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COQ
Categories that have been covered in
this years COQ:
History and Geography
Movies and Television
Music
Art and architecture
Science
India/Delhi
Sports
Books
Mythology
Business
Technology
Guidelines for the COQ
The questions are difficult, the answers are not. Think
simple, yet logical answers.
While attempting connect questions identify each
image. Then on a paper start connecting.
For the semis and finals play the quizmaster and not
the quiz.
For the quarters distribute the topics amongst team
members so that there isnt duplication of effort.
Prelims are a breeze mostly but again think logically
simple answers that fit the description of the question.
Humble request::- Kindly attempt the prelims from
the past years. Divide amongst your team members.
If not all the questions at least last years questions.
Methodology

questions from various topics.
Divide yourselves into teams and sit for the quiz
Every time a question goes unanswered we try and figure out the
best logical deduction of the answer
+10 for direct
Try to get as many answers as you
can
Questions till your stamina runs out
or your brain goes dead.
These arent difficult questions they
are feel good questions to get you
guys in the groove

COQ 2012 Prelims Questions (Srijan)
General Part 1
General Part 2
Quizcraft Archives
Q.1.And I Laid traps for the troubadors who got
killed before they reached Bombay is
probably a reference to the Thugee cult,
devoted to the Goddess Kali, the Goddess of
death. Kali was also the inspiration for the
iconic bands logo, whose lyrics were just
mentioned. Which band?
Q.2. The story centers on an imaginary, historical royal
family in the kingdom of Kumarpur. The main characters are
the king and his two warring wives Dilbahar and Navbahar.
Their rivalry escalates when a fakir predicts that Navbahar
will bear the king's heir. Dilbahar, in revenge, attempts to
have an affair with the kingdom's chief minister Adil. The
affair goes sour and a vengeful Dilbahar imprisons him and
exiles his daughter, _________ (Zubeida). In exile,
__________is brought up by Gypsies. Upon returning to the
palace at Kumarpur, __________ meets and falls in love
with the charming young prince . In the end, Adil is
released, Dilbahar is punished and the lovers marry.
Plot for what film?
Q.3. This band was originally named Pectoralz.
Later they changed it to Starfish, and finally to
______ which remains their current name.
Interestingly, the name literally means
necrophilia. The bands lead singer expressed
ignorance of this fact when it was brought to
their attention.
Which band?

Q.4.Floor Plan for what?


Q.5.Whose bibliography?
In a Hail of
Bullets
Gathering Storm
Unholy Storm
Storm's Last
Stand
Storm Season
Storm Rising
Storm Warning
Storm's Break
Storm Fall
Heat Wave
Naked Heat
Death of a Prom Queen
Flowers For Your Grave
Hell Hath No Fury
A Skull at Springtime
At Dusk We Die
When It Comes to Slaughter
A Rose for Everafter
Q.6."X" is a song recorded by American DJ and
producer Baauer. It was released on May 22,
2012. The uptempo song incorporates a
mechanical bassline, Dutch house synth riffs, a
dance music drop, and samples of growling-
lion sounds. It also samples Plastic Little's
2001 song "Miller Time", specifically the vocal
"then do the X", which is an allusion to dance
of the same name.

Q.7. 2 of 12 where would you find the rest?
Q.8. X won the Oscar for Best Actor and Y won it
for the Best Supporting Actor, for the same
character. They are the only two actors to win
it in this way .Id both actors and the character.
Q.10. It is a television sitcom written by Steven
Moffat. A TV critic famously said about this
show Men and women think about sex every
six seconds shorten that to two seconds and
youve got A. One of the female protagonists
frequently enters a scene saying, "Sorry, I'm
late." This is a dig at the Producer(writers
wife) who, according to Steven Moffat, tends
to turn up late quite often. Which sitcom am I
talking about?

Q.11.The company as we know it today was found
by four individuals : Piet Klijnveld, William
Barclay Peat, James Marwick,
and Reinhard Goerdeler. The history of the
company is as follows:

In 1911 William Barclay Peat & Co. and Marwick
Mitchell & Co. merged to form Peat Marwick
Mitchell & Co, later known as Peat Marwick. The
third and fourth founders merged their company in
the years 1979 and 1987 respectively eventually
leading to the formation of X- Peat Marwick. In the
year 1999 the Peat Marwick was dropped and
finally the companys name today is simply X. The
companys logo is blue in colour and has four
rectangular boxes which as rumour has it are
symbolic of the companies four founders. Identify
this company.
Q.12. ID

Q.13.In the Star Trek fictional universe,
the fictional computer OS known as
Library Computer Access/Retrieval
System (LCARS) is often seen used
on a device known as Personal
Access Display Device. This device
served as the inspiration of the
name for a modern technology
marvel more so because of their
similar appearances.Name this
modern gadget every one of you
would love to own.

