general quiz prelims

2. Prelims :
TOTAL 25 QUESTIONS
FOR NORMAL +5 STAR MARKS +10
STAR- 4,9,11,13,16,24
JUST FOCUSE ON BOLD WORDS TO MAKE IT
EASY

3. 1
• Reed Hastings once fined $40 at a
Blockbuster store for being late to return a
copy of Apollo 13. Later in 1997 what came
as an outcome if this story?

4. 2
• It was designed by Lal Chand Ustad. Its five-floor
exterior is akin to a honeycomb with its 953 small
windows called Jharokhas decorated with intricate
latticework.The original intent of the lattice design
was to allow royal ladies to observe everyday life and
festivals celebrated in the street below without
being seen, since they had to obey the strict rules of
"purdah", which forbade them to appear in public
without face coverings. What I'm talking about?

5. 3
• In Indian and Sri Lankan tradition, the x is believed to
have originated among the Hela people during the
time of the legendary king y. According to legends y
used the x in his devotions to the Hindu God Shiva. x
is particularly popular among street musicians in
Rajasthan, North India. The European experimental
folk band Heilung also make use of the x , in both their
Ofnir and Futha albums. What am I talking about?

6. 4 *
• He came fifth in the AAA marathon which was used as
a qualifying event for the 1949 Olympic games. His
time was 2 hours 46.03 minutes which by modern
marathon times does not look so great but was good
at that time. To put it in perspective, the winning
Olympic time was only 10 minutes better at the 1948
Olympics. A leg injury put an end to further serious
running. Who?

8. 5
• X is a children's song and associated dance. X became
very popular in 2016, when Pinkfong, a South Korean
entertainment company, released a version of the
song with a YouTube music video that went viral
across social media, online video and radio. The song
features a family of sharks which hunt a school of
fish which escape to safety. Just give me x and what is
so special about this song?

9. 6
• Balasaheb Thackeray encouraged Marathi people in the
1960s to become entrepreneurs, i.e. start food stalls in
ways similar to the South Indians setting after that, Ashok
Vaidya of Dadar is often credited with starting the first x
stall outside Dadar railway station in 1966 where hundreds
of textile workers passed. At first he sold a friend item with
poha and a stall next to him used to sold omlet and bread
and later he came to sold mashup of both these items. So
what he create later?

10. 7
• There are many theories about the naming of the brand x .
According to One theory the brand name is x because even
poor people can afford the x brand's product and with
blessings everyone can say 'x'( brand's name). According
to another theory the naming of the brand because of its
letter, when letters mirrored it spell another product
which is major field of interest of the parent company
and has been most profitable for them over years. Name
the brand ? which was founded in 2007.

11. 8
• He is a trained animation filmmaker, and used to work
in a studio in Mumbai. He is an alumnus of the
National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad and College
of Art, Delhi. In 2015, he also starred in a version of
the music album 'DJ Waley Babu' along with Indian
rapper Badshah. He is currently active on YouTube and
Instagram as a content creator. BY which name we
known him?(pic)

13. 9*
• X was a junior national champion in javelin throw and
also competed in the international badminton. His
father Louie and brothers Dinuka, Niluka and Diluka
are also professional badminton players. In February
2021, he along with his elder brother and his country's
no 1 badminton player played in the first round
encounters in the men's singles of the Badminton
Nationals for their country. Who is x whom we know
in a different field?

14. 10
• When Laxman went for vanvas with Ram and sita he
decided that he will not sleep at all so that he can protect
sita and ram all the time. After not sleeping for some days,
the goddese x came to him and told him that it won't be
possible for him to not sleep for 14 years as sleep is
important for the well being of a person. He asked her if
there was any other option and she said that he can
transfer his sleep to someone else so that he can stay
awake for 14 years. He told x to go to y, and explain her the
situation and also to request her to take his portion of
sleep. She did just that and y slept for Laxman as well as
herself for 14 years. X nd y?

