3. RULES FOR THE
PRELIMS….
Each Team Should Consist Of Two Members
Irrespective Of Their Branch Or Year.
There Will Be 20 Questions To Be Answered In The
Prelims.
No Negative Marks, against our ethics!!
Questions Numbered From 15 To 20 Are Starred
Questions.
In Case Of A Tie Amongst Teams, The Team Scoring
Higher Number Of Starred Question Will Move
Forward.
In case of doubts KISS
Feel Free To Guess And Ask For Hints……
7. 4)
Vyjayanthimala won the Filmfare
Award for Best Supporting Actress for
her role as Chandramukhi in
Devdas(1955).
Reena Roy won the award for her role
as Kamini in Apnaapan (1977).
What connects these 2 „victories‟?
8. 5) On which website would you encounter
this error message?
9. 6) Currently kept at the entrance of the
Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum at
London, whose statue is this?
10. (7)
In 1995, this particular gentleman
received the national award for best
coverage of science and technology in
mass media from National Council for
Science & Technology Communication
(NCSTC) under the Department of
Science and Technology.
Name this person, who recently
passed away, whose works have been
used by most of us today.
11. (8)
“ There he sits like a dragon in his cave, like a
thousand fingered puppet master, like the
heart of the heart of darkness, orchestrator of
all the secret music of the under-spheres, the
arch- villain, the dark capo, Moriariter than
Moriarty, Blofelder than Blofeld, not just
Godfather but Gonefartherest, the dada of all
dada. His name is carefully chosen to avoid
offending any of the country‟s communities;
it‟s neither Muslim nor Hindu, Parsi nor
Christian…”
About whom did Salman Rushdie write the
above words in The Moor’s Last Sigh?
12. (9)
The RBI launched a special Rs. 150 coin in
January last year to commemorate the 150th
birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore.
In the following month, it launched yet
another coin to commemorate the completion
of 150 years of a certain „inevitable‟ activity
in the country.
What?
18. (15)
X is a stuffed, deep fried snack that is very popular in the Indian
Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Central Asia and Southwest Asia,
the Arabian Peninsula.
X has been a popular snack in the Indian Subcontinent for
centuries. It is believed that it originated in Central Asia prior to the
10th century. Abolfazl Beyhaqi (995-1077), an Iranian historian has
mentioned it in his history, Tarikh-e Beyhaghi[. It was introduced to
the Indian subcontinent in the 13th or 14th century by traders
from the region.
Amir Khusro (1253–1325) wrote in around 1300 that the princes
and nobles enjoyed the “X prepared from meat, ghee, onion and so
on".
Ibn Battuta, the 14th century traveller and explorer, describes a
meal at the court of Muhammad bin Tughluq as a small pie stuffed
with minced meat, almonds, pistachio, walnuts and spices, was
served before the third course, of pulao.
What?
19. (16)
In an interview to the Indian Express in November
2011, he said:
“After Operation Blue Star in Punjab, the final
examinations were postponed.I led a group of students
demanding a month’s notice as preparation.
We made banners saying, “____ ____” and went about
raising this slogan.
He used these lines in a film.
Which lines?
20. (17)
Sir Thomas ___, is supposedly the
ancestor of Y. Their family motto is
"Orbis non sufficit". Gimme the English
version of the motto, and Y.
30. 4)
Vyjayanthimala won the Filmfare
Award for Best Supporting Actress for
her role as Chandramukhi in
Devdas(1955).
Reena Roy won the award for her role
as Kamini in Apnaapan (1977).
What connects these 2 „victories‟?
34. 6) Currently kept at the entrance of the
Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum at London,
whose statue is this?
35.
36. (7)
In 1995, this particular gentleman
received the national award for best
coverage of science and technology in
mass media from National Council for
Science & Technology Communication
(NCSTC) under the Department of
Science and Technology.
Name this person, who recently
passed away, whose works have been
used by most of us today.
38. (8)
“ There he sits like a dragon in his cave, like a
thousand fingered puppet master, like the
heart of the heart of darkness, orchestrator of
all the secret music of the under-spheres, the
arch- villain, the dark capo, Moriariter than
Moriarty, Blofelder than Blofeld, not just
Godfather but Gonefartherest, the dada of all
dada. His name is carefully chosen to avoid
offending any of the country‟s communities;
it‟s neither Muslim nor Hindu, Parsi nor
Christian…”
About whom did Salman Rushdie write the
above words in The Moor’s Last Sigh?
40. (9)
The RBI launched a special Rs. 150 coin in
January last year to commemorate the 150th
birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore.
In the following month, it launched yet
another coin to commemorate the completion
of 150 years of a certain „inevitable‟ activity
in the country.
What?
52. (15)
X is a stuffed, deep fried snack that is very popular in the Indian
Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Central Asia and Southwest Asia,
the Arabian Peninsula.
X has been a popular snack in the Indian Subcontinent for
centuries. It is believed that it originated in Central Asia prior to the
10th century. Abolfazl Beyhaqi (995-1077), an Iranian historian has
mentioned it in his history, Tarikh-e Beyhaghi[. It was introduced to
the Indian subcontinent in the 13th or 14th century by traders from
the region.
Amir Khusro (1253–1325) wrote in around 1300 that the princes and
nobles enjoyed the “X prepared from meat, ghee, onion and so on".
Ibn Battuta, the 14th century traveller and explorer, describes a
meal at the court of Muhammad bin Tughluq as a small pie stuffed
with minced meat, almonds, pistachio, walnuts and spices, was
served before the third course, of pulao.
What?
54. (16)
In an interview to the Indian Express in November
2011, he said:
“After Operation Blue Star in Punjab, the final
examinations were postponed. led a group of students
demanding a month’s notice as preparation.
We made banners saying, “____ ____”. and went
about raising this slogan.”
He used these lines in a film.
Which lines?
55.
56. (17)
Sir Thomas ___, is supposedly the
ancestor of Y. Their family motto is
"Orbis non sufficit". Gimme the English
version of the motto, and Y.
