The College General Quiz (Prelims)- NSIT Quiz Fest 2015

NSIT Quiz Fest 2015
THE GENERAL QUIZ(COLLEGE): PRELIMS

Rules
oThe Prelims will have 25 questions, 5 of which are star marked (multiples of
5). They will be used to resolve ties.
oTeams of two or less.
oPlease ensure that you aren’t sitting next to someone from the
same/sister/brother institution.
oPlease don’t cheat. If you do, don’t get caught. Else, you will get disqualified.
oDo not mess with the quiz master. Sleep deprivation may cause cranky-ness.

*Q1) ID X.
When talking about X, historian Alex von Tunzelmann says that the real A
was a heavy consumer of alcohol and opium, but that though those
habits started when he was 18, not as a boy as depicted in the film. The
real A led a rebellion against his father, tried to replace him as emperor,
and had his friend Abu al-Fazl murdered in 1602, but the film ascribes
these actions to his desire to marry B, which is definitely not historically
accurate. B is often regarded as legend, though there are snippets of
historical evidence for it. She may have been one of C's wives and the
mother of A's half-brother Prince Daniyal.

Q2) Give X
X is a band that plays music made from combinations of songs of A
and B. X comes from the portmanteau of A and B.
Some of there famous songs are "The Thing That Should Not Let It
Be", ,"And Justice for All My Loving” though sometimes just 1 song
will be used as a basis with modified lyrics.

Q3) What colloquial word is X?
The parable of the ____ X is a parable told by Jesus and is mentioned in only one
of the gospels of the New Testament. According to the Gospel of Luke, a traveller
(who may or may not have been Jewish) is stripped of clothing, beaten, and left
half dead along the road. First a priest and then a Levite come by, but both avoid
the man. Finally, an X comes by. Xs and Jews generally despised each other, but
the X helps the injured man.
Portraying an X in a positive light would have come as a shock to Jesus's
audience. The parable has inspired painting, sculpture, satire, poetry, and film.

Q4) News reports about whose death?
“On the morning of Dec. 17 layers of ice were broken on Lake Chon on Mt. Paektu,
shaking the lake with big noise.
The temperature on Mt. Paektu that day registered 22.4 degrees Celsius below zero
and there was strong wind accompanied by snowstorm measuring 18 meters per
second.
The snowstorm stopped blowing all of a sudden from dawn of Tuesday and heavy
clouds were seen hanging around Hyangdo Peak.
At around 8:05 am the sky began turning red with sunrise on the horizon. The peaks
looked like a picture for wide and thick glow.
Glow was seen atop _____ Peak for half an hour from 16:50 on Dec. 19 when the
nation was shocked by the news of the leader's demise. This was the first of its kind in
dozens of years since the observation of the area was started.”

*Q5) Id X.
US embassy cables from 1989 have revealed that the iconic X was actually trying
to hail a bus. In a revelation likely to rewrite history, diplomatic transcripts
published by the WikiLeaks website reveal that X was in fact a 76-year-old man
and an ardent Communist.
He apparently set off from his nearby home that morning with the intention of
doing some shopping. His wife told local activists, who later informed US
diplomats, that he “was confused perhaps in the head, but urged himself to buy
some items for our children. He heard many explosions and thought it was New
Year.”
Classified transcripts, shown to a diplomatic source, conclude that he mistook the
_______ for bus 224 and stood in front to hail it.

Q6) Give X
X was born Mumtaz Jahan Begum Dehlavi in New Delhi, to Muslim
parents of Pashtun descent, and was the fifth of eleven children. The
family lived in Delhi. According to her sister, Madhur Bhushan, she was
born a blue baby, which would later have implications on her health.
After X's father, Ataullah Khan, lost his job at the Imperial Tobacco
Company in Delhi, he relocated his family to Mumbai. X's three sisters
and two brothers died when at the age of five and six, and with his six
remaining daughters to provide for, Khan, and the young X, began to pay
frequent visits to Bombay film studios to look for work. At the age of 9
this was X's introduction to the movie industry, which would provide
financial help to her family

Q7) Id this term , mainly used nowadays
in a sporting context.
The term originates from the 17th-century French word ruban
meaning “ribbon”. This was used describe the practice of signatories
to petitions against authority (usually Government officials petitioning
the Crown) appending their names on a document in a non-
hierarchical circle pattern (and so disguising the order in which they
have signed) so that none may be identified as a ringleader.
This practice was adopted by sailors petitioning officers in the Royal
Navy (first recorded 1731).

