pcsagk - freshers' quiz 2014 - starter for 10 final

• 20 Questions

Left: Chitpore Road Middle: Bowbazar Right: Sanskrit College

Name one more entity (name/number etc.) which will complete this exhaustive list.

#1

Answer: 86/1 College Street, Kolkata-700073 (Current address of Presidency University)

#2

HEINRICH SCHLIEMANN was an adventurer, speaker of 15 languages, highly gifted archaeologist. When he was 8, his father told him the story of X. This fuelled his hunger for discovery so much that he took up a job just to boost his expedition later. Finally in 1870, he discovered what he was looking for, in Hisarlik, Turkey.

Name ‘X’ (obviously a book) and what he found.

ANSWER: He discovered the site of the ancient city of TROY… and (now obvious), the book ‘X’ is Homer’s Iliad.

Left: Majorcan midwife toad Right: Gracildris

Left: Takahe Middle: Chacoan Peccary Right: Monito delmonte

#3 CONNECT and FUNDAFY

Answer

• They belong to the Lazarus taxon. In simple terms, they were thought to be long extinct, but were rediscovered.

• Why Lazarus?• Lazarus was a biblical prophet, who

was resurrected by Jesus.

• Montezuma II , the last Aztec emperor of Mexico served a fermented drink to his guests in gold goblets. The secret of this “elixir” was supposed to be given to the Aztecs by their god Quetzalcoatl. It was supposed to have medicinal properties and was a strong aphrodisiac as well. The Spaniards brought the secret of this “elixir” back to Europe.

• What is this elixir known as today?

#4

Answer

• Chocolate• The word comes from the Aztec

term for the “elixir”, XOCHOLATL.

• Legend has it that, Montezuma II used to consume more than two gallons of this stuff everyday… :P

• 1st:Cotton (UK), Paper (USA)• 2nd: Paper (UK), Calico (USA)• 3rd: Leather• 4th: Fruit/Flowers (UK), Linen (USA)• 5th: Wood• 6th: Sugar, Sweets, Iron• 7th: Wool, Copper• 8th: Bronze• 9th: Pottery, Willow• 10th: Tin, aluminium• 20th: China

Non-exhaustive.What are these?

#5

Answer

• Traditional gifts given on anniversaries in the UK and the USA.

• The samurai in feudal Japan always carried two swords; a katana and a wakizashi.

• The katana was used to fight duels or in battles, wars etc.

What was the smaller wakizashi used for?

Hint: Think samurai culture.

#6

Answer

• To commit hara-kiri or seppuku (ritual suicide).

Name her, as well as the French football club managed by her.

#7

Answer- Corinne Diacre, Clermont

'Happy Days Are Here Again' is a song copyrighted in 1929 by Milton Ager (music) and Jack Yellen (lyrics) and published by EMI Robbins Catalog, Inc./Advanced Music Corp.

The song featured in the 1930 film Chasing Rainbows.

However, it is perhaps best remembered for being the campaign song for Franklin Delano Roosevelt's successful 1932 presidential campaign.

Interestingly, a slightly modified, vernacular counterpart of the original slogan, gained national prominence in the summer of 2014.

Identify the electoral campaign slogan.

#8

Answer- Acche Din Aane Waale Hai

Identify both.

#9

Answer- Digvijay Singh and Amrita Rai

Description of the phrase ‘X’ --A third party devises a cunning strategy for a corporate takeover and therefore, poses as a white knight to gain trust of the bidder, but then turns around and joins with unfriendly bidders.-This phrase gets its name from a character from one of the goriest plays of Shakespeare, duly befitting the above situation.

‘X’?

#10

Answer: Lady Macbeth Strategy

#11 First identified in the early 1900s,

‘X’ was not given the same attention as it gets now. More and more people are suffering with this disorder, which is caused largely by stress, bad eating habits and injury. Like any illness, ‘X’ varies in its severity, which can be exacerbated by bad lifestyle choices. Doctors have discovered that this disorder has the opposite affliction as Alzheimer and a variety of other forms of dementia, in that arduous mental exertion of those with ‘X’ can actually accelerate memory loss. Some sufferers have turned to memory improvement tips in a bid to help alleviate their frustration.

Identify ‘X’.

Answer: Lethologica

-This internationally known symbol was originally designed in 1958 for the British nuclear disarmament movement by Gerald Holtom.

