CHAKRAVYUH 3.0 GENERAL QUIZ PRELIMS WITH ANSWERS QUINTESSENCE - THE QUIZZING SOCIETY OF ZAKIR HUSAIN DELHI COLLEGE

1. PRELIMS
QM-MANOJ SINGH MEHTA
RESEARCH TEAM- QUINTESSENCE

2. RULES:-
• Participants can participate in team of 2 or individually.
• There will be 21 questions. Each carries one mark.
• There is no negative marking. So feel free to guess.
• 6 teams will go to finals.
• question numbers 5,10,15 and 21 are star-marked, which will help us
break the tie, in case it happens.
• Any use of unfair means such as phones & smart watches will lead to
direct disqualification.
• Quiz master is not GOD but has enough powers to disqualify you.

3. 1.
This is a picture of Violet
Jessop , an ocean liner stewardess
and nurse. Over the course of her
career, she earned the nickname
“Miss Unsinkable”. What earned
her this strange nickname?

4. Violet Jessop, “Miss Unsinkable,” is the only woman who survived the
sinking of the sister ships the Titanic and the Britannic, and was also
aboard the third of the trio of Olympic class vessels, the Olympic, when
it had a major accident.

5. 2.
X located in Davis, South Los Santos.
Beginning at Davis Avenue in the northwest, crossing Brouge
Avenue and ending in a cul-de-sac in the southeast, X is occupied by
the Original Covenant Ballas. The street runs parallel to the Los Santos
Storm Drain, and is close to the Maze Bank Arena. A vehicle garage is
located at the end of this street, which can be purchased by Franklin
Clinton.

6. Groove street

7. 3.
X is a multi-tier defensive formation that looks like a blooming lotus or
disc when viewed from above. The warriors at each inter-leaving
position would be an increasingly tough position to fight. As per this
military strategy, a specific stationery object or a moving object or
person can be captured and surrounded and rendered fully secured
during time of military conflict. In order to make X, the Commander has
to identify soldiers who will form this formation. The number of
soldiers to be deployed and the size of the X is calculated as per the
resistance estimated.
X?

8. Chakravyuh

9. 4.
Norman Ernest Borlaug was an American biologist, humanitarian who
has been called “X“ and “Y“, He won the Presidential Medal of
Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal and was also awarded
the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honor.
The world food prize was created in 1986 by Norman Ernest Borlaug as
a way to recognize personal accomplishments, and as a means of
education by using the Prize to establish role models for others. The
first prize was given to Norman Ernest Borlaug’s former colleague, M. S.
Swaminathan, in 1987, for his work in India.
Give X or Y?

10. X=The father of green revolution
Y=agriculture's greatest spokesperson

11. 5.
“If anybody asked me which was the best match that I played in, I will
unhesitatingly say that it was the1933 Beighton Cup final between
Calcutta Customs and Jhansi Heroes”.
Who quoted this?

12. Dhyan chand

13. 6.
This is an artist’s rendition of X. What is X?

14. Multiple Personality Disorder/ Dissociative
identity disorder

15. 7.
X is the younger daughter of Himalaya. A legend about X in Kalika
Purana says Lord Shiva became pleased from the hard penance of a
demon and gave him blessings. That particulatr demon did not like
Goddess Parvati, the wife of Lord Shiva. Parvati took this as an insult to
her. As a result, a war started between the demon and Parvati. The
demon was injured in the war and he was feeling thirsty. He requested
Lord Shiva to save his life by quenching his thirst. Lord Shiva became
pleased and from his blessing, a stream of nectar like milky water
started flowing from Parvati’s body. This stream was called X and this
river is fulfilling the desires of the people even today. ID X.

16. Teesta River

17. 8.
The first recorded use of a phrase similar to “_______________” was in
the 1651 collection of poems Olor Iscanus. British poet Henry Vaughan
referred to a roof that was secure against “_____________ in shower.”
One year later, Richard Brome, an English playwright, wrote in his
comedy City Witt, “It shall _______pole_____.” Pole___ are related to
the weasel and were common in Great Britain through the end of the
nineteenth century.

18. Raining Cats and Dogs

19. 9.
Charlie Lynn after reading that the UK censor board, the British Board
of Film Certification (BBFC), had clipped six seconds off David Fincher's
Fight Club, because they felt that the sadism in the movie needed to be
toned down was saddened by it . In UK , filmmakers have to pay a fee
to the Board to watch a movie; the fee is directly proportional to the
movie's length. The BBFC charges a submission fee of about £101, and
£7 for every minute and a value-added tax. A normal-length movie fee
is about £1,000. Once the fee is paid, it becomes mandatory for Board
members to watch the movie So Charlie Lynn did something unique in
this regard to teach the UK Censor Board a lesson. What unique thing
did he do?

