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Prelims- India Quiz

By Abhishek Balaji

*Q1

This is a list of companies which are the most valuable

companies in history adjusted for inflation. FITB.

• Exxon-Mobil 2007

• Apple 2012

• Microsoft 1999

• Petro China 2007

• IBM 1967

• Saudi Aramco 2012

• The South Sea Company 1720

• The Mississippi Company 1720

• _____________________

Q2Some say X was first created in the kitchens by

a palace cook named Kakasura Madappa out of

some ingredients. The cook simply made a

concoction of besan, ghee and sugar. The

sweet that was formed delighted the royalties

so much that it became a 'Royal Sweet'. When

asked its name, Madappa obviously didn't have

its name, so he simply called it the X.

Q3X was sued in 1986 for violations of the Gold

Control Act, for illegal production of Gold.

However, he wasn't sued because the court

was afraid how the public would react to it.

Later in December 2000, the magazine India

Today published a cover story about X with

allegations of fakery made by the magician

P. C. Sorcar Jr.

ID X who is known to be a great influence and

the guru of Isaac Tigrett who started the Hard

Rock Cafe chain.

*Q4

Mumbai Irani cafes occupy prime ‘corner’

locations. In fact most if not all the Irani hotels in

Mumbai are built on street corners, now

considered prime real estate so much so that

unscrupulous builders even hire gangsters to

scare away the café owners. Why were these

plots originally very cheap to buy?

Q5

CloudTail is a joint venture by Amazon Asia and

Catamaran Ventures, India. Cloudtail is one of the

largest sellers on Amazon, with products in almost all

categories. Y, a famous Indian IT billionaire, owns

Catamaran Ventures and has a 51% stake in Cloudtail.

ID Y

Q6The etymology of the word X can be traced

back to Sanskrit, from Dravidian (Tamil

compound of (nāram) and (kāy); also Telugu,

Malayalam,and Kannada).

There are no commonly used English dictionary

words that rhyme exactly with X.

*Q7X’s al-Shabaab group banned Y sometime ago because

they felt that it was too westernized and too anti-islam.

• The extremist group in fact offered no official

explanation for the ban, which are commonly cooked

up and served across the Horn of Africa.

• They refused to relax the ban even after being warned

that more than a 100,000 people might have to die of

starvation.

• The reason for the ban is that Y resembles the holy

trinity too much.

X= country

Y= food item

Q8_________ was born as Gnanadesikan in

Pannaipuram, Theni district, Tamil Nadu, on

June 2, 1943. But when he joined the school his

father changed his name as "Rajaiya" but his

village people used to call him as "Raasayya".

He studied under Dhanraj Master and the

master used to call him as just “X".

In his first movie Annakili, Tamil film producer

Panchu Arunachalam added “Y" (which means

younger in Tamil) as a prefix.

• ID YX

Q9Silver nitrate, on exposure to NaCl and proteins

with exposed sulphur atoms, forms salts that

are largely pale. But light soon reacts with the

silver and removes it from its compounds,

depositing it as a metal.

This chemical, is authorized for manufacture by

only one company in India sees huge demand

once in about every 4 years. It has been

exported to Thailand, Singapore, Nigeria,

Afghanistan, Malaysia and South Africa. It was

used in Cambodia in 2012.

Name the application of this chemical

Q10

The myth goes that X married 27 daughters of Daksha

but truly loved only one of them.

• His other wives complained about his negligent

behaviour to Daksha , who cursed him that he would

become ugly forever. As a penance X prayed to lord

Shiva to remove the curse.

however lord Shiva said that he could not completely

remove the curse , but said that whenever X lost his

beauty completely , he would again gradually gain his

beauty and the cycle would go on.

• Who is X and what resulted thus?

Q11X is an American television thriller series created by

Joshua Safran, that premiered on ABC on Sunday

September 27, 2015. The series' protagonist is Alex

Parrish played by Y, who is suspected of committing a

terrorist attack. Flashbacks tell her story and the ones

of her fellow recruits at the FBI Academy in X.

The actor Y has come under a lot of criticism for her

voice modelling, especially her accent. In fact, the actor

has faced a lot of criticism in the past, when Bollywood

actress Kareena Kapoor commented “Why does she

have that accent?” on a famous talk show, Y replied

with “I got it from the same place that her boyfriend got

it from”.

ID X, Y

Q12

The introduction of ____ in India, is associated with a

significant decrease in the reported acceptability of

domestic violence towards women and female

foeticide, as well as increase in women’s autonomy and

decrease in infertility. There were a number of

hypotheses, from rising incomes to growing female

literacy. Those are all moderately correlated with the

decline in birthrates and could help explain the shift.

But, curiously enough, nothing seems to match up with

the trends as neatly as the introduction of ____.

Q13

When Jai Singh, the ruler of the now Rajasthan,

visited the showrooms of Rolls-Royce in

London, he was affronted when the salesman

implied that he couldn't afford to purchase one

of the sleek new models -- he promptly

purchased 10, shipped them home, tore their

roofs off, and used them to ______________.

Q14

• Put funda. It’s bigger on the inside next slide.

Q15

• Haryana CM has recently proposed to replace X its electric version

• He said “Everybody should work hard to earn their livelihood, but pulling the weight of others is like exploitation”

• X?

Q16Identify this famous Indian Social Media Personality.Photo on next slide. He has over 122k tweets to his name and 203k followers on Twitter.