Answers of the quiz

1. Virtues and Vices
HOTS Questions
(with answers)

2. Q. This term means ‘to devastate by heavy
bombing’. The word originated after a city in
England by a similar name was devastated by
firebombing by German air troops on the night
of November 14th 1940 during world war II.
Identify the term or the city.

3. Ans. Coventry
To coventrate

4. • Located in Cherrapunji, it is the tallest plunge waterfall in India.
A tragic story is related to the falls which goes as follows-
• A woman named __ _____ remarries. But the new husband is jealous
of her love for her daughter. One day when the woman goes out, the
husband kills the daughter and cooks her flesh into a meal. When the
woman comes home and asks the husband if he knows where the
daughter is, he says no. But before going out to look for her
daughter, the woman eats the meal his husband had prepared. After
eating, she finds her daughter's fingers in a basket and in despair, the
woman throws herself off the cliff next to the falls giving the falls its
name which(in local language) means - "Fall / Jump of __ _____".
• Name the falls.

5. Nohkalikai Falls

6. Q. Historically, the name usually refers to
the Bavarian X. The society's goals were to
oppose superstition, obscurantism, religious
influence over public life and abuses of state power.
In subsequent use, “X" refers to various organizations
that are often alleged to conspire to control world
affairs, by masterminding events and planting agents
in government and corporations, in order to gain
political power and influence and to establish a New
World Order. Central to some of the most widely
known and elaborate conspiracy theories, X have
been depicted as lurking in the shadows and pulling
the strings and levers of power in dozens of novels,
movies, television shows, comics, video games, and
music videos. Identify X.

7. Illuminati

8. • She's a third grader but she's actually 40.
She was born in the suburbs of London and
lives there with her parents and her twin
sister but is actually Japanese.
And although she's a fictional character, she
was on a mission to space in Japan's
Hodoyoshi 3 satellite.
• Who is "she"?

9. Hello Kitty

10. QUES.
• Donald Trump: Well, I have to look at the group. I
mean, I don’t know what group you’re talking
about. You wouldn’t want me to condemn a group
that I know nothing about. I’d have to look. If you
would send me a list of the groups, I will do
research on them, and certainly I would disavow if I
thought that there was something wrong.
• Trump: Honestly, I don’t know David Duke. I don’t
believe I’ve ever met him. I’m pretty sure I didn’t
meet him, and I just don’t know anything about
him.
• Which ‘group’ is being talked about?

11. Ku Klux Klan

12. Q. Connect

13. Reached
population of 1
billion

14. • X was challenged by ministers and educators for its
‘ungodly’ influence and for depicting women in strong
leadership roles. They opposed not only children reading it,
but adults as well, lest it undermine longstanding gender
roles.
• In 1986 seven families in Tennessee opposed the novel’s
inclusion in the school syllabus and filed a lawsuit in based
on the novel’s depiction of benevolent witches and
promoting the belief that essential human attributes were
‘individually developed rather than God given.’ On the
charge of including good witches in the story, they argued
that all witches are bad, therefore it is ‘theologically
impossible’ for good witches to exist.

16. • According to historian Lewis Call, X is "a major icon in
modern political culture", whose face has become "a
potentially powerful instrument for the articulation of
postmodern anarchism" in the late 20th century,
exemplified by the mask worn by V in the comic book
series V for Vendetta, who fights against a
fictional fascist English state.
• X mask has also become widely associated with popular
protests and organizations such as hacktivist group
Anonymous.
• The public ranked X 30th in the BBC's 100 Greatest Britons.

17. Guy Fawkes mask

18. Q. Plenty of people, the actress Constance Wu
and NBA star Jeremy Lin among them, have
attacked X during his hosting of the Y. But
perhaps the most poignant criticism comes from
someone who felt the sting more than most:
Laura Kung, the mother of one of the three
Asian children X briefly brought onstage for his
jokes. X describes an action. Y describes an
event. Identify.

19. X-Chris Rock's hurtful
jokes about Asian
Y- Academy Awards

20. Q. The Indian company floated an issue of this
controversial financial instrument in 2008 and
collected a sum of around Rs19000cr till 2011. The
company claims this issue was a private placement
and not a public offer. Which company is being
talked about and name the instrument.

21. Sahara
OFCD (optionally fully
convertible debentures)

22. Q-X was born on 29 July 1953,at Paneli Moti,Rajkot district,
in a Gujarat Jain family . His early childhood was spent in
Kandivali , Mumbai where his father was a small
businessman . Later , the family moved to Raipur ,
Chattisgarh. X studied in s.s kalibadi higher secondary
school, in Raipur.
He briefly worked for New India Assurance Company, until
he decided to trade in the Stock Market of BSE and NSE. He
went on to create one of the biggest scams in Indian stock
market history. Identify X.

23. Harshad Mehta

24. Q Born in Bhopal to a South Indian family. He
graduated from IIT Delhi with a bachelor’s
degree in electrical engineering. He
completed his PGDBA at IIM A in 1987. He
received his PHD at MIT in 1991 for his thesis
titled "essays on banking”. He recently
acquired a very important post in the north
block. Name the person.

25. Raghuram Rajan