3. He was selected by Time magazine as one of the "2011 Time
100," a list of the "most influential people in the world.
During his childhood, His childhood in NewJersey was very
limited ,but he wanted to travel and experience other places,
but the only way of doing so was through his imagination, and
he became a voracious reader.An expert chess player, he also
directed chess tournaments for the Continental Chess
Association from 1973 to 1976. He actively contributes to his
blog, 'Not a Blog'. Otherwise he does not use any social media
such as Facebook or Twitter, and still does all his writing on
an old DOS machine running Wordstar 4.0. His official fan
club is the "Brotherhood Without Banners,
1)
9. Sudhir Kumar Chaudhary is Unemployed, having previously
worked for a milk company and trained as a teacher. He is
one of three principal roles of a documentary film "Beyond all
boundaries" which tells the stories of three different
personalities of Indian Cricket.
He “retired” last November. Who is SK Chaudhary?
4)
13. Rahman personally trained Egyptian singer Maryem Tollar to
sing “Y", a song which Rahman wrote while on Hajj in Makkah.
After he heard a man near a river who was continually
repeating “Y " (water in Arabic), He told Gulzar to incorporate
the word into the tune he had created while touring in
Toronto, Canada. Y was the first song recorded for the film.
7)
15. The size of most Y is 3 3⁄8 × 2 1⁄8 in (85.60 ×
53.98 mm),conforming to the ISO/IEC 7810 ID-1 standard.
The concept of using Y in economy was described in 1887 by
Edward Bellamy in his utopian novel Looking Backward.
8)
17. Legend has it that the term comes from a practise started by
the ruler of Mahim Village. Everytime he wanted something
accomplished he would ensure the circulation of a plate filled
with X and betel leaves in a meeting of all able bodied men in
the village. The one who picked up the first X from the plate
indicated his willingness to do the job.It is also called “Areca”
What?
9)
21. ____ is a website created by Randall Munroe who quit
NASA. In 2013, a main-belt asteroid was named after him.
However we know him for romance, sarcasm, math, and
language.
Q 11)
36. “ I never dared to break the glass of his house while playing
Cricket as I used to be extremely scared of him. “ Virender
Sehwag talking about which former childhood neighbor of his
from Najafgarh?
Q 2)
38. Name the only Bollywood movie till date in which Sachin
Tendulkar has made an appearance.
3)
39.
40. According to legend, It was founded by the God Shiva. This
place was also known as Kāśikā (the shining one), Avimukta
("never forsaken" by Shiva), Ānandavana (the forest of bliss),
and Rudravāsa (the place where Rudra/Śiva resides). Hiuen
Tsiang also visited Varanasi in the 7th century; he named it
"Polonisse“. Sushruta, the great surgeon and author of the
Sushruta Samhita, the Sanskrit text of surgery also lived in
here. The city grew as a place for Authentic Ayurveda and
Panchkarma treatment. Many Ayurvedic centers are here.
Q 4)
44. _______________ had over ten million downloads in December 2012
alone.
As of February 7, 2014, ___________, the most popular app on
Facebook, had more than 61 million likes on the application
It makes an appearance in Psy's music video "Gentleman
As of July 2013, it has been estimated that _________ has about 6.7
million active users and earns revenue of $633,000 per day in the US
section of the iOS App Store alone.[
As of October 2013, __________ is the third most popular free app and
the highest grossing app in the Google playstore.
As of November 2013, the game has been installed 500 million times
across Facebook and iOS and Android devices.
In December 2013, King.com began running advertisements
for ______ on Japanese television. Partially attributed to these
advertisements, in the first week of December 2013, _______ jumped
from a position outside the top-100 most-downloaded iPhone games in
Japan to the No. 1 position on December 6, 2013. "On Android, the
game jumped from No. 83 on Nov. 30 to the No. 23 on the most -
downloaded game on Dec. 4
Q 6)
46. Q 7)
IT IS HIS SECOND POSTHUMOUS ALBUM OF PREVIOUSLY
UNRELEASED TRACKS BY. IT WAS RELEASED ON MAY 9,
2014. SONY MOBILE USED A SNIPPET OF A SONG IN THEIR
ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN FOR THE XPERIA Z2 MOBILE PHONE.
52. The X was a very popular food item during the Mughal period
and occupied a unique place in the emblem of the royalty
of Oudh under the control of Mughals. During the period, X
was also used like a cloth to wipe off the excess oil off the
hands after the completion of an oil-rich food laden with meat
and fat and hence gets its name
Q 10)
54. X is a group of Indian women vigilantes and activists
originally from Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh, but reported to
be active across North India as of 2010.
