3. 1. PLEASE DO NOT GOOGLE THE ANSWERS .
BECAUSE YOUR KNOWLEDGE MATTERS NOT
YOUR MARKS
2. TOTAL QUESTIONS ARE 40
TOTAL MARKS IS 54
3. CB PANDEY SIR DECISION WILL BE
FINAL
PLEASE ENJOY THE
QUIZ
4. MARKING
THERE ARE 14 STAR MARKED
QUESTIONS ( EACH 2 MARKS )
FOR EXAMPLE AS : * Q . X
THE REST QUESTIONS ARE OF
ONE MARK
6. Q.1 AFTER ITS COMPLETION , EMPEROR
SHAH JAHAN ENTERED IT ON 18 APRIL
,1648 FROM THE RIVERSIDE , THROUGH
THE WATER GATE . HE CAME IN CARRIED
IN AN ELABORATE OPEN SEDAR CHAIR . IN
A TWIST OF IRONY , ………………… USED
THE SAME GATE TO EXIT IT ON THE NIGHT
OF 17 SEPTEMBER 1857.
WHICH PLACE ? WHOSE NAME FILLS THE
BLANK
7. Q.2 THE WESTERN WORLD KNOWS
THEM UNDER A NAME THAT COMES
FROM A MIDDLE EASTERN
POPULATION ( OF ORIGINALLY )
NOMADIC PEOPLE . HOWEVER, THESE
PEOPLE THEMSELVES CALLED IT
HINDS ,HINTING AT ITS ORIGINAL
SOURCE WHAT
ARE WE TALKING ABOUT .
8. Q.3 THIS PAINTING BY KRISHEN KHANNA
TITLED THE NEWS OF ………….. THAT
PRESENTS INDIAN CITIZENS UNITED IN
SHOCKS .
THROUGH DIFFERENCES IN CLOTHING
,CLASS ,GENDER AND RELIGION
,FIGURES STAND READING THE NEWS
UNDER A STREETLIGHT, SURROUNDED
BY DARKNESS. THIS WAS THE NEWS
OF WHICH TRAGIC EVENT ?
9. Q.4 “ IF IT SOUNDS TO YOU MORE LIKE
SNUBBING OR GHOSTING A FRIEND ,YOU
ARE RIGHT .IT WAS A 1957 COLLECTION OF
WORK BY A SOCIOLOGIST KARL
MANNHEIM THAT FIRST DESCRIBED IT AS
A WAY TO ENFORCE POWER
HEIRARCHIES: “
THE INHIBITION OF FREE EXPRESION CAN
ALSO SERVE AS A MEANS OF ………THUS
,THE HIGHER RANKS CAN BE CONSTRAIN
THEMSELVES TO PRESERVE A CERTAIN
KIND OF DEPARTMENT OR DIGNITY “
THIS IS THE GUARDIAN ON THE ORIGINS
OF WHICH FAMOUS PHRASE ?
10. * Q.5 RISHABHANATHA ,PARSHAVANATHA
AND VASUPUJYA ARE SOME OF THE NAMES
OF THE 24 PEOPLE IN THIS LIST FROM
ANCIENT INDIA . THE INTERESTING THING
IS THAT THE LIST IS ALMOST DEFINITELY
FICTIONAL ; MOST OF THESE ARE NOT
HISTORICAL PEOPLE ,BARRING THE LAST
TWO . IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE
ADDITIONAL 22 NAMES WERE ADDED FOR
PROPOGANDA REASONS.
WHAT LIST ? WHY WERE THESE
ADDITIONAL NAMES ADDED ?
11. Q.6 WHEN AMELIA
EARHART BECAME THE
FIRST WOMAN TO MAKE A
SOLO FLIGHT ACROSS THE
ALTANTIC ( IN 1932)
,NEWSAPAPERS IDENTIFIED
HER IN A CERTAIN MANNER
THAT WAS COMMON THEN .
SHE PUBLICLY OBJECTED
THIS ISSUE. WHAT ISSUE ?
12. Q.7 IN THE 2020 RANJI TROPHY FINAL
BETWEEN SAURASHTRA AND
BENGAL , DURING THE OPENING DAY
OF THE MATCH IN RAJKOT , UMPIRE
C SHAMSHUDDIN GOT INJURED AFTER
BEING HIT BY A CRICKET BALL WHICH
WAS LOBBED TOWARDS HIM AT THE
FALL OF A WICKET .
WHAT UNIQUE OCCURRENCE DID THIS
LEAD TO DURING THE FIRST SESSION
OF DAY 2 OF THE MATCH ?
13. * Q.8 IN HIS BOOK “ WINGS OF FIRE “ , DR
.KALAM WROTE ABOUT HIS EARLY TRIPS
TO WALLOPS FLIGHT FACILITY IN
VIRGINIA , WHICH WAS BASE FOR NASA
‘S SOUNDING ROCKET PROGRAM .