Q.14.The story goes thus, Linda
Chen decided to work for free for
X provided that he would take
care of Y when she went on site
for the shoot. X didn't do that
and eventually Y died. Y was paid
homage in Z(Minimalist poster
on the side ). Give me X, Y and Z.
Q.15.The year was 1992 and
India was playing South Africa.
It was Jonty Rhodes who
claimed the first dismissal by
this means getting Sachin
Tendulkar out in the first Test
on India's tour of South Africa
in 1992-93.What
means/method?
Q.16.Identify the person & the candy brand?
Q.17. It is a distress signal sent using
Morse code which is not an abbreviation,
but popularly has many expansions
invented by people. It was part of an
international convention till 1999, when
it was replaced by a newer signal. It was
first adopted by the German government
in 1905 and internationally in 1908. What
is being talked about?

Q.18. Frankie Boyle a scottish comedian and
writer had the following to say about a recent
event. Identify the event and the person?
Q.19. The Solids are a power pop band
from Middletown, Connecticut. The band
consists of Carter Bays, Craig Thomas, Patrick
Butler, and C.C. DePhil. They have been
writing, recording, and performing music since
1996. The Solids first became popular for their
song "The Future Is Now," which was the
theme song for the Fox television
program Oliver Beene. A 12-second clip from
their song "Hey, Beautiful" is the theme song
for another show. Which show.

Q.20. XKCDs reference to what?

Q.21. What is this?
Q.23.Pedigree the pet food manufacturer
is owned by which company?
Q.24. The console was given the codename Revolution and for the
longest time was known as revolution by hard core gamers. Despite
the companys explanation of the name X, some video game
developers and members of the press reacted negatively to the
change. They preferred "Revolution" over X.

The BBC reported the
day after the name was announced that "a long list of puerile jokes,
based on the name," had appeared on the Internet. Reggie Fils-
Aime acknowledged the initial reaction and further explained the
change:
Revolution as a name is not ideal; it's long, and in some cultures, it's
hard to pronounce. So we wanted something that was short, to the
point, easy to pronounce, and distinctive. That's how X,' as a
console name, was created.
In 2012 a successor to the console was released titled Y. Identify
both X and Y?

Q.25. The band's singers quote the following about their
famous grammy award winning 1970's song that has
abstract lyrics:

"I know, it's so boring...It's a song about the dark underbelly
of the American Dream, and about excess in America,
which was something we knew about."

...our interpretation of the high life in Los Angeles.

All of us kind of drove into LA at night. Nobody was from
California, and if you drive into LA at night... you can just
see this glow on the horizon of lights, and the images that
start running through your head of Hollywood and all the
dreams that you have, and so it was kind of about that...
what we started writing the song about.

Name the song and the band.

Q.26.A generic term takes its name from this place
in Iceland which has been active since 10000 years
and itself is Icelandic for to gush, what is that
term?

Eddie: So who broke up with who?
Chandler: I broke up with her. She actually thought X
was the capital of Cambodia!
Eddie: Yeah! 'Cause everybody knows that the capital of
Cambodia...
Chandler: is...not X!" -
Q.27. Who is X?

Q.28.The comic strip shown below is that of Frazz. The eight-
year-old shown in the strip was named by his parents
after reading X. The cartoonist regards Y as "the hero of the
strip... He wont give up that joy of learning for the sake of a test
score, for quiet approval, for the easy A Identify X and Y?
Q.29. Put Funda
A girl who is warm and humanly during the day
A classy girl who know how to enjoy the freedom of a cup of coffee
A girl whose heart gets hotter when night comes
A girl with that kind of twist
Im a guy
A guy who is as warm as you during the day
A guy who one-shots his coffee before it even cools down
A guy whose heart bursts when night comes
That kind of guy
Beautiful, loveable
Yes you, hey, yes you, hey
Beautiful, loveable
Yes you, hey, yes you, hey
Now lets go until the end

Q.30. "Birthdays of fictional characters such as those appearing in comic
books and movies are generally determined as the day they first appeared
before the public, such as the publication or release dates.

Two famous fictional characters share their birthdays...

The first one, an animal, was inspired by Charlie Chaplin. It made a debut
in an animated movie in 1928. Since then, it has appeared in animated
cartoons, movies, comic strips, TV and even video games. It first appeared
in color in 1935. A highly successful character, it also has a star dedicated
to it on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The other, a comic strip character, made its first appearance in 1985. It is
named after a theologian who believed in predestination. The character
has appeared on merchandise but never in animation. The comic strip has
been featured in over 2,400 newspapers worldwide and 30 million copies
of its books have been sold.

Name the two characters.