-The symbol is a combination of the semaphore signals for the letters "N" and "D," standing for "nuclear disarmament". In semaphore the letter "N" is formed by a person holding two flags in an inverted "V," and the letter "D" is formed by holding one flag pointed straight up and the other pointed straight down.

- Identify.

#12

Answer: Peace Sign

#13• This scandal made Post

reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward famous. Their months of dogged reporting won their newspaper, The Washington Post a coveted Pulitzer Prize for public service, and won the journalists a book contract.

• Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman portrayed the reporters in the 1975 film version of their best-selling "All the President's Men" - a movie that inspired an entire generation of reporters.

Name it.

Answer: Watergate

Which species of whale is ‘Moby-Dick’, in the 1851 novel of the same name by Herman Melville ?

#14

Answer: Sperm Whale

#15

Identify the person depicted in the picture.He is considered to be one of the Britain’s greatest colonisers for his shrewd tactics and intellect.

Hint: A country in the same continent on which he is standing was once named after him.

Answer: Cecil Rhodes; Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.

In Greek mythology, _________ was a loyal friend and adviser to Odysseus, king of Ithaca. He helped raise Odysseus' son, Telemachus, while Odysseus was away fighting the Trojan War. He became Telemachus' teacher, coach, counselor and protector, building a relationship based on affection and trust.

FITB.

#16

Answer: Mentor

4 May 1699 – 13 April 1702: _______

20 June 1702 – 3 June 1706: Brobdingnag

5 August 1706 – 16 April 1710: Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan

7 September 1710 – 5 December 1715: Country of Houyhnhnms

FITB.

#17

Answer: Liliput

Since 22 January 1506, the ‘X’ is the oldest active military unit presently in existence.

Recruits to the guards must be Catholic, single males with Swiss citizenship who have completed basic training with the Swiss military and can obtain certificates of good conduct. Recruits must have a professional degree or high school diploma and must be between 19 and 30 years of age and at least 174 cm (5 ft 8.5 in) tall.

Commandant Jules Repond (1910–1921) created the current uniforms in 1914. While both Michelangelo and a painting by Raphael are often cited as inspiration for the ‘X’ uniform.

‘X’?

#18

Answer: Pontifical Swiss Guard

After retiring from the army, ‘X’ worked as a land agent for Lord Erne (John Crichton, 3rd Earl Erne), a landowner in the Lough Mask area of County Mayo in Ireland.

In 1880, as part of its campaign for the Three Fs (Fair rent, Fixity of tenure and Free sale), the Irish Land League under Charles Stewart Parnell and Michael Davitt withdrew the local labour required to harvest the crops on Lord Erne's estate and began a campaign of isolation against ‘X’ in the local community. This campaign included the refusal of shops in nearby Ballinrobe to serve him, and the withdrawal of laundry services. According to ‘X’, the boy who carried his mail was threatened with violence if he continued.

The campaign against him became a cause célèbre in the British press after he wrote a letter to The Times; newspapers sent correspondents to the West of Ireland to highlight what they viewed as the victimization of a servant of a peer of the realm by Irish nationalists.

‘X’ whose ostracism by his local community in Ireland gave the English language the verb: to ________.

FITB.

#19

Answer: Boycott, after Charles Cunningham Boycott

Excerpts from Lufthansa Group's official website—

“..... A total of eight aircrafts in the Lufthansa fleet will swap their well-known lettering for the new _________ logo. It will be the first time that Lufthansa has changed for a certain time period its name on the fuselage of some its aircrafts since commencing operations almost 60 years ago .....”

FITB.

#20

Answer- Fanhansa

Which recent event is being hinted at--

Audience

Answer- Suspected Russian involvement in the MH-17

disaster.

Audience

• Originally used to indicate a female spirit (a fairy, in some cases) in Irish mythology, which is usually perceived as an omen of death and a messenger from the underworld, this term was selected as the title of an American action- drama series (2013, 2014) starring Anthony Starr, Lili Simmons and Ben Cross.

• Interestingly, the name of one of the sports cars from the Grand Theft Auto series is derived from this term.

What am I talking about?

Answer- Banshee

Audience

The current squad of Bayern Munich has two players with the

same nickname- the Magic Dwarf. One of them is Philipp

Lahm, the other is _____________.

FITB.

Answer- Xherdan Shaqiri