PRELIMS

30 QUESTIONS IN ALL

15 BY JAYASHREE MOHANKA

15 BY DHRUV MOOKERJI

NO NEGATIVE MARKS

HALF MARKS FOR ALL PART ANSWERS

QUESTIONS 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 AND 30 ARE STARRED

IN CASE OF TIED SCORES, TEAMS WITH MORE CORECT STARRED ANSWERS WILL QUALIFY.

IN CASE THOSE ARE TIED, THEN SUDDEN DEATH

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THE JM-15

He was born on 15th April but his birthday is

celebrated on Kartik Purnima. Who?

Question 1

Which date is observed in China as ‘Singles’ day’?

Which website enjoys record-breaking sales on

this day?

Question 2

Whose Lithograph was used as the symbol of the

International Peace Conference held at Paris in 1949?

Question 3

Sony Pictures was in a hack attack and threats over

which movie in December 2014? Why?

Question 4

The 1490 edition of Aesop’s fables had a story about 2 guys

who sell a ____ skin before killing the ____ This gave

rise to the expression ____ skin jobbers and then ____

Fill in the word (Same word in all the blanks)

Question 5**

When you need reading glasses, what is the

medical condition called? Word origin?

Question 6

Hindi acronyms are all the rage now. Where would you

have come across Pratyaksh Hanstantrit Labh?

Question 7

India are current holders of the Cricket World Cup - both in

T20 (2012) and ODI (2014).

Which Indian team?

Question 8

SBI signed an MOU to fund Adani’s Australia project.

From an environmental point of view, the project is

controversial for the route it will employ to move coal.

What stands threatened as a result of this route?

Question 9

St. Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897) was a French Carmelite

nun. Her nickname is known to through a number of

schools. What was her nickname?

Question 10**

The ‘swan’ dress that she wore to the Oscars in 2001, to

much ridicule is now part of a retrospective at MOMA in 2015.

ID the performer.

Bigger pic

In next slide

Question 11

As per Thomas Talhelm from the University of Virginia,

societies are individualistic or co-operation-oriented

depending on the whether the main crop grown is X or

Y.

Which two staple crops?

Question 12

In 1900 there were only two African countries that were

independent, one in the West and one in the East.

Name them.

Question 13

The Guardian parodied this ad. Their version is on the

next slide. Which word has been blanked out there?

Question 14

Which word has

been blanked out?

Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands, boasts of Casa - - - - - - - - - -

, supposedly built by Sam Benady, European champion, who

sold it to him, and won it back from him in a day. Fill in the blanks

Question 15**

THE DM-15

This popular dessert, when spelt correctly, has the

following 3 accents in its spelling.

Grave : `

Acute : ´

Circumflex : ˆ

Two-word name. What?

Question 16

Who recently paid Ambuja a reported 20 crores to use the

Ambuja Cement factory furnace in Chandrapur,

Maharashtra for a one-time operation?

Either tell me who approached Ambuja or what was the

one-time operation?

Question 17

This man went viral some years back. Either name him, or the the actor who has recently popularised him.

Question 19

Question 20**

The first place in the world to legislate that great apes be given legal personhood, with recognition of human rights.

The map is on the next slide. Name the place.

Question 21

What is this a memory aid for?

A book on cocktails named with word plays on nursery rhymes. What word has been blanked out?

Question 23

Identify

Question 26

This is Beckham felicitating a non-Briton at the Daily

Mirror Pride of Britain Awards 2 years ago. Who?

Question 29