Q.31.It is wonderful, the power of a faith like that,
that can make multitudes upon multitudes of the
old and weak and the young and frail enter
without hesitation or complaint upon such
incredible journeys and endure the resultant
miseries without repining. It is done in love, or it
is done in fear; I do not know which it is. No
matter what the impulse is, the act born of it is
beyond imagination, marvelous to our kind of
people, the cold whites.
Who on what?

Q.32. ID

Q.33. Sir Hugh Beaver, in 1951 went on a shooting party in the North
Slob, Ireland. He became involved in an argument over which was
the fastest game bird in Europe, the golden plover or the
grouse (the former being correct). The inability to confirm this
uncertainty, inspired Sir Hugh Beaver to create something which
would help answer such questions. What was that something he
came up with?
Q.34. In 1981, a certain Jean-Louis Dumas was seated next
to Jane X on a flight. She had just placed her straw bag in
the overhead compartment of her seat, but the contents
fell to the deck, leaving her to scramble to replace the
contents. X explained to Dumas that it had been difficult to
find a leather weekend bag she liked. In 1984, he created a
black supple leather bag for her, based on an 1892 design.
She used the bag for herself then later changed her mind
because she was carrying too many things in it: Whats the
use of having a second one? she laughs. You only need
one and that busts your arm; theyre bloody heavy. Im
going to have to have an operation for tendonitis in the
shoulder. Nevertheless, the bag has since become an icon.

Q.35.It gets its name from a French word
meaning "to toss food". It originated in the
area around present day Nice. It was originally
a poor farmer's dish, prepared in the summer
with fresh summer vegetables. The original
used only courgettes, tomatoes, bell peppers,
onion, and garlic. Nowadays aubergine is
added. Name the dish.


Q.36.Who runs this company?

Q.37.Spanish for little donkey, this dish gets its
name for the fact it resembles donkeys ears.
What is the dish?
Q.38. X Spanish for "the gilded one" is the name of
a Muisca tribal chief who covered himself
with gold dust and, as an initiation rite, dove into the
Guatavita Lake. Later, it became the name of a
legendary "Lost City of Gold", that fascinated explorers
since the days of the Spanish Conquistadors. No
evidence for its existence has been found.
In his 1849 poem X," writer Edgar Allan Poe offers an
eerie and eloquent suggestion: "Over the Mountains of
the Moon, down the Valley of the Shadow, ride, boldly
rideif you seek for X.
What is X?

Q.39. Upon hearing the result of the Operation
Cocoon led by the Tamil Nadu Special Task
Force, the villagers of Gopinatham breathed a
huge sigh of relief and burst crackers on the
streets of the village, as they wanted to wash
out the stigma attached to their village. What
happened?

Q.40.

Q.41.LZ 129 Hindenburg was a large German
commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship,
the lead ship of the Hindenburg class, the
longest class of flying machine and the largest
airship by envelope volume. It was designed
and built by the Y Company on the shores
of Lake Constance in Friedrichshafen and was
operated by the German Y Airline Company.
Why do we care about it?


