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PRELIMS:1) 1-26 Questions (A-Z)2) 5,10,15,20,25 are *(star) marked tie-breaker questions.

AName the company from which social networking site Facebook bought its website domain name facebook.com.

AAbout Face Corp.

BCountry X is a small country located in North America close to Honduras. X is believed to be the only country in the world whose National Flag has humans depicted on it. Identify X.

B Belize

CX is a world famous elite fashion brand established by a person of the same name as X. X was founded in 1968 in New York and was later sold to Philips Van Huesen Corp. (PVH) in December, 2002. Identify X.

CCalvin Klein

DX is a football player from Russia. In 2016, while playing for the Spanish club team Real Madrid in the Copa Del Rey tournament, after having scored a goal in the first half of the match against Cadiz, he was suspended from the game and later Real Madrid was disqualified from the tournament as X was playing the match despite serving a ban. Identify X.

DDennis Cheryshev

EX is a famous classic 20th century American author. He is also infamous for his suicide case at the age of 61 . After his death, six people from his family have also died after committing suicide which includes his own father, brother and sister. Medical reports suggested that the author s family suffered from a genetic disease called hemochromatosis, in which the inability to metabolize iron culminates in mental and physical deterioration which leads to depression. A curse name has also been linked to the suicides derived from the author s surname . Identify X.

EErnest Hemingway , Curse- Hemmingway curse

FX is a former West Indies cricket captain who also has the distinction of being the first black captain of West Indies. He had donated his blood to Indian player Nari Contractor after he suffered from a head injury on the cricket field in 1962. In remembrance of this act, theCricket Association of Bengal (CAB)organizes a blood donation camp on 3rd February, every yearand the day is commemorated as CAB s Foundation Day. Identify the cricketer X.

FFrank Worrell

GName this iconic legendary cricket batsman who has the world record of scoring most runs in cricket history when all formats of the game are combined ( Test + First-Class + ODI + List A + t20 ) . His record stands at a staggering 67,057 runs from the period 1973- 2000. He also holds the record for most runs in a test match aggregating 456 runs ( 333 + 123) scored against India in 1990.

GGraham Gooch

HIndian singer X holds the record for the most sold music album Y in India. Incidentally, he is also a music director and was known for his particular style of singing that made him a sensation. Identify X and Y.

HHimesh Reshammiya(X)Aap Ka Suroor(Y)

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IMark Boucher, former South African wicketkeeper batsman made 999 dismissals as a wicketkeeper in international cricket. While playing in a domestic county match against Somerset in 2012, he suffered from a severe eye injury after the bails hit him on the eye which ultimately brought an end to his illustrious cricket career. X who bowled this delivery consistently plays international cricket now and is quite popular for his over enthusiastic celebrations after claiming a wicket. Identify the bowler X.

IImran Tahir

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JIdentify the author from this following extract At last, Uncle Podger would get the spot fixed again and put the point of the nail on it with his left hand and take the hammer in his right hand. And, with the first blow he would smash his thumb, and drop the hammer with a yell, on somebodys toes.

JJerome Klapka JeromeNovel extract- Three Men in a Boat.

KThe owner of a particular product listed Project Management, Strategic Planning and Customer Service as his top skills in LinkedIn. Unfortunately, he was busted by the local police on 20th July, 2016 due to another skill he applied for several years, through which the product gained massive popularity! Identify this product which led to this mishap.

KKickass Torrents

L

Originally named as Quila-e-Mubarak or the Blessed Fort, in what name do we know this architectural wonder made of limestone?

L

Lal Quila

M

Identify this Malayali entrepreneur who came to the news headlines this January, thanks to a 2016 blockbuster Bollywood war thriller.

MMathunny Mathews (Ranjit Katyal, the character of Akshay Kumar in Airlift is based on his real-life incident)

N

Distinctive Software, a popular game development company in the mid-80s, was later purchased by Electronic Arts (EA) in 1991, just after the formers launch of an extremely popular gaming franchise. Identify this franchise which caused this merge.

N

Need For Speed

O

To fulfil the demands of silver while paying for the popular products imported from an Asian nation, some British merchants started selling a flower-derived product in that nation in exchange of silver. Which infamous 19th century conflict did it result in?

O

Opium War (1840, 1856)

PWho is the youngest Indian to have achieved a podium finish at the Olympics?

PPusarala Venkata Sindhu

Q

Chief Technological Engineer of Facebook, Adam DAngelo (Left) resigned from his post, and developed a new website along with Charlier Cheever (Right), which was made available for public in 2010. Which popular site are we talking about?