HE SAW A PAINTING DEPICTING A BATTLE
SCENE WITH SOMETHING SPECIAL IN THE
BACKGROUND . THE PAINTING CAUGHT
DR . KALAM EYES BECAUSE THE
SOLDEIRS IN THE PAINTINGS WERE NOT
WHITE SKINNED . WHICH BATTLE
SCENE ? WHAT WAS SPECIAL IN THE
BACKGROUND OF THE PAINTING ?
14. *Q 9 THE BATTLE OF CURZOLA WAS A
NAVAL BATTLE BETWEEN THE FLEETS OF
GENOA AND VENICE, IN WHICH
VENETIANS SUFFERED A HEAVY DEFEAT .
TWO AMONG THE MEN TAKEN AS
PRISONERS ARE INTERESTING TO US .
ONE OF THEM WAS A ROMANCE WRITER
AND THE OTHER ONE WAS A TRAVELLER ,
WHO NARRATED SOMETHING TO HIS
CELLMATE.
IDENTIFY THE TRAVELLER AND HIS
CELLMATE . ALSO WRITE THE NAME OF
THE BOOK THAT HIS CELL MATE CO
AUTHORED WITH HIM.
15. Q.10 PEOPLE HEARD GYOKUON HOSO
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 1945 . THIS IS
THE RECORD OF IT WHICH IS
CURRENTLY EXIHIBITED INSIDE THE
JAPAN MUSEUM OF BROADCASTING .
WHOSE VOICE IS IN THIS RECORDING
?WHAT IS IT CONTENT ?
16. * Q. 11 X HAD SPENT TWO YEARS AS A
KID IN THE US . IN APRIL , 2019 SHE
RECEIVED AN EMAIL ASKING HER TO
INTERPRET SOMETHING OVER THE PHONE
. THE TEN MONTHS THAT FOLLOWED , AS
SHE PUTS IT “ HAS BEEN A BLUR OF
CITIES , MICROPHONES AND GOOD NEWS
.” CLAD IN MINIMAL
BLACK AND CLUTCHING A NOTEBOOK IN
MOST OF HER APPEARANCES , SHE HAS
BEEN OFFERED TO APPEAR IN BEAUTY
COMMERCIALS .
WHERE HAVE WE SEEN THIS LADY , AND
WHAT DOES SHE DO ?
17. Q.12 AFTER SEEING A TELCO JOB
APPLICATION THAT READ “ YOUNG
ENERGETIC ENGINEEIRS REQUIRED.LADY
CANDIDATES NEED NOT APPLY” SHE
WROTE TO JRD TATA ,CALLING OUT THE
SEXISM HIS COMPANY WAS PROMOTING.
DAYS LATER ,SHE RECEIVED A TELEGRAM
STATING THAT SHE WAS TO APPEAR FOR
AN INTERVIEW AT TELCO’S PUNE FACILITY
. SHE GOT THE JOB, BECOMING THE
FIRST WOMAN TECHNICAL OFFICER IN
TELCO. WHO IS THIS ?
18. *Q.13 PAITHANI SAREES ARE MADE AND
NAMED FOR THE CITY OF PAITHAN IN
AURANGABAD DISTRICT THAT WAS THE
CAPITAL OF SATVAHANA DYNASTY . THE
PALLU MOTIFS INSPIRED A HERITAGE
SITE 200 KM AWAY . WHAT IS THE
INSPIRATION AND THE SITE ?
19. Q.14 IN 1696, THE ROYAL MINT , WHICH
MANUFACTURES COINS IN UK
APPPOINTED …………. AS IT’S
WARDEN AND LATER APPOINTED HIM
AS THE MASTER OF THE MINT , THE
HIGHEST OFFICER IN THE ROYAL MINT
. HE IS A FAMILIAR PERSON
TO US, BUT IN SOME OTHER
RENOWNED FIELD . NAME
THIS PERSON ?
20. *Q.15 DESIGNED BY ROBERT TOR
RUSSELL ,ORIGINALLY CALLED THE
FLAG STAFF HOUSE AND WAS THE
RESIDENCE OF UK ARMY- IN- CHIEF. IT
LATER BECAME THE HOUSE OF A
RENOWNED PESONALITY AND IN 2019
, IT WAS CONVERTED INTO A
MUESEUM .
IDENTIFY THE PERSONALITY AND THE
PLACE ?
21. *Q.16 X IS A FAMOUS FOOTBALLER
WHOSE BIOPIC CAME IN 2016 . IT IS
BELIEVED THAT X WAS NAMED
AFTER Y BECAUSE SOMETHING
IMPORTANT WAS ABLE TO COME TO X
FATHER’S VILLAGE DURING X BIRTH .
IDENTIFY X AND Y.
