On the occasion of Synapse- 2015, The All Odisha Inter-Medical College Meet, The Academic Society of SCB Medical College, Cuttack organized a general quiz competition. It is a testimony to the fact that when it comes to quizzing and producing good quizzers, we, the medical students of SCB Medical College do not lag behind. Go through the slides and test yourselves... A challenge for all the Medical colleges and other colleges of the country. This is the Prelims round. Look out for the Mains round as well.

1. QUIZ MASTER:
PRATEEK GOURAV

2. RULES
1. There are total 30 questions.
2. You will get 30 seconds to answer each question.
3. You have to write down the answers in the sheets provided to you.
4. The decision of the Quiz Master is final and binding.
5. Kindly think of a suitable, catchy team name and write it on the top of the sheet provided
along with the mobile numbers of both the members of the team.
6. The use of cell phones, tablets or any other gadget is strictly prohibited.

5. “Wing Commander X of the Indian Air Force was the shining star on Sunday, and
this is the first time a woman officer has led the Guard of Honour at the Rashtrapati
Bhavan.” – dailymail.co.uk
NAME OF X?
*Q1

6. POOJA THAKUR

7. Which country became the 28th
nation to join the European Union in July
2013?
Q2

8. • CROATIA

9. What happened next ?
• World Athletics Final event was held in Monte Carlo, Monaco
in 2005.
• In the long jump event, Russia's Tatyana Kotova won the gold.
• Kotova was found last year to have been caught for doping
after her samples collected during the 2005 World Athletics
Championships in Helsinki were found to contain traces of
banned substance.
• International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF)
disqualified her gold medal for doping charges in 2014.
Q3

10. Anju’s silver medal turns gold.

11. World Heritage Centres
• UNESCO has established World Heritage centres in South Africa,
Spain, Italy, China, Bahrain, Brazil, Mexico and Norway.
• Recently foundation stone of Heritage Centre was laid at Wildlife
Institute of India (WII), in Dehradun.
• What’s unique about the Indian Heritage Centre ?
Q4

12. World’s first and only ‘Natural World Heritage
Centre’
• Others are only for the conservation of cultural heritage.

13. In 2006, X was named the richest fictional
character by Forbes Magazine. But later X was
dropped from the list because of angry letters
from children claiming X was real.
Identify X.
Q5

14. Answer

15. Who directed the London
Olympics 2012 opening
ceremony ?
Q6

16. Answer
Danny Boyle

17. Name the mascot and the event.
Q7

18. CLYDE, COMMONWEALTH GAMES, 2014

19. Recently, Google came up with this doodle on
which occasion?
Q8

20. • INDIA v PAKISTAN MATCH , CRICKET WORLD CUP 2015

21. After what event did Amul come up with this
ad?
Q9

22. • Aam Aadmi Party formed coalition govt with Congress in Delhi

23. Identify the person
*Q10

24. • India-Born Punit Renjen to be Deloitte Global CEO

25. • X is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation. It also
promotes healing.
• Uses a technique called palm healing or hands-on-healing as a form
of alternate medicine and is sometimes classified as oriental medicine
by some professional medical bodies.
• Through the use of the technique, practitioner's believe that they are
transferring universal energy through the palms, which they believe
allows for self- healing and a state of equilibrium.
• What is X?
Q11

26. • REIKI

27. • The evolution of 'x' brand started in 1982 with the establishment of
'Racal Strategic Radio Ltd' subsidiary of Racal Electronics .The same
year ,Racal Strategic Radio Ltd formed a joint venture with Millicom
called ‘Racal X’ ,which would later evolve into the present day X. X is
the world’s second largest mobile telecommunications company.
Identify ‘X’.
Q12

29. WHAT DOES THE MAP REPRESENT?*Q13

30. • LEFT DRIVING-BLUE, RIGHT DRIVING-RED

31. Gandhis n Nehrus everywhere!!!
Outside the PMs from the Nehru-Gandhi family,
name the only two Prime Ministers of India to have
airports in India named after them.
Q14

32. • Lal Bahadur Shastri (Varanasi)
• Charan Singh (Lucknow)

33. Which Olympic medalist's sports foundation runs a shooting
academy in Pune called "Gun for Glory"?
Q15

34. GAGAN NARANG

35. STATE BANK OF INDIA’s logo has been inspired
from a lake. Which lake am I talking about?
Q16

36. KANKARIA LAKE, AHMEDABAD

37. #olympics
• Which contingent did the Indian contingent follow in the opening
ceremony march at the 2012 London Olympics?
*Q17

38. Independent Olympic Atheletes

39. • PALACE ON WHEELS- RAJASTHAN
• DECCAN ODYSSEY- MAHARASHTRA
• X - KARNATAKA
Identify X.
LUXURY TRAINS
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Q18

40. • GOLDEN CHARIOT- KARNATAKA

41. Khagen Mahanta is the father
of the singer Papon. A
musician himself, Mahanta is
often known by the sobriquet
“____ Samrat”, denoting his
field of expertise. Fill in the
blank.
Q19

42. • Bihu (he sings Bihu folk songs)

43. • This product is synonymous and gives a certain identity to the place
where it is manufactured.
• The sale of this product is one of the chief sources of income to the
organization producing it. About 60,000 of this product are produced
daily, yet it only satisfies half of the customers’ requisite.
• Neravallur Srinivasa Iyengar’s family alone is authorized to produce
this product and Vijaya Bank is the only centre authorized to sell this
product apart from the organization itself. What product/item are we
talking about?
*Q20

44. TIRUPATI LADDOO

45. Tarangini Mitra loved to pirouette. To dance
by spinning on one foot came naturally to her.
On one of her school functions, her talent was
spotted by a certain Mr. Padmasee, a reputed
ad film maker who approached her mother
and said, “We just want her to do the spin,
like she does so gracefully. The small twist
would be counterbalanced by a jingle. Think
of it, she’s going to be the first X girl”. Which
ad (X) am I talking about?
Q21

46. NIRMA GIRL

47. • In the early days, most of the trucks in India were manufactured by
the TATA Group. During these times, Tata Oil Mills Ltd. Co (TOMCO)
came up with a new brand of detergent called X. And in order to
market their detergent they used the trucks very effectively by
painting X on them.
• This brand had a symbol in the shape of a lotus flower. This carried
on for a few years and as times went by X became a part of the initial
paint itself by the lorry drivers and is still being used by people
without knowing its glorious history.
• A very common sight nowadays. X?
*Q22

48. OK DETERGENT

49. Time Magazine’s Person of the Year 2014
is… ???
*Q23

50. EBOLA FIGHTERS

51. *Q24

53. Identify the logo
*Q25

54. Standard Chartered Bank

55. This indigenously-built largest warship of India was
inducted by Narendra Modi in August, 2014.
Name the warship.
*Q26

56. INS KOLKATA

57. Miss World 2014, the 64th edition of the Miss
World pageant was held on 14 December 2014 in
LONDON.
Who was crowned the Miss World 2014?
Q27

58. ROLENE STRAUSS

59. Which movie won the Filmfare Critics Award for the Best
Movie in the 60th Filmfare Awards held in January, 2015?
Q28

61. • What is the Full Form of NITI in NITI AAYOG?
*Q29

62. • National Institution for Transforming India

63. What is SPERMOLOGY ?
”Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives
many” :P
Q30

64. • Study of trivia :P