Freshers quiz

General:

1 This clothing item, primarily used by miners and cowboys Jeans - from Genoa (place
gets its name from a place X in ​Italy​. X has been in the of the bridge collapse)
news recently after a rather ​unfortunate incident​. Give X
and/or the incident

2 Chamuça is a ​fried, meat filled pastry​ dish popular as a Samosa

snack in Portugal. In fact, it traces its origin to
Portuguese-Indian ties in Goa and we know it by a much
more popular name. What?

3 The Xs were a ​distinguished family of cobblers Schumacher

originating from Germany. In fact, their name is the literal
translation of the word cobbler in Middle German. Give X,
a name we would normally associate with a completely
different field these days

4 Good Governance Day in India is celebrated in honor of Atal Bihari Vajpayee

which ​recently in-news​ Indian personality?

5 Which Canadian city has a height limit imposed on Montreal

buildings to prevent them from being taller than the city’s
namesake Royal Mountain​?

6 Bhin Bhin, a greater bird of paradise, Atung, a Bawean Mascots of the 2018 Asian
deer and Kaka, a Javan rhinoceros were chosen to games
represent the eastern, central and western regions of a
place and to symbolize strategy, speed and strength
respectively. Where would we find these animals?

7 On a normal day, when the authorities at the Sri Demonetisation

Jalankanteswarar temple inside the Vellore Fort would
open up ‘hundis’ to collect the day’s offerings they would
expect to find 5000-10000INR.
On a certain day in 2016 however, they were shocked to
find INR 44 lakh deposited in a peculiar manner
Why did they find such a large amount of money?

8 Which country’s national symbol is the Unicorn, as it is Scotland

believed that a unicorn is the only beast capable of slaying
a lion, a symbol of this country’s ​nemesis​ ?
9 Since X was the first country to produce postage stamps, Britain
there was no need of printing it’s name on them. However,
the trend has continued to this day with the stamp only
bearing the monarch. X?

10 X which translates to divine wind or spirit wind , were a Kamikaze

part of the Japanese Special Attack Units of military
aviators who initiated suicide attacks for the Empire of
Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of
the Pacific campaign of World War II, designed to destroy
warships more effectively than possible with conventional
air attacks.Give me X which is also the name of a recent
album by Eminem.

Sports

1 Coming from Latin for ​equal​, ​what term is used to refer to Par
the number of strokes a professional is expected to take to
complete a golf hole or course?

2 Which player is infamous for using the ComBat, a cricket Dennis Lillee
bat made of aluminium?

3 In chess, an X could be ​accepted or declined​. Xs are Gambit

often involved in sacrificial ​openings​ (if accepted) and get
their name from the fact that such moves are meant to trip
 up the opponent. Give X

4 The épée, foil and sabre are implements used in which Fencing
Olympic sport?

5 Apart from Brazil, which is the only country to have hosted Australia (in ‘56 and 2000)
the Olympics twice?

6 All or Nothing is an Amazon Original series that documents Manchester City

the season of which Premier League team?

7 The granite used to make stones used in a certain game Curling

comes from two sources: Ailsa Craig, an island off the
Ayrshire coast of Scotland, and the Trefor Granite Quarry
in Wales. Which sport?

8 Known as the Yankee Clipper perhaps best known for his Joe Di Maggio
56-game hitting streak and having repeated references in
Ernest Hemingway’s Old man and the Sea and the song
Mrs Robinson by Simon & Garfunkel, name the famous
baseballer also known for his marriage and lifelong
devotion to Marilyn Monroe?

9 2nd ODI, India tour of Pakistan at Sialkot, Oct 31 1984 had Assassination of Indira
no result as a consequence of the match being Gandhi
abandoned.Why was it abandoned?

10 Getting a Grip: On My Body, My Mind, My Self is the Monica Seles

autobiography of one of Tennis’ greatest legends whose
career was cut short due to a tragedy.Who is this, legend
who won nine Grand Slam singles titles, eight of them as a
teenager while representing Yugoslavia, and the final one
while representing the United States?
Sci-Biz-Tech

1 Steam tractors of the 1890s were heavy and to prevent Caterpillar

them from sinking into the soil, wheels were replaced with a
set of wooden planks on chains. They were ​very slow​,
leading a person to remark that ​crawled just like a X​; thus
giving birth to the name of the company. Give X

2 Which motorcycle was developed to be used by the Indian The Bullet

government for border patrols?

3 This bird was slated to be India’s national bird. However, The Great Indian Bustard
this idea was dropped after it was realized that changing a
single letter in its name could have large repercussions.
Which bird is this?

4 There are six flavours of quarks in science - Up, down, left, Strange, Charm
right, X and Y. Give X and Y

5 Which element was once fabled to have been so rare and Aluminium
valuable that it was used by Napoleon to serve his royal
guests?

