Welcome to the Prelims

ABOVE Quiz 2010Quizmaster: Venkatesh S

(Venky)

• 20 questions

• Write down all your answers

• 1 point per question or part

• No negative, take guesses!

• Top 6 teams in the Finals!

1*A 2006 book, made into a 2010 movie. Name

• Eat, Pray, Love

2Who is he? Even though he is not remotely related to sports, how does his name live on in the world of cricket?

• Sachin Dev Burman

• Sachin Tendulkar named after him

3

Why was a performance of the traditional “Koli” dance to a popular Marathi folk song at Holy School in Colaba, Mumbai in the news recently?

• Barack and Michelle Obama danced along

during their India trip

4*

The Ashoka Pillar in Jayangar, Bangalore represented one corner point of the city in a certain direction.

How does this fact live on today?

• South End Circle

7. 5In 1978, Steve Averill, a punk rock musician and family friend of Clayton's, had suggested six potential names from which the band chose “___” for its ambiguity and open-ended interpretations, and because it was the name that they disliked the least.

Before this, the group had two other names (for a short period): 'Feedback' and 'The Hype'.

Which group?

• U2

6Which organization‟s logo?

• OPEC

7Who playing which real-life personality from Indian politics?

• Paresh Rawal, playing Sardar Vallabhai Patel

What landmark event in World War II happened exactly two years before India‟s Independence –August 15, 1945?

8

• Victory Over Japan (V-J) Day / Surrender of

Japan

Sharad Devarajan, Deepak Chopra, Sir Richard Branson and ________.

Who is missing and what did they start in 2005?

9*

• Shekhar Kapur

• Virgin Comics

After the death of Israel's first president, Chaim Weizmann, in November 1952, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion offered him the position of President of Israel, a mostly ceremonial post. The offer was presented by Israel's ambassador in Washington, Abba Eban, who explained that the offer "embodies the deepest respect which the Jewish people can repose in any of its sons”. However, he declined, and wrote in his response that he was "deeply moved", and "at once saddened and ashamed" that he could not accept it. Who?

10

• Albert Einstein

• On April 3, 1973, standing on Sixth Avenue in New

York City near the New York Hilton hotel, Martin

Cooper made a phone call before going to a press

conference upstairs in the hotel. That call was placed

to Dr. Joel S. Engel, head of research at Bell Labs.

• What is the significance of this phone call?

11

• First cellular/ mobile phone call

Country Production in tons

India 13,501,000

People's Republic of China 3,752,000

Mexico 2,050,000

Thailand 1,800,000

Pakistan 1,719,180

Indonesia 1,620,000

Brazil 1,546,000

World total 33,445,279

12

• Chart showing production of what?

• Mangoes

This two-word phrase is defined by the Shorter

Oxford English Dictionary as "the evening of

the fifth of January,, the eve of the Epiphany,

formerly the last day of the Christmas festivities

and observed as a time of merrymaking,”

It is also the name of a Shakespeare play that is

alternatively called “What You Will”

What?

13

• Twelfth Night

CK Nayudu – 1932

Ajit Wadekar – 1974

Virender Sehwag – 2006

The three people above have a „first‟ to their name.

What?

14

• First captains of India in Test, ODI and T20

cricket

Who was India‟s first Vice President and what is

celebrated on his birthday every year?

15

• S Radhakrishnan, Teacher‟s Day

Audio of Jiya Jalen…from Dil Se

This song was the first time that the lyricist wrote for

the Music Director; also the first time that this signer

sang for him. Name either pair

16*

• Gulzar – AR Rahman

• Lata Mangeshkar – AR Rahman

The software on the right is named after the

mythological character on the left.

Name please

17

• Jataayu

Infibeam Pi is India‟s first device of this category. It is less than 10mm thick and lightweight at 180 gm. It comes with a pair of earphones and supports a music library. It has local Indian language support. Their online store is on www.infibeam.com

What is Pi?

18

• E-Book Reader

• The word comes from the 13th century French verb

meaning “to do something or to undertake” The first

academic usage of the term was by economist Richard

Cantillon in 1730

• It was popularized by Jean-Baptiste Say, a French

economist, who defined it as “……, especially a

contractor, acting as intermediary between capital and

labor”?

• What word?

19

• Entrepreneur

• Name the animal and the place

20

• Llama

• Machu Pichu

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