Prelims of the General Quiz held in Hansraj

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3. 1) Nuba Mountains (also referred to as the Nuba Hills) is an area located in South
Kordofan, Sudan. The area is home to a group of indigenous ethnic groups known
collectively as the Nuba peoples. In the 18th century, Nuba Mountains became
home to the kingdom of Taqali that controlled the hills of the mountains until
their defeat by Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad. After the Mahdi's defeat by the
British, Taqali was restored as a client state. Infiltration of the Messiria tribe of
Baggara Arabs has been influential in modern conflicts.
The people of Nuba Mountains (a five mountain chain rising from the desert to
1000 meters (3000 feet) were not aligned with the north under shari law nor the
Arabic language. This cultural dispute was in part the reason for people in Nuba
being prosecuted by indiscriminate bombing, attacks on civilians and mines at
entry points to Nuba Mountains. In 2002, due to the extreme starvation of the
people of Nuba Mountains and under the international pressure from the UN,
Khartom under President Bashir (at that time, the government was termed the
National Islamic Front) authorized an interim cease fire to provide food and
medical equipment/support to the people of Nuba Mountains
X was in the news last week in connection to this. Id X.

4. 2) X’s novel on one of Asia’s oldest cities features a
member of the Y community in every alternate
chapter, as the protagonist’s lover. Persons belonging
to the Y, owe allegiance to their guru and worship
Bahuchara Mata in the north and Renuka in the south.
The patron goddess is shown with a rooster as her
seat, symbolizing innocence and her devotees are said
to bring fertility and good luck. A popular iconography
of Lord Shiva is said to originate from Y.

5. 3

6. 4)* Connect using
a single word.

7. 5) In 1976, X parted ways with the Congress and in 1977, he was elected to the
Parliament from Lucknow constituency. He was subsequently appointed as Cabinet
Minister in the Department of Petroleum and Chemicals by the Prime Minister
Morarji Desai. His brief stint as Petroleum Minister saw various projects which
enabled the country to achieve self-sufficiency in Petroleum products. 1979 saw him
as the Finance Minister with the Union Government of India. But by then the Janta
Party was Plagued with conflicts amongst several Pressure groups. Disenchanted was
X again and Indira Gandhi took pains in convincing him that the Congress still stood by
its ideals of socialism, and secularism. Thus the spirit was brought back in to the body.
Y was born to X and Kamla ______ on July 22, 1949. She holds an MA and a PhD in
History and is a professor in Medieval/ Modern History in University of Allahabad. She
is also a recipient of U.N. Award of Excellence as "Most Distinguished Women in South
Asia".
Z did his bachelors Arts and then LLB from Allahabad University in Allahabad, Uttar
Pradesh. He then started working as an advocate in the Allahabad High Court in
Allahabad. He later became a Judge of the Allahabad High Court, later transferring to
become a judge of the Bombay High Court. His desire to join public life led to his
resignation from High Court in 1998. Id this famous political family. Y and Z were in
news recently.

8. 6) Mr. Clements Attlee
British Prime Minister
10 Downing Street, London
Dear Mr. Attlee,
I understand from a most reliable source that Subhash Chandra
Bose,
your war criminal, has been allowed to enter Russian territory
by
Stalin. This is a clear treachery and betrayal of faith by the
Russians as Russia has been an ally of the British- Americans,
which
she should not have done.
Please take care of it and do what you consider proper and fit.
Yours sincerely,
X
ID X.

9. 7) William Congreve was an English playwright and poet. He wrote some of the most popular
English plays of the Restoration period of the late 17th century. By the age of thirty, he had
written four comedies, including Love for Love (premiered 30 April 1695) and The Way of the
World (premiered 1700), and one tragedy, The Mourning Bride (1697).
Two of Congreve's turns of phrase from The Mourning Bride (1697) have become famous,
albeit frequently in misquotation, One of these occurs in the following part:
As you'll answer it, take heed
This Slave commit no Violence upon
Himself. I've been deceiv'd. The Publick Safety
Requires he should be more confin'd; and none,
No not the Princes self, permitted to
Confer with him. I'll quit you to the King.
Vile and ingrate! too late thou shalt repent
The base Injustice thou hast done my Love:
Yes, thou shalt know, spite of thy past Distress,
And all those Ills which thou so long hast mourn'd;
______________________________
______________________________
Many attribute the quote to William Shakespeare
Give the modern day paraphrasing of the quote.