22. Q.17 CIA IN 1990s WAS THE MOST
FAMOUS ,RENOWNED AND
SUCCESSFUL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
. BUT IN LATE 1990s
CIA FAILED TO DETECT AN EVENT
THAT SCHOLARS OFTEN TERM AS “
INTELLIGENCE FAILURE OF THE
DECADE “
IDENTIFY THIS EVENT AND IN WHICH
YEAR IT TOOK PLACE ?
23. Q.18 IN 2019 , X A 102 YEAR OLD
VOTER , EXERCISED HIS VOTE IN
MANDI LOK SABHA CONSTITUENCY .
THERE WAS A FAIR AMOUNT OF MEDIA
COVERAGE FOR THIS WHOLE
PROCESS, ATHOUGH X HAD NO
HISTORY IN POLITICS .
IDENTIFY X AND WHY WAS HIS VOTE
SO SIGNIFICANT ?
24. Q.19 IT WAS POPULARISED BY
RONALD REAGAN AS A SLOGAN IN
1980 , HOWEVER, IT HAD A “ LETS’S “
AT THE BEGINNING . INCIDENTALLY ,
BILL CLINTON USED IT INFORMALLY
DURING HIS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION .
EVEN MORE SURPRISINGLY , IT WAS
USED BY CLINTON AGAIN DURING
HIS WIFE’S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
AGAINST OBAMA IN 2008 .
WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT ?
25. Q.20 THE PARLIAMENT PASSED AN
ACT IN 1988 , FOR AMENDING ARTICLE
326 OF THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION .
RAJIV GANDHI , THE PRIME MINISTER
AT THE TIME , SAID IT WAS “ AN
EXPRESSION OF OUR FULL FAITH IN
THE YOUTH OF THE COUNTRY “
WHAT WAS THE AMENDMENT ABOUT
?
26. *Q.21 PEOPLE HAVE WONDERED WHAT
SPECIES OF ANIMAL X FROM THE
JUNGLE BOOK IS . EXPERTS POINT OUT
THAT BROWN …… AND ASIAN BLACK …..
DO NOT EXIST IN THE SEONI AREA WHERE
THE NOVEL TAKES PLACE , MAKING
………… ………. THE MOST SUITABLE
CANDIDATE FOR X . THIS SPECIES ALSO
FITS X DESCRIPTIONS AS A RATHER
LETHARGIC AND REST-LOVING
CHARACTER .
IDENTIFY X AND WHAT SPECIES DOES X IS
MOST LIKELY BELONG TO ?
27. Q.22 THIS IS AN ENDANGERED
SPECIES CREATURE ENDEMIC TO
THE SOUTHERN PARTS OF THE
WESTERN GHATS . IDENTIFY THIS
CREATURE .
28. Q .23 THIS RECORD WAS A SET
AGAINST THESE TEAMS ( IN THIS
ORDER ) IN 2016 IPL . THE PLAYER, A
TEAM CAPTAIN , STILL DID NOT WIN
THE IPL . WHAT ARE WE TALKING
ABOUT ?
29. Q. 24 FILL UP THE BLANK IN THIS EXTRACT
FROM TEMPEST AND CONNECT MISSING BLANK
TO THE NAME ON THE NEXT SLIDE .
MIRANDA: SWEET LORD , YOU ( ARE
CHEATING)
FERDINAND : NO, MY DEAREST LOVE , I
WOULD NOT FOR THE WORLD .
MIRANDA : YES FOR A SCORE OF
KINGDOMS YOU SHOULD WRONGLE .
AND I WOULD CALL IT
………………………..
30.
31.
32. Q.25 THIS WAS THE PICTURE OF X , WHO IS
AN INDIAN SCIENTIST AND SERVED AS THE
AGNI 4 PROJECT LEADER AT THE DEFENCE
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
ORGANIZATION . DUE TO HER
CONTIBUTIONS , SHE IS KNOWN BY A
NICKNAME THAT DR. APJ ABDUL KALAM
GAVE IT TO HER.
USE THE PICTURE AS A CLUE AND GIVE THE
NAME OF X AND THE NICKNAME ?
33. *Q.26 IN 2018 , THE ROYAL MINT
RELEASED A NEW SET OF TEN PENCE
COINS , ONE FOR EACH LETTER OF THE
ALPHABET . TWO LETTERS B AND X HAVE
INTERSTING STORIES . THE FIRST
ONE WAS DESCRIBED IN AN ICONIC THREE
WORD PHRASE IN 1962 ( AND HEARD MANY
TIMES SINCE THEN ) THE
OTHER ONE ( FOUR WORDS ) IS ALSO
FITTING BECAUSE THE UK WAS HOME TO
AUTHORS WHO CREATED WORKS LIKE
TREASURE ISLAND AND MANY OTHER
ADVENTURE STORIES .
WRITE THE TWO PHRASES ?
