2. General Quiz 01
• Infinite Pounce.
• General scoring : +20/-10
• For starred questions, scoring will be +40/-40.
• Keep your mobile phones inside your pocket and play to win.
4. 1. By the end of war, X had spent most of his life fortune in bribes
and black market purchases. In 1948 he presented a claim for
reimbursement of his wartime expenses to the American
_________ Joint Distribution Committee, and received
$15,000. He estimated his expenditures at over $1,056,000,
including the costs of camp construction, bribes, and expenditures
for black market goods, including food. He declared bankruptcy in
1963 and suffered a heart attack the next year, which led to a
month-long stay in hospital. He died on 9 October 1974 and is
buried in Jerusalem on Mount Zion.
Id X.
7. 2. Franz Anton ________ had a special interest in the
gravitational effects on human and animal body. He
devised a new way of curing people. His curing involved a
process of laying on, hypnosis and suggestion set to the
otherworldly sounds of a glass harmonica. He produced
trance state in his patients that provoked convulsions.
What word in English usage is said to derive from his
name?
10. 3*. Jan Dussek was a Czech composer who was also a renowned player of a
relatively new large instrument (then) in the late 18th century. He served as
a musician and favourite of monarchs across the continent but always
found himself embroiled in controversies.
While, paintings show him to be somewhat of a plump man, he believed he
was a very handsome man, and liked to show off the same too. He wanted
to ensure that the audience had an unhindered glimpse of his body profile,
and thus slightly changed a convention. This modified convention has been
followed ever since, among his kind.
What convention?
13. 4*. ________ was supposedly discovered when the Greek hero
Hercules’s dog was eating mollusks on the beach and came back
running to his master with a bright ______ snout. That’s how Tyrian
_____ is made, squeezing creamy liquid out of a specific gland in
the murex mollusc, which then turns red and then ______ when
exposed to sun. It was frighteningly expensive, with 12,000
mollusks harvested to create 1.4 grams of the substance. That
didn’t stop the power hungry of the ancient world who insisted on
wearing their influence on their sleeves. Roman senators had their
togas dyed ______ to show off their wealth. FITB
19. 6.When Iraq invaded Kuwait under the leadership of Saddam
Hussain in August 1990, a group of foreigners including 15
Americans were taken hostages and strategically placed in
buildings that USA was likely to bomb, thus using them as
human shields.
__________ was very popular in the Middle East at that
time and due to this popularity, he personally visited Iraq
and freed these 15 Americans in exchange of a promise to
give an ‘honest’ account of Iraq.
FITB
22. 7. Henry Clay Frick was one of the wealthiest Americans of the
early 20th Century with vast holding in steel manufacturing,
originally booked a passage for himself and his wife aboard the
Titanic, in February 1912. But while they were in Europe, Mrs. Frick
suffered an accident and was admitted to hospital. This caused a
delay in their travel plans . The suite then went to X. X was one of
the most powerful men of that time with his vast banking fortune.
But X had to alter his travel plans and the ticket was again
transferred to J Horace Harding. Harding was another prominent
banker of that time. But for some reasons, he had to give up the
ticket too. Finally, it was J Bruce Ismay, who boarded with the
unlucky ticket.
ID X.
25. 8. The adjacent
photograph relates to
an Austrian individual
named Adam Rainer
(1899 – 1950).
What is his claim to
fame?
26.
27. The only person recorded in
history to have been both a
dwarf and a giant.
28. 9. Patanjali Ayurved has recently written to Committee of Creditors
(CoC) raising concerns against X’s eligibility to bid for Ruchi Soya
(under sections 29 A of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, IBC) which
was admitted to Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) in
2017. As per Section 29A, a bidder cannot be allowed to offer a
resolution plan under CIRP if the promoter is connected to another
stressed-loan corporate. Thus, Patanjali Ayurved consider X to be
ineligible for the bid as X’s MD, Pranav _______ is married to
Namrata, daughter of Vikram Kothari, the erstwhile promoter of Y
who was arrested by CBI after Bank of Baroda filed a complaint of
fraud by his company.
Id X and Y.
31. 10.
• 15 layers of clothing
• 7 layers of skin
• Approximately 15 inches of tissue
• A necktie knot
• 4 inches of rib
• A radius bone
• X
• Y
ID X and Y. +5 for giving the name of this list.
