Sorry for the delay in uploading the preliminary round questions of the NUJS Open Quiz 2017 held on 11th March, 2017. The questions were curated by the firm of Abhiroop De, Arindrajit Basu, Bikash Kiran Mishra, Surya Vashist and Yours Truly (Abhinav). We hope you all will enjoy answering these questions as much as we enjoyed curating and presenting them.

1. PRELIMS

3. RULES
• 25 questions
• Multiples of 5 are star-marked
• Part points wherever stated
• Top 6 teams into finals

4. QM IS YOUR LORD

5. BEST OF LUCK

6. Q1. FITB
• Khaled Said was mercilessly beaten to death under
police custody few weeks before the Egyptian
revolution began. A Google executive named Wael
Ghonim created a Facebook page called ‘____ _____
___ Khaled Said’. in his memory. This page fetched a
lakh likes within just few days and many people
changed their profile picture to Khaled Said.
• Drawing inspiration from this, a similar sort of a
campaign was started in India in 2011 during a major
revolution. Thereafter this has been used by many time
to support a cause in various parts of the world.
• Which campaign am I talking about?

7. Answer
• I AM CAMPAIGN. (In 2011, it was for Anna
Hazare movement.)
#IAMOUTLAWED

8. Q2. Identify what’s happening here

9. Answer
• Star Ward Opening Credits

10. Q3. Put Funda

11. Answer
• 1978 Demonetization Queue

12. Q4. Identify the Actress

13. Answer
• J. Jayalalitha

14. Q5*
• Samsonite luggages are well-known for their utility
value and durability.
• They launched a product called ‘Marshmallow’ in 2014
which through its unique shape easily stands out against
other less aesthetically considered luggage.
• The peculiar feature of this luggage included an
ergonomic curved design for a specific purpose which
helps the travellers in airport terminals/train platforms
etc. For what purpose was the ergonomically curved
design meant for? (picture next slide)

15. Q5. Image*

16. Answer
• To sit on it.

17. Q6. ID ‘X’
• The X is a collegiate athletic
conference comprising sports teams from eight
private institutions (which include Harvard, Yale,
Princeton and Cornell) of higher education in the
North-eastern United States.
• The origin of the term X is controversial, however
two proposals are generally recommended: -
1. The Walls of these colleges are strewn with a type of
climber plant, which were traditionally planted at the
class day.
2. Or it might refer to the four (IV) asserting the sports
league originally played among the first 4 members.

18. Answer
• The Ivy League

19. Q7. ID X
• “What’s great about this country is that America
started the tradition where the richest consumers
buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
You can be watching TV and see ‘X’, and you know
that the President drinks ‘X’, Liz Taylor drinks ‘X’,
and just think, you can drink ‘X’, too. A ‘X’ is a ‘X’
and no amount of money can get you a better ‘X’
than the one the bum on the corner is drinking.
All the ‘X’ are the same and all the ‘X’ are good.
Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the
bum knows it, and you know it.” - The Philosophy
of Andy Warhol, 1975.

20. Answer
• Coca Cola
• When asked to draw something representing
mass culture, he drew the picture of the Coca
Cola bottle

21. Q8. Whose only effort to get elected to the Lok
Sabha got soiled in the 1999 General Elections?

22. Answer
• Dr. Manmohan Singh

23. Q9. Amul tribute to whom?

24. Answer
• Robin Williams

25. Q10*. This special Oscar statuette was
given to whom?

26. Answer
• Walt Disney was awarded for Snow White and
the seven Dwarves.

27. Q.11 This intricately beautiful carving
from the Hoysaleswara Temple,
Halebidu, Karnataka depicts which
famous event? (bigger image next
slide)

28. Q11.Image

29. Answer
• Abhimanyu entering the
Chakravuhya

30. Q12.Identify the design label and the
person with whom it is most
identified?

31. Answer
• Chanel; Jacqueline Kennedy

32. Q13. Which Airport is being talked
about here?
• This International Airport in India was earlier
used as a base for the United States Air Force
during the Second World War and was used as
a base for the USAF B-24 Liberator Bomber
Aircrafts for operations in Burma.

33. Answer
• Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International
Airport, Kolkata

34. Q14. Identify X and Y. (part points)
• After the fall of X’s government in 1991,
Country Y has seen a rapid decline torn apart
by severe civil warfare driven by inter-clan
conflict [between the five major clans namely
Darod, Dir, Hawiye, Isaac and Rahanweyn] and
creeping extremism.
• On 8th February 2017, elections were finally
held at an airport hangar in the capital city of
country Y.

35. Answer
• X-Siad Barre, Y-Somalia

36. Q15*. ID both X and Y (part points)
• The events of 1857 saw the making of the
military legend surrounding this institution.
For the first time in history, Britain called on
schoolboys to assist in the military conflict -
namely the defence of Y [location]. The names
of eight staff members, sixty seven boys and
one ensign (old boy) are inscribed on the 'Roll
of Honour, defence of the Y 1857' at X.

