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Solux Rex 2010-2011 prelims40 questions
5 * questions: multiples of 8
Appu and DD
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• 1. Also known as Anandagiri, it housed a
fortress built on its summit that was thought
to be impregnable until stormed by the army
of Cornwallis in 1791. It used to house the
residence of Mark Cubbon. Which well-known
location?
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Ans : Nandi Hills
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2. This is lawyer Jackie
Chiles from Seinfeld,
created as a parody of
and same initials as
another bespectacled,
mustached, well-
dressed, African
American lawyer with
the same initials.
Name him.
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Ans : Johnny Cochran
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• 3. Adolphe Quetelet – a Belgian statistician
popularized the Bell curve and the normal
distribution. However, his search for the
‘average man’ in terms of physique, led him to
develop something which went by the name
of ‘Quetelet Index’ but is very popular under a
different name today. What?
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Ans : BMI / Body Mass Index
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• 4. Which word meaning ‘to agree together
secretly’ especially to do something evil or
illegal comes from the Latin for ‘breathe
together’, and therefore has similar origins to
the word ‘respiration’?
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Ans : Conspiracy / Conspire
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• 5. David Warren came up with a workable
prototype with civilian aircraft in mind after a
series of crashes in 1953 and 1954 involving the
De Havilland Comet. The idea was slow to catch
on and it took 10 years before it was made
mandatory in Australian aircraft. What?
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Ans : Black Box
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6. Which well-known actress about whom:
“There was little of the caring Ms. ___ on the
sets of ‘Electric Moon’. During a fire on the sets
when an electrician got injured, he went
weeping on Pradip’s shoulders. She was worried
about her stuffed animals”.
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Ans : Arundhati Roy, Leela Naidu
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• 7. Which neo-pop/post-pop artist – in front of
his version of Popeye?
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Ans : Jeff Koons
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• * 8. Which author (lady in pic) well-known for
a completely different kind of a book?
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Ans : Lynne Truss
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• 9. New Zealand cricketer Eric Tindill, who died
on 3rd Aug, 2010 was the world’s oldest
surviving cricketer, having attained the age of
99. He also held a unique record for New
Zealand. What?
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Ans : Only person to play Tests for New Zealand
in both cricket and rugby union - a so-called
"double All Black"
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• 10. Looking like a burqa-clad Muslim woman
from a distance, the ‘Museum of Islamic Art’ is
a frequently visited site in this capital city.
Name the city and the architect.
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Ans : Doha, I. M. Pei
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• 11. Who is the sportsperson in the middle?
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Ans : Sunil Chhetri
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• 12. What well-known event took place in 1962
on the Glienicke Bridge near Berlin that
involved these two people?
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Ans : Exchange of Rudolf Abel & Francis Gary
Powers
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• 13. A ______, in the sense first used by the
Assyrian Army in the early 7th Century BC,
was one who excavated trenches under
defensive fire to advance a besieging army's
position in relation to the works of an
attacked fortification, which was referred to
as _______ the enemy fortifications. The two
blanks represent two forms of the same word.
Fill either.
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Ans : Sapper / Sapping
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• 14. Which person is one of the only two (the
other being Dan Aykroyd for Nothing But
Trouble) to have directed himself to a Razzie
‘winning’ role for Worst Supporting Actor?
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Ans : Manoj Night Shyamalan for Lady in the
Water
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15. This is the Brown Bear (Ursus arctos), one of
the largest land-based predators. What do the
two parts of its scientific name mean (half point
each)?
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Ans : Bear bear
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• * 16. When his mother committed suicide by
drowning in River Sambre, he was 13. When
her body was fished out, her dress was
covering her face – an image the boy could
not forget. He immortalized this image in a
series of paintings after he grew up. Which
painter and what are we referring to?
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Ans : Les Amants (The Lovers) by Rene Magritte
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• 17. Vinay Deolalikar, a computer scientist
from HP Labs, has created a stir in recent
times by claiming what?
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Ans : A proof for the P = NP? problem
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18. Why has the following extract in Wiki caused
Mathew Prichard to create a furor in recent
times?
�Identity of the murderer
In a twist ending, it is revealed that the murderer
is Sergeant Trotter, who is not a policeman at all
but an insane killer seeking to avenge his
brother's death
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Ans : Wiki has revealed who the murderer in
The Mousetrap is. The entry is not new, but
Prichard – Christie’s grandson wants to take up
the case stating that ‘it’s a pity’ that the ending
is revealed.
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19. The role of which
revolutionary is being played by
Abhishek Bachhan in Ashutosh
Gowariker’s upcoming ‘Khelein
Hum Jee Jaan Se’ – based on the
person on the left?
