inquiziate@ 2016 prelims with answers

*1. Simply. Give me the collective noun for

a group of historians.

Argumentation

2.

Uganda

3. In a pilot project that has been successfully running

for over two months, the Central Railway has introduced this service, whereby passengers travelling on long distance train can inform the railway department to clean their coach over a missed call. The on-board housekeeping team gets into action by reaching the exact coach to be cleaned on receiving instructions through an automated system. This program operational in over 14 trains is now being extended to trains in the other railway zones too. 

Name this service

Clean My Coach

4. Portion of a famous response to an equally famous

'job offer'. Who wrote this response? What was the offer?

"...All my life I have dealt with objective matters, hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to exercise official functions... I am the more distressed over these circumstances because my relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world."

Albert Einstein on bring offered the Prseidentship of Israel

*5. x, is a famous gazal which has been

immortalized by Y , a famous Pakistani singer who enjoys a huge fan base in India and his visits here are often effected by controversies.

X, has been written by Z, a renowned freedom fighter whose most significant contribution is a revolutionary slogan.

ID X and Z

X : Chupke Chupke Raat Din Z : Maulana Hasrat Mohani

6. X is the first 6-shot revolver designed exclusively for

women by the Kanpur Ordnance Factory. The sleek and lightweight gun weighs 0.5 g and uses

a .32 caliber bullet. It was launched in the wake of the Delhi gang rape in

2012 in memory of the victim largely deriving its name from hers as a tribute.

Though intended to bolster safety of women, it drew widespread criticism, with some speculating US-like gun violence. Critics rejoiced that though rarely, but the government admitted its failure in the case.

X has a name roughly similar in meaning to a blockbuster flick starring Salman Khan.

Nirbhik

7. X was established as Madrasatul Uloom

Musalmanan-e-Hind in 1875–78. Y considered competence in English and "Western sciences" necessary skills for maintaining Muslims' political influence, especially in Northern India. Y’s image for the college was based on his visit to Oxford and Cambridge and he wanted to establish an education system similar to the British model. X was designed to train Muslims for government service in India and prepare them for advanced training in British universities. X got its present name in 1920.

ID X and Y

X : Aligarh Muslim University Y : Sir Sayad Ahmad Khan

8. Exhaustive list of what?1. Mooknayak (1920)2. Bahishkrut Bharat (1927)3. Janta(1930)4. Prabudhha Bharat (1956)

Newspapers edited by B.R. Ambedkar

9. Claim to fame of this company

Nirbhik

They are the only manufacturer of the ink used to mark thevoter’s finger during elections in India

*10 When Y first saw X  in the search for ballast ,

essential for railway construction, resulted in the plundering  of bricks and statues from ancient sites.

Between 1853 and 1872 , old brick structures had been dismantled at an alarming pace.  About a hundred miles of railway line had been furnished by brick ballast from X.

Though X found a plethora of artifacts from the site.He wrongly attributed them to be of foreign origin. He missed a very important clue.

Although Y became famous for his other discoveries in the field this very discovery of X with “profound implications” for a country always eluded him. X proved to be the biggest discovery of the century.

Id X and Y.

X : Harappa Y : Alexander Cunningham

11. XYZ is a phenomenon associated strictly with XY, a

beverage produced by Pepsi Co. The phenomenon is most common in the Appalachian region of the United States, where some 65 percent of children in West Virginia suffer from tooth decay. Dentists who work in Appalachia have coined a new name for the extreme instances of tooth decay caused primarily by drinking sugary sodas. Given the poverty and lack of dental health care, the level of consumption of XY is alarming, to the extent that it’s not unusual to see young mothers putting XY in their baby’s bottles.

ID XY and XYZ

XY : Mountain Dew XYZ: Mountain Dew Mouth

12. The ______ ______ Tower is a

memorial to X from his wife Yoko Ono, located near Reykjavik, Iceland. As can be seen, it consists of a tall tower of light, projected from a white stone monument that has the words “_______ ,_______” carved into it in 24 languages. These words refer to X’s most popular work. Image to follow.

FITB and identify X.

Imagine Peace (Imagine Peace Tower), X : John Lennon

13. Bombay Times: “O’Cracy: D.E.M. O’Cracy,

beloved husband of T. Ruth, Father of L. I. Berty, father of Faith, Hope and Justice, on June 26.”

Statesman: “On and from 1st January 1976, newspapers will be found in the fiction section.”

In connection to which event/incident did these statements appear in the newspapers?

Emergency

14. Facebook has recently bought Belarus based

app Masquerade .Masquerade's -_______have been compared to those in rival Snapchat, which Facebook tried to buy in 2013.

One expert said Facebook was responding to competition from Snapchat, which streams millions of videos daily. "I think Facebook has realised Snapchat has something it doesn't," said David Wilkinson, managing partner at digital consultancy Soho Strategy. What is so special about Masquerade?

Face Swapping Filters

*15.

Id the person other then Gaini Jail Singh. Which controversial report is being handed over

B.P. Mandal Handover of the Mandal Commission

report

16. Delhi-Jaipur- Sawai Madhopur-

Chittorgarh- Udaipur-Jaisalmer-Jodhpur- Bharatpur- Agra- Delhi

Route for what?

Palace on wheels

17. Indradhanush – X Nomadic Elephant – Mongolia Simbex – Singapore Slinex – Sri Lanka Varuna – France Malabar – Y Hand in Hand – China Give Funda and X,Y

Indian military exercises with different countries.

X : UK Y : USA

18. X, a type of clothing, is ancient

Mongolian for "atomic chain reaction resulting in a massive explosion." Louis Réard, a French Mechanical Engineer who came up with the design hoped that it would create an "explosive commercial and cultural reaction".ID X

Bikini

19. Who is Tenzin Gyasto?

#Kolzstyle

The 14th Dalai Lama

*20

Print ad published by Wrigley’s upon the retirement of a very famous sporting personality. Identify this person

Sir Alex Ferguson