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G-the geeky general quizPRELIMS

Rules and regulations30 questions in the Prelims.

Every answer has 1 point. Total 35 points.

Top 8 teams to qualify.

Multiples of 5 are star marked. (5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 )

If a star marked question has more than one part, you need to get all parts correct to secure the star.

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1The Beacon is a Kolkata based monthly magazine featuring interesting, offbeat and unconventional places, people and events in the everyday society.What does The Beacon describe as The Herculean inertia faced before doing any work ?

2 This is an open air amphitheatre Natarani in Ahmedabad. Which institute is it a part of ?

Darpana

3Which two word expression is used to convey the covering up of an act or an object that is embarrassing or distasteful with something of innocuous appearance and has a metaphorical reference to the Biblical Book of Genesis ?

Fig Leaf

4The name of this dish is derived from the Arabic word for day and is typically served after sunrise Fajir prayers. What dish is this?

Nihari

5Which museum?

Roald Dahl

6Traditionally, these come in sets of five: one in each of five colours. The five colours are arranged from left to right in a specific order: blue, white, red, green, and yellow. There are two kinds -horizontal ones, called Lung ta and vertical ones, called Darchor. What ?

Buddhist prayer flags/ Tibetan Prayer flags

7In the post match conference the captain told the curious media, "It's easy to run, I'm well-ventilated. The match was played at this picturesque venue, a few weeks ago. What essentially was the captain clarifying for ?

Massai warriors traditional outfit

8Which place of interest is located at approximately 59.941N and 30.3129E, and derives its name from the Greek for people who live alone ?

Hermitage museum

9 This is a minimalistic tribute to someone who passed away in 2015. Who?

Omar Sharif

10How can you connect the advertisement on the left and the apparatus for a certain Marschs test on the right to a recurring theme over fourteen works of fiction by the same author?

Arsenic

11 What alliterative common name is given to fruit bats (genus Pteropus) due to their uncanny resemblance to another Mammalian species?

Flying Fox

12Xs unique ecosystem, comprising sea coast, desert, wetland and grassland, hosts abundant birdlife and lies on a key migration route. Rare species regularly seen include the critically endangered pallid Scops owl. The Centre for Desert and Ocean can arrange specialist birding itineraries, including homestays. Yet, one neednt be a hard-core birder to enjoy sightings of myriad species, including flamingos, pelicans, storks, spoonbills and ibises.The above is a description of a tourist destination whose epicentre shares its name with a form of dagger. Which place?

Kuch (or Kachh)

13What phrase connects a certain Muhammad Umar Mukri (1922-2000), an actor who had been cast mostly as a stereotype in nearly 600 films between 1945 and 1994 with a Facebook page with nearly 3000 likes which usually share jokes and memes on people with obsession for facial hair?

14This is an Alexander Kosolapov creation which has a satirical take on the communism-capitalism divide through the depiction of something, iconic. What ?

Molotov Cocktail

15The different types include Ragout, Lancashire hotpot, Tajine, Moussaka, Lasagne, Shepherd's pie, Gratin and many more.Its difference with a stew lies in the fact , while a stew is heated from bottom of the cooking vessel (typically over a fire or on a stove), it is essentially baked in an oven where heat circulates all around the cooking vessel.What culinary method is being talked about which is used in Bengali households in a slightly extended meaning to denote a commonplace utensil ?

casserole

16______ ______ is a 2015 sequel to Goldfinger and the story takes off with Pussy Galore comfortably holed up at Bonds Chelsea apartment. It has been written by X, who has successfully appropriated the voices of other great writers, be it Agatha Christie, Herg (on film) or Arthur Conan Doyle.

The name of the book is a play on the sustained state of contraction that sets in within hours of death. Identify X and FITB.

17"Women emasculate genius , he believed, which was why he declined to play mixed doubles. "They have ploys and they make petty demands of their partners.Who aired such views and wrote about a disgruntled tennis genius in this not-so-acclaimed novel Glorys Net ?

Bill tilden

18This is the Schoenbrunn Palace gardens which is lined on both sides by 32 life-size sculptures depicting mythological deities and virtues. This, structure however is the foremost of them and was created by John Wilhelm Beyer, a German artist and garden designer. Identify the city and also name this exquisite piece of art.

Vienna, the Neptune fountain

19One fine day in 1874, while putting together his original designs, Christopher Sholes found that the buttons would often collide and jam. This meant that some items were missed and because the machines didn't have an option for clearing the field, work had to be redone.In order to fix this, he put the most common ones in hard to reach spots and further apart from each other.What resulted thus?

QWERTY Keyboard

20This is a new theme dance that was introduced in this years Rio Carnival. Grooving to the beats of music, what message was being transmitted through these participants?

Xo zika (out zika)

21Which magazine cover featuring whom ?

Ekhhon, Dante Alighieri

22Who is X in the glorified trio of X , Antonio Margarhetti and Dominik Decocco ?

Enzo gorlami

23"A glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms etymological, historical, geographical and discursive. By Colonel Henry Yule and AC Burnell.This is the subtitle of a book originally published in 1872 but has never gone out of print till date and a revised version is supposed to come out in near future.What is the title of this book? Also, what inspired the title?

Hobson-jobson, chants in muharram

24

This is a photograph taken at one of the hundreds of temporary tents set up at a place in the Mathurapur constituency of West Bengal. What specific purpose does this serve ?

Need I say more?

25These are members of a list, of which, arguably, the most famous one is missing. The missing entity also lends its name to the revolution they brought about. What ?

kallol

26The following items like a bamboo pen, an iron black coloured solution and alum-mordant for obtaining red colour are of prime importance to people residing at Srikalahasti in Chittoor district and Macchilipattam in Krishna district. Why?

Kalamkari artists

27 According to Dr. Frank Meshberger it correlates with major sulci of the cerebrum in the inner and outer surface of the brain, the brain stem, the frontal lobe, the basilar artery, the pituitary gland and the optic chiasma. Alternatively, it has been observed that the red cloth has the shape of a human uterus ,and that the scarf hanging out, coloured green, could be a newly cut umbilical cord.What is being discussed?

The creation of Adam

28In 1995, a year after her fathers untimely death, China Pal took over the familys eight-decade-old idol-making business. This was unheard of. Kumartuli, the north Kolkata colony of around 600 artisans, had never had a woman idol-maker. Shaping clay into idols was considered a mans job, and Pal was immediately under siege. Fellow artisans were openly hostile and even stopped her from displaying finished idols outside her shop. Pal braved it out, and how she did it is another story.In October 2015 she created an unique Durga idol which was used for the inaugural puja in North Kolkatas Joy Mitra Street.What uniqueness and what first can be associated with this puja?

Ardhanariswara, First public Durga Puja organised by Transgender community

29 Connect the three tracks which belong to an exhaustive and exclusive list of 24.

The Darjeeling Limited Soundtrack

30 He is the singer, composer and lyricist of this classic which was composed in the years of bhasha andolan. Identify him.

Pratul Mukhopadhyay

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