Q

Quora

R

Categorized as t, m and r, which biochemical compound participates in coding and decoding the gene structure?

R

RNA Ribonucleic Acid (transfer, messenger & ribosomal RNA)

S

The terminology used to describe second year student in any college/university.

S

Sophomore

T

Desert situated at southwest Xinjiang Uyghur, China.

T

Taklamakan Desert

U

The material unique to Nidavellir and was used to forge Thors Mjolnir .

U

URU

V

Formerly Known as Tsaritsyn, This city is famous for one of the largest and bloodiest battle in WWII. What is its current name?

V

Volgograd

W

Identify this famous literary personality.

W

William Wordsworth

XDerived from a Greek word meaning wood ,This Vascular tissue in plant enables transportation of water from Root to shoot.

XXylem

YAmerican private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

YYale University

ZA 19th-century optical toy consisting of a cylinder with a series of pictures on the inner surface that, when viewed through slits with the cylinder rotating, give an impression of continuous motion.

ZZoetrope

ROUND 1- GENERAL

1

This photograph is captured from the Fortune Resort Bay Island, and the peak that can be seen behind the coconut leaf is Mount Harriet, the third highest peak of Andaman. What is the significance of this particular photograph?

1Photograph printed at the back of a Indian 20 note.

2Bert Vance, a Kiwi cricketer, is the holder of an odd first-class record, which he made in 1990, while representing Wellington in a Shell Trophy game against Canterbury. What is the record that he secured, and is still unbeaten?

2Conceded most runs in an over while bowling in a First-class match (1-0-77-0, 18 No Balls)

3Pope Gregory XIII devised X which was bitterly opposed by much of the population, who feared it was an attempt by landlords to cheat them. Most of the Catholic countries adopted it within a year or two. However, more than a century would pass before Protestant Europe would accept it. What is referred to in X?

3Gregorian Calendar

4

Jordanian cartoonist Abu Mahjoob had drawn this cartoon as aftermath of which incident that occurred on 14th July, 2016?

4Nice Attack on Bastille Day

5X is a fish whose body colour is deep red-orange and its larger species reaching upto a length of 1.5-2 m. It inhabits the western Atlantic Ocean and in May 2015, scientists discovered the fact that it is the worlds first warm- blooded fish species. X retains heat with insulating layers of fat, which insulates the heart from the gills, and the pectoral muscles from the surrounding water. Identify the fish species X.

5Moon Fish (Opah)

6What was started by Sunil Jaglan from Bibipur village in Haryana that went on to become the most trending topic all over the country during the end of June 2015 after Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing the idea as brilliant in his weekly show, Mann Ki Baat?

6Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao

7Which was the world'sfirst operationalnuclear-poweredsubmarine?

7USS Nautilus

8X is an Indian singer more popularly known for his bhangra and hip-hop songs hailing from Ludhiana, Punjab. His Bollywood break appeared in 2007, in the movie Hattrick and since then he has sung a lot of songs in movies like Partner, Dev D, Bang Baaja Baarat, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. His last famous song was Jee Karda from the film Badlapur in 2015. X was found dead in his apartment at Gurgaon on 22nd October, 2015 in what was suspected to be a suicide case. Identify this singer X.

8Labh Janjua

9What was the name of the rescue operation undertaken by Indian Army during the 2014 Jammu and Kashmir floods?

9Operation Megh Rahat

10Which program was organized by the Indian Prime Minister on the 139th birth anniversary of the first home minister of the country?

10Run for Unity (In the memory of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel)

11Who is the first African born Nobel Prize winner, for developing vaccine against Yellow Fever?

11Max Theiler

12India and USA is currently involved in a join military exercise called Yudh Abhyas 2016. Which Indian state hosted it?

12Uttarakhand

ROUND 2 - FAME

1Name the Indian officer signing the treaty at the end of 1971 India-Pakistan war, which is also noted as Instrument of Surrender?

1Lieutenant General Jagjit Singh Aurora

2The club was founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878 which was changed subsequently. Players like Ole Gunnar Solskjr, Paul Ince, Mark Hughes, Gerrard Pique, and Giuseppe Rossi have played for this club. What is the present name of this European cup?

