1. Question 1
• In December 2020, ________ joined gold, oil and other
commodities traded on Wall Street, highlighting worries that it may
become scarce across more of the world.
• Farmers, hedge funds and municipalities alike are now able to
hedge against or, on its future availability in California, the biggest
U.S. agriculture market.
• Name the commodity.
3. Question 2
• @cookistwow posted a recipe of “Whole Wheat ballooned bread” on
Instagram on 29th June this year. The recipe was as follows:
• INGREDIENTS
200g (1 ¾ cup) Whole-wheat flour, 4g (1 tsp) Salt, 185-190ml (4/5 cups)
Boiled water
• METHOD
In a bowl add flour, salt and boiled water. Mix it and leave it to cool.
Knead it until it is soft and smooth. Leave it covered for 10 minutes. Make
balls and dip them in flour. Stretch the dough and make a perfect circle.
Sprinkle it with flour. Put then in a hot pan, at high temperature, for 40
seconds and then flip it. After 5 seconds put it on flame and it will puff.
Serve with grilled chicken and some salad. Enjoy.
What was this the recipe of?
5. He plays for the Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL
and was named in India's squad for the 2019
Cricket World Cup. As a teenager, his parents state
that they put him into chess since they didn’t
want him to get into bad company. Not only did he
win the National Under-12 Championship in
Kolkata in 2002, he also represented the country
at the Asian and World Junior Championship.
Identify this gentleman.
Question 3
7. He served as the Shankaracharya (head) of
Edneer Mutt, a Hindu monastery in Kasaragod
district, Kerala from 1961 until his death in
September 2020. He took Sanyasa at the age
of 19 and headed the Mutt as the
Peetadhipathi until his death. Albeit a very
prominent religious figure, he is known in the
legal world for an entirely different reason.
Why?
Question 4
8. Answer 4
• The Fundamental Rights Case of Kesavananda Bharati v. State of
Kerala, in which he was the petitioner.
9. For those of you, who couldn’t guess the last
answer
10. Look closely at the rose
and name the company
which sells this variant
of chocolate.
Question 5
13. Answer 6
• Manmohan Singh's liberalisation policy encouraged multinationals
to come to India and gave Indians the taste of Coke Pepsi and good
times
14. Question 7
• Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman, Will Champion and X are the
members of a British Rock Band Y formed in London in 1996.
• We know the ex- wife of X as Pepper Potts in another universe.
• Their first daughter shares her name with a very famous multi-
national technology company.
• The band has released albums Parachutes, Ghost Stories, A rush of
blood to the head, among others.
• Name X and Y.
16. Question 8
• The Company X is correctly pronounced as ‘Wah- Way’, not known
by many.
• X was founded In the middle of a mid-life crisis by a person in his
early forties.
• X was first created to produce telephone exchange switches.
• X has sponsored several major events and sports teams, including
Arsenal F.C., Paris Saint-Germain, the Ghana Football Association,
and more.
• Name X.
18. Question 9
• The show X focuses on the lives of the Characters that are from
different states of India such as Rajasthan, Bihar, Gujarat,
Maharashtra etc. the show basically represents a ‘mini-India’ in
the form of a society.
• It has characters sonalika, gulabkumar, Gurcharan, natwarlal,
Pankaj, among others.
• Name x.
21. Question 10
• X is a movie based on a novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk.
• There is a Starbucks coffee cup in almost every scene of X.
• The detectives in X are named normal names (Andrew, Kevin, and
Walker). Y previously directed the film Se7en, and a writer named
Andrew Kevin Walker did some script work on it, but he wasn’t credited.
Y decided to make that right by immortalizing the man as three
different detectives in X.
• Bonham Carter got sick after shooting X because of all the smoking. “I
had to have an X-ray because I got bronchitis. And Y does so many takes
and lots of smoke shots. He got obsessed with the smoke. It had to float
in a particular way.”
• Name X and Y.
24. Question 11
• X featured in Y’s each Test match of his career.
• Both X and Y are former captains of the Indian National team.
• X now is the Director of Cricket Operations at National Cricket
Academy, Bengaluru, India. Y now holds an administrative post and
whose election to the post drew a lot of criticisms.
• Name X and Y.
28. Question 13
Twitter asked users to describe X, and brands joined the party,
answering with words which were relevant to their own brands.
YouTube – Unsubscribe
Adobe – Ctrl + Z
Grammarly – Edit
Microsoft Edge – 404
Zoom – Unstable
Messenger – Unsend
OnePlus – Unsmooth
What is X? Apply Funda
32. Question 16
• In colonial India, many deaf people were employed in palaces,
government offices and bungalows to provide a certain service.
• Deaf people were preferred because they had to be within
earshot to provide this service. However, with the advent of
electricity in the late 19th century their services became
redundant.
• A lady of this profession is shown to have disclosed confidential
information regarding the change of plans and schedule of the
1857 revolt to her British employer in a 2005 Indian historical
biographical film
• What was this profession?
34. Question 17
• The creation of X is linked to the construction of the Y in the
Mughal Empire.
• When the colossal monument was under construction, some
21,000 workers were bored of the daily meal comprising only dal
and roti.
• The Emperor shared his concern with his master architect, who
requested Pir Naqshbandi Sahib for a solution to the Emperor's
worries. It is believed that the Pir went into a trance during
prayers one day and received the recipe of X from the Almighty.
Then, some 500 cooks made X for the workers.
• Identify X and Y
36. Question 18
• According to Hindu mythology, X can be traced back to Sage Markanda.
• Markanda was the master weaver of Gods who is supposed to have
woven tissue from lotus fiber. He would weave the stories of gods into
the fabric and gift it to them.
• His descendants continued the work and later settled down in a town in
Tamil Nadu. It has been recognized as a Geographical indication by the
Government of India in 2005-06.
• As of 2008, an estimated families were involved in the production. There
are 25 5,000 yarn industries and 60 dyeing units in the region.
• Identify X
38. Question 19
• Freedom Trophy is a cricket trophy that is awarded to the winner
of Test series, known as Gandhi-Mandela series between India and
South Africa.
• It was first awarded in 2015.The BCCI requested for the trophy to
be made from certain something procured from two different
locations of the same kind, which was denied by the Indian
government stating that defacement of heritage property cannot
be allowed.
• What was BCCI's idea? What are these two locations?
39. Answer 19
• BCCI suggested to use the rods of the cell in which Mahatma
Gandhi an Nelson Mandela were imprisoned Yerwada jail in Pune
Robben Island in South Africa.
40. Question 20
• From the watch brand/giant Omega - X was first introduced in 1957, and they
claim that its stories will live forever.
• Originally designed for race timing, this robust technical watch went on to play
a key role in NASA's space program, having been worn throughout the Gemini,
Mercury, Apollo shuttle programs. It all started in 1965 when NASA qualified X
for all its manned space programs by subjecting it to a series of extreme shock,
pressure and temperature tests - with an intention to check for its
destructibility.
• However X passed with flying colors and was issued to all astronauts, going
forward. What is X (a 11 letter word), which would make all the cricketing
speedsters like Brett Lee, Malcolm Marshall, Waqar Younis etc., very proud of
the phrase?
42. Question 21
• A X is a class of being in Norse mythology and Scandinavian
folklore. In Old Norse sources, beings described as X dwell in
isolated rocks, mountains, or caves, live together in small family
units, and are rarely helpful to human beings.
• The Old Norse nouns X has various meanings 'fiend, demon,
werewolf etc. Internet slang, a X is a person who sows discord on
the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting
messaged in internet community.
• How do we know X in the Internet world ?