The X was founded by Sampat Pal Devi as a response to
widespread domestic abuse and other violence against
women. X members visit abusive husbands and threaten to
beat them with laathis unless they stop abusing their wives. In
2008, they stormed an electricity office in Banda district and
forced officials to turn back on the power they had cut in
order to extract bribes. They have also stopped child
marriages and protested dowry and female illiteracy.
The group, which the Indian media portray positively, was
reported to have 20,000 members as of 2008, as well as a
chapter in Paris, France
Q 11)
55.
56. Sahasrara
Ajna
Vishuddha
Anahata
Manipura
Swadhisthana
Muladhara
What are they?
Q 12)
59. He has been a member of RSS since childhood. He attended
Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College, Kanpur,
where he graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor of Medicine,
Bachelor of Surgery. He earned his Master of Surgery in
Otolaryngology (ENT) from the same college in 1983
He is known to be pioneer of Pulse Polio Programme. He
launched it first in Delhi, which was then home to 10 per cent
of polio cases in India. Being Health minister of state in 1994,
on a single day (October 2, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi),
he organised the mass immunisation of 1.2 million children.
This polio programme was first to be implemented
successfully in country.The programme was adopted
throughout the whole nation by the GOI.
1)
61. 2)
SIDHU WON HIS LOK SABHA ELECTION FROM HIS
CONSTITUENCY IN 2004 WITH A BJP TICKET. WHO
CONTESTED FROM THE SAME SEAT IN THIS GENERAL
ELECTION BUT LOST?
65. Y is member of the Tharavadu heritage, was born in London,
to Lily and Chandran.After his parents returned to India, he
began his schooling at Montfort School in Yercaud, Tamil
Nadu, and Campion School in Mumbai, and attended high
school at St. Xavier's Collegiate School in Kolkata.Y
subsequently obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in history
from St. Stephen's College in Delhi and went on to pursue
graduate studies at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
at Tufts University, from where he obtained M.A in 1976,
M.A.L.D in 1977 and a Ph.D. in 1979
4)
67. She was born in Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu. She graduated
from the prestigious Seethalakshmi Ramaswami College,
Tiruchirapalli in 1980.She completed her M. Phil in
International Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University. She
has worked for Pricewaterhouse Coopers as a Senior Manager
and for BBC World Service. She is one of the founding
directors of Pranava school in Hyderabad.She was a former
member of the National Commission for Women.
On May 26, she was sworn in as Minister of State.
5)
69. In July 2011, he was nominated for one of six seats in the
Rajya Sabha from West Bengal by the Trinamool Congress.
Also their spokesperson . Who?
6)
72. Mysore Paints and Varnish Limited is a company located in
the city of Mysore, India. It is the only company in India
authorised to produce _____.The company is owned and
operated by the Government of Karnataka.
73. He is the elected MP in 2014 Lok Sabha election from Jaipur
Rural. He passed out of the National Defence Academy, and
since served in the Indian Army where he retired as a Colonel
in 2013, before joining politics.
76. First introduced as "Brad's Drink" in New Bern, North Carolina,
United States, in 1893 by Caleb Bradham, who made it at his
drugstore where the drink was sold. It was later labeled it’s
current name, after the digestive enzyme was added.
Bradham sought to create a fountain drink that was delicious
and would aid in digestion and boost energy
What is the enzyme or the drink’s name?
Q
78. The villagers of Chini, a tehsil in Himachal Pradesh, owed
allegiance to the Panchen Lama in Tibet, and were ruled by
rituals administered by local priests. These included gorasang,
a religious service to celebrate the completion of a new
house; kangurzalmo, a ceremonial visit to the Buddhist library
at Kanam; menthako, ‘where men, women and children climb
hills, dance and sing’ and others.
On 25 October 1951, they added a new ritual, becoming the
first Indians to do so. What?
Q
80. It was around this time that she met the guy who would become the
inspiration for X. He was 10 years older than her, and he got her
interested in traveling, reading fiction like Zadie Smith's White Teeth
and writing poetry. "He made me an adult. He put me on the road that
I'm traveling on," Y says. "Most of my life was my career, but I had this
little side project that was us. And it made me feel really normal again,
which is just what I needed. Because I was becoming a bit doo-lally–a
bit f*****' crazy.“
They lived together for almost a year at her place in London before
things started to fizzle. Toward the end, "We'd just bicker over a cup of
tea or the fact that my lighter wasn't working.“
The morning after things officially ended, she was at work, sobbing
while making Z.