6 _______ is a brand of corn puffs, developed and produced Kurkure

by Pepsico India and Pakistan, the India and Pakistan
division of PepsiCo. Named after the Hindi and Urdu word
for "crunchy", the snack was developed entirely in India and
Pakistan. It was launched in 1999 in India and in 2007 in
Pakistan and has its automated plants at Howrah, Delhi,
Lahore, and Karachi.

7 Reba McEntire is an American Singer, songwriter and Col. Sanders

actress. She was in the news recently, when a certain
company chose Reba to portray the company’s first female
version of it’s mascot which has always been portrayed by a
man for obvious reasons. Some of the other stars to have
 done this role include Rob Lowe, Norm MacDonald, Jim
Gaffigan and George Hamilton.
McEntire said in a statement regarding her selection for the
role as , "I've held a lot of roles in my life -- sort of like X --
but this is certainly the most unique one yet."
What role?

8 What, that was central to its existence, did facebook acquire The domain name fb.com
by paying $8.5 million to the ​American Farm Bureau
Federation​ in the year 2011?

9 Thomas Knoll is an American Software engineer who Photoshop

created the software X. He showed it to his brother John
Knoll who then worked at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM),
and was also the special effects supervisor for Star Wars,
Star Trek among other films. They then bundled the
software with a GUI and sold it to a major company. Id the
ubiquitous software X.

10 The X Group is an Indian conglomerate headquartered in Kirloskar

Pune, Maharashtra, India. The company exports to over 70
countries over most of Africa, Southeast Asia and
Europe.The flagship & holding company, X Brothers Ltd
established in 1888, is India's largest maker of pumps and
valves. In Africa, X is synonymous with pumps in much the
same way that Godrej is synonymous with wardrobes and
locks in India. Id X.

Literature

1 ‘The Emperor of Maladies’ is a best selling book by Siddharth Cancer

Mukherjee dealing with which widespread disease?

2 Joseph Anton - a tip of the hat to two famous writers; Joseph Salman Rushdie
Conrad and Anton Chekhov was a pseudonym used by which
author when under the issue of a ​fatwa ​by the Islamic Republic of
Iran?
3 Train to Pakistan, by Khushwant Singh, deals with which The partition of 1947
gruesome period in Indian history?

4 Which Indian language gets its name from Middle Tamil for ‘That Malayalam
spoken by the mountain dwellers’, referring to the land of the
Chera dynasty?

5 An often repeated folk etymology proposes that this word is Sincere

derived from the Latin sine = without, cera = wax. According to
one popular explanation, dishonest sculptors in Rome or Greece
would cover flaws in their work with wax to deceive the viewer;
therefore, a sculpture "without wax" would mean honesty in its
perfection. This explanation was made popular thanks to Dan
Brown in his books The Digital Fortress and later in The Lost
Symbol. Which word?

6 The story behind a certain Mr Dhanpat Rai Shrivatsava often Premchand

accounted amongst some of the best contributors to Hindi
Literature adopting the pen name X is that Munshi Daya Narain
Nigam, the editor of the Urdu magazine ​Zamana​, who had
published Dhanpat Rai's first story "Duniya Ka Anmol Ratan"
advised him to use the pseudonym X. Give me X

7 In April 2013, The Cuckoo's Calling, the purported début novel of JK Rowling
author Robert Galbraith, was a detective story in which private
investigator Cormoran Strike unravels the supposed suicide of a
supermodel. This book sold 1,500 copies in hardback. After a
certain tweet claimed Robert Galbraith was a pseudonym used
by X after this claim was confirmed to be true, sales of this book
rose by about 4000%. Give me X

8 The Palace of Illusions is a 2008 novel by award-winning novelist Mahabharata from

and poet Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. The novel is about the Draupadi’s viewpoint
telling of the Mahabharata but in a unique point of view. What is
different about the view point through which Mahabharata is
recounted in her novel?

9 X has only ever published two books. The first one in 1960, for Harper Lee
which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. Though X had only
published this single book, in 2007 she was awarded the
Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature.
Her second book was published in 2015, when the manuscript for
the same which was thought to be lost was found in an old
deposit box. Id X.

10 ______ _____ is a book by Vikram Chandra published in 2006. Sacred Games

Upon release, it received critical acclaim and subsequently won
the Vodafone Crossword Book Award. However, it has recently
 come into the limelight owing to it’s visual adaptation. Fill in the
blanks.

Entertainment

1 With which critically acclaimed film would you associate the Slumdog Millionaire
book Q & A by Vikas Swarup?

2 What is the style of acting in which an actor searches for Method/ Method acting
inner motives to the role played, to justify actions and
decisions taken in each moment?

3 In ‘Life of Pi’ Pi Patel is named after Piscine Molitor, a A swimming pool

famous type of what public amenity in Paris?

