iquiz jb 2015 prelims
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Thirty questions
Write answers ONLY
No Negative marks
Top six (6) teams go to the finals
No devices of any sort must be seen
•This cloth the most common backdrop material used by photographers for formal portrait backgrounds. In video production, it is used as a cheap green screen or blue screen.
•It gets its name from the city of Mosul, Iraq, where it was first manufactured.
Name this cotton fabric.
3
Nowadays an essential component of black tie dressing, this item of clothing was adapted by British officers in the Indian Subcontinent as an alternative to the waistcoat, and is called by the Anglicized version of its original Urdu name. Name it.
6
Also known as Wild Marjoram, what is the common name of this herb from the mint family that you would perhaps associate with pizza?
7
Meaning ‘black land’ in Sindarin, what was the name of the dwelling place of Sauron, in Tolkien’s Middle Earth, and home to the volcano Orodruin?
10
•In particle physics, what name is given to the elementary particles that cause quarks to interact, and are indirectly responsible for the binding of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of the atom?
11
The 2013 United States Formula One Grand Prix was held in which city, the capital of its state? The 2014 event will be held here again.
12
On 28 November 1949 Mohamed Hamzah, a Malaysian government architect, beat 329 others in a competition to design what?
13
This was the part of your armour that was meant to protect your hand in battle.
Today the word exists as part of a phrase that means “to issue a challenge”
Which word?
19
HAWKS, EALES, VULTURES and OWLS are carnivorous birds belonging to a category that derives its name from the Latin for ‘to take by force’.
Name the category.(one word answer)
24
After 27 years of confinement in his country’s maximum security prison at Robben Island, he emerged to be elected President of his country. Name him
25
If you move vertically in an elevator and diagonally on an escalator, what do you move horizontally on?
26
A consortium formed in 2007, consisting of 84 firms including Google, HTC, Dell, Sony & Samsung and called the Open Handset Alliance was instrumental in the development and adoption of which system whose name could also mean “a mobile robot with a human form?”
27
If the 2010 World Cup brought world-wide attention to the vuvuzela, what phenomenon, now associated with various sporting events, did the 1986 World Cup introduce to the world?
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