2. Prelims
• 20 questions.
• Top 8 teams qualify for the finals.
• In case of tie, sudden death rule applies.
• Hints will be given when no one objects to it.
• Quizmaster’s decision is final.
3. 1.
Born in Maharashtra to a family of Karhade
Brahmin scholars, X received the prestigious
Padma Bhushan award at the age of 27 for his
work in cosmology. X is also the Chairperson of
The Advisory Group for Textbooks in Science and
Mathematics, NCERT. His short story ‘The
Adventure’ features in the 11 grade NCERT English
textbook. Who?
10. 4.
• Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was an English
writer, mathematician, logician and
photographer. He is famous for his ‘new’ ideas in
linear algebra like Dodgson condensation, a
method of evaluating determinants.
However, what made him really popular is the
children’s classic he wrote under the pseudonym
X with some peculiar, anthropomorphic
creatures. Name X and this classic.
16. 7. Name this principle.
• X is a principle of parsimony, economy, or
succinctness used in problem-solving devised by
William of ____. X is also known as Law of
Economy or the Law of Parsimony. The principle
states that "Entities should not be multiplied
unnecessarily." Many scientists have adopted or
reinvented X, as in Leibniz's "identity of
observables" and Isaac Newton stated the rule:
"We are to admit no more causes of natural
things than such as are both true and sufficient
to explain their appearances.”
18. 8. Id X, Y and Z.
• Taking as a challenge her sister’s pronouncement
that she had never read a mystery where she didn’t
know straightway “whodunit”, X wrote her first
novel, Y while working as a nurse during
WWI, featuring Z; portrayed as a former Belgian
police officer who took refuge in Britain after
Germany had invaded Belgium. X's inspiration for
this stemmed from real Belgian refugees who
existed in Torquay. Although Z was a public hero, by
1930, X found him “insufferable", and by 1960 she
felt that he was a
"detestable, bombastic, tiresome, egocentric little
creep".
20. 9. Id X.
• Gulab Singh (1792-1857) was a member of the
Hindu Dogra family who served under Maharaja
Ranjit Singh, the first Sikh ruler of the Punjab. He
was a successful ruler and fine soldier. Following
Ranjit Singh's death in 1839, the unity of the
kingdom rapidly disintegrated, and Gulab Singh
began to misappropriate the revenues of the
territories assigned to his care. He finally passed on
military intelligence to the British before the first
Anglo-Sikh war in 1845-46. The Treaty of
Amritsar, 1846, formalised the sale of X by the
British to Gulab Singh for 7,500,000 rupees that
were ceded to them by the Sikhs by the Treaty of
Lahore.
29. 13.
• Knol was a X project that aimed to include user-
written articles on a range of topics. The project
was led by Udi Manber announced on December
13, 2007, and was opened in beta to the public
on July 23, 2008 with a few hundred articles
mostly in the health and medical field.Several
experts saw Knol as X attempt to compete with
Wikipedia, while others pointed out the
differences between the projects. X announced
that Knol was to be phased out in favor of Y. It
was closed on April 30, 2012, and all content was
deleted by October 1, 2012.
30.
31. 14.
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?
34. 15.
• German scientist and philosopher Georg
Christophe Lichtenberg's idea forms the basis for
the standard size series, based on an aspect ratio
of the square root of 2. The significant advantage
offered through this system is that each entity in
this series when divided into two yields the next
size. Which series is this?
41. 18.
• The logo for this product shows one and a half
glasses of milk pouring into it and forming
it, reflecting, the company claims, that one and a
half glasses of full cream milk go into the making
of one pound of this product.
• Which product?
42.
43. 19.
Roosevelt was once invited to a hunting trip .Most of
the hunters meeting had already killed an animal. A
suite of Roosevelt’s attendants concerned, clubbed
and tied an animal to a willow tree after a long
exhausting chase, called Roosevelt to the site and
suggested that he should shoot it. He reused to shoot
it himself, deeming this unsportsmanlike , but
instructed ,that it should be killed to put it out of
misery. It became the topic of a political cartoon by
Clifford Berryman in The Washington Post on
November 16,1902.While the initial cartoon figured
an adult animal ,later issues of that and other
Berryman cartoons made the animal smaller and
cuter.What got its name after this incident?
