Saturday Club Quiz 2015 Prelims
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PRELIMS
30 QUESTIONS IN ALL
15 BY JAYASHREE MOHANKA
15 BY DHRUV MOOKERJI
NO NEGATIVE MARKS
HALF MARKS FOR ALL PART ANSWERS
QUESTIONS 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 AND 30 ARE STARRED
IN CASE OF TIED SCORES, TEAMS WITH MORE CORECT STARRED ANSWERS WILL QUALIFY.
IN CASE THOSE ARE TIED, THEN SUDDEN DEATH
*MOBILE PHONES TO BE SWITCHED OFF
THE JM-15
He was born on 15th April but his birthday is
celebrated on Kartik Purnima. Who?
Question 1
Which date is observed in China as ‘Singles’ day’?
Which website enjoys record-breaking sales on
this day?
Question 2
Whose Lithograph was used as the symbol of the
International Peace Conference held at Paris in 1949?
Question 3
Sony Pictures was in a hack attack and threats over
which movie in December 2014? Why?
Question 4
The 1490 edition of Aesop’s fables had a story about 2 guys
who sell a ____ skin before killing the ____ This gave
rise to the expression ____ skin jobbers and then ____
Fill in the word (Same word in all the blanks)
Question 5**
When you need reading glasses, what is the
medical condition called? Word origin?
Question 6
Hindi acronyms are all the rage now. Where would you
have come across Pratyaksh Hanstantrit Labh?
Question 7
India are current holders of the Cricket World Cup - both in
T20 (2012) and ODI (2014).
Which Indian team?
Question 8
SBI signed an MOU to fund Adani’s Australia project.
From an environmental point of view, the project is
controversial for the route it will employ to move coal.
What stands threatened as a result of this route?
Question 9
St. Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897) was a French Carmelite
nun. Her nickname is known to through a number of
schools. What was her nickname?
Question 10**
The ‘swan’ dress that she wore to the Oscars in 2001, to
much ridicule is now part of a retrospective at MOMA in 2015.
ID the performer.
Bigger pic
In next slide
Question 11
As per Thomas Talhelm from the University of Virginia,
societies are individualistic or co-operation-oriented
depending on the whether the main crop grown is X or
Y.
Which two staple crops?
Question 12
In 1900 there were only two African countries that were
independent, one in the West and one in the East.
Name them.
Question 13
The Guardian parodied this ad. Their version is on the
next slide. Which word has been blanked out there?
Question 14
Which word has
been blanked out?
Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands, boasts of Casa - - - - - - - - - -
, supposedly built by Sam Benady, European champion, who
sold it to him, and won it back from him in a day. Fill in the blanks
Question 15**
THE DM-15
This popular dessert, when spelt correctly, has the
following 3 accents in its spelling.
Grave : `
Acute : ´
Circumflex : ˆ
Two-word name. What?
Question 16
Who recently paid Ambuja a reported 20 crores to use the
Ambuja Cement factory furnace in Chandrapur,
Maharashtra for a one-time operation?
Either tell me who approached Ambuja or what was the
one-time operation?
Question 17
This man went viral some years back. Either name him, or the the actor who has recently popularised him.
Question 19
Question 20**
The first place in the world to legislate that great apes be given legal personhood, with recognition of human rights.
The map is on the next slide. Name the place.
Question 21
What is this a memory aid for?
A book on cocktails named with word plays on nursery rhymes. What word has been blanked out?
Question 23
Identify
Question 26
This is Beckham felicitating a non-Briton at the Daily
Mirror Pride of Britain Awards 2 years ago. Who?
Question 29