QUI9 ANNUAL OPEN PRELIMS 2013.pptx.pptx

Qui9 Grand Annual Quiz 2013
PRELIMS

Rules
• 30 questions
• Each carries 1 marks.
• No negative markings.
• 9 teams moving on to the finals.
• In case of a tie star marked questions will be
counted.

This word is derived from two
Sanskrit words. The first word
means “with difficulty” and the
other means “to come or go”
which word?
1.

Durga

Swedish and German activist Jakob
Von Uexkull approached the Nobel
Foundation to establish two new
awards. But as in 1969 ‘Economics’
was added and the Nobel Foundation
decided not to associate the Nobel
prize with any additional award, his
proposal was rejected. So, he sold his
valuable stamp collection to create
the award.
Which award?
2.

THE RIGHT LIVELIHOOD AWARD

She is the first Indian actress to receive an
International Award ( Best Actress/actor
category in The Manila Film festival). She
acted only in 3 films in her life, the first two
are “Bigraha”(1930) & “Rikta”(1939). She
died of “influenza” in Kolkata in 1955.
Id the actress…….
3.

Chunibala Devi

4.

রামেন্দ্র সুন্দর ত্রিমেদী
রামেন্দ্র “সুন্দর” ত্রিমেদী

What is
“Aibohphobia” ?
5.

FEAR OF PALINDROME…

• “I have been itching to bat against Brett Lee. I have
pace with the ball and I can bowl at Michael
Holding’s pace… you know what, I can bowl faster
than Zaheer Khan..” said by X.
• According to a report Australian Big Bash Twenty20
league team The Sydney Sixers have expressed an
interest in signing him.
• ID him.
6.

Yohan Blake….

There exists a myth that it has a pH over 7, that
would make it neutral or alkaline on the scale;
however, this is not the case, as its pH is close to
3.79, similar to other of the type. It is believed
that the name comes from the main ingredients.
The first slogan of this product was “You like it, it
likes you”.
Name the product….
7.

“If a tiger had sex with a tornado and then
their tiger-nado baby got married to an
earthquake, their offspring would be X….”
--Grady Hendrix, A Popular Newyork author in
‘Slate’.
ID X..
8.

• ”Kotha Deithili
Maa Ku”, an Oriya
film(2003).
• Which actor made
his debut in this
film ?
9.

RITUPORNO GHOSH

• The ‘Motion Picture Association of
America’ (MPAA) mandates these types of series
of movie shots can not exceed than 2min 30sec,
with a green band or red band including a rating
card.
• The term comes from their having originally
been shown at the end of a feature film
screening.
• Which term we are talking about?
10.

Trailer

• The Mughal emperor Babur noted that " the flesh of
the leg of some fowls, and of the breast of others is
excellent; but the flesh of every part of
the Kharchal is delicious".
• When the “National Bird" of India was under
consideration, these bird was a proposed candidate
strongly supported by the Indian ornithologist, Salim
Ali, but dropped in favour of the Indian Peafowl with
at least one reason being the potential for being
miss-spelt.
• Name the bird..
11.

Great Indian Bustard

If,
X = Lightning / Shine (Hebrew)
or Blessing (Swahili)
Y = Beautiful / Handsome
(Arabic)
Z = A city in an Asian country,
means "little beach”
then, X + Y + Z = ?
12.

Barack Hussein Obama

What does the graph represent?
13.

Duckworth–Lewis method

The meaning of this French
term is “Death pledge” or
“A promise to pay upon the
event of a person’s death.”
Which term ?
14.

Mortgage

The Mughal emperor Akbar
ordered his minister Abul Fazal to
translate it in Persian language
entitled “Iyar-E-Danish”.
Name the book.
15.

Panchatantra

This was derived from a latin word which means
“Large Pearl”. The ancient Egyptians worshipped
it, believing its spherical shape and concentric
rings symbolized eternal life. These were even
used in Egyptian burials, as evidenced traces
being found in the eye sockets of Ramesses IV.
Roman gladiators were rubbed down with it to
firm up their muscles.
Identify it..
16.

Onion

The first deputy prime minister of India
was Sardar Ballav Bhai Patel. After that
Morarji Desai, Charan Singh, LK Advani
also has been in this post.
Who is the Current holder of the Post?
17.

No one.

Once Raja Ramjibon Rai was travelling by boat
for searching suitable place for his capital. While
travelling in boat, he saw that a frog caught a
snake. By seeing this his fellow learned personals
told him that it will be his desired place. Then he
ordered the boatmen- “NAO THARO”. It means
stop the boat.
Name of which place did originate thus?.
18.

Natore

Id the person on the left.
19.

Siddhartha Basu

Identify..
20.

Novak Djokovic

The Department of Posts (India) has
recently launched a separate PIN code –
110201- for X. This step is expected to cut
the delivery time at least by half a day and
will reduce the cost of operations for the
department.
ID X.
21.

The Supreme Court of India

Identify the
character….
23.

ID the Movie
24.

ALL THE BEST

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