1. General Quiz - Prelims

2. 1) Nuba Mountains (also referred to as the Nuba Hills) is an area located in SouthKordofan, Sudan. The area is home to a group of indigenous ethnic groups knowncollectively as the Nuba peoples. In the 18th century, Nuba Mountains becamehome to the kingdom of Taqali that controlled the hills of the mountains untiltheir defeat by Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad. After the Mahdis defeat by theBritish, Taqali was restored as a client state. Infiltration of the Messiria tribe ofBaggara Arabs has been influential in modern conflicts.The people of Nuba Mountains (a five mountain chain rising from the desert to1000 meters (3000 feet) were not aligned with the north under shari law nor theArabic language. This cultural dispute was in part the reason for people in Nubabeing prosecuted by indiscriminate bombing, attacks on civilians and mines atentry points to Nuba Mountains. In 2002, due to the extreme starvation of thepeople of Nuba Mountains and under the international pressure from the UN,Khartom under President Bashir (at that time, the government was termed theNational Islamic Front) authorized an interim cease fire to provide food andmedical equipment/support to the people of Nuba MountainsX was in the news last week in connection to this. Id X. 3. 2) Xs novel on one of Asias oldest cities features amember of the Y community in every alternatechapter, as the protagonists lover. Persons belongingto the Y, owe allegiance to their guru and worshipBahuchara Mata in the north and Renuka in the south.The patron goddess is shown with a rooster as herseat, symbolizing innocence and her devotees are saidto bring fertility and good luck. A popular iconographyof Lord Shiva is said to originate from Y. 4. 3 5. 4)* Connect usinga single word. 6. 5) In 1976, X parted ways with the Congress and in 1977, he was elected to theParliament from Lucknow constituency. He was subsequently appointed as CabinetMinister in the Department of Petroleum and Chemicals by the Prime MinisterMorarji Desai. His brief stint as Petroleum Minister saw various projects whichenabled the country to achieve self-sufficiency in Petroleum products. 1979 saw himas the Finance Minister with the Union Government of India. But by then the JantaParty was Plagued with conflicts amongst several Pressure groups. Disenchanted wasX again and Indira Gandhi took pains in convincing him that the Congress still stood byits ideals of socialism, and secularism. Thus the spirit was brought back in to the body.Y was born to X and Kamla ______ on July 22, 1949. She holds an MA and a PhD inHistory and is a professor in Medieval/ Modern History in University of Allahabad. Sheis also a recipient of U.N. Award of Excellence as "Most Distinguished Women in SouthAsia".Z did his bachelors Arts and then LLB from Allahabad University in Allahabad, UttarPradesh. He then started working as an advocate in the Allahabad High Court inAllahabad. He later became a Judge of the Allahabad High Court, later transferring tobecome a judge of the Bombay High Court. His desire to join public life led to hisresignation from High Court in 1998. Id this famous political family. Y and Z were innews recently. 7. 6) Mr. Clements AttleeBritish Prime Minister10 Downing Street, LondonDear Mr. Attlee,I understand from a most reliable source that Subhash ChandraBose,your war criminal, has been allowed to enter Russian territorybyStalin. This is a clear treachery and betrayal of faith by theRussians as Russia has been an ally of the British- Americans,whichshe should not have done.Please take care of it and do what you consider proper and fit.Yours sincerely,XID X. 8. 7) William Congreve was an English playwright and poet. He wrote some of the most popularEnglish plays of the Restoration period of the late 17th century. By the age of thirty, he hadwritten four comedies, including Love for Love (premiered 30 April 1695) and The Way of theWorld (premiered 1700), and one tragedy, The Mourning Bride (1697).Two of Congreves turns of phrase from The Mourning Bride (1697) have become famous,albeit frequently in misquotation, One of these occurs in the following part:As youll answer it, take heedThis Slave commit no Violence uponHimself. Ive been deceivd. The Publick SafetyRequires he should be more confind; and none,No not the Princes self, permitted toConfer with him. Ill quit you to the King.Vile and ingrate! too late thou shalt repentThe base Injustice thou hast done my Love:Yes, thou shalt know, spite of thy past Distress,And all those Ills which thou so long hast mournd;____________________________________________________________Many attribute the quote to William ShakespeareGive the modern day paraphrasing of the quote. 