Q8) Id X and Y in the correct order. Part
Points
X is widely renowned as an enlightened paragon of the harmonious coexistence of
heterodox traditions on the Indian subcontinent. He was an erudite champion of
mystical religious speculation and a poetic diviner of syncretic cultural interaction
among people of all faiths. This made him a heretic in the eyes of his orthodox
younger brother, Y and a suspect eccentric in the view of many of the worldly power
brokers swarming around the Mughal throne.
He was also a patron of fine arts, music and dancing, another trait frowned upon by
his sibling Y.
The course of the history of the Indian subcontinent, had X prevailed over Y, has been
a matter of some conjecture among historians.

Q9) Id X.
X begins on with the Halwa ceremony. It has been a tradition which has continued for long. As
part of the ritual, halwa is prepared in a big kadhai (vessel) and served to the staff involved with
X.
The ceremony doesn't not involve any puja or worship. The officials associated with X gather in a
special room in the basement of the ______ and exchange wishes in the presence of their
leader , and distribute halwa.
The significance of the sweet dish is that after it is served, a large number of officials and
support staff, who are directly associated with X, are required to stay in _________ and remain
cut off from their families till X is complete and has been made public.
A large steel door-frame fitted with special X-ray scanner connected with computers monitors
the movement of each and every person. They are not even allowed to contact their near and
dear ones through phone or any other form of communication, like email. Only very senior
officials are permitted to go home.

*Q10) Who is this person, playing the character
of Viola in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night

Q11) Id X and the day in English.
The various names of this day in Hindi are due to the honorary title
and the actual name of this mythical entity.
X attained the position of preceptor of the Devas by performing
penances on the banks of Prabhas Tirtha. Lord Shiva granted him this
position, as well as his position as one of the Navagrahas.

Q13) Id X
Today, it's an American company, but it got its start in the Ottoman Empire almost
four centuries ago. X was founded in Istanbul, Turkey, by an Armenian named
Avedis X.
X was an alchemist by profession. As with all alchemists, he laboured away in vain
trying to turn base metals into gold. Along the way, though, he did manage to
come up with something of value. X was responsible for creating an alloy of tin,
copper, and silver. He found that the alloy was capable of making musical sounds
without breaking.
And so his legacy was launched in 1623 with the beginnings of an industry. It
became a family tradition that only the company's heirs knew the exact process
behind the manufacture of X cymbals.

Q14) Give the term
Nicolas _____ is a legendary, possibly apocryphal French soldier and patriot who is
supposed to have served in the First Army of the French Republic and subsequently in
La Grande Armée of Napoleon.
According to the stories that developed about him, ______ was born in Rochefort,
around 1780. He enlisted at age 18, and served honorably and well. He is said to have
been wounded 17 times in his nation's service, resulting in his severe disfigurement and
maiming.
His distinguished record of service and his love and devotion for Napoleon, which
endured despite the price he willingly paid for them, is said to have earned him only
ridicule and derision in Restoration France, when Bonapartism became increasingly
unpopular.
He is also the root of the very popularly used and derogatory term.

*Q15)
The Pride of the Yankees, a 1942 American film is a tribute to the legendary New
York Yankees first baseman X who died from Y, which later became known to the
public as “X's disease".
The film is less a sports biography than an homage to a heroic and widely loved
sports figure whose tragic and premature death touched the entire nation. Details of
his baseball career are limited to montages of ballparks, pennants, and X swinging
bats and running bases.
X’s teammates Babe Ruth, Bob Meusel, Mark Koenig, and Bill Dickey play themselves.
The film received 11 Academy Award nominations. The film's iconic closing line—
"Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth"—was voted 38th
on the American Film Institute's list of 100 greatest movie quotes.

 Keep It Simple: the ____should be so simple that a child can draw it from
memory.
 Use Meaningful Symbolism: the ____’s images, colors, or patterns should
relate to what it symbolizes.
 Use 2–3 Basic Colors: that is, limit of the number of colors on the ____tis
two to three, which contrast well and come from the standard color set.
 No Lettering or Seals: never use writing of any kind or an organization’s seal.
 Be Distinctive or Be Related: avoid duplicating other _____, but use
similarities to show connections.
Q16)What are these?

Q17) These dolls are inspired/based on
what? ( another pic on the next slide)

Q18) This is a WWI recruitment
poster from Canada, urging men
to enlist to fight for the women
in their own lives. It appeals to
notions of motherhood and
family values that were popular
at the time, and often attributed
to this painting.

