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LANDMARK QUIZ CHENNAI 2009 PRELIMS
1.
TRACK 1 / VIDEO / NATL ANTHEM:
Identify the singer
a. DK Pattammal
2.
CHENNAI:
What does the letter M stand for in MR Radha the actor and ML Vasanthakumari thesinger?
a. Madras
3.
NEWS:
In the 1960’s Vogue magazine listed the “10 Most Beautiful Women in the World”. TwoIndians were on this list and both died recently. Name them.
a. Leela Naidu, Maharani Gayatri Devi
4. On what poster would you find these lines, “What does it take to find a lost lover? (a) Money (b)Luck (c) Smarts (d) Destiny”
a. Slumdog Millionaire
5.
SCIENCE:
During a previous total solar eclipse visible in India, in 1868, a French scientist namedPierre Jansen travelled to a tobacco field just outside Guntur to observe the spectrum. A resultantyellow line in the spectrum was a pointer to which new element, which was the first-ever elementto be discovered outside Earth before it was found on Earth?
a. Helium
6.
LANGUAGE:
By convention what two symbols are traditionally used in publishing to denote thefirst and second footnotes to the main text in a book? (Correct spelling please)
a. Asterisk and obelisk
7.
BUSINESS:
Between which two letters of the Federal Express logo would one find a “hiddenarrow” – a symbol of speed and precision?
a. E and X
8.
WORDS:
What is a bunch of bananas called?
a. Hand
9.
MEDICINE/HEALTH:
In which country did the 2009 swine flu pandemic start?
a. Mexico
10.
FOOD:
What sweet dish made from wheat and ghee is believed to derive its distinctive flavourfrom the Tamaraiparani river and was made famous by a Marwari family which settled there morethan 300 years ago and started an eatery named Lakshmi Vilas?
a. Thirunelveli Halva
11.
CURRENT AFFAIRS:
Which animated member of the porifera species and a resident of BikiniBottom is the latest addition to Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in New Yorka.
Spongebob Squarepants.
The new addition celebrates 10 years of Nickelodeon’sfavourite character12.
HISTORY:
Gandhiji was inspired by the simple attire of peasants in this region while on a train journey. Once he reached his destination, he shaved his head. The next morning, after a bath, heappeared dressed in a four cubits long khadi cloth, worn as a knee-length half-dhoti. Rajaji andDr. T.S.S. Rajan who were present there tried to make Gandhiji change his mind. Gandhiji’s mindwas, however, firmly made up. In which city did this incident occur?
a. Madurai
13.
VISUALS:
Connect these two pictures.a.
Yeh Dil Maange More.
Soon after the success of Point 5140 during the Kargil War,Captain Vikram Batra radioed his commanding officer and said victoriously “Yeh DilMaange More”(The heart wants more). This became the catch line for the war.14.
QUOTATION:
George Mallory, the mountaineer who in 1924 disappeared during his last attemptto climb Mt Everest could have been the first atop the world’s highest peak. He is famouslyquoted as giving what reply to the question "why do you want to climb Mt. Everest?" which hasbeen called "the most famous three words in mountaineering"?
a. “Because it's there"
15.
SPORTS - TECHNOLOGY:
Hawk-eye technology is one of the most sophisticated officiatingtools used in sport. It made its debut with cricket and then entered the tennis court. In which othersport is it being used officially?a.
Snooker.
Hawk-Eye first introduced its snooker technology at the Snooker Grand Prix inAberdeen. It then progressed to the Masters at Wembley and, most recently, stepped upto the largest stage in snooker, the renowned Crucible in Sheffield, at the World SnookerChampionships.16.
POLITICS:
The rath yatra is now a standard mode of elections campaigns in India with severalleaders choosing this mass contact programme to win over the electorate. Who undertook thepioneering ‘rath yatra’ which besides catapulting him to power also entered the ‘Guinness Book ofRecords’?
a. NT Rama Rao (in 1982)
17.
GEOGRAPHY
: Which is the largest province of Pakistan comprises almost 48% of the countryand whose capital is Quetta?
a. Balochistan
18.
COMP/IT:
On the Internet, what does the letter S stand for in https?a.
Secure
. HTTPS connections are often used for payment transactions on the Web andfor sensitive transactions in corporate information systems.19.
BUSINESS:
Two former employees of the Systems Research Institute in Pune, from the late1970s, went on to set up their own outfits in the early 1980s. One was this year's MagsaysayAward winner, who changed the way NGOs worked and recruited in India. The other, had asimilarly titanic effect on the Indian corporate world. Identify both luminaries.
a. Deep Joshi, NR Narayanamurthy
20.
MUSIC:
Exactly 40 years ago this day, a young university student in New York City named MayaKulkarni had to suddenly step in as a replacement tambura player for a concert in the same state.The concert had two main performers, and they played to an audience of at least a hundredthousand. Who were the two performers? No part points!
a. Ravi Shankar and Allah Rakha
21.
LITERATURE:
In HG Wells’
War of the Worlds
, Martians were resistant to atom bombs. How didthey finally perish?a.
Cold virus
22.
BUSINESS:
The original logo of Apple Computers featured which person?
a. Isaac Newton
23.
LIFESTYLE:
Which organization got its name because its members used to meet at the office ofeach member of the group in turns?
a. Rotary Club
24.
SPORTS
“The French Open” in France refers to the oldest national open golf tournament inEurope (since 1906). What term do the French use for their premier tennis tournament?
a. The Roland Garros
25.
FILM
In the Sorcerer’s Apprentice scene in Walt Disney’s
Fantasia
, the sorcerer’s name was latergiven as Yensid Retlaw. Who was he named after?a.
Walt Disney (Walter Disney in reverse is Yensid Retlaw)
26.
MYTHOLOGY:
In the Mahabharata, when this person was giving away the fruits of his penancesto Brahmins, who arrived late after all the gifts were given away but instead received this person’sextensive knowledge of combat?
a. Parasuram and Drona
27.
HISTORY / WORLD WAR TWO:
What weapon was given its unusual name by the Finns when(following their refusal to surrender some strategic ports) their country was invaded by the Sovietsin November 1939 in what came to be known as the Winter War during World War II?
a. Molotov cocktail.
When Soviet People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs VyacheslavMolotov claimed in radio broadcasts that the Soviet Union was not dropping bombs but
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