1. Not So General Quiz

2. Who are the recent winners of World Women
Kabaddi Championship?
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3. As per Union Budget 2012, what is the maximum
amount one can earn without paying any
income tax?
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4. 3.Connect

5. One of the controversial sponsors of Olympics
2012, X , is also acquired Union Carbide
responsible for Bhopal Gas Tragedy in 2001.Id
X.
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6. Which of the following musician/bands haven't
visited India in the recent times(1 year)?
Metallica, Opeth, David Guetta, System of a
Down
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7. 6. How do we collectively known the marked
mountain peaks?

8. If RAW is for India, Mossad is for???
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9. Under what branch of study, does Ethics,
Metaphysics,Logic,Aesthetics,Epistemology
come under?
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10. Definition of What?
A star that suddenly increases greatly in
brightness because of a catastrophic explosion
that ejects most of its mass.
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11. The origin of X is from a 1915 pulp novel about
Baseball. Since it's used in different countries, it
has different colors to it. While the Germany, it
goes by the name of ”blue letter” , while the
French are fond of calling it ”cartouche
jaune”(Yellow Paper). How do we know better
know it , which we call as X?
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12. Id the iconic album cover along with the artist
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13. Connect
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14. Connect
Dada,Cubism,Expressionism,Constructivism, De
Stijl, Surrealism,Futurism,Fauvism
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15. 14 Connect

16. The Fédération Colombophile Internationale is
the world governing body of which sport?
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17. Who wrote his work, considered a masterpiece
by many, when he became completely deaf?
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18. What is the English name for the movement in
French cinema called ‘nouvelle vague’?
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19. In the context of recently held state elections,
identify
1. The new IITB-educated Goa CM
2. the new SJCE-educated Uttar Pradesh CM
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20. Connect
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21. Connect
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22. X, who is presently a Biologist, is famous for
being involved in fatal airplane crash(LANSA
Flight 408) in the Peruvian rainforest on
December 24,1971. X's experience was widely
reported and is the subject of two feature length
documentary films. Id X.
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23. Which Indian is the author of 'Discovery of India'?
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24. 23 In which territory do we find this peculiar
aiport?

25. Solve the anagrams
1. End Is A Car Spin
2. Silent
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26. X was initially named Inquilaab, inspired from the
famous phrase Inquilab Zindabad, during the
Indian Independence struggle. However at the
suggestion of a fellow poet his father changed
his name to X “the light that would never go
off”.
ID X???
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27. Ahmedinejad, the Iranian President said in a
speech at a youth festival in Tehran about X
“Those who believe in this type of thing cannot
be the leaders of the global nations that aspire,
like Iran, to human perfection, basing
themselves in the love of all sacred values”. He
accused the west of using X to spread western
propaganda and superstition.
ID X?????
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28. ID
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29. Where?
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30. Probably one of the best Bollywood movies
“SHOLAY” won only one filmfare award.
Can you name the category for which it won??
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31. Connect
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32. ID
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33. In the Tour De France the rider who finishes last
is accorded a unique distinction. What is he
called???
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34. Name any three actors who have played the role
of Batman in movies??
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35. Group A: Jamaica, Malaysia, Srilanka, Zimbabwe
Group B: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia,
Canada, India
Group C: Bangladesh, Barbados, Northern
Ireland, South Africa
Group D: Kenya, New zealand, Pakistan,
Scotland
34.What sport and which tournament?

36. ID
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37. Which famous poem was first published under
the title “Bharat Vidhata” in the Tatvabodini
Patrika in January 1912
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38. ID this monument and give exact name
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X is an international organisation that publishes anonymous
submissions of otherwise unavailable documents while
preserving the anonymity of sources. Its website, launched in
2006, is run by The Sunshine Press. Within a year of its
launch the site claimed a database that had grown to more
than 1.2 million documents.
In May 2010, the New York daily news listed X first in a
ranking of “websites that could totally change the news”.
X has won a number of awards, including the 2008
Economist magazine New Media award. In June 2009, X and
Y won Amnesty Internationals UK media award.
Recently X and Y were in the news for all the wrong reasons
ID both X and Y

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X is a political party in India. The party was
founded in 1997 by Y. The party came about as a
result of Y being evicted by Sharad Yadav, the
then president of Y’s former party on corruption
charges. In 2008, X received the status of
recognised national level party following its
performance in north-eastern states. X was
derecognised as a national party on 30 July 2010.
Identify both X and Y

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X created the character Y in 1941 as a part of his
series and named it after a ‘sad english fish’, as
suggested by his wife. Soon Y became very
popular and became one of the main characters
in all the later editions of the series. Y was only
known by his surname and did not have a first
name. Many questioned X about Y’s first name.
There were also contests held to suggest a first
name for Y. In order to put an end to all this, X
gave Y’s first name as ‘Archibald’ in one of the
last editions of the series.
Identify X and Y

42. 41. Id the two pictured