Prelims. Highest Score- 15.5 Cut-off Score - 8.5

1. 30 QUESTIONS
6 STAR MARKED QUESTIONS
SUDDEN DEATH(COUNT BACK METHOD) IF STARS CANNOT ELIMINATE
PRELIMS SCORE WILL GET PRECEDENCE IF THERE IS A TIE IN THE FINALS

2.  The Bystander Magazine of April 1924 captured these
impressions of the________ _____, complete with the then
fashionable trousers known as ‘________Bags’ or ‘Blanket
Bags’.
 FITB or simply identify the team.

5.  Who were the recipient of the Olympic Cup in 1929 for their
holistic approach to development, symbolised by the well-
known ________triangle representing body, mind and spirit ?

7.  “Another Side of X : The Dharma Bum as Sports Nut” was an
article published in The New York Times on 15th May,2009. The
article reveals that X obsessively played a fantasy baseball game
of his own invention, charting the exploits of made-up players.
 He collected their stats, analysed their performances and, as a
teenager, when he played most ardently, wrote about them in
homemade newsletters and broadsides.
 Isaac Gewirtz, New York Library’s curator has just wrote a 75-
page book about them, “X at Bat: Fantasy Sports and the King of
the Beats”
 Who is X ?

10.  What makes the 1996 Men's Singles finalists Richard Krajicek
of the Netherlands and MaliVai Washington of the United
States smile while posing for the customary pre-match photo-
shoot? This was described by BBC’s John Barrett as “The two
boys hardly knew where to look.”

13.  One story about its origin goes that the organisers asked Philippe
Thys to use one and after initial resentment at the request of the
team manager at Peugeot, Thys gave in.
 Thys says, “The ________would be an advertisement for the
company and, that being the argument, I was obliged to concede.
So a __________was bought in the first shop we came to. It was just
the right size, although we had to cut a slightly larger hole for my
head to go through.”
 What is the alternative and more popular theory behind the
origin of this entity?

15.  Identify the blanked
out part.

17.  When the film project began, she was an International Relations
fresher at Jadavpur University and was shortlisted for the role. But,
the director felt that she would not fit the part and looked much
more elitist and hence, they embarked on finding a fresh face.
 However, unable to find a “darker” face, they sought to return to
their original choice, on the verge of her graduation and the rest, as
they say is history.
 Which former JU alumnus and South Point teacher is being referred
and what film?

19.  The image on the right,
describes the mechanism
behind something which
was last used publicly in
May 1897 at Barcelona.
 What does it describe ?
 What phrase/slang was
immortalised as an
outcome of a particular
demonstration of this
mechanism, that
perhaps originated from
one of the great fears of
a sailor that he will be
drowned at sea and his
body will not be buried
ashore where family
and friends can mourn
over them ?

21.  Billy Connolly, a stand up comedian known for his political
satires, once criticised a Scottish member of the parliament,
Jack McConnell, as having political know-how at par with a
Geography student who placed _______ ____ _______________
somewhere in the Baltic Sea.
 FITB keeping with the theme of the quiz.

23.  This is John Charcot, a
celebrated physician of the
19th century who is seen
lecturing a panel of doctors
on the origins of a condition
in this woman, which
people prior to him,
believed to have caused by
a pathology in the womb,
rising to choke a woman.
What condition, which is a
misnomer at present ?

25.  Kanehara Trading Inc.
has the monopoly over
a particular item which
will be celebrating its
centenary next year,
yet, remains as
indispensable as ever to
a section of health
workers.
 What?

27.  How can you connect the following images/which one simple
addition would complete this exhaustive list ?

30.  ‘Many people had warned me that they (the doctors) would
turn him into a guinea pig, but we did not listen to them,' cried
Gyanera Bibi. 'I was not forcibly feeding him, as the doctors
have suggested. If I was doing anything wrong, they did not
stop me either,' she added.
 This was what, the bereaved mother had to say when enquired
on her child’s untimely death.
 Who is this, a media sensation a decade back and had a name
which is Turkish for “male” ?

32.  One of the oldest medical textbooks in the world, the Ebers
Papyrus, describes how the ancient Egyptians used this in
1,550 BC, though it is popularly known to have originated
form another country.
 After the procedure, you may get an antibiotic ointment and
bandage to prevent infection.
 What which has shot into public consciousness recently?

