QPHORIA 2

PRELIMS
 QUESTION 1

• Fill in the blank

• Benjamin Pinto
• Hitesh Madan
• Gaurav Mishra
• Chris Powell
• Debajyoti Bahaduri
• ________________

Hints????
 ANSWER 1

• Palash Sen

• (Members of the music band EUPHORIA )

 QUESTION 2

• There is a well-known myth about the word X, which says that

in 1791 a Dublin theatre owner named James Daly made a bet
that he could introduce a word into the language within 24
hours. He then went out and hired a group of street children to
write the word X, which was a nonsense word, on walls
around the city of Dublin. Within a day, the word became
common in usage and had acquired a meaning (since no one
knew what it meant, everyone thought it was some sort of
test).
 ANSWER 2

• The word is “QUIZ”

 QUESTION 3

• X holds a host of football records, including that of

being the most decorated player in English football
history. On 16 May 2009, he became the first
footballer to collect 11 top division English league
title medals. X was the first player in history to win
two consecutive PFA Young Player of the Year
awards (1992 and 1993) and is the only player to
have played and scored in every single season of
the Premier League since its inception.
 ANSWER 3

• RYAN GIGGS
 QUESTION 4

• The movie A chronicles the adventures of Prem

Bhopali and Amar Manohar who want to get rich
without working for it.
• The movie was a box office disaster( though
nominated for 4 Filmfare awards including Best
Picture) when it released but since then has gained
a cult following among Indian audiences .
 ANSWER 4

• ANDAZ APNA APNA

 QUESTION 5

• The song's celebratory performance belies the tragic first verse

where „X‟ recounts the experience when an 11-year-old „X‟ and
some childhood friends were attacked and fired on by gunmen
in Mogadishu while they were playing. „X‟ was not injured but his
three friends were all shot dead. The song's chorus is a bold, self-
affirming response to this experience.

• That „X‟ created the song “Y" out of those circumstances is seen
to be of great value and interest to the track: inextricably linked
to his own story, but ultimately not defined or restricted by it. "At
some point it becomes a song," says „X‟. "There probably was a
time when it was hard to look back on that experience, but then
you write it and you make it a melody and all you have left is a
beautiful melody and it's a song now. It's sculpted, it's made, it's
art, so it's fine. I have redrawn my whole life that way.“

• Name „X‟ and the song he wrote „Y‟

 ANSWER 5

• K‟naan - WAVING FLAG

 ANSWER 6

• To A R RAHMAN

• 127 hours

• From ARON RALSTON

 QUESTION 7

• The rise of X in the world of business is a rags to riches story

come to life. A Patna lad who dropped out of school at the age
of 15, he started out as a scrap metal trader in Mumbai. Today,
he’s a billionaire and a key player in the global metals market.
His firm, the $8 billion Y group, is listed on the London Stock
Exchange and X operates from a swanky office in London’s
exclusive Mayfair district. ID X and Y.
 ANSWER 7

• VEDANTA

• ANIL AGARWAL
QUESTION 8
 ANSWER 8

• SULTAN AZLAN SHAH (Hockey CUP)

 QUESTION 9

• This Tamil movie originally had a biological sounding name as

it tells the story of twins. But later it was decided that the bio
funda will not really strike the Indian audience. So the name
was changed to some well known name which was similar
sounding as the previous one. Which movie?
 ANSWER 9

• JEANS (Originally named GENES)

 QUESTION 10

• Adolf Hitler was so impressed with X that he offered to make

him a Field Marshall of the German Army which X politely
declined. X’s skill was so great that the Germans were so
perplexed that they broke X’s _____ to examine if it has any
adhesive inside it. X was also a folk hero in Austria. In fact a
statue has been erected in Vienna in his honor.

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 ANSWER 10

• Major DHYANCHAND