PRELIMS

RULES

1. 35 questions2. Quick recap before ‘ The End’ .3. Top 8 Teams Qualify for next stage.4. Team ‘ QuizWeiser’ is supreme authority for

this quiz.

Q1.Name the city

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Q2. Identify the gentleman

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• Vinod Rai, Ex-Cag

Q3 Id. The Brand

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• Lacoste

Q.4

• How do we better know UBISLATE 7+ from Datawind

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• AKASH TABLET

Q.5

• Originally known as Kilmarnock Whisky. A key feature of it is the Striding Man logo. Another key aspect of its marketing is the slanted label, which is angled at exactly 24 degrees. What are we talking about?

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• 8 of the 9 IPL teams in 2013 had Pepsi as the official beverage partner. Which is the only team to have Coca Cola ?

Q.6

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Q.7

• Which company is big yellow in business world [Hint: Something to do with memories]

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Q.8 Where did Hindustan Unilever use this unique medium for promoting Lifebuoy hand wash ?

KUMBH MELA 2013

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Q.9• Who speaking after his retirement from FC cricket earlier

this year ? • "Till the last year, I was raring to go [in domestic cricket]. I

served my team for long, but the selectors ignored me. I’m disappointed. I wanted to play alongside X for one last time, wanted to play in IPL but unfortunately that did not happen.“

• This guy made his first-class debut in 1989 and played 129 games, scoring 9965 runs at an average of 59.67 including 35 centuries.

• He last played senior domestic cricket in 2004-05.

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• Vinod Kambli

Q10

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• Laloo Prasad Yadav

Q11

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Q12

• Boogie Woogie was the first dance show format to hit Indian Television. Hosted by the popular Film and Television personalities Naved and Ravi,. Who was its South Zone champion in 1995? {Hint: Latest controversy in India}

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• Sreesanth

Q13

• The image is of Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers, Mumbai. Who owns and occupies this building.

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Q14

• I was the President of my country from 1994-1999.

• People call me ‘Madiba’• My autobiography is ‘Long Walk to Freedom’• My grand children runs a fashion brand with

name ‘Long Walk to Freedom’.

Who am I?

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Q15

• Which recently released Hindi film is inspired by O Henry's short story The Last Leaf?

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• LOOTERA(2013)

Q16 ID. LOGO

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Q.17

• Evander Holyfield became the first Heavyweight since Muhammad Ali to win the World title three times after defeating X

• In rematch against X, X was disqualified for biting off part of Holyfield's ear.

ID. X

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• Mike Tyson

Q.18

• Which IMT faculty has won "Best Glider Pilot in India" in the year 1989 for Air Sqn.NCC?

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• Dr. Saleena Khan

Q.19 Identify this historic event.

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• Fall of Berlin Wall on Nov 9 1989

Q.20

• The puzzle, known as Number Place in the US, was first published in New York in the late 1970s by the puzzle publisher Dell in its magazine Math Problems and Logic Puzzles. It became immensely popular in the UK in 2005, stimulating international interest. What is its popular name which is also the Japanese for ‘single number’?

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• SUDOKU

Q.21

Name the controversial author of this book.

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• The Fake IPL Player

Q.22 Id. This personality

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• Jaylaliltha

Sometime in the 2010 India-Australia Test series, when India were 2 wickets down & opener Murali Vijay was in his Nervous Nineties, Sunil Gavaskar said from the Commentators’ Box, “If he feels nervous, he’s got the __________ of Batting at the other end…he should just walk down there & get himself a century degree from the __________ of Batting!” .

What word fills both the blanks ?

Q.23

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• Well, You Get Degree from University of Batting.

• Id.

Q.24

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• Legendary Steve Jobs

Q.25 Id.Band

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Q.26

• X occurs for ceremonial purposes when a vehicle travels under plumes of water expelled by one or more fire fighting vehicles.

• What is X?

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• Water Canon Salute.

Q.27

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• WWE lost legal battle to World Wide Fund for Nature.

• So name was changed to World Wrestling Entertainment.

Q.28 Significance

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• The Red Corridor of India.

Q.29 ID.

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• Edward Snowden

Q.30 Connect

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• JOKER

Q.31

• What is Fail Whale?

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• Error message when twitter fails.

Q.32

• Krishna Pandit Bhanji is birth name of which Oscar winning Actor

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• Ben Kingsley

Q.33

• Whose address is 10880 Malibu Point, 90265

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• IRON MAN/TONY STARK

Q.34

• What is 3 fingers salute in world of Technology?

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• Ctrl+Alt+Del

Q.35 Identify

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• Mahendra Nath, Founder of IMT