PRELIMSBY B. DATTA AND A.ROY

30 QUESTIONS6 STAR MARKED QUESTIONSSUDDEN DEATH(COUNT BACK METHOD) IF STARS CANNOT ELIMINATEPRELIMS SCORE WILL GET PRECEDENCE IF THERE IS A TIE IN THE FINALS

1 The Bystander Magazine of April 1924 captured these

impressions of the________ _____, complete with the then fashionable trousers known as ‘________Bags’ or ‘Blanket Bags’.

FITB or simply identify the team.

OXFORD ROWING TEAM

2 Who were the recipient of the Olympic Cup in 1929 for

their holistic approach to development, symbolised by the well-known ________triangle representing body, mind and spirit ?

YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION

3 “Another Side of X : The Dharma Bum as Sports Nut” was

an article published in The New York Times on 15th May,2009. The article reveals that X obsessively played a fantasy baseball game of his own invention, charting the exploits of made-up players.

He collected their stats, analysed their performances and, as a teenager, when he played most ardently, wrote about them in homemade newsletters and broadsides.

Isaac Gewirtz, New York Library’s curator has just wrote a 75-page book about them, “X at Bat: Fantasy Sports and the King of the Beats”

Who is X ?

JACK KEROUAC

4 What makes the 1996 Men's Singles finalists Richard

Krajicek of the Netherlands and MaliVai Washington of the United States smile while posing for the customary pre-match photo-shoot? This was described by BBC’s John Barrett as “The two boys hardly knew where to look.”

STREAKING INCIDENT

5 One story about its origin goes that the organisers asked

Philippe Thys to use one and after initial resentment at the request of the team manager at Peugeot, Thys gave in.

Thys says, “The ________would be an advertisement for the company and, that being the argument, I was obliged to concede. So a __________was bought in the first shop we came to. It was just the right size, although we had to cut a slightly larger hole for my head to go through.”

What is the alternative and more popular theory behind the origin of this entity?

YELLOW JERSEY OF TOUR DE FRANCE L’AUTO NEWSPRINT IS YELLOW

6 Identify the

blanked out part.

TRAMPOLINE

7* When the film project began, she was an International

Relations fresher at Jadavpur University and was shortlisted for the role. But, the director felt that she would not fit the part and looked much more elitist and hence, they embarked on finding a fresh face.

However, unable to find a “darker” face, they sought to return to their original choice, on the verge of her graduation and the rest, as they say is history.

Which former JU alumnus and South Point teacher is being referred and what film?

KONI, SREEPARNA BANERJEE

8 * The image on the right,

describes the mechanism behind something which was last used publicly in May 1897 at Barcelona.

What does it describe ? What phrase/slang

was immortalised as an outcome of a particular demonstration of this mechanism, that perhaps originated from one of the great fears of a sailor that he will be drowned at sea and his body will not be buried ashore where family and friends can mourn over them ?

GARROTTING., SLEEP WITH THE FISHES

9 Billy Connolly, a stand up comedian known for his

political satires, once criticised a Scottish member of the parliament, Jack McConnell, as having political know-how at par with a Geography student who placed _______ ____ _______________ somewhere in the Baltic Sea.

FITB keeping with the theme of the quiz.

ISLETS OF LANGERHANS

10

This is John Charcot, a celebrated physician of the 19th century who is seen lecturing a panel of doctors on the origins of a condition in this woman, which people prior to him, believed to have caused by a pathology in the womb, rising to choke a woman. What condition, which is a misnomer at present ?

HYSTERIA

11* Kanehara Trading Inc.

has the monopoly over a particular item which will be celebrating its centenary next year, yet, remains as indispensable as ever to a section of health workers.

What?

ISHIARA CHART

12 How can you connect the following images/which one

simple addition would complete this exhaustive list ?

13

COLLEGE STREET, THOROUGHFARES ENCOMPASSING CALCUTTA MEDICAL COLLEGE

13 ‘Many people had warned me that they (the doctors)

would turn him into a guinea pig, but we did not listen to them,' cried Gyanera Bibi. 'I was not forcibly feeding him, as the doctors have suggested. If I was doing anything wrong, they did not stop me either,' she added.

This was what, the bereaved mother had to say when enquired on her child’s untimely death.

Who is this, a media sensation a decade back and had a name which is Turkish for “male” ?

LOKMAN HAKIM MANDAL (LOKMAN WILL DO)

14 One of the oldest medical textbooks in the world, the

Ebers Papyrus, describes how the ancient Egyptians used this in 1,550 BC, though it is popularly known to have originated form another country.

