Prelims mogojdholai answers

Question 1
• X is a major character in the Italian romantic epic
poems Orlando innamorato by Matteo Maria
Boiardo and Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. He is
the King of Sarza and Algiers and the leader of
the Saracen army which besieges Charlemagne in Paris.
His eventful life ended in a duel.
• X's prowess is matched only by his arrogance and
boasting. Thus, his name is the source of the expression
______ , which has 'recently' been added to the
vocabulary of Indian netizens. Identify the expression/
word.

Question 2
Identify this ‘iconic product’ from some of its outstanding
features, as described by the proud product owner:
• It allows you to ignore the appeal of other supposedly richer
and better varieties.
• Its regularly consumed by a great monarch, who can hardly
distinguish between royalty and commoners, as an aftereffect
of this.
• It’s a quality dental care.
• The possession of it can create a serious rift among the twins.
• It has the ability to turn a beggar into a king and can also
make king sing loudly.

Question 3
• Name a wolf, that is going to gain
much currency later this year, when
translated in English, can also make
itself eligible for an NSFW quiz?

It literally translates as ‘one who
scores’! 

Question 4
Oriental Labour: If you
don’t let me a shore, I’ll
refuse to take anything to
eat.
White Labour: And if we
do let you ashore, I won’t
be able to get anything to
eat anyway.
This is a contemporary
newspaper cartoon of
what, that inspired the
CBC radio play Entry
Denied, a 2004
documentary ‘Continuous
Journey’ directed by Ali
Kazimi and a shelved
project by Deepa Mehta
among other things?

Question 5
Within 2 days of the
launching for the registration
process, there were over
100,000 applications; within
3 weeks, there were
500,000.After tougher
verification requirements
though, this declined, and
stood at around 210,000 as of
June 2017.What is unique
about the project that people
are applying for, the name of
which is a reference to one of
the 9 worlds in Norse
mythology?

Question 6
• X is a cognitive system developed by Wipro and announced
in 2016. Its usage include development of digital virtual
agents, predictive systems, cognitive process automation,
visual computing applications, knowledge virtualization,
robotics and drone. Y is a computer system capable of
answering questions posed in natural language, developed
in IBM's DeepQA project. It was built to apply advanced
natural language processing, information retrieval,
knowledge representation, automated reasoning and
machine learning technologies. Though X and Y are from
different business houses, but they are somehow
inseparable. Identify X and Y.

Question 7
• In the creator’s own words: “It was the India of 1943, and
World War II was raging across different continents. The
Mumbai dockyard had a train that would go up to VT station,
and this train would take soldiers. We were a group of children
who would run with the train. The soldiers would throw
chocolates, biscuits, and half-eaten sandwiches; which we kids
would pounce on. One day, a soldier was reading a Mickey
Mouse comic that he threw at us, and I got a page”
• This incident ultimately served the inspiration for which iconic
creation, who sports a signature saffron kurta and jeans, as "A
kurta and saffron were symbols of Indianness. And jeans were
a Western import and indicated progress. Hence, the
combination”. Identify the creator as well.

Question 8
• The alternative logo of this hi-profile
2018 event has raised a few eyebrows,
including the following statement made
by this ‘oscar winner’: “ Finally a position
where deep mind will have to do more
than just calculations” .
• Identify the event and also the speaker.

Vishwanathan Anand about Chess
world cup alternative logo

Question 9
• XY is a noun which is composed of two archaic
English/Latin terms. To X, in the sixteenth century, was
to dash or strike something violently, while a Y was a
small round shield, carried by a handle at the back. So
a XY was literally one who would make a loud noise by
striking his own or his opponent shield with his sword.
Now this XY is less used in modern English, but its
participle adjective form is much a popular word which
means ' a romantic and adventurous act full of
flamboyance"
• So, give me the good word.

Question 10
• As per a 2016 investigation, the incidence of
something is correlated with the known
movements of a certain Robin Gunningham, a
former pupil at the public Bristol Cathedral
School. As per another investigation by the
Scottish journalist Craig Williams, the same
thing coincided with the touring schedule of
the trip hop band Massive Attack. There has
also been speculation, that it’s actually a
group of 7. What am I talking about?