34. Q.27 THE QIN DYANASTY WAS THE FIRST
IMPERIAL DYNASTY OF AN ASIAN COUNTRY
FROM 221 TO 206 BC . THEY HELPED IN
UNITING THE COUNTRY BY PUTTING DOWN
VARIOUS FACTIONS AND PROVIDES
INFLUENCE IN COUNTRY’S HISTORY .
THE DYANASTY ALSO HAS A MORE
OBVIOUS CONTRIBUTION TO THE COUNTRY.
WHAT ?
35. Q.28 SPANISH BRAND OF CRISPS
BONILLA A LA VISTA HAD A SUDDEN
SPIKE IN DEMAND WORLDWIDE AND IS
PARTICULARLY NOT ABLE TO COPE
DEMAND IN SOUTH KOREA . WHY ?
36. Q.29 WINDIES OFF – SPINNER RAHKEEM
CORNAWALL ( FONDLY CALLED BIG JIM )
CURRENTLY HOLDS THIS UNOFFICIAL
RECORD . THE RECORD IS SOMETIMES
MISATTRIBUTED TO DWAYNE LEVERLOCK .
LEVERLOCK CAME TO LIMELIGHT IN 2007
WORLD CUP WHEN HE TOOK A
MEMORABLE CATCH IN A MATCH AGAINST
INDIA . WHAT
RECORD DOES CORNAWALL HOLD?
WHICH COUNTRY DID LEVERLOCK
REPRESENT IN THE WORLD CUP ?
37. * Q.30 THIS IS CHRIS DANEILE , WHO
CREATED SOMETHING IMPORTANT
FOR A MOVIE . WHAT DID HE
CREATED ? WHICH FILM ?
38. Q.31 HIS NAME IS HARISH BHIMANI .HIS
VOICE WAS USED IN A MEGA PROJECT
WITHOUT A SINGLE APPEARANCE IN
THAT PROJECT. NAME THE PROJECT ? AND
HIS ROLE IN IT ?
39. *Q.32 FOR WHAT PURPOSE ,
THESE NIBS WERE
PURCHASED BY INDIA ?
40. *Q.33 X WAS CREATED BY RUTH
HANDLER , THAT LATER BECAME VERY
FAMOUS . Y IN
2019 GOT A CHANCE TO FEATURE IN X , AS
SHE BECAME IT’S BRAND AMBASSADOR .
IDENTIFY X AND Y ?
41. *Q.34 THIS IS A RECORD OF THE
LAST IPL DELIVERY FACED BY
THIS CRICKETER . ALTHOUGH IT
WAS A SIX , DISAPPOINTMENT
FOLLOWED – THE PLAYER HAD
TO RETIRE HURT.
WHAT WAS SPECIAL ABOUT
WHERE THIS SHOT WAS HIT TO ?
IDENTIFY THE PLAYER ?
42. Q. 35 THIS IS RETIRED SQUADRON
LEADER DICK CHURCHILL WHO PASSED
AWAY IN FEBRUARY 2019 . HE WAS 99
YEARS OLD . HE WAS THE LAST
SURVIVING MEMBER OF THE ……… ………
…….. . IT REFERS TO THE ESACAPE OF
76 AIRMEN FROM NAZI
PRISONER CAMP IN 1944
DURING WORLD WAR 2 .
FILL IN THE BLANK
43. Q.36 SCIENTISTS RECENTLY
DISCOVERED THE WORLD’S OLDEST
ASTROLOBE , AN ASTRONOMICAL
INSTRUMENT . IT BELONGS TO AN
EXPLORER WHO USED IT ON HIS
SECOND VOYAGE TO A SOUTH ASIAN
COUNTRY IN THE FIFTEENTH
CENTURY . WHO
OWNED THIS ASTROLOBE ?
44. Q.37 THESE TWO BUILDINGS ARE THE
RETREAT BUILDING IN MASHOBRA,
SHIMLA , THE ………………. AND
NILAYAM IN BOLARUM , HYDERABAD.
IF THESE ARE THESE ARE THE SET OF
THREE . FILL THE BLANK TO GIVE THE
THIRD ONE ?
45. *Q 38 . WHO IS CALLED LITTLE
BROWN GIRL HERE ? WHICH
COUNTRY NEWSPAPER ISSUED
THIS ?
48. Q.40 THIS IS ONE OF THE
MARVEL’S PROMINENT
MUSLIM CHARACTER.
THOUGH THERE HAS BEEN
OTHERS , THIS NEW JERSEY
GIRL WAS THE FIRST TO
HEADLINE THEIR OWN
COMIC BOOK . SHE TAKES
OVER HER IDOL’S LAST
NAME .
NAME THIS MARVEL
CHARACTER ?
49.
50.
