ICQC presents

Politics Quiz - Prelims

• According to newly disclosed classified documents, American and British spies have infiltrated the fantasy worlds of _________ and Second Life, conducting surveillance and scooping up data in the online games played by millions of people across the globe.

• Margaretha Geertruida "M'greet" Zelle MacLeod (7 August 1876 – 15 October 1917), better known by the stage name_______, was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy and executed by firing squad in

France under charges of espionage for Germany during World War I

• ________ is the eighth largest agglomeration of the world

• The _____ Polo club is the oldest extant polo club in the world

• “There is no greater pleasure of mine than to defeat my enemy on the field of battle, loot his crops, ride his horse, burn his house, carry off his women, hear their lamentations, and leave no eye open to weep for the dead”

• Words attributed to which notorious conqueror?

What is the full form of the "APJ" in Dr. Kalam's name

• ________was a Chinese revolutionary, first president and founding father of the Republic of China ("Nationalist China"). As the foremost pioneer of Republic of China, _____ is referred to as the "Father of the Nation" in the Republic of China (ROC), and the "forerunner of democratic revolution" in the People's Republic of China. ____ played an instrumental role in the overthrow of the Qing dynasty during the years leading up to the Double Ten Revolution. ____ was a uniting figure in post-Imperial China, and remains unique among 20th-century Chinese politicians for being widely revered amongst the people from both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

• A ________is a skeptic who refuses to believe without direct personal experience—a reference to the Apostle X, who refused to believe that the resurrected Jesus had appeared to the eleven other apostles, until he could see and feel the wounds received by Jesus on the cross.

Which of these former heads of state did not die in office?

John F. Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rajiv Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln

• There are almost as many ways to spell ____name as there are theories of the former dictator’s whereabouts. There is no single “correct” way to spell his name, and different news outlets used different spellings for his name. It is estimated that there are currently 112 ways to spell his name.

Who is the person on the right, and why was he in the news recently?

• The first known name of the city is X the name given to it at its foundation by Megarean colonists around 660 BC. The name is thought to be derived from a personal name, Byzas.

• After Constantine the Great made it the new eastern capital of the Roman Empire in 330 AD, the city became widely known as Y

• the present name Z , colloquially derives from the Medieval Greek phrase, which means "to the city".

• The city is transcontinental. Its commercial and historical center lies in Europe, while a third of its population lives in Asia

• _________is China's use of X as diplomatic gifts to other countries. The practice existed as far back as the Tang Dynasty, when Empress Wu Zetian (625–705) sent a pair of X to the Japanese emperor

• Chinese government's gift of two X, to the United States in 1972 after President Richard Nixon's historic visit to. Over twenty thousand people visited the X the first day they were on display, and an estimated 1.1 million visitors came to see them the first year they were in the United States. The X were wildly popular and China's gift was seen as an enormous diplomatic success, evidence of China's eagerness to establish official relations with the U.S

Identify the occasion and the person

Where would you find this?

• ____, born to parsi parents in amritsar, was an Indian military leader who was the first Indian Army officer to be promoted to the rank of Field Marshal. His distinguished military career spanned four decades and five wars, beginning with service in the British Indian Army in World War II. _______rose to be the 8th chief of staff of the Indian Army in 1969 and under his command, Indian forces conducted the victorious campaign in 1971.

Wats this?

• The ____ in 1948 was first major corruption case in independent India. V.K. Krishna Menon, the then Indian high commissioner to Britain, ignored protocols and signed a Rs 80 lakh contract for the purchase of X with a foreign firm

• A referendum on whether ______ should be an independent country will take place on Thursday 18 September 2014. Following an agreement between the ___ provincial Government and national Government, the _____ Independence Referendum Bill, setting out the arrangements for this referendum, was put forward on 21 March 2013, passed by the Parliament on 14 November 2013 and received Royal Assent on 17 December 2013.

• __________ is a computer worm discovered in June 2010 that is believed to have been created by United States and Israel agencies to attack Iran's nuclear facilities._____ initially spreads via Microsoft Windows, and targets Siemens industrial control systems.

• Has been described as the most sophisticated malware ever made by experts, who put its development costs at upwards of a million dollars.

• World of warcraft• Rajiv Gandhi • Avul pakir jainulabdeen• Mata hari• Calcutta• Gengis khan• Sun yat sen• Doubting thomas• Gadhafi/Gaddafi/Qaddhafi/Kadhafi etc etc etc

• Arafat, polonium poisoning• Byzantium/Constantinople/Istanbul• Panda diplomacy• Jesse Owens, 1936 summer olympics at berlin, gold. • UK, which has one cctv for every 11 people• Sam Manekshaw• 1960 presidential debate between Republican vice

president Richard Nixon and Democratic senator John F. Kennedy, first to be televised

• Jeep Scandal• AQ Khan, considered as the father of

Pakistan’s nukes.• Scotland• Stuxnet