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VQuiz Prelims Answers
Prelims Question 1Prelims Question 1“
“I had failed to realize my dream of becoming a pilot. It is only when we are faced with Failure do we realise that we have the resources within us.We only need to find them and move on with our lives are lines of newly released book “ My Journey: Transforming Dreams into Action"
WWho is the Author of the book
Answer 1Answer 1
Question 2Question 2WIn September, 2013 ,Ms Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was awarded the 2012 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace,Disarmament and Development.SShe is also the winner of 2011 Noble Peace prize.She was awarded for serving as an inspiration for ensuring return of Democracy,Development and security in her tiny nation? Which nation are we talking about?
Answer
LIBERIA
Question 3This writer is credited with using the word for the first time in
the Book “Run Around”.He talked of 3 laws for them1.A 'X' may not injure a human being or, through inaction,
allow a human being to come to harm.2.A 'X ' must obey the orders given to it by human beings,
except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.3.A 'X' must protect its own existence as long as such
protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.Identify the writer and X( Half point each for identifying writer
and X)
Issac Asimov
ROBOTICS
The modern term robot derives from the Czech word robota (“forced labour” or “serf”), used in Karel Čapek's play R.U.R. (1920).
Question 4
In 1960 a group of British naturalists including biologist Sir Julian Huxley, artist and conservationist ,Peter Scott and ornithologists Guy Mountfort and Max Nicholson started which Organization.
Answer
Question 5
Leander Paes at the Age 40 this year won the US 2013 open Doubles crown? Who was his doubles partner for the event
Radek Stepanek from Czech republic
Question 6) She won the Pulitzer Prize for her debut
collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies (1999). Her first novel Namesake was adopted into a film by the same name and later won many awards,Her latest work The LOWLAND was in the shortlist for the BOOKER prize.
Identify the writer
Jhumpa Lahiri
Question 7 Which Sport has 2 styles called Greeco
roman and Freestyle?
Answer: Wrestling
Question 8)Name the current chairman of the TATA group of companies
Answer:Cyrus Pallonji Mistry
Question 9) Who was the first from the field of Music to get Bharat Ratna in1998?
Ans- MS Subhalakshmi
Q10) What is the most widely used quantitative measure or a Scale of the magnitude of an earthquake, devised in 1935 by an American seismologist called?
Answer
Richter scale American physicist and
seismologist who developed the Richter scale for measuring earthquake magnitude
Q11)Amīr Khusro,one of India's greatest Persian-language poets,is considered the Father of this form of Music.Identify the music.
Answer: Qawwali
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12 How do we know the actor who was born as Gopalakrishnan Padmanabhan Pillai?
Dilip
Q13 Name the Script writer and Director who have directed films like Mathilukal,Kathapurusan and Nizhal Kuthu
Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Q14 Name the creator of the two popular comic strips of Phantom and Mandrake the Magician?
Falk lee born as Leon Harrison gross
Question 15 )Which nation will be hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics?
Answer: Tokyo
Question 16) Ms Megan Young won the Miss world 2013 title.Which country does she belong to?
Answer: Philippines
Question 17) Who is the current Chief justice of India who was sworn in on July 19,2013 as the 40th Chief Justice of India?
Answer: Justice Palanisamy Sathasivam
Question 18th In the Hindi film Tare Zameen Par,Darsheel Safary played role of which reading disorder in which words looks Jumbled
Answer:Dyslexia
Question 19-If you are travelling with your parents in your summer vacation through places like Bhagalpur,Purnia,Motihari and Darbhanga which Indian state will you be in
AnswerBIHAR
Question 20) Name the person who was conferred with Bharata Ratna in 1992 posthumously but due to controversy the award was withdrawn?
Subhash Chandra Bose
Question 21 Name the Indian Born American Biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for research that helped to show how the nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code control the cell's synthesis of proteins.
Hargobind Khurana
Question 22) What is Saphire in Thai Called?
Phailin
Q 23) Who is the head of the AAM AADMI PARTY
Answer Arvind Kejriwal
Q24) Who won the Nobel prize for Literature this year
Ans Alice Munro, Canadian short story writer
Q 25) Queens Baton Relay came to India in October first week before the commonwealth games?
Where is the next Commonwealth games going to be held?
Glasgow,Scotland