51. Q.1 AFTER ITS COMPLETION , EMPEROR
SHAH JAHAN ENTERED IT ON 18 APRIL
,1648 FROM THE RIVERSIDE , THROUGH
THE WATER GATE . HE CAME IN CARRIED
IN AN ELABORATE OPEN SEDAR CHAIR . IN
A TWIST OF IRONY , ………………… USED
THE SAME GATE TO EXIT IT ON THE NIGHT
OF 17 SEPTEMBER 1857.
WHICH PLACE ? WHOSE NAME FILLS THE
BLANK
53. Q.2 THE WESTERN WORLD KNOWS
THEM UNDER A NAME THAT COMES
FROM A MIDDLE EASTERN
POPULATION ( OF ORIGINALLY )
NOMADIC PEOPLE . HOWEVER, THESE
PEOPLE THEMSELVES CALLED IT
HINDS ,HINTING AT ITS ORIGINAL
SOURCE WHAT
ARE WE TALKING ABOUT .
55. Q.3 THIS PAINTING BY KRISHEN KHANNA
TITLED THE NEWS OF ………….. THAT
PRESENTS INDIAN CITIZENS UNITED IN
SHOCKS .
THROUGH DIFFERENCES IN CLOTHING
,CLASS ,GENDER AND RELIGION
,FIGURES STAND READING THE NEWS
UNDER A STREETLIGHT, SURROUNDED
BY DARKNESS. THIS WAS THE NEWS
OF WHICH TRAGIC EVENT ?
57. Q.4 “ IF IT SOUNDS TO YOU MORE LIKE
SNUBBING OR GHOSTING A FRIEND ,YOU
ARE RIGHT .IT WAS A 1957 COLLECTION OF
WORK BY A SOCIOLOGIST KARL
MANNHEIM THAT FIRST DESCRIBED IT AS
A WAY TO ENFORCE POWER
HEIRARCHIES: “
THE INHIBITION OF FREE EXPRESION CAN
ALSO SERVE AS A MEANS OF ………THUS
,THE HIGHER RANKS CAN BE CONSTRAIN
THEMSELVES TO PRESERVE A CERTAIN
KIND OF DEPARTMENT OR DIGNITY “
THIS THE GUARDIAN ON THE ORIGINS OF
WHICH FAMOUS PHRASE ?
59. * Q.5 RISHABHANATHA ,PARSHAVANATHA
AND VASUPUJYA ARE SOME OF THE NAMES
OF THE 24 PEOPLE IN THIS LIST FROM
ANCIENT INDIA . THE INTERESTING THING
IS THAT THE LIST IS ALMOST DEFINITELY
FICTIONAL ; MOST OF THESE ARE NOT
HISTORICAL PEOPLE ,BARRING THE LAST
TWO . IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE
ADDITIONAL 22 NAMES WERE ADDED FOR
PROPOGANDA REASONS.
WHAT LIST ? WHY WERE THESE
ADDITIONAL NAMES ADDED ?
60. 24 TRITHANKARAS , ADDITIONAL
NAMES WERE ADDED SO THAT
THE JAINISM COULD COMPETE
WITH THE MUCH OLDER
HINDUISM.
61. Q.6 WHEN AMELIA
EARHART BECAME THE
FIRST WOMAN TO MAKE A
SOLO FLIGHT ACROSS THE
ALTANTIC ( IN 1932)
,NEWSAPAPERS IDENTIFIED
HER IN A CERTAIN MANNER
THAT WAS COMMON THEN .
SHE PUBLICLY OBJECTED
THIS ISSUE. WHAT ISSUE ?
63. Q.7 IN THE 2020 RANJI TROPHY FINAL
BETWEEN SAURASHTRA AND
BENGAL , DURING THE OPENING DAY
OF THE MATCH IN RAJKOT , UMPIRE
C SHAMSHUDDIN GOT INJURED AFTER
BEING HIT BY A CRICKET BALL WHICH
WAS LOBBED TOWARDS HIM AT THE
FALL OF A WICKET .
WHAT UNIQUE OCCURRENCE DID THIS
LEAD TO DURING THE FIRST SESSION
OF DAY 2 OF THE MATCH ?
65. * Q.8 IN HIS BOOK “ WINGS OF FIRE “ , DR
.KALAM WROTE ABOUT HIS EARLY TRIPS
TO WALLOPS FLIGHT FACILITY IN
VIRGINIA , WHICH WAS BASE FOR NASA
‘S SOUNDING ROCKET PROGRAM .
HE SAW A PAINTING DEPICTING A BATTLE
SCENE WITH SOMETHING SPECIAL IN THE
BACKGROUND . THE PAINTING CAUGHT
DR . KALAM EYES BECAUSE THE
SOLDEIRS IN THE PAINTINGS WERE NOT
WHITE SKINNED . WHICH BATTLE
SCENE ? WHAT WAS SPECIAL IN THE
BACKGROUND OF THE PAINTING ?
