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The Weekly General Quiz
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The Weekly General Quiz

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Prelims

• 20 questions. • Top 8 teams qualify for the finals.• In case of tie, sudden death rule applies.• Hints will be given when no one objects to it.• Quizmaster’s decision is final.

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Born in Maharashtra to a family of Karhade Brahmin scholars, X received the prestigious Padma Bhushan award at the age of 27 for his work in cosmology. X is also the Chairperson of The Advisory Group for Textbooks in Science and Mathematics, NCERT. His short story ‘The Adventure’ features in the 11 grade NCERT English textbook. Who?

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• Jayant Narlikar

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2.Connect

• Captain America and Camlin.

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•Operation Paperclip

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3. Google doodle on whose birthday.

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•H G Wells

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• Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was an English writer, mathematician, logician and photographer. He is famous for his ‘new’ ideas in linear algebra like Dodgson condensation, a method of evaluating determinants. However, what made him really popular is the children’s classic he wrote under the pseudonym X with some peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. Name X and this classic.

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• Lewis Carroll and Alice in Wonderland

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5.

• Id this non profit website created in 2006 by X to provide “a free, world-class _____ for anyone, anywhere.”

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6. Id the list.

• Fruit flies, Mice, Monkeys, Chimpanzees, Rats, Dogs, Rabbits, Cats, Spiders and Tortoise.

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•Animals that have been in space.

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7. Name this principle.

• X is a principle of parsimony, economy, or succinctness used in problem-solving devised by William of ____. X is also known as Law of Economy or the Law of Parsimony. The principle states that "Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily." Many scientists have adopted or reinvented X, as in Leibniz's "identity of observables" and Isaac Newton stated the rule: "We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.”

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•Occam’s razor.

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8. Id X, Y and Z.

• Taking as a challenge her sister’s pronouncement that she had never read a mystery where she didn’t know straightway “whodunit”, X wrote her first novel, Y while working as a nurse during WWI, featuring Z; portrayed as a former Belgian police officer who took refuge in Britain after Germany had invaded Belgium. X's inspiration for this stemmed from real Belgian refugees who existed in Torquay. Although Z was a public hero, by 1930, X found him “insufferable", and by 1960 she felt that he was a "detestable, bombastic, tiresome, egocentric little creep".

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•X- Agatha Christie•Y- The Mysterious affair at Styles•Z- Hercule Poirot

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9. Id X.

• Gulab Singh (1792-1857) was a member of the Hindu Dogra family who served under Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the first Sikh ruler of the Punjab. He was a successful ruler and fine soldier. Following Ranjit Singh's death in 1839, the unity of the kingdom rapidly disintegrated, and Gulab Singh began to misappropriate the revenues of the territories assigned to his care. He finally passed on military intelligence to the British before the first Anglo-Sikh war in 1845-46. The Treaty of Amritsar, 1846, formalised the sale of X by the British to Gulab Singh for 7,500,000 rupees that were ceded to them by the Sikhs by the Treaty of Lahore.

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•Princely state of Kashmir

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The next three questions are the minimalist posters of famous scientific experiments. Id the experiment and the scientist.

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10.

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•Rutherford’s alpha particle scattering experiment.

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11.

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•Gregor Mendel’s experiments on peas to formulate the laws of genetic inheritance.•The poster shows a Punnett square.

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12.

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•Millikan’s oil drop experiment.

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13.

• Knol was a X project that aimed to include user-written articles on a range of topics. The project was led by Udi Manber announced on December 13, 2007, and was opened in beta to the public on July 23, 2008 with a few hundred articles mostly in the health and medical field.Several experts saw Knol as X attempt to compete with Wikipedia, while others pointed out the differences between the projects. X announced that Knol was to be phased out in favor of Y. It was closed on April 30, 2012, and all content was deleted by October 1, 2012.

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14.

Who was made an honorary member of the Bradford City Supporters’ Club because of the huge boost he gave to the sales of club scarves since his arrival in 2002?

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Harry Potter

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15.

• German scientist and philosopher Georg Christophe Lichtenberg's idea forms the basis for the standard size series, based on an aspect ratio of the square root of 2. The significant advantage offered through this system is that each entity in this series when divided into two yields the next size. Which series is this?

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The A series of paper sizes.

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16. Connect.

• Chittorgarh, Kumbhalgarh, Jaisalmer, Ranthambhore (Sawai Madhopur), Gagaron (Jhalawar) and Amber (Jaipur).

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•Hill forts of Rajasthan recently added in the World Heritage site list.

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17. Id the author.

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•Dan Brown

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18.

• The logo for this product shows one and a half glasses of milk pouring into it and forming it, reflecting, the company claims, that one and a half glasses of full cream milk go into the making of one pound of this product.• Which product?

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19.

Roosevelt was once invited to a hunting trip .Most of the hunters meeting had already killed an animal. A suite of Roosevelt’s attendants concerned, clubbed and tied an animal to a willow tree after a long exhausting chase, called Roosevelt to the site and suggested that he should shoot it. He reused to shoot it himself, deeming this unsportsmanlike , but instructed ,that it should be killed to put it out of misery. It became the topic of a political cartoon by Clifford Berryman in The Washington Post on November 16,1902.While the initial cartoon figured an adult animal ,later issues of that and other Berryman cartoons made the animal smaller and cuter.What got its name after this incident?

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Teddy bear.

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20.

• Whom did Barack Obama write this letter to?

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Yann Martel- Life of Pi.


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