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THE PRELIMS

STANDING RULES• 20 QUESTIONS IN PRELIMS. 1,5,10,15 AND 20 ARE STAR

MARKED. EIGHT TEAMS MAKE IT TO THE FINALS.• APOLOGIES IN ADVANCE FOR ANY QUESTIONS THAT

COULDN’T RESIST THE INFLUENCE OF THE ESOTERIC.• INCORRECT ANSWERS WHICH MANAGE TO EXCITE THE

QUIZMASTER’S HIGHLY EVOLVED SENSE OF HUMOUR SHALL BE REWARDED WITH THE CRUDEST PRIZE OF THEM ALL: A BANANA.

(1)** A Question from my Old Monks’ for the sake of flimsy

continuity: A Google search on this person hardly yields any result but

contrary to that, he was quite the politician and was the first Communications Minister of free India and due to a strange legal quirk, all the institutes of national importance came under his direct control. As a result, it came upon him to take control of our institute when it was formally granted the University Status in 1948. (Until then, technically, our college was a part of the Allahabad University.)

How has he been immortalized in the institute?

HAFEEZ MOHAMMAD IBRAHIM

(2)

The name ____ comes from the Italian language word batacchio or bataccio — called the _____ in English — a club-like object composed of two wooden slats used in commedia dell'arte. When struck, the battacchio produces a loud smacking noise, though little force transfers from the object to the person being struck. Actors may thus hit one another repeatedly with great audible effect while causing very little actual physical damage. Along with the inflatable bladder (of which the whoopee cushion is a modern variant), it was among the earliest special effects.

SLAP-STICK

(3) ______is a former city on the Crimean Peninsula and part of the city of

Sevastopol. It was a city in its own right until 1957 when it was formally incorporated into the municipal borders of Sevastopol by the Soviet government. It also is an administrative center of Bakalava Raion that used to be part of the Crimean Oblast before it was transferred to Sevastopol Municipality.

The first European to discover ______ was Spanish sea captain Juan ____ in 1503, after whom the islands are named. He claimed the apparently uninhabited islands for the Spanish Empire. Although he paid two visits to the archipelago, _____ never landed on the islands, because he did not want to risk crossing over the dangerous reef surrounding them. Subsequent Spanish or other European parties are believed to have released pigs there, which had become feral and abundant on the island by the time European settlement began.

PIECES OF CLOTHING NAMED AFTER PLACES

(4)

X et Philosophi Lapis X et Camera Secretorum

HARRY POTTER BOOKS IN LATIN

(5)** X (6 October 1820 – 2 November 1887), better known as Y, was a Swedish

opera singer, often known as the "Swedish Nightingale". One of the most highly regarded singers of the 19th century, she performed in soprano roles in opera in Sweden and across Europe, and undertook an extraordinarily popular concert tour of America beginning in 1850. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music from 1840.

She became famous after her performance in Der Freischütz in Sweden in 1838. She was in great demand in opera roles throughout Sweden and northern Europe during the 1840s, and was closely associated with Felix Mendelssohn. After two acclaimed seasons in London, she announced her retirement from opera at the age of 29.

Her fame led to many objects in art and architecture being dedicated to her.

Jenny Lind

(6)

Two versions of origins of the term: A street in Yokohama catering to the pleasures

of sailors named Honchio____

Hunky Dory

(7)

“True love begins from the eyes and then transcends to the heart. This was the concept when I wrote the song,” the artist’s only known take on his magnum opus.

(8)

The club was a cricket club when it formed in 1820 as The X Cricket Club headed by Gerald Hamilton of Leigh, Lancashire. A midweek meeting on the evening of 4 September 1867 at the Adelphi Hotel established a footballing side to keep the team together and fit during the winter months. They played their first match against The Mechanics on 19 October the same year.

SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY

(9)

Whose Filmography?• Mirza-The Untold Story• Tu Mera 22 Mai Tera 22• Boss• The Expose• Zorawar

SHRI SHRI YO YO HONEY SINGH

(10)**

Possible Etymological origins:• The Roman Law Lex Regia required the child

of the mother dead in childbirth to be cut from her womb.

• A famous king who apparently lends his name had his birth related to this term.

Caesarian

(11)

What is unique about the King of Hearts among his peers?

The Only King without a Moustache

(12)

What is special about the movie ‘Pehla Nasha’ which had Deepak Tijori in the lead?

Shahrukh Khan-As HimselfAamir Khan-As Himself

(13)

Longwood, X was chosen as a site for an aerial observatory by Edmond Halley due to a strange combination of it being a desolate spot but yet being served well by numerous ships which had it as their compulsory port of call. Almost all of Halley’s later felicitations were a direct result of this masterstroke. Although X later became even more famous for an even more renowned resident.

St. Helena

(14)

Champagne

(15)**

Hearst, Pulitzer and Yellow Journalism

(16)

After whom is the Rajaji National Park in Haridwar named?

Chakravarty Rajagopalachari

(17)

Id the singer and the movie

Shamshad Begum‘Patanga’

(18)

In her acceptance speech for her performance in The New Adventures of Old Christine, she held up her award and exclaimed, "I'm not somebody who really believes in curses, but curse this, baby!"

Julia Louis-Dreyfus (The Seinfeld Curse)

(19) Some points of interest about the man in question: During the early 1920s, was a member of various radical right-wing and anti-Semitic

organizations. In 1921 he joined the Heidelberg branch of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund

and in 1922 he became a member of the NSDAP, which was banned soon afterwards. He founded and led youth groups associated with a cover-up organization of the NSDAP. With them he conducted paramilitary training, scouting games and night walks.

Whereas his high esteem for technical innovations was not widely shared among the German Youth Movement, he was offered the opportunity to talk about the issue of technology and education to Adolf Hitler and other leading National Socialists in 1928.

He never had a driver's license, because he was extremely near-sighted. He was, however, the owner of an NSU Ro 80 of a special type, which was chauffeured for him.

He was known for his championing of animal rights and opposition to the use of animals in testing.

Felix Wankel

(20)** Sir Thomas Stamford R, FRS (6 July 1781 – 5 July 1826) was

a British statesman, Lieutenant-Governor of British Java (1811 – 1815), Governor-General of Bencoolen (1817 – 1822), best known for his founding of the city of Singapore in 1819 (now the city-state of the Republic of Singapore) and the London Zoo. He is often described as the "Father of Singapore” and the "Father of the London Zoo". He was also heavily involved in the conquest of the Indonesian island of Java from Dutch and French military forces during the Napoleonic Wars and contributed to the expansion of the British Empire. He was also an amateur writer and wrote a book titled The History of Java (1817).

Sir Thomas Raffles/Rafflesia