ELIMINATION ROUND 2

• DIRECT QUESTION TO EACH 12 TEAM

• 7 TEAMS WILL MAKE WAY TO FINAL

• RULES +8 FOR CORRECT -4 FOR WORNG ANSWER +2 IF UNANSWERED OR PASSED

• RULES ON PASSED +4 CORRECT -2 WRONG

QUESTION 1

• The term is typically used to refer to rail systems with rapid transit-style features that usually use electric rail cars operating mostly in private rights-of-way separated from other traffic but sometimes, if necessary, mixed with other traffic in city streets. although the vehicles which run on them are sometimes designated "supertrams“. This was proposed for two city of India namely Kolkata and Delhi.name the term.

QUESTION 2

• The Banqiao Reservoir Dam catastrophe in 1975, killed an estimated 171,000 people, 11 million people lost their homes. Caused sudden loss of energy equivalent to about 20 nuclear reactors. Recently there was movie made on it was officially selected for 84th Academy Awards. Directed by Sohan Roy was selected for Best Picture apart from being selected for best Original score also for 84th Academy Awards, Name the movie.

QUESTION3

• This bridge will be the highest railway structure of its kind in the world, 35 m higher than the tip of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Both bridges are to be simple span bridges.

• Cor-Ten Steel is planned to be used to provide an environment friendly appearance and eliminate the need to paint the bridge.

• Name the river on which this bridge is constructed.

QUESTION4

This a proposed headquarter of a one of world biggest computing giant.

• Space ship-shaped head office. • The office is meant to hold at least 13,000

employees in total and will include a basement parking facility, an auditorium with a seating capacity of more than 1,000 people at a time, state of the art research facility over 300,000 square feet space.

• Name the company.

QUESTION5

This place is named after the leading British architect Edwin Lutyens (1869–1944), who was responsible for much of the architectural design and building when India was part of the British Empire in the 1920s and 1930s. This also includes the Lutyens Bungalow Zone (LBZ).

Name the famous monuments designed by him.

QUESTION6

• This particular construction is Described as 'New Temple of Resurgent India‘ by Jawaharlal Nehru.

• This is largest of its kind in India.

QUESTION7

• A strikingly beautiful flower found mostly in Mexico and in southern US states such as Texas. The Hymenocallis, of the Amaryllidaceae botanical family, has thin white petals elegantly tapering outwards from a central core mother bulb.

• This structure is based on the symmetries of the THIS flower, also triple lobed footprint of the building was inspired by the flower Hymenocallis.[

• Identify the structure.

QUESTION8

• in late 2010 the Indian Environment and Forests Ministry ordered that construction cease because the project violated environmental laws.

• It is a private,planned city.

• Name the project.

QUESTION9

• This place is Asia’s largest

wholesale market. Built by a king

for his favorite daughter in 1650

AD so that she could shop all she

wanted to, this market place

derives its name from the canals

filled with water that sparkled like

silver in the moonlight. What

place in contemporary Asia is

this?

QUESTION10

• The World Bank's estimated economic cost was US$235 billion, making it the most expensive natural disaster in world history.

• It is one of the largest nuclear disaster caused.

• What Disaster we are talking about. Give the specific name of it.

QUESTION 11

• George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln to represent the first 150 years of American histor.

• Where you will find them together.

QUESTION12

• It is headed by the Prime Minister of India, is the Apex Body for Disaster Management in India

• On 23 December 2005, the Government of India enacted the Disaster Management Act, which envisaged the creation of the….