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Quizz-d Up!

Prelims



Qn.1

• How is “id est” popularly known as?



Qn.2

What am I describing?• Axle – “A model bad boy, cruel and ruthless. Don't try to get on Axle's

good side - he doesn't have one”.

• Bose Jefferson – “Don't be fooled by Bose's casual demeanor - his punch

feels like a ten-car pile up on your head”.

• Cydney Bass- “A spoiled rich girl living on the edge. Treat Cyd right or she'll throw a tantrum in your face”.

• Milwaukee Jon- “Ex-con with a death wish. Jon's dare devilish style

strikes fear in the hearts of seasoned fellows”.

• Pearl McKurdy – “A competitive and reckless retro-punk. Pearl lives for

anarchy” .

• Slim Jim – “Would've been the class clown if he hadn't dropped out. Voted

'Most Likely To Die Young' by classmates.”

• Teflon Mike – Dropped on his head at an early age, Mike is a gonzo wild

man: fearless, un- predictable, brain damaged”



Qn.3

• His real name is Cassius Marcelus Clay. He is

better known as?



Qn.4

• What is the expansion of VAIO?



Qn.5

• On December 22, 2009, after 19 years, 40

adjournments, and more than 400 hearings, the

court finally pronounced the accused guilty

under Section 354 IPC (molestation) and

sentenced him to six months imprisonment and

a fine of Rs 1,000. Later, he was sentenced to

One and a half years of rigorous imprisonment. Name this infamous case which shook the

entire nation.



*Qn.6

• Prem Behari Narain Raizada (Saxena), son of

Brij Behari Narain Raizada of Delhi wrote a

well-known „thing‟ in his own hand, using a

flowing italic style in the best calligraphic

traditions of our country. What did he write?



Qn.7

• Which term associated with exponential decay

is also the title of one of the largest selling

computer games?



Qn.8

• Brussels is to EU as ________ is to SAARC.



Qn.9

• This magazine was launched in 1974 as a spin

-off from a page bearing the same name in

TIME Magazine. Among its notable

contributions to journalism are annual issues

devoted to superlatives such as most beautiful,

best/worst dressed and sexiest. Identify the

magazine.



*Qn.10

• Which Indian actor, who has not acted in any

movies in his mother tongue, made his debut

in made his debut as an actor in the National

Film Award-winning movie, Apoorva

Raagangal (1975) ?



Qn.11

• This word is used to establish a single

grammatical or semantic interpretation. The

most famous example (apart from its use in

audio techniques and computer science) is the

way in which Wikipedia resolves conflicts in

article titles that occur when a single term can

be associated with more than one topic. Whatword?



*Qn.12

• The first word that Anne Sullivan taught a

student in March 1887 was 'doll'.The second

was 'water'. Who was that student?



Qn.13

• Javed Akhtar, in love with actress Honey Irani,

requested his partner Salim Khan to meet her

mother Perin Irani on his behalf. The

conversation that took place between Salim

and Perin was incorporated into which film‟s

script?



Qn.14

• When the West German stand at the Delhi

Industrial Exhibition of 1959 folded up, parts

of their equipment were offered to the Govt. of

India. Using this equipment, what was started

on Sep 15, 1959 within a 25km radius of New

Delhi?



Qn.15

• In 1994 Brendan Eich, a programmer working

for Netscape, had the idea of embedding a

webpage with mini-programs that a browser

could run as it was rendering a page. Eich‟s

scripting language was called Mocha but

finally became well-known as what?



*Qn.16

• You have heard of so many phobias. If

Ailurophobia is the fear for Cats &

Cynophobia is the fear of Dogs, What is

Aibohphobia the fear of ?



Qn.17

• Complete this quote by George Bernard Shaw.

" I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having

invented dynamite, but only afiend in human form could have invented the

_____."



Qn.18

• This name was taken from a poem by Lord

Byron which goes:

“Here where the sword ______ ______ drew,

Our countrymen were warring on that day, And

this is much,and all,which will not pass away'

A famous person made a decision in his

bathtub to use it. What is this?



*Qn.19

• In 1791, a Dublin theatre owner James Daly is

said to have made a bet that he could introduce

a word into the English language within 24

hours. However, this word was originally usedto describe an annoying person who tended to

snoop into others' affairs. What word?



Qn.20

• Who is the current Chief of Army Staff?

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