The document outlines the rules for the inquisitive general quiz prelims at Pailan College of Management & Technology, which includes 18 questions with the top 8 teams qualifying. It features a series of trivia questions from various topics, including history, literature, sports, and pop culture, each requiring participants to identify specific individuals or subjects. The document also states that tie-breakers will be determined by star questions and incorrect answers.

1. Inquisitive General Quiz
Prelims
Pailan College of
Management & Technology

2. Rules
▪ 18 questions in prelims.
▪ Top 8 teams qualify
▪ Star questions will be used as
tie-breakers. If a tie still
exists, then first incorrect
answer will be used to determine
who wins the tie.

3. *1.
▪ X’s father was of English & Welsh origin,
while X’s mother was of English, Scottish,
French & Welsh origin. As a child X had
written to NASA inquiring on how to become
an astronaut. NASA had replied that ____
could not be astronauts. X later on went on
to win a Grammy in 1997 and graced the
covers of Vogue, Time, Vanity Fair, Harper’s
Bazaar among others. X has even worked as a
Republican U.S. presidential election
campaign volunteer. Identify X and FITB

4. Hillary Rodham Clinton , girls

5. 2.
▪ ‘Kolkata’ became a part of
which
organisation/establishment on
16th August 2014 ?

6. Indian Navy

7. *3.
▪ Royal Funerals in Japan are
reserved obviously for the members
of the Royal family. But he was
the only non-member in history to
have given this honour.

8. Rashbehari Bose

9. 4.
▪ “He does not devour it, it devours
him” ~ This was one of the one of
many campaigns initiated by the
Nazi Government in 1933. What was
this campaign for ?

10. Anti-Smoking Campaign

11. 5.
▪ It centres on a rivalry between its
two main characters. It has been
subject to controversy over racial
stereotypes, cannibalism and
glamorization of smoking. 13 episodes
of it were made in Czechoslovakia.
Some say that the character names were
inspired by WWII, as in the nicknames
used for the British & Germans.

12. Tom & Jerry

13. 6.
▪ X’s surname is Chaurasia and he
came to Calcutta from Benaras in
1880, a halwai, he setup his
business in a small shop in
Maniktala and now has franchises
all over. Name X and his
franchise.

14. Ganguram of Ganguram sweets

15. 7.
▪ According to Facebook, this was
the first topic from Kolkata to
trend worldwide. This was also
the top trend and most searched
topic on the BBC website for a
day. What was the topic ?

16. #hokkolorob

17. 8.
▪ ‘I told them I’m not going to do any
shoots with _________ kit on. I told them
‘don’t even ask!’ ~ FITB. Who to whom ?

18. FITB – Arsenal, Usain Bolt to Puma

19. 9.
▪ This word is made up of the
words, ‘father’, ‘son’ and ‘the
holy spirit’ in Hebrew. “I
create as I speak” is the
closest possible translation in
English.

20. Abracadabra
▪ Ab (Father) + Ben (Son) + Ruach A
Cadsch (Holy Spirit) = Abracadabra

21. *10.
▪ Sir Alex Ferguson is a huge admirer of
X. He says, “X will certainly have a
positive impact on Van der Sar’s
successor. Goalkeepers often find
themselves in similar situation where
they've to guess the path of the ball,
use their footwork and agility. Hence,
X will be of immense help to the
Manchester United team as a
Goalkeeping advisor.

22. Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar

23. 11.
▪ X was an RJ for Radio Ceylon and
dreamt of interviewing his favourite
actress Y. The interview was arranged
but seeing Y for the first time in
person, X fumbled and could not utter
a word in front of her and the
interview was cancelled. Eventually,
they worked together and later got
married. Identify X and Y

24. X – Sunil Dutt, Y – Nargis Dutt

25. *12.
▪ X was a talented artist and often
illustrated Y's stories. Y wrote
to him, advising him to stay sober
and to pursue writing, but to no
avail. X died at the age of 31 of
tuberculosis. X's death influenced
one of Y's novels, about a man
faced with his own impending
death. Identify X and Y

26. One of X’s paintings ~ ‘The Young Widow at the Grave of her Husband’

27. X – Nikolai Chekhov, Y – Anton Chekhov

28. 13.
▪ Apart from his primary occupation, X
was also a qualified entomologist,
studying lepidoptery in particular. He
said, “The pleasures and rewards of
literary inspiration are nothing
beside the rapture of discovering a
new organ under the microscope or an
undescribed species on a mountainside
in Iran or Peru.” X has a genus and
numerous species named after him.
Identify X

29. Vladimir Nobokov

30. 14.
▪ Waiter is to Restaurant as X
is to a Café.

31. Barista

32. 15.
▪ Apart from the Lifetime
Achievement Award and the
posthumous Award for Best Rock
Song in 1993 Elvis Presley won all
of his Grammies in which category
?

33. Best Sacred/Inspirational Song or Performance

34. 16.
▪ It took prop maker Gavin Jones 2 months to
create. It measures 8 feet tall and is built out
of a wooden frame and hundreds of heated
[SOMETHING]. A replica can be purchased for
$30,000

35. Iron Throne of Game of Thrones

36. 17.
▪ Lal Bahadur Shastri passed away on 11th Jan
1966 inTashkent. Indira Gandhi was sworn in
as Prime Minister on the 24th.The ceremony
was affected by news of X's untimely death
plane crash in Europe. Indira Gandhi remarked
that she had hoped to bring in that person
into the Cabinet.Who?

37. Homi J. Bhabha

38. *18.

39. National Library of China