1. PRELIMS

2. Q.1 This scientist along with Lloyd Simon
set up Palmon laboratories while they were
in high school. They offered services to local
dairies in sampling butterfat. Which
famous scientist am I talking about?

3. Linus Pauling

4. Q.2 Who is the writer?

6. Q.3 Logo of which organization.

7. Anushilan Samiti

8. Q.4 Identify this fish. its name derives
from its unique style of catching prey

9. Archer Fish

10. Q.5* Karambir Singh Kang in 2010 was
awarded the Legion de Honor in 2010 for
his unwavering commitment to duty
despite personal loss. Who was he?

11. General manager of Taj during
26/11 attacks

12. Q.6 X was amongst the foremost of female actors of
British India, and a legendary singer of both British India
and Pakistan. Fifty-five of her films were made in
Bombay, eight in Calcutta, five in Lahore and one in
Rangoon. She has more than 10,000 recordings to her
credit. X is in fact, her adopted stage name, the real one
being Allah Wasai. Featured here, is a clip of her
melodious voice as she renders a folk tune from Punjab.
Name X.
(audio next slide)

13. Noorjehan

14. Q.7 According to one of the origin theories this food
item was first prepared by a cook named X who was a
cook in the 18th century for Stanislaw Leszczynski
whose son in law named them after her. Name please.

15. Madeleine

16. Q.8 Born as Lakshmi Narasimha Vijaya
Rajagopala Sheshadri Sharma Rajesh
Raman he is a famous Indian rapper. He has
worked in films like Saathiya, Yuva, Rang De
Basanti,etc. How do we know him better?

17. Blaaze

18. Q.9 Identify this monstrous aircraft
belonging to the Indian air force

19. IL-76 or Gajraj

20. Q.10* Connect

21. Dhartipakad

22. Q.11 Id the Ad.

23. CNN

24. Q.12
This dog is a hero in
his own right.
What’s his name?

25. Zanjeer
Saved thousands of lives during the serial bomb blasts in
the city in March 1993 by detecting more than 3,329 kgs
of the explosive RDX, 600 detonators, 249 hand
grenades and 6406 rounds of live ammunition.

26. Q.13 A Facebook warning…
Suspicious activity has been detected on your Facebook
account and it has been temporarily suspended as a security
precaution. It is likely that your account was compromised as
a result of entering your password on a website designed to
look like Facebook. This type of attack is known as _______.

27. Phishing

28. Q.14
This literary genre is a sub-category of science fiction,
fantasy or science fantasy which takes place in the far
future at either the end of life on Earth or the End of
Time, when the laws of the universe themselves fail.
Themes of world-weariness, innocence
(wounded or otherwise), idealism, entropy, (permanent)
exhaustion/depletion of many or all resources (such as
soil nutrients), and the hope of renewal tend to pre-
dominate.

29. Dying Earth

30. Q.15*
 Borussia Dortmund’s epic fan choreography and Tifo
display in the Signal-Iduna-Park before the Malaga
second leg has rightly been praised across the planet
but there have been questions asked about where the
idea came from.
 There have been suggestions on social networks that
the Dortmund supporters copied the tifo from AC
Milan.
 If the sign underneath read: Auf Den Spuren Des
Verlorenen Henkelpotts-On The Trail Of The Lost Cup
in the dortmund tifo, then what message did the milan
tifo display?(Pics next slide)

31. Dortmund Banner
Milan Banner

32. “WE ARE WATCHING YOU”

33. Q.16 Identify both the singers

34. Khusboo Raaj & Rekha Jha

35. Q.17 After the $1 sale of the “X" copyright to R&R
Partners on November 9, 2004, the LVCVA paid
$321,000 in attorney's fees because of an
investigation into the legality of the controversial
sale. The sale was later overturned by a federal
judge who claimed that the sale was made without
the knowledge of the board. A recent study by
Applied Analysis shows that the advertising
efforts of the LVCVA return $26 for every $1 spent.
Which ad campaign?
(just give me X)

36. What Happens Here Stays Here

37. Q18.
Id the painter.

38. Nandalal Bose

39. Q.19 Where would you find this
monument?

40. A-Bomb Dome of Hiroshima

41. Q.20*
Identify the actress or
her claim to fame.

42. Ashika Suryavanshai
The Junglee Jawani Girl in ‘Rockstar’

43. Q.21 The production team of a noted Bollywood movie
sent this letter to the Ministry of External Affairs and
Information and Broadcasting
"there has been considerable confusion and
misunderstanding in regard to our film production X
and Mayo's book not only are the two incompatible
but totally different and indeed opposite. We have
intentionally called our film X as a challenge to this
book."
What is the title of the film or the book?

44. Mother India

45. Q.22 In 1372 by the papal bull "vox in
excelso" which famous Christian
organisation was officially banned on
charges of heresy, idolatry and
dishonouring the cross?

46. Knight’s Templar

47. Q.23 The seventh panzer division commanded
by Erwin Rommel had earned a nickname for
their sheer speed and unpredictability
which even the German high command had
problems tracking.
What nickname?

48. Ghost Division

49. Q.24 The syllable X means shadows
The syllable Y, he who disperses them,
Because of the power to disperse darkness
the XY is thus named. According to
Upanishada
Which term (XY) am I talking about?

50. Guru

51. Q.25 Anantavijayam
Paundram
Devdattam
Identify the other two in this exhaustive list.

52. Sughosh and Manipuspak

53. Q.26
This great hornbill named
William who lived in India
from 1894 to 1920 was
known for catching tennis
balls thrown to him from a
distance of almost 30 feet
with its beak. He was also
known as the office canary.
He has been immortalized
in the logo of which
organization?

54. Bombay Natural History Society

55. Q.27
Which well known 1962 novel starts with
these amazing lines?
“I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
By the false azure in the windowpane”

57. Who is he and
what is
his claim to fame?
Q.28

58. Bram Cohen
inventor of torrent

59. Q.29
X is a non technical term for meteorological
phenomenon of strong and persistent flow of
atmospheric moisture associated with heavy
precipitation adjacent to the Hawaiian island
extending along the Pacific coast.
This also shares its name with a 2008 American
movie.
What is X?

61. Q.30
This is a cartoon that Wikipedia uses to
demonstrate a very integral part of its
information policy. The phrase was written
on the protester's placard which has been
removed.
What was written?