The Rishabh Gen Quiz Prelims

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GEN QUIZ THE RISHABH PRELIMS

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RULES ● Total 20written questions. ● First 15 questions are one mark each. ● Last 05 questions are two marks each. ● Longest streak to be used as tie-breaker. ● No googling, binging or duckduckgoing. ● QM’s decisions are ﬁnal.

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According to Ycosmology, the universe does not have a temporal beginning or end. Its "Universal History" divides the cycle of time into two halves (avasarpiṇī and utsarpiṇī) with six aras (spokes) in each half, and the cycles keep repeating perpetually. Twenty-four ________ appear in every half, the ﬁrst ________ founding Y each time. In the present time cycle, X is credited as being the ﬁrst _________. Y chronology places X in historical terms, as someone who lived 101631 years ago. In Hindu mythology, X is the 9th avatar of Vishnu. Some other Hindu texts say the 9th avatar is Buddha or Balarama. QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019 Give XY01

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In some Frenchvillages, it is traditional to call upon the services of a ‘Quatorzième” at a dinner party or a restaurant meal if need occurs. Though likely to be a stranger to the group, it is thought to be better to feed a stranger than to leave it to luck. Give funda02 QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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This standardisation inIndia traces back to the Viceroy Lord Mayo based on calculations to allow four people to sit comfortably side-by-side. This distance was determined to be 3’3’’ but modiﬁed slightly to take into account the change to the new metric system. The ﬁrst practical manifestation of standardisation was in 1872 from Delhi to Farookh Nagar. Give Funda03 QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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Sometime around 1941,a 59 year old artist was walking in New York City with a handheld sketchbook when he sketched a man wearing a suit and a fedora. He sketched another man from behind, sitting on a counter, several times. After years of search, it was found that the artwork was not inspired by a single place, but was rather an amalgamation of intersections around Greenwich Avenue and its curving prow is believed to be inspired by the Flatiron Building. Identify the painting04 QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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QUIZ CLUB IITGUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 31 MARCH 2019 Identify the entrance05

