Prelims of Quinsignia 2013, a school quiz held at National Gems Higher Secondary School, Kolkata. Th cut-off was 12.5, with the highest being 15.5

2. PRELIMS
Rules of the game:
30 questions
Questions 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 are starred and will serve as
in-built tie-breakers
Write your team name, name and class of the participants on
top of the sheet
Preferably use only one side of the paper. If you run out of
space vertically, fold the paper so as to make 2 columns.
The quizmasters’ decision is final and binding.

3. 1.
Apart from India, 3 other countries
celebrate their Independence days on
the 15th of August. If Bahrain and the
Republic of Congo are two of
them, which is the third?

4. 1. South Korea

5. 2.
If Neil Armstrong & Co. were the first
Americans to land on the Moon, who
was/were the first Russian(s) ?

6. 2. No Russian has yet landed on the
Moon!

7. 3.

8. 3. Raghuram Rajan –
the new Governor of the Reserve Bank
of India

9. 4.

10. 4. Luis Figo

11. *5.

12. *5.
Sachin
Pilot
Jairam
Ramesh
Vijay
Tendulkar

13. 6.
Which is the only place that the Queen
of Britain cannot visit or enter ?

14. 6. House of Commons

15. 7.
If you were going through a Stanley
Gibbons Commonwealth
Catalogue, what would you be
interested in ?

16. 7. Stamps / Philately

17. 8.

18. 8. The Mumbai Dabbawallahs

19. 9.

20. 9. Bill Hanna; Joe Barbera

21. *10.

22. *10. East India Company

23. 11.
Which Barclays Premier League team
plays their home matches at Selhurst
Park ?

24. 11. Crystal Palace

25. 12.

26. 12. Vertigo

27. 13.

28. 13. Edward Snowden

29. 14.
Who changed his name to Kareem
Abdul to marry Madhubala, who was a
follower of Islam?

30. 14. Kishore Kumar

31. *15.
A common Bengali youth living with his
father’s younger brother in a joint family in
Ballygunge, he played as a middle order
batsman and slow spin bowler for Calcutta
University against Lucknow University. His
father, the late Jaykrishna Mitra, used to
teach Mathematics and Sanskrit at Dhaka
Collegiate School.

32. *15. Prodosh C. Mitter / Feluda

33. 16.
The meat dish devapčidi or cevapi is served
all over the former Yugoslavia, as also in
several other Central European countries.
This name is derived from a rough and
ready culinary invention created by Persian
soldiers who had nothing but meat, sword
and fire. What is the familiar name?

34. 16. Kebabs

35. 17.
In the logo of which company would you
find these items?

36. 17.

37. 18.
He was born and raised
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a Bengali father and
a white American mother. His father, Noni Gopal, was
a Bengali freedom revolutionary, who having been
imprisoned for his political activities, fled Calcutta in
the 1920s in order to avoid further prosecution by
the British colonial police.
He completed his PhD in Electrical Engineering from
MIT and founded a company with net worth of
$1.8bn. Name the company.
*picture on next slide

39. 18.

40. 19.

41. 19.

42. *20.
The Oxford English Dictionary records
the use of this term as a suffix
attached to anything to indicate
‘scandal involving’ since 1973. What
term?

43. *20. “Gate”
No other answer acceptable

44. 21.

45. 21. Vikram Sarabhai

46. 22.

47. 22.

48. 23.

49. 23. Lego Bricks

50. 24.
U.S.A has the most number of stars on
its flag, with 50. Which country has the
second most number, with 27 ?

51. 24. Brazil

52. The audio-visual questions could not
be uploaded here!