10. 8) ‘realitytoursandtravels.com’ is a tour
agency which was established in
January 2006. They’re based in
Mumbai and claim to “show the side of
Mumbai that you won't find in your
guide books.” What is their USP.

11. 9) In 2009, X, who played Y in a 1996 movie,
told a BAFTA interviewer that he played Y as
a closeted gay man whose outbursts of
violence were due to his "fear of being
outed". The author, who wrote the movie's
source novel, confirmed that he wrote the Y
of the book to have an ambiguous sexuality,
and agreed with X's interpretation of the
film's version of the character.

12. 10) Gad's Hill Place
Higham by Rochester, Kent
Monday night
Fourteenth September, 1863
My Dear Sir:
Since my hall clock was sent to your establishment to be cleaned
it has gone (as indeed it always has) perfectly well, but has
struck the hours with great reluctance, and after enduring
internal agonies of a most distressing nature, it has now ceased
striking altogether. Though a happy release for the clock, this is
not convenient to the household. If you can send down any
confidential person with whom the clock can confer, I think it
may have something on its works that it would be glad to make
a clean breast of.
Faithfully yours,
X

13. 11) XY is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of
people with whom one can maintain stable social
relationships. These are relationships in which an
individual knows who each person is, and how each person
relates to every other person. Proponents assert that
numbers larger than this generally require more restrictive
rules, laws, and enforced norms to maintain a stable,
cohesive group. No precise value has been proposed for
XY. It has been proposed to lie between 100 and 230, with
a commonly used value of 150. XY states the number of
people one knows and keeps social contact with, and it
does not include the number of people known personally
with a ceased social relationship, nor people just generally
known with a lack of persistent social relationship, a
number which might be much higher and likely depends
on long-term memory size.

14. 12) * X were apparently being, and are still are being
melted to convert them into Y and then being sold in small
villages throughout the country and also being smuggled
from India across to neighboring countries such as
Bangladesh, Myanmar and Nepal. It was estimated that
the volume of this activity was one of the major reasons
for the shortage of X and its other varieties and prompted
its banning in December 2010. Due to an increase in the
price of Ferritic steel, it was also becoming more profitable
to melt higher variations of X and then convert them into Y.
Police raids in 2009 and 2010 had revealed several such
shops in Calcutta engaged in smuggling and sale of these.
This prompted the government to change the composition
of X itself. Id X and Y.

15. 13) Some scholars claim Xs date back to 697,
though the first accepted documented reference
appeared in 1094. No-one, however, can agree on
where the name comes from - some say it has
Maltese or Turkish origins, others that it comes
from the Greek for "cup" or "mussel".
"Moths of which coffins might have been the
chrysalis," mused Shelley in 1818.
In a landmark judgement in August 2010, mother-
of-two Giorgia Boscolo, 24, was allowed to join the
exclusive ‘gang’ after a passing a yearlong series of
practical and written tests.

16. 14) * Duggan, also known as "Starrish Mark" was a drug dealer and
founding member of North London's "Star Gang",an offshoot of the
Mandem gang. The Telegraph has cited unnamed police sources
claiming that Duggan was a "well known gangster" and a "major player
and well known to the police in". Duggan was a nephew of deceased
Manchester gangland boss Desmond Noonan.
Operation Trident had Duggan under surveillance, suspecting that he
was planning to commit a crime connected with the death of his
cousin Kelvin Easton, who was stabbed to death outside a bar in March
2011. Duggan was increasingly paranoid as a consequence of his
cousin's violent death. The Telegraph claimed that Duggan was bound
to avenge the death by the "street code" of the gang.
Duggan's family denounced the allegations against Duggan as
"disinformation", claiming that he was "not a gang member and he
had no criminal record"
Officers of the Metropolitan Police Service stopped a minicab which
was carrying Duggan as a passenger to attempt to arrest him. In the
course of the ensuing incident, the police fired twice, killing Duggan
with a single gunshot to the chest. Paramedics from the Ambulance
Service and medical staff from the Helicopter Emergency Medical
Service attended, but Duggan was pronounced dead at the scene.
What resulted thus?