Q.42.221B Baker Street in London is a non-
existent place. However, every year hundreds of
fans from across the world gather in London,
and look for this address, as X is believed to live
here. Until some years ago, the Building Society
had a full time secretary to answer the mails
addressed to X. Who is X?
Q.43. It was founded in 1922,
by DeWitt Wallace and Lila Bell
Wallace. It reaches out to 40 million
people in more than 70 countries,
with 49 editions in 21 languages. In
the summer of 2005, the U.S. edition
adopted the slogan, "America in your
pocket." In January 2008, it was
changed to "Life well
shared.ID.(yesterdays ET last page)
Q.44. A lesser known theme song to
this show was an instrumental called
Rise and Shine. The movie version
of this show was the final theatrical
film of Elizabeth Taylor. Jackie Gleason
considered suing this show for ripping
off The Honeymooners. The
protagonists wife had the maiden
name of Slaghoople/Pebble, and the
final season of this show saw the
arrival of an alien called The Great
Gazoo. The protagonist works for Mr.
Slate. Identify the protagonist ?
Q.45. X boasted that he was the greatest of all time
and challenged everybody that he could lift a
mountain with his bare hands (Later, Krishna
parodied this by lifting a mountain with His little
finger). Unfortunately for X, the mountain was
Kailash, and the Gods as usual panicked. It is said
that when the mountain got a new high, Shiva
had to step in with his toe, literally. His pressure
made the mountain very heavy and X dropped it
on his own fingers. X shrieked, screamed and
roared in pain. Even with the pain, X composed
the Shiva tandava Stotra impromptu. Pleased
with his devotion, Lord Shiva showed his glory
self to X and gave him the title Y, by which we
know him best. Name X and Y.
Q.46. The initial proposed name was Laboratory
for the Development of Substitute Materials.
General Leslie Groves, mindful of such a
name attracting undue attention, changed it
to a more innocuous one. What?
Q.47. Sampooran Singh Kalra is
an Indian poet, lyricist and director
. He began his career under the
directors Bimal Roy and Hrishikesh
Mukherjee. His book Ravi Paar has
a narrative of Bimal Roy and the
agony of creation. His poetry is
partly published in three
compilations: Chand Pukhraaj
Ka, Raat Pashminey Ki and Pandrah
Paanch Pachattar. How do we
better know him?
Q.48.What is the capital of Illinois?
Q.49.After his tomato crop failed, a certain
gentleman dabbled in something else. It gave
rise to a product which takes its name from an
American Indian word that means 'a place
with fertile and humid soil'. Which brand?
Q.50.
Score Check
Q.52. X (April 2, 1725 June 4, 1798) was
a Venetian adventurer and author. His
main book Histoire de ma vie (Story of
My Life), part autobiography and part
memoir, is regarded as one of the most
authentic sources of the customs and
norms of European social life during the
18th century. He enjoyed the company
of European royalty, popes and
cardinals, along with men such as
Voltaire, Goethe and Mozart; but if he
had not been obliged to spend some
years as a librarian in the household of
Count Waldstein of Bohemia (where he
relieved his boredom by writing the
story of his life), he would probably be
forgotten today. Who?
Q.53. ID.
Q.54. In May 1954, Life magazine published a
report on illiteracy among American school
children. Apparently, children were not learning
to read because their books were
boring. Theodor Geisels publisher gave him a list
of 400 words that children learn in school, and
told him to write an engaging book. In nine
months, Geisel wrote ____________________ in
anapestic tetrameter, using 236 distinct words.
More than 10 million copies of this book have
been printed. It has been translated into several
languages, including the Latin Cattus Petasatus.
Identify this work.
Q.55. In the year 1812, a large quantity of
provisions for the army was purchased at Troy,
N.Y., by Elbert Anderson, a government
contractor. The goods were inspected by two
brothers, Ebenezer and Samuel Wilson. The last
named was invariably known among the
workmen as X" The packages were marked E.A.-
U.S. On being asked the meaning of these initials,
a workman jokingly replied that he didn't know
unless they meant Elbert Anderson and X. The
title became popular among the workmen,
soldiers and people. What is X?
Q.56.Parody of?
Q.57. In order to explain his theory on how
culture is transmitted inhumans. Richard
Dawkins coined a new term X in his book The
selfishgene. His book likens the X to gene
which carries genetic informationsimilarly the
X carries cultural practices/ideas.The spread of
X is similar to natural selection. X do this
through theprocesses of variation, mutation,
competition, and inheritance, each ofwhich
influencing a reproductive success.This term
may also describe a information that is spread
rapidly in newage media.Whats the good
word?
Q.58. The town is about 80 miles southwest of
Denver. A peculiarity is that it is almost always
winter there and usually snow on the
ground. The town flag was changed from the
racist image of white people lynching a black
man, to a politically correct one featuring a
black man being lynched by people of all races
and nationalities, including another black
man. Name the town.
Q.59. This diagram shows
the interior of a __X__.
Crack open any two
__X__ hilts and the
interiors may differ
somewhat, but the key
features are remarkably
consistent.The major
components are shown in
the diagram.What is
__X__
Q.60.
Q.61. According to one film historian,It synthesizes
classical and mythic narrative, soft-core political
and social commentary (condemning the
corruption of politicians and capitalists and
championing the nascent environmental
initiatives of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi). The
narrative recapitulates
the Abhijnakuntalam story that first
appeared in the epic Mahabharata and then was
reworked by Kalidasa. Which film am I talking
about?
Q.62.The following is an extract from the novel
Kim what is being described here? "Look!
Brahmins and chumars, bankers and tinkers,
barbers and bunnias, pilgrims -and potters - all
the world going and coming. It is to me as a
river from which I am withdrawn like a
log after a flood. And truly -------------------- is a
wonderful spectacle. It runs straight, bearing
without crowding India's traffic
for fifteen hundred miles - such a river of life
as nowhere else exists in the world.
Q.63. This song has been covered and sampled many
times since its initial release in 1973, including by Mary
J. Blige in Whats the 411?, former American Idol
contestant Jason Castro in 2008, and Warren G on his
album Take a Look Over Your Shoulder (Reality). This
songs lyrics assert that every day the bucket goes to
the well but that one day the bottom will drop out
in its final verse, after explaining that the singer had
seen freedom coming his way one day as he started
out of town. The singer of this song also laments that
someone always hated me, for what I dont know,
and that whenever he tries to plant a seed that same
person says to kill it before it grows. The cover of this
song that appears on the album 461 Ocean Boulevard
was Eric Claptons only number one hit in the U.S.
Identify the song?
Q.64.Shes the first of two tennis players to
achieve this. The achievement is not related to
sports. Her name is Ashley Harkerload. What
did she do?
Q.65. 'I'm making a drink and realize
the pasty tall fellow pouring orange
juice into my glass is the man
himself, X,' she wrote.'Realizing I
kind of have to go for at it this point,
in all my nerd glory blurt out: "I'm
sure everyone tells you this but I
loved Y. She claims that the pair
kissed in a kitchen at the party after
she told him that she did not like his
Z films. ID X,Y and Z? (The following
excerpt is from a chain email sent
out by Beejoli Shah.
The dude on the right is not the person
I am talking about.



