Prelims questions of 'Prayaan 2012'-Intra College Quiz at Government Engineering College, Sreekrishnapuram, Palakkad.

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PRAYAN 2012
PRELIMS
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2. RULES
o 25 QUESTIONS
o 5 STARRED ( * )
o NO NEGATIVES

3. HERE WE GO…!!!

4. 1) FITB.
Carl sagan memorial station and Ray bradbury
memorial station is located at ________
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5. Mars.
Landing sites of NASA probes Pathfinder and
Curiosity respectively.
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6. 2) In which ministry does Sriprakash Jaiswal
holds the office of Cabinet Minister?
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7. Ministry of Coal.
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8. 3) On 21 August 1957 world's first
Intercontinental ballistic missile, R7, was
successfully tested by USSR. After a few
months it was used for an entirely different
and a rather peaceful purpose. What was it ?
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9. R-7 is the launch vehicle that placed the first
artificial satellite, Sputnik, in space on 4
October 1957.
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10. 4) The enemies in a particular popular video
game was inspired by the 2009 swine flu.
ID the game.
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11. Angrybirds
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12. * 5) ‘X’ founded the Rashtriya Samajwadi
Congress(RSC)in 1986, owing to the leadership
struggle within the Indian National Congress(INC)
after the sudden demise of ‘Y’. But it didn't worked
well and later in 1989 RSC rejoined in INC.
ID ‘X’ and ‘Y’.
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13. X- Pranab Kumar Mukherjee
Y- Indira Gandhi
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14. 6) FITB.
Thunderbolt is the newly formed
commando wing of _________
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15. Kerala Police
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16. 7) ID the doodle.
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17. 82nd B’day of Anant Pai a.k.a ‘Pai Uncle’.
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18. 8) FITB.
The country's first Public Private
Partnership (PPP) telecom business
incubator is _________
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19. ‘Startup Village’, Kalamassery
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20. 9) It's an international association football
tournament organized by the All India Football
Federation (AIFF),launched in 1982. It came to
a halt in 1997 and was later reinstated in 2007.
On which tournament we are talking about.
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21. Nehru Cup
(Now, ONGC Nehru Cup)
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22. *10) Expand the acronym ‘WiMax’
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23. Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
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24. 11) Wax statue of a well known personality
at Madame Tussauds. ID.
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25. Anna Maria Tussaud
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26. 12) Complete the analogy.
Mahatma Gandhi : Rural Employment Guarantee
Scheme
? : Urban Employment Guarantee
Scheme
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27. Ayyankali
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28. 13) Apart from 'Koodiyattam‘, which Kerala art
form/folk dance drama is inscribed in the
UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage.
Hint: Its based on the myth of Kali and Darikan.
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29. Mudiyettu
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30. 14) Make the list exhaustive.
ANUSAT, Studsat, SRMSAT, ____
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31. Jugnu (By IIT-K)
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32. *15) How many Mars missions of
USSR/Russia went into total success ?
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33. Zero
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34. 16) The ‘IAAF Golden League’ was an annual
series of track and field meetings organized by
the International Association of Athletics
Federations (IAAF) where the prestigious
Golden Jackpot was awarded to a Female and
Male winner. The 'Golden League' was replaced
by a new series since 2010. What is it?.
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35. Diamond League.
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36. 17) Link.
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37. Programming Languages.
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38. 18) P is an author and holds an M.E in
computer science. P was the first female
engineer of TELCO. P is married to Q, who
co-founded a company R which has grown in a
way that now its in stiff competition with the
company S, which is from the same business
house of TELCO . S is #1 in its domain in
India.
P Q R S. ?
Hint: TELCO -'Tata Engineering and
Locomotive Company'
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39. P: Sudha Murthy
Q: N.R Narayana Murthy
R: Infosys
S: TCS
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40. 19) ID the logo.
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42. *20) It's developed primarily by the Israel
branch of Intel, and was originally named
"Gesher" (meaning "bridge" in Hebrew).
The name was changed to avoid being
associated with the defunct Gesher
political party of Israel. Intel demonstrated
it first during the Intel Developer Forum
in September 2009. What are we talking
about ?
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43. Intel's Sandybridge Architecture of
2nd Gen. processors.
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44. 21) FITB.
This is the first tweet of ______
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45. Google.
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46. 22) What’s there in the shaded portion ?
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48. 23) Which Indian corporate’s HQ is 'Bombay House'
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49. TATA Group
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50. 24) The beginnings of this game can be traced
to mid-18th century British India. It was earlier
known as 'poona' and later rechristened by
adopting the name of a country house in
Gloucestershire, England. On which game we
are talking about ?
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51. Badminton
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52. *25) It took only two weeks for the author to
write this book. It's originally written in
Portuguese and was first published in Brazil.
After few years it went to a best seller in France
and later an International Best Seller. It's alleged
of being similar to a story in the collection 'One
thousand and one nights'.
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53. The Alchemist
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