Q.19)
The X is a term used especially in religious studies and sociology for the
phenomenon of elements of a nation or people's culture being transformed or
at least more fully embraced elsewhere, then re-imported back to their culture
of origin, or the way in which a community's self-understanding is influenced by
(or imposed by, or imported from) foreign sources. For example:
The Apu trilogy films of Satyajit Ray, which were flops in India before they
were given prizes in western countries and re-evaluated as classics of the Indian
cinema
The popularity in India of movements like those of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and
ISKCON based on their popularity in the west
The popularity of yoga, several gurus, and some other Indian systems and
teachings following their popularity in the west

*Q20) Part points. Both for star marked.
Which two states of India have English as their sole official language?

Q21). Connect, to an infamous incident
in the sporting world.
 Yossef Romano, weightlifter
 Ze'ev Friedman, weightlifter
 David Berger, weightlifter
 Eliezer Halfin, wrestler
 Mark Slavin, wrestler

Q22) Id X.
The term X originated in Britain, expressing a pugnacious attitude
toward Russia in the 1870s, and appeared in the American press by
1893.
X is patriotism in the form of aggressive foreign policy. It also refers to
a country's advocacy for the use of threats or actual force, as
opposed to peaceful relations, in efforts to safeguard what it
perceives as its national interests. Colloquially, it refers to excessive
bias in judging one's own country as superior to others—an extreme
type of nationalism.

Q23. Id this famous sport personality
X was eight-time national champion in badminton. (1980–87).He also won a bronze
medal at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
A brilliant career was cut short in its prime when X was shot dead on 28 July 1988 in
Lucknow as he came out of the K. D. Singh Babu Stadium after a practice session. The
murder sent shockwaves through India, especially after the police filed murder charges
against X's wife Amita and her lover (and future husband) Raja Sanjay Sinh of Amethi,
who was a prominent politician belonging to the Congress Party.
After X's death, a tournament was constituted in his memory, “X Memorial“, now
known as the X Grand Prix.
X’s death was also the subject of a film by Dev Anand titled “Sau Crore”.

Q24)
X was conceived in 1966 during discussions between television producer Joan
Ganz Cooney and Carnegie Foundation vice president Lloyd Morrisett. Their goal
was to create a children's television show that would "master the addictive
qualities of television and do something good with them“
As author Malcolm Gladwell has stated, “X was built around a single,
breakthrough insight: that if you can hold the attention of children, you can
educate them".
Upon its fortieth anniversary in 2009, the show received a Lifetime Achievement
Emmy at the 36th Daytime Emmy Awards. By its 40th anniversary in 2009, X was
broadcast in over 120 countries, and 20 international versions had been
produced. X has won eight Grammys and over a hundred Emmys in its history

*Q25) Id the person who saves Scooby-
Doo and the Gang.
<Video Question>

Q4) News reports about whose death?
The temperature on Mt. Paektu that day registered 22.4 degrees Celsius below
zero and there was strong wind accompanied by snowstorm measuring 18 meters
per second.
At around 8:05 am the sky began turning red with sunrise on the horizon. The
peaks looked like a picture for wide and thick glow.
nation was shocked by the news of the leader's demise. This was the first of its
kind in dozens of years since the observation of the area was started.”

Q8) Id X and Y in the correct order. Part Points
X is widely renowned as an enlightened paragon of the harmonious coexistence of
heterodox traditions on the Indian subcontinent. He was an erudite champion of
mystical religious speculation and a poetic diviner of syncretic cultural interaction
among people of all faiths. This made him a heretic in the eyes of his orthodox
younger brother, Y and a suspect eccentric in the view of many of the worldly power
brokers swarming around the Mughal throne.
He was also a patron of fine arts, music and dancing, another trait frowned upon by
his sibling Y.
The course of the history of the Indian subcontinent, had X prevailed over Y, has been
a matter of some conjecture among historians.

Q9) Id X.
X begins on with the Halwa ceremony. It has been a tradition which has continued for long. As
part of the ritual, halwa is prepared in a big kadhai (vessel) and served to the staff involved with
X.
The ceremony doesn't not involve any puja or worship. The officials associated with X gather in
a special room in the basement of the ______ and exchange wishes in the presence of their
leader , and distribute halwa.
The significance of the sweet dish is that after it is served, a large number of officials and
support staff, who are directly associated with X, are required to stay in _________ and remain
cut off from their families till X is complete and has been made public.
A large steel door-frame fitted with special X-ray scanner connected with computers monitors
the movement of each and every person. They are not even allowed to contact their near and
dear ones through phone or any other form of communication, like email. Only very senior
officials are permitted to go home.