15. 11*
• ___ Chandrashekhar Shetty was a sportsman-turned-actor
due to a leg injury. He was a shot put and discus thrower,
which won him many prizes in these sports. He was the
champion of discus throw from Maharashtra in 1996. He
has acted in many commercials and has even won awards
as a theatre artist. He won the Best Actor award for his role
in the Tulu language play Secret. He also participated in
Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa (Season 4), dance reality show.He
participated in the 2014 Season of Khatron ke Khiladi doing
many stunts, but was eventually eliminated. who? Or fitb

16. 12
• Saudi x officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, is a
Saudi Arabian public petroleum and natural gas
company based in Dhahran. As of 2020, it is one of the
largest companies in the world by revenue. On May
11, 2022, Saudi x became the largest company in the
world by market cap, surpassing Apple Inc. name the
company which come to limelight somehow during
this ipl nd why?

17. 13*
• It was founded by two IIT Bombay Ex-students.Prabhakiran Singh
and sidharth munot. Prabhakiran started the ‘Khadke Glassi’
Lassi Shop outside his college. But unfortunately, it didn’t work
very well due to fewer sales of Lassi, and closed down the Lassi
Shop. Siddharth Munot also started working with an educational
start-up forum. But both weren’t satisfied with their work. In
2012, they launched as an E-commerce platform for the youth
and to attract youth was its main motive. Prabhakiran and
Siddharth start searching for the Trendy named sitting in front of
the college campus. At that time across the college campus ‘April
Fool' topic was trending, so they inspired the name from there.
What did they launched?

18. 14
put funda

19. 15
• Chalo Jeete Hain is a 2018 Indian short film directed
and produced by Mangesh Hadawale. The short film is
said to be based on the early life of x who raised in
vadnagar and At age 18, x was married and
abandoned his wife soon after who was 17 years old
then.

21. 16*
• He is artemio franchi, he served as the UEFA President
(1973–1983), and as a member of the FIFA Executive
Committee (1974–1983). He died in a road accident
near Siena on 12 August 1983. The home stadium of
ACF Fiorentina and that of A.C. Siena are both named
in his honour, although he is famous due to another
major reason , what?

23. 17
• Founded in 1920 in old kolkata, x much like Bengal Chemicals.
Under the British rule, like other textiles, a certain kind of
products were also being imported to India, making them
extremely expensive and beyond the reach of common Indians.
To solve that problem Surendra Mohan Bose, in an attempt to
push for India’s economic independence and the boycott of
foreign goods, started the Bengal star brand, x indigenously.
When he was behind the prison walls, he learnt about how
Indian soldiers had been suffering in harsh regions without
proper ____ during rainy weather.what did Surendra Mohan
Bose start?

24. 18
• Leati Joseph Anoaʻi was born in Pensacola, Florida, on May 25,
1985. Anoaʻi played football for three years at Pensacola Catholic
High School and one year at Escambia High School; in his senior
year, he was named Defensive Player of the Year by the
Pensacola News Journal. Later Joseph joined the Georgia Tech
Yellow Jackets football team along with Calvin Johnson. Later
Joseph played NFL( national football league) for Minnesota
Vikings and Jacksonville Jaguars for several seasons and
performed really well. During 2008 last Joseph retired from
football. Just tell me how do we better known leati Joseph?

25. 19
• The hyperbolic paraboloid is a doubly ruled surface: it
contains two families of mutually skew lines. The lines
in each family are parallel to a common plane, but not
to each other. Hence the hyperbolic paraboloid is a
conoid. A food item which current owner is Kellogg's
is designed based on the shape hyperbolic paraboloid
and the snack was developed by chemist Fredric J.
Baur in 1956 under p&g brand .Which food I'm talking
about?

27. 20
• the Electra complex, as proposed by Carl Jung in his
Theory of Psychoanalysis, is a girl's psychosexual
competition with her mother for possession of her
father. The Electra complex occurs in the third—
phallic stage (ages 3–6) when children become aware
of their bodies. How did you connect this disease with
a 2021 Bollywood classic?

28. 21
• In the book "the secret Life of x" the author puts forward a
theory which being points out that x was murdered by the
FBI or cia. the theory suggests that x's relationship with
John f Kennedy and other high ranking officials gave x an
easy acces to classified the secrets and important
documents. This posed a national security threat and
hence x needed to be eliminated. This conspiracy theory is
debunked although X's autopsy clearly told that x
commited suicide. X?

