the current Secretary of the BCCI?
30.Which Tamil actress was in the record books for
acting in over 1000 films, and has also worked
with as many as 5 CMs?

13. By the way, there is one way to score 2 points

14. Are you carrying a copy of
You get 2 points.

15. Exchange sheets – Answers follow

16. 1. Lord Curzon
2. Gen Vaidya
3. Quebec City
4. Tokyo
5. Manila
6. Sun and Earth
7. Ouagadougou
8. 1974
9. Boris Pasternak
10.Mrs Malaprop
11.Rome
12.Nirmal Singh
13.Bob Fosse
14.Chemistry
15.Amsterdam
16.Abhijat Joshi
17.Anil Shirole
18.Charles de Gaulle
19.64,000
20.de jure
21.chudidar
22. Earnings before Interest, Depreciation,
Taxes, and Amortization
23.Kosovo
24.Manipur
25.Champak
26.Sitar
27.Ear
28.Has all letters in the alphabet
29.Anurag Thakur
30.Manorama

17. MANORAMICA 2015
Finale
J. Ramanand

18. • Rounds
• Chakkar de Flag
• Manoramic Passages
• Blind Dates
• Panoramic Massages
• Continental Drift
• Scoring system
• No points for answering correctly
• -1 for getting answers wrong or passing

19. • Rounds
• Chakkar de Flag
• Identify the flag(s)
• Manoramic Passages
• Blind Dates
• Panoramic Massages
• Continental Drift
• Scoring system
• No points for answering correctly
• -1 for getting answers wrong or passing

26. • Rounds
• Chakkar de Flag
• Manoramic Passages
• Blind Dates
• Panoramic Massages
• Continental Drift
• Scoring system
• No points for answering correctly
• -1 for getting answers wrong or passing

27. In the three battles of Panipat, who were the
two sides in each?

28. What are the code words for the following
NATO alphabets:
X, Y, Z

29. w.r.t Maharashtra, what is its
• State butterfly
• State fruit
• State animal

30. If genus of Humans is Homo, identify for each:
Gorillas
Chimps

31. Identify these military operation codenames:
Liberation of Goa (1961)
Capture of Siachen (1984)
Kargil War (1999)
Nepal earthquake relief (2015)

32. • 1.3806488(13)×10−23 Joules/Kelvin i.e. relates
energy and temperature
• 6.02214129(27)×1023 mol−1 i.e. amount of
particles in one mole

33. • Currencies of which countries?
• Ngultrum
• Kyat
• Taka

34. • Zoroastrianism’s supreme god?
• 1st and 24th Jain Tirthankarars?

35. • Rounds
• Chakkar de Flag
• Manoramic Passages
• Blind Dates
• What’s the year for these 20th century
events?
• Panoramic Massages
• Continental Drift
• Scoring system
• No points for answering correctly
• -1 for getting answers wrong or passing

36. • “Raja Harishchandra” released
• Mohenjodaro excavated
• Civil Disobedience Movement begins
• India’s first ever Cricket Test match
• Ambedkar converts to Buddhism
• LBS dies
• Emergency withdrawn
• Rakesh Sharma goes to space
• Sushmita Sen-Aishwarya Rai win beauty
titles
• Arundhati Roy wins Booker Prize

37. • Rounds
• Chakkar de Flag
• Manoramic Passages
• Blind Dates
• Panoramic Massages
• Continental Drift
• Scoring system
• No points for answering correctly
• -1 for getting answers wrong or passing

38. • India’s longest railway route is between
which 2 places?
• Longest highway (NH7/NH44) is between?

39. • Demonyms
• Manchester
• Christchurch
• Parma

46. • Rounds
• Chakkar de Flag
• Manoramic Passages
• Blind Dates
• Panoramic Massages
• Continental Drift
• Pick a continent. I will provide clues from
the Yearbook about a country. Identify
the country.
• Scoring system
• No points for answering correctly
• -1 for getting answers wrong or passing