Inquizzition college quiz prelims with answers

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  • 1. PRELIMS

2. Q.1 This scientist along with Lloyd Simonset up Palmon laboratories while they werein high school. They offered services to localdairies in sampling butterfat. Whichfamous scientist am I talking about? 3. Linus Pauling 4. Q.2 Who is the writer? 5. Q.3 Logo of which organization. 6. Anushilan Samiti 7. Q.4 Identify this fish. its name derivesfrom its unique style of catching prey 8. Archer Fish 9. Q.5* Karambir Singh Kang in 2010 wasawarded the Legion de Honor in 2010 forhis unwavering commitment to dutydespite personal loss. Who was he? 10. General manager of Taj during26/11 attacks 11. Q.6 X was amongst the foremost of female actors ofBritish India, and a legendary singer of both British Indiaand Pakistan. Fifty-five of her films were made inBombay, eight in Calcutta, five in Lahore and one inRangoon. She has more than 10,000 recordings to hercredit. X is in fact, her adopted stage name, the real onebeing Allah Wasai. Featured here, is a clip of hermelodious voice as she renders a folk tune from Punjab.Name X.(audio next slide) 12. Noorjehan 13. Q.7 According to one of the origin theories this fooditem was first prepared by a cook named X who was acook in the 18th century for Stanislaw Leszczynskiwhose son in law named them after her. Name please. 14. Madeleine 15. Q.8 Born as Lakshmi Narasimha VijayaRajagopala Sheshadri Sharma RajeshRaman he is a famous Indian rapper. He hasworked in films like Saathiya, Yuva, Rang DeBasanti,etc. How do we know him better? 16. Blaaze 17. Q.9 Identify this monstrous aircraftbelonging to the Indian air force 18. IL-76 or Gajraj 19. Q.10* Connect 20. Dhartipakad 21. Q.11 Id the Ad. 22. CNN 23. Q.12This dog is a hero inhis own right.Whats his name? 24. ZanjeerSaved thousands of lives during the serial bomb blasts inthe city in March 1993 by detecting more than 3,329 kgsof the explosive RDX, 600 detonators, 249 handgrenades and 6406 rounds of live ammunition. 25. Q.13 A Facebook warningSuspicious activity has been detected on your Facebookaccount and it has been temporarily suspended as a securityprecaution. It is likely that your account was compromised asa result of entering your password on a website designed tolook like Facebook. This type of attack is known as _______. 26. Phishing 27. Q.14This literary genre is a sub-category of science fiction,fantasy or science fantasy which takes place in the farfuture at either the end of life on Earth or the End ofTime, when the laws of the universe themselves fail.Themes of world-weariness, innocence(wounded or otherwise), idealism, entropy, (permanent)exhaustion/depletion of many or all resources (such assoil nutrients), and the hope of renewal tend to pre-dominate. 28. Dying Earth 29. Q.15* Borussia Dortmunds epic fan choreography and Tifodisplay in the Signal-Iduna-Park before the Malagasecond leg has rightly been praised across the planetbut there have been questions asked about where theidea came from. There have been suggestions on social networks thatthe Dortmund supporters copied the tifo from ACMilan. If the sign underneath read: Auf Den Spuren DesVerlorenen Henkelpotts-On The Trail Of The Lost Cupin the dortmund tifo, then what message did the milantifo display?(Pics next slide) 30. Dortmund BannerMilan Banner 31. WE ARE WATCHING YOU 32. Q.16 Identify both the singers 33. Khusboo Raaj & Rekha Jha 34. Q.17 After the $1 sale of the X" copyright to R&RPartners on November 9, 2004, the LVCVA paid$321,000 in attorneys fees because of aninvestigation into the legality of the controversialsale. The sale was later overturned by a federaljudge who claimed that the sale was made withoutthe knowledge of the board. A recent study byApplied Analysis shows that the advertisingefforts of the LVCVA return $26 for every $1 spent.Which ad campaign?(just give me X) 35. What Happens Here Stays Here 36. Q18.Id the painter. 37. Nandalal Bose 38. Q.19 Where would you find thismonument? 39. A-Bomb Dome of Hiroshima 40. Q.20*Identify the actress orher claim to fame. 41. Ashika SuryavanshaiThe Junglee Jawani Girl in Rockstar 42. Q.21 The production team of a noted Bollywood moviesent this letter to the Ministry of External Affairs andInformation and Broadcasting"there has been considerable confusion andmisunderstanding in regard to our film production Xand Mayos book not only are the two incompatiblebut totally different and indeed opposite. We haveintentionally called our film X as a challenge to thisbook."What is the title of the film or the book? 43. Mother India 44. Q.22 In 1372 by the papal bull "vox inexcelso" which famous Christianorganisation was officially banned oncharges of heresy, idolatry anddishonouring the cross? 45. Knights Templar 46. Q.23 The seventh panzer division commandedby Erwin Rommel had earned a nickname fortheir sheer speed and unpredictabilitywhich even the German high command hadproblems tracking.What nickname? 47. Ghost Division 48. Q.24 The syllable X means shadowsThe syllable Y, he who disperses them,Because of the power to disperse darknessthe XY is thus named. According toUpanishadaWhich term (XY) am I talking about? 49. Guru 50. Q.25 AnantavijayamPaundramDevdattamIdentify the other two in this exhaustive list. 51. Sughosh and Manipuspak 52. Q.26This great hornbill namedWilliam who lived in Indiafrom 1894 to 1920 wasknown for catching tennisballs thrown to him from adistance of almost 30 feetwith its beak. He was alsoknown as the office canary.He has been immortalizedin the logo of whichorganization? 53. Bombay Natural History Society 54. Q.27Which well known 1962 novel starts withthese amazing lines?I was the shadow of the waxwing slainBy the false azure in the windowpane 55. Who is he andwhat ishis claim to fame?Q.28 56. Bram Coheninventor of torrent 57. Q.29X is a non technical term for meteorologicalphenomenon of strong and persistent flow ofatmospheric moisture associated with heavyprecipitation adjacent to the Hawaiian islandextending along the Pacific coast.This also shares its name with a 2008 Americanmovie.What is X? 58. Q.30This is a cartoon that Wikipedia uses todemonstrate a very integral part of itsinformation policy. The phrase was writtenon the protesters placard which has beenremoved.What was written?