After the procedure, you may get an antibiotic ointment and bandage to prevent infection.

What which has shot into public consciousness recently?

CUPPING DUE TO PHELPS

15 Impossible Motherhood is

a book by Irene Vilar which has a minimalistic cover.

What does the tally represent ?

NUMBER OF ABORTIONS

16 Two Harvard students with an interest in old Hindi films

have created a website pertaining to their passion. Which film name would they give to their website reflecting both their area of interest as well as the dual nature of the project?

Mr. and Mrs.55

17 "Frank Simoes and Karen Anand wrote on food, Tom Alter on

sports, Dilip Thakore on money; Ashok Banker, CP Surendran, Ranjit Hoskote wrote cover stories; Namita Gokhale and Anita Nair did columns on sex and relationships; Suketu Mehta, Adil Jussawala, Farrukh Dhondy sent us fiction and poetry."-Which English language magazine would boast of such credit in its prime?

Gentleman

18*FILL IN THE CAPTION OF THIS NEW YORKER CARTOON.

BIRD OF PARADISE

19 The person in his autobiography said that the name had no

meaning in Portuguese or any other language. He states that perhaps it may have been given by one of the Turks living in Bauru; an alternatively spelled version of the word has 2 meanings-’foot’ in Portuguese and possibly ‘stupid’ in Turkish.What name is being talked about?

PELE

20 What American city got its name by contracting New Ark

of the Covenant?

NEWARK

21 The cricketer in his autobiography talked about how his

family was originally from India. his father was from Bombay and Ahmedabad, while his mother’s family was from X, one of several princely states, located near the Ahmedabed-Baroda area, that flourished under the British colonial rule.Identify the cricketer, a Karachite,by birth, and X.

X- PALANPUR; JAVED MIANDAD

22 Identify the person to the left of Edward Snowden.His claim to fame is that of leaking The Pentagon Papers,a top secret Pentagon analysis of the American government’s decisions in the Vietnam war, to the New York Times, and other bodies,in 1971.

DANIEL ELLSBERG

23 "On January 6, 1948, an Air France DC-3 from Brussels

crashed on approach to the Le Bourget airport near Paris, killing all five crew members and 10 of the 11 passengers. Among the dead was a young woman who, press reports said, was either a clerk or a courier. She was neither."-this would be a certain organisation's description of the death of a Jane Wallis Burrell.How would Jane Wallis Burrell's death be notable with respect to the organisation's history?

She would be the First CIA officer to die in the agency’s service

24 In his essay “Misguided ‘Guide’” R.K.Narayan talks about the

efforts of the filmmakers to recruit this person ,who was passing through India, to persuade the Queen to be present at the world premiere of the film.Instead this person would be engaged in an awkward conversation with the high profile producer of the film who, according to Narayan,struggled for words.Who were these two?

Lord MountbattenPearl S. Buck

25 In “The Lost Generation: Chronicling India’s Dying Lost

Professions” Nidhi Dugar Kundalia talks about how young girls in the Khunti district of Jharkhand often undergo a ‘godna’ ceremony where to the accompaniment of musicians women sing and dance to district the child while the malhar is at work.What is the godna ceremony?

The ritual of inserting a tattoo on the girl child’s forehead in the shape of a tilak.

26 Phil Robertson had an opportunity to be an NFL player

but he realised that if he were to pursue that career he would have to miss ____ ______.He decided to establish a company that would be in line with his passion. The company has a two word name-the first word is that of first blank and the second word refers to a military rank.The company sponsors college football’s Independence Bowl 2014 onwards.

DUCK COMMANDER

27* In John McMillan’s “Reinventing Bazaar: A Natural History

of Markets” the author talks about the Dutch village of Aalsmeer. In what respect is Aalsmeer the world’s largest market?The author credits the scale of production of such delicate and perishable items to efficient air transportation and telecommunications.

FLOWERS

28 What technique did Philip Roth use in ‘Operation Shylock’

that would straddle the line between fiction and non fiction? The technique was first done in print by Edgar Rice Burroughs and has been done by the likes of Paul Theroux among others.

Insert a character by his own name in the text

29*It was in the fields. The trees grew still,a light passed through the leaves speakingof Christ’s great grace: I heard.My body hardened into armor.

Since the guardsgave me over to darkness, I have prayed to Godand now the voices answer I must betransformed to fire, for God’s purpose,and have bid me kneelto bless my King, and thankthe enemy to whom I own my life.

This is a poem by Louis Gluck about whom?

JOAN OF ARC

30.IDENTIFY THE ACTOR

HARVEY KEITEL