2. 1. Fill in the blank.
• Gather the 16 feathers of the left wing into a
_________, it spins clockwise. But do the
same with the right wing feathers of a goose
and your _________ spins counterclockwise
— which totally screws with players.
• Eight of the left wing, 8 of the right wing, for
example? You get a flimsy ________ that lacks
its characteristic spin and instead sort of
wobbles.
4. 2. Identify X
• The X were huge birds of unknown species
that existed only on the island of Mauritius.
The X had no experience of any types of
predators before the arrival of settlers in the
island. They were passive creatures even
when approached by human visitors for the
first time.
• X also finds a place in the national emblem of
Mauritius. (pic follows)
7. 3. What delicacy?
• Known to have directly travelled from Mughal
kitchens, it is said to be invented during the
construction of colossal icon “Taj Mahal” of Agra.
Some thousand of workers engaged in the
construction were said to have fed up of routine
meals comprising of traditional recipe of Dal and
Roti .The then Emperor Shahjahan shared his
concern with master craftsman Ustad Isa khan
Eiffendi, who requested the royal priest Pir
Naqshband Sahib for a solution. The priest went
into a trance and came up with a recipe.
9. 4. Daisuke Inoue on the invention of
what?
• One day, the president of a small company came
to the club where I was playing to ask a favor. He
was meeting business clients in another town and
knew they would all end up at a drinking
establishment and that he would be called on to
sing. “Daisuke, your keyboard playing is the only
music that I can sing to! You know how my voice
is and what it needs to sound good.”
• So at his request I taped a number of his favorite
songs onto an open-reel tape recorder in the keys
that would best suit his voice.
13. 6. Hugo Award Nominees for Best
Novel in 2001 – Who won the coveted
prize?
• A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
[HarperCollins Voyager, 2000; Bantam Spectra,
2000]
• Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer [Tor,
2000]
• The Sky Road by Ken MacLeod [Orbit, 1999;
Tor, 2000]
• Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson [Warner
Aspect, 2000]
15. 7. Who is X?
• It was decided that to settle the dispute, three
kinds of contests between Bharata and X would
be held. These were eye-fight (staring at each
other), water-fight (jala-yuddha), and wrestling
(malla-yuddha). X won all the three contests over
his elder brother, Bharata.
• After the fight, X was filled with disgust at the
world and developed a desire for renunciation. X
abandoned his clothes and kingdom to become
a Digambara monk and began meditating with
great resolve to attain omniscience.
19. 9. What are all these countries
bickering about?
• Russia and Kazakhstan signed a treaty,
according to which they divided the northern
part of the X between them into two sectors
along the median line.
• Russia and Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan and
Azerbaijan signed similar treaties.
• Iran continues to insist on a single multilateral
agreement among all five littoral states.
• The position of Turkmenistan is unclear.
21. 10. Who about what?
• It took 7882 different jobs to complete one
unit. He noted that of these 7882 specialised
jobs, 749 required „strong able bodied and
physically perfect men, 3338 need men of
merely ordinary physical strength, most of the
rest could be performed by women and older
children‟. And he continued coolly „ we found
that 670 could be filled by legless men, 2637
by one legged men, two by armless men, 715
by one armed men and 10 by blind men‟
25. 12. Which organisation?
• _____ is a caste organisation founded in 2006. It
is based in Jaipur. The association favours
"national unity" and is opposed to caste-centric
positive discrimination and "corruption“.
• However, their major publicity stunts include
protests against period films such as Jodhaa
Akbar, Veer and Padmavati that portray historical
“inaccuracies”. The method used usually involves
threats to the producers, vandalism of theatres
and violent demonstrations.
27. 13. What is X?
• The term X is believed to have been derived
from the Pali word Rakkhapura meaning "land
of the people of Rakshasa“. The X is separated
from the central part of the country by a
mountain range that arcs through Assam ,
submerging in the Bay of Bengal and emerging
again in the form of the Andaman and Nicobar
islands.
33. 16. What craft?
• In Persia, Nur Jehan was said to have seen
some stone tracery on a monument that she
found particularly beautiful. She wanted the
same replicated on her clothing.
• A female handservant of Nur Jehan is said to
have brought the craft to Awadh where it
flourished.
39. 19. Origins of which word?
• As the story goes, Charles Wreford Brown
arrived at Oxford University in the late
1880s, whereupon he was promptly asked
if he liked to “play rugger?”, a term they
used for Rugby.
• Brown is said to have immediately quipped
back something along the lines of “No,
________!” – a quick-thinking and creative
derivative of “Association Football”.
41. 20. Which place?
• After the reign of Marthanda Varma, the
capital of Travancore was shifted
from Padmanabhapuram to
Thiruvananthapuram. The Nair Brigade also
shifted their base to the new capital. In order
to feed the 3000 strong army, a location was
designated as _______ , and has retained this
name ever since.