17. 15) X is a show tune from the 1937 Richard
Rodgers and Lorenz Hart musical Babes in Arms in
which it was introduced by former child star Mitzi
Green. After being recorded by Chet Baker, Frank
Sinatra, and Miles Davis, the song became a
popular jazz standard, appearing on over 1300
albums performed by over 600 artists.
This is the version sung by Y in the movie Z by
Anthony Minghella which was an adaptation of a
1955 movie of the same name

19. 17) The first part of the name of this city comes from the
Sanskrit word for ‘cow’ while the latter has two
meanings: one in Sanksrit which means "hold" or "land"
and the other in Hindi which means "flow". So, identically
it means The Land of the Cow.
The town has four bethaks (temples) for Vaishnav
Sampraday (Vaisnal Community). Two bethaks are of Lord
Gokulnathji, and one each for Lord Gusaiji and Lord
Mahaprabhuji. X is the only city in India that has all three
bhaitaks of the mahaprabhuji ,gusianji,and and
gokulnathji. X also has three beautiful Jain temples. The
main idol ('Mul Nayak') in the main Jain Temple is that of
Tirthankar Bhagawan Shantinath.
Which is this ‘religious’ city?

20. 18) *
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» Fabrice Santoro- Arnaud Clement
» X-Y?
» Stefan Edberg-Michael Chang

21. 19) * "Let Them Talk", which consists of classic blues songs,
was released on 9 May 2011. Some of the songs are
collaborations with well known artists such as Tom Jones,
Irma Thomas and Dr. John. X plays piano and guitar on the
album in addition to providing lead vocals. Kevin Breit
plays guitar and Vincent Henry plays saxophones. The
album was produced by Joe Henry and features horn
arrangements by Allen Toussaint.
"Let Them Talk" was the biggest-selling blues album of
2011 in the UK, with sales of 192,000 copies.
Id the Artist.

22. 20) The presence of a double or bifid
zygomaticus major muscle is a primary
reason. This bifid variation of the muscle
originated as a single structure from the
zygomatic bone. As it travels anteriorly, it
then divides with the superior bundle that
inserts in the typical position and an inferior
bundle that inserts below the corner. What
does this cause?

24. Nuba Mountains (also referred to as the Nuba Hills) is an area located in South
Kordofan, Sudan. The area is home to a group of indigenous ethnic groups known
collectively as the Nuba peoples. In the 18th century, Nuba Mountains became
home to the kingdom of Taqali that controlled the hills of the mountains until their
defeat by Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad. After the Mahdi's defeat by the British,
Taqali was restored as a client state. Infiltration of the Messiria tribe of Baggara
Arabs has been influential in modern conflicts.
The people of Nuba Mountains (a five mountain chain rising from the desert to
1000 meters (3000 feet) were not aligned with the north under shari law nor the
Arabic language. This cultural dispute was in part the reason for people in Nuba
being prosecuted by indiscriminate bombing, attacks on civilians and mines at
entry points to Nuba Mountains. In 2002, due to the extreme starvation of the
people of Nuba Mountains and under the international pressure from the UN,
Khartom under President Bashir (at that time, the government was termed the
National Islamic Front) authorized an interim cease fire to provide food and
medical equipment/support to the people of Nuba Mountains
X was in the news last week in connection to this. Id X.

26. X’s novel on one of Asia’s oldest cities features a
member of the Y community in every alternate chapter,
as the protagonist’s lover. Persons belonging to the Y,
owe allegiance to their guru and worship Bahuchara
Mata in the north and Renuka in the south. The patron
goddess is shown with a rooster as her seat,
symbolizing innocence and her devotees are said to
bring fertility and good luck. A popular iconography of
Lord Shiva is said to originate from Y.
Hint: The child of Aphrodite and Hermes gave rise to
the name of this community

27. X- Khushwant Singh, ‘Delhi’
Y- Hijras
Lord Shiva is depicted as Ardhanarisvara (Half man-half
woman). Hermaphroditus is the son of Hermes and
Aphrodite.

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30. Connect using a
single word.