Q.66
Greek letter Chi
Hebrew letter Aleph
Cyrillic letter Kha
Gyfu in pre-Norman Britain
A Chinese character, pronounced "y"
A letter representing [u] or [w] in Mandarin
Phonetic Symbols
also Japanese katakana character
Mathematical Operator
All variations of what?

Q.67. In 2007, USA lifted the ban on the import
of Indian mangoes after 18years in exchange
of allowing the entry of which iconic American
brand in India?
Q.68. This is the flag of X. The red bar, which lies
closest to the mast, symbolizes X as it is today.
The green and blue symbolize stages in the
possible terraforming of X, should humanity
ever have the will and the ability to undertake
such a task
Q.69. Whose coat of arms?

Q.70. X was born in the Bronx, New York City
and raised in Bayside, Queens. He is the eldest
son of two immigrant doctors from India. He
attended Townsend Harris High School, a
public school in Flushing, Queens. In high
school, he scored a near-perfect SAT, and
graduated with a A.B. cum laude in applied
mathematics. He is currently
attending Northwestern University School of
Law and the Kellogg School of Management for
his J.D. and MBA.

He is currently the CEO of his
start up called SumZero which he claims is sort
of a linkedin for finance. Identify X ?



Q.71. One of the oldest and most historic art-house
cinemas in Los Angeles. Who owns it?












Q.72. Identify the restaurant chain found by this
man?

Q.73.If Happy hippo dive, Little Red sled and
Harbour Master are the lesser known works of
this company. Identify the more popular work.
Q.74.

Q.75.Launched in 1924 as a Womens Product
and based on the slogan Mild as May this
product relied on marketing which proved to
the consumer how ladylike the product was.
On one end it had a red band to hide lipstick
with an advertisement calling it beauty tips
to keep the paper from your lips. Identify this
product which after 1950s was repositioned
for the other sex.

Q.76. The End of the Affair (1951) is a
novel by British author Graham
Greene. Set in London during and
just after the Second World War,
the novel examines the obsessions,
jealousy and discernments within
the relationships between three
central characters: writer Maurice
Bendrix; Sarah Miles; and her
husband, civil servant Henry Miles.
Graham Greene's own affair with
Lady Catherine Walston played into
the basis for The End of the Affair.
Connect to a 2012 film.

Q.77.


Q.78. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
announced that among his
upcoming projects would be a
biography of X.Cineblitz decided
to cash in on the deal by
immediately putting together a
photo-op resulting in the picture
on the left.What iconic movie
poster is this a recreation of?
Q.79.

End of General
Quizcraft Archives
Q.80.Developed by five US Army
soldiers, 2LT Hans Mumm, SSG Shawn
Mahoney, SGT Andrei Salter, SGT Scott
Boehmler, and SPC Joseph Barrios, who were
assigned to the Defense Intelligence
Agency, the product was first announced
publicly in Iraq on 11 April 2003, in a press
conference by Army Brig. What?

Q.81.ID
Q.82.Connect :
A rifle
A poem by Mikhail Lermontov
An opera by Anton Rubinstein
Q.83.This was created in December 1979
in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, by
Canadian Chris Haney, a photo editor for
Montreal's The Gazette and Scott Abbott, a
sports editor for The Canadian Press. After
finding pieces of their Scrabble game missing,
they decided to create their own game. What?
Q.84. In which film would you originally hear the
track Raindrops are falling on my head?
Q.85. X was formed in mid-1981 by
guitarists Scott Ian Rosenfeld and Danny Lilker.
The band was named after the disease the
two saw listed in a biology textbook, using it
because it sounded "sufficiently evil". What is
X?
Q.86.

Q.87. Historic sources present disparate
accounts of Xs complex personality: he was
described as intelligent and devout, yet given
to rages and prone to episodic outbreaks
of mental illness. On one such outburst he
killed his groomed and chosen heir. He was
the Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 to
1547 and Tsar of All the Russias from 1547
until his death.
Q.88. In March 1964, the publisher of The Times of India,
Bennet, Coleman & Co., launched a new series called X.
The first 32 issues contained "The Phantom" stories,
but thereafter, the title alternated between various
King Features characters, including Mandrake, Flash
Gordon, Mike Nomad and Buz Sawyer, as well as the
Publishers Syndicate character Kerry Drake. In 1976,
the distinctly Indian character, Bahadur, joined the
rotation. Stories involving "The Phantom," Flash
Gordon and Mandrake emphasized their roles as
heroes, with special powers, talents or sci-fi tools. The
remaining characters in the X universe played out more
conventional detective and crime stories.
Q.89.Brown
Columbia
Cornell
X
Harvard
Princeton
University of Pennsylvania
Yale
Q.90. X was launched on 15 March 1993 by Dr.
Simon King, a British researcher at the University
of Minnesota with help from students and
researchers at universities around the world.