2Manchester United

3Asked byGay-Lussacto investigate a mysterious substance isolated byBernard Courtois. X showed it to be an element, which is now called iodine. X is also credited for the discovery of potassium and Sodium. He was known to have developed an addiction for laughing gas himself while experimenting the physiological effect of the chemical on his enthusiastic friends, notably - James watt, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. Who is X? (Clue : He had Michael Faraday as his lab assistant)

3Humphrey Davy

4Claim To Fame

4Mariyappan Thangavelu, Gold Medalist, High Jump, Rio Paralympics 2016

5The film X was directed by Bollywood director Anurag Kashyap in the early years of his career. A lawyer named Y defended the case of Kashyaps film X when it ran into censorship controversies. Later in 2010, Y was murdered and in 2014, a film was released based on the life of Y which was incidentally produced by Anurag Kashyap. Identify the films X and the person Y.

5Black Friday (X), Shahid Azmi (y)

6X was a famous scientist of the 19th century known for his contributions to wireless technology, remote based system and A.C. current. X was good friends with another writer Y. X was obsessed with the number 3 and used to walk around the block of building 3 time before entering, shake hands 3 times and such. According to reports, X also had an imaginary creature Z in his life whom he loved. Identify X, Y and Z.

6Nikola Tesla (X), Mark Twain (Y), White Pegion (Z)

ROUND 3 - COUNTRY

AUSTRALIA:

AUSTRALIA (Q-1)This Australian Scholar won the Nobel prize in physics for the discovery of theaccelerating expansion of the Universethrough observations of distantsupernovae, shared withSaul PerlmutterandAdam G. Riess. Who is he?

1Brian Paul Schmidt

AUSTRALIA(Q-2)This is a mountain peak with a height of 2,228 metres (7,310ft)above sea level, which is thehighestpeak in mainland Australia.

2Mount Kosciuszko

CANADA:

CANADA(Q-1):What is the connection between Canada and this memorial (in picture) situated at the Budge Budge Ghat, South 24 Parganas.

1Komagata Maru Memorial, in honour of the Indian boarders of the Komagata Maru steamship, who were denied of an immigration attempt in order to escape from the British Raj in India, at Vancouver, Canada. They were forced back to Budge Budge, near Kolkata, where British Police welcomed them with gunshots and arrested most of them.

CANADA(Q-2):Identify him.

2Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister, Canada

EGYPT

EGYPT(Q-1):Who is the current President of Egypt?

1Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

EGYPT(Q-2):Name the Egyptian God of mummification, afterlife, whom Satyajit Ray had used in one of his detective stories?

2Anubis

FRANCE

FRANCE(Q-1):In childhood, this renowned French author ran away from home and boarded a ship and started working as a cabin boy, but his father found him at the last moment before the ship started its journey, and brought him back home. The child had to promise to his family that he would travel but only in his imagination. Identify him

1Jules Verne

FRANCE(Q-2):Identify this Frenchman and tell what had he done for which he claimed fame?

2Salim Toorabally, the security guard at Stad de France, Paris, who single-handedly blocked an ISIS suicide bomber Bilal Hadfi to enter the stadium and saved the French and German football team who were playing a FIFA friendly, and thousands of spectators including the French President Francois Holland.

KENYA:

KENYA(Q-1):In Kenya, apart from English , X is the other most commonly used language . The phrase Hakuna Matata used in The Lion King animated film means Y which is actually a phrase derived from the language X. Identify X and Y.

1Swahili(X), No worries(Y)

KENYA(Q-2):X is a Kenyan environmental and political activist and founded the Green Belt Movement in Africa. X was the first women in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree(PhD). X is also the first African women to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in the year 2004. Identify X.

2Wangaari Mathai

NETHERLANDS:

NETHERLANDS(Q-1):Netherlands holds the Guinness World Record for the oldest National Anthem in the world named X. It was composed between 1568 and 1572 during the Dutch Revolt. Name the National Anthem X.

1Wilhelmus

NETHERLANDS(Q-2):X is a famous female Dutch athlete, competing in heptathlon and sprint events. She is the 2015 World Champion and silver medalist at 2016 Rio Olympics. She also holds the European 200m record at 21.63 secs and third fastest time over that distance. Identify X.

2Dafne Schippers

RUSSIA:

RUSSIA(Q-1):X was theWesternnickname for theSovietRDS-220hydrogen bomb (Code Name- Vanya), the most powerfulnuclear weaponever detonated. Its testing on October 30, 1961, remains the most powerful human-madeexplosionin history. It was also referred to asKuzkina mat. What is X?

1Tsar Bomba

RUSSIA(Q-2):Identify the man in a black attire in the painting .

2Ivan iv Vasilyevich/Ivan the Terrible

VIETNAM:

VIETNAM(Q-1):Under which peace accord were all American combat troops withdrawn from Vietnam, restoring peace at the nation in 1973?

1Paris Peace Accord

VIETNAM(Q-2):Which is the largest city of Vietnam?