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The first presidentof Israel, Chaim Weizmann, stated that _______ was “the greatest Jew alive” and wished him to be his successor. So, upon Weizmann’s death on November 9, 1952, only one successor seemed a natural fit. As such, the Embassy of Israel sent a letter to _______ on November 17, officially offering him the presidency. However _______, who was 73 at the time, and not even an Israeli citizen, cited old age, inexperience, and insufficient people skills as reasons why he wouldn’t be the proper choice. Fill in the blank06 QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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Indian Railways hasannounced a special tourist train 'Shri _________ Express', covering all places from Ayodhya to Colombo via Rameshwaram, tweeted Piyush Goyal. The ﬁrst trip started on November 14, 2018 from Delhi and is scheduled to take 16 days to cover the _________ circuit. The trip will be operated by IRCTC (Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation), the bookings of which have already opened on IRCTC Tourism ofﬁcial website- irctctourism.com. The entire trip will be priced at Rs. 15,120. Fill in the blank07 QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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Chubby Bunny isan informal recreational and hazing game that involves the placement of an increasing number of ____________ or similar items such as cotton balls into one's own mouth and stating a phrase that is intended to be difficult to say clearly with a filled mouth. The game is often played where ____________ are readily available, such as around a campfire. Variations include similar-sounding phrases such as Fluffy Bunny, Fuzzy Bunny, and Chubby Monkey. Although the origins of the game are unknown, a 1959 Peanuts comic strip shows Snoopy's mouth being filled with an increasing number of ____________ while Charlie Brown keeps count. Fill in the blank08 QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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This world's most-malignedtypeface was designed by Vincent Connare in 1994, when he was an employee at Microsoft. Connare was working with a team creating software for PCs when he opened a program called Microsoft Bob, which featured a cartoon dog named Rover that spoke in a text bubble. The typeface was Times New Roman, and Connare thought he could do better. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal from 2009, “Mr. Connare has looked on, alternately amused and mortiﬁed, as ____________ has spread from a software project at Microsoft Corp. to grade-school ﬂiers and holiday newsletters, Disney ads and Beanie Baby tags, business emails, street signs, Bibles, porn sites, gravestones and hospital posters about bowel cancer.” Today, it's a typeface we love to hate. Fill in the blank09 QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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In 1698, TsarPeter I—known as Peter the Great—established X. Peter had just returned from a grand tour of Western Europe in August, in which he was impressed by European customs he thought superior to Russian. Inspired by what he saw on this trip and inﬂuenced by advisors in Western Europe, Peter was determined to westernise his empire, starting with its customs and dress. Russian men who wanted to keep their ______ were required to pay a hefty tax of 100 rubles per year. Those who paid the tax were given a token, which they were required to carry at all times. Identify X10 QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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According to a2009 blog post from ABC news, there are over 112 ways that news media has written the name of this possibly crazy world leader. The explanation, you may have read, is due to discrepancies transliterating Arabic. While true, this is not the whole story. _______ (Google’s most frequent spelling) is spelled ‫اﻟﻘذاﻓﻲ‬ in Arabic. The ﬁrst letter “‫”,ق‬ qoph, is pronounced as a “k” sound and usually transliterated as a “q.” Likewise, the second letter of his name, thal, “‫”,ذ‬ is pronounced as a deep “d” or “th” (“the” not “with”) and transliterated “dh.” Given these standardized spellings, the leader’s name should be spelled with a Q. However, the reason the most common spelling begins with a “g” is due to the local dialect, which pronounces qoph like a “g” sound. Who?11 QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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____ ______ _______ is a Microsoft Windows operating system error screen that is displayed to indicate system conﬂicts and the potential for a crash. This term gets its name due to how these critical messages were displayed. The errors relate to system hardware, temperature, timing, resources, corrupt registries or viruses. The error screen serves as an alert to avert further computer and system damage. The error freezes Windows and requires that the system be rebooted in order to continue to operate. The ____ ______ __ _____ has become less common now that operating systems are able to deal with many errors without interruption. Fill in the blanks12 QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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_____________ may involuntarilydevelop when a person is cold or experiences strong emotions such as fear, euphoria or sexual arousal. The formation of ____________ in humans under stress is considered to be a vestigial reflex and its function in other apes would have made our human ancestors appear larger to scare off predators. The reflex of producing _____________ is known as piloerection or the pilomotor reflex. Fill in the blank13 QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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Along the westerncoast of the continent lies the the vast _________ ______ so unimaginably parched it's effectively hell on Earth – but it's the similarities to another red destination that have scientists hot and bothered. The hostile landscape is about the closest thing we have to Mars on Earth – and scientists just made a big discovery about it. For the ﬁrst time, researchers have observed microbial life rebounding in the incredibly dry core, demonstrating that this dusty, scorched environment is in fact – against all odds – an ecosystem. This discovery means much more, since it might be an indication that life can exist on Mars. Fill in the blank14 QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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QUIZ CLUB IITGUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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X, sometimes knownas Clinton, is a neighborhood on the West Side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It is traditionally considered to be bordered by 34th Street to the south, 59th Street to the north, Eighth Avenue to the east, and the Hudson River to the west. The area provides transport, medical, and warehouse-infrastructure support to Midtown's business district. A particularly infamous tenement at the 39th street and 10th avenue was initially called X because the entire section was “probably the lowest and ﬁlthiest in the city.” X is now also a reality show that uses progressive elimination format to narrow down a ﬁeld of 12-20 aspiring chefs to a single winner over the course of the season. Identify X15 QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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The name Xwas originally proposed in a March 2016 online poll to name the ship that would eventually be named RRS Y. Former BBC Radio Jersey presenter James Hand jokingly suggested X, a name the public liked and that quickly became the most popular choice. The name has been described as a homage to an owl named through an "Adopt-A-Bird" programme in 2012 that became popular on the internet. Although X was the most popular suggestion in the #NameOurShip poll, the suggestion to use the name for the mother ship was not followed, and the Minister for Universities and Science, Jo Johnson, announced that the X name would be used for one of the submersibles aboard Y instead. Identify X and Y16* QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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When Mr. PotatoHead and Barbie duke it out, you don’t want to be in the room. Those iconic American toys are the creation of X and Y respectively, the country’s leading toy manufacturers. They have dominated this $18 billion industry for decades. Y rose to prominence in the 1960s with the release of Barbie, but later lost ground to toys like X’s Transformers action ﬁgures. In 1996, X rebuffed Y’s $5.2 billion acquisition offer, setting the stage for continued clashes. Identify X and Y17* QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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Art historians havedetermined that the artist took some liberties with the view from his second story bedroom window, a theory supported by the fact that the studio in which he painted was on the building's first floor. The dark spires in the foreground are cypress trees, plants most often associated with cemeteries and death. This connection gives a special significance to this quote, "Looking at the stars always makes me dream. Why, I ask myself, shouldn't the shining dots of the sky be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France? Just as we take the train to get to Tarascon or Rouen, we take death to reach a star." Identify the painter and the painting18* QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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When a CIAconsultant spotted X fields along the coast in Cuba in September 1962, he became concerned because, as he put it, "Cubans play X, Russians play Y." The CIA analyst had deduced that the field indicated the presence of a Soviet military camp nearby. Kennedy approved U2 flights over Cuba but didn't want to get sucked into another Bay of Pigs, the failed invasion to overthrow Castro in April 1961. He wanted hard evidence. Photographs convinced Kennedy that the Russians were putting missiles in Cuba. Identify X and Y19* QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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22* QUIZ CLUB IITGUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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X was awoman of modest education and wrote only in Punjabi. She could barely read any other language and was therefore unsophisticated in her writing. For her, the ultimate in success was to have some of her novels and short stories ﬁlmed. Her ﬁrst novel to be translated from Punjabi into English was Pinjar (The Skeleton). Khushwant Singh once told X that the story of her life was so inconsequential and tiny that it could be written at the back of a revenue stamp. Keeping this joke in mind, X penned her autobiography and entitled it '________ _______'. Identify X and the blank20* QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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ANSWERS