Midway through that project, she found out her ex was engaged. “I was
absolutely devastated.” She hasn’t seen anyone since it ended.
Q
81. X –21
Y –Adele
Z –Rolling in the Deep
ANS
82. In 1948 Bernard Silver came up with a new solution to an
inventory management problem packaged food industries and
general stores were facing. Their first working system used
ultraviolet ink, but the ink faded too easily and was rather
expensive.
Convinced that the system was workable with further
development, Silver’s friend set himself to work on it. His next
inspiration came from Morse code, and he formed his first X
from sand on the beach. "I just extended the dots and dashes
downwards…“
Q
84. The traditional Snellen chart is printed with eleven lines of block
letters. The symbols on an acuity chart are formally known as
“optotypes" In the case of the traditional Snellen chart, the
optotypes have the appearance of block letters, and are intended
to be seen and read as letters. They are not, however, letters
from any ordinary typographer's font. They have a particular,
simple geometry in which:
the thickness of the lines equals the thickness of the white
spaces between lines and the thickness of the gap in the letter
"C"
the height and width of the optotype (letter) is five times the
thickness of the line.
Only the ten Sloan letters C, D, E, F, L, N, O, P, T, Z are used in
the traditional
Snellen chart. The perception of five out of six letters (or similar
ratio) is judged to be the Snellen fraction
Q
86. In 1888 X's brother Ludvig died while visiting Cannes and a
French newspaper erroneously published X's obituary. It
condemned him for his invention of Y and stated Le marchand
de la mort est mort ("The merchant of death is dead"). This is
said to have brought about his decision to leave a better
legacy after his death. Identify X and Y.
Q
90. Mistletoe
• Fish
• Rock oil got from gold (beetroot juice can be substituted)
• Four-leaved clovers of the tamarind tree
• Lobster(for flavour)
• Strawberry(for sweetnes)
• Garlic
INGREDIENTS OF MAGIC POTION (ASTERIX)
91. The villagers of Chini, a tehsil in Himachal Pradesh, owed
allegiance to the Panchen Lama in Tibet, and were ruled by
rituals administered by local priests. These included gorasang,
a religious service to celebrate the completion of a new
house; kangurzalmo, a ceremonial visit to the Buddhist library
at Kanam; menthako, ‘where men, women and children climb
hills, dance and sing’ and others.
On 25 October 1951, they added a new ritual, becoming the
first Indians to do so. What?
CAST VOTES IN A GENERAL ELECTION
92. When launched in 1993, it targeted the growing youth
segment, and was the first product of its kind to be launched
in pouch packs, like potato chips.
Its unique shape is also registered under the Indian Designs
Act.
Which popular product from the 90s, whose heart continues
to beat today, is this?
93. Why are the 3 Shaivite temples at
Draksharamam, Srisailam and Kaleshawaram
in the state of Andhra Pradesh trending?
there is a hypothetical "trilinga desa" between
these three temples
•
Trilingadesa is the land between these three
temples. From which you get both Telugu and
Telangana.
94. RiniSimon Khanna, an alumna of Jesus and Mary College in
Delhi, was also a popular Doordarshannews anchor, beginning
her career at All India Radio in 1982. She’s also anchored
many specials, such as Republic and Independence Day
parades.
An IIT-D alumnus, ShammiNarangaccidentally did a sound-
check in the newly-built campus auditorium in 1982. One
thing led to another, and he was the face of
Doordarshannews-reading in the ‘80s, and is widely believed
to have helped raise news-casting standards in India.
Though neither works for PrasarBharatiany more, how do they
caution and inform millions every day?
DELHI METRO VOICES
95. If Pankaj, Nikhil, Shreya, Purvi, Sachin and Fredericks are the
junior members, who are the three ranked above them?
Senior Inspector DayaSenior Inspector AbhijeetACP
Pradyuman
96. It was around this time that she met the guy who would become the
inspiration forX. He was 10 years older than her, and he got her
interested in traveling, reading fiction like ZadieSmith'sWhite Teethand
writing poetry. "He made me an adult. He put me on the road that I'm
traveling on," Ysays. "Most of my life was my career, but I had this little
side project that was us. And it made me feel really normal again,
which is just what I needed. Because I was becoming a bit doo-lally–a
bit fuckin' crazy.“
They lived together for almost a year at her place in London before
things started to fizzle. Toward the end, "We'd just bicker over a cup of
tea or the fact that my lighter wasn't working."