37. Answer
• La Martiniere College, Lucknow; Lucknow
Residency

38. Q16. ID X
• ‘X’ was an officer in the British Army, a non-
academic historian, and a writer. He won
the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for his
overall, lifetime body of work. In 1963, he was
the first of only eight people to be made
an honorary citizen of the United States.
• X is better known for something else I have
omitted to mention.

39. Answer
• Sir Winston Churchill

40. Q17. ID X and identify the iconic act
performed in the image
• Panna Dhai (also spelled Panna Dai) was a
16th-century nursemaid to X. Her name,
Panna means emerald, and dai means a nurse.
She had been given charge of young X,
breastfeeding him virtually from his birth in
1522, along with her own son Chandan (also
known as Moti), who was of similar age and
X's playmate.
• Hint: Image next slide

41. Q17. Image

42. Answer
• Maharana Udai Singh. She swapped her own
son with Udai Singh.

43. Q18. What was X?
• On November 11, 1918, the X was signed in a
carriage of Foch's private train, CIWL #2419
(Compiègne Wagon). It was later put back into
regular service with the Compagnie des
Wagons-Lits, but after a short period it was
withdrawn to be attached to the French
presidential train.

44. Answer
• Armistice of Compiègne, 1918 which ended
WW I.

45. Q19. Identify X and Y
• “Hum Dekhenge” was one of the immortal works
of Leftist Poet X. It gained iconic prominence in
the 1980s through a musical rendition by Iqbal
Bano at a time when X was imprisoned in his
home country by the conservative tyrannical
regime lead by Y due to X’s apparent espousing of
anti-establishment sentiments. Identify X [writer
of the song], Y and the iconic rendition by Iqbal
Bano that immortalised it.
• Part Points if you get both X and Y
• Full points for indicating the famous rendition.

46. Answer
• Faiz; General Zia; Performed it in front of
50,000 people at a stadium in Lahore while
wearing a sari which was banned by the Zia
regime.

47. Q20*. FITB, which is a distorted
‘Manu-Alaya’.
• Although extremely debatable, this makes for
a very interesting story. ‘Manu-Alaya’ literally
means ‘the abode of Manu’. Legend has it that
sage Manu stepped off his ark in _______ to
recreate human life after a great flood had
deluged the world. Old _______ village even
has an ancient temple dedicated to sage
Manu which becomes the site of quite a few
festivities during Diwali.

48. Answer
• Manali

49. Q21. ID X and FITB (part points)
• Featured in the next two slides are certain artworks by ‘X’.
• ‘X’, who referenced impressionism in describing his work,
said he was originally not very interested in art. But since
taking up painting he said he has come to see the world in a
new light.
• “I see colours and shadows that I never did before. I see the
sky differently,” ‘X’ said. “It has changed my life to the
better.”
• He also released a book recently on 28th Feb, 2017 titled
Portraits in Courage: A ________________’s Tribute to
America’s Warriors, which includes images of the portraits
and the veterans’ personal stories, and has already shot to
the top of Amazon’s best-seller list.

52. Answer
• X. George W. Bush
Y. Commander in Chief

53. Q22. Connect (exhaustive list)
• Maddox Chivan, born August 5, 2001, in
Cambodia
• Pax Thien, born November 29, 2003, in
Vietnam
• Zahara Marley, born January 8, 2005, in
Ethiopia
• Shiloh Nouvel, born May 27, 2006, in Namibia
• Twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline,
born July 12, 2008, in France.

54. Answer
• Kids of Brangelina

55. Q 23: Fill that sad whitened portion
with a name.

56. Answer
• Yahoo

57. Q.24 Give X and Y
• X was an American political economist whose
work was associated with the New Institutional
Economics and the resurgence of political
economy.
• In 2009, X shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in
Economic Sciences with Oliver E. Williamson for
"analysis of economic governance, especially the
commons".
• To this date X remains the only Y to win the Nobel
Prize in Economics.

58. Answer
• Eleanor Olstrom; woman winning Nobel Prize
for Economics.

59. Q25*. Identify the artist of the song
• British parliament member Andrew Rosindell filed a
motion in the House of Commons to restore the
tradition of playing the British national anthem on
BBC1 at the end of each day’s programming. The
tradition had initially ended in 1997, and he wanted it
reinstated before the end of 2016, to honor the recent
Brexit referendum and the Queen’s 90th birthday.
• BBC Two’s flagship program “Newsnight,” responded
to Rosindell’s request in the manner shown in a video
in the next slide.
• The song being played in the video was released
during Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee in 1977. The
record's lyrics, as well as the cover, were controversial
at the time, and both the BBC and the Independent
Broadcasting Authority refused to play the song.

61. Answer
• Sex Pistols

62. END OF PRELIMS