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The General QuizPrelimsVikram Joshi 12/03/16

The scheme of things todayWritten round 30 questions 1 point eachQuestions where 2 answers are asked have half-points for each correct answerQuestions 11 through 20 are starred and will be used to resolve a tieIn case of a further tie, sudden death from Answer 1 will be usedTop 8 teams move to the finalsThe QMs decision is finalGood luck!

Written Elimination Round

Q1There are very few languages in the world that have a word for this. Achenese, Devavan, Sinakil, Nias, Ende and Sigulait in Sumatra all have words for this in India, only Tamil has a word for it.There are words in small language communities in the Aleutian islands in Alaska as well as in Hawaiian.In widely spoken languages, only Spanish and Portuguese have their own words for this Spanish due to colonial experiences and Portugal due to an event in 1755.

How do we commonly know this word in English we use another languages word for this.

A1Tsunami

Q2Jewish comedians like George Burns, Rodney Dangerfield, Milton Berle and Joan Rivers were among hundreds of entertainers who got their start playing in a range of resorts in the Catskill mountains of upstate New York.

The humour was primarily sarcastic, involved in-laws and spouses, and was quite dark and fatalistic at times as well.

The fact that their audiences were mostly Eastern European Jewish gave them the name of ________ Belt comedians. FITB.

A2Borscht Belt

Q3Name this 1978 song sung by Trinidadian Lord Shorty better known for his use of Indian musical instruments to create a derivative of the popular music there giving him the sobriquet of Father of X.

Also ID music style X.

A3X - Soca

Q4Name the sports team who got into a lot of trouble in the 1990s for this gesture.

A4Atlanta Braves

Q5X was a Dhaka born Indian scientist who is remembered chiefly across the globe by an equation he gave to determine the temperature and pressure of stars. Xs contribution to modern India is in the form of an institution that specializes in study of nuclear physics in Kolkata. The institute bears his name and its foundation stone was laid by a second generation Nobel laureate in chemistry Y. Id X and Y.

A5Dr. Meghnad Saha

Irene Curie (daughter of Marie Curie)

Q6He was a descendant of the Benaras royal family and was born to extreme riches. However, when he died in 1986, he had nothing apart from a bank balance of Rs. 1450 and he had donated by then, all his family assets to landless laborers. Ironically, in 1972 he received the Tamra Patra from the then Indira government for his role in Quit India movement.

Who is this royal to pauper socialist about whom Lohia said, If in India there could be just three or four persons like him, dictatorship can never shadow democracy, which rings true for he brought one famous dictator down?

A6Lokbandhu Raj Narain

Q7According to ancient tales in Vanuatu, the pale skinned son of a mountain spirit travelled over the seas to a distant land, married a powerful lady and would in time return.

The villagers had observed the respect accorded to X by officials when she visited and came to the conclusion that her husband, Y, must be the son from their legends.

Thus the tribe on Vanuatu believe Y is a God and he is worshipped by them. Who is Y.

A7Prince Philip

Q8While today this place is designated a gram panchayat, it was the capital city of the Satyvahanas from around 3rd century BC to 3rd century AD. It became an important center of pilgrimage for both Hindus and Buddhists. Being one of the five Panchramas dedicated to Shiva, the name of this place literally means The town which lives on forever.

In October 2015, this came true with a decision taken by the state government to revive it to its original spendour.

Which place and why is it in news since October 2015?

A8Amaravati

This will be the newcapital city of Andhra Pradesh.

Q9Widely panned, whose first novel was Modelland a tale of 3 aspiring models each with a quirk or disability ready to do anything to win in the cutthroat world of modelling?

The author is famous for coming up with the concept of Smize-ing or Smiling with your eyes which was heavily promoted on television by the author.

A9Tyra Banks

Q10With all the Trump Twitter brouhaha, a smaller controversy around Bernie Sanders was missed out in March 2016.

The backlash against this tweet from people from the country mentioned was tremendous, identify the country the poorest country in the EU.

A10Romania

Q11Mayors for Peace is an international grouping of mayors that is dedicated to abolishing weapons and bringing about world peace.

The head of the organization is always the Mayor of city X as he/she is in a unique position to lead this cause.

The secretariat of this group is located in the small city of Y another appropriate choice of venue due to its unique experience with a different type of destructive weaponry.

Identify both cities X and Y.

A11X Hiroshima (first victim of nuclear weaponry in WW2)

Y Ypres, Belgium (first victim of chemical weaponry in WW1)

Q12In 2014, Pharell Williams song Happy was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song for the movie Despicable Me 2, but it lost to another song.

When interviewed by GQ magazine right after the ceremony, Pharell was quoted saying When they read the results, my face was _________. But then I thought about it, and I just decided just to _________.

FITB with 2 phrases.

A12Frozen

Let it go

Q13The firstpiece was designed in 1901 by Pierre ______. It was a necklace commissioned by Queen Alexandra to be worn with three Indian gowns she received as a gift.The designs are considered the perfect mixof East and West because they are made up of brightly colored gemstones (like sapphires, rubies and emeralds) carved using Indian techniques and set in French platinum and diamond mountings.The style became extremely popular during the 1920's, but it wasn't christened the X Y' until 1970.

ID Style X Y and fill in the blanks.

A13Tutti Frutti

Cartier

Q14InMilwaukee, Wisconsin, the B.J. Johnson Company developed a soap entirely oftwo ingredients both natural oils (one found in Africa and one in the Middle East) in 1898. The soap was popular enough to rename their company after a combination of both oil names.Around the start of the 20th century this soap brand was the world's best-selling soap.

