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Prelims : Et tu Brutus
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Prelims : Et tu Brutus
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Basic stuff
Like March, the prelims has 31 questions. Scream as you may, none shall be repeated.
18-24 are starred, and will be used for breaking ties (and maybe a few hearts)
23-28 are Visuals – try not to crowd the screen
Rule No 1: The Quizmasters are always right Rule No 2: In case the Quizmasters are wrong, then Rule 1
applies
6 teams in the finals
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1
A website or Web 2.0 application that uses content from more than one source to create a completely new service is called, what?
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2
In the local aboriginal dialect it is called "Cowieaurita", meaning "yellow-brown water“. Essentially a small stream that runs through the Barossa Valley, 80km north of Adelaide, South Australia.
Name please
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"I want the entire country to see this movie. One never knows... There might be someone who has met my son, seen him somewhere... The movie will have Azhar's photograph and our cell phone number so that people can contact us” – Roopa Mody in an interview with TOI
Which movie?
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4
Have you ever been to ________ ________?The magic carpet waits, for you.So don't you be lateOh, (I wanna show you), the different emotions(I wanna run to) the sounds and motionsElectric woman waits for you and meSo it's time we take a ride, we can cast all of your hang-ups overthe seaside.While we fly right over the love filled sea Look up ahead, I see the loveland, soon you'll understand.
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5
Two of Plato's dialogues : Timaeus and Critias : are very special as they are the only existing records which refer to something.
What?
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6
Every month's, a copy of this magazine is mailed, uninvited and for free, to the office of each member of the United States Congress.
This practice began at some unknown point between 1974 and 1983, and it continues as of 2006
Which magazine?
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7
Mahapini in Burma, Dhotakar in Mongolia, Sokaprak in Tibet, Prahakness in Cambodia, Kalantak on Java island. In Japan he can be found in a Kangiten.
How do we know him in India?
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8
David Bradley, one time IBM employee describes his most famous achievement thus:
"I may have invented it, but Bill Gates made it famous by applying my formula whenever any Microsoft's Windows operating system _______, thus I win when ever he loses”
What did David Bradley invent?
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9
Which unique deity is worshipped in the Jaunpariya region of Garwahl ?
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10
The only film to date based on a novel by a Nobel Prize-winning author to have its screenplay co-written by another Nobel Prize-winning author.
Which film?
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11
William Shakespeare was aware of the connection between the middle ear and the pharynx and suggested the means of murder (poison poured in the ear) used by Claudio to kill Hamlet's father.
This part of the human body is named after an Italian physician who is considered as one of the fathers of anatomy.
What is the part called?
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A X goat is a trained goat used at a slaughterhouse and in general animal herding. The X goat is trained to associate with sheep or cattle, leading them to a specific destination. In stockyards, a X will lead sheep to slaughter, while its own life is spared. X goats are also used to lead other animals to specific pens and on to trucks.
What is X ?
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The first known mention of this word was in the 2nd century A.D. in a poem called De Medicina Praecepta by Serenus Sammonicus, physician to the Roman emperor Caracalla, who prescribed that the sufferer from the disease wear an amulet containing the word written in the form of an inverted cone. This, he explained, diminishes the hold of the spirit of the disease over the patient.
Other Roman emperors, including Geta and Alexander Severus, were followers of the medical teachings of Serenus Sammonicus and are likely to have used the incantation as well.
Which word?
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14
Sufi saint Hazrat Nasir-ud-Din Mahmud was a disciple of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya, whom he succeeded as the head of the Chisti sect. A place in Delhi gets its name from the pseudonym which the saint earned for himself.
Which place in Delhi?
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The earliest known use of the term is from a short story by Zach Wright in the January 30, 1937, issue of Lee's Magazine. A Russian sergeant in the French Foreign Legion asks the narrator,
“Feldheim… did you ever hear of ______ _____?"
When I said I had not, he told me all about it. When he was with the Russian army in Romania, around 1917, and things were cracking up, so that their officers felt that they were not only losing prestige, money, family, and country, but were being also dishonored before their colleagues of the Allied armies, some officer would suddenly pull out his revolver, anywhere, at the table, in a cafe, at a gathering of friends…
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Early in my acting career, I realized the only way I would ever prove myself was to create my own role in my own script. On my 29th birthday, I had $106 in the bank. My best birthday present was a sudden revelation that I had to write the kind of screenplay that I personally enjoyed seeing. I relished stories of heroism, great love, dignity, and courage, dramas of people rising above their stations, taking life by the throat and not letting go until they succeeded. But I had so many ideas in my head, I couldn't focus on any one. To cheer myself up, I took the last of my entertainment money and went to see the Ali-Wepner fight on closed circuit TV. Chuck Wepner, a battling, bruising club fighter who had never made the big time, was having his shot. It wasn't at all regarded as a serious battle. But as the fight progressed, this miracle unfolded. He hung in there. People went absolutely crazy. Wepner was knocked out in the 15th and final round, almost lasting the distance. We had witnessed an incredible triumph of the human spirit and we loved it. That day, _____ ______ was born.
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In the 2012 Olympic games in London, which event will be held in the Lords cricket ground?
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As Tammie glowr'd, amaz'd, and curious, The mirth and fun grew ________ ________ ________; The Piper loud and louder blew, The dancers quick and quicker flew, The reel'd, they set, they cross'd, they cleekit, Till ilka carlin swat and reekit, And coost her duddies to the wark, And linkit at it in her sark!
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This is a common behaviour in birds. A nesting bird is killed by a nestmate, always the first and oldest bird. It is the result of the eldest sibling either starving the younger sibling to death or actually directly killing the younger sibling. It almost always happens in clutches of two to three birds.
It is very common in the bigger birds and less common in medium-sized birds such as hawks, to rare in smaller birds.
What is this behaviour called?
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Scientific Name: Harpadon nehereus
According to Hindu mythology, the only marine animal that did not help Rama in the building of the bridge between India and Sri Lanka. As a consequence, its bones were mashed to a pulp and it was thus condemned for ever
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22 ***
What common term binds
In Roman and Christian art, an aura or glow of sanctity around a person’s head
A media company A make of broomsticks in the Harry Potter series A type of cloud
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The name of this herb translates into roughly as “Joy of the mountains” and in India, its dietary adaptation has exploded probably in the last 7-8 years
Identify
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25 Which hollywood star takes his name from this comic book character?
