general quiz prelims with answers

GENERAL QUIZPRELIMS

QM-MANOJ SINGH MEHTARESEARCH TEAM- QUINTESSENCE

CHAKRAVYUH 3.0

RULES:-• Participants can participate in team of 2 or individually.• There will be 21 questions. Each carries one mark.• There is no negative marking. So feel free to guess.• 6 teams will go to finals.• question numbers 5,10,15 and 21 are star-marked, which will help us

break the tie, in case it happens.• Any use of unfair means such as phones & smart watches will lead to

direct disqualification.• Quiz master is not GOD but has enough powers to disqualify you.

1.This is a picture of Violet Jessop , an ocean liner stewardess and nurse. Over the course of her career, she earned the nickname “Miss Unsinkable”. What earned her this strange nickname?

Violet Jessop, “Miss Unsinkable,” is the only woman who survived the sinking of the sister ships the Titanic and the Britannic, and was also aboard the third of the trio of Olympic class vessels, the Olympic, when it had a major accident.

2.X located in Davis, South Los Santos.Beginning at Davis Avenue in the northwest, crossing Brouge Avenue and ending in a cul-de-sac in the southeast, X is occupied by the Original Covenant Ballas. The street runs parallel to the Los Santos Storm Drain, and is close to the Maze Bank Arena. A vehicle garage is located at the end of this street, which can be purchased by Franklin Clinton.

Groove street

3.X is a multi-tier defensive formation that looks like a blooming lotus or disc when viewed from above. The warriors at each inter-leaving position would be an increasingly tough position to fight. As per this military strategy, a specific stationery object or a moving object or person can be captured and surrounded and rendered fully secured during time of military conflict. In order to make X, the Commander has to identify soldiers who will form this formation. The number of soldiers to be deployed and the size of the X is calculated as per the resistance estimated.X?

Chakravyuh

4.Norman Ernest Borlaug was an American biologist, humanitarian who has been called “X“ and “Y“, He won the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal and was also awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honor. The world food prize was created in 1986 by Norman Ernest Borlaug as a way to recognize personal accomplishments, and as a means of education by using the Prize to establish role models for others. The first prize was given to Norman Ernest Borlaug’s former colleague, M. S. Swaminathan, in 1987, for his work in India. Give X or Y?

X=The father of green revolutionY=agriculture's greatest spokesperson

5.“If anybody asked me which was the best match that I played in, I will unhesitatingly say that it was the1933 Beighton Cup final between Calcutta Customs and Jhansi Heroes”.Who quoted this?

Dhyan chand

6.This is an artist’s rendition of X. What is X?

Multiple Personality Disorder/ Dissociative identity disorder

7.X is the younger daughter of Himalaya. A legend about X in Kalika Purana says Lord Shiva became pleased from the hard penance of a demon and gave him blessings. That particulatr demon did not like Goddess Parvati, the wife of Lord Shiva. Parvati took this as an insult to her. As a result, a war started between the demon and Parvati. The demon was injured in the war and he was feeling thirsty. He requested Lord Shiva to save his life by quenching his thirst. Lord Shiva became pleased and from his blessing, a stream of nectar like milky water started flowing from Parvati’s body. This stream was called X and this river is fulfilling the desires of the people even today. ID X.

Teesta River

8.The first recorded use of a phrase similar to “_______________” was in the 1651 collection of poems Olor Iscanus. British poet Henry Vaughan referred to a roof that was secure against “_____________ in shower.” One year later, Richard Brome, an English playwright, wrote in his comedy City Witt, “It shall _______pole_____.” Pole___ are related to the weasel and were common in Great Britain through the end of the nineteenth century.

Raining Cats and Dogs

9.Charlie Lynn after reading that the UK censor board, the British Board of Film Certification (BBFC), had clipped six seconds off David Fincher's Fight Club, because they felt that the sadism in the movie needed to be toned down was saddened by it . In UK , filmmakers have to pay a fee to the Board to watch a movie; the fee is directly proportional to the movie's length. The BBFC charges a submission fee of about £101, and £7 for every minute and a value-added tax. A normal-length movie fee is about £1,000. Once the fee is paid, it becomes mandatory for Board members to watch the movie So Charlie Lynn did something unique in this regard to teach the UK Censor Board a lesson. What unique thing did he do?

