Engineers Day Quiz - Prelims
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Prelims Question Set of the Engineers' Day Quiz Conducted at JIST by Bhargav Saikia and Pragyan Sarma.
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- 3. RULES…….. 1. 21 questions in the prelims. 2. No negative markings except -10 for pounce . 3. 10 marks for each correct attempt. 4.1,3,7,8,13,18,19 are star questions. 5. In case of tie star questions will be considered. 6. IF FURTHER TIE OCCURS SPELLING MISTAKES WILL BE TAKEN INTO Account. 7. Pounce is open in all rounds. 8. IN CASE OF TIE IN FINAL MARKS OF PRELIMS WILL BE CONSIDERED.
- 4. PRELIMS
- 6. It consists of a deep red field, representing labour, charged with a plough to represent agriculture. Three stripes are found on the hoist side and represent the three geographic regions.
- 7. Given here is a news paper report: Marora Village in Mewat district of Haryana had fallen off the map, say its residents. A search on google Maps showed another village, also named Marora, near Hodal, in the same district, about 30 kilometres away. But the village got a new identity last month, when it was renamed as ______X___at a function organised by Sulabh International on June 18. A new signboard was put up outside the village. “Welcome to______X____,” it said. The change, however, was shortlived. Ten days later, the district administration removed the new signboard, saying the rules for changing a village’s name had not been followed. “Permission was not sought before changing the name. As per the rulebook, this cannot be done,” says Mani Ram Sharma, Deputy Commissioner, Nuh. But the 140-odd families living in the village — mostly farmers and labourers — want to retain the new name. They say that it gave them a “new identity”, “recognition” and hope for “development”. And toilets.
- 8. The word ____X____ entered the English language from India during the colonial era. It dates to 1762, and is derived from Hindi, itself derived from the Sanskrit root chapayati (चपयति, which means to press, knead, soothe Sake Dean). Mahomed, a Bengali traveller, surgeon, and entrepreneur, is credited with introducing the practice of champooi or ___X___ to Britain. In 1814, Mahomed, with his Irish wife Jane Daly, opened the first commercial __X_____ vapour masseur bath in England, in Brighton. He described the treatment in a local paper as "The Indian Medicated Vapour Bath (type of Turkish bath), a cure to many diseases and giving full relief when every thing fails; particularly Rheumatic and paralytic, gout, stiff joints, old sprains, lame legs, aches and pains in the joints".
- 9. ____________ is a serial of memorial structures built on the arterial Sardar Patel Road, in Adyar, Chennai.Although it is referred singularly as _______, the complex comprises four other memorials of people of eminence such as Rettamalai Srinivasan, Rajaji, Kamaraj and Minjur Bhaktavatsalam. The most prominent of the structures is, however, the _________which is dedicated to __________. It is built in a temple style and is the largest of the memorials in the complex
- 10. NOVELS Zabibah and the King The Fortified Castle Men and the City Begone, Demons
- 13. ___X___ is a toy that consists of a ball-bearing in the center of a multi-lobed flat structure made from metal or plastic designed to spin along its axis with little effort. The toy has been advertised as helping people who have trouble with focusing by relieving nervous energy or psychological stress. There are claims that a __X_______can be used to help calm people down who suffer from anxiety and other neurological disorders like ADHD and autism. However, there is no scientific evidence that they are effective as a treatment for autism or ADHD.
- 15. Q11. Historically also termed as Arakanese Indians are a statelessIndo-Aryan people have migrated from historical state of Bengal(now Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal) . The term have emerged from colonial and pre-colonial terms “Rakhanga” or “Roshanga”. The majority of them are Muslim while a minority are Hindu. Their population increased in the 17th century, as slaves were brought in by Arakanese raiders and Portuguese settlers following raids into Bengal. The Arakan massacres in 1942 triggered the communal violence polarizing the region along ethnic lines. What am I referring?
