the open quizPRELIMS

MRIDANG 2009

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The Karnataka Quiz Association

**1. In what long-lasting way did these heterosexual men come together in London around 1959?

Answer

Fleetwood Mac

2. Map showing travels of a popular crop. Two word name!

Answer

Sweet Potato

3. Advertising for which cult annual event?

Answer

Burning Man

4. Where would you find this memorial?

Answer

Clear Lake, IowaThe Day the Music Died

5. Identify gent on far-right?

Answer

Luz Long

6. What has been blanked out? Also the reason for the shock !

Answer

B.O.

** 7. Identify the consumable in the foreground. What famous story did it play a misleading role in?

Answer

BriocheQueen Marie Antoinette’s Let them eat cake Brioche

**8.Happiness, Eternal Life, God, Death, Love, Hope, Silence, Charles De Gaulle, Future, a famous French cyclist, a Paris Street notorious for its prostitutes

All these are suggested answers to which bugging question?

Answer

Who is Godot, in Waiting for Godot.

9.

The Transpolar Drift and the Beaufort Gyre together keep a certain water body unusually free of pollutants. The Transpolar Drift was discovered in 1893 by Fritdjof Nansen who tried to use it to sail to the North Pole. Which water-body?

Answer

Arctic Ocean

**10.The Cosmic Censorship Conjecture is the idea that every black hole will have an event horizon that allows this singularity to remain hidden. This idea was proposed in 1969 by a British scientist who then went on to find superstar status outside the scientific community. Who?

Answer

Roger Penrose

**11.The emperor Trajan added a province named Dacia , north of the Danube to his empire and set about ‘civilising’ the province. This eventually resulted in a present-day language that is more Latinate than others in the region as also in the name of the country—one that acknowledges its ties to the ancient empire. Which country?

Answer

Romania

12. Statue in honour of?

Answer

Sarsenapati Kanhoji Angre

13.If you encountered “the fail whale”, where would you be?

Answer

Twitter

14.Bangkok-4; New Delhi-2; Manila, Tokyo, Teheran, Jakarta, Hiroshima, Busan, Doha, Beijing, Seoul: 1. What are we talking about?

Answer

Asian Games Venue

15.___ ___ ___was a fortified city with thirteen gates which was one of the ancestors of modern-day Delhi. It takes its name from the legendary 12th century figure who had it built. This figure also lends his name to a heroic epic. Name city and person.

Answer

Answer

16.This town in Haveri district of Karnataka is home to the famous Tarakeshwara temple built by the Chalukyas.. Most of us have heard of this town because it has served as the surname for a famous Hindustani musician and a character actor in Bollywood films and television. Which town?

Answer

Hangal

17.Queen-Regent Kanchanprabha Devi signed a merger agreement with India in 1949--this brought which former princely state with an international border into the Indian union?

Answer

Tripura

18.

The Tomb of Jahangir, Mohenjodaro, The Khojak Railway Tunnel and the Badshahi Masjid are common pictorial motifs on which currency unit?

Answer

Pakistani Rupee

19.Which organization, headquartered in Gland, Switzerland, issues a list of Endangered Species every year?

Answer

IUCN

20.The Printbox is a New York agency specializing in promotional items--their most famous product is made of either rubber or silicone and more than 70 million units have been sold across the world—and in every continent except Antarctica or so they claim. What do they produce?

Answer

Livestrong Bands

21.

Which country uses a name derived from that of its capital while competing in sporting events?

Answer

Taiwan / Chinese Taipei

22. What event from about ten years ago do we see in this Amul ad?

Answer

Musharraf’s coup / Nawaz Sharif’s arrest

23.What demand was dropped in 1956 following the Gentleman’s Agreement promising non-discrimination, signed between B Gopal Reddy and B Ramakrishna Rao?

Answer

Telangana

24.Purists insist that this is employed to make sure that a certain kind of sports equipment is ready for use. What would you knock into readiness using this?

Answer

Cricket Bats

25. What six-letter word is applied to hair of this colour?

Answer

Auburn

26. Seen here is the first Indian to win a world championship—the year is 1958. His name?

Answer

Wilson Jones World Amateur Billiards Championship

27. What hazard is this sign a warning of?

Answer

Avalanche

28.The area takes its name from the mountain. A resort in the area was in the news, especially in India , in 2009. Identify either.

Answer

Sinhai

29.This is Hollywood actor Frank Langella playing a famous villain. Either identify the villain or the superhero who he normally confronts.

Answer

Skeletor & He-Man

30. What 8-letter word, borrowed from the name of an animal, is used for this style of serving a mango?

Answer

Hedgehog

**31. Created in 1974 by a designer fascinated with notions of space, it came into its own only in 1980 when the socialist government of that country permitted its export to the West. Since 2007, it has seen a bit of a resurgence, selling more that 15 million units, because, as one analyst says, “in troubled times, adults are looking for things that remind them of happier days”. YouTube features 38000 videos dedicated to this object, and an organisation called WCA brings enthusiasts together for international meets. What are we talking about?

Answer

Rubik’s Cube

**32. Illegal trade over the India-Bangladesh border is roughly of the same volume as the legal. Wheat, rice, sugar and cough syrup account for 50% of the illegal trade. The other 50% is accounted for by just one commodity—which can fetch as much as $900 per unit. Many people make as much as $22 every time they transport a unit into Bangladesh.

This typically involves a jury-rigged mechanism of bamboo poles, iron hooks and old barbed wire because the units are bulky and need to hoisted over a 1- foot high fence . In 2008, the BSF captured about 70000 units, worth $ 63 million, but had to auction them –where they were bought back by the same chaps who tried smuggling them in the first place. What?

Answer

Cows (Beef)

33.I was born in Hyderabad, married in Lucknow, moved to Tehran, came to Delhi and then never left the city. Who?

Answer

Shehnaz Hussain

34.The name is literally ‘pig-fish’. ?

Answer

Porpoise

35. Identify this Dominican-origin actress. In which 2009 film did you see and not actually see her?

Answer

Zoe Saldana - Avatar