In November 2015, Lyne, made a movie of paint drying, and asked donors to help make it as lengthy as possible and made a 10-hour movie, in which all one sees is paint drying.

10.This is a fictional description of X, one of the wizarding world’s most dangerous creatures. X has a human-like head, a lion's body, and a scorpion's tail with a stinger. X’s skin repels all known charms, so it is effectively hard to subdue X with magic. It is known to be capable of human speech, and is considered a sentient beast. ID X.

Manticore

11.• The Dongria Kondh of India's

Niyamgiri Hills are fighting mining giant Vedanta to save their sacred hills. The media coined a term to refer these tribe because of the nature of their fight.• Name it.

Avatar tribe

12.• Center for development of advance computing(C-DAC) have made X 2 which

is rated as India's fastest ever supercomputer. The secretary of Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), J Satyanarayana has launched the 500 TeraFlop model of the old X 1 at Pune. The storage capacity of the system is about 200 Terabytes which enables users to store a lot of data. Even parallel computing is made possible by the inclusion of required software.• Any of the large complex programs can be very well managed by using

feature rich tools within the system.

• NAME X?

PARAM YUVA 2

13.Name the award.

International children’s Peace prize

14.This is a feeling felt by all of us wherever we are, that someone is staring at us without us knowing it. Also known as Scopaesthesia, _____is the supposed phenomenon of knowing when you are being stared at. Studies say _______ to be purely illusory and ______ was first written about by a psychologist, Edward Titchener in 1988.

The Psychic Staring Effect

15.X, in mizo means bamboo death. It’s a phenomenon that reoccurs

every 48 years in Mizoram and Manipur.Melocanna sp. flowers at a time in a wide area which is followed by a

plague of black rats. This leads to widespread famines in those places. Latest spate of flowering was seen in 2006.

Id X.

Mautam

16.X refers to rupee-denominated bonds through which Indian entities can

raise money from foreign markets in rupee, and not in foreign currency. The issuance of rupee denominated bonds, Indian entity is protected against the risk of currency fluctuation. These bonds are usually traded on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and not in India.

The first X bond was issued by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), in November 2014. HDFC was the first Indian company to issue rupee-denominated bonds “X” on London Stock Exchange (LSE) in July 2016.

Id X.

X- Masala Bonds

17.The construction of X is said to have cost roughly 500 Chinese and Pakistani workers their lives. It is considered one of the most incredible engineering projects of the 20th century, and hence dubbed by some as the eighth wonder of the world. At its highest point, it passes the Khunjerab pass, at a height of 4,693m. Amazingly, Khunjerab is where six countries meet - China, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and the former Soviet republics of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.

 karakoram highway

18.'X' started it's journey in berkshire,U.K. 'X' founded in 1991.In 1999 'X' merged with 'Y' to form the world's largest telephony company. X bought 67% of shares of Z in feb 2007.Thus making an entry into Indian telecom Market.X now has 400 million subscribers worldwide.Vittorio colao is presently the CEO of X.Identify X,Y & Z

X: Vodafone, Y: Airtouch, Z: hutch

19.Connect.

All are accidentally discovered

20.“Chakravyuh mein ghusne se pehle , kaun tha main aur kaisa tha , Ye mujhe yaad hi nahi rahega .” Famous dialogue of which eminent Bollywood personality and movie?

Om Puri Ardh Satya

21.X is a spicy snack from the Indian subcontinent; popular in India, Pakistan and other parts of South Asia. Banarasidas, the author of biographical Ardhkathanaka, has mentioned buying it in Agra in 1613. X is supposed to have originated in UP or Rajasthan. In these states it is usually a round flattened ball made of fine flour filled with a stuffing of baked mixture of yellow moong dal, besan, black pepper, red chilli powder, salt and other spices.What is X?

kachori

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