- 17. *Q13. Hundreds of protesters in the South Korean town of Seongju clashed with police Tuesday night as trailers carrying components of the U.S. advanced missile defense system. Protesters in the quiet town of Seongju reportedly carried signs reading, "No THAAD, No War" and "Hey, U.S.! Are you friends or occupying troops?“ What is THAAD? (Image next slide)
- 19. Q14. Stabæk Football is a Norwegian association football club based in Bærum, and a section of the multi-sport organization Stabæk IF. Founded in 1912, their home stadium is the Nadderud Stadion after a three-year-long stay at the Telenor Arena. Their current chairman is Espen Moe. They play in the top tier Norwegian football league Tippeligaen. The image shows the current squad of the team. Whose name has been blanked out? (Image next slide)
- 22. Q16. Put fanda…
- 23. Q17. Philip Budeikin-The Russian 21-year-old - who has now confessed - says he thinks of his victims as 'biological waste' and told police that they were 'happy to die' and he was 'cleansing society. ‘X’ began in Russia in 2013 with "F57", one of the names of the so-called "death group" of the VKontakte social network, and allegedly caused its first suicide in 2015. Philipp Budeikin, a former psychology student who was expelled from his university, claimed that he invented ‘X’. Budeikin stated that his purpose was to "clean" the society to those he deemed as having no value. Identify ‘X’ (Image next slide)
- 25. *Q18. Demmin, Province of Pomerania (now in Mecklenburg Vorpommern), Germany. On May 1, 1945, hundreds of women committed mass suicide. Although death toll estimates vary, it is acknowledged to be the largest mass suicide ever recorded. The suicide was part of a mass suicide wave amongst the population of Nazi Germany. Methods of suicides included drowning in the rivers, hanging, wrist- cutting, and using firearms. The suicides were either carried out with guns, razor blades or poison, others hanged or drowned themselves in the Peene and Tollense rivers. Several mothers killed their children before killing themselves, or walked into one of the rivers with a rock in a backpack and their babies in their arms. Some women committed suicide by walking into the rivers, tied together. A local forester first shot three young daughters, then their mothers, then his wife. In another recorded case, a daughter cut the wrists of herself. Nazi officials, the police and a number of citizens had left the town before the arrival of the Red Army. (Image next slide) What was the reason?
- 27. *Q19. Connect them with India…
- 30. Q21. What is this Google doodle portraying?
- 31. PRELIMS ANSWERS
- 35. It consists of a deep red field, representing labour, charged with a plough to represent agriculture. Three stripes are found on the hoist side and represent the three geographic regions.
- 38. Given here is a news paper report: Marora Village in Mewat district of Haryana had fallen off the map, say its residents. A search on google Maps showed another village, also named Marora, near Hodal, in the same district, about 30 kilometres away. But the village got a new identity last month, when it was renamed as ______X___at a function organised by Sulabh International on June 18. A new signboard was put up outside the village. “Welcome to______X____,” it said. The change, however, was shortlived. Ten days later, the district administration removed the new signboard, saying the rules for changing a village’s name had not been followed. “Permission was not sought before changing the name. As per the rulebook, this cannot be done,” says Mani Ram Sharma, Deputy Commissioner, Nuh. But the 140-odd families living in the village — mostly farmers and labourers — want to retain the new name. They say that it gave them a “new identity”, “recognition” and hope for “development”. And toilets.
- 41. The word ____X____ entered the English language from India during the colonial era. It dates to 1762, and is derived from Hindi, itself derived from the Sanskrit root chapayati (चपयति, which means to press, knead, soothe Sake Dean). Mahomed, a Bengali traveller, surgeon, and entrepreneur, is credited with introducing the practice of champooi or ___X___ to Britain. In 1814, Mahomed, with his Irish wife Jane Daly, opened the first commercial __X_____ vapour masseur bath in England, in Brighton. He described the treatment in a local paper as "The Indian Medicated Vapour Bath (type of Turkish bath), a cure to many diseases and giving full relief when every thing fails; particularly Rheumatic and paralytic, gout, stiff joints, old sprains, lame legs, aches and pains in the joints".
