1. General Quiz Prelims
Partha Paul
Ravikant Saini
Sanjay Nanda

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3. 1.
• X was a Belgian surrealist artist. He was born in 1898, and is
known for his thought-provoking images that challenge
observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality.
On 12 March 1912, his mother committed suicide by
drowning herself in the River Sambre. According to legend,
X was present when her body was retrieved from the water.
When she was found, her dress was covering her face, an
image that has been suggested as the source of X's
paintings during 1927-1928, of people with cloth obscuring
their faces. Even his later painting Y(1964) depicts a person
whose face is partially obscured from view by an object.
Give X and Y.

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• CONNECT

5. 3. What is special about this ?
• This is the ship
New York
sailing on the
Hudson river.
• The ship is so important, the shipyard workers
reportedly treated it with "reverence usually
accorded to religious relics", gently touching it as
they walked by.

6. 4. Historical significance of this pic

7. 5. ID X.
• In a book on him by Gautam Bhattacharya, Sachin
Tendulkar revealed that in an India vs Pakistan match
placed at the CCI in Mumbai in ‘88, he could not complete a
catch whilst fielding in the deep. Going back home by the
local train, he constantly grumbled about the captain X’s
field placements.
• Much much later, when X was asked to comment on
Sachin’s supposed failures at converting his scores into
victories for India, he said, “Perhaps, if Sachin had
developed a sort of tunnel vision, which allowed him to
focus on one ball at a time ,he might have been able to lead
his side to more wins, especially when he was compiling big
scores”, an article that drew criticism from many irate
Sachin Tendulkar fans. He has also advicedSachin to quit
more than once, saying he should retire while at the top of
his game.

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9. 7. ID this person
• He supposedly shares a birthday with Elvis Presley according to his
former personal sushi chef.
• Unlike majority of his countrymen he studied for a few years abroad
• He idolizes Michael Jordan and is quite a good playmaker in basketball
• He is brand conscious and owns several Nike shoes and an Apple I
Mac which is quite ironic
• His hairstyle is not one of the 28 sanctioned for men in his country
• He loves the 1980s disco and a recent guest of his remarked that
when he first met him there was an all girl band playing in the
background and they really got down
• After his mother's death in 2004 he binge drank and ate leading to
him being one of the few overweight people in his impoverished
homeland
• He looks disturbingly like his revered grandfather that there were
rumours he had plastic surgery to achieve that

10. 8. Name the song
• Ditineerapriyaranjini is a raga in Carnatic
music. It's usually sung during twilight in
madhya laya. This recent song has used the
raga, and has become a rage in recent times.

11. 9. ID X and Z
• A famous landmark in California which was
earlier named XY - has been vandalised a multiple
times and hence undergone restoration a lot of
times as well. In 1970s it was said to have
reached its worst condition only to be restored
completely in 1978.
• However it recently came into the news because
a movie Z that's set in 1979/80 depicted this
landmark in its dilapidated state which is
historically inaccurate. This landmark is
fashionably known as X.

12. 10. Who comes next?
First four guys in the list are:
• Wilfred Rhodes
• Brian Close
• Frank Woolley
• George Headley

13. 11. ID this player
• 1134 games 718.5 hotels 834 planes 57 teams
3 punch ups 1 proud career 5pm 18th Feb
2013 I'm pulling stumps.
(This was X’s tweet to announce his retirement).

14. 12.
• The Right Livelihood Award, also referred to as the
"Alternative Nobel Prize", is a prestigious international
award to honour those "working on practical and
exemplary solutions to the most urgent challenges
facing the world today".
• In 2006, Daniel Ellsberg, the former U.S. Defence
Department official who leaked secret Pentagon
documents during the Vietnam war, shared the 2
million kronor Right Livelihood Award with anti-
corruption campaigner Chico Whitaker Ferreira of
Brazil and an Indian activist. Who was the Indian
activist?

15. 13.
• Christmas is celebrated on 30th October every
year by this group and the current year is 53
AD. What does AD stand for and which is this
organization?

16. 14. Who is this person and what is the
significance of this picture ?

17. 15. ID the printer.

18. 16. Of Iranians
• Shah Tahmasp was an influential Shah of Iran,
who enjoyed the longest reign of any memver
of the Safavid Dynasty. His reign was marked
by foreign threats from the Ottomans and
Uzbeks, and he distinguished himself by his
able statesmanship. However what is his claim
to fame in Indian history?

19. 17. Whodunit?
• This is a silent, color motion picture sequence shot by private
citizen Abraham X with a home-movie camera, capturing one of the
most famous events of the 20th century.
X film frame number 313 is probably the most famous, and the
most studied frame in the film. This frame, and the frames before
and after this, were studied by scientists, including Richard
Feynman, who concluded that Y's head moved forward at first.
After frame 314, it is clear that Y falls back, resulting in much
speculation, including that the X Film is a hoax.
The X film was purchased by the government in 1999 for $ 16
million.
Give X and the event that the film captured.

20. 18. ID X and the book
• This is a 1968 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. The novel is set in a
post-apolyptic Earth, suffering from radiation fallout from World War
Terminus. The main plot features a bounty hunter with the task of tracking
down renegade Xs who have assumed human identity. As the radiation
poisoning has wiped out the majority of animals, owning an animal is now
considered a status symbol, and people, including the protagonist, unable
to afford real animals keep up pretenses by owning electric animals. The
novel explores what it is to be a human, as the bounty hunter protagonist
explores the existence of defining qualities that separate humans from Xs.
The word X, part of the title of the novel, translates into Greek as "having
the likeness of a man", and was shortened and used extensively by George
Lucas in Star Wars.
The novel was adapted to the 1982 film Blade Runner, directed by Ridley
Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer and Scott Young.

21. 19. ID X
• X asked Vaclav Havel, the first president of
Czech Republic, why the Prague castle wasn’t
lit up at night, To this Havel replied his country
doesn’t have enough money for it. To which, X
offered to pay for the lighting system. They
got their own lighting guys to set up the
system and paid for the entire installation. Id X

22. 20. Connect
• Connect these 4 Sachin hundreds.
• Vs WI, Vadodara, 31-01-2007
• Vs England, Chester-le-street, 04-07-2002
• Vs Kenya, Bristol, 23-05-1999
• Vs Sri Lanka, Bristol, 11-07-2002