Name this soap brand.

A14Palmolive

(Palm oil + Olive oil)

Q15Designed by Edwin Lutyens and sponsored by Madho Singh II in 1912, the base has an inscription of a quote attributed to Lord Irwin, then Viceroy of India which reads:

In thought faithIn word wisdomIn deed courageIn life serviceSo may India be great

It was designed to commemorate both the Delhi Durbar of 1911 and the shifting of the capital from Calcutta to Delhi.What are we talking about?

A15Jaipur Column

Q16In February 2015, a historian unearthed the first unseen story of its kind in over 80 years.Written in 1904 as a contribution to a collection of short stories called The Book o' the Brig, it was meant to raise funds to help rebuild a wooden bridge, which was destroyed by the great flood of 1902, in the Scottish town of Selkirk.

The title of the story was ________ ________: Discovering the Border Burghs And, By Deduction, The Brig Bazaar..What characters name fills the blanks in the storys title?

A16Sherlock Holmes

Q17Identify all 3 of the people shown on this balcony during the citys annual Carnival parade.

(0.5 points for 2 out of 3)

A17From L to R:

Carlos Gardel the father of the tangoEva Peron ex President of ArgentinaDiego Maradona Argentine footballer

Q18Around 400-500 people living near the much polluted Yamuna river in the capital, most of them present in a radius of 4-6 km, try to make their ends meet through this activity - which they are able to do thanks to a Hindu religious ritual. Theybegin work at 7 or 8 in the morning and go on until they break for lunch and continue till sunset and usually collect Rs 100-200 per day.

The Delhi Police has issued them ID cards to avail their help when needed to help them out with fishing out corpses.

How exactly do they eke out a living?

A18They are Coin Divers

Retrieve coins thrown into the water by devotees

Q19Identify this actor from the movie The Associate (1996)

A19Whoopi Goldberg

Q20This newly-launched initiative of the Govt. of India has been developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC)..What exact thing does this initiative deal with?

A20Cloud Computing

Q21In the image on the next slide, Prince William is inaugurating a sculpture. What does the sculpture commemorate (need an exact phrase)?

A21The Christmas Truce - 1914

Q22This is allegedly the tomb of a person connected to Mughal history.There is no actual mention of this person in any writings from the period surprisingly not even in books like the Jahangir-nama written in that period.The earliest mention comes in 1892 by Syed Abdul Lateef, in his book Tareekh-i-Lahore where it is mentioned that a couplet by the Emperor is written on the grave in Persian, If I could behold my beloved only once, I would remain thankful to Allah till doomsday.

Whose tomb is this?

A22Anarkali

Q23ID the lady on a tour of duty in Vietnam in 1966.

A23Reita Faria

The First Indian Miss World in 1966.

Q24Indian television (Doordarshan) was broadcast in Black and White only till Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ordered officials to switch it to colour so that Indians could enjoy a certain occasion in colour.

Colour TV was first debuted a week before this occasion during the telecast of the Independence Day speech at Red Fort by Indira Gandhi on 15 August 1982.

What occasion was this?

A241982 Asian Games in Delhi

Q25In 2008, when Nepal abolished the monarchy & became a democracy, what image replaced the photos of the King on the Nepalese currency notes?

A25Mount Everest

Q26Named after Mount _______ the abode of Avalokiteshwara which isbelieved to be at Ambasamudram in Tirunelveli district, this buildinghas 13 stories with over 1,000 rooms, 10,000 shrines and 20,000 statues.This building has had a restricted amount of visitors (about 1500 a daytill July 2006 when significantly larger number of visitors had to admittedwhen the area got easier to reach because of the construction of a railway line.

Name the building.

A26Potala Palace

Q27There are a couple of stories as to how this location in Kashi gets its name.

The main story involves Sati (the wife of Shiva) who set her body ablaze after her father humiliated Lord Shiva in a Yagya. Lord Shiva took her burning body to theHimalayas but while going there, parts of Sati's body started falling on earth. Lord Shiva established Shakti Peeths wherever parts of her body fell. At this location, Sati's earrings were said to have fallen.

Name this location in Kashi.

A27Manikarnika Ghat

Manikarna are earrings in Sanskrit. Manikarnika means one with the jewelled ears

Q28During the1980 United States presidential election, the Republicans distributed campaign buttonsthat claimed "ADemocrat____________", while Democratic incumbentJimmy Carterjoked that he would have no problem financing his campaign if he knew who _____________.

The Turkish Parliament adjourned early so lawmakers could figure out who ______________ - and bets all over the UK totally nearly 6 million Pounds in the 8 months it took to answer.

What clever marketing phrase was this?

A28Who shot J.R.?

Q29Guadalupe , MexicoSaint-Etienne-le-Laus, FranceRue du Bac, FranceLa Salette, FranceLourdes, FrancePontmain, FranceFatima, Portugal Complete list of what?Beauraing, BelgiumBanneux, BelgiumAkita, Japan

A29Roman Catholic approved visions/apparations of Mary

Velankanni and Medjugorje are not officially approved by the Church (yet)

Q30The United States Supreme Court had its first sitting here; The United States Bill of Rights was drafted and ratified here; The first step of adding new states to the existing Union took place here.

This was the fifth of 5 capitals under the Articles of Confederation and the first capital of the United States under the Constitution of the United States.

Name it.

A30New York City

Stay tuned for the answers

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