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Ans : ‘Masterda’ – Surya Sen
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• 20. Identify this component of a classic Bloody
Mary.
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Ans : Celery
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21. Which country’s name has been blanked out in
this propaganda leaflet which was air-dropped during
this 1983 example of American imperialism?
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Ans : Grenada
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22. Which town’s
name has been
blanked out?
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Ans : Aranmula
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23. According to the Bible who was the first to
plant a vineyard?
He is mentioned in the Book of Genesis as the
first husbandman and “… the first tiller of the
soil. He planted a vineyard; and he drank of the
wine.”
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Ans : Noah, after the deluge was over
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• * 24. After less than two years of teaching at
the Sultan Oman Ali Saifuddin College in
Bander Seri Bagawan, Brunei in the late
1950s, John Wilson crumpled on the floor of
his classroom one fine day. Later he claimed
that he did it for existential kick. Who is this
literary personality who went on to achieve
fame under a different name?
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Ans : Anthony Burgess
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25. Which portmanteau name was given by Dr.
Stanley Prusiner to the infectious agents
composed primarily of protein that are the
cause of a number of diseases in mammals,
including BSE or “mad cow disease”?
All known _____ diseases affect the structure of
the brain or other neural tissue and all are
currently untreatable.
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Ans : Prion, from protein and infection
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26. What common form of address do we get
from an honorific title that was used to refer to
or address the eldest living brother of the king in
the French royal court?
It literally translates from Middle French into
English as “my lord”.
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Ans : Monsieur
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27. Given that the contraption on the next slide
was named because it was found on island B, give
me the name of island A.
B
A
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Ans : Kythera (the smaller island is Antikythera)
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28. The musician
shown here was
named after a
great songwriter
who wrote classics
like “Ol’ Man
River”, “Smoke
Gets In Your Eyes”.
Name both.
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Ans : Jerry Garcia & Jerome Kern
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29. Which golfing term means "look ahead", and
is believed to come from the military "beware
before", which was shouted when a battery
fired behind friendly troops?
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Ans : Fore!
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30. Why did the small village of Tembhli in
Maharashtra get a makeover recently: roads
were remade, every hut in the village of 261
households was fitted with an electric light and
women can brag about handpumps that have
started working.
Pramod Chitte, a policeman stationed here, isn’t
sure if all this will help. What he knows is that
the village will be remembered in some way. “I
am sure Tembhli’s name will come up in quizzes
as the place where ….”
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Ans : UID / Aadhaar was started in this village
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31. What is this t-shirt about?
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Ans : Chile mining
accident
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• * 32. The company was started in 1875 in
France by Pierre for selling strings for musical
instruments. Later, they developed the first
natural-gut tennis strings which has led to this
brand of tennis racquets being very popular
worldwide and being used by many top
players including Nadal and Roddick. Which
brand?
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Ans : Babolat
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33. What is common to these parties: Telugu
Desam Party, Jammu & Kashmir National
Panthers Party, Kerala Congress, Samajwadi
Party, Manipur People’s Party?
As far as I know, this is an exhaustive list.
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Ans : Bicycle symbol
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34. The last Latin American before 2010 to
win the Nobel Prize for Literature was in
1990, the same year that Mario Vargas Llosa
ran for the Peruvian presidency. Name this
person, someone whom MVL irritated by
playfully describing his country’s political
system - dominated at the time by a single
party - as "the perfect dictatorship."
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Ans : Octavio Paz
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35. One was named for his pale
colour on birth.
The other is one of the names
of the deity shown here who is
often paradoxically depicted as
a dark young boy, standing
arms-akimbo on a brick.
Give me these two similar
names.
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Ans : Pandu, Panduranga
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36. The archery competitions at the
New Delhi Commonwealth Games
are of two forms: Compound and X,
which gets its name from the shape
of the bow (shown here).
Give me X, which is the only form of
bow allowed in the Olympics.
<- Indian’s gold winning
team of Dola Banerjee,
Deepika Kumari and
Bombayala Laishram Devi
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Ans : Recurve
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37. This map depicts a mountaineering
challenge. What?
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Ans : Seven Volcanoes
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38. This is St. Paul’s Cathedral during the Blitz. It
stands on the highest point in the city of London
and was the tallest building in London from 1710
to 1962. Give me its height in feet, specifically
chosen to indicate that one could worship there
anytime and not just on Sundays.
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Ans : 365 ft
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39. If India is the largest country in the Commonwealth in
terms of population, this is the smallest with a population
of less than 15,000. Name the country, shown here being
bombed by the USAF during WW2.
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Ans : Nauru
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* 40. Which jazz great?
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Ans : Sonny Rollins
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