This are the Prelims 1st Headrush of the Autumn 2012 Semester. QM: Dhruv Bhatnagar

1. By
Dhruv Bhatnagar

2. Q.1 Identify these two athletes?
Hint: They are at the Olympics.

3. Ans1
Yohan Blake Ryan Lochte

4. Q.2 Where have you seen this recently and what is this
called?

5. Ans-2 The Dark Knight Rises ---Lazarus Pit

6. Q.3 What has been blanked out?

7. Ans3 Ek tha Tiger. New comics launched by Uday
Chopra

8. Thank God he’s not acting and busy doing something
else….

9. Q4
In July 1941, in a response to Japanese colonial
expansions into China and French Indo-China - the
USA, Britain and Netherlands placed economic
sanctions against Japan. This prevented them from
controlling their foreign assets abroad (especially
London) which in turn stopped the Japanese from
procuring oil. What did Japan do in direct opposition
to this?

10. Ans4 Pearl Harbour

11. Q5 Whose autobiography “Mud,Sweat andTears”
• Hint:-

12. Ans5 Bear Grylls

13. Q6.
• Zbtb7 originally named X, is a gene that may act as a
master switch for cancer, and is responsible for the
proliferation of cancer throughout surrounding cells.
• Zbtb7 stands for "POK erythroid myeloid ontogenic
factor".
• Nintendo's subsidiary, not wanting the bad press
inherent with this publication, threatened the center
with legal action in December 2005, at which point the
Cancer Center decided to rename it as Zbtb7.
• Why did Nintendo do this?.

14. Ans6
• POK erythroid myeloid ontogenic factor = originally
called POKEMON.
• Press headlines like “Pokemon causes Cancer”
happened which irked Nintendo.

15. Q7 A species of marsh rabbit in the southeastern US is
named for a media magnate because he has donated
money to protect endangered rabbits, and there is a
branding connection too with his business. The
species is called Sylviiagus palustrus _______i. Fill in
the missing name.

16. Ans7 Hugh Hefner
Sylviiagus palustrus hefneri

17. Q8 Who’s parody twitter account?
I need a specific answer. However spelling errors will be allowed.

18. Ans8 Kim Jong Un
• Supreme leader of North Korea. At 29 years of age, he is the world's
youngest head of state.

19. Q9 Minimalist poster of which TV series?

20. Ans 9 The Big Bang theory

21. Q10
• With 12,500 seats it is London's second largest
indoor arena after the O2 arena and third largest
indoor concert venue after the O2 and Earls Court,
an exhibition hall which regularly stages concerts. X
was the first Indian singer to perform at the
Wembley Arena and the Heineken music hall in
Amsterdam.

22. Ans10 Himesh Reshamiyaa

23. Q11
Which company lights the famous landmarks like Eiffel
Tower, Pyramids of Giza, the Golden Gate Bridge and
the Sydney Opera House?

24. Ans 11 Phillips

25. Q12. Who is this man, and what did he discover thus?
“I was sitting writing at my textbook but the work
did not progress; my thoughts were elsewhere. I
turned my chair to the fire and dozed. Again the
atoms were gambolling before my eyes. This time
the smaller groups kept modestly in the
background. My mental eye, rendered more acute
by the repeated visions of the kind, could now
distinguish larger structures of manifold
confirmation: long rows, sometimes more closely
fitted together all twining and twisting in snake
like motion. But look! What was that? One of the
snakes had seized hold of its own tail, and the
form whirled mockingly before my eyes. As if by a
flash of lightning I awoke; and this time also I
spent the rest of the night in working out the rest
of the hypothesis. Let us learn to dream,
gentlemen, then perhaps we shall find the truth...
But let us beware of publishing our dreams till
they have been tested by waking understanding. ”

26. Ans12 Kekule,Benzene Rings

27. Q13
• Movie star X started his career in a 1975 pornographic movie
called “All in the Family.”
• He later defended this with: “I had to do anything I could to
make a living 31 years ago, but I don't think it's a big deal,
even Marlon Brando used to be exposed in his movies," X
said. "The porn movie at that time was more conservative
than the current films“
• The film was directed by Mu Zhu, and was euphemistically
called, an “adult comedy”.
• It is the only movie that he has starred in where starred in
where there isn't a single fight or stunt sequence.

28. Ans13 Jackie Chan

29. Q14 Lego Movie Poster of which Movie?

30. Ans14 Rocky Balboa

31. Q15
Which Indian city is named after the Lodhi dynasty?
• Hint is in the question.

32. Ans 15 Ludhiana

33. Q16
This is the Velodrome for the London Olympics. How is
it referred to as?(this is more of a common sense rather
than a sports question!)

34. Ans16 Pringle

35. Q17
Who was made an honorary member of the Bradford
City Supporters’ Club because of the huge boost he
gave to the sales of club scarves since his arrival in
2002?

36. Ans 17
Harry Potter
In the 2002 film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's
Stone, Harry wears the house colors of Gryffindor -
claret and amber - on his robes when he plays
Quidditch, and his scarf.

37. Q18
If you see this logo which country would you be in?

38. Ans18 Saudi Arabia
A half dressed and bare chested siren was considered
“morally inappropriate” and hence the logo was changed in
1992.
This is the original logo.

39. Q19
By 1915 over 600 were produced annually in America.
The most prolific year of U.S. production was 1921,
with 854; the lowest number produced was in 1963,
with 121. Between 1922 and 1970, the U.S. and Japan
alternated as leaders in production output. Since 1971,
the country with the highest output has been India.
What are we talking about?

40. Ans19 Feature Films

41. Q20
Besides being the main Gujarati alphabets what other
major role do the alphabets "k", "kh", "g", "gh", "ch",
"chh", "j” play?

42. Ans20
• Gandhinagar’s roads are named after them.
Gh -0,1,2,3…
• Ch – 0,1,2,3…
• K ,Kh..and so on…

43. Scores to be calculated.
• Top 6 move to the Finals….