QUI9 ANNUAL OPEN QUIZ PRELIMS 2021.pptx

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QUI9 Grand Annual Quiz - Season 9
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Total 30 questions.
All carry +2 marks.
3 star marked questions.
Top 9 teams will be qualified for the final.
Regarding any answer, QM is GOD today!!
Prelims Open General Quiz
RULES

These are different Postures of?
For devas, it is made to flow over the eight fingers of both hands
adjoined together other than the thumb.
For rishis, it is made to flow between both palms.
For the pitrus, it is made to flow over the left side of the left
palm and the thumb of the left hand.
1

Tarpan
Open General Quiz
1

Name this blog/publishing house
This blog and publishing house uses an
‘unused Bengali letter’ as the last letter
of their name. The name point to a
problem that means “undesirable
mixtures of elegant and unsophisticated
words.”
2

Open General Quiz
2

ID the Indian song…. (Ctrl+C) + (Ctrl+V) !
3

Open General Quiz
3

‘Thick sauce’ (used for various types of gravy in English
in the early 1800s)
‘Stupid person’ (used for mild insult, during 1850s )
‘Opium’ (as it is also thick and sticky, during 1880s)
‘Substances given to horses to improve their
performance’ (1900s)
‘Excellent’ (used by rappers by the 1980s)
ID the word.
4

Open General Quiz
4

ID the Test that inspired the movie.
5

Open General Quiz
5

ID the Movie..
6

Open General Quiz
6

In a latest bout against a junior
sportsman happened in a
stadium in Delhi named after this
Bundela Rajput ruler (in visual), a
world champion has put himself
in a soup!
Identify the champion sportsman
& Name the stadium.
7

Sushil Kumar
Chhatrasal Stadium
Open General Quiz
7

Which ‘famous’ physician got his only Filmfare Award for
this movie?
8

Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay (Banaphul)
Open General Quiz
8

Simply connect in a no cricketing way.. (Non exhaustive).
9*

Subhash Ghai Movies
Open General Quiz
9

Advertisement of which product was the first from India to
publish in an English news paper (Bengal Gazette) & also the
first in Asia to commission a film advertisement. The tag line
was "By the appointment to the Princess of India".
Which Product?
10

Open General Quiz
10

X, "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung
about, the most parodied work of art in the world“
“This is still one of the funniest and one of the saddest books that will be
published this year. As for its pornographic content, I can think of few volumes
more likely to quench the flames of lust than this exact and immediate
description of its consequences.”
–Elizabeth Janeway on Y, The New York Times, 1958
7th century CE novel ‘Z’ of Bāṇabhaṭṭa about the romantic attachment
between the hero Chandrapeeda and the heroine Z.
As she looks like X at times, sometimes Y and occasionally Z, she is ___ ___.
FITB.
11

Open General Quiz
11

X get worshipped in India and Nepal. Though in
West Bengal X is only worshipped in Batanol
village in Hooghly. People try to satisfy X by
worshipping X on the very day of ‘Bhaifota’.
The real picture is hidden inside the ritual of
Vaifota.
Identify X…
12

Chitragupta
Open General Quiz
12

ID the singer…
13

C. Ramchandra
Open General Quiz
13

X opened ‘The Town Club’ to give tough competition to
Britishers in their own game.
According to urban myth a famous player might have
represented Town Club in a historic match against Calcutta
Cricket Club at Eden Gardens. During the game, Hema
Chandra Ghosh asked him not to get carried away with
emotions and just concentrate on his bowling. And soon, he
ended up taking seven wickets with only 20 runs posted on
the scoreboard by the Britishers.
Id X and who was the bowler…?
14

X - Sarada Ranjan Ray
Y – Swami Vivekananda
Open General Quiz
14

Irrfan Khan speaks of a character X in two completely
unconnected movies Y & Z, both released in 2012. One
movie is directed by an American & the other one is by a
Taiwanese.
Identify X.
15

Richard Parker
Open General Quiz
15
Life of Pi (2012)
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

In 1937, the 25th Annual Conference of the All-India Muslim
League was held in Lucknow under the chairmanship of Muhammad
Ali Jinnah. Prior to attending this conference, Nawab Mohammad
Ismail Khan offered something to Jinnah. Jinnah accepted his offer and
when appeared on the dais; the large crowd, consisting of 50,000
people, burst into cheers. There were slogans of "Allah-ho-Akbar" and
the clapping continued for some time. ‘The thing’ is not only
important in Pakistan’s political history as African Presidents such
as Modibo Keïta of Mali and Ahmed Sékou Touré of Guinea used this
to show their independence from European colonial power.
Name The thing…
16

‘Jinnah’ cap (Karakul hat will also do)
Open General Quiz
16

What is the occasion of the photograph?
Name the person in circle who designed ships to explore the upper
stratosphere and the deep seas but popular to us for different reasons.
17

Solvay Conference, 1927 Auguste Piccard
Open General Quiz
17

Released in 7.1.’17, this romantic song ‘Megh raghme / Mela
thalame’ from the film ‘Vinodhan’ is probably the first song of
its kind in India.
ID the name of the song or the uniqueness.
Clue – Probably Bangla would help.
18*

Open General Quiz
18

‘Aa Ab Laut Chalen’ (1999 is the only movie directed by X.
Incidentally, that was the last production of the prestigious RK
Films.
ID X.
19

Open General Quiz
19

Identify the book.
20

Open General Quiz
20

When X was created, the creator wanted it to be grey in
colour but problems appeared as colourist Stan Goldberg had
difficulty keeping the colouring of the X consistent for the sake
of the printing presses. The shades of grey varied wildly from
panel to panel, and at times even veered off into green.
ID X.
21

Open General Quiz
21

Identify X & Y….
1. X
2. M. S. Subbulakshmi
4. Indira Gandhi
4. Mother Teresa
5. Y
22

Aruna Asaf Ali & Lata Mangeshkar
Open General Quiz
26

Mughal emperor Aurangzeb renamed this city ‘Muhiyabad’ in
memory of his great-grandson Muhi-ul-Milan, who died here.
The name came from ‘… Vishaya’, the original name of the city
meaning ‘Holy Land’.
Which city?
23

Open General Quiz
23

This is the back side of ‘Mugen
Puchipuchi’, a japanese toy
mimicking X. In 1957 Alfred Fielding
and Marc Chavannes made X while
attempting to create a 3D wallpaper,
which was a failure, of course, but
they promptly found its actual value.
One of the first widespread uses of X
came in 1960, with the shipping of
the new IBM 1401 computers to
customers.
ID X.
2
4

Bubble Wrap…
Open General Quiz
2
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