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• Question no. 2,4,6,7,8,10,11,14,15 are starred which
will break ties.
• Sudden death may be applied (if required) after a tie.
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3. 1. In 1870 in the USA a special type of bullet
was invented to fire in a curved line. It had a
peculiarity, what was its peculiarity and what
was its name?
4. • Boomerang Bullet.
• Most of the time this bullets travelled in
complete circles, killing the person who had
fired them.
5. 2. “Selle d’ Agneau Pre-sale Arlesienne” is a
mutton made from lamb was served in the
banquet by the queen of England when former
president Pratibha Patil visited England in
October 2009. It is a royal dish at the queen’s
banquet. The question is what is the specialty of
this lambs?
6. • They are naturally salty as they are reared
near sea-water.
7. 3. About whom did Abdul Kalam once said “I
consider him the Mahatma Gandhi of science”.
9. 4. When Vladmir Lenin died at Gorki Leninskiye,
a place near Moscow, people attending his
funeral were strictly warned not to cry. Why was
crying prohibited?
10. • It was because the temperature was such a
low that if anybody cried, his tears would turn
into ice immediately damaging it.
14. • 2014 has been proclaimed as the International
year of crystallography by UNO.
• The third picture is a solid crystalline structure
of Sr and Ti.
15. • 7. After 66 years of the following of IST, recently
Assam decided to follow a new standard time. It
is a day light schedule British tea planters
introduced for over 150 years ago. The North East
see sunrise and sunset well an hour before
Mumbai. The IST forces them to work day light
hours and work late till the evening. The dual
time zones will help increase productivity, reduce
power usage and curb alcoholism. What is this
new standard time known as?
18. • 1st pic- The band Praying Mantis.
• 2nd pic- The band Scorpions.
• 3rd pic-The Avengers character “The Black
Widow” + Spider gives Black widow spider.
All the three creatures kill their mate after
copulation.
30. First xerographic image. 10-22-38”
refers to the 22nd of October, 1938
when the world’s first message was
produced by photocopying
technique, and Astoria to the
location of Chester Carlson’s
rented apartment in Astoria,
Queens where with the help of his
lab assistant Otto Kronei, this
magic was wrought.
31. 15. X based the character of Y on his son who was only four
years old when he refused to take a nap and somehow
messed up his whole room. X had tried many possible names
for the character, but when his then-wife Alice, in utter
exasperation of their son’s antics, exclaimed, "Your son is a
_________!", the name of “Y the _______" finally stuck.
The picture shows X and
his son, the inspiration
for Y. Identify X and Y