Q11) ID X and the day in English.
The various names of this day in Hindi are due to the honorary title
and the actual name of this mythical entity.
X attained the position of preceptor of the Devas by performing
penances on the banks of Prabhas Tirtha. Lord Shiva granted him this
position, as well as his position as one of the Navagrahas.

Q13) Id X
Today, it's an American company, but it got its start in the Ottoman Empire almost
four centuries ago. X was founded in Istanbul, Turkey, by an Armenian named
Avedis X.
X was an alchemist by profession. As with all alchemists, he labored away in vain
trying to turn base metals into gold. Along the way, though, he did manage to
come up with something of value. X was responsible for creating an alloy of tin,
copper, and silver. He found that the alloy was capable of making musical sounds
without breaking.
And so his legacy was launched in 1623 with the beginnings of an industry. It
became a family tradition that only the company's heirs knew the exact process
behind the manufacture of X cymbals.

*Q15)
The Pride of the Yankees, a 1942 American film is a tribute to the legendary New York
Yankees first baseman X who died from Y, which later became known to the public as “X's
disease".
The film is less a sports biography than an homage to a heroic and widely loved sports figure
whose tragic and premature death touched the entire nation. Details of his baseball career are
limited to montages of ballparks, pennants, and X swinging bats and running bases.
X’s teammates Babe Ruth, Bob Meusel, Mark Koenig, and Bill Dickey play themselves. The film
received 11 Academy Award nominations. The film's iconic closing line—"Today, I consider myself
the luckiest man on the face of the Earth"—was voted 38th on the American Film Institute's list
of 100 greatest movie quotes.

 Keep It Simple: the ____should be so simple that a child can draw it from
memory.
 Use Meaningful Symbolism: the ____’s images, colors, or patterns should
 Use 2–3 Basic Colors: that is, limit of the number of colors on the ____tis
two to three, which contrast well and come from the standard color set.
 No Lettering or Seals: never use writing of any kind or an organization’s seal.
 Be Distinctive or Be Related: avoid duplicating other _____, but use
similarities to show connections.
Q16) What are these?

Q18)This is a WWI recruitment
poster from Canada, urging men
to enlist to fight for the women in
their own lives. It appeals to
notions of motherhood and
family values that were popular at
the time, and often attributed to
this painting.

Q.19)
The X is a term used especially in religious studies and sociology for the phenomenon
of elements of a nation or people's culture being transformed or at least more fully
embraced elsewhere, then re-imported back to their culture of origin, or the way in
which a community's self-understanding is influenced by (or imposed by, or imported
from) foreign sources. For example:
The Apu trilogy films of Satyajit Ray, which were flops in India before they were given
prizes in western countries and re-evaluated as classics of the Indian cinema
The popularity in India of movements like those of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and
ISKCON based on their popularity in the west
The popularity of yoga, several gurus, and some other Indian systems and teachings
following their popularity in the west
The exalted status of the Bhagavad Gita in Hinduism, where, although it was always
highly regarded, it gained its current prominence only following Western attempts to
identify a single canonical "Hindu Bible"

Q21) Connect, to an infamous incident in
the sporting world.
 Yossef Romano, weightlifter
 Ze'ev Friedman, weightlifter
 David Berger, weightlifter
 Eliezer Halfin, wrestler
 Mark Slavin, wrestler

Q23) Id this famous sport personality
X was eight-time national champion in badminton. (1980–87).He also won a bronze medal
at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
against X's wife Amita and her lover (and future husband) Raja Sanjay Sinh of Amethi, who
was a prominent politician belonging to the Congress Party.
After X's death, a tournament was constituted in his memory, “X Memorial“, now known as
the X Grand Prix.

*Q1)ID X.
When talking about X, historian Alex von Tunzelmann says that the real A
was a heavy consumer of alcohol and opium, but that though those
habits started when he was 18, not as a boy as depicted in the film. The
real A led a rebellion against his father, tried to replace him as emperor,
and had his friend Abu al-Fazl murdered in 1602, but the film ascribes
these actions to his desire to marry B, which is definitely not historically
accurate. B is often regarded as legend, though there are snippets of
historical evidence for it. She may have been one of C's wives and the
mother of A's half-brother Prince Daniyal.

X – Mughal e Azam A – Salim B – Anarkali C – Akbar

Q2)Give X
X is a band that plays music made from combinations of songs of A
and B. X comes from the portmanteau of A and B.
Some of there famous songs are "The Thing That Should Not Let It
Be", ,"And Justice for All My Loving” though sometimes just 1 song
will be used as a basis with modified lyrics.

