PRELIMINARY ROUND26 QUESTIONS IN A-Z FORMATX,P,L,O,R,I,C,A are * questions

This is the Japanese word for Red, a reason for a famous Japanese company to use RED in its logo

[HINT: this is also known as “also known as”]

AKA/a.k.a

What was he referring to?

Extract from 1962 issue of American Legion magazine:Allan W. Eckert wrote that the flight leader had been heard saying, "We are entering white water, nothing seems right. We don't know where we are, the water is green, no white.“

He also wrote that officials at the Navy board of inquiry stated that the planes "flew off to Mars."

BERMUDA TRAINGLE

X(2 words) panel consists of an insulator such as glass, coated with a transparent conductor such

as indium tin oxide (ITO). As the human body is also an electrical conductor, touching the surface of the

screen results in a distortion of the screen's electrostatic field, measurable as a change

in Y, one cannot use a X through most types of electrically insulating material, such as gloves. This

disadvantage especially affects usability in consumer electronics in cold weather.

CAPACITIVE TOUCHSCREENS

DJANGO

The fifth letter of the greek alphabet is the source for a currency. Give both the alphabet and the currency

Hint: Absolute dielectric permittivity

EPSILON/EURO

Identify this famous Italian mathematician

FIBONACCI

This epic novel is set in 1920's during the British Raj, about the breakdown of socio-economic structures, impact of industrialization and non-cooperation movement in

rural Bengal. Later adapted into a film by Tarun Mazumdar, its author earned the Jnanpith award for this literary creation in 1966

GANADEVATA

"Jambo Bwana" (in Swahili "Hello Mister") is one of the best internationally known Kenyan pop songs, initially released by the Kenyan Band Them Mushrooms, and later covered by Mombasa

Roots, Boney M. The song repeats a common phrase, in fact that phrase was also used as a title later.What phrase?

HAKUNA MATATA

India is believed to be the oldest centre for this in whole World, though off late El Salvador is the largest producer of this, In the mid-1660s, when

Newton bought a pair of prisms at a fair near Cambridge, the East India Company had begun importing THIS into England, He linked

the prismatic observation to the seven notes of a western major scale, with THIS as one of

the semitones. The use of THIS word was added to the English dictionary in the 13th century, and

its actual position is said to be controversial. What am I referring to?

INDIGO

Anil Ambani owns this ‘2’ word chain X Y, James Gosling consumes a lot of this, and though there

was a Oak tree beside his house for the initial naming, he chose to name his language Y, and

later changed it to X. Give XY.

JAVA GREEN

What do you call the term “Children” in German?

KINDER

This is an Indian e-commerce company started by Peyush Bansal, founded in November 2010 with its head quarters in New Delhi. It has 7 offline franchise owned stores and planning to set up 100 retail stores to

strengthen its offline presence. Its parent company is Valyoo Technologies, recently it started a program of sending specialists to customers home via online booking, charging just INR 100. Which company?

LENSKART

Her name is Maria, she began her own type of education system that bears/derives from her surname.

Nitro-cellulose is a film forming polymer, this serves as the main ingredient of what?

NAIL POLISH

It is the first Indian University to have Urdu as the medium of instruction, established and named after the last Nizam of Hyderabad in 1918, with students

from more than 80 nations its list of alumni include PV Narashima Rao, Harsha Bhogle, Mohammad

Azharuddin, Shyam Benegal, Rakesh Sharma, Diana Hayden, Y V Reddy among the few. Name the famous

university

OSMANIA UNIVERSITY

Obesity hypoventilation syndrome defines a condition in which severely overweight people fail to breathe rapidly enough or deeply enough, resulting in

low blood oxygen levels and high blood CO2 levels. Many people with this condition also frequently stop breathing altogether for short periods of time during sleep resulting in many partial awakenings during the night, which leads to continual sleepiness during the day. What was the syndrome initially known as?[ It had its reference from a Charles Dickens’ character

Joe — the "fat boy" who consumes great quantities of food and constantly falls asleep at any time of day]

PICKWICKEAN SYNDROME

When Sujoy Ghosh offered Saswata Chatterjee the role for Bob Biswas in Kahaani 2 he rejected the fact being “Bob is dead”, however Scarecrow communications

was successful to bring back Bob Biswas in front of the Television audience. How?

QUICKR’S MISS CALL AD LAUNCH

Which cricketer has faced the maximum number of balls in Test Cricket?A) Rahul DravidB) Ricky Ponting

Japp Stockman, the Holland GK nominated

Sardar Singh for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

recently, Sardar took up the challenge at the Major Dhyan Chand

National Stadium and nominated 3 people,

John Abhraham, Teun de Nooijer being 2 of them,

who was the 3rd ?

Which Indian is used as a reference for the song “We can do it” by Mel Brooks from his album “The Producers”

TENZING NORGAY

Shankar worked in Uganda Railways, Chatur Ramalingam was from Uganda, the Uganda cricket team celebrating after winning their first ICC Event.

LINK: UGANDA

I don’t need the name of the person

on the left, but a commodity is

named after him founded in 1997 in Poland. What is the

product?

VODKA

The first general secretary of London Indian Society, he is/was the first Indian to contest elections in the British House of Commons, he made

two attempts to enter the British Parliament but in vain. Who is/was he?

WOMESH CHANDRA BONNERJEE

Follow the pattern to crack the blank:-

Real Madrid : Gareth Bale Barcelona : Neymar De Silva

Manchester United: Adnan JanuzajBayern Munich: _______

Xherdan Shaqiri(Bayern Munich’s jersey number 11)

How do you better know Rodney Agatupu Anoa?OR

The __________ list contains 71 names in total from 18th century, Haguroyama Masaji was 36th in that list and served the highest dignity for the

longest term.

YOKOZUNA

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