cosmitto brain thugs gen quiz prelims

1. BRAIN THUGS
By Cosmitto 2019

2. RULES
• Easiest prelims Ever !
• Each question can have only point awarded for a total of 25 points.
• If there are multiple parts, multiple answers written for a question you are
still to award one point at the maximum.
• Top six teams will go to the finals
• Questions from 16-25 are star marked questions.
• Please be fair & Don’t google .
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3. QUESTION-1
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He is recipient of the Indian Republic's highest honour, the Bharat Ratna, in
1955. He was knighted as a Commander of the British Indian Empire by King
George V for his myriad contributions to the public good
The chief designer of the flood protection system for the city of Hyderabad,
as well as the chief engineer responsible for the construction of the Krishna
Raja Sagara dam in Mysore On 15th September Engineers day is celebrated on
his birthday. Who ?

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5. QUESTION-2
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The following are the list of the richest superheroes in the comic universes of DC and
Marvel as per Metro USA. Who tops the list?
X-$90.bn
TonyStark-$12.4bn
BruceWayne-$9.2bn
ProfessorCharlesXavier-$3.5bn
Green Arrow - $ 3 bn

6. QUESTION-3
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This Person completed his B.S. in architecture with structural engineering from
Cornell University in 1962,has been responsible for the acquisition of Tetley, Jaguar
Land Rover and Corus, which have turned this organisation from a largely India-
centric company into a global business, with 65% revenues coming from abroad. he
co-piloted US aerospace major Boeing's F-18, the Super Hornet, at the eighth edition
of premier air show, Aero India 2011. Identify him.

7. QUESTION-4
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According to Robert Frost, an engineer at NASA, the reason for its existence is to
maximize the surface area to volume ratio so that it will cook evenly. That is since the
batter is dense and gooey it would have an undercooked centre. Hence, to tackle it,
presence of this allows the hot oil to contact more surface area and results in less
depth that the heat has to penetrate to cook the content throughout. What is
explained here ?

8. QUESTION-5
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He graduated from IIT Roorkee in 1950 with civil engineering ,After his graduation ,
he joined state government's irrigation department as a junior engineer. In 1958 he
started his own venture as a civil contractor and two decades later, laid the foundation
for this Group by setting up a civil engineering and construction company. In 2010 he
was ranked by Forbes magazine as the 48th-richest person in India, with an estimated
wealth of US$1.5 billion.
• About whom we are talking about name the company too.

9. QUESTION-6
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This particular piece of equipment, a more robust version of the regular ones,
was first seen in the comics in 1994 while in the movies, it was seen in 2015 in
Avengers: Age of Ultron. What is its name, a reference to its main threat?

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11. QUESTION-7
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It’s the recreated blue-print of which iconic buiding in India?

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13. QUESTION-8
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As per mythology, when Lord Shiva was going to Kashi along with gods and
goddessess, he made a night halt at this location. He asked all the gods and
goddesses to wake up before sun rise and proceed for Kashi. It is said that in the
morning, except Shiva himself, no one else could get up, so Shiva set out for Kashi
by himself , cursing the others to become stone images.
Identify this popular tourist spot in Tripura which literally means one less than a
crore.

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15. QUESTION-9
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This widely used mathematical symbol is so named
because it resembles a harp. The name, hence, is
the Greek word for a Phoenician harp. Most
famously seen in vector calculus, what symbol that,
when used as an operator, is known for performing
gradient, divergence or curl operations?

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It is a measure of the stiffness of an elastic isotropic material and is a
quantity used to characterize materials. Though the concept was developed
in 1727 by Leonhard Euler, it was named after a 19th-century British scientist
(vis).
What is it?

17. QUESTION-11
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This is from a recent cover of Tinkle. Whose face has been blanked out?

18. QUESTION-12
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This steel structure, with total length 8,981 ft, is the most photographed
bridge in the world.
Just name it.

19. QUESTION-13
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The X rule was rumoured to have been developed by the Swiss mathematician
Johann Bernoulli in 1694 and introduced to X in the same year by Bernoulli.
Bernoulli, being in dire financial conditions at the time, sold his mathematical
discoveries to X, who published it in his book, “Analyse des Infiniment Petits
pour l'Intelligence des Lignes Courbes”.
ID X whose rule is a boon to JEE aspirants in solving a few calculus problems.

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She was the only surviving daughter of her famous father, who immortalized
her in many of his creations, the earliest of which is "Address to My Infant
Daughter“. She was very devoted to her father and had a significant influence
on his literary output.
She eventually died of tuberculosis at her parents' home, and was buried in the
graveyard of St Oswald's Church, Grasmer.
After her death, her distraught father - who had already lost two of his children
to illness - planted hundreds of _________ in her memory in a field beside St.
Mary's Church, Rydal.
Who was her famous father? How did he commemorate her?

