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2. 30 questions in the Prelims.
Every answer has 1 point. Total 35 points.
Top 8 teams to qualify.
Multiples of 5 are star marked. (5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 )
If a star marked question has more than one part, you need to get all parts correct to
secure the star.
GOOGLING IS INJURIOUS TO HEALTH !
3. The Beacon is a Kolkata based monthly magazine featuring interesting, offbeat
and unconventional places, people and events in the everyday society.
What does The Beacon describe as “ The Herculean inertia faced before doing any
work” ?
4.
5.
6.
7. Which two word expression is used to convey the covering up of an act or an object
that is embarrassing or distasteful with something of innocuous appearance and
has a metaphorical reference to the Biblical Book of Genesis ?
8.
9. The name of this dish is derived from the Arabic word for “day” and is typically
served after sunrise Fajir prayers. What dish is this?
13. Traditionally, these come in sets of five: one in each of five colours. The five colours
are arranged from left to right in a specific order: blue, white, red, green, and
yellow. There are two kinds -horizontal ones, called Lung ta and vertical ones,
called Darchor. What ?
14.
15. In the post match conference the captain told the curious media, "It's easy to run,
I'm well-ventilated.” The match was played at this picturesque venue, a few weeks
ago. What essentially was the captain clarifying for ?
16.
17. Which place of interest is located at approximately 59.941°N and
30.3129°E, and derives its name from the Greek for “people who live
alone” ?
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25. “X’s unique ecosystem, comprising sea coast, desert, wetland and grassland, hosts
abundant birdlife and lies on a key migration route. Rare species regularly seen
include the critically endangered pallid Scops owl. The Centre for Desert and
Ocean can arrange specialist birding itineraries, including homestays. Yet, one
needn’t be a hard-core birder to enjoy sightings of myriad species, including
flamingos, pelicans, storks, spoonbills and ibises.”
The above is a description of a tourist destination whose epicentre shares its name
with a form of dagger.
Which place?
26.
27. What phrase connects a certain Muhammad Umar Mukri (1922-2000), an actor
who had been cast mostly as a stereotype in nearly 600 films between 1945 and
1994 with a Facebook page with nearly 3000 likes which usually share jokes and
memes on people with obsession for facial hair?
28.
29. This is an Alexander Kosolapov creation which has a satirical take on the
communism-capitalism divide through the depiction of something, iconic. What ?
30.
31. The different types include Ragout, Lancashire hotpot, Tajine, Moussaka,
Lasagne, Shepherd's pie, Gratin and many more.
Its difference with a stew lies in the fact , while a stew is heated from bottom of
the cooking vessel (typically over a fire or on a stove), it is essentially baked in an
oven where heat circulates all around the cooking vessel.
What culinary method is being talked about which is used in Bengali households
in a slightly extended meaning to denote a commonplace utensil ?
32.
33. “______ ______” is a 2015 sequel to “Goldfinger” and the story takes off with Pussy
Galore comfortably holed up at Bond’s Chelsea apartment. It has been written by
X, who has successfully appropriated the voices of other great writers, be it
Agatha Christie, Hergé (on film) or Arthur Conan Doyle.
The name of the book is a play on the sustained state of contraction that sets in
within hours of death. Identify X and FITB.
34.
35. "Women emasculate genius” , he believed, which was why he declined to play
mixed doubles. "They have ploys and they make petty demands of their partners.”
Who aired such views and wrote about a disgruntled tennis genius in this not-so-
acclaimed novel “Glory’s Net” ?
36.
37. This is the Schoenbrunn Palace gardens which is lined on both sides by 32 life-size
sculptures depicting mythological deities and virtues. This, structure however is
the foremost of them and was created by John Wilhelm Beyer, a German artist
and garden designer. Identify the city and also name this exquisite piece of art.
38.
39. One fine day in 1874, while putting together his original designs, Christopher
Sholes found that the buttons would often collide and jam. This meant that some
items were missed and because the machines didn't have an option for clearing
the field, work had to be redone.
In order to fix this, he put the most common ones in hard to reach spots and
further apart from each other.
What resulted thus?
40.
41. This is a new theme dance that was introduced in this year’s Rio Carnival.
Grooving to the beats of music, what message was being transmitted through
these participants?
45. Who is X in the glorified trio of X , Antonio Margarhetti and Dominik Decocco ?
46.
47. "A glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms
etymological, historical, geographical and discursive. By Colonel Henry Yule and
AC Burnell.“
This is the subtitle of a book originally published in 1872 but has never gone out
of print till date and a revised version is supposed to come out in near future.
What is the title of this book? Also, what inspired the title?
48.
49. This is a photograph
taken at one of the
hundreds of temporary
tents set up at a place in
the Mathurapur
constituency of West
Bengal. What specific
purpose does this serve ?
50.
51. These are members of a list, of which, arguably, the most famous one is missing.
The missing entity also lends its name to the “revolution” they brought about.
What ?
52.
53. The following items like a bamboo pen, an iron black coloured solution and alum-
mordant for obtaining red colour are of prime importance to people residing at
Srikalahasti in Chittoor district and Macchilipattam in Krishna district. Why?
54.
55. According to Dr. Frank Meshberger it correlates with major sulci of the cerebrum
in the inner and outer surface of the brain, the brain stem, the frontal lobe, the
basilar artery, the pituitary gland and the optic chiasma.
Alternatively, it has been observed that the red cloth has the shape of a human
uterus ,and that the scarf hanging out, coloured green, could be a newly cut
umbilical cord.
What is being discussed?
56.
57. In 1995, a year after her father’s untimely death, China Pal took over the family’s
eight-decade-old idol-making business. This was unheard of. Kumartuli, the north
Kolkata colony of around 600 artisans, had never had a woman idol-maker.
Shaping clay into idols was considered a man’s job, and Pal was immediately
under siege. Fellow artisans were openly hostile and even stopped her from
displaying finished idols outside her shop. Pal braved it out, and how she did it is
another story.
In October 2015 she created an unique “Durga” idol which was used for the
inaugural puja in North Kolkata’s Joy Mitra Street.
What uniqueness and what first can be associated with this puja?