29. 22

30. 23

31. 24*

32. 25

33. EXCHANGE

34. 1
• Reed Hastings once fined $40 at a
Blockbuster store for being late to return a
copy of Apollo 13. Later in 1997 what came
as an outcome if this story?

36. 2
• It was designed by Lal Chand Ustad. Its five-floor
exterior is akin to a honeycomb with its 953 small
windows called Jharokhas decorated with intricate
latticework.The original intent of the lattice design
was to allow royal ladies to observe everyday life and
festivals celebrated in the street below without
being seen, since they had to obey the strict rules of
"purdah", which forbade them to appear in public
without face coverings. What I'm talking about?

37. HAWA MAHAL

38. 3
• In Indian and Sri Lankan tradition, the x is believed to
have originated among the Hela people during the
time of the legendary king y. According to legends y
used the x in his devotions to the Hindu God Shiva. x
is particularly popular among street musicians in
Rajasthan, North India. The European experimental
folk band Heilung also make use of the x , in both their
Ofnir and Futha albums. What am I talking about?

40. 4 *
• He came fifth in the AAA marathon which was used as
a qualifying event for the 1949 Olympic games. His
time was 2 hours 46.03 minutes which by modern
marathon times does not look so great but was good
at that time. To put it in perspective, the winning
Olympic time was only 10 minutes better at the 1948
Olympics. A leg injury put an end to further serious
running. Who?

41. ALAN TURING

42. 5
• X is a children's song and associated dance. X became
very popular in 2016, when Pinkfong, a South Korean
entertainment company, released a version of the
song with a YouTube music video that went viral
across social media, online video and radio. The song
features a family of sharks which hunt a school of
fish which escape to safety. Just give me x and what is
so special about this song?

44. 6
• Balasaheb Thackeray encouraged Marathi people in the
1960s to become entrepreneurs, i.e. start food stalls in
ways similar to the South Indians setting after that, Ashok
Vaidya of Dadar is often credited with starting the first x
stall outside Dadar railway station in 1966 where hundreds
of textile workers passed. At first he sold a friend item with
poha and a stall next to him used to sold omlet and bread
and later he came to sold mashup of both these items. So
what he create later?

46. 7
• There are many theories about the naming of the brand x .
According to One theory the brand name is x because even
poor people can afford the x brand's product and with
blessings everyone can say 'x'( brand's name). According
to another theory the naming of the brand because of its
letter, when letters mirrored it spell another product
which is major field of interest of the parent company
and has been most profitable for them over years. Name
the brand ? which was founded in 2007.

48. 8
• He is a trained animation filmmaker, and used to work
in a studio in Mumbai. He is an alumnus of the
National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad and College
of Art, Delhi. In 2015, he also starred in a version of
the music album 'DJ Waley Babu' along with Indian
rapper Badshah. He is currently active on YouTube and
Instagram as a content creator. BY which name we
known him?(pic)

49. rob

50. 9*
• X was a junior national champion in javelin throw and
also competed in the international badminton. His
father Louie and brothers Dinuka, Niluka and Diluka
are also professional badminton players. In February
2021, he along with his elder brother and his country's
no 1 badminton player played in the first round
encounters in the men's singles of the Badminton
Nationals for their country. Who is x whom we know
in a different field?

52. 10
• When Laxman went for vanvas with Ram and sita he
decided that he will not sleep at all so that he can protect
sita and ram all the time. After not sleeping for some days,
the goddese x came to him and told him that it won't be
possible for him to not sleep for 14 years as sleep is
important for the well being of a person. He asked her if
there was any other option and she said that he can
transfer his sleep to someone else so that he can stay
awake for 14 years. He told x to go to y, and explain her the
situation and also to request her to take his portion of
sleep. She did just that and y slept for Laxman as well as
herself for 14 years. X nd y?

