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GYAAN.INWEEKLY QUIZ


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11TH DECEMBER 2011PRELIMS GROUP 1 TEXT QUESTIONS

Q1. Buddy, take notes, and take the saxophone in your hand. - Lyrics o which very a-mous song?

Q2. All sorts o names were suggested: Highland _1_, Jersey and __2__ Maid. But when acustomers daughter suggested X, the name stuck. Blank 1 and Blank 2 together make X.We know this ood item released in 1905 by the name X today. What is X?

Q3. Founded in 1878 by our law students led by a School Teacher rom Tanjore, thisnewspaper became the rst Indian newspaper to have a website (which they launched in1995). Which Newspaper?

Q4. Known as the Kalash in Russia, this weapon which was rst used in 1949 has inspiredthe Indian weapon INSAS. A eeting reerence to the design similarities o anotherweapon with a similar name was made in the 2011 movie Shor in the City. Which amousweapon am I talking about?

Q5. The rst Web Browser was given many names beore the name WorldWideWeb, whichincluded interesting names like The Inormation Mesh and The Mine o Inormation.What you need to tell is, that what was it renamed to, ater WordWideWeb?[Hint: Shares its name with a popular Mobile Phone]

Q6. The state has its origins in Mahabharata where it was mentioned as a word whichmeant the region o Cows. The Hindu Scriptures mention Parshuram as its creator. Thegreek mentioned it as Nelkinda. How do we know this State today?

Q7. This amous theatre in Delhi was built by Robert Torr Russell, and owned by actorSohrab Modi. The theatre was renovated in the early 2000s and is now owned by a com-pany which is owned by the Bijli Family and is in joint venture with an Australian MediaCompany ounded by Roc Kirby. How do we know this history cinema hall?

Q8. What connects: Munnabhai MBBS; Siddhartha Narayan and Novuss the national gameo Latvia?

Q9. About 5000 years ago, it was known as Syamantaka. How do we know it today?

Q10. Founded as LAuto-Neige ____ Limite in 1942 by Joseph Armand ___. Their stproduct was a Snowmobile. In 1970 they acquired Lohner-Rotax and stepped into the rail-way business. They also manuacter a amous line o products called Sky-Doo. Their most

amous product in Delhi is called MOVIA. How do we know it better?

Q11. The phrase X rst appears in The Merry Wives o Windsor: Falsta: The Windsor bellhath struck twelve; the minute draws on. Now, the X-Gods assist me!. The phrase is rumor-


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ed to have its roots in the dutch word heetbloedig but a ew reports suggest the oppo-site. X was the origin o the word Heetbloedig. what is X?

Q12. How do we know the distance o a path travelled by a photon o light in vacuum in1/299,792,458 o a second?

Q13. This river literrally means twins and was rst mentioned in the Rig Veda. In Rig Veda,the story o the ___ describes her excessive love or her twin, The tale is urther detailedin the 16th century Sanskrit hymn, ______shtakam, an ode by philosopher Vallabhacha-rya. Fill up the blank portiion with the rivers name.

Q14. The word X comes rom the Sicilian word or Bragging. It is also known as Cosa Nos-tra (which means Our Thing) and you can easily associate X to Salvatore Riina. Thereare several theories that suggest that Silvio Burlusconi was in close association with X, in1993. What is X?

Q15. Xs lms were nominated twice or the Academy Award or Best Foreign LanguageFilm, in 1987 and 1990. Pallavi Anu Pallavi was Xs directorial debut. X, Guru Dutt & SatyajitRay are the only Indian directors whose movies have appeared TIME Magazines All-Time100 Greatest Movies. Among other achievements X also ounded a production companywith G. Srinivasan. Who is X?

Q16. With which Indian leader will you associate, the jharokas o Hotel Ashoka?

Q17. X is a game played by placing a large stone upon a larger stone. One player staysnear the stone to guard it. The other players throw stones at the large stone, trying toknock it o o the platorm. Once it is knocked o, the throwers all rush to retrieve theirstones. This wikish inormation is about a game called X. I dont want to know what X is.What I want to know is, Which game did it eventually inspire in 1891?

Q18. The rst one on the list was Sir Nowroji Saklatvala. There will soon be a second per-son in this list. Who is that second person and What is the list about?

Q19. The name o this sport can be translated into English as Holding Hands. Its Govern-ing body is Headquartered in Delhi and the sport rst eatured in the 1936 Berlin Olym-pics. In Early 1990s an attempt to popularize the sport was made by Channel 4. Whichpopular sport am I talking about?