20. In November 2015, Lyne, made a movie of paint drying, and asked
donors to help make it as lengthy as possible and made a 10-hour
movie, in which all one sees is paint drying.

21. 10.
This is a fictional description of X, one of the wizarding world’s most
dangerous creatures.
X has a human-like head, a lion's body, and a scorpion's tail with a
stinger. X’s skin repels all known charms, so it is effectively hard to
subdue X with magic. It is known to be capable of human speech, and
is considered a sentient beast. ID X.

22. Manticore

23. 11.
• The Dongria Kondh of India's
Niyamgiri Hills are fighting
mining giant Vedanta to save
their sacred hills. The media
coined a term to refer these tribe
because of the nature of their
fight.
• Name it.

24. Avatar tribe

25. 12.
• Center for development of advance computing(C-DAC) have made X 2
which is rated as India's fastest ever supercomputer. The secretary of
Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), J
Satyanarayana has launched the 500 TeraFlop model of the old X 1 at
Pune. The storage capacity of the system is about 200 Terabytes
which enables users to store a lot of data. Even parallel computing is
made possible by the inclusion of required software.
• Any of the large complex programs can be very well managed by
using feature rich tools within the system.
• NAME X?

26. PARAM YUVA 2

27. 13.Name the award.

28. International children’s Peace prize

29. 14.
This is a feeling felt by all of us wherever we are, that someone is
staring at us without us knowing it. Also known as Scopaesthesia,
_____is the supposed phenomenon of knowing when you are being
stared at. Studies say _______ to be purely illusory and ______ was
first written about by a psychologist, Edward Titchener in 1988.

30. The Psychic Staring Effect

31. 15.
X, in mizo means bamboo death. It’s a phenomenon that reoccurs
every 48 years in Mizoram and Manipur.
Melocanna sp. flowers at a time in a wide area which is followed by a
plague of black rats. This leads to widespread famines in those places.
Latest spate of flowering was seen in 2006.
Id X.

32. Mautam

33. 16.
X refers to rupee-denominated bonds through which Indian entities can
raise money from foreign markets in rupee, and not in foreign
currency. The issuance of rupee denominated bonds, Indian entity is
protected against the risk of currency fluctuation. These bonds are
usually traded on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and not in India.
The first X bond was issued by the International Finance Corporation
(IFC), in November 2014. HDFC was the first Indian company to issue
rupee-denominated bonds “X” on London Stock Exchange (LSE) in July
2016.
Id X.

34. X- Masala Bonds

35. 17.
The construction of X is said to have cost roughly 500 Chinese and
Pakistani workers their lives. It is considered one of the most
incredible engineering projects of the 20th century, and hence dubbed
by some as the eighth wonder of the world. At its highest point, it
passes the Khunjerab pass, at a height of 4,693m.
Amazingly, Khunjerab is where six countries meet - China, India,
Pakistan, Afghanistan and the former Soviet republics of Tajikistan and
Kyrgyzstan.

36. karakoram highway

37. 18.
'X' started it's journey in berkshire,U.K. 'X' founded in 1991.
In 1999 'X' merged with 'Y' to form the world's largest telephony
company.
X bought 67% of shares of Z in feb 2007.Thus making an entry into
Indian telecom Market.
X now has 400 million subscribers worldwide.
Vittorio colao is presently the CEO of X.
Identify X,Y & Z

38. X: Vodafone, Y: Airtouch, Z: hutch

39. 19.Connect.

41. All are accidentally discovered

42. 20.
“Chakravyuh mein ghusne se pehle , kaun tha main aur kaisa tha , Ye
mujhe yaad hi nahi rahega .”
Famous dialogue of which eminent Bollywood personality and movie?

43. Om Puri
Ardh Satya

44. 21.
X is a spicy snack from the Indian subcontinent; popular in India,
Pakistan and other parts of South Asia. Banarasidas, the author of
biographical Ardhkathanaka, has mentioned buying it in Agra in 1613. X
is supposed to have originated in UP or Rajasthan. In these states it is
usually a round flattened ball made of fine flour filled with a stuffing of
baked mixture of yellow moong dal, besan, black pepper, red chilli
powder, salt and other spices.
What is X?

45. kachori

46. FINALS STARTING IN 5 MINUTES!