This document contains 25 questions from a preliminary exam covering various topics like history, geography, brands, movies, and current events. The questions are multiple choice or short answer format and assess recognition and identification of people, places, events, and other concepts.

1. PRELIMS

2. QUESTION 01
Jack + William +Robert + John
=
________________ ?

3. QUESTION 02
• This place in Delhi used to be a large pond
in the old walled city area. Some time
during the decade of the 1930s, the pond
was filled up so that an annual event could
be shifted to that place (from which it gets
its name). Over the decades, the place
has also been used for other reasons. The
Municipal Corporation of Delhi isn’t very
happy about all this and wants to turn it
into a green area where people can
relax, instead of being agitated. Which
place am I talking about here ?

4. QUESTION 03
• Statistically speaking, this
company is the world’s most
popular transportation
company. The company
claims that they carry the
equivalent of the world’s
population every 9 days.
Name the company?

5. QUESTION 04
• In the interview to the Indian Express in
November 2011, Irshaad Kamil said :
“After Operational Blue Star in Punjab, the final
examinations were postponed. [I] led a group of
students demanding a month’s notice as a
preparation.
We made banners saying, “______ ______ .”
and went about raising this slogan.”
He used this lines in a very recent movie.
Identify .

6. QUESTION 05
• “If he was a plumber, he would
control all the water in the world and
force anyone who wants a drop of
the precious liquid to cut a deal with
him.”
This is something that Larry Ellison:
the CEO of Oracle said about
someone.
Identify the someone.

7. QUESTION 06
• In the 18th century, this
group of islands was called
“Frederiksoerne” by its
administrators. In 2011, this
place made a climatic
appearance on a TV
programme. Which islands
am I talking about ?

8. QUESTION 07
• This is a promotional
poster for a range of
certain products that
used to be made by
the British Company
SSL International.
The company was
sold to Reckitt
Benckiser in July
2010.
Identify the
Brand.

9. QUESTION 08
• According to its Wiki page its the 14th
most cleanest and greenest place in
India. An indigenous community “____"
inhabit this place. The place is divided
into 18 sectors with sector 6 being the
largest of them. The city's per-capita
income is the highest in its respective
state. Mira Nair, the famous movie
director happens to be citizen of this
city .
• Name this city in India.

10. QUESTION 09
•Identify
the
painting
and the
painter.

11. QUESTION 10
• Before the Internet was conceived, an
ambitious group of young scientists at
CERN (Switzerland) started working on
what was to become the WWW. Because
these bright young minds were reluctant
to reveal their progress (and setbacks) to
the world, they started developing their
protocol in a closed environment: CERN’s
Internal network.
CONTD…

12. QUESTION 10 CONTD…
Using the physical layout of CERN’s network and
buildings as a metaphor for the “real world” they
situated different functions of the protocol in
different offices within CERN. In an office on the
fourth floor room, they placed the World Wide
Web’s central database: any request for a file was
routed to that office, where two or three people
would manually locate the requested files and
transfer them, over the network, to the person who
made that request.
What in the world of Internet owes its origin to
the above mentioned fact ?

13. QUESTION 11
• This train get its name from the fact that it
passes through a geographical coast which is
land of the Chola dynasty was called
Cholamandalam in Tamil, literally translated as
“the realm of the Cholas”. The train travels
around 1662 km and travels each day from its
source to destination. It is one of the earliest
super-fast trains in the history of Indian
railways. This train consists of 24 passenger
coaches making it one of the longest passenger
train in the world.

14. QUESTION 12
• Which popular website claims to
have been founded by "Chinese
dissidents, journalists, mathemat
icians and start-up company
technologists, from the
US, Taiwan, Europe, Australia
and South Africa"?

15. QUESTION 13
• It is called “Mehran” in Pakistan
and is the largest selling product
of its type in the country. Its
direct Indian equivalent is also
the largest selling product of its
kind in India. What brand am I
talking about ?

16. QUESTION 14
• In medieval England houses had
thatched roofs with a high and thick
straw pile. It was, somehow the only
place, the only place for animals to get
warm. So all the _____________ were
kept there. When torrents, it became
wet and slippery and sometimes the
animals would slip and fall of the roof.
Which phrase am I talking about ?

17. QUESTION 15
• The Mullaiperiyar dam is
located in Kerela, but has
been leased to Tamil Nadu
after a 1886 treaty between
the then Travancore State
and the Madras Presidency.
For how many years is this
lease ?

18. QUESTION 16
Where would you find this ?

19. QUESTION 17
•How do we better know
Shivaji Rao Gaikwad ?

20. QUESTION 18

21. QUESTION 19
• This great person is known for [among other
things] having studied plants, the human body
and music. Technically born a bastard, he spent
the first few years of his life with his mother
and then grew up with his father. At the tender
age of 14, he started working with his teacher.
One day, when they worked on something
together, he was so obviously better than his
teacher that the later apparently gave up his
craft. During his career he also gained
reputation for drawing maps. He also invented
certain stuff. Who am I talking about ?

22. QUESTION 20
Identify this monument.

23. QUESTION 21
• The screenplay of this movie
began as a short story entitled
“High Jump” and developed into
a full work 7 years later. The
initial inspiration for this movie
was the childhood of prolific
Japanese film-maker Akira
Kurosawa. What movie am I
talking about ?

24. QUESTION 22
Explain the significance of this place in the
world of movies.

25. QUESTION 23
What is so
special
about this
Playboy
magazine ?

26. QUESTION 24
•This is the
first ever
_________
________?

27. QUESTION 25
•5th November 2011was
declared a state holiday in
Orissa by the state
Government to celebrate
the Presidential assent to
two significant changes.
Name them.