4 The book ​Heart of Darkness by ​Joseph Conrad inspired a Apocalypse Now

critically acclaimed Vietnam War film by Francis Ford
Coppola. Incidentally, Coppola named the documentary
​ s
film about the making of that movie ​Heart of Darkness a
well. Which 1979 film?

5 X was initially named Inquilaab, inspired by the phrase Amitabh Bacchan

Inquilab Zindabad (which translates into English as "Long
live the revolution") popularly used during the Indian
independence struggle. However, at the suggestion of
Sumitranandan Pant, his name was changed to X, which,
according to a Times of India article, means "the light that
will never die".

6 A certain Mr Whitehead asked him "if he believed in the Harry Houdini

miracles of the Bible" and "whether it was true that punches
in the stomach did not hurt him". He then delivered "some
very hammer-like blows below the belt". Since he was
reclining on a couch at the time, having broken his ankle
while performing several days earlier. He winced at each
blow and stopped Whitehead suddenly in the midst of a
punch, gesturing that he had enough, and adding that he
had no opportunity to prepare himself against the blows, as
he did not expect Whitehead to strike him so suddenly and
forcefully. This eventually lead to his death owing to
peritonitis, secondary to a ruptured appendix. Who?
7 Sacheen Littlefeather, an American actress and activist for Marlon Brando
Native American rights. On March 27, 1973, represented​ ​X
at the 45th Academy Awards to decline the Best Actor
award for his performance. The favorite to win, X boycotted
the ceremony in protest of Hollywood's portrayal of Native
Americans and to draw attention to the standoff at
Wounded Knee. Who was this legendary actor X?

8 Room 237​ is a 2012 American documentary film directed The shining

by Rodney Ascher about interpretations and perceived
meanings of Stanley Kubrick's film ​X ​which was adapted
from a Stephen King novel. Id X

9 Aravinda Pillalamarri and Ravi Kuchimanchi, a NRI couple Swades

who returned to India and developed the pedal power
generator to provide electricity to a remote, off-the-grid
village school inspired a 2004 bollywood movie. Which
movie?

10 X is a form of psychological manipulation that seeks to sow Gaslighting

seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or in members of a
targeted group, making them question their own memory,
perception, and sanity. Using persistent denial,
misdirection, contradiction, and lying, it attempts to
destabilize the victim and delegitimize the victim's belief.
The term owes its origin to the 1938 Patrick Hamilton play
X and its 1940 and 1944 film adaptations. Id X
History and Geography

1 What collective term for the countries of the Mediterranean Levant

comes from Italian meaning ​to rise,​ referring to the rising of
the Sun in this region?

2 The name of which ocean current traces its origin to El Niño (meaning little boy
Peruvian fishermen, who noticed the warming of the Pacific in Spanish)
in coincidence with Christmas?

3 What was the name of the ship that transported the first The Mayflower
English Puritans (or Pilgrims) from Plymouth, England to
the New World in 1620?

4 In protest of the persecution of Buddhist monks by the Burning monk of Saigon

South Vietnamese government, a certain individual X Bồ Tát Thích Quảng Đức
performed a certain act Y. A picture of the event generated
a profound effect with JFK remarking ​"No news picture in
history has generated so much emotion around the world as
that one."
Give X and/or Y

5 The which country is a tricolour of black, red, and green Kenya

with two white edges imposed with a red, white and black
Maasai shield and two crossed spears?

6 Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, San Marino and Spain Their national anthems do
comprise of an exhaustive list regarding a unique feature not have any official lyrics
pertaining to their national anthems. What feature?

7 Ussangoda in Sri Lanka has black colored soil across Hanuman burning Lanka
hundreds of acres in total contrast to the light brown fertile
soil in the adjacent areas. Some claim that this is a proof
 for a certain mythological story having actually happened.
What story?

8 Local legend says that the King of Kanauj, Raja Jasdhaval, Roopkund Lake
with his pregnant wife, Rani Balampa, their servants, a
dance troupe and others went on a pilgrimage to Nanda
Devi shrine, and the group faced a storm with large
hailstones, from which the entire party perished near this
particular lake and as a result skeletons are visible in the
clear water of this lake during a one-month period when the
ice melts. Along with the skeletons, wooden artifacts, iron
spearheads, leather slippers, and rings were also have
said to be found. Which famous lake in Uttarkhand is being
referred to here?

9 City X famous for hosting the Kumbh Mela held once in X - Allahabad
years 12 years has been told to be renamed to Y soon, Y - Prayag
which is a famous holy place in X, where three main rivers
flowing across the state namely Ganges, Yamuna, and
Sarasvati meet. Give me X and Y

10 Regarding what did Ibn Batuta write “ I proceeded to the Hindukush

city of Barwan, in the road to which is a high mountain,
covered with snow and exceedingly cold; they call it the
_______, that is Hindu-slayer, because most of the slaves
brought tither from India die on account of the intenseness
of the cold.”?