MEC COLLEGE QUIZ - PRELIMS

EXCEL 2008

Quizmasters:
“Immaculate Misconception”:
Ravi Subramanian & Sumeet Shetty


1. “I want to have the keys of my house so that I can open closed doors”. What is the next famous line?


2. Who gave Kapil Dev the nickname “Haryana Hurricane”?



3. In relation to trading, a _____ _______ refers to the type that is mined in a war zone and sold, usually clandestinely, in order to finance an insurgency, an invading army's war efforts, or supporting a warlord's activity. What?


4.

“Other kids' games are all such a bore!
They've gotta have rules and they gotta keep score!
__________ is better by far!
It's never the same! It's always bizarre!
You don't need a team or a referee!
You know that it's great, 'cause it's named after me!”


5. She is without doubt, the least dressed woman in the industry. She was initially named after the late Clare Mendonca, but her name was later changed. In 2005, she celebrated her fiftieth year in the Indian film industry. Who?


6. Her real name is Nilanjana Sudeshna. A schoolteacher, who found her given name too long, used her nickname instead and it stuck. She wrote under that name; her first work has a character who was supposed to have a “good name” sent by his grandmother in India which gets lost in the mail. Which writer?

7. Multiple stories exist about its name. One story goes that it was named after Piet Retief and Gert Maritz, two famous Voortrekker leaders. The other is that it was named after Piet Retief alone, since his full name was Pieter Maurits Retief. However, the city is more famous for another incident. Name the place


8. Audio....don't remember what it was.

9. On returning to Pegasus on 18th March 2007, he headed straight for room 374. He took the lift and they ascended in silence. As the elevator stopped on the third floor, he stepped aside and uttered his last known words to the person in the lift: 'Ladies first.' Who?

10. Identify the lyricist....forgot this too.

11.It is presented by a Trust, founded by the Sahu Jain family, the publishers of The Times of India. It carries a check for Rs. 500,000, a citation plaque and a bronze replica of Vagdevi, the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, and the arts. Its first recipient, in 1965, was the Malayalam writer G. Sankara Kurup. What?


12. Patients suffering from a rupture of the biceps tendon may develop a bulge in their arm. This is the retracted muscle bunched up in the arm, and is sometimes referred to as a “_______ Muscle” in medical circles because the muscle is more pronounced than normal. Fill in the blank.


13. Her career started on Doordarshan in 1994, but she faded away, before resurfacing in 2003. Since 2004, she has acted in many films including “Manmadhan”, “Shaadi Ka Laddoo”, “Bali”, “Naam Gum Jayega”, “Divorce”, “Meerabai Not Out”, and off late, “Dus Kahaniyaan”. We know her more for her appearance on television. Who?


14. Their ads carry the baseline 'Where it all comes together'. Their logo is a black tick-mark which also forms the first letter of their eight-letter name. The company makes its money by delivering something that they call Intelligent Infrastructure for use on the Web. Identify the company.


15. This work of literature written in AD 300 included a comprehensive account of Indian Painting as a fine-art. The author expounded the six Shadangas or principles of art. He is also supposed to have incorporated into his book earlier works like Chitra Lakshana , Shilpa Shastra and Shilpa Ratna. The book also contained descriptions of the various types of gardens in India. Name the book.

16. visual.....identify the mag. ans : sports illustrated.

17. The recently released Tamil film “Thangathamarai” was the last film of which famous actress?

18. At 8:45 am, on Monday, September 3, 2007, a single-engine Bellanca Super Decathlon airplane took off from a private airstrip known as Flying-M Ranch, near Smith Valley, Nevada, 30 miles south of Yerington, near Carson City and the California border. The airfield is owned by Barron Hilton and is the site of the biennial Barron Hilton Cup invitational soaring encampment. It was initially believed that pilot was searching for a suitable lake bed for a world land speed record attempt. who was the pilot?


19. He has presented the maximum number of union budgets in India (10) and is the only Indian to receive the highest civilian awards from both India and Pakistan - the Bharat Ratna and Nishaan-e-Pakistan. Who?


20. It was commissioned after Stanley Morison had written an article criticizing The Times for being badly printed and typographically behind the times. Supervised by Morison and drawn by Victor Lardent, an artist from the advertising department of The Times, Morison used an older version named Plantin as the basis for his design, but made revisions for legibility and economy of space. The Times debuted it in October 1932, and after one year the design was released for commercial sale. What was it called?


21. On January 31, 1948, all Indian newspapers carried the news of Mahatma Gandhi's death on the front page, except one. Which one and why?


22. The motto of which institution reads as “Never Tickle a Sleeping Dragon”?


23. The tagline for the movie Gladiator was “A Hero will rise”. Which recently released movie has the tagline, “Heroes will rise”?


24. Who was the first Indian to perform at the Wembley Stadium in London?


25. It began in 1978 as the Utah/US Film Festival in an effort to attract more filmmakers to Utah. The actor who started the film festival named it after one of the most memorable movie characters that he played on screen. It is responsible for bringing wider attention to films such as Saw, The Blair Witch Project, Better Luck Tomorrow, Primer, Reservoir Dogs, El Mariachi, Clerks, Sex, lies, and videotape, and Napoleon Dynamite. Which film festival?


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28. He is perhaps the only person who has won a Best Actor Oscar to have acted in a Bollywood masala movie. He played the role of Sir John Locksley, the world’s greatest jewel thief, who invites several rival thieves to his island estate. He explains that he is dying, and wants his greatest treasure, a ruby, to go to a worthy successor. Which actor?

29. audio

30. id the singers...video.