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1. TECHNOTRYST- 2k15 GENERAL QUIZ
PRELIMS
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2. • After a gap of over 20 years, X was released in India at
Shrinathji temple in Nathdwara, Rajasthan, on March 6
by Rajiv Mehrishi.
• In 1994, production of X was stopped predominantly due
to the high cost involved.
• Identify X which is now pink and green in colour.

8. • This phrase derives its origin to the days before
anesthesia was invented.
• A wounded soldier, about to undergo surgery
was given X to clamp in his teeth and bear down
on, so he wouldn't sink his teeth into his tongue
from the pain.
• What phrase thus evolved?

20. • In his previous birth, X was a Gandharva (angelic being)
who had been cursed to be born on an earthly planet as
a sudra for singing glories to the demigods instead of the
Supreme Lord.
• X is believed to be the first journalist on Earth.
• Id X

22. Narada

26. • X is a type of comedy based on deliberately clumsy
actions and humorously embarrassing events.
• The name comes from the Italian word bataccio ,a club-
like object composed of two wooden slats. When struck,
the battaccio produces a loud smacking noise, though
little force transfers from the object to the person being
struck. Actors may thus hit one another repeatedly with
great audible effect while causing very little actual
physical damage.
• Examples of this type of humor include Charlie Chaplin,
Laurel and Hardy, Tom & Jerry, Looney Tunes among
others.

35. • X is a photo-blog and bestselling book featuring street
portraits and interviews collected in a particular city.
Started in November 2010 by photographer Brandon
Stanton, over 6,000 portraits have been gathered thus far
and X has developed a large following through social
media.
• On October 15, 2013, the X book, which is based on the
eponymous photography blog was released. As of
January 20, 2015, the book had been on the New York
Times Bestseller list for 28 weeks.
• Identify this photo-blog/book.

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41. • Following the California summit between Presidents
Barack Obama and Xi Jinping, Chinese micro-bloggers
picked up on an uncanny resemblance between a
photograph of the two strolling through the Sunnylands
estate and X. The two images were published side by
side on the Chinese social media site Weibo.
• But the posts were almost immediately “harmonized”, as
censors appeared to take exception to the comparison
between their president and a X with a penchant for
honey.
• What was the analogy?

45. • Amid the Parisian upheavals of May 1968, a group of
young doctors decided to go and help victims of wars and
major disasters.
• This group of doctors were called MSF in French, known
internationally in English as _______ ___________
________.
• For their efforts in war-torn regions they were awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize in 1999.
• Dr. James Orbinski, receiving the prize on behalf of the
organization stated,
“Silence has long been confused with neutrality, and
has been presented as a necessary condition for humanitarian
action. From its beginning, MSF was created in opposition to this
assumption. We are not sure that words can always save lives,
but we know that silence can certainly kill.”
Expand MSF or fill in the blanks.

47. • Medicens sans frontiers

48. • Foetus
• Log
• Yearner
• Soldier
• Freefaller
• Starfish
Types of what?

51. X Airways was an American company
headquartered in Delray Beach, Florida,
that specialized exclusively in air
transportation of X, using contracted
small air carriers. The airline claimed to be
the first in the world for designing aircrafts
specifically for X.
It commenced operations in 2009. In February 2012, The New
York Times reported that X Airways had run into financial
problems, cancelling flights at the last minute, leaving
customers and X with no recourse. As a result, in 2013 the
airline permanently ceased operations.
Identify the airline.

54. • X is a technique for anonymous communication over
a computer network.
• Messages are encapsulated in layers of encryption and
hence its name.
• The encrypted data is transmitted, or rather, slingshot
through a series of network nodes or servers, each of
which "peels" away a single layer, uncovering the data's
next destination. When the final layer is decrypted, the
message arrives at its destination. The sender remains
anonymous because each intermediary knows only the
location of the immediately preceding and following
nodes.

56. Onion
Routing

57. • _________ _________ is a name given to three women
(shown below) sent by anthropologist ________ for a
undertaking a particular study.
• Identify all the three women or fill
in the blanks.

60. • John Barrymore
• Clive Brook
• Raymond Massey
• Basil Rathbone
• Peter Cushing
• Jeremy Brett
What in-exhaustive list is this?

63. • In the 16th century, a Dutch shipmaster used heat to
concentrate wine in order to make it easier to transport,
with the idea of adding water to reconstitute it when he
eventually arrived to his destination.
• This led to the Dutch people discovering that
concentrated wine is much better than watered down
wine, and therefore the concentrated wine became very
popular.
• How do we know this concentrated wine, the word
tracing its etymology to the Dutch word for ‘burnt wine’?

66. • X originated in 1923 by Frederick Stanley
Mockford (1897–1962). A senior radio officer at Croydon
Airport in London, Mockford was asked to think of a word
that would indicate distress and would easily be
understood by all pilots and ground staff in an
emergency. Since much of the traffic at the time was
between Croydon and Le Bourget Airport in Paris, he
proposed X which meant “help us” in French.
• Before the voice call X, SOS was the Morse
code equivalent of X. In 1927, the International
Radiotelegraph Convention of Washington adopted X in
place of the SOS Morse Code call.
• Gimme X.

69. • Feb 9, 2015:
• "ISIS: We will hunt you, Take down your sites, accounts, emails, and
expose you.
• From now on, no safe place for you online…
• You will be treated like a virus, and we are the cure…
• We own the internet…”
• As of Feb. 10, at least 800 ISIS-affiliated Twitter accounts
were brought down.
• Within three days of the operation, 1,000 ISIS websites were
brought down.
Fundae?

71. Anonymous declares Cyber War on ISIS