prelims,general quiz 2014

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La Bougie du Sapeur,first published in 1980,is a humorous
French newspaper published every X date.There have been nine
editions of this newspaper to this date.The newspaper’s name is
derived from a comic character the sapper Camember,created by
Georges Colomb founded by Jacques Debuisson and Christian
Baily printed in 200,000 copies.The newspaper’s ISSN is 0761-
6147.Identify X.

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King John of England set his seal to the X on June 15, 1215. The document
limited the power of the English monarchy and granted rights to John’s
vassals. Many English legal traditions, including the right to trial by jury and
equal access to courts for all citizens, had their origins in the X. The X of 1215
contains 63 clauses. The first restates the charter that John issued in 1214,
which had granted liberties to the Church. In many clauses John promises to be
less harsh in enforcing his feudal rights on the barons, and another clause
states that the barons must grant to their tenants all the feudal concessions that
the king has made to them.
The two most important clauses of X are among the legal clauses. Clause 40
promises, “To no one will we sell, to no one will we deny or delay right or
justice.” This clause establishes the principle of equal access to the courts for
all citizens without exorbitant fees. In clause 39, the king promises, “No free
man shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised or outlawed or exiled or in any
way destroyed, nor will we go or send against him, except by the lawful
judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.” This clause establishes that
the king would follow legal procedure before he punished someone. Identify
X…

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X,Y, Z have agreed to set up a full fledged economic
bloc that should act as a bridge between europe and asia
and a counterweight to Western integration unions.The
presidents of the three countries of the eurasian
economic integration aggreement in astana.It will be
coming into force the upcoming year on january 1,2015
it will create a market of 170 million people with a
combined annual GDP $7 trillion and a quarter of the
world energy resources.Identify X,Y,Z…

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Q7…X born(Geetali Shankar;march 30,1979) is an American
singer songwriter,musician and actress.She is a daughter of star
virtuoso Ravi Shankar and Sue jones.In 2002,she launched her
solo music career with the release of the most commercially
successful album Come away with me which won 5 grammy
awards and sold over 26 million copies. Some of the more
albums are Feels like home,Not too late and little broken hearts.X
made film debut in My blueberry nights….X is one of the
participants in the so called “Hank William”project overseen by
Bob Dylan and including contributions from Willie nelson,Jack
white,LucindaWilliams and Alan Jackson.Who is X???

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Ferrucio was originally a farmer who made tractors.His business
was very successful and the was among the most wealthy in
Italy.He owned Ferrari among other super cars.His Ferraris had
clutch problem which would slip under acceleration and went to
the service guys regularly to have a clutch rebuilt or renewed and
the problem with the clutch was not cured,so he went to talk to
Enzo Ferrari.”Ferrari,your cars are rubbish!ferrucio
compailned.II commendatore was furious.”you may be able to
drive a tractor but you never be able to hand a ferrari
properly.”This was the point where he finally decided to make a
perfect car.Yes ,X…..what is being talked about???

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17. • The dam shown above is the three gorges dam,a hydorelectic
dam that is located in yiling district,yichang,hubie
province,china.It is the world’s largest power station in terms of
installed capacity.It was started in 1994 and opened on
2008.Located on which famous river???

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George Lucas’s motion picture X(1977) caught the public’s
imagination and was a runaway success at the box office. In this
scene from the science-fiction adventure tale, the smuggler Han
Solo (played by Harrison Ford) and his first mate, the wookie
Chewbacca (played by Peter Mayhew), take aim at the
enemy…which movie is this???

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• September 14, 1942
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THE TOPEKA DAILY CAPITAL, Topeka, Kansas, September 14, 1942
* Battle of X begins (1st report)
* World War II - WWII
* Volograd, Russia
This 10 page newspaper has a four column headline on the front
page that reads: "Troops Penetrate X: Nazis" with subhead:
"Russians Admit German Advance In Two Sectors" 1st report
coverage on start of the Battle of Stalingrad which is currently named
Volograd, Russia.
Other news, sports and advertisements of the day. A little spine wear,
otherwise in good condition. Identify X.

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He has developed powerful new methods in the geometry of numbers
and applied them to count rings of small rank and to bound the average
rank of elliptic curves
Awarded for his profound contributions to dynamical systems theory,
which have changed the face of the field, using the powerful idea of
renormalizations as a unifying principle.
He has defined Unique Games" problem, and his leadership in the
effort to understand its complexity and its pivotal role in the study of
efficient approximation of optimization problems, have produced
breakthroughs in algorithmic design and approximation hardness, and
new exciting interactions between computational complexity, analysis
and geometryf.
Her outstanding contributions to the dynamics and geometry of
Riemann surfaces and their modulii spaces.What is being talked
about??

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