The morning after things officially ended, she was at work, sobbing
while makingZ.
Midway through that project, she found out her ex was engaged. “I
was absolutely devastated.” She hasn’t seen anyone since it ended.
X –21
Y –Adele
Z –Rolling in the Deep
97. Birthdays of fictional characters such as those appearing in comic books and movies are
generally determined as the day they first appeared before the public, such as the
publication
or release dates.
•
Two famous fictional characters share their birthdays...
•
The first one, an animal, was inspired by Charlie Chaplin. It made a debut in an animated
movie in 1928. Since then, it has appeared in animated cartoons, movies, comic strips,
TV and
even video games. It first appeared in color in 1935. A highly successful character, it
also has a
star dedicated to it on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
•
The other, a comic strip character, made its first appearance in 1985. It is named after a
theologian who believed in predestination. The character has appeared on merchandise
but
never in animation. The comic strip has been featured in over 2,400 newspapers
worldwide
and 30 million copies of its books have been sold.
•
Name the two characters.
MICKEY AND CALVING AND HOBBES
98. Norma McCorveygot into trouble in Dallas, Texas, in the early 70s. She
could get a solution in California, Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington,
and of course, nearby Mexico. She got in touch with a lawyer, and soon,
a class-action suit was filed against the district attorney, Henry ____.
They won in the Dallas federal district court, but the state appealed,
and the case dragged on till the Supreme Court, where in 1973, they
delivered a landmark judgement with a 7-2 majority.
This judgement continues to be debated hotly today, especially every
four years. Incidentally, McCorveybecame a born-again Christian
sometime in the early 90s, and is now a fervent activist against the
very judgement she was on the winning side of! She even campaigned
against Democratic Candidate, Barack Obama in 2012 as he stood for
re-election.
What judgement are we talking about?
Roe vs. Wade
99. In 1948 Bernard Silver came up with a new solution to an
inventory management problem packaged food industries and
general stores were facing. Their first working system used
ultraviolet ink, but the ink faded too easily and was rather
expensive.
Convinced that the system was workable with further
development, Silver’s friend set himself to work on it. His next
inspiration came from Morse code, and he formed his first X
from sand on the beach. "I just extended the dots and dashes
downwards…“
BAR CODE
100. This Greek philosopher is known in India popularly by a
different name, often used to refer to an eclectic person, or a
maverick. The name changed because the traveling Arabs who
came to India with knowledge of the philosopher could not
pronounce a particular sound.
AFLATOON, PLATO
101. Q11
•
One great advantage in being a historian to a man like
X
is that his mere personality
prevents one selling one's artistic soul for gold. In recent years I have had lucrative
offers for his services from theatrical managers, motion -picture magnates, the
proprietors of one or two widely advertised commodities, and even the editor of the
comic supplement of an American newspaper, who wanted him for a "comic strip".
HINT
.
X
knows his place, and it is between the covers of a book. (
X, Y
)
•
Actually, I wasn't against all merchandising when I started the strip, but each product
I considered seemed to violate the spirit of the strip, contradict its message, and take
me away from the work I loved. If my syndicate had let it go at that, the decision
would have taken maybe 30 seconds of my life. Who about what? (
, β
퐀
WODEHOUSE, WATTERSON
102. X was born in Murom, Vladimir region in 1923.
In 1941, X was drafted into the Red Army. He fought on the
southern and south-western areas in the 1st and 4th
Ukrainian Fronts. He fought for the liberation of Ukraine,
Poland, Czechoslovakia. During the war, X was awarded the
Order of Patriotic War II degree (1945), Red Star (1944), and
the medals "For Courage" (1943), "For Military Merit" (1944),
"For Victory over Germany" (1946).
In 1945 X was demobilized from the ranks of the Red Army for
health reasons and returned to Moscow. In February 1946, he
entered the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute at the
Faculty of Physics and subsequently worked on Nuclear and
Atomic physics in Moscow.
X created something we all know and respect.
I E IRODOV
103. Arvind Kejriwal was sworn in as Chief minister of Delhi on
28th December
2013. He is the 7th chief minister of Delhi. So since 1952,
there have been
only 7 cms?!?!?