Question 11
• "____ ____" is a phrase commonly heard in
naval language, derived from a Latin/Greek term,
that came into the English language in the late
16th century and early 17th century, meaning
"Yes; even so."
• "___ ___" is also happens to be the name
provided by an 18th century French naturalist
Pierre Sonnerat, who used it as 'a cry of
exclamation and astonishment', while describing
a nocturnal species?

Question 12
• Satyendra Das has been appointed by the govt of
India for a job for which he gets INR 8400 per
month, which happens to be a hundred-fold jump
from the paltry Rs 150 per month, his initial
salary, that he used to get a good 26 years back.
He has four assistants, a kothari and the bhandari
, each of whom are paid Rs 4,500 a month. These
are the only privileged people allowed to enter
which place, that even our president/prime
minister is not allowed to?

Question 13
• According to certain school of thought, when
Humayun fled to Persia after being defeated by
Sher Shah Suri, he was greeted with warmth and
given red carpet welcome by the then king of
Persia. Royal food was served in silver cutleries
covered with red cloth. However, when Humayun
came back to India he could not forget the
hospitality and gesture, so he started practicing
the same.
• The legacy of the above still continues today and
can be observed in every corner of the city.
Where/what?

Question 14
• Founded in 1909 in keeping with the then extant idea that
chemistry and electricity were heralding a second industrial
revolution, the IISC in Bangalore had four departments: Applied
Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry and Electro-
Technology. With the rising stature of physics in the interwar
period, C V Raman was appointed as director with an explicit
remit to set up a Department of Physics. He attempted to recruit
German physicists fleeing the new Nazi regime, managing to
attract X to Bangalore in 1935 on a temporary readership, which
Raman intended to convert into a new chair in Mathematical
Physics.
• The appointment raised hackles among the faculty. An English
professor of Electrical Engineering described X as a “second-rate
foreigner”. Others with nationalist commitments like
Shyamaprasad Mukherjee wanted an Indian appointed .Identify X

Question 15
• As per Kalidasa’s Meghaduta Yaksha was
exiled in an arid and dessolate place. As
per legend, this very place, also happens
to be the site of marriage
between Agastya and Lopamudra. Identify
the place, which has been currently in
news in some context, although it has
been involved in the same since 1957.

Question 16
• X made his Test debut as a 20-year-old at Brabourne Stadium in
Bombay in the 3rd Test of Pakistan’s tour of India in 1952. It was
Pakistan’s first ever tour of India and X got to open the innings with his
guru, Vinoo Mankad. X scored 30 and 10 not out in the Test as India
won it by 10-wickets. In early 1953, India toured West Indies and lost
the five-Test match series 0-1. X played in all the 5 Tests and scored
460 runs at 51.11. He got an unbeaten 163 at Port of Spain and prior
to that, three more fifties. He was only behind Everton Weekes (716
runs at 102.28) and Polly Umrigar (560 runs at 62.22) in the run-chart.
Despite a healthy West Indian tour, X never played Test cricket again.
He was dropped from the side and was left wondering. He titled his
autobiography As Luck Would Have It which is very similar to his life-
incidents.
• Along with Raj Singh Dungarpur, It was X who played a pivotal role in
relaxing the regulations of a age old institution to allow a certain
prodigy to blossom.

Question 17
• What common term for the
‘shooters’ is derived from the
Japanese word for mental haze or
senility? It also shares it name with
an Iranian Village.

Question 18
One fine afternoon in the early 80s, after
accomplishing one of the most significant
achievements of his life, X took his signature cap
off during celebration, a rare sight in those days.
In an attempt to mimic his favorite actor Clint
Eastwood, X at the same time started chewing a
cigar. This caught the attention of one of X’s
colleague Y, who later held this particular image
of X being responsible for him offering X an
opportunity in an entirely different project.
Identify the project, and tell me how were X & Y
associated with that project?

Question 19
The protagonist thinks, its best to turn around,
for his hands smeared so black for so long, with
the realization that he never paid his beloved
the attention due. So now, even as the moon
invites him when he stands by the ravine at
night or so does the pyre, when he stands by the
river; ignoring all such temptations he makes an
iconic declaration and then goes on boosting
that he would rather prefer kissing his child’s
face. What is the iconic declaration?

