30 question set of prelims. Culmination of sweet and sour, hot and cold..20 dry and 10 AV..

1. Preliminary Round

2. Question 1:
• X was born on 10th Nov,1848. After graduation, X
travelled to England with Ramesh and Bihari. X
founded ‘The Bengali’ in 1879 and he was later
arrested for publishing remarks in contempt of
court of the British Empire. X’s arrest created
upsurge of protest in Pune, Amritsar, Faizabad and
lahore. Identify X.

3. Answer: Surendranath Banerjee

4. Question 2:
• X was initially called Fylfot or Haken
Kreuz in the advent of popularization in
second century BC. It was adopted from
Devanagari and the word Fylfot is
associated with architecture. According
to many, the origin of X is Latin sign
Gamma. What is X.

5. Answer: Swastik

6. Question 3:
• In the year 2003, Operation Enduring Freedom
took place as US President George Bush was
relentless to topple the government of Saddam. In
order to access the city of Umm Qasr, the US
Marines were facing tumultuous trouble. The
president formed a regiment with 75 volunteers
called ‘School of Kings’s Troop’ to foster access to
that inaccessible passage to the city. Who were the
volunteers of this regiment?

7. Answers: Dolphins

8. Question 4:
• X was popularized in Europe in sixteenth century. Jonas
Hanway, the founder of Magdalen Hospital, brought X for
the first time in Portsmouth. X was also popular as
Hanway’s Hand in England. In 1880, Alexandeb H. Ege
acquired patent of modern form of X. The city of Shangyu in
China has the most production houses of X in the entire
world. The study of X is called Brolliology. What is X.

9. Answer: Umbrella

10. Question 5:
• Antonio De Madalina, a Portuguese monk visited X
in 1586 and stated, “extraordinary construction
that cannot be described through pen and it cannot
be compared with any other thing in the world. The
towers and refinements are hard to be believed as
the creation of human beings”. X’s literal meaning is
capital city and it is a vernacular form of ‘Nokor’
that originated from Sanskrit ‘Nagara’. As per
Purana, Indra ordered X as a capital for his son
Jayanta. Id X.

11. Answer: Angkor Wat

12. Question 6:
• পদ্মবীজের মালা,বযক্তিগত
নক্ষত্রক্তমলা,েলপ্রপাজতর তীজর- Who is
the unconventional writer of
these literary pieces?

13. Answer: Soumitra Chatterjee

14. Question 7:
• দুক্তনয়ার সব ববড়ালজে আর যারা ববড়াল বপাজে বা
ববড়ালরা যাজদব বপাজে,তাজদর এই বই ক্তদলাম,োউজে
বাদ ক্তদইক্তন।োজলা ক্তবড়াল,ভাজলা ক্তবড়াল;হুজলা
ক্তবড়াল,নুজলা ক্তবড়াল;বগজ া ক্তবড়াল,বমজ া ক্তবড়াল;এজদর
ক্তবড়াল তাজদর ক্তবড়াল,নাম োক্তননা োজদর
ক্তবড়াল,সবাইজে এই বই ক্তদলাম- Who is the
author and name the book

15. Answer: Leela Majumder/ Beraler Boi

16. Question 8:
• Draw Connection between:
হাোর চুরাক্তির
মা,োলজবলা,মহাোজলর রজের
ব াড়া,িযাওলা,অজ্ঞাতবাস

17. Answer: Based On Naxal Movement

18. Question 9:
• X is said to be the favourite food of Yamaraj as in rural
Bengal, X is presented as Prasad to Dharmaraj. X is popular
in Bengal from sixteenth century and it was mainly
produced through the hypothecation of the Portuguese. It
was also the favourite food of Ashutosh Mukherjee as he used
to purchase it while returning from the remote villages of
Hooghly. He used to take cart full of containers of X and it is
said that he used to eat 80% of X before reaching Kolkata.
Identify X. (Be specific)

19. Answer: Jol-Bhora/ Talshas Sondesh

20. Question 10:
• X is a famous painter and his elder brother is his namesake.
X painted roughly 900 paintings in his last 10 years and he
is also admired for his beautiful style of writing letters. X’s
friend Theo Emerald had revealed approximately 800 letters
with enigmatic design and colour. X devoted the earlobe to
his girlfriend. X died in Auvers-sur-Oise of France in the
year 1890. Identify X..

21. Answer: Vincent Van Gogh

22. Question 11:
• Mohan Bagan won their first trophy
Coochbehar Cup in 1904. In February of
1905, the club participated in X
tournament at Chinsurah where they
defeated reigning IFA Shield Champion
Y by a margin of 6-1 in the finals to
accomplish their second achievement.
Identify X and Y.

