Presents…. The GENERAL Quiz

30th March 2014

GENERAL QUIZ

RESEARCHED AND CONDUCTED BY:-

SHANTANU SHARMASUJIT J PATIL MILIND SHARMA

Prelims

Which event ?1)

Maccabiah games

• Ragout, Hotpot, Cassoulet, Tajine, Moussaka, Lasagne, Shepherd's pie, Gratin, Macaroni Timballo, and Carbonnade – All are types of a dish commonly called ________.

• This name is given to them because of the vessels they are cooked and served in.

2)

Casserole

Hindustani English Which language ?

Anannās / अनन्नास / اننّاس Pineapple Ananas

Pādrī / पाद्री / پادری Priest Padre

Bāltī / बाल्टी / بالٹی Bucket Balde

Chābī / चाबी / چابی Key Chave

Girjā / गि�र्जाा� / گرجا Church Igreja

All the following words in Hindustani are derived from another language. Which language ?

3)

Portuguese

A ______ is a type of curry served in many restaurants in the United Kingdom. The consensus appears to be that the term refers to the pot in which the curry is cooked, rather than to any specific ingredient or cooking technique.

Some believe it to have been invented in Birmingham, England while others believe it originated in the northern Pakistani region of Baltistan in Kashmir from where it spread to Britain.

4)

Balti

Lego is derived from the Danish phrase leg godt which means “play well”.

What game derives its names from Latin where it means “I play” ?

5)

Ludo

X is a genus of about 38 species in the family Rubiaceae. They are medicinal plants. The name of the genus was given by Carolus Linnaeus, who named it after the Countess of ______, who in 1678 was treated for the disease Y by its use.

It is the national tree of Ecuador and Peru.

What is X and Y.

6)

X – CinchonaY - Malaria

Which organisation is behind the publication of this No. 1 selling kids magazine in India ?

7)

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

Which sculpture is this ?8)

Statue of Liberty

Who was the Head of State of Pakistan from 1952 to 1956 ?

9)

Queen Elizabeth II

If Wikipedia was founded as a non-profit encyclopedia by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger in 2001.

Then, what was founded as for-profit web hosting service by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley in 2004.

10)

Wikia

What character is Gwyneth Paltrow portraying in this movie ?

11)

Sylvia Plath

S.Hussain Zaidi is an Indian writer and former investigative journalist.

He has authored books like Dongri to Dubai : Six Decades of the Mumbai Mafia, Mafia Queens of Mumbai and Black Friday.

His latest book released in February 2014 was titled “X to Y”

What is X and Y.

12)

X- Byculla Y- Bangkok

Identify the location.13)

Yalta, Crimea

14)

Joe Biden

Which director has won the maximum number of Filmfare awards?

15)

Bimal Roy

If the lesser known ones are Lisa, Ryzhik, Smelaya, Malyshka, Damka, Krasavka then the most famous one is?

(The list is exhaustive )

16)

Laika

During his tour to Assam in February 2014, Narendra Modi urged the Election Commission of India to remove the D tag from the voting cards of the people.

What does D denote here?

17)

Doubtful

This is M.O.H Farook who holds a very unique record in the history of India. What?

18)

Youngest CM

There are two popular theories as to where the word derived from.  The first is that it was perhaps derived from “drunk” spelled backwards.  A somewhat more popular theory suggests that it came from a modification of “nut”, which meant “stupid or crazy person” and was common in the 1940s, directly before this term showed up. 

The word ended up becoming fairly popular in the 1960s and by the 1970s was hugely popularized by the TV show Happy Days, where it was used frequently.

What is the word ?

19)

Nerd

Recently, A R Rahman launched a new album – Raunaq, which is a collaboration of him with another individual from a different field who is providing the lyrics for the album. This launch was in news recently because of Salman Khan’s comment about A R Rahman as an “average” composer.

Anyway, just tell the name of the lyricist here.

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20)

Kapil Sibal