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Quizz-d Up!
Prelims
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Qn.1
• How is “id est” popularly known as?
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Qn.2
What am I describing?• Axle – “A model bad boy, cruel and ruthless. Don't try to get on Axle's
good side - he doesn't have one”.
• Bose Jefferson – “Don't be fooled by Bose's casual demeanor - his punch
feels like a ten-car pile up on your head”.
• Cydney Bass- “A spoiled rich girl living on the edge. Treat Cyd right or she'll throw a tantrum in your face”.
• Milwaukee Jon- “Ex-con with a death wish. Jon's dare devilish style
strikes fear in the hearts of seasoned fellows”.
• Pearl McKurdy – “A competitive and reckless retro-punk. Pearl lives for
anarchy” .
• Slim Jim – “Would've been the class clown if he hadn't dropped out. Voted
'Most Likely To Die Young' by classmates.”
• Teflon Mike – Dropped on his head at an early age, Mike is a gonzo wild
man: fearless, un- predictable, brain damaged”
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Qn.3
• His real name is Cassius Marcelus Clay. He is
better known as?
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Qn.4
• What is the expansion of VAIO?
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Qn.5
• On December 22, 2009, after 19 years, 40
adjournments, and more than 400 hearings, the
court finally pronounced the accused guilty
under Section 354 IPC (molestation) and
sentenced him to six months imprisonment and
a fine of Rs 1,000. Later, he was sentenced to
One and a half years of rigorous imprisonment. Name this infamous case which shook the
entire nation.
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*Qn.6
• Prem Behari Narain Raizada (Saxena), son of
Brij Behari Narain Raizada of Delhi wrote a
well-known „thing‟ in his own hand, using a
flowing italic style in the best calligraphic
traditions of our country. What did he write?
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Qn.7
• Which term associated with exponential decay
is also the title of one of the largest selling
computer games?
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Qn.8
• Brussels is to EU as ________ is to SAARC.
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Qn.9
• This magazine was launched in 1974 as a spin
-off from a page bearing the same name in
TIME Magazine. Among its notable
contributions to journalism are annual issues
devoted to superlatives such as most beautiful,
best/worst dressed and sexiest. Identify the
magazine.
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*Qn.10
• Which Indian actor, who has not acted in any
movies in his mother tongue, made his debut
in made his debut as an actor in the National
Film Award-winning movie, Apoorva
Raagangal (1975) ?
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Qn.11
• This word is used to establish a single
grammatical or semantic interpretation. The
most famous example (apart from its use in
audio techniques and computer science) is the
way in which Wikipedia resolves conflicts in
article titles that occur when a single term can
be associated with more than one topic. Whatword?
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*Qn.12
• The first word that Anne Sullivan taught a
student in March 1887 was 'doll'.The second
was 'water'. Who was that student?
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Qn.13
• Javed Akhtar, in love with actress Honey Irani,
requested his partner Salim Khan to meet her
mother Perin Irani on his behalf. The
conversation that took place between Salim
and Perin was incorporated into which film‟s
script?
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Qn.14
• When the West German stand at the Delhi
Industrial Exhibition of 1959 folded up, parts
of their equipment were offered to the Govt. of
India. Using this equipment, what was started
on Sep 15, 1959 within a 25km radius of New
Delhi?
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Qn.15
• In 1994 Brendan Eich, a programmer working
for Netscape, had the idea of embedding a
webpage with mini-programs that a browser
could run as it was rendering a page. Eich‟s
scripting language was called Mocha but
finally became well-known as what?
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*Qn.16
• You have heard of so many phobias. If
Ailurophobia is the fear for Cats &
Cynophobia is the fear of Dogs, What is
Aibohphobia the fear of ?
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Qn.17
• Complete this quote by George Bernard Shaw.
" I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having
invented dynamite, but only afiend in human form could have invented the
_____."
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Qn.18
• This name was taken from a poem by Lord
Byron which goes:
“Here where the sword ______ ______ drew,
Our countrymen were warring on that day, And
this is much,and all,which will not pass away'
A famous person made a decision in his
bathtub to use it. What is this?
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*Qn.19
• In 1791, a Dublin theatre owner James Daly is
said to have made a bet that he could introduce
a word into the English language within 24
hours. However, this word was originally usedto describe an annoying person who tended to
snoop into others' affairs. What word?