American and British spies have conducted surveillance in online games like World Warcraft and Second Life. Mata Hari was a Dutch exotic dancer executed for spying for Germany in WWI. Calcutta is the eighth largest urban area in the world. Genghis Khan was a notorious conqueror known for looting crops and burning houses.

1. ICQC presents
Politics Quiz - Prelims

2. • According to newly disclosed classified
documents, American and British spies have
infiltrated the fantasy worlds of _________
and Second Life, conducting surveillance and
scooping up data in the online games played
by millions of people across the globe.

3. • Margaretha Geertruida "M'greet" Zelle MacLeod (7
August 1876 – 15 October 1917), better known by
the stage name_______, was a Dutch exotic dancer
and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy and
executed by firing squad in
France under charges of
espionage for Germany
during World War I

4. • ________ is the eighth largest agglomeration
of the world
• The _____ Polo club is the oldest extant polo
club in the world

5. • “There is no greater pleasure of mine than to
defeat my enemy on the field of battle, loot
his crops, ride his horse, burn his house, carry
off his women, hear their lamentations, and
leave no eye open to weep for the dead”
• Words attributed to which notorious
conqueror?

6. What is the full form of the "APJ" in Dr. Kalam's
name

7. • ________was a Chinese revolutionary, first president
and founding father of the Republic of China
("Nationalist China"). As the foremost pioneer of
Republic of China, _____ is referred to as the "Father of
the Nation" in the Republic of China (ROC), and the
"forerunner of democratic revolution" in the People's
Republic of China. ____ played an instrumental role in
the overthrow of the Qing dynasty during the years
leading up to the Double Ten Revolution. ____ was a
uniting figure in post-Imperial China, and remains
unique among 20th-century Chinese politicians for
being widely revered amongst the people from both
sides of the Taiwan Strait.

8. • A ________is a skeptic who refuses to believe
without direct personal experience—a
reference to the Apostle X, who refused to
believe that the resurrected Jesus had
appeared to the eleven other apostles, until
he could see and feel the wounds received by
Jesus on the cross.

9. Which of these former heads of state did not die
in office?
John F. Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rajiv
Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln

10. • There are almost as many ways to spell
____name as there are theories of the former
dictator’s whereabouts. There is no single
“correct” way to spell his name, and different
news outlets used different spellings for his
name. It is estimated that there are currently
112 ways to spell his name.

11. Who is the person on the right, and why was he in the news
recently?

12. • The first known name of the city is X the name given to it at its
foundation by Megarean colonists around 660 BC. The name
is thought to be derived from a personal name, Byzas.
• After Constantine the Great made it the new eastern capital
of the Roman Empire in 330 AD, the city became widely
known as Y
• the present name Z , colloquially derives from the Medieval
Greek phrase, which means "to the city".
• The city is transcontinental. Its commercial and historical
center lies in Europe, while a third of its population lives in
Asia

13. • _________is China's use of X as diplomatic gifts to other
countries. The practice existed as far back as the Tang
Dynasty, when Empress Wu Zetian (625–705) sent a pair of X
to the Japanese emperor
• Chinese government's gift of two X, to the United States in
1972 after President Richard Nixon's historic visit to. Over
twenty thousand people visited the X the first day they were
on display, and an estimated 1.1 million visitors came to see
them the first year they were in the United States. The X were
wildly popular and China's gift was seen as an enormous
diplomatic success, evidence of China's eagerness to establish
official relations with the U.S

14. Identify the occasion and the person

15. Where would you find this?

16. • ____, born to parsi parents in amritsar, was an Indian
military leader who was the first Indian Army officer
to be promoted to the rank of Field Marshal. His
distinguished military career spanned four decades
and five wars, beginning with service in the British
Indian Army in World War II. _______rose to be the
8th chief of staff of the Indian Army in 1969 and
under his command, Indian forces conducted the
victorious campaign in 1971.

17. Wats this?

18. • The ____ in 1948 was first major corruption
case in independent India. V.K. Krishna
Menon, the then Indian high commissioner to
Britain, ignored protocols and signed a Rs 80
lakh contract for the purchase of X with a
foreign firm

20. • A referendum on whether ______ should be an
independent country will take place on Thursday
18 September 2014. Following an agreement
between the ___ provincial Government and
national Government, the _____ Independence
Referendum Bill, setting out the arrangements for
this referendum, was put forward on 21 March
2013, passed by the Parliament on 14 November
2013 and received Royal Assent on 17 December
2013.

21. • __________ is a computer worm discovered in
June 2010 that is believed to have been created
by United States and Israel agencies to attack
Iran's nuclear facilities._____ initially spreads via
Microsoft Windows, and targets Siemens
industrial control systems.
• Has been described as the most sophisticated
malware ever made by experts, who put its
development costs at upwards of a million
dollars.

22. • World of warcraft
• Rajiv Gandhi
• Avul pakir jainulabdeen
• Mata hari
• Calcutta
• Gengis khan
• Sun yat sen
• Doubting thomas
• Gadhafi/Gaddafi/Qaddhafi/Kadhafi etc etc etc

23. • Arafat, polonium poisoning
• Byzantium/Constantinople/Istanbul
• Panda diplomacy
• Jesse Owens, 1936 summer olympics at berlin,
gold.
• UK, which has one cctv for every 11 people
• Sam Manekshaw
• 1960 presidential debate between Republican
vice president Richard Nixon and Democratic
senator John F. Kennedy, first to be televised

24. • Jeep Scandal
• AQ Khan, considered as the father of
Pakistan’s nukes.
• Scotland
• Stuxnet