9. 8) realitytoursandtravels.com is a touragency which was established inJanuary 2006. Theyre based inMumbai and claim to show the side ofMumbai that you wont find in yourguide books. What is their USP. 10. 9) In 2009, X, who played Y in a 1996 movie,told a BAFTA interviewer that he played Y asa closeted gay man whose outbursts ofviolence were due to his "fear of beingouted". The author, who wrote the moviessource novel, confirmed that he wrote the Yof the book to have an ambiguous sexuality,and agreed with Xs interpretation of thefilms version of the character. 11. 10) Gads Hill PlaceHigham by Rochester, KentMonday nightFourteenth September, 1863My Dear Sir:Since my hall clock was sent to your establishment to be cleanedit has gone (as indeed it always has) perfectly well, but hasstruck the hours with great reluctance, and after enduringinternal agonies of a most distressing nature, it has now ceasedstriking altogether. Though a happy release for the clock, this isnot convenient to the household. If you can send down anyconfidential person with whom the clock can confer, I think itmay have something on its works that it would be glad to makea clean breast of.Faithfully yours,X 12. 11) XY is a suggested cognitive limit to the number ofpeople with whom one can maintain stable socialrelationships. These are relationships in which anindividual knows who each person is, and how each personrelates to every other person. Proponents assert thatnumbers larger than this generally require more restrictiverules, laws, and enforced norms to maintain a stable,cohesive group. No precise value has been proposed forXY. It has been proposed to lie between 100 and 230, witha commonly used value of 150. XY states the number ofpeople one knows and keeps social contact with, and itdoes not include the number of people known personallywith a ceased social relationship, nor people just generallyknown with a lack of persistent social relationship, anumber which might be much higher and likely dependson long-term memory size. 13. 12) * X were apparently being, and are still are beingmelted to convert them into Y and then being sold in smallvillages throughout the country and also being smuggledfrom India across to neighboring countries such asBangladesh, Myanmar and Nepal. It was estimated thatthe volume of this activity was one of the major reasonsfor the shortage of X and its other varieties and promptedits banning in December 2010. Due to an increase in theprice of Ferritic steel, it was also becoming more profitableto melt higher variations of X and then convert them into Y.Police raids in 2009 and 2010 had revealed several suchshops in Calcutta engaged in smuggling and sale of these.This prompted the government to change the compositionof X itself. Id X and Y. 14. 13) Some scholars claim Xs date back to 697,though the first accepted documented referenceappeared in 1094. No-one, however, can agree onwhere the name comes from - some say it hasMaltese or Turkish origins, others that it comesfrom the Greek for "cup" or "mussel"."Moths of which coffins might have been thechrysalis," mused Shelley in 1818.In a landmark judgement in August 2010, mother-of-two Giorgia Boscolo, 24, was allowed to join theexclusive gang after a passing a yearlong series ofpractical and written tests. 15. 14) * Duggan, also known as "Starrish Mark" was a drug dealer andfounding member of North Londons "Star Gang",an offshoot of theMandem gang. The Telegraph has cited unnamed police sourcesclaiming that Duggan was a "well known gangster" and a "major playerand well known to the police in". Duggan was a nephew of deceasedManchester gangland boss Desmond Noonan.Operation Trident had Duggan under surveillance, suspecting that hewas planning to commit a crime connected with the death of hiscousin Kelvin Easton, who was stabbed to death outside a bar in March2011. Duggan was increasingly paranoid as a consequence of hiscousins violent death. The Telegraph claimed that Duggan was boundto avenge the death by the "street code" of the gang.Duggans family denounced the allegations against Duggan as"disinformation", claiming that he was "not a gang member and hehad no criminal record"Officers of the Metropolitan Police Service stopped a minicab whichwas carrying Duggan as a passenger to attempt to arrest him. In thecourse of the ensuing incident, the police fired twice, killing Dugganwith a single gunshot to the chest. Paramedics from the AmbulanceService and medical staff from the Helicopter Emergency MedicalService attended, but Duggan was pronounced dead at the scene.What resulted thus? 16. 