Prelims-General Quiz

• There are 19 questions in total

• Internal * marked questions to break tie

• No part points

• 1 mark for each question

• No negative marking

• All the best!!!

*1.

• This is a tiny landlocked nation located in the Pyrenees mountains, entirely surrounded by the countries of Spain and France. Despite being a little over a tenth the size of the smallest U.S. state, the micro nation has a long and rich history dating back to the formation of the country in 1278.

• Among all that history is one curious and rather unique tradition: It has a monarchy, but it’s ruled by co-princes, and one of those princes is elected. Specifically, thanks to centuries old treaties and political dealings, it’s a co-principality wherein one prince is the sitting Bishop of Urgell and the other prince is the President of France. What makes the arrangement even more curious is that not only does they have an elected prince, the prince isn’t even elected by the citizen of this country, but by French citizens.

2.

• Established in 1847 in British India by the then lieutenant governor, Sir James Thomason, it was given university status in 1949 and was converted into an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in 2001, thus becoming the seventh IIT to be declared

• Which Institute?

3.

• Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda recently launched the multi-media campaign for X - the project which aims to cover all children who are either unvaccinated or are partially vaccinated against vaccine preventable diseases by 2020.

4.

• Everyone knows Ram Rajya. The perfect empire where Dharma and Honours prevailed over all. But how did a misunderstood king created a Ram Rajya? How did a tortured prince turned into a great king. And then into a God.

• This is the synopsis of a much awaited book. Name the book.

*5.

• The word X was first used by Lewis Carroll in the book Through the Looking-Glass (1871), in which Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice the coinage of the unusual words in Jabberwocky, where "slithy" means "lithe and slimy" and "mimsy" is "flimsy and miserable." Humpty Dumpty explains the practice of combining words in various ways by telling Alice:

• “You see it's like a X—there are two meanings packed up into one word.”

6.

• Russia in the hopes of selling it started a bidding war. Both the British and the Americans were approached. However the British expressed little interest in buying it. In 1859, an offer was made to United States. In 1867, America purchased it for $7.2 million.

• What are we talking about?

7.

• The online store , started by a firm called Take India BeyondMerchandising Pvt. Ltd, is a collaborative effort of a group ofvolunteers. The store sells merchandise that it says is inspired by thelifestyle and values of X. It offers a range of products that include t-shirts, sleeveless jackets and stationery such as pen drives andplanners.

• The products are in the price range of Rs.15 to Rs.450.

• What is being talked here?

8. Who is this lady on the 10 pound note?

9.

• X the second largest film industry in the world in terms of number ofannual film productions, placing it ahead of the United States andbehind the Indian film industry. What is X?

• Identify the country in which X is located?

*10. Whose Filmography?

• Haldane of the Secret Service (1923)

• The Man from Beyond (1922)

• Terror Island (1920)

• The Master Mystery (1920)

• The Grim Game (1919)

11.

• Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited is a New Zealand multinational dairy co-operative and New Zealand’s largest company.

• The company is responsible for approximately 30% of the world's dairy exports.

• Who owns it?

12.

• Only six breweries are allowed to participate in X, all brewing within the Munich city limits:

• Hofbräuhaus München,

• Spaten-Franziskaner-Bräu,

• Paulaner Bräu,

• Löwenbräu,

• Hacker-Pschorr Bräu

• Augustiner Bräu.

• Each brewery has a tent where only their beer is served. What is X

13.

• The Father wanted his son to become a doctor, but X refused to even entertain the thought of college. Instead, he became a reporter for the Kansas City Star, earning $15 a week. On his first day there, his editor gave him a style sheet that read: “Use short sentences. Use a short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.”

• Much later in his life, X referred to that brief list as “the best rules I ever learned for the business of writing. I’ve never forgotten them.

14.The company which makes these sandals own 9.1% of Bayern Munich. Who?

*15.

• On his deathbed, X was encouraged to admit that his most famous work was a work of fiction, but to his dying breath he declared, "I did not tell half of what I saw.“

• Who is X?

16. Whose HQ?

17.

• X was in India during December 2013 "to assist as a technical expert" at the US embassy in New Delhi. He spent six days taking courses in ethical hacking and programming at Koenig Solutions which is a professional institute located six miles from the US embassy.

• Who is X?

18.

• According to Dr. Eric Bui, X meets six of the nine diagnostic criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), one more than necessary for a diagnosis.

• Bui points to X's abandonment issues and uncertainty over his identity. Through his paper Dr. Bui has helped raise awareness of the disorder, especially among teens

*19.

• X is an economic system in which transactions between private parties are free from government interference such as regulations, privileges, tariffs and subsidies. The phrase X is derived from French and literally means “let them do” or “let it be” or “leave it alone”