2Ho Chi Minh City

ROUND 4 - SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Q1What is the full form of ELISA ?

1Enzyme Linked Immuno Sorbent Assay

Q2There exists a set of initial parameters, and a pair of temperatures, such that given two bodies of water identical in these parameters, and differing only in initial uniform temperatures, the hot one will freeze sooner. What is this effect known as ?

2Mpemba Effect

Q3The Chinese Alchemists Tried to make The potion of immortality and ended up inventing X . what is X ?

3Gun Powder

Q4Her 1998 high school paper, "A Simple Method to Demonstrate the Enzymatic Production of Hydrogen from Sugar, co-authored with scientists Ian Hurley and Jonathan Woodward, was entered in theIntel Science Talent Search. She is also featured in films like Leon ,V for Vendetta, The Darjeeling Limited. She is ?

4Natalie Portman

Q5What is the heaviest and largest of the 20 amino acids?

5Tryptophan

Q6The idea that computer system throughput is limited due to the relative ability of processors compared to top rates of data transfer is called as?

6Von Neumann Bottleneck

ROUND 5 AUDIO-VISUAL

1

Identify the singer from this new Bollywood film.

1Qurat ul ain Baloch

2

This song featured as a theme song in the 2014 T20 World Cup which was held at Bangladesh when the national anthems were sung at the start of a match.Identify the original song and in which Bollywood film was this t used background music.

2Vangalis Conquest of the Paradise, used in Koyla

3

Name the movie, singer and the director of the film .

3NaqaabJaved AliAbbas-Mastan

4

Identify her.

4Angelique Kerber

5

Identify the singer and the movie which this song is a part of.

5Arijit SinghKhad

6

Identify the stadium where all this happened.

6DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai

ROUND 6 RAPID FIRE

TEAM 1Coach of Gold medallist Brazil 2016 Olympic Football Team Micale Rogario2016 Indian National award winner in Best Actress category Kangana RanautWhich famous English authors 100th Birthday was celebrated recently on 13th September 2016? Roald DahlName the only hand-written newspaper in the world. The MusalmanTime's Person of the Yearfor2006- YouWhat is the national emblem of Bangladesh? Water Lily

TEAM 1Coach of Gold medallist Brazil 2016 Olympic Football Team Micale Rogario2016 Indian National award winner in Best Actress category Kangana RanautWhich famous English authors 100th Birthday was celebrated recently on 13th September 2016? Roald DahlName the only hand-written newspaper in the world. The MusalmanTime's Person of the Yearfor2006- YouWhat is the national emblem of Bangladesh? Water Lily

TEAM 2Which captain led India to its first overseas Test Cricket victory? MAK PataudiWhich is the largest human organ? - SkinName the author of Freedom in exile Dalai LamaThe nationalintelligence agencyofIsrael - mOSSADIn what popular name do we know singer Angaraag Mahanta? - PaponName the first Miss World from India. Reita Faria

TEAM 3Name the person who has most number of Oscar Nominations without a win. - Kevin O ConnellWho is the current President of FIFA? - Gianni InfantinoRenowned food based Indian company founded by Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj Chadda - ZomatoDirector of Schindlers List Stephen SpilbergHar Ghar Kuch Kehta Hai identify the company from this tagline. Asian PaintsWhat does INSAS stand for? Indian Small Arms System

TEAM 4Which is the only nation to have no National Anthem of her own. CyprusThe director of The Man Who Knew Infinity Mathew BrownWhere is the headquarters of ASEAN situated? Jakarta, IndonesiaIn which state is Abdul Kalam Island situated? OdishaAgainst whom did Roger Federer win his 1000th professional Tennis match? - Milos RaonicWho designed the present Indian National flag? - Pingali Venkayya

TEAM 5Second largest river of India GodavariWho is the new UPSC Chairman? Alka SirohiThe largest religious building in the world Ankor Vat, CambodiaAfter whom Port Blair airport is named? Veer SavarkarWho is the current CM of Arunachal Pradesh? Pema KhanduWho has the highest individual international T20 score? Aaron Finch (156)

TEAM 6Against which goalkeeper did Maradona score his famous Hand of God goal? Peter ShiltonWhich is the longest National Highway of India? NH 44 (Srinagar to Kanyakumari)Two countries associated with PRABAL DOSTYK-16 India & KazakhstanWhat is the full form of PET in PET scan? - Positron Emission TomographicWhich popular app was founded by Kavin Bharti Mittal? - Hike messengerCurrent Asian-origin mayor of London Sadiq Khan