- 44. ____________ is a serial of memorial structures built on the arterial Sardar Patel Road, in Adyar, Chennai.Although it is referred singularly as _______, the complex comprises four other memorials of people of eminence such as Rettamalai Srinivasan, Rajaji, Kamaraj and Minjur Bhaktavatsalam. The most prominent of the structures is, however, the _________which is dedicated to __________. It is built in a temple style and is the largest of the memorials in the complex
- 47. NOVELS Zabibah and the King The Fortified Castle Men and the City Begone, Demons
- 56. ___X___ is a toy that consists of a ball-bearing in the center of a multi-lobed flat structure made from metal or plastic designed to spin along its axis with little effort. The toy has been advertised as helping people who have trouble with focusing by relieving nervous energy or psychological stress. There are claims that a __X_______can be used to help calm people down who suffer from anxiety and other neurological disorders like ADHD and autism. However, there is no scientific evidence that they are effective as a treatment for autism or ADHD.
- 61. SEVEN ROYAL FAMILIES OF THE AHOM KINGDOM. (SATGHARIA AHOM)
- 62. Q11. Historically also termed as Arakanese Indians are a statelessIndo-Aryan people have migrated from historical state of Bengal(now Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal) . The term have emerged from colonial and pre-colonial terms “Rakhanga” or “Roshanga”. The majority of them are Muslim while a minority are Hindu. Their population increased in the 17th century, as slaves were brought in by Arakanese raiders and Portuguese settlers following raids into Bengal. The Arakan massacres in 1942 triggered the communal violence polarizing the region along ethnic lines. What am I referring?
- 64. ROHINGIYA
- 67. INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE
- 68. Q13. Hundreds of protesters in the South Korean town of Seongju clashed with police as trailers carrying components of the U.S. advanced missile defense system. Protesters in the quiet town of Seongju reportedly carried signs reading, "No THAAD, No War" and "Hey, U.S.! Are you friends or occupying troops?“ What is THAAD? (Image next slide)
- 71. TERMINAL HIGH ALTITUDE AREA DEFENSE
- 72. Q14. Stabæk Football is a Norwegian association football club based in Bærum, and a section of the multi-sport organization Stabæk IF. Founded in 1912, their home stadium is the Nadderud Stadion after a three-year-long stay at the Telenor Arena. Their current chairman is Espen Moe. They play in the top tier Norwegian football league Tippeligaen. The image shows the current squad of the team. Whose name is missing? (Image next slide)
- 78. FLAG OF COLONIAL GOA
- 79. Q16. Put fanda…
- 81. CHANGE IN THE LOGO OF LINKING PARK AFTER THE DEATH OF CHESTER BENNINGTON.(AS EACH LINE REPRESENTED A MEMBER IN THE LOGO)
- 82. Q17. Philip Budeikin-The Russian 21-year-old - who has now confessed - says he thinks of his victims as 'biological waste' and told police that they were 'happy to die' and he was 'cleansing society. ‘X’ began in Russia in 2013 with "F57", one of the names of the so-called "death group" of the VKontakte social network, and allegedly caused its first suicide in 2015. Philipp Budeikin, a former psychology student who was expelled from his university, claimed that he invented ‘X’. Budeikin stated that his purpose was to "clean" the society to those he deemed as having no value. Identify ‘X’ (Image next slide)
- 86. Q18. Demmin, Province of Pomerania (now in Mecklenburg Vorpommern), Germany. On May 1, 1945, hundreds of women committed mass suicide. Although death toll estimates vary, it is acknowledged to be the largest mass suicide ever recorded. The suicide was part of a mass suicide wave amongst the population of Nazi Germany. Methods of suicides included drowning in the rivers, hanging, wrist- cutting, and using firearms. The suicides were either carried out with guns, razor blades or poison, others hanged or drowned themselves in the Peene and Tollense rivers. Several mothers killed their children before killing themselves, or walked into one of the rivers with a rock in a backpack and their babies in their arms. Some women committed suicide by walking into the rivers, tied together. A local forester first shot three young daughters, then their mothers, then his wife. In another recorded case, a daughter cut the wrists of herself. Nazi officials, the police and a number of citizens had left the town before the arrival of the Red Army. (Image next slide) What was the reason?
- 89. KILLED THEMSELVES INSPITE OF GETTING RAPED BY SOVIET TROOPS
- 90. Q19. Connect them with India…
- 92. NON- INDIAN CELEBRITIES WITH DEVAGIRI TATTOO
- 95. HIROSHIMA PEACE MEMORIAL PARK
- 97. Q21. What is this Google doodle portraying?
- 99. TEACHER’S DAY