67. *Q 9 THE BATTLE OF CURZOLA WAS A
NAVAL BATTLE BETWEEN THE FLEETS OF
GENOA AND VENICE, IN WHICH
VENETIANS SUFFERED A HEAVY DEFEAT .
TWO AMONG THE MEN TAKEN AS
PRISONERS ARE INTERESTING TO US .
ONE OF THEM WAS A ROMANCE WRITER
AND THE OTHER ONE WAS A TRAVELLER ,
WHO NARRATED SOMETHING TO HIS
CELLMATE.
IDENTIFY THE TRAVELLER AND HIS
CELLMATE . ALSO WRITE THE NAME OF
THE BOOK THAT HIS CELL MATE CO
AUTHORED WITH HIM.
69. Q.10 PEOPLE HEARD GYOKUON HOSO
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 1945 . THIS IS
THE RECORD OF IT WHICH IS
CURRENTLY EXIHIBITED INSIDE THE
JAPAN MUSEUM OF BROADCASTING .
WHOSE VOICE IS IN THIS RECORDING
?WHAT IS IT CONTENT ?
71. * Q. 11 X HAD SPENT TWO YEARS AS A
KID IN THE US . IN APRIL , 2019 SHE
RECEIVED AN EMAIL ASKING HER TO
INTERPRET SOMETHING OVER THE PHONE
. THE TEN MONTHS THAT FOLLOWED , AS
SHE PUTS IT “ HAS BEEN A BLUR OF
CITIES , MICROPHONES AND GOOD NEWS
.” CLAD IN MINIMAL
BLACK AND CLUTCHING A NOTEBOOK IN
MOST OF HER APPEARANCES , SHE HAS
BEEN OFFERED TO APPEAR IN BEAUTY
COMMERCIALS .
WHERE HAVE WE SEEN THIS LADY , AND
WHAT DOES SHE DO ?
72. SHARON CHOI , THE
INTREPRETOR OR
TRANSLATOR OF BONG JOO
HO
73. Q.12 AFTER SEEING A TELCO JOB
APPLICATION THAT READ “ YOUNG
ENERGETIC ENGINEEIRS REQUIRED.LADY
CANDIDATES NEED NOT APPLY” SHE
WROTE TO JRD TATA ,CALLING OUT THE
SEXISM HIS COMPANY WAS PROMOTING.
DAYS LATER ,SHE RECEIVED A TELEGRAM
STATING THAT SHE WAS TO APPEAR FOR
AN INTERVIEW AT TELCO’S PUNE FACILITY
. SHE GOT THE JOB, BECOMING THE
FIRST WOMAN TECHNICAL OFFICER IN
TELCO. WHO IS THIS ?
75. *Q.13 PAITHANI SAREES ARE MADE AND
NAMED FOR THE CITY OF PAITHAN IN
AURANGABAD DISTRICT THAT WAS THE
CAPITAL OF SATVAHANA DYNASTY . THE
PALLU MOTIFS INSPIRED A HERITAGE
SITE 200 KM AWAY . WHAT IS THE
INSPIRATION AND THE SITE ?
77. Q.14 IN 1696, THE ROYAL MINT , WHICH
MANUFACTURES COINS IN UK
APPPOINTED …………. AS IT’S
WARDEN AND LATER APPOINTED HIM
AS THE MASTER OF THE MINT , THE
HIGHEST OFFICER IN THE ROYAL MINT
. HE IS A FAMILIAR PERSON
TO US, BUT IN SOME OTHER
RENOWNED FIELD . NAME
THIS PERSON ?
79. *Q.15 DESIGNED BY ROBERT TOR
RUSSELL ,ORIGINALLY CALLED THE
FLAG STAFF HOUSE AND WAS THE
RESIDENCE OF UK ARMY- IN- CHIEF. IT
LATER BECAME THE HOUSE OF A
RENOWNED PESONALITY AND IN 2019
, IT WAS CONVERTED INTO A
MUESEUM .
IDENTIFY THE PERSONALITY AND THE
PLACE ?
81. *Q.16 X IS A FAMOUS FOOTBALLER
WHOSE BIOPIC CAME IN 2016 . IT IS
BELIEVED THAT X WAS NAMED
AFTER Y BECAUSE SOMETHING
IMPORTANT WAS ABLE TO COME TO X
FATHER’S VILLAGE DURING X BIRTH .
IDENTIFY X AND Y.
82. PELE , NAMED AFTER THOMAS
ALVA EDISON . ( AS
ELECTRICITY CAME IN
VILLAGE OF PELE ‘S FATHER
DURING PELE BIRTH)
83. Q.17 CIA IN 1990s WAS THE MOST
FAMOUS ,RENOWNED AND
SUCCESSFUL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
. BUT IN LATE 1990s
CIA FAILED TO DETECT AN EVENT
THAT SCHOLARS OFTEN TERM AS “
INTELLIGENCE FAILURE OF THE
DECADE “
IDENTIFY THIS EVENT AND IN WHICH
YEAR IT TOOK PLACE ?