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According to Ycosmology, the universe does not have a temporal beginning or end. Its "Universal History" divides the cycle of time into two halves (avasarpiṇī and utsarpiṇī) with six aras (spokes) in each half, and the cycles keep repeating perpetually. Twenty-four ________ appear in every half, the ﬁrst ________ founding Y each time. In the present time cycle, X is credited as being the ﬁrst _________. Y chronology places X in historical terms, as someone who lived 101631 years ago. In Hindu mythology, X is the 9th avatar of Vishnu. Some other Hindu texts say the 9th avatar is Buddha or Balarama. QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019 Give XY01

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QUIZ CLUB IITGUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019 Rishabh Jain

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In some Frenchvillages, it is traditional to call upon the services of a ‘Quatorzième” at a dinner party or a restaurant meal if need occurs. Though likely to be a stranger to the group, it is thought to be better to feed a stranger than to leave it to luck. Give funda02 QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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QUIZ CLUB IITGUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019 14th person to avoid unlucky 13

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This standardisation inIndia traces back to the Viceroy Lord Mayo based on calculations to allow four people to sit comfortably side-by-side. This distance was determined to be 3’3’’ but modiﬁed slightly to take into account the change to the new metric system. The ﬁrst practical manifestation of standardisation was in 1872 from Delhi to Farookh Nagar. Give Funda03 QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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QUIZ CLUB IITGUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019 Metre Gauge

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Sometime around 1941,a 59 year old artist was walking in New York City with a handheld sketchbook when he sketched a man wearing a suit and a fedora. He sketched another man from behind, sitting on a counter, several times. After years of search, it was found that the artwork was not inspired by a single place, but was rather an amalgamation of intersections around Greenwich Avenue and its curving prow is believed to be inspired by the Flatiron Building. Identify the painting04 QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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QUIZ CLUB IITGUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019 Nighthawks

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QUIZ CLUB IITGUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 31 MARCH 2019 Identify the entrance05

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QUIZ CLUB IITGUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019 Taipei 101