Beatlillica from The Beatles and Metalica

Q3)What colloquial word is X?
The parable of the ____ X is a parable told by Jesus and is mentioned in only one
of the gospels of the New Testament. According to the Gospel of Luke, a traveller
(who may or may not have been Jewish) is stripped of clothing, beaten, and left
half dead along the road. First a priest and then a Levite come by, but both avoid
the man. Finally, an X comes by. Xs and Jews generally despised each other, but
the X helps the injured man.
Portraying an X in a positive light would have come as a shock to Jesus's
audience. The parable has inspired painting, sculpture, satire, poetry, and film.

Q4)News reports about whose death?
The temperature on Mt. Paektu that day registered 22.4 degrees Celsius below zero
and there was strong wind accompanied by snowstorm measuring 18 meters per
second.
At around 8:05 am the sky began turning red with sunrise on the horizon. The peaks
looked like a picture for wide and thick glow.
nation was shocked by the news of the leader's demise. This was the first of its kind in
dozens of years since the observation of the area was started.”

*Q5)Id X.
US embassy cables from 1989 have revealed that the iconic X was actually trying
to hail a bus. In a revelation likely to rewrite history, diplomatic transcripts
published by the WikiLeaks website reveal that X was in fact a 76-year-old man
and an ardent Communist.
He apparently set off from his nearby home that morning with the intention of
doing some shopping. His wife told local activists, who later informed US
diplomats, that he “was confused perhaps in the head, but urged himself to buy
some items for our children. He heard many explosions and thought it was New
Year.”
Classified transcripts, shown to a diplomatic source, conclude that he mistook the
_______ for bus 224 and stood in front to hail it.

Q9) Id X.
X begins on with the Halwa ceremony. It has been a tradition which has continued for long. As part
of the ritual, halwa is prepared in a big kadhai (vessel) and served to the staff involved with X.
The ceremony doesn't not involve any puja or worship. The officials associated with X gather in a
special room in the basement of the ______ and exchange wishes in the presence of their leader ,
and distribute halwa.
The significance of the sweet dish is that after it is served, a large number of officials and support
staff, who are directly associated with X, are required to stay in _________ and remain cut off from
their families till X is complete and has been made public.
A large steel door-frame fitted with special X-ray scanner connected with computers monitors the
movement of each and every person. They are not even allowed to contact their near and dear ones
through phone or any other form of communication, like email. Only very senior officials are
permitted to go home.

Printing of Union Budget Documents

X – Brihaspati
The Day is Thursday (Brihaspativar or Guruvar)

Nicolas Chauvin and Chauvinism

Lou Gehrig or as it is more commonly
known as ALS

•Keep It Simple: the ____should be so simple that a child can draw it from
memory.
•Use Meaningful Symbolism: the ____’s images, colors, or patterns should
•Use 2–3 Basic Colors: that is, limit of the number of colors on the ____tis two
to three, which contrast well and come from the standard color set.
•No Lettering or Seals: never use writing of any kind or an organization’s seal.
•Be Distinctive or Be Related: avoid duplicating other _____, but use similarities
to show connections.
Q16)What are these?

Q17)These dolls are inspired/based on
what? ( another pic on the next slide)

Q18)This is a WWI
recruitment poster from
Canada, urging men to
enlist to fight for the
women in their own lives. It
appeals to notions of
motherhood and family
values that were popular at
the time, and often
attributed to this painting.

Whistler's Mother or Arrangement in
Grey and Black No.1

Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland

Q21). Connect, to an infamous incident
in the sporting world.
 Yossef Romano, weightlifter
 Ze'ev Friedman, weightlifter
 David Berger, weightlifter
 Eliezer Halfin, wrestler
 Mark Slavin, wrestler

Israeli athletes killed during Munich Massacre
at the Olympic Games, 1972

Q22) ID X.
The term X originated in Britain, expressing a pugnacious attitude
toward Russia in the 1870s, and appeared in the American press by
1893.
X is patriotism in the form of aggressive foreign policy. It also refers to
a country's advocacy for the use of threats or actual force, as
opposed to peaceful relations, in efforts to safeguard what it
perceives as its national interests. Colloquially, it refers to excessive
bias in judging one's own country as superior to others—an extreme
type of nationalism.

Q23. Id this famous sport personality
X was eight-time national champion in badminton. (1980–87).He also won a bronze medal
at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
against X's wife Amita and her lover (and future husband) Raja Sanjay Sinh of Amethi, who
was a prominent politician belonging to the Congress Party.
After X's death, a tournament was constituted in his memory, “X Memorial“, now known as
the X Grand Prix.

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