This document contains 25 questions and their answers from a quiz on various topics. Some of the questions are about identifying authors of books, winners of awards like the Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, sports events, political leaders, and more. The topics covered include literature, history, politics, science and technology.

1. Quiz Prelims Answers

2. Prelims Question 1
“I had failed to realize my dream of becoming
a pilot. It is only when we are faced with
Failure do we realise that we have the
resources within us.We only need to find them
and move on with our lives are lines of newly
released book “ My Journey: Transforming
Dreams into Action"
Who is the Author of the book

3. Answer 1

4. Question 2
WIn September, 2013 ,Ms Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was
awarded the 2012 Indira Gandhi Prize for
Peace,Disarmament and Development.
SShe is also the winner of 2011 Noble Peace prize.She
was awarded for serving as an inspiration for ensuring
return of Democracy,Development and security in her
tiny nation? Which nation are we talking about?

5. Answer
LIBERIA

6. Question 3
This writer is credited with using the word for the first time in
the Book “Run Around”.He talked of 3 laws for them
1.A 'X' may not injure a human being or, through inaction,
allow a human being to come to harm.
2.A 'X ' must obey the orders given to it by human beings,
except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3.A 'X' must protect its own existence as long as such
protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Identify the writer and X( Half point each for identifying
writer and X)

7. ROBOTICS
Issac Asimov
The modern term robot
derives from the Czech
word robota (“forced
labour” or “serf”), used in
Karel Čapek's play R.U.R.
(1920).

8. Question
4
In 1960 a group of British naturalists including
biologist Sir Julian Huxley, artist and
conservationist ,Peter Scott and ornithologists
Guy Mountfort and Max Nicholson started
which Organization.

9. Answer

10. Question
5
Leander Paes at the Age 40 this year won
the US 2013 open Doubles crown? Who
was his doubles partner for the event

11. Radek Stepanek from Czech republic

12. Question 6)
She won the Pulitzer Prize for her debut
collection of short stories, Interpreter of
Maladies (1999). Her first novel Namesake
was adopted into a film by the same name
and later won many awards,Her latest work
The LOWLAND was in the shortlist for the
BOOKER prize.
Identify the writer

13. Jhumpa Lahiri

14. Question 7
Which Sport has 2 styles called Greeco
roman and Freestyle?

15. Answer: Wrestling

16. Question 8)Name the current
chairman of the TATA group
of companies

17. Answer:Cyrus Pallonji Mistry

18. Question 9) Who was the first from the
field of Music to get Bharat Ratna in1998?

19. Ans- MS Subhalakshmi

20. Q10) What is the most widely used quantitative
measure or a Scale of the magnitude of an
earthquake, devised in 1935 by an American
seismologist called?

21. Answer
Richter scale

American physicist and
seismologist who developed the
Richter scale for measuring
earthquake magnitude

22. Q11)Amīr Khusro,one of India's greatest
Persian-language poets,is considered the
Father of this form of Music.Identify the
music.

23. Answer: Qawwali

24. Q
12 How do we know the actor who was
born as Gopalakrishnan Padmanabhan
Pillai?

25. Dilip

26. Q13 Name the Script writer and Director
who have directed films like
Mathilukal,Kathapurusan and Nizhal
Kuthu

27. Adoor Gopalakrishnan

28. Q14 Name the creator of the two popular
comic strips of Phantom and Mandrake
the Magician?

29. Falk lee born as Leon
Harrison gross

30. Question 15 )Which nation will be hosting
the 2020 Summer Olympics?

31. Answer: Tokyo

32. Question 16) Ms Megan Young won the Miss world
2013 title.Which country does she belong to?

33. Answer:
Philippines

34. Question 17) Who is the current Chief justice
of India who was sworn in on July 19,2013
as the 40th Chief Justice of India?

35. Answer: Justice Palanisamy Sathasivam

36. th
Question 18 In the Hindi film Tare Zameen
Par,Darsheel Safary played role of which
reading disorder in which words looks
Jumbled

37. Answer:Dyslexia

38. Question 19-If you are travelling with your
parents in your summer vacation through
places like Bhagalpur,Purnia,Motihari and
Darbhanga which Indian state will you be
in

39. AnswerBIHAR

40. Question 20) Name the person who was
conferred with Bharata Ratna in 1992
posthumously but due to controversy the
award was withdrawn?

41. Subhash
Chandra
Bose

42. Question 21 Name the Indian Born American
Biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for
Physiology or Medicine for research that
helped to show how the nucleotides in nucleic
acids, which carry the genetic code control the
cell's synthesis of proteins.

43. Hargobind Khurana

44. Question 22) What is Saphire in Thai
Called?

45. Phailin

46. Q 23) Who is the head of the
AAM AADMI PARTY

47. Answer Arvind Kejriwal

48. Who won the Nobel
prize for Literature this
year
Q24)

49. Ans Alice Munro,
Canadian short story writer

50. Q 25) Queens Baton Relay came to India in
October first week before the commonwealth
games?
Where is the next Commonwealth games going
to be held?

51. Glasgow,Scotland