It
initially operated as a volunteer-based collective,
and started life as a simple IRC bot. It was soon
made available via Gopher as well, and with the
advent of the Mosaic web browser in April 1993
became one of the earliest content web sites on
the Internet.
Q.91. Funda
Q.92. ID
Q.93.ID?

Q.94.X was the fifth Prefect of the Roman
province of Judaea, from AD 2636.He is best
known as the judge at the trial of Jesus and
the man who authorized the crucifixion of
Jesus. As prefect, he served under
Emperor Tiberius.
Q.95.Founders of what?

Q.96.Just as My Very Educated Mother Just
Served Us Nougat is an abbreviation for
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn,
Uranus and Neptune. So is
Big Gorillas Eat Hotdogs Not Cold Pizza? What
does it stand for?
Q.97.ID. Most probably Video

Q.98. ID?

Q.99.Connect
Final Scores
Expect questions on :
Snowden
David Moyes/Alex Ferguson (Malcolm Glaser)
JK rowlings new book
Verghese Kurien (Amul/ Manthan)
Simon and garfunkel
The Terminal (Its been a tradition)
Current Affairs mainly(read up)
Datsun , Go


Q.101. In the month of October, 1949, in a letter
addressed to X, Aldous Huxley wrote:
Within the next generation I believe that the
world's leaders will discover that infant
conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more
efficient, as instruments of government, than
clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can
be just as completely satisfied by suggesting
people into loving their servitude as by flogging
them and kicking them into obedience
This was in reference to a novel X wrote. The
novel is set in a dystopian society, and is known
for introducing ideas such as thought crime.
Identify X and the novel.

Q.102. This French physicist and mathematician had
a tragic personal life. His father was a wealthy city
official, and during the French Revolution was
sent to the guillotine. His first wife died shortly
after their marriage, and he separated from his
second wife less than a year into their marriage.
He was never able to fully recover from these
tragedies. For his gravestone, he chose the
epitaph Tandem Felix, meaning Happy at Last.
Which physicist are we talking about here?
Q.103. It comprises of 427 quotations, divided
into 33 chapters on the basis of themes. Most
editions of it are pocket sized and easy to
carry. The most widely produced editions of
this book carry a red vinyl cover. Which book?
Q.104. Linus van pelt, Rerun van pelt, Lucy van
pelt, Woodstock, Sally Brown, Schroeder,
Peppermint Paddy, Marcie, Franklin, Shermy,
Violet Gray, Peggy Jean, Roy.
Give the either of the two names missing from
the above list.

Q.105.Which name would connect the following?
Newest Captain of Queen Annes Revenge (fictional
element)
A German Battleship that served as a prison ship
in the First World War
German invasion of the Soviet Union during the
Second World War
An Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
The drummer of the first generation of Adam and
the Ants
An Asteroid

Q106. With which manufacturing company
would you associate the designer of the
following:
a) Tiger Tank I and II
b) The Volkswagen Beetle
c) V-1 flying bomb
*This automobile designer was also decorated
with the German National Prize for Art and
Science, one of the rarest decorations in Nazi
Germany.

Q.107. _____________________________was a mutual
defense treaty between eight communist states of
Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. The
founding treaty was established under the initiative of
the Soviet Union and signed on 14 May 1955. The
______________________ was the military
complement to the Council for Mutual Economic
Assistance (CoMEcon), the regional economic
organization for the communist states of Eastern
Europe. The _____________________ was a Soviet
military response to the integration of West Germany
into NATO in 1955 as per the Paris Pacts of 1954.
Q.108. He was born as Farookh Bulsara, in 1946, in
Zanzibar, East Africa. He was of Parsi-Indian
parentage, and is renowned for his 4 octave voice
range which seemed to revolutionize rock music
forever and became the soul of one of the most
popular rock songs and modern art masterpieces
of music history. His life was marred by the social,
legal and media criticism of his homosexuality,
and he ultimately died of bronchial pneumonia
resulting from AIDS, in 1991. Identify this
rockstar.