Q20. In 2004, a 5,000-word story entitled The Incident o the Dogs Ball was ound in theattic o the authors daughter. In 2009 another story titled The Capture o Cerberus wasound. While the rst nding was the original script o a novel with similar plot but di-erent title. The 2009 story was o a dierent version o a short story o the same title. The

Incident o Dogs Ball and The Capture o Cerberus were the creation o Which amousEnglish Author?

Q21. This city gets its current name rom Goddess Shoolini devi. In british India it was


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called mini-shimla. The city also eatures the Pandavas cave, where Pandavas are be-lieved to have meditated. Also the city is amous or vast Mushroom arming. Which Cityam I talking about?

Q22. Bravest o the brave,most generous o the generous,

never had countrymore aithul riendsthan you. - What am I talking about?

Q23. ___ means, the spirit o the times or the spirit o the age. in German. __ is a wordyou can associate to Google, Guardian.co.uk, Instructables, and Smashing Pumpkins (al-ternative rock band). which amous word am I talking about?

Q24. Which company was rst called Lansing Sound, Incorporated?

Answers:1. Why this Kolaveri Di

2. Dairy Milk

3. The Hindu

4. AK-47

5. Nexus

6. Goa

7. PVR Plaza

8. Carom9. Koh-i-noor

10. Bombardier

11. Hot Bloodied

12. 1 Metre(This is the current ocial denition o a metre, ater the platinum iridium denition wasreplaced because platinum irridium has a tendency to expand ater certain years)

13. Yamuna

14. Maa15. Mani Ratnum

16. Jawahar Lal Nehru. It is because o him that an addition o the Jharokas was made inIndias rst 5 Star Hotel ater Independence, giving it an Indian Feel.

17. Basketball

18. Cyrus Pallonji Mistry

19. Kabaddi

20. Agatha Christie

21. Solan

22. Gurkha (These lines are written on the amous gurkha statue in london)

23. Zeitgeist

24. JBL


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PRELIMS GROUP 2 TEXT QUESTIONS

Q1. This a list o movies produced by a amous Indian. Who?1. Vaadal2. Jhaanjhar3. Kanchan

4. Lekin

Q2. I Leander Paes is going to team up with Radek Stepanak, then who is Mahesh Bhu-patti going to team up with?

Q3. This is a amous Irish College, was ounded in 1592 in Dublin. It was ounded by theLetters patent rom Queen Elizabeth 1 as the mother o a university. The College wasrecently reerred in Bhool Bhulaiyya, stating that the character played by Vikram Gokhale(Shri Yagyaprakashji Bharti) had gone to give a lecture in this college. More Recently the

college also eatured in the Desi Boyz, as the college where Akshay Kumars studies in, tocomplete his nal year studies. Which College am I talking About?

Q4. Sthanam sthanam dasa gunam - This Sanskrit quote is the origin o what in the worldo Mathematics?

Q5. 1 Hacker Way, is the address o the Headquarters o which amous tech-company?

Q6. He was a right handed batsman, who played or various clubs including Devon, MCC,

Cambridge University and Somerset between 1974 to 2002. He has also written severalbooks on cricket, the last one, released in 2006, was titled In It To Win It. Which amouscricketer am I talking about?

Q7. What do the cricketers, Tamim Iqbal, Eoin Morgan, Chris Read & Jonathan Trott havein common? There would also have been a th cricketer but that didnt happen.

Q8. He is rom Faridkot, and his ather sells Dahi Puri. In 2008 His amily was oered Rs.150,000 rom his recruiters or taking part in a amous mission. In 2008, He broke a Rail-

way Law or entering the platorm without a ticket. Who is this amous person I am talkingabout?

Q9. I Win, whenever he (Bill Gates) loses, which amous IBM Employees words?

Q10. Among the various achievements o Radhanath Sikdar, particularly one is quiteamous. He once compiled the data about a once ignored place called Holy Mother bythe natives, he made this particular place very amous. What had he discovered about theplace, and what is the name o the place.

Q11. The Character has only been played by two Actors. Both o them Indian. The Char-acter only made a special appearance in a recent Hindi Movie. However, he was shownor the major parts o the lm on a poster, holding two guns in his hands and wearing a


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white jacket and white trousers. The character was an instant hit, and a rumor stated thata dedicated movie to the character would soon release. one o the actors whove playedthis character is a distant relative o a reedom ghter. Who is this character?

