Horizon Round 1

Horizon
Prelims
Quizmaster
Siddharth Shankar Bebarta

1. Identify this Legendary sports
person

2. Connect
Shakespeare’s

Titania, Oberon, Puck, Miranda, Caliban, Sycorax, Pr
ospero, Setebos, Stephano, Trinculo, Francisco, Ferdi
nand, Cordelia, Ophelia, Bianca, Cressida, Desdem
ona, Juliet, Mab, Portia, Rosalind, Margaret, Perdita,
Cupid

Alexander Pope’s
Ariel, Umbriel, Belinda

3.
One version of this series of paintings
by paul cezzane was sold in 2011 for a
price variously estimated at between
$250 million and $300 million, making
it the most expensive work of art ever
sold.
Name the painting(the series).

4.
Who is the only Indian
National to be conferred
with Nishan-E-Pakistan

5.
Which was the last Movie that
Hrishikesh Mukherjee directed?

6.What is X’s Y
• X’s Y is a franchise, founded by Robert ‘X’, which
deals in bizarre events and items so strange and
unusual that readers might question the claims.
• The ‘Y’ panel proved popular and was later
adapted into a wide variety of formats, including
radio, television, comic books, a chain of museums
and a book series.
• The ‘X’ collection includes 20,000
photographs, 30,000 artifacts and more than
100,000 cartoon panels. With 80-plus attractions, the
Orlando-based ‘X’ Entertainment, Inc., a division of
the Jim Pattison Group, is a global company with
an annual attendance of more than 12 million
guests.

8.
This Instrument was invented in 1921 by John
Augustus Larson, a medical student at the
University of California at Berkeley and a
police officer of the Berkeley Police
Department in Berkeley, California
It measures and records several physiological
indices such as blood
pressure, pulse, respiration, and skin
conductivity while the subject is asked and
answers a series of questions.
What Instrument?

10.
Who won the Gold in 66kg
men’s freestyle wrestling
, in the recently concluded
London Olympics, 2012?

11.
Ricin is a highly toxic
chemical/biological warfare agent.
It is a naturally occurring protein. A
dose as small as a few grains of salt
can kill an adult human.
What is the source of Ricin?

13. Earliest
pictures of which
famous
performing arts
hall

Artificially implanted
Pacemaker

17.
• He was a Berber Muslim Moroccan explorer, known for his
extensive travels, accounts of which were published in the
Rihla (lit. "Journey").
• Over a period of thirty years, he visited most of the known
Islamic world as well as many non-Muslim lands; his
journeys including trips to North Africa, the Horn of
Africa, West Africa, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in
the West, and to the Middle East, South Asia, Central
Asia, Southeast Asia and China in the East, a distance
surpassing threefold his near-contemporary Marco Polo.
• He is considered one of the greatest travellers of all time. He
journeyed more than 75,000 miles (121,000 km), a figure
unsurpassed by any individual explorer until the coming of
the Steam Age some 450 years later.
Who is HE?

18. Who
said it and
when?

*Be specific about the date

19. Give Me X & Y
• X is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic
strip written and illustrated by Y, which ran from
October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in
reruns afterward. The strip is the most popular and
influential in the history of the comic strip, with 17,897
strips published in all
• X has been described as "the most shining example
of the American success story in the comic strip
field"; this is ironic, given its theme is "the great
American unsuccess story." The main character is
meek, nervous and lacks self-confidence. He is
unable to fly a kite, win a baseball game or kick a
football.

X - Peanuts
Y - Charles Schulz

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