The document details various trivia and historical information about notable figures, events, and cultural references. It discusses a film industry professional's spiritual journey, the founding of a meme-inspired nation, and various quirks of history and popular culture, including figures like Freddie Mercury and references to literary works. Additionally, it touches upon sports history, the origin of specific terms, and the intersection of art and political activism.

1. CATALYST
Gen Quiz Prelims + Answers

2. In 1982, at the peak of his film career, X temporarily quit the film
industry to follow his spiritual guru Osho Rajneesh. In 1975, he
became a disciple of Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) and in the
early 1980s, moved to Rajneeshpuram, Osho's commune in the
United States, for about five years, cleaning dishes and working as
Osho's gardener. His absence from his family, which remained in
India, caused friction between the couple, and the marriage ended
in divorce.
Well, he remarried in ‘91.
Who?
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4. • This is located on a remote Norwegian island about
1300 kms from the north pole , housing more than 9
lakh samples of something.
• What is the purpose of this building?
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5. World seed vault

6. • According to the fandom wiki, Republic of Kekistan is a sovereign
nation founded in late January of 2017, populated by shitposters.
• Founder : Kek
• High prophet : Pepe the frog
• President/God-Emperor : X
• Commander in chief : Sargon of Akkad
• Id X
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7. Kekistan & Donald Trump

8. • Gary Kasparov , the reigning world champion of chess in 1996
defeated X in a special match but only to have lost to X in the very
next year . Gary accused X of cheating but X got prematurely retired
by X’s so called ‘MASTERS’
•Id X
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9. Deep Blue

10. What is shown in the picture? (taken from a museum named after the
person associated with this)
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11. Indira Gandhi’s belongings
when she was shot dead

12. 19.6

13. Aerodynamic umbrellas. Storm/wind proof

14. 1.Government of India in its letter No. 870 R.T. dated August 7, 1883
addressed to Bombay Government said: “… it has been represented
that considerable inconvenience is caused by the custom generally in
force which prevents native gentlemen from being present on the
platform to meet a friend or relative coming by train or to accompany
him it on his departure. The Government of India fully recognized the
necessity of preventing the undue crowding of railway platforms, but it
is thought that the grievance complained of might be to a great extent
remedied, without inconvenience to railway working, by the adoption,
at the principal stations, of a system lately introduced by the Sind,
Punjab & Delhi Railway at Lahore of ____________”
What is blanked out?
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15. Platform
Ticket

16. Reference to?
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17. Float like a
butterfly, sting like a bee.

18. PA Sangma, the former speaker of the Loksabha and chief minister of
Meghalaya, has named both his daughters after his favourite author.
What are their names?
Hmm.. Which author’s both name and surname could be used as first
names!?
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19. Agatha and Christie

20. ID
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21. Delhi’s Hall of nations down!

22. Dry 6
• In 1858, HH Stephenson performed an extraordinary feat for the All
England Eleven at the Hyde Park Ground, Sheffield.
• To acknowledge him, the other players held a collection for him,
bought soething with the proceedings and presented it to him.
• This marked the origin of a term which is used not only in cricket, but
in some other events also.
• What did they give him? What did he do? Or the term is enough to
fetch you points.
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23. Hat trick , they bought a hat for
him as a present for taking three
wickets in consecutive balls

24. Which company’s tagline is “Screw Yourself”?
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25. Answer 14.

26. "She's about fifteen years old I should think,
not more, but she stands there with bangles all
the way up her arm and nothing else on. A girl
perfectly, for the moment, perfectly confident
of herself and the world. There's nothing like
her, I think, in the world."
9.
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27. Dancing girl from mohenjodaro

28. ‘Dr. X Will See You Now, Mrs. Y.’ is an alternative history play by British comedy
writing duo Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran.
A small boy, Y was taken to the local doctor, suffering from recurring nightmares.
The doctor realised there was nothing he could prescribe which could help young
Y. Instead he suggested that Mrs Y take her son to Vienna, where a psychiatrist
had just set up the first child psychiatric clinic in the country.
In fact young Y was never taken to see X - presumably his father thought
psychiatry was bunkum. But playwrights wondered suppose, just suppose, Mrs Y
had taken her son on that train ride to Vienna?
ID X and Y
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29. X- Sigmund Freud Y - Hitler

30. • He was born as Farrokh Bulsara in the sultanate of Zanzibar in 1946,
as the son of Bomi & Jer Bulsara of parsi descent from the Gujarat
region.
• Later, they moved to England and he began to call himself the much
popular name when he was studying at St.Peters school.
• Bryan Singer is planning to make a biopic named after his most
famous ‘creation’.
• Identify this youth icon of the 20th century who died at the age of 45
after contacting AIDS.
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31. Freddie Mercury

32. X a reckless lab assistant, speaks in a Japanese accent. He has green
skin, pink whites in his eyes, wears a white turban of clay with
jeweled base and two purple circles inside each other on both sides
at the top. He wears white gloves and boots, a blue suit with a white
belt, and a long wavy, purple cape. Despite his high intelligence, he
is not good at planning his schemes, and as a result they fall apart.
However, he is a master at manipulation and trickery.
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34. • This alternative term for a certain profession has few stories related
to its etymology. Some sources say this word is related to the Dutch
word kapen, which has the meaning to catch, capture..etc. Being later
considered as a derogatory word toward the profession , it was
banned in England.
• Which word (used in popular culture)?
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35. Cop

36. • According to a myth/controversy regarding X, in the 1870’s, the
German Scientist Emil von Wolff misplaced a decimal when he wrote
about the Iron content of X, thus making it 10 times more than it
really is.
• Thus, until the 1940’s, when this error was discovered, X was (and still
is) considered as very healthy.
• The idea of Y, who’s favourite food is X, originated around that time
(1929). Another version claims that Y favoured X not for it’s Iron
content, but for it’s Vitamin A.
• ID X and Y.
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37. • X-Spinach
• Y-Popeye the Sailorman

38. • During the sequence for the X, several scenes show Tibetans
demonstrating in front of the artist. The posters held are also related
to it. This is an indirect support of the Tibetan cause of freedom from
China from the director of the movie. He also stated that his next
movie would be directly based on the same. Though the posters
directly showing the word 'Tibet', it was blurred in the theatrical
version.
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39. • Sadda Haq (The bg is Jordan)

40. • Christopher Nolan drew inspiration from a famous work of literature,
for The Dark Knight Rises. Several thematic elements overlap,
including the uprising of the masses, bringing down of the rich etc. As
a reference to this borrowing of ideas, Gordon reads Batman’s eulogy
from the book in the movie, the words spoken also being the last
words of a character in the book. Id the book.
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41. • The tale of two cities