85. Q.18 IN 2019 , X A 102 YEAR OLD
VOTER , EXERCISED HIS VOTE IN
MANDI LOK SABHA CONSTITUENCY .
THERE WAS A FAIR AMOUNT OF MEDIA
COVERAGE FOR THIS WHOLE
PROCESS, ATHOUGH X HAD NO
HISTORY IN POLITICS .
IDENTIFY X AND WHY WAS HIS VOTE
SO SIGNIFICANT ?
86. SHYAM SARAN NEGI , THE
FIRST PERSON TO VOTE IN
1952 GENERAL ELECTIONS
87. Q.19 IT WAS POPULARISED BY
RONALD REAGAN AS A SLOGAN IN
1980 , HOWEVER, IT HAD A “ LETS’S “
AT THE BEGINNING . INCIDENTALLY ,
BILL CLINTON USED IT INFORMALLY
DURING HIS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION .
EVEN MORE SURPRISINGLY , IT WAS
USED BY CLINTON AGAIN DURING
HIS WIFE’S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
AGAINST OBAMA IN 2008 .
WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT ?
88.
89. Q.20 THE PARLIAMENT PASSED AN
ACT IN 1988 , FOR AMENDING ARTICLE
326 OF THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION .
RAJIV GANDHI , THE PRIME MINISTER
AT THE TIME , SAID IT WAS “ AN
EXPRESSION OF OUR FULL FAITH IN
THE YOUTH OF THE COUNTRY “
WHAT WAS THE AMENDMENT ABOUT
?
91. *Q.21 PEOPLE HAVE WONDERED WHAT
SPECIES OF ANIMAL X FROM THE
JUNGLE BOOK IS . EXPERTS POINT OUT
THAT BROWN …… AND ASIAN BLACK …..
DO NOT EXIST IN THE SEONI AREA WHERE
THE NOVEL TAKES PLACE , MAKING
………… ………. THE MOST SUITABLE
CANDIDATE FOR X . THIS SPECIES ALSO
FITS X DESCRIPTIONS AS A RATHER
LETHARGIC AND REST-LOVING
CHARACTER .
IDENTIFY X AND WHAT SPECIES DOES X IS
MOST LIKELY BELONG TO ?
95. Q .23 THIS RECORD WAS A SET
AGAINST THESE TEAMS ( IN THIS
ORDER ) IN 2016 IPL . THE PLAYER, A
TEAM CAPTAIN , STILL DID NOT WIN
THE IPL . WHAT ARE WE TALKING
ABOUT ?
97. Q. 24 FILL UP THE BLANK IN THIS EXTRACT
FROM TEMPEST AND CONNECT MISSING BLANK
TO THE NAME ON THE NEXT SLIDE .
MIRANDA: SWEET LORD , YOU ( ARE
CHEATING)
FERDINAND : NO, MY DEAREST LOVE , I
WOULD NOT FOR THE WORLD .
MIRANDA : YES FOR A SCORE OF
KINGDOMS YOU SHOULD WRONGLE .
AND I WOULD CALL IT
………………………..
98.
99.
100.
101. Q.25 THIS WAS THE PICTURE OF X , WHO IS
AN INDIAN SCIENTIST AND SERVED AS THE
AGNI 4 PROJECT LEADER AT THE DEFENCE
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
ORGANIZATION . DUE TO HER
CONTIBUTIONS , SHE IS KNOWN BY A
NICKNAME THAT DR. APJ ABDUL KALAM
GAVE IT TO HER.
USE THE PICTURE AS A CLUE AND GIVE THE
NAME OF X AND THE NICKNAME ?
103. *Q.26 IN 2018 , THE ROYAL MINT
RELEASED A NEW SET OF TEN PENCE
COINS , ONE FOR EACH LETTER OF THE
ALPHABET . TWO LETTERS B AND X HAVE
INTERSTING STORIES . THE FIRST
ONE WAS DESCRIBED IN AN ICONIC THREE
WORD PHRASE IN 1962 ( AND HEARD MANY
TIMES SINCE THEN ) THE
OTHER ONE ( FOUR WORDS ) IS ALSO
FITTING BECAUSE THE UK WAS HOME TO
AUTHORS WHO CREATED WORKS LIKE
TREASURE ISLAND AND MANY OTHER
ADVENTURE STORIES .
WRITE THE TWO PHRASES ?
104. FIRST ONE IS :
BOND JAMES BOND
SECOND ONE IS :
X MARKS THE SPOT.
105. Q.27 THE QIN DYANASTY WAS THE FIRST
IMPERIAL DYNASTY OF AN ASIAN COUNTRY
FROM 221 TO 206 BC . THEY HELPED IN
UNITING THE COUNTRY BY PUTTING DOWN
VARIOUS FACTIONS AND PROVIDES
INFLUENCE IN COUNTRY’S HISTORY .