Q.109. I should never have switched from
Scotch to Martinis - these were the famous
last words of a Hollywood actor who is
popular for delivering legendary movie
dialogues like The stuff that dreams are
made of and Heres looking at you kid.
Identify this legend who had suffered a lip
wound in the US Navy during the First World
War which gave him a distinctive appearance
and voice when he later became an actor.
Q.110. This year, in the month of April, the Tuareg rebels took
over the historic city of X. It was founded in the 12
th

Century AD by the ancestors of these very rebels, that is,
the Tuareg nomads. It soon turned into an important centre
for the trade of gold, silver and salt in the Sub-Saharan
Africa. Once it was abandoned in the transitional period of
the 17
th
to the 18
th
century, myths grew that the
inhabitants left lump sum amounts of treasury there. Due
to the impossibility to reach this place, X soon became the
French, British and Dutch equivalent of the legendary cities
of El Dorado and Atlantis. When it was finally discovered by
Frenchman Rene Callie in the 1830s, the city was in a
perpetual state of decline and ruins. Identify the city X.
Q.111. On Saturday, X died in a car crash at Imola. Y,
on the very same day, called for an emergency
meeting of all participating drivers in order to
persuade them to make an appeal to the FIA to
increase the safety measures for all grand prix
drivers as fatal accidents were becoming a
common sight in motorsports. On Sunday, Y died
due to a race accident. The reasons as to why Ys
car crashed is still an engineering mystery. But Ys
death completely over shadowed the formers (X)
death. Identify X.
Q.112. This political ideology derives its essence from
historical events like the German and Italian
Unifications of the 19
th
century. It aims at uniting
people belonging to the Arabic and Kurdish
communities. The ideology is mainly concentrated
around the issues of Arab Nationalism, Arab Socialism,
and Anti-Imperialism. Its main proponents were people
like Hafez al Assad, Michel Aflaq, Zaki Al Arsouzi and
even Saddam Hussain. Give the name of this political
ideology which has come under criticism due to the
failure of Bashar Al Assads regime in Syria.

Q.113. Kodak officials now admit that they never made
any public announcement about the X. In fact, nobody
in the cityofficials, police or firemenor in the state
of New York or anywhere else knew about X until it was
recently leaked by an ex-employee. Xs existence and
whereabouts were purposely kept vague and only a
few engineers and Federal employees really knew
about the project. It's extremely strange that Kodak
managed to get something like this. The X was installed
in a closely guarded, two-foot-thick concrete walled
underground bunker in the company's headquarters,
where it was fed tests using a pneumatic system.
According to the company, no employees were ever in
contact with it. Apparently, it was operated by atomic
fairies and unicorns. Identify the object X.
Q.114. This band had assumed their identity as
'The New Yardbirds'. They however changed
their name later on, and started touring
America as a support band for 'The Rolling
Stones'. They received numerous encores,
and had outplayed the Stones themselves.
Name this 300 million record selling band.
Identify this band.

Q.115. X stood out from the many family and group
sitcoms of its time. None of the principal
characters were related by family or work
connections but remained distinctively close
friends throughout the seasons. Unlike many
other sitcoms, X focused less on a plot-driven
story than on minutiae, such as waiting in line at
the movies, going out for dinner, buying a suit
and dealing with the petty injustices of life.
Which famous sitcom, not so popular in the
United Kingdom but a big success in the United
States, are we talking about?
Q.116. Un Chien Andalou is a silent surrealist
film released in the year 1929. The film has no
proper plot or a definitive chronology. It
makes use of dream logic in a narrative flow. It
is the first film by director Luis Buuel, which
he wrote in collaboration with another
prominent Spanish surrealist. Identify his
partner.
Q.117. What is the significance of Reel 2,
Dialogue Track 2 in cinema?

Q.118. In order to recognize Polands sovereignty, the Allied
Nations decided to provide it with access to the Baltic Sea,
as per American President Woodrow Wilsons Fourteen
Points of 1918, by handing them over the city/port of X,
hence splitting the German nation into East and West
Prussia by a narrow geographical corridor, known as the
Polish or X Corridor (named after the city). After Hitler
ordered an attack on X to restore Germanys access to the
Baltic Sea, France and Great Britain declared war on
Germany for not recognizing Polands independence, hence
triggering the Second World War. Name the very famous
city/port known as Gdansk in the Polish language.
Q.119. X is still considered as a hero amongst the Arabs,
though his actions turned out to be counter productive for
the various Arab tribes who wanted a United Arab Council
to be established in Damascus, after Xs army had single
handedly overthrown the Turks from the port of Aqaba and
the city of Damascus. The council, headed by X, was a
democratic body which took power in the name of the then
Prince of Saudi Arabia, Prince Feisal. However, Prince Feisal
and the British military authorities took advantage of Xs
unification of the Arab nations to seize power over the
entire Saracen region.
In 1935, X died in a motorcycle accident when swerved in
order to avoid clashing with two boys on a country road. A
bust of X was placed in St. Pauls Cathedral, London.
Identify this World War I hero X who was also an eminent
literary figure and a cartographer.