Q12. Known as something which means The Knight, He is the owner o AC Milan. Andhe is Italys third richest man. He served three terms as the prime minister o italy and was

succeeded by a non-party politician in 2011. Who was he succeeded by?

Q13. He rst nominated in 1988 as a Member o the upper house o the Indian Parlia-ment, the Rajya Sabha, rom the State o Bihar. In 2004 he won the lok sabha election romthe constituency o Chandni Chowk, deeating Smriti Irani (then a popular TV actress). In2008, Roli Books published a collection o his poems titled, I witness. He has also repre-sented India in the World Economics Forum, twice. Who is he?

Q14. The Creation o what is being explained here:

The emblem chosen to illustrate and represent the world Congress o 1914: It representsthe ve parts o the world which now are won over to ____ and willing to accept healthycompetition. stated in August 1912.

Q15. On his albums include a recitation o poems by APJ Abdul Kalam, he began is careeras a singer in Hindi Movies with the 2002 Movie titled road. In 2011 he once eatured in anepisode o the popular star World musical series called the Dewarists. He is most amouslyknown or a very soothing track which means bunch o owers. I dont want to knowwho is he. You all know it by now. I just want to know the name o that song which means

Bunch o Flowers?

Q16. Which amous phrase was coined by JT Stinson, in a 1904 address to the St. LouisWorlds Fair. The phrase was an adaptation o a medical summary given to a 12th centurymedical conerence at the Salerno Medical School. Which phrase?

Q17. Which aircrat company ounded in 1916 was rst incorporated as Pacic Aero Prod-ucts Co.?

Q18. It originates rom an Arabic Desert, whose name is the arabic or Judges Bite. Thedessert became popular in India in the Mughal Era. It is also called Wafe Ball sometimes.Which desert am I talking about?

Q19. This tornament which began in 1979 had been given various names, Carlton andUnited Series rom 1996-97 to 1999-2000; the Carlton Series 2000-01. The last o the serieswas played in 2008. All you need to tell is, what was it called then and the last champian(i.e. the winner o that last tournament)?

Q20. He made his rst lm appearance in the 2003 lm Nowhere to Go But Up, His rststage appearance was in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in 1994 and his rst Tel-evision appearance was in the 2002 Series titled Ed. However he is most amously knownor portraying the character X in a popular TV Series created by Chuck Lorre. What is X?


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Q21. I dont believe in birthright politics. I dont think, nor have I ever thought, that myname qualies me or anything. - Whose daughter, is amously quoted or saying theselines?

Q22. We all know about ITC. They are the makers o Classmate Registers, they are also a-

mous or their luxury hotels. Bingo, Sunest, Candyman are all ITCs brands. And this longlist continues. Simply Expand ITC.

Q23. In 1964 which amous sports brand was ounded by Bill Bowerman and Philip Knightas Blue Ribbon Sports?

Answers:

1. Lata Mangeshkar

2. Rohan Bopanna

3. Trinity College

4. The Modern day Place Value System o Numbers5. Facebook

6. Peter Roebuck

7. They were the Wisden Players o the Year 2011

8. Ajmal Kasab

9. David Bradley (Ctrl+alt+delete)

10. Mount Everest

11. Disco Fighter!

12. Mario Monti (He succeeded Silvio Burlusconi)13. Kapil Sibbal

14. Olympics Logo

15. Guncha

16. "An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away"

17. Boeing

18. Gulab Jamun

19. Commonwealth Bank Series | India

20. Sheldon Cooper21. Benazir Bhutto

22. Imperial Tobacco Company

23. Nike


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FINALS TEXT QUESTIONS

Q1. The Mumbai Mirror published an article in March 2006. The Subject o that article wasa taxi-driver rom Mumbai called Kishore. Who had done something (obviously, unkown-ingly), which inturn was o great importance to the world o literature. What was the arti-cle about?

Q2. Big Bear, Wildcat, Jasper, Durango,.. Lots o them. And the recent one being Hoodoo.What am I talking about?

Q4. The short story o Sleeping John is quite amous. It revolves around a very sleepyprotagonist who is given magical powers and travels to the Kings city and on hearing thatthe queen mysteriously leaves or some place at night, John oers to help the king anddiscovers that the queen went to hell everynight and danced with the devils. This amousShort Story was recently converted into a amous hindi Song. Name the Song.

Q5. RiceTec, a texas based company aced international outrage over allegations o bi-opiracy in September 1997. The outrage was caused over a patent that was led and hadalso caused a brie diplomatic crisis between India and United States, with India threaten-ing to take the matter to WTO as a violation o TRIPS. RiceTec eventually lost the right tocall their product ___. Fill in the blanks.