54. 11*
• ___ Chandrashekhar Shetty was a sportsman-turned-actor
due to a leg injury. He was a shot put and discus thrower,
which won him many prizes in these sports. He was the
champion of discus throw from Maharashtra in 1996. He
has acted in many commercials and has even won awards
as a theatre artist. He won the Best Actor award for his role
in the Tulu language play Secret. He also participated in
Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa (Season 4), dance reality show.He
participated in the 2014 Season of Khatron ke Khiladi doing
many stunts, but was eventually eliminated. who? Or fitb

56. 12
• Saudi x officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, is a
Saudi Arabian public petroleum and natural gas
company based in Dhahran. As of 2020, it is one of the
largest companies in the world by revenue. On May
11, 2022, Saudi x became the largest company in the
world by market cap, surpassing Apple Inc. name the
company which come to limelight somehow during
this ipl nd why?

57. aramco

58. 13*
• It was founded by two IIT Bombay Ex-students.Prabhakiran Singh
and sidharth munot. Prabhakiran started the ‘Khadke Glassi’
Lassi Shop outside his college. But unfortunately, it didn’t work
very well due to fewer sales of Lassi, and closed down the Lassi
Shop. Siddharth Munot also started working with an educational
start-up forum. But both weren’t satisfied with their work. In
2012, they launched as an E-commerce platform for the youth
and to attract youth was its main motive. Prabhakiran and
Siddharth start searching for the Trendy named sitting in front of
the college campus. At that time across the college campus ‘April
Fool' topic was trending, so they inspired the name from there.
What did they launched?

60. 14
put funda

62. 15
• Chalo Jeete Hain is a 2018 Indian short film directed
and produced by Mangesh Hadawale. The short film is
said to be based on the early life of x who raised in
vadnagar and At age 18, x was married and
abandoned his wife soon after who was 17 years old
then.

64. 16*
• He is artemio franchi, he served as the UEFA President
(1973–1983), and as a member of the FIFA Executive
Committee (1974–1983). He died in a road accident
near Siena on 12 August 1983. The home stadium of
ACF Fiorentina and that of A.C. Siena are both named
in his honour, although he is famous due to another
major reason , what?

65. Finallisma named after him

66. 17
• Founded in 1920 in old kolkata, x much like Bengal Chemicals.
Under the British rule, like other textiles, a certain kind of
products were also being imported to India, making them
extremely expensive and beyond the reach of common Indians.
To solve that problem Surendra Mohan Bose, in an attempt to
push for India’s economic independence and the boycott of
foreign goods, started the Bengal star brand, x indigenously.
When he was behind the prison walls, he learnt about how
Indian soldiers had been suffering in harsh regions without
proper ____ during rainy weather. what did Surendra Mohan
Bose start?

68. 18
• Leati Joseph Anoaʻi was born in Pensacola, Florida, on May 25,
1985. Anoaʻi played football for three years at Pensacola Catholic
High School and one year at Escambia High School; in his senior
year, he was named Defensive Player of the Year by the
Pensacola News Journal. Later Joseph joined the Georgia Tech
Yellow Jackets football team along with Calvin Johnson. Later
Joseph played NFL( national football league) for Minnesota
Vikings and Jacksonville Jaguars for several seasons and
performed really well. During 2008 last Joseph retired from
football. Just tell me how do we better known leati Joseph?

70. 19
• The hyperbolic paraboloid is a doubly ruled surface: it
contains two families of mutually skew lines. The lines
in each family are parallel to a common plane, but not
to each other. Hence the hyperbolic paraboloid is a
conoid. A food item which current owner is Kellogg's
is designed based on the shape hyperbolic paraboloid
and the snack was developed by chemist Fredric J.
Baur in 1956 under p&g brand .Which food I'm talking
about?

72. 20
• the Electra complex, as proposed by Carl Jung in his
Theory of Psychoanalysis, is a girl's psychosexual
competition with her mother for possession of her
father. The Electra complex occurs in the third—
phallic stage (ages 3–6) when children become aware
of their bodies. How did you connect this disease with
a 2021 Bollywood classic?

74. 21
• In the book "the secret Life of x" the author puts forward a
theory which being points out that x was murdered by the
FBI or cia. the theory suggests that x's relationship with
John f Kennedy and other high ranking officials gave x an
easy acces to classified the secrets and important
documents. This posed a national security threat and
hence x needed to be eliminated. This conspiracy theory is
debunked although X's autopsy clearly told that x
commited suicide. X?

76. 22

78. 23

80. 24*

82. 25

83. Ali zafar