Question 20
It is a village situated about 12 km to the north of Pokhran,
having a paltry population of about 1499 people. There is
a famous temple in the village, which belongs to a
fourteenth century holy man who shares his name with a
new age “polymath” , who claims to have unique remedy
for everything ranging from Aids to homosexuality. Identify
the village, which caught our attention for a roller coaster
of a ride that ended here, offering a newly formed group a
temporary break, only momentarily though, as they were
to set off for another enthralling journey right from here,
as an eventful night awaited them.

Question 21
In 1963, Robert Efron of Boston's Veterans Hospital
proposed this to be caused by dual neurological
processing as a result of delayed signals. A 2012
investigation study with the aid of virtual reality
technology suggested that similarity between a new
scene's spatial layout and the layout of a previously
experienced scene in memory may contribute such
experience. Some experts attribute such experiences
simply to cryptomnesia, i.e. the return of a forgotten
memory without it being recognized as such by the
subject. These are all explanations for what commonly
experienced phenomenon?

Question 22
In the March 27, 1989, episode of Star Trek: The Next
Generation set in the 24th century and titled "The Royale",,
Captain Jean-Luc Picard tells his first officer, Commander
Riker, about something, "still unsolved" 800 years after its
first formulation. He concludes, "In our arrogance, we feel
we are so advanced. And yet we cannot unravel a simple
knot tied by a French lawyer working alone without a
computer”. This same thing was again mentioned in a
subsequent Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode called
"Facets”, which aired in June 1995, though this time, the
character of Tobin Dax, a noted Engineer, is claimed to have
found the most original approach to the problem since X.
What is the thing being discussed and who is X.

Question 23
Hamilton Crescent is a cricket ground located
in a part of Glasgow in Scotland, and is the
home of the West of Scotland Cricket Club.
What is its biggest claim to fame, achieved on
30th November, 1872?

Question 24
• This honorific is often misattributed to Sarnath Banerjee’s
debut novel ‘Corridor’, set in contemporary Delhi,
revolving around a shop owner by the name of Jehangir
Rangoonwalla who interacts with other residents of Delhi
that all visit his shop. But actually the 1994 novel ‘River of
stories’ by Orijit Sen, that narrates the environmental,
social and political issues surrounding the construction of
the controversial Narmada dam, actually holds the
honour. In bengali, it’s the 2017 novel ‘Adhar Nagari’
written by Shamik Dasgupta, based on the eponymous
Bibhutibhusan Bandyopadhya character, may claim
similar honorific. What am I talking about?

First ever Indian graphic novel

Question 25
• Which 1998 biopic opens with the following words of the
famous US academician Stanley Wolpert?
• “Few individuals significantly alter the course of history.
Fewer still modify the map of the world.
Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state.
X did all three”
• The film has an interesting opening, where X is awaiting the
final judgment, where the celestial bureaucrats in charge have
misplaced X’s life-file and the whole heavenly computer
network is down as well. With nothing but time on hands, X has
to answer the questions asked by the heaven guide or Narrator.
This role of the narrator remains the last on screen appearance
of which famous actor?

Question 26
• Bad Gastein (formerly Badgastein) is a spa town
in the district of St. Johann im Pongau, in the
state of Salzburg. Picturesquely situated in a high
valley of the Hohe Tauern mountain range, it is
known for the Gastein Waterfall and a variety of
Belle Époque hotel buildings. The name "Bad"
means "spa", reflecting the town's history as a
health resort. In December 1937, at one of the
SPA resort, a local scholar known for his expertise
in many languages was secretly invited for
performing an important role in a secretly held
ceremony. What was he invited for?

Sanskrit was one of the many languages he knew, hence,
he acted as a priest in their secretly held marriage

Question 27
• Eric Clapton used to frequent this
American diner in London. When he
asked the proprietors to keep his regular
table, one of them suggested to keep his
guitar there as indicator of reserved
table.
• What started with this and culminated as
The London Vault?

Question 28
Where is the person walking?

29.Identify the composer and the
literary work from which the movie
has been inspired.

Pandit Ravishankar, Madam Bovary

30.Identify the female voice and
the actress on whom the song has
been picturised

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