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During Napoléon's regency (1796–1814), he had imposed a continental
blockade, thus preventing the import of British goods to the European
mainland.
To overcome the shortage of cocoa Michele Prochet from Turin mixed
whatever little he had of cocoa with hazelnuts, which were plentiful in
northern Italy, and created the Gianduja.
This was the basis of another product called Supercrema which was sold during
World War II.
Since the 60s, by what name is Supercrema sold?

22. QUESTION-16
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BBVA is offering a special insurance for its Colombian customers.
The insurance costs a few cents and is offered by pressing a button on the ATM
and has seen around 250,000 purchases per month.
What is the insurance for?

23. QUESTION-17
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While studying in England, Jim Reinders was enamoured with the ‘grand ol’
resident’ of Wiltshire County.
So much so that when his father died in 1982, he constructed a monument in
Nebraska with 38 automobiles from the 50’s and 60’s to mimic the shape and
form of the original. (image follows)
The tribute didn’t end there. The entire work was then covered with grey spray
paint, and was dedicated during the summer solstice in 1987.
Name this, one of USA’s quirkiest landmarks.
Also, which more iconic landmark was the inspiration?

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25. QUESTION-18
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Paul Horn was an American jazz flautist and saxophonist, and
an early pioneer of new-age music. Best known of his albums
are his "Inside" recordings, which feature airy, echoing sounds
created in places of historical importance. He made such
recordings at Great Pyramid of Giza, Potala Palace among
others. In 1968, he sneaked his tape recorder inside this place
and recorded the song.
Inside which architecture marvel was this album recorded.

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27. QUESTION-19
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GS1 is a company whose most famous offering is used more
than six billion times every day. The innovation itself came up
in 1973, and its mass use famously started on 26th June, 1974.
The patent for the same was given to Norman Joseph
Woodland and Bernard Silver whose first working system
used ultraviolet ink, but the ink faded too easily and was
expensive.
What creation that saves billions of dollars each year?

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In their long travel route from the East to North India along the Grand Trunk road, the
Mughals used to stop their caravans at this particular place to rest for the night. The city
had a great number of resting places which eventually accounted for its name.
X, a political thinker was found dead under mysterious circumstances on February 11,1968
on a railway track near the ___________ Railway Station.
As an honour, the station was renamed after X eventually. An attempt was made to do so
in 1992 as well, but due to an infamous event Y, it didn’t happen.
Give me the blank, X and Y.

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X marks the onset of spring in Bengal and is said to be the inspiration behind many
of Rabindranath Tagore’s poems and songs. He likened its bright orange flower to
Y.
According to Hindu Mythology, X is a form of a deity which is known as the God of
'Y'. X has also lent its name to one of the historic battles in Indian history.
The first shloka of Shukla Yajurveda speaks about 'X' and in Jayadeva's Geeta
Govindam , he compares the colour of the flowers of 'X' to the nails of Kamadeva
with which he wounds the hearts of lovers.
ID 'X' and 'Y'.

30. QUESTION-22
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David Warner in an interview to Age said "Generally when I'm playing
the reverse I'm swapping hands, and now with this ___ I don't really
have to. So it's going to be better. It gives you a couple of extra
seconds.If people think it's going to be an advantage to batsmen, I
have to disagree”.
"The person who is using the timber is in control, so I just see it as
another shot for other people to try as well. Everyone is trying it these
days, especially in Twenty20. It makes it easier, but it's not a real
advantage. You've still got to play the shot.“
What is Warner describing here ?

31. QUESTION-23
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The practice of handing out Xs in schools started due to the alarming increase
in
the frequency of air raids during World War 2. In case a school or college was
bombed during the raids, rescue personnel wanted a means to easily identify
the
casualties.
At the time, clinical research hadn't progressed sufficiently to prove that blood
group O was universal and could be administered to anyone, hence a person’s
blood group also featured on X, a tradition that has carried over since, despite
significant progress in clinical research.
What is X?

32. QUESTION-24
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Watch this scene from Aquaman.
James Wan revealed that he was initially unsure about putting this scene in the film,
but was inspired to do so after watching a certain 2015 work.
He says of the specific scene, “Why is this guy in here playing this flaming guitar?
This doesn't affect the story, but shit man, this is crazy cool." He concluded that, "If
they are doing that, I'm going to have an octopus drummer in my film."
Which earlier movie was he talking about?

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34. QUESTION-25
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Onkar Singh and Gautam Sharma’s 2018 song actually borrows from an older, classic
work that you can hear in the video. They checked into a resort in Goa to film the
video for this work, but the tight budget they were operating under meant they didn’t
have the “central element” needed for the shoot. They ended up getting extremely
lucky, however, as one of the residents of the resort possessed a yellow variant of this
object which ended used featuring in said work.
What did they accidentally chance upon thus, also the title of the work itself?

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36. Thank You!!