15) X is a show tune from the 1937 RichardRodgers and Lorenz Hart musical Babes in Arms inwhich it was introduced by former child star MitziGreen. After being recorded by Chet Baker, FrankSinatra, and Miles Davis, the song became apopular jazz standard, appearing on over 1300albums performed by over 600 artists.This is the version sung by Y in the movie Z byAnthony Minghella which was an adaptation of a1955 movie of the same name 17. 17) The first part of the name of this city comes from theSanskrit word for cow while the latter has twomeanings: one in Sanksrit which means "hold" or "land"and the other in Hindi which means "flow". So, identicallyit means The Land of the Cow.The town has four bethaks (temples) for VaishnavSampraday (Vaisnal Community). Two bethaks are of LordGokulnathji, and one each for Lord Gusaiji and LordMahaprabhuji. X is the only city in India that has all threebhaitaks of the mahaprabhuji ,gusianji,and andgokulnathji. X also has three beautiful Jain temples. Themain idol (Mul Nayak) in the main Jain Temple is that ofTirthankar Bhagawan Shantinath.Which is this religious city? 18. 18) * Novak Djokovic- Rafael Nadal Fabrice Santoro- Arnaud Clement X-Y? Stefan Edberg-Michael Chang 19. 19) * "Let Them Talk", which consists of classic blues songs,was released on 9 May 2011. Some of the songs arecollaborations with well known artists such as Tom Jones,Irma Thomas and Dr. John. X plays piano and guitar on thealbum in addition to providing lead vocals. Kevin Breitplays guitar and Vincent Henry plays saxophones. Thealbum was produced by Joe Henry and features hornarrangements by Allen Toussaint."Let Them Talk" was the biggest-selling blues album of2011 in the UK, with sales of 192,000 copies.Id the Artist. 20. 20) The presence of a double or bifidzygomaticus major muscle is a primaryreason. This bifid variation of the muscleoriginated as a single structure from thezygomatic bone. As it travels anteriorly, itthen divides with the superior bundle thatinserts in the typical position and an inferiorbundle that inserts below the corner. Whatdoes this cause? 21. Nuba Mountains (also referred to as the Nuba Hills) is an area located in SouthKordofan, Sudan. The area is home to a group of indigenous ethnic groups knowncollectively as the Nuba peoples. In the 18th century, Nuba Mountains becamehome to the kingdom of Taqali that controlled the hills of the mountains until theirdefeat by Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad. After the Mahdis defeat by the British,Taqali was restored as a client state. Infiltration of the Messiria tribe of BaggaraArabs has been influential in modern conflicts.The people of Nuba Mountains (a five mountain chain rising from the desert to1000 meters (3000 feet) were not aligned with the north under shari law nor theArabic language. This cultural dispute was in part the reason for people in Nubabeing prosecuted by indiscriminate bombing, attacks on civilians and mines atentry points to Nuba Mountains. In 2002, due to the extreme starvation of thepeople of Nuba Mountains and under the international pressure from the UN,Khartom under President Bashir (at that time, the government was termed theNational Islamic Front) authorized an interim cease fire to provide food andmedical equipment/support to the people of Nuba MountainsX was in the news last week in connection to this. Id X. 22. Xs novel on one of Asias oldest cities features amember of the Y community in every alternate chapter,as the protagonists lover. Persons belonging to the Y,owe allegiance to their guru and worship BahucharaMata in the north and Renuka in the south. The patrongoddess is shown with a rooster as her seat,symbolizing innocence and her devotees are said tobring fertility and good luck. A popular iconography ofLord Shiva is said to originate from Y.Hint: The child of Aphrodite and Hermes gave rise tothe name of this community 23. X- Khushwant Singh, DelhiY- HijrasLord Shiva is depicted as Ardhanarisvara (Half man-halfwoman). Hermaphroditus is the son of Hermes andAphrodite. 24. Only clubs to have won the European Cup athome 25. Connect using asingle word. 26. In 1976, X parted ways with the Congress and in 1977, he was elected to theParliament from Lucknow constituency. He was subsequently appointed asCabinet Minister in the Department of Petroleum and Chemicals by thePrime Minister Morarji Desai. His brief stint as Petroleum Minister sawvarious projects which enabled the country to achieve self-sufficiency inPetroleum products. 