THE DYANASTY ALSO HAS A MORE
OBVIOUS CONTRIBUTION TO THE COUNTRY.
WHAT ?
106. THEY GAVE THE NAME CHINA
TO THE COUNTRY ( QIN
BACAME SIN AND SIN
EVENTUALLY BECAME CHINA
)
107. Q.28 SPANISH BRAND OF CRISPS
BONILLA A LA VISTA HAD A SUDDEN
SPIKE IN DEMAND WORLDWIDE AND IS
PARTICULARLY NOT ABLE TO COPE
DEMAND IN SOUTH KOREA . WHY ?
109. Q.29 WINDIES OFF – SPINNER RAHKEEM
CORNAWALL ( FONDLY CALEED BIG JIM )
CURRENTLY HOLDS THIS UNOFFICIAL
RECORD . THE RECORD IS SOMETIMES
MISATTRIBUTED TO DWAYNE LEVERLOCK .
LEVERLOCK CAME TO LIMELIGHT IN 2007
WORLD CUP WHEN HE TOOK A
MEMORSBLE CATCH IN A MATCH AGAINST
INDIA . WHAT
RECORD DOES CORNAWALL HOLD?
WHICH COUNTRY DID LEVERLOCK
REPRESENT IN THE WORLD CUP ?
113. Q.31 HIS NAME IS HARISH BHIMANI .HIS
VOICE WAS USED IN A MEGA PROJECT
WITHOUT A SINGLE APPEARANCE IN
THAT PROJECT. NAME THE PROJECT ? AND
HIS ROLE IN IT ?
115. *Q.32 FOR WHAT PURPOSE ,
THESE NIBS WERE
PURCHASED BY INDIA ?
116. FOR THE HAND WRITTEN
CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
BY PREM BEHARI NARAIN
RAIZADA
117. *Q.33 X WAS CREATED BY RUTH
HANDLER , THAT LATER BECAME VERY
FAMOUS . Y IN
2019 GOT A CHANCE TO FEATURE IN X , AS
SHE BECAME IT’S BRAND AMBASSADOR .
IDENTIFY X AND Y ?
119. *Q.34 THIS IS A RECORD OF THE
LAST IPL DELIVERY FACED BY
THIS CRICKETER . ALTHOUGH IT
WAS A SIX , DISAPPOINTMENT
FOLLOWED – THE PLAYER HAD
TO RETIRE HURT.
WHAT WAS SPECIAL ABOUT
WHERE THIS SHOT WAS HIT TO ?
IDENTIFY THE PLAYER ?
121. Q.35 THIS IS RETIRED SQUADRON
LEADER DICK CHURCHILL WHO PASSED
AWAY IN FEBRUARY 2019 . HE WAS 99
YEARS OLD . HE WAS THE LAST
SURVIVING MEMBER OF THE ……… ………
…….. . IT REFERS TO THE ESACAPE OF
76 AIRMEN FROM NAZI
PRISONER CAMP IN 1944
DURING WORLD WAR 2 .
FILL IN THE BLANK
123. Q.36 SCIENTISTS RECENTLY
DISCOVERED THE WORLD’S OLDEST
ASTROLOBE , AN ASTRONOMICAL
INSTRUMENT . IT BELONGS TO AN
EXPLORER WHO USED IT ON HIS
SECOND VOYAGE TO A SOUTH ASIAN
COUNTRY IN THE FIFTEENTH
CENTURY . WHO
OWNED THIS ASTROLOBE ?
125. Q. 37 THESE TWO BUILDINGS ARE THE
RETREAT BUILDING IN MASHOBRA,
SHIMLA , THE ………………. AND
NILAYAM IN BOLARUM , HYDERABAD.
IF THESE ARE A SET OF THREE . FILL
THE BLANK TO GIVE THE THIRD ONE ?
130. BORIS JOHNSON , UK PM
HE WORKED FOR THE CONSULTANT
FIRM L.E.K
MR. BEAN PERFORMING DURING
LONDON OLYMPICS 2012 , AT THAT TIME
HE WAS THE MAYOR OF LONDON .
HE WORKED AS A JOURNALIST FOR
THE TIMES
HE ALSO STARTED BYCYCLE (
SANTENDER ) FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORT .
131. Q.40 THIS IS ONE OF THE
MARVEL’S PROMINENT
MUSLIM CHARACTER.
THOUGH THERE HAS BEEN
OTHERS , THIS NEW JERSEY
GIRL WAS THE FIRST TO
HEADLINE THEIR OWN
COMIC BOOK . SHE TAKES
OVER HER IDOL’S LAST
NAME .
NAME THIS MARVEL
CHARACTER ?