Q6. The organization has a very wacky belie about Earth which they ollow till date. It wasounded by Samuel Shenton in 1956. It was inactive between 2001 to 2004, but was resur-

rected by its new president Daniel Shenton. Name the organization or the belie.

Q7. Agathinai, Paarvaigal, Karukum Marudhaani, Raaja - These are the Literary works owhich amous Politician?

Q8. This hasnt happened many times but the two memorable instances when this wasdone were : Damien Fleming bowling to David Mutendra and Dennis Ritchie bowling toGlenn Turner. What am I talking about?

Q9. He played his rst ODI in 1999 Against Pakistan. His ather was a grain merchant andHe graduated rom the Jamia Millia Islamia University. He owns a vegetarian eatery in acineplex in Delhi, which includes items like Multan Ke Sultan ki Tikdi. You all know who heis by now. Just Tell me the price o Multan Ke Sultan ki Tikdi.

Q10. Why did a 1997 shelved movie project titled KRZ 2068 make news recently?

Q14. In late 2004, X began tutoring his cousin, in mathematics over the internet usingYahoo!s Doodle notepad. When other relatives and riends sought his tutoring, he even-

tually decided to distribute the tutorials on YouTube where he created an account on 16November 2006. This is about the ounding o a amous website. Who is X?

Q15. What is the Hollywood production house o Yashraj Films Called?


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Answers:

1. The cab driver is the driver who took Gregory David Roberts to his village and accord-ing to Mumbai Mirror and hence the person who inspired the character o Prabakar inShantaram.

2. The recently leaked codenames (internal) o iOS Sotware releases.

3. Hava Hava rom Rockstar

4. Basmati

5. Flat Earth Organization. They believe the Earth is Flat not spherical.

6. Kanimozhi

7. "9 Slips" Field Position.

8. 309 (The price is quite workable, It had to be a signicant number. It is the number oruns he scored in the Multan Triple Century)

9. This is where James Cameron is said to have stolen the idea o Avatar rom. Writer oKRZ 2068, Eric Ryder who has previously worked with cameron, led a lawsuit against

him recently, claiming that Cameron's company had shelved the idea telling that "NoOne will goto watch an environmentally themed Sci-Fi Movie.

10. Salman Khan

11. Yash Raj Entertainment


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EXTRA QUESTIONS BY ABHAAS

Q1. His sword was created by the gods Odin o Norse, Ra o Egypt, and Rama o India orighteous energy, able to harm all that is evil. The evil in this show is also a source o com-edy, with its outrageous design and wise-guy behaviour. The lead characters real namehas never been revealed, and the only name we know is a nickname given to him by the

people he rst met ater time travelling. This series by Genndy Tartakovsky was lauded orhighly detailed, and cinematic style o animation. Which show are we talking about?

Q2. Started by the Canadian Activist group Adbusters, it took inspiration romrom theArab Spring movement, the Libyan Civil War, and rom the Spanish Indignants. Protest-ing against social and economic equality, and inuence o lobbyist, this group/protestsdemand separating money rom politics. Over 15,000 people participated in marchings,and other non-violent protests methods. The name o this movement is same as the ocalpoint o this protest, which signies all they protest against. Name this movement/place.

Q3. Acquired by Google on September 16, 2009, this system was developed by CarnegieMellon University. Apart rom doing its usual job, it is currently being used to digitalizeGoogle Books. A popular subscription, its popular on Facebook, Twitter, 4chan, CNN etc.One o its developer reckons that they had unwittingly utilized the most precious resourceo humanity. What is this?

Q4. Their natural habitat varies around south o equator, its wingspan is the largest amongthe extant species. They are described as most legendary o all birds, a act reinorced by

X. Xs work is the origin o a metaphor, and the myth that killing this bird will bring harmand bad luck. The Maori use its bones to make utes, and sailors oten use it as ood andemblems. ID X.

Q5. Used as a trophy and also sometimes or trade, this activity is recorded only in LatinAmerica. However, ater WWII, they were also ound in the Buchenwald concentrationcamp, and was presented at Nuremberg trials. Its made using red seeds, palm pins, andwater containing tannins. Post 1940, its import was made illegal in USA, and leather wasused to replicate this. What is this item?

Answers:

1. Samurai Jack

2. Occupy Wall Street3. Recaptcha

4. Albatross

5. Shrunken Heads

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