1979 saw him as the Finance Minister with the UnionGovernment of India. But by then the Janta Party was Plagued with conflictsamongst several Pressure groups. Disenchanted was X again and IndiraGandhi took pains in convincing him that the Congress still stood by its idealsof socialism, and secularism. Thus the spirit was brought back in to the body.Y was born to X and Kamla ______ on July 22, 1949. She holds an MA and aPhD in History and is a professor in Medieval/ Modern History in University ofAllahabad. She is also a recipient of U.N. Award of Excellence as "MostDistinguished Women in South Asia".Z did his bachelors Arts and then LLB from Allahabad University in Allahabad,Uttar Pradesh. He then started working as an advocate in the Allahabad HighCourt in Allahabad. He later became a Judge of the Allahabad High Court,later transferring to become a judge of the Bombay High Court. His desire tojoin public life led to his resignation from High Court in 1998. Id this famouspolitical family. Y and Z were in news recently. 27. X - Hemvati Nandan BahugunaY Rita Bahuguna JoshiZ Vijay Bahuguna 28. Mr. Clements AttleeBritish Prime Minister10 Downing Street, LondonDear Mr. Attlee,I understand from a most reliable source that Subhash ChandraBose,your war criminal, has been allowed to enter Russian territorybyStalin. This is a clear treachery and betrayal of faith by theRussians as Russia has been an ally of the British- Americans,whichshe should not have done.Please take care of it and do what you consider proper and fit.Yours sincerely,XID X. 29. William Congreve was an English playwright and poet. He wrote some of themost popular English plays of the Restoration period of the late 17th century.By the age of thirty, he had written four comedies, including Love for Love(premiered 30 April 1695) and The Way of the World (premiered 1700), andone tragedy, The Mourning Bride (1697).Two of Congreves turns of phrase from The Mourning Bride (1697) havebecome famous, albeit frequently in misquotation, One of these occurs in thefollowing part:As youll answer it, take heedThis Slave commit no Violence uponHimself. Ive been deceivd. The Publick SafetyRequires he should be more confind; and none,No not the Princes self, permitted toConfer with him. Ill quit you to the King.Vile and ingrate! too late thou shalt repentThe base Injustice thou hast done my Love:Yes, thou shalt know, spite of thy past Distress,And all those Ills which thou so long hast mournd;____________________________________________________________Many attribute the quote to William ShakespeareGive the modern day paraphrasing of the quote. 30. realitytoursandtravels.com is a touragency which was established inJanuary 2006. Theyre based inMumbai and claim to show the side ofMumbai that you wont find in yourguide books. What is their USP. 31. In 2009, X, who played Y in a 1996 movie,told a BAFTA interviewer that he played Y asa closeted gay man whose outbursts ofviolence were due to his "fear of beingouted". The author, who wrote the moviessource novel, confirmed that he wrote the Yof the book to have an ambiguous sexuality,and agreed with Xs interpretation of thefilms version of the character. 32. Gads Hill PlaceHigham by Rochester, KentMonday nightFourteenth September, 1863My Dear Sir:Since my hall clock was sent to your establishment to be cleanedit has gone (as indeed it always has) perfectly well, but hasstruck the hours with great reluctance, and after enduringinternal agonies of a most distressing nature, it has now ceasedstriking altogether. Though a happy release for the clock, this isnot convenient to the household. If you can send down anyconfidential person with whom the clock can confer, I think itmay have something on its works that it would be glad to makea clean breast of.Faithfully yours,X 33. XY is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of peoplewith whom one can maintain stable social relationships.These are relationships in which an individual knows whoeach person is, and how each person relates to every otherperson. Proponents assert that numbers larger than thisgenerally require more restrictive rules, laws, and enforcednorms to maintain a stable, cohesive group. No precisevalue has been proposed for XY. It has been proposed to liebetween 100 and 230, with a commonly used value of 150.XY states the number of people one knows and keepssocial contact with, and it does not include the number ofpeople known personally with a ceased social relationship,nor people just generally known with a lack of persistentsocial relationship, a number which might be much higherand likely depends on long-term memory size. 34. Dunbars Number 35. X were apparently being, and are