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The General Quiz – Brought to you by Team Atharva

2. PRELIMS
• 20 questions
• Watch out for the starred questions 1 to 5 –
will be used to resolve ties
• Questions 14 to 20 comprise the Stage 2
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3. **1
In the roman and medieval ages, __________ often
concerned themselves with the practical side of treating
illness and left the spiritual aspects to the priests and
monks. They often performed procedures ranging from
leeching and dentistry right up to surgical procedures
such as amputations, hernia repairs and gallstone
operations.
In modern times,_____ are approached as part of routine
or are completely ignored by many. Only few appreciate
the need of ____ in healthcare.The origin of their symbol
is associated with the service of bloodletting and was
historically a representation of bloody bandages wrapped
around a pole. The original pole had a brass wash basin
at the top (representing the vessel in which leeches were
kept) and bottom (representing the basin that received the
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4. Barbers / Barber’s Pole
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5. **2. Ad for what ?
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7. **3
When NASA launched the space shuttle Discovery on
a 14-day mission to the International Space Station,
viewers may have just heard the voice of the STS-
124 crew's special guest eighth astronaut. Standing
12-inches tall, X, who initially thought he was a real
space ranger, finally achieved his dream of flying in
space. Jointly developed by Disney's Youth
Educational Series and NASA, this program includes
educational games for students and materials
for educators to download and integrate into their
classroom curriculum. The games, which debut for
play starting on Saturday through NASA's website,
feature X and are themed around the events to take
place during STS-124.Children can choose trying to
dock the Japanese science lab to the station, match
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8. To Infinity and Beyond !!
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9. **4
Carol Ann Susi is an actress
who has minor roles on Ugly
Betty, That 70’s show and a
couple of voice over roles
for shows like Sabrina. In
her most recent role she is
never seen on-screen but
her voice is heard when X is
at their house or on the
phone. She always talks to
him by yelling at him, which
results in awkward long-
distance conversations with
him yelling back at her. She
seems completely oblivious
to X's work as an long and thanks for all the FISH – Team Atharva
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engineer,
and treats him as if he were

10. Mrs. Holowitz
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11. **5
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13. 6
Marge Simpson: Now I know you haven’t
liked some of my suggestions in the past, like
switching to the ______ ______ for instance.
Abe Simpson: The _____ _____ is the tool of
the devil. My car gets forty rods to the
hogshead and that’s the way I like it
Simpsons episode titled – “A Star is Burns”.
Fill in the blanks.
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14. America’s aversion to the
Metric System
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15. 7. First instances of what ?
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17. 8
It was instantly clear that X’s discovery was an
important one as it gave further proof of the
quantum nature of light. So, X was confident of
winning the Nobel Prize in Physics that year but
was disappointed when the Nobel Prize went to
Richardson that year and to de Broglie in the
next year. X was so confident of winning the
prize in the subsequent year that he booked
tickets in July, even though the awards were to
be announced in November, and would scan
each day’s newspaper for announcement of the
prize, tossing it away if it did not carry the news.
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19. 9
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20. The new Sherlock Holmes
novel
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21. 10
Manuel Santana’s career
began as a ball boy and
"picked up" the game, led
Spain to unexpected
victory over the U.S. in the
Davis Cup. At the 1968
Olympic Games in Mexico
City, Santana won the
Gold Medal in Singles. He
has won the French Open
(1961 and 1964) and U.S
Open(1965). Before he
won his only
Wimbledon(1966) he is
credited for being the first
to utter these immortal
lines in tennis, repeated by
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22. Grass is for Cows
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23. 11
X is the brain-child of visionaries B. Nagi
Reddy and Chakrapani. X was launched with
an aim to entertain and educate young minds
about the rich traditions of India. The name X
is synonymous with that of storytelling,
especially in households where children are
regaled with stories to appease their
tantrums. X launched its first editions in
Telugu and Tamil followed by versions in
English, and other Indian regional languages
and currently publish stories in 13languages.
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25. 12
Allauddinum Albhutha Vilakkum
(translated as Alladin's magical lamp) is a
1979 Malayalam film directed by I. V. Sasi. It
stars X as Allauddin and Y as Kamaruddin.
The film is based on Alladin's story from the
Arabian Nights.
The film also stars Jayabharti, Sripriya and
Helen in an obligatory item number.
X &Y ??
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27. 13. Dedication to what ?
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28. Beatles – Abbey Road
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29. Section STAGE 2
• 14-19 are your clues to the Stage 2
• Clues can be anywhere in the question or
answer
• Answer to the 20th question is the Stage 2
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30. 14. Types of what ?
4
9
16
25
36
49
64
81
100
121
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31. Types of Brackets
• Round
• Square
• Corner
• Angular
• Chevrons
• Curly
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32. 15
X was often perceived as a magician, and is thought to
have dabbled in alchemy and necromancy. It was said
that he would travel about with a black spider in a
small box, and that his black rooster was his familiar
spirit. X used his rooster to determine which of his
servants had been stealing from his home. He would
shut the suspects one at a time in a room with the bird,
telling them to stroke it. The rooster would then tell X
which of them was guilty. Actually, what would happen
is that he would secretly coat the rooster with soot.
Servants who were innocent would have no qualms
about stroking it but the guilty one would only pretend
he had, and when X examined their hands, the one
with the clean hands was guilty.
It was in his mathematical work in 1618 that he
referenced the constant Y, though it did not present
the constant itself. Hence, the credit of discovering the
constant goes to long and thanksBernoulli who was trying to
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Jacob for all the FISH – Team Atharva

33. John Napier and
Exponential
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34. 16. Name of album
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35. Division Bell
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36. 17
X is derived from the need of the printers of
family trees in feudal times as a symbol to
indicate date of birth. The original shape was
seven-armed, each arm like a tear drop
shooting from the centre. For this reason, in
some computer circles it is called a splat,
perhaps due to the "squashed-bug"
appearance of the X on many early line
printers. Many cultures have their own
unique versions of the X. In musical notation
the sign indicates when the sustain pedal of
the piano should be lifted. In human
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37. Asterisk
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38. 18
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39. Adder
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40. 19
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41. Subtract
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42. 20. What be Stage 2 ?
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43. STAGE 2
• Brackets
• Exponents
• Division
• Multiplication
• Addition
• Subtraction
Aka BODMAS  
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44. • 8 teams to finals
• Coming right up
• Stick around for more fish and fundae.
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