Cerebrum prelims answers

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GENERAL QUIZ PRELIMS-ANSWERS

Transcript of Cerebrum prelims answers

GENERAL QUIZ

PRELIMS-ANSWERS

The story goes that a Dublin theatre proprietor by the name of Richard Daly made a bet that he could, within forty-eight hours, make a nonsense word known throughout the city, and that the public would supply a meaning for it. After a performance one evening, he gave his staff cards with the word ‘X' written on them, and told them to write the word on walls around the city. The next day the strange word was the talk of the town, and within a short time it had become part of the language. What word ????

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What was significant about the words

"Watson, please come here, I want you." when spoken in 1876?

THE FIRST CONVERSATION THROUGH A TELEPHONE

What common word originates from the fact that ancient Greek poetry was usually recited with the music of the lyre ??

LYRICS

Which famous physicist’s epitaph (writing on the grave) reads as follows ????

“He lies somewhere here”

Which famous physicist’s epitaph (writing on the grave) reads “He lies somewhere here”?

Heisenberg, the one brought about the uncertainty principle

X was a song first published in 1744. It almost certainly dates back to the Middle Ages, perhaps to the 13th Century, and relates to a tax forced on ------. One-third went to the local noble, one-third to the cathedral and approximately a third was for the farmer….

Just gimme the song X

BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP

When stainless steel was introduced in India, it was marketed under a name which suggested that it would not tarnish, unlike preferred metals of the day such as brass. The name continues to enjoy some vogue as a synonym for stainless steel in South India. What term?

EVER SILVER

MUGGLE QUIDDITCH

What do these numbers correspond to?256, 271, 323, 342, 362, 406, 483, 512

The frequencies of the seven swaras -Sa, Re, Ga, Ma, Pa, Dha, Ni, Sa.

X is a model village on the south side of Birmingham, England, best known for its connections with the Cadbury.

Research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has claimed that it is “One of the nicest places to live in Britain.”

The Cadburys named the village ‘X' after the brooke which flowed through it.

BOURNE VILLE

Which was the first fully privately owned Television channel in India when it emerged in 1993. It remains the most viewed TV channel in the world in its language and is part of Rs 16000-crore network

SUN TV

A demon, Sahasra Kavacha, got a boon for 1000 armors. It was said that it would take 1000 years to break each Kavacha and that the one to destroy it would die instantly. So Nara and Naryana do this: one does a penance for 1000 years while the other fights for a thousand years to break one armor. He dies, but the 1000 year penance is used to revive him. They alternate roles and keep at it. They break 999 armors when the demon hides behind Surya to escape. Luckily, there is the pralaya and he escapes death (so to speak) and is reborn as X.

KARNA

• It is believed that the __________ carries with it a curse and only when in the possession of a woman will the curse not work. All the men who owned it have either lost their throne or had other misfortunes befall them. Queen Victoria is the only reigning monarch to have possessed it. According to the legend, if the monarch is a male, it is passed to his spouse.

• The possibility of a curse pertaining to ownership of the _____dates back to a Hindu text relating to the first authenticated appearance of the ______ in 1306: "He who owns this will own the world, but will also know all its misfortunes. Only God, or a woman, can wear it with impunity."

The Ko-hi-noor

EDELWEISS

This phrase was originally in usage by highway robbers in England while stopping their victims on the road and commanding them to hand over their valuables ”_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ,your money or your life” .

The phrase has evolved and is used in a different meaning and now predominantly in cricket commentary !!! what phrase ???

STAND AND DELIVER

Connect Cedric Pioline, Hagar's wife, Lady Ivanhoe from Ivanhoe,Antonio Salazar.

THEY FORMED THE BASIS FOR THE NAMES FOR THE FOUNDERS OF THE HOGWARTS HOUSES

RUBIK 360

Gunter's chain is a measuring device used for land survey. It was designed and introduced in 1620 by English clergyman and mathematician Edmund Gunter long before the development of more sophisticated equipments to accurately survey land plots.

Today, the Gunter Chain's most famous legacy is that it gave us the accurate length of X.

TO MEASURE THE LENGTH OF THE CRICKET PITCH

The 1984 and 1985-86 cricket series in West Indies and England are popularly known as X because of the result instead of Y, a name by which these kind of results are generally known as.West Indies under Lloyd had Richards, Garner, Marshall and Holding. England under the leadership of Gower had Botham, Lamb, Gatting and Emburey.Give me X n Y and the funda.

BLACK WASH

Trygve LieDag HammarskjöldU ThantKurt WaldheimJavier Pérez de CuéllarBoutros Boutros-Ghali __________________

Kofi Annan, Ban Ki-moon

Secretaries-General of the UN.

INTERROBANG