still are being melted toconvert them into Y and then being sold in small villagesthroughout the country and also being smuggled fromIndia across to neighboring countries such as Bangladesh,Myanmar and Nepal. It was estimated that the volume ofthis activity was one of the major reasons for the shortageof X and its other varieties and prompted its banning inDecember 2010. Due to an increase in the price of Ferriticsteel, it was also becoming more profitable to melt highervariations of X and then convert them into Y. Police raids in2009 and 2010 had revealed several such shops in Calcuttaengaged in smuggling and sale of these. This prompted thegovernment to change the composition of X itself. Id X andY. 36. X 25 Paise CoinsY Razor Blades 37. Some scholars claim Xs date back to 697, thoughthe first accepted documented referenceappeared in 1094. No-one, however, can agree onwhere the name comes from - some say it hasMaltese or Turkish origins, others that it comesfrom the Greek for "cup" or "mussel"."Moths of which coffins might have been thechrysalis," mused Shelley in 1818.In a landmark judgement in August 2010, mother-of-two Giorgia Boscolo, 24, was allowed to join theexclusive gang after a passing a yearlong series ofpractical and written tests. 38. Duggan, also known as "Starrish Mark" was a drug dealer and foundingmember of North Londons "Star Gang",an offshoot of theMandem gang. The Telegraph has cited unnamed police sourcesclaiming that Duggan was a "well known gangster" and a "major playerand well known to the police in". Duggan was a nephew of deceasedManchester gangland boss Desmond Noonan.Operation Trident had Duggan under surveillance, suspecting that hewas planning to commit a crime connected with the death of hiscousin Kelvin Easton, who was stabbed to death outside a bar in March2011. Duggan was increasingly paranoid as a consequence of hiscousins violent death. The Telegraph claimed that Duggan was boundto avenge the death by the "street code" of the gang.Duggans family denounced the allegations against Duggan as"disinformation", claiming that he was "not a gang member and hehad no criminal record"Officers of the Metropolitan Police Service stopped a minicab whichwas carrying Duggan as a passenger to attempt to arrest him. In thecourse of the ensuing incident, the police fired twice, killing Dugganwith a single gunshot to the chest. Paramedics from the AmbulanceService and medical staff from the Helicopter Emergency MedicalService attended, but Duggan was pronounced dead at the scene.What resulted thus? 39. X is a show tune from the 1937 Richard Rodgersand Lorenz Hart musical Babes in Arms in which itwas introduced by former child star Mitzi Green.After being recorded by Chet Baker, Frank Sinatra,and Miles Davis, the song became a popular jazzstandard, appearing on over 1300 albumsperformed by over 600 artists.This is the version sung by Y in the movie Z byAnthony Minghella which was an adaptation of a1955 movie of the same name 40. The first part of the name of this city comes from theSanskrit word for cow while the latter has twomeanings: one in Sanksrit which means "hold" or "land"and the other in Hindi which means "flow". So, identicallyit means The Land of the Cow.The town has four bethaks (temples) for VaishnavSampraday (Vaisnal Community). Two bethaks are of LordGokulnathji, and one each for Lord Gusaiji and LordMahaprabhuji. X is the only city in India that has all threebhaitaks of the mahaprabhuji ,gusianji,and andgokulnathji. X also has three beautiful Jain temples. Themain idol (Mul Nayak) in the main Jain Temple is that ofTirthankar Bhagawan Shantinath.Which is this religious city? 41. Novak Djokovic- Rafael Nadal Fabrice Santoro- Arnaud Clement X-Y? Stefan Edberg-Michael Chang 42. "Let Them Talk", which consists of classic blues songs, wasreleased on 9 May 2011. Some of the songs arecollaborations with well known artists such as Tom Jones,Irma Thomas and Dr. John. X plays piano and guitar on thealbum in addition to providing lead vocals. Kevin Breitplays guitar and Vincent Henry plays saxophones. Thealbum was produced by Joe Henry and features hornarrangements by Allen Toussaint."Let Them Talk" was the biggest-selling blues album of2011 in the UK, with sales of 192,000 copies.Id the Artist. 43. The presence of a double or bifidzygomaticus major muscle is a primaryreason. This bifid variation of themuscle originated as a single structurefrom the zygomatic bone. As it travelsanteriorly, it then divides with thesuperior bundle that inserts in thetypical position and an inferior bundlethat inserts below the corner. Whatdoes this cause? 44. Cheek Dimples