34.  Impossible Motherhood is a
book by Irene Vilar which
has a minimalistic cover.
 What does the tally
represent ?

36.  Two Harvard students with an interest in old Hindi films
have created a website pertaining to their passion. Which film
name would they give to their website reflecting both their
area of interest as well as the dual nature of the project?

37.  Mr. and Mrs.55

38.  "Frank Simoes and Karen Anand wrote on food, Tom Alter on
sports, Dilip Thakore on money; Ashok Banker, CP Surendran,
Ranjit Hoskote wrote cover stories; Namita Gokhale and Anita
Nair did columns on sex and relationships; Suketu Mehta, Adil
Jussawala, Farrukh Dhondy sent us fiction and poetry."-Which
English language magazine would boast of such credit in its prime?

39.  Gentleman

42.  The person in his autobiography said that the name had no meaning
in Portuguese or any other language. He states that perhaps it may
have been given by one of the Turks living in Bauru; an
alternatively spelled version of the word has 2 meanings-’foot’ in
Portuguese and possibly ‘stupid’ in Turkish.
What name is being talked about?

44.  What American city got its name by contracting New Ark of
the Covenant?

46.  The cricketer in his autobiography talked about how his family
was originally from India. his father was from Bombay and
Ahmedabad, while his mother’s family was from X, one of
several princely states, located near the Ahmedabed-Baroda
area, that flourished under the British colonial rule.
Identify the cricketer, a Karachite,by birth, and X.

48.  Identify the person to the left
of Edward Snowden.
His claim to fame is that of
leaking The Pentagon Papers,a
top secret Pentagon analysis of
the American government’s
decisions in the Vietnam war,
to the New York Times, and
other bodies,in 1971.

50.  "On January 6, 1948, an Air France DC-3 from Brussels crashed
on approach to the Le Bourget airport near Paris, killing all five
crew members and 10 of the 11 passengers. Among the dead was a
young woman who, press reports said, was either a clerk or a
courier. She was neither."-this would be a certain organisation's
description of the death of a Jane Wallis Burrell.How would Jane
Wallis Burrell's death be notable with respect to the organisation's
history?

51.  She would be the First CIA officer to die in the agency’s service

52.  In his essay “Misguided ‘Guide’” R.K.Narayan talks about the efforts
of the filmmakers to recruit this person ,who was passing through
India, to persuade the Queen to be present at the world premiere of
the film.
Instead this person would be engaged in an awkward conversation
with the high profile producer of the film who, according to
Narayan,struggled for words.
Who were these two?

53.  Lord Mountbatten
Pearl S. Buck

54.  In “The Lost Generation: Chronicling India’s Dying Lost
Professions” Nidhi Dugar Kundalia talks about how young
girls in the Khunti district of Jharkhand often undergo a
‘godna’ ceremony where to the accompaniment of musicians
women sing and dance to district the child while the malhar is
at work.
What is the godna ceremony?

55.  The ritual of inserting a tattoo on the girl child’s forehead in
the shape of a tilak.

56.  Phil Robertson had an opportunity to be an NFL player but he
realised that if he were to pursue that career he would have to
miss ____ ______.He decided to establish a company that would
be in line with his passion. The company has a two word
name-the first word is that of first blank and the second word
refers to a military rank.
The company sponsors college football’s Independence Bowl
2014 onwards.

58.  In John McMillan’s “Reinventing Bazaar: A Natural History of
Markets” the author talks about the Dutch village of Aalsmeer.
In what respect is Aalsmeer the world’s largest market?
The author credits the scale of production of such delicate and
perishable items to efficient air transportation and
telecommunications.

60.  What technique did Philip Roth use in ‘Operation Shylock’ that
would straddle the line between fiction and non fiction?
The technique was first done in print by Edgar Rice
Burroughs and has been done by the likes of Paul Theroux
among others.

61.  Insert a character by his own name in the text

62. It was in the fields. The trees grew still,
a light passed through the leaves speaking
of Christ’s great grace: I heard.
My body hardened into armor.
Since the guards
gave me over to darkness, I have prayed to God
and now the voices answer I must be
transformed to fire, for God’s purpose,
and have bid me kneel
to bless my King, and thank
the enemy to whom I own my life.
This is a poem by Louis Gluck about whom?