34. 11*. The XY name came partly from the Legendary Y Cowboy, and partly
because X was "one of the few Christian names I could find beginning with
the letter ‘__'". In 1990, ______ explained that the “X" part came from a
tailor's shop called X's that he passed on a train. He liked it because it had
"that _____ [Pop] connotation but it was a tailor's shop, and I thought, Well,
this whole thing is gonna be about clothes, so it was my own little joke
calling him X. So XY was a real compilation of things." He later asserted that
XY was born out of a desire to move away from the denim and hippies of the
1960's. Along these lines, some critics assert that _____'s artificial
concoction of a rock star persona was a symbolic critique of the artificiality
seen in the rock world of the time. (sic)
Give XY.
39. Gwyneth Paltrow, Salma Hayek, Uma
Thurman, Lea Seydoux and Eva Green
were among about a hundred of those
woman who accused Harvey
Weinstein of sexual assault, sexual
harassment or rape.
40. 13. Here is a photograph of Babasaheb B R
Ambedkar and X at Sardar Patel’s reception. X
participated in the struggle for Indian
Independence (end of British Raj) and was jailed for
many years by British authorities. He was the first
person in Indian History who demanded 'Complete
Independence' (Azadi-e-Kaamil) in 1921 as he
presided over an annual session of All India Muslim
League. He was a practising Muslim. He was among
the founders of the Communist Party of India. A
few of his books are Kulliyat-e-________, Sharh-e-
Kalam-e-Ghalib, Nukaat-e-Sukhan, Mushahidaat-e-
Zindaan, etc. However, X contributed to something
that eventually became synonymous to the Indian
Freedom Struggle. Id X and his contribution that is
being talked about.
43. 14. In a study, researchers Dana Carney, Amy
Cuddy, and Andy Yap found out that doing this
particular activity for just two minutes can
change your testosterone and cortisol levels,
increase appetite for risk, causes you to perform
better in job interviews, and generally configures
your brains to cope well in stressful situations.
Doing what, exactly?
49. 16. Y is a promise first made by X in 1984 in US. It served as the
backbone of X’s rapid growth into the largest one of its kind in the
States.
However, a large no. of lawsuits arose due to Y which led to its
discontinuation in 1993. Y is still into effect in some other countries
including India.
The final trigger for the discontinuation was when jury awarded a
woman affected due to Y with a compensation amount of more than
78 million USD.
X and Y?
52. 17. By most accounts, India has the highest number of them globally for two
years running. A shameful statistic that is shocking but true. They damage
individual rights, social relations, economic growth. As per pure numbers put
together by think-tank ICRIER, the 16,315 hours of ____________ in India cost
our economy approximately $3.04 billion during the period 2012 to 2017.
Not only are such measures disproportionate deprivations of freedom of speech
and expression, they are also being increasingly becoming a normalised tool of
administrative control. They are now enforced for trifles such as festival
processions, to prevent cheating in exams, during protests against district
officials, and for visits by political functionaries.
What is being talked about?
#KeepItOn
55. 18*. The building, of colonial origin, was initially a government guest house to accommodate visiting
bureaucrats, in "serene surroundings" - the exclusive Gupkar Road on the banks of the Dal
Lake in Srinagar. On occupation by the paramilitary Border Security Force in 1989, it was named X "in an
attempt to keep the compound’s new purpose nominally confidential".
A method of interrogation by which bodies of suspects were placed under heavy rollers caused at least
250 deaths through acute renal failure at one Srinagar hospital alone, according to Pankaj
Mishra. Others died through application of electric shocks, and particularly through "immersing the
prisoners’ heads in water during interrogation.
Following D.K. Basu vs West Bengal in December 1996, in which judgment the Supreme Court of
India laid out restrictions on detention without trial in an attempt to curb custodial violence, and the
election of the left-leaning United Front government at the Centre, most interrogation centres,
including X, were shut down.
Since then it has been used as a residence by senior state politicians, including the state finance
minister. Currently it is the official residence of Mehbooba Mufti, who leads the People's Democratic
Party, though her occupation of it is contested by those who would prefer it to be a memorial to the
ones who disappeared.
Image Follows. Id X.
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59. 19. Identify the connection.
• Johanna Sigurdardottir Iceland (‘09-’13)
• Elio Di Rupo Belgium (‘11-’14)
• Xavier Bettel Luxembourg (’13-Present)
• Leo Varadkar Ireland (’17- Present)
• Ana Brnabic Serbia (’17- Present)
60.
61. Heads of their country’s
government and a member of
LGBTQ+ community.