32. In 1976, X parted ways with the Congress and in 1977, he was elected to the
Parliament from Lucknow constituency. He was subsequently appointed as
Cabinet Minister in the Department of Petroleum and Chemicals by the
Prime Minister Morarji Desai. His brief stint as Petroleum Minister saw
various projects which enabled the country to achieve self-sufficiency in
Petroleum products. 1979 saw him as the Finance Minister with the Union
Government of India. But by then the Janta Party was Plagued with conflicts
amongst several Pressure groups. Disenchanted was X again and Indira
Gandhi took pains in convincing him that the Congress still stood by its ideals
of socialism, and secularism. Thus the spirit was brought back in to the body.
Y was born to X and Kamla ______ on July 22, 1949. She holds an MA and a
PhD in History and is a professor in Medieval/ Modern History in University of
Allahabad. She is also a recipient of U.N. Award of Excellence as "Most
Distinguished Women in South Asia".
Z did his bachelors Arts and then LLB from Allahabad University in Allahabad,
Uttar Pradesh. He then started working as an advocate in the Allahabad High
Court in Allahabad. He later became a Judge of the Allahabad High Court,
later transferring to become a judge of the Bombay High Court. His desire to
join public life led to his resignation from High Court in 1998. Id this famous
political family. Y and Z were in news recently.

33. X - Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna
Y – Rita Bahuguna Joshi
Z – Vijay Bahuguna

34. Mr. Clements Attlee
British Prime Minister
10 Downing Street, London
Dear Mr. Attlee,
I understand from a most reliable source that Subhash Chandra
Bose,
your war criminal, has been allowed to enter Russian territory
by
Stalin. This is a clear treachery and betrayal of faith by the
Russians as Russia has been an ally of the British- Americans,
which
she should not have done.
Please take care of it and do what you consider proper and fit.
Yours sincerely,
X
ID X.

36. William Congreve was an English playwright and poet. He wrote some of the
most popular English plays of the Restoration period of the late 17th century.
By the age of thirty, he had written four comedies, including Love for Love
(premiered 30 April 1695) and The Way of the World (premiered 1700), and
one tragedy, The Mourning Bride (1697).
Two of Congreve's turns of phrase from The Mourning Bride (1697) have
become famous, albeit frequently in misquotation, One of these occurs in the
following part:
As you'll answer it, take heed
This Slave commit no Violence upon
Himself. I've been deceiv'd. The Publick Safety
Requires he should be more confin'd; and none,
No not the Princes self, permitted to
Confer with him. I'll quit you to the King.
Vile and ingrate! too late thou shalt repent
The base Injustice thou hast done my Love:
Yes, thou shalt know, spite of thy past Distress,
And all those Ills which thou so long hast mourn'd;
______________________________
______________________________
Many attribute the quote to William Shakespeare
Give the modern day paraphrasing of the quote.

38. ‘realitytoursandtravels.com’ is a tour
agency which was established in
January 2006. They’re based in
Mumbai and claim to “show the side of
Mumbai that you won't find in your
guide books.” What is their USP.

40. In 2009, X, who played Y in a 1996 movie,
told a BAFTA interviewer that he played Y as
a closeted gay man whose outbursts of
violence were due to his "fear of being
outed". The author, who wrote the movie's
source novel, confirmed that he wrote the Y
of the book to have an ambiguous sexuality,
and agreed with X's interpretation of the
film's version of the character.

42. Gad's Hill Place
Higham by Rochester, Kent
Monday night
Fourteenth September, 1863
My Dear Sir:
Since my hall clock was sent to your establishment to be cleaned
it has gone (as indeed it always has) perfectly well, but has
struck the hours with great reluctance, and after enduring
internal agonies of a most distressing nature, it has now ceased
striking altogether. Though a happy release for the clock, this is
not convenient to the household. If you can send down any
confidential person with whom the clock can confer, I think it
may have something on its works that it would be glad to make
a clean breast of.
Faithfully yours,
X

44. XY is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people
with whom one can maintain stable social relationships.
These are relationships in which an individual knows who
each person is, and how each person relates to every other
person. Proponents assert that numbers larger than this
generally require more restrictive rules, laws, and enforced
norms to maintain a stable, cohesive group. No precise
value has been proposed for XY. It has been proposed to lie
between 100 and 230, with a commonly used value of 150.
XY states the number of people one knows and keeps
social contact with, and it does not include the number of
people known personally with a ceased social relationship,
nor people just generally known with a lack of persistent
social relationship, a number which might be much higher
and likely depends on long-term memory size.