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The first presidentof Israel, Chaim Weizmann, stated that _______ was “the greatest Jew alive” and wished him to be his successor. So, upon Weizmann’s death on November 9, 1952, only one successor seemed a natural fit. As such, the Embassy of Israel sent a letter to _______ on November 17, officially offering him the presidency. However _______, who was 73 at the time, and not even an Israeli citizen, cited old age, inexperience, and insufficient people skills as reasons why he wouldn’t be the proper choice. Fill in the blank06 QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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Einstein QUIZ CLUB IITGUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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Indian Railways hasannounced a special tourist train 'Shri _________ Express', covering all places from Ayodhya to Colombo via Rameshwaram, tweeted Piyush Goyal. The ﬁrst trip started on November 14, 2018 from Delhi and is scheduled to take 16 days to cover the _________ circuit. The trip will be operated by IRCTC (Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation), the bookings of which have already opened on IRCTC Tourism ofﬁcial website- irctctourism.com. The entire trip will be priced at Rs. 15,120. Fill in the blank07 QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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QUIZ CLUB IITGUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019 Ramayana Express

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Chubby Bunny isan informal recreational and hazing game that involves the placement of an increasing number of ____________ or similar items such as cotton balls into one's own mouth and stating a phrase that is intended to be difficult to say clearly with a filled mouth. The game is often played where ____________ are readily available, such as around a campfire. Variations include similar-sounding phrases such as Fluffy Bunny, Fuzzy Bunny, and Chubby Monkey. Although the origins of the game are unknown, a 1959 Peanuts comic strip shows Snoopy's mouth being filled with an increasing number of ____________ while Charlie Brown keeps count. Fill in the blank08 QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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QUIZ CLUB IITGUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019 Marshmallows

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This world's most-malignedtypeface was designed by Vincent Connare in 1994, when he was an employee at Microsoft. Connare was working with a team creating software for PCs when he opened a program called Microsoft Bob, which featured a cartoon dog named Rover that spoke in a text bubble. The typeface was Times New Roman, and Connare thought he could do better. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal from 2009, “Mr. Connare has looked on, alternately amused and mortiﬁed, as ____________ has spread from a software project at Microsoft Corp. to grade-school ﬂiers and holiday newsletters, Disney ads and Beanie Baby tags, business emails, street signs, Bibles, porn sites, gravestones and hospital posters about bowel cancer.” Today, it's a typeface we love to hate. Fill in the blank09 QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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Comic Sans QUIZ CLUBIIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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In 1698, TsarPeter I—known as Peter the Great—established X. Peter had just returned from a grand tour of Western Europe in August, in which he was impressed by European customs he thought superior to Russian. Inspired by what he saw on this trip and inﬂuenced by advisors in Western Europe, Peter was determined to westernise his empire, starting with its customs and dress. Russian men who wanted to keep their ______ were required to pay a hefty tax of 100 rubles per year. Those who paid the tax were given a token, which they were required to carry at all times. Identify X10 QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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Beard Tax

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According to a2009 blog post from ABC news, there are over 112 ways that news media has written the name of this possibly crazy world leader. The explanation, you may have read, is due to discrepancies transliterating Arabic. While true, this is not the whole story. _______ (Google’s most frequent spelling) is spelled ‫اﻟﻘذاﻓﻲ‬ in Arabic. The ﬁrst letter “‫”,ق‬ qoph, is pronounced as a “k” sound and usually transliterated as a “q.” Likewise, the second letter of his name, thal, “‫”,ذ‬ is pronounced as a deep “d” or “th” (“the” not “with”) and transliterated “dh.” Given these standardized spellings, the leader’s name should be spelled with a Q. However, the reason the most common spelling begins with a “g” is due to the local dialect, which pronounces qoph like a “g” sound. Who?11 QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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Gaddaﬁ

