Preliminary screening of Quizoholic, the open quiz competition organised by Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, as part of their cultural fest, Aventine, 2016.

1. QUIZOHOLIC, AVENTINE 2016
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PRELIMS, WITH ANSWERS
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06.05.2016
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RESEARCHED & CONDUCTED BY :
GAUTAM PRIYAM MAHANTA.

2. • 18 questions.
• No negative marks for wrong answers.
• Total 7 Starred Questions – 1, 3, 5, 8, 14, 15, 18.

3. Q. P1. ****
He is Altaf Mazid, Assamese film director who passed away
recently. He made a documentary on the life and works of
Saurabh Kumar Chaliha. What was it titled?

4. ANSWER

5. Lakhtokiyat Golam

6. Q. P2.
• West Indies captain
Darren Sammy gave an
emotional speech after
winning the ICC WT20
2016. Although he was
critical of West Indies
Cricket Board, he
acknowledged the
support and inspiration
received from
CARICOM. What is
CARICOM?

7. ANSWER

8. ‘Caribbean Community’,
an organisation of 15 Caribbean nations and
dependencies.

9. Q. P3. ****
Connect these brands.

10. ANSWER

11. Some of the brands owned by ‘myntra.com’

12. Q P4.
This very popular brand of something was launched for the
first time in the UK in 1905 by Cadbury with the tagline
“With a glass and half of fresh milk”. What is the brand?

13. ANSWER

14. Dairy Milk Chocolate.

15. Q P5. ****
M. K. Gandhi took
appointment under a law
firm in 1893 and went to
South Africa. What was
that firm?

16. ANSWER

17. Dada Abdulla & Company.

18. Q P6.
This is the logo of
Imperial Bank of
India, a large scale
commercial bank
which was founded in
1921. In 1955, the
bank changed its
name to something
else. What is the new
name?

19. ANSWER

20. State Bank of India.

21. Q. P7.
‘Tere Bin’ from Wazir. The song was actually written by the
producer of this film. Who is he?

22. ANSWER

23. Vidhu Vinod Chopra.

24. Q. P8. ****
This is the title song of the 1995 studio album “Made in
England” by the singer X. Identify X.

25. ANSWER

26. Elton John.

27. Q. P9.
What is the
map showing /
highlighting?

28. ANSWER

30. Q. P10.
Identify the
logo.

31. ANSWER

33. Q. P11.
Jubilant FoodWorks is a
Noida based company that
owns the franchise rights of
a global restaurant chain in
India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and
Bangladesh. What is that
restaurant chain, founded
in 1960 in Michigan?

34. ANSWER

36. Q. P12.
This is the logo of an
entertainment group
which came into being in
1999. Headquartered in
Mumbai, it is a subsidiary
of Gujarat Fluorochemicals
Ltd. “Live the Movie” is the
slogan of this group. What
is it?

37. ANSWER

39. Q. P 13.
Identify the
football club
from its logo.

40. ANSWER

42. Q. P14. ****
With the advent of railways in India, the people of eastern
Bengal, who have had a knack for fish preparations, got
introduced to local varieties from the western coast,
amongst which this was one. The transportation of these
variety of (dried) fish, which become quite popular, solely
depended on the mail trains that were in operation to
western coast, and owing to this, the fish variety came to
be known as X. What is X?

43. ANSWER

44. Bombay Duck (from Bombay Daak).

45. Q. P15. ****
Singapore is a multi-ethnic, multilingual city state in South
East Asia. Although Malay is recognised as the national
language, as many as four languages have been
recognised as official languages. If Malay, English and
Mandarin are three of them, what is the fourth?

46. ANSWER

47. Tamil.

48. Q. P16.
“Earn Your Respect” is the tagline of which Indian
apparel brand? The tagline itself can be taken as a
clue.

49. ANSWER

50. Manyavar.

51. Q. P17.
“Everything else can wait, but not agriculture” – who
famously made this remark? The statement can be seen
displayed in the AAU campus.

52. ANSWER

53. Jawaharlal Nehru.

54. Q. P18. ****
Sultan Alauddin Khilji (Reign 1290-1316) was the first ruler
of Delhi to keep a standing army on payment of salary.
Further, he introduced two new systems in military
administration – the first is the marking / branding of
military horses, which was called ‘Daagh’. The second is the
maintenance roll of soldiers, describing specific details of
each of them. What is this second system, introduced by
him, called?

55. ANSWER

56. Huliya.

57. END OF PRELIMS