45. Dunbar’s Number

46. X were apparently being, and are still are being melted to
convert them into Y and then being sold in small villages
throughout the country and also being smuggled from
India across to neighboring countries such as Bangladesh,
Myanmar and Nepal. It was estimated that the volume of
this activity was one of the major reasons for the shortage
of X and its other varieties and prompted its banning in
December 2010. Due to an increase in the price of Ferritic
steel, it was also becoming more profitable to melt higher
variations of X and then convert them into Y. Police raids in
2009 and 2010 had revealed several such shops in Calcutta
engaged in smuggling and sale of these. This prompted the
government to change the composition of X itself. Id X and
Y.

47. X – 25 Paise Coins
Y – Razor Blades

48. Some scholars claim Xs date back to 697, though
the first accepted documented reference
appeared in 1094. No-one, however, can agree on
where the name comes from - some say it has
Maltese or Turkish origins, others that it comes
from the Greek for "cup" or "mussel".
"Moths of which coffins might have been the
chrysalis," mused Shelley in 1818.
In a landmark judgement in August 2010, mother-
of-two Giorgia Boscolo, 24, was allowed to join the
exclusive ‘gang’ after a passing a yearlong series of
practical and written tests.

50. Duggan, also known as "Starrish Mark" was a drug dealer and founding
member of North London's "Star Gang",an offshoot of the
Mandem gang. The Telegraph has cited unnamed police sources
claiming that Duggan was a "well known gangster" and a "major player
and well known to the police in". Duggan was a nephew of deceased
Manchester gangland boss Desmond Noonan.
Operation Trident had Duggan under surveillance, suspecting that he
was planning to commit a crime connected with the death of his
cousin Kelvin Easton, who was stabbed to death outside a bar in March
2011. Duggan was increasingly paranoid as a consequence of his
cousin's violent death. The Telegraph claimed that Duggan was bound
to avenge the death by the "street code" of the gang.
Duggan's family denounced the allegations against Duggan as
"disinformation", claiming that he was "not a gang member and he
had no criminal record"
Officers of the Metropolitan Police Service stopped a minicab which
was carrying Duggan as a passenger to attempt to arrest him. In the
course of the ensuing incident, the police fired twice, killing Duggan
with a single gunshot to the chest. Paramedics from the Ambulance
Service and medical staff from the Helicopter Emergency Medical
Service attended, but Duggan was pronounced dead at the scene.
What resulted thus?

52. X is a show tune from the 1937 Richard Rodgers
and Lorenz Hart musical Babes in Arms in which it
was introduced by former child star Mitzi Green.
After being recorded by Chet Baker, Frank Sinatra,
and Miles Davis, the song became a popular jazz
standard, appearing on over 1300 albums
performed by over 600 artists.
This is the version sung by Y in the movie Z by
Anthony Minghella which was an adaptation of a
1955 movie of the same name

56. The first part of the name of this city comes from the
Sanskrit word for ‘cow’ while the latter has two
meanings: one in Sanksrit which means "hold" or "land"
and the other in Hindi which means "flow". So, identically
it means The Land of the Cow.
The town has four bethaks (temples) for Vaishnav
Sampraday (Vaisnal Community). Two bethaks are of Lord
Gokulnathji, and one each for Lord Gusaiji and Lord
Mahaprabhuji. X is the only city in India that has all three
bhaitaks of the mahaprabhuji ,gusianji,and and
gokulnathji. X also has three beautiful Jain temples. The
main idol ('Mul Nayak') in the main Jain Temple is that of
Tirthankar Bhagawan Shantinath.
Which is this ‘religious’ city?

58. » Novak Djokovic- Rafael Nadal
» Fabrice Santoro- Arnaud Clement
» X-Y?
» Stefan Edberg-Michael Chang

60. "Let Them Talk", which consists of classic blues songs, was
released on 9 May 2011. Some of the songs are
collaborations with well known artists such as Tom Jones,
Irma Thomas and Dr. John. X plays piano and guitar on the
album in addition to providing lead vocals. Kevin Breit
plays guitar and Vincent Henry plays saxophones. The
album was produced by Joe Henry and features horn
arrangements by Allen Toussaint.
"Let Them Talk" was the biggest-selling blues album of
2011 in the UK, with sales of 192,000 copies.
Id the Artist.

62. The presence of a double or bifid
zygomaticus major muscle is a primary
reason. This bifid variation of the
muscle originated as a single structure
from the zygomatic bone. As it travels
anteriorly, it then divides with the
superior bundle that inserts in the
typical position and an inferior bundle
that inserts below the corner. What
does this cause?

63. Cheek Dimples