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PRELIMS QUESTION
Q1. Whose head is being shown here:
Homer Simpson
Q2. Archers in medieval England used to have a spare bow-string which they used in case they tore the original. Which phrase arose from this?
Second String
Q3. Identify this techie:
Mark Zuckerberg
* Q4.
where: W = Weighted R = average as a number from 0 to 10 (mean) v = number of votes m = minimum votes required C = the mean vote across the whole report
(currently 6.7)This formula is used for what?
IMDB movie ranking
*Q5. Identify this couple which was in headlines recently:
Salehis
Q6. 1st Staged in 2004 X is a part of is part of "The Greatest____ on Earth“, an event sponsored by Standard Chartered Bank. The other three legs of this race are held in Singapore, the Nairobi and Hong Kong. 2010 edition of X happened last week. What is X?
Mumbai Marathon
* Q7.Identify the sport:
Zorbing
Q8. The Urdu equivalent of “extremely handsome” is the name of which famous fast bowler ?
Wasim Akram
Q9. What is being depicted here:
Mc Index
Q10. The members of this band used to sit around every afternoon getting stoned and watching Three Stooges reruns. One day, they had a post-Stooges meeting to try to come up with a name for their band. The drummer volunteered that when he was in school he would write the word the name all over his notebooks.[ The name had popped into his head after listening to Harry Nilsson’s album Aerial Ballet, an homage to Nilsson’s grandparents’ aerial circus act, that featured jacket art of a circus performer jumping out of a biplane. Initially, His bandmates were nonplussed; they all thought he was referring to the Sinclair Lewis novel they were forced to read in high school English class.
Aerosmith
* Q11. What is this list of:
Uncle Sam, Scrooge McDuck, Richie Rich,Gordon Gekko, Jabba the Hut, Ebeneezer Scrooge, Tony Stark, Thurston Howell III,
• Bruce Wayne,.• Adrian Veidt,• Jed Clampett, • Artemis Fowl II,• C. Montgomery
Burns,• Lara Croft,• Mr.Monopoly.
Forbes list of Top 10 richest fictional chracters.
Q12. It is composed of three chasing arrows that form a Möbius strip or unending loop. The symbol is in the public domain, and is not a trademark. The Container Corporation of America originally applied for a trademark on the design, but the application was challenged, and the corporation decided to abandon the claim. As such, anyone is free to use the symbol, although local laws may restrict its use in product labeling. What mark am I talking about?
Re-cycle
Q13. Connect:
Apple
Q12. This statue is in memory of whom or what?
Titanic
Q15. Which event in an effort to curb piracy has tied up with Google for live streaming on youtube?
Q16. This is an ad for what:
Western Union
* Q17. Where would you find the following message:
“If you’re a man between the ages of 18 and 80, _______ is meant for you. If you like your entertainment served up with humor, sophistication and spice, _______ will become a very special favorite.
We want to make it clear from the very start, we aren’t a “family magazine”. If you’re somebody’s sister, wife or mother-in-law and picked us up by mistake, please pass us along to the man in your life and get back to your Ladies Home Companion.”
Playboy
Q18. This is the flag of what:
Tibet
Q19. It originated as a corruption of the term atom bomb . Pioneers in this trend were the movies Caravan , Sholay , Anamika etc in the 70s . The 2004 movie “Rakht” added a new dimension to it . What am i talking about ?
Item Number
Q20. Identify the male model.
Salil Ankola
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