23. Answer: X- Gladstone Cup. Y- Dalhousie

24. Question 12:
In 1953, East Bengal partook in a tour to
Soviet Russia to participate in Communist
Confederation Cup where they conceded 32
goals in four matches. In the second match
of group stage against X, East Bengal scored
their solo goal of the tournament but also
embraced 13. What was the name of their
opponent in that match?

25. Answer: Dynamo Kiev

26. Question 13:
X is a Bengali movie that was released in 1997 and
became a commercial success for soothing songs and plot.
In 2001, Suraj Barjatya bought the copyright of the
movie and made a star struck but super flop movie Y
that was ventilated in 2003. The movie X is miles ahead
in quality than Y but unfortunately, Suraj Barjatya
ensured that no copy of X would be available in Internet
sites. Till date, you will not find an original DVD of X in
market except pirated copies and only the videos of the
songs are available in YouTube. Identify X and Y.

27. Answer: X- Sedin Choitro Mas. Y- Main
Prem Ki Deewani Hoon.

28. Question 14:
Anton Stradivari, Andrews Guarneri and
X were three pioneers of Y in seventeenth
century in Italy. X first presented the
modified and modernized form of Y in
Cremona of Italy. Indranarayan Acharya
was brutally murdered for having
possession of Y made by X. Identify X and
Y will follow the track automatically.

29. Answer: X- Nicolo Amati. Y- Violin

30. Question 15:
On this very day, X received a Jamaican state
funeral after X’s demise due to Acral
Lentiginous melanoma on 11th May. X was a
supporter of Santos Football Club and
footballer Allan Cole was X’s manager in
1970. X once said, "If you want to get to
know me, you will have to play football
against me and the Wailers”. Identify X.

31. Answer: Bob Marley

32. Question 16:
• Football: A game that is played with 11 players in each
team
• Foot-sol: A game that is played with 5 players in each team
• Beasal: A football game that is player on sand in the beaches.
• Then what is Futelama? (Be precise please)

33. Answer: Mud Football (Generally played
on muddy beaches of Amazon)

34. Question 17:
• Fazal Mahmood was the first Pak cricketer to take 100
wickets. He used to play for Northern India in Ranji Trophy.
In 1947-48, he was brutally beaten by some radical Hindus
while he was returning from the training camp of Ranji
Trophy in Pune. On that same train, a Hindu cricketer of
Indian national team was travelling and he saved Fazal that
day by attacking the goons with his bat. In later days of
Fazal in Lancashire, he named his house after that great
man. Id that Indian cricketer..

35. Answer: Cornel C.K.Nayadu

36. Question 18:
• X is saying about Y…”IT is like sticking
the emblem of the highest peak of the
world on the body of Mount Everest.”
Identify X and Y (Hint: Take your
memories back to the previous
year….One of them has already left
us..Guess the context and the names will
follow)

37. Answer: X: Leonard Cohen, Y: Bob Dylan

38. Question 19:
• X’s films are characterized by nonlinear storylines
and anesthetization of violence. X’s first movie was
“My Best Friend's Birthday”. In December of 2015,
X received Hollywood Walk of Fame for the
contribution to the industry of American movies.
The ventilation of “Jackie Brown” led X into legal
and social controversies. Some of X’s produced
movies are “Iron Monkey” and “Hell Ride”. Identify
X.

39. Answer: Quentin Tarantino

40. Question 20:
• X was born on 21st December, 1503 in a
French island. X served as a physician. X was
married to Henriette d'Encausse in 1931 but
his wife and son were died due to plague. Dr.
Garencières is popular for translating X’s
works in English. In 2012, X suddenly came
into news for some specific reasons. Identify
X.

41. Answer: Nostradamus

42. Question 21: What is happening here?

43. Answer: Shooting of MGM Lion Leo

44. Question 22: Solve the equation

45. Answer: Mahendra Singh Dhoni

46. Question 23: Identify the person in left

47. Answer: Hariprasad Chaurasia

48. Question 24: Identify the girl or state the
significance of this particular incident

49. Answer: She is Ruby Bridges. She is the first Afro-
American child to attend a white elementary school on
14th November, 1960

50. Question 25. Identify this vibrant Pulitzer winning
picture

51. Answer: Saigon Execution by Eddie Adams

52. Question 26: Identify the singer

53. Answer: Parambrata Chatterjee

54. Question 27: Identify the singer

55. Answer: Srikumar Chatterjee

56. Question 28: Identify the movie

57. Answer: Satyamev Jayate

58. Question 29: ID the voice

59. Answer: Pahari Sanyal

60. Question 30: Identify the singer

61. Answer: John Denver