NOT A STATE 1956-1993
105. X is a group of Indian women vigilantes and activists
originally from Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh, but reported to
be active across North India as of 2010.
The X was founded by Sampat Pal Devi as a response to
widespread domestic abuse and other violence against
women. X members visit abusive husbands and threaten to
beat them with laathis unless they stop abusing their wives. In
2008, they stormed an electricity office in Banda district and
forced officials to turn back on the power they had cut in
order to extract bribes. They have also stopped child
marriages and protested dowry and female illiteracy.
The group, which the Indian media portray positively, was
reported to have 20,000 members as of 2008, as well as a
chapter in Paris, France
GULABI GANG
106. The traditional Snellen chart is printed with eleven lines of block
letters. The symbols on an acuity chart are formally known as
“optotypes" In the case of the traditional Snellen chart, the
optotypes have the appearance of block letters, and are intended
to be seen and read as letters. They are not, however, letters
from any ordinary typographer's font. They have a particular,
simple geometry in which:
the thickness of the lines equals the thickness of the white
spaces between lines and the thickness of the gap in the letter
"C"
the height and width of the optotype (letter) is five times the
thickness of the line.
Only the ten Sloan letters C, D, E, F, L, N, O, P, T, Z are used in
the traditional
Snellen chart. The perception of five out of six letters (or similar
ratio) is judged to be the Snellen fraction
OPHTHALMOLOGIST CHART
107. Which TV channel’s name is literally “The Island”
AL JAZEERA
108. “I sometimes feel like the Kurt Cobain of my generation, but
people just don't understand me.” Which ‘prolific’ musician’s
words are these?
JUSTIN BEIBER
109. _______ ______ first appears in the book Liber Abaci (1202)
by Leonardo of Pisa, known as X.[4] He considers the growth of
an idealized (biologically unrealistic) rabbit population,
assuming that: a newly born pair of rabbits, one male, one
female, are put in a field; rabbits are able to mate at the age
of one month so that at the end of its second month a female
can produce another pair of rabbits; rabbits never die and a
mating pair always produces one new pair (one male, one
female) every month from the second month on. The puzzle
that he posed was: how many pairs will there be in one year?
FIBONACCI
110. The X was a very popular food item during the Mughal period
and occupied a unique place in the emblem of the royalty
of Oudh under the control of Mughals. During the period, X
was also used like a cloth to wipe off the excess oil off the
hands after the completion of an oil-rich food laden with meat
and fat and hence gets its name
RUMALI ROTI
111. X were green in color until the 1930s before it was realised
that the colour brown filtered out visible and ultraviolet light
that caused adverse reactions. It was found that if you expose
____ to enough sunlight, it becomes ‘skunky’. Chemists at the
University of North Carolina and Ghent University in Belgium
found that sunlight breaks down alpha acids in hops that
react with sulfur to make a chemical that is nearly identical to
the smelly chemical that skunks spray. Nowadays, X that are
green in colour are of high quality and are never exposed to
sunlight. Id X.
BEER BOTTLES
112. Nilam - Pakistan
Mahasen - Sri Lanka
_______ - Thailand
Helen - Bangladesh
Leher - India
PHAILIN
113. Who is the only Turkish citizen to win a Nobel Prize?
ORHAN PAMUK
114. A symbol of mourning, this practice began in the 17th century,
to respect the power and prominence of Death by letting its
“invisible” banner be higher. What?
HALF MAST
115. During the days when ships were powered by sail, the
captains’ log documented everything that happened during
the day. As sickness could spread rapidly on a ship, there
were often times when the number of sailors that were ill
exceeded the space provided in the log to record their names.
On such occasions, the extra names of the sick were recorded
in the next column, which was reserved for meteorological
information. Thus, it was not unusual for an ill sailor to be
listed "_____ ___ ______". Fill in the blanks.
UNDER THE WEATHER
116. Foreign invaders often used abandoned X's as military
cantonments; and the word Y may have come from the large
number of X's thus used in the area. Originally Y was the
name of a town, which was the medieval headquarters of the
Muslim invaders in the region. What town, whose name has
now evolved to become the name of the state itself?
VIHARA, BIHAR
117. 17. BOOM-BOOM
In 1888 X's brother Ludvig died while visiting Cannes and a
French newspaper erroneously published X's obituary.[2] It
condemned him for his invention of Y and stated Le marchand
de la mort est mort ("The merchant of death is dead"). This is
said to have brought about his decision to leave a better
legacy after his death. Identify X and Y.