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____ ______ _______ is a Microsoft Windows operating system error screen that is displayed to indicate system conﬂicts and the potential for a crash. This term gets its name due to how these critical messages were displayed. The errors relate to system hardware, temperature, timing, resources, corrupt registries or viruses. The error screen serves as an alert to avert further computer and system damage. The error freezes Windows and requires that the system be rebooted in order to continue to operate. The ____ ______ __ _____ has become less common now that operating systems are able to deal with many errors without interruption. Fill in the blanks12 QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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Blue Screen ofDeath QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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_____________ may involuntarilydevelop when a person is cold or experiences strong emotions such as fear, euphoria or sexual arousal. The formation of ____________ in humans under stress is considered to be a vestigial reflex and its function in other apes would have made our human ancestors appear larger to scare off predators. The reflex of producing _____________ is known as piloerection or the pilomotor reflex. Fill in the blank13 QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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Goosebumps QUIZ CLUB IITGUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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Along the westerncoast of the continent lies the the vast _________ ______ so unimaginably parched it's effectively hell on Earth – but it's the similarities to another red destination that have scientists hot and bothered. The hostile landscape is about the closest thing we have to Mars on Earth – and scientists just made a big discovery about it. For the ﬁrst time, researchers have observed microbial life rebounding in the incredibly dry core, demonstrating that this dusty, scorched environment is in fact – against all odds – an ecosystem. This discovery means much more, since it might be an indication that life can exist on Mars. Fill in the blank14 QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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Atacama Desert QUIZ CLUBIIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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X, sometimes knownas Clinton, is a neighborhood on the West Side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It is traditionally considered to be bordered by 34th Street to the south, 59th Street to the north, Eighth Avenue to the east, and the Hudson River to the west. The area provides transport, medical, and warehouse-infrastructure support to Midtown's business district. A particularly infamous tenement at the 39th street and 10th avenue was initially called X because the entire section was “probably the lowest and ﬁlthiest in the city.” X is now also a reality show that uses progressive elimination format to narrow down a ﬁeld of 12-20 aspiring chefs to a single winner over the course of the season. Identify X15 QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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The name Xwas originally proposed in a March 2016 online poll to name the ship that would eventually be named RRS Y. Former BBC Radio Jersey presenter James Hand jokingly suggested X, a name the public liked and that quickly became the most popular choice. The name has been described as a homage to an owl named through an "Adopt-A-Bird" programme in 2012 that became popular on the internet. Although X was the most popular suggestion in the #NameOurShip poll, the suggestion to use the name for the mother ship was not followed, and the Minister for Universities and Science, Jo Johnson, announced that the X name would be used for one of the submersibles aboard Y instead. Identify X and Y16* QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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X = BoatyMcBoatface QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019 Y = RSS Attenborough

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When Mr. PotatoHead and Barbie duke it out, you don’t want to be in the room. Those iconic American toys are the creation of X and Y respectively, the country’s leading toy manufacturers. They have dominated this $18 billion industry for decades. Y rose to prominence in the 1960s with the release of Barbie, but later lost ground to toys like X’s Transformers action ﬁgures. In 1996, X rebuffed Y’s $5.2 billion acquisition offer, setting the stage for continued clashes. Identify X and Y17* QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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X QUIZ CLUB IITGUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019 Y

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Art historians havedetermined that the artist took some liberties with the view from his second story bedroom window, a theory supported by the fact that the studio in which he painted was on the building's first floor. The dark spires in the foreground are cypress trees, plants most often associated with cemeteries and death. This connection gives a special significance to this quote, "Looking at the stars always makes me dream. Why, I ask myself, shouldn't the shining dots of the sky be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France? Just as we take the train to get to Tarascon or Rouen, we take death to reach a star." Identify the painter and the painting18* QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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Starry Night byVan Gogh QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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When a CIAconsultant spotted soccer fields along the coast in Cuba in September 1962, he became concerned because, as he put it, "Cubans play ________, Russians play ______." The CIA analyst had deduced that the field indicated the presence of a Soviet military camp nearby. Kennedy approved U2 flights over Cuba but didn't want to get sucked into another Bay of Pigs, the failed invasion to overthrow Castro in April 1961. He wanted hard evidence. Photographs convinced Kennedy that the Russians were putting missiles in Cuba. Fill in the blanks19* QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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22* QUIZ CLUB IITGUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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Baseball QUIZ CLUB IITGUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019 Football

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X was awoman of modest education and wrote only in Punjabi. She could barely read any other language and was therefore unsophisticated in her writing. For her, the ultimate in success was to have some of her novels and short stories ﬁlmed. Her ﬁrst novel to be translated from Punjabi into English was Pinjar (The Skeleton). Khushwant Singh once told X that the story of her life was so inconsequential and tiny that it could be written at the back of a revenue stamp. Keeping this joke in mind, X penned her autobiography and entitled it '________ _______'. Identify X and the blank20* QUIZ CLUB IIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019

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Amrita Pritam QUIZ CLUBIIT GUWAHATI GENERAL QUIZ RISHABH JAIN 03 APRIL 2019 Raseedi Ticket

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