General Quiz

1. General Quiz
-Om Prakash Chaudhary
-IISER Mohali

2. Controversial film X based on the life of
a professor who was sacked on charges
of homosexuality, was not screened in X
even as the city Mayor from the
Bharatiya Janata Party strongly backed
an official ban, claiming the movie is a
"conspiracy" to defame the city.
Give me X ?
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4. 2

6.  X : The Shooting
Script is a book
which was unveiled
on 26 January
2016, to mark a
decade of this
Indian movie which
“became a
movement.”
 Identify the movie.
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8.  Identify the
show from
this
minimalist
poster ?
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10.  Tamgha-e-Pakistan (Medal of Pakistan),
stands fourth in hierarchy of civilian
awards after the Nishan-e-Pakistan, Hilal-
e-Pakistan, Sitara-e-Pakistan.
 Who is the only Indian recipient?
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12. White House
Blue House
US President
X President
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13. South Korea

14.  The Peter Thiel Fellowship is given to
college dropouts aged 22 and under
alongwith a funding of 100,000 dollars to
pursue their entrepreneurial interests.
 Who became the first Indian to receive
the fellowship ?
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15. Ritesh Agarwal

16.  This emoji, used by
most of the western
world as a hospital, was
actually created by the
japanese to indicate
what sort of
establishments?
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17. Love Hotels

18. Supercell is a mobile game
development company founded in
June 2010 in Helsinki, Finland.
Which is the most famous mobile
game app developed by supercell.
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20. Identify the BRAND ?
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22.  This stamp
is for the
support of X
 What is X ?
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24.  Give me the title of
this book ?
(Hint:title of the book
is similar to a very
famous tv series
created by Aaron
Kosh)
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26.  What is the significance of
‘Minden’ ship created by Wadia
Group in the history of America ?
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27. American National Anthem was
composed on the ship

28.  The matrimonial section in any newspaper is where all the
fun is. You can find all sorts of requests, typos,
and categories being advertised for marriage.
 However, a fan of the newspaper X decided to troll the
newspaper Y by posting a sarcastic ad in latter’s sister
newspaper .
 Name the two newspapers involved
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29. X:The Hindu
Y:TOI

30.  He was an accomplished playwright and poet.
He started writing poetry at age eleven.
Besides composing poetry in conventional
meters, he introduced a new meters called
vainayak. His three musical dramas
‘Usshaap’,‘Sanyastakhadga’ and ‘Uttarkriya’,
written during his internment at Ratnagiri, are
notable for their dialogues and dramatic
content.‘Sanyastakhadga’ - set in the time of
Gautam Buddha - was also performed on stage
in 1931 at Mumbai.
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31. VEER SAVARKAR

32.  Olympic wrestling silver medalist
Davit Modzmanashvili of Georgia has
admitted to using X, the same drug
Maria Sharapova tested positive for
at the Australian Open.
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33. Meldonium

34. After being picked by Y in the inaugural IPL, X was asked
to give his preference for a jersey number. He said
“anything but 14” (14 was his roll number in college and
he had a tough time there) but the guy who ask thought
that his preference is 14
For two years, X sat out without a single game. Then X
ask Parthiv patel if he could exchange his number (that
number is month of his birthday) but Parthiv refuse.
Then he decided to go with a number Z (multiple of
number he wanted)
 Give only X
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36. Movie Name??
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