Q.120. . X was born in Baramati, Pune District in
a Chitpavan Brahmin family. At birth, he was named
Ramachandra. X was given his name because of an
unfortunate incident. Before he was born, his parents
had three sons and a daughter, with all three boys
dying in their infancy. Fearing a curse that targeted
male children, young Ramachandra was brought up as
a girl for the first few years of his life, including having
his nose pierced and being made to wear a nose-ring. It
was then that he earned the nickname "X". After his
younger brother was born, they switched to treating
him as a boy.
Q.121. X was a French filmmaker famous for leading many technical and
narrative developments in the earliest cinema. He was born, and later
died, in Paris, where his family manufactured shoes. He was very
innovative in the use of special effects. He accidentally discovered the stop
trick, or substitution, in 1896, and was one of the first filmmakers to use
multiple exposures, dissolves, and hand-painted color in his films. He
directed 531 films between 1896 and 1914, ranging in length from one to
forty minutes. In subject matter, these films are often similar to the magic
theater shows that X had been doing, containing tricks and impossible
events, such as objects disappearing or changing size. Agents of Thomas
Edison bribed a theater owner in London, England for a copy of A Trip to
the Moon, one of Xs most famous movies. Edison then made hundreds of
copies and showed them in New York City. X received no compensation. In
1913 X's Film Company was forced into bankruptcy by the large French
and American studios and his company was bought out of receivership by
Path Frres. After being driven out of business X became a toy salesman
at the Montparnasse station. In 1932 the Cinema Society gave X a home in
Chateau D'Orly. Long after burning his negatives in despair, X was
rediscovered and honored for his work, eventually taking up stage
performance.
Q.122. Though Shakespeare is credited with the
invention of this word, linguists feel that this
word can be traced to the roots of an Arab
tribe which used to carry out murders in
return for hashish. Identify this word.

Q.123. X was a Spanish knight whose real name was
Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar. He gathered a group of the
bravest soldiers and knights from the kingdom of
Castile, and this entire group fought as Mercenaries
fighting for both Christian as well as Muslim kingdoms
in Spain, and this aspect of his nature was to a large
extent responsible for impeding the expansion of the
Arabs into Europe during the 15
th
century. However, he
was equally respected by both the Muslims, as well as
the Christians, with the former giving him the title X,
which literally translates into the lord in Arabic.
Identify this legendary medieval mercenary by his
popular name X.
Q.124. X is an American film actor and producer. His career
has spanned six decades and includes roles in several
Hollywood blockbusters. At one point, four of the top six
box-office hits of all time included one of his roles. Initially
not happy with the roles being offered to him, X became a
self-taught professional carpenter to support his then-wife
and two small sons. While working as a carpenter, he
became a stagehand for the popular rock band The Doors.
X, despite not being trained, kept learning about carpentry
from books, and by all accounts became a fantastic
carpenter. Ten years later, while building a doorway in
Francis Ford Coppola's office, he was invited to audition for
one of the most iconic roles of all time in a film that
launched his acting career. ID X.
Q.125. Xs father died when X was only eight
years old. His mother and his brother Tom
died of tuberculosis, and it is believed that X
too died of tuberculosis while treating his
brother Tom. X studied medicine at Guys
Hospital, London, but soon gave up his studies
to pursue poetry. He was the leading
proponents of the Romanticism in England.
Identify X.

Q.126. X was a Swedish actress who was famous for her
serious expression. It was headline news when she
smiled for the first time on screen in the movie
Ninotchka (1939). She started off as a model, but soon
started acting in films. She became an instant success
in the silent movie era, and when the talking picture
came in, her Swedish accent meant that she was given
roles as distinguished ladies such as the great Swedish
queen in Queen Christina (1933) and the tragic heroine
in Anna Karenina (1935). Her films were banned from
being showcased in many European nations after the
US entered the Second World War in 1941. She retired
soon after, and distanced herself from public life
creating a mystery about her life. Identify this actress.

Q.127. The team started as Toleman Motorsports in 1981 and
was bought out by sponsors Benetton ahead of the 86
season. Later in2000, Team Benetton announced that they
would officially become X from 2002, and in the years to
come, X would become the first mainstream auto-maker in
the history of the motorsport to win the constructors title.
X, or its former lineage, together, is often considered to be
the greatest of all time for nurturing many legends of the
sport: Flavio Briatore (as a team manager), and Ayrton
Senna, Michael Schumacher, Nelson Piquet & Fernando
Alonso as race drivers. In 2011, following the recession, X
sold its final shares to Genii Capital, and in 2012 the teams
name was changed to Y, though X continues to supply the
engine. Identify Y.
Q.128. George Clooney : Christian Bale
Jeremy Brett : Benedict Cumberbatch
Tobey Maguire : Andrews Garlfield
George Peppard : X