31. • ‘Paisa boltha hai’ song from Kala Bazar
• RBI logo
• RBI recently launched a web site explaining ways to detect a counterfeit
note called ‘www.paisaboltahai.rbi.org.in’
32. 2)
• The logo originally resembled a deformed radiation
warning symbol. Controversially the working name of this
project was “The Manhattan project” referring to the US
Nuclear Weapons initiative. According to the creator, the
outcome of this project (and its sister project) was to
displace Japan from the top spot in this specific industry
quite similar to the actual outcome of the Manhattan
project, hence the name. However this meaning is
publicly denied by the company in question and it claims
that it is simply an artistic design.
• Name the product and the company.
35. 3)
• The warmth between these X and Y grew out of mutual respect for
each other’s teams. This led to some remarkable displays of
generosity and charity when the teams were at their lowest.
• This warmth grew out of a European cup match where X’s team was
held to a 2‐2 draw at Y’s home ground (X’s team went on to win 5‐3
on aggregate). X was so impressed by the spirit and quality of Y’s side
that X offered Y a job which Y politely declined because he wanted to
win the European Cup with his squad.
• A few years later, X offered to loan Z to Y’s club. Z was willing to go to
Y’s club til the end of the season taking a paycut however the FA
closed the deal down because Z was so good that he would have
taken the place of a homegrown player.
37. • X‐ Bernabeu
• Y‐ Matt Busby
• Z‐Alfredo Di Stefano
38. 4)
• Shown below is the picture of a Kinetoscope or an early motion picture
exhibition device. It allowed one person to view a minute worth of moving
images through the peephole viewer at the top of the device. This was the
standard for cinematic projection before the advent of the video.
• Initially multiple devices were found together and each device would charge a
person a certain amount of money allowing them to view that minute worth of
footage.
• Later this developed into one of the world’s first “movie” theaters, charging
people the same amount of money for entry thus giving rise to their nickname X.
• Slowly these Xs went out of business as movie theaters became more popular.
• X is however remembered today for a similar yet slightly different reason.
• X?
42. 5)
• In February 2013, John M. Broder published an article in the New
York Times about a car produced by X’s company Y. The article ripped
apart the car mainly highlighting its inability to cover a 265 mile
distance despite the company claiming that the car would easily
cover 300 miles.
• X then proceeded to accuse Broder of faking the article and driving
around in circles before actually setting on the journey.
• As of Feb 26, Y announced that they have lost close to $100 million
dollars worth of orders after people read the article and the
argument between Y and the New York Times still continues.
X? Y?
45. 6)
• The Halley VI Antarctic research station opened recently on the
floating Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
• This $40.6 million facility was built to withstand the elements
on this ice shelf.
• Normal buildings usually get buried under 3 feet of ice
annually so the architects of the facility cleverly added
hydraulic legs to the bottom of the building allowing it to
maneuver the structure out of the built‐up snow.
• Normal buildings also face the risk of being caught on a broken
off piece of ice. What did the architects do to counter this
problem?
49. 7)
• There is an advertising firm in Japan called Absolute
Territory PR which has recently hit upon an advertising
goldmine.
• Their strategy involves advertising their client’s products
on absolute territory ( as the name suggests).
• What is absolute territory?
57. • This is a picture of University of Pennsylvania’s College
Hall, the oldest building on the campus.
• Famed artist Charles X was an architecture student at
Upenn in the 1930s and used this building as his
inspiration to design his most famous work.
• What did he create?
62. • The Chandigarh marketplace was
converted into the abbotabad
bazaar for the movie.
• The various stall owners made
unbelievable sales during the
shooting period.
• The celebration was a result of ZDT
winning the oscar for best sound
editing.
63. 11)
• X was a structure proposed to be constructed in 1862 by Chief Engineer
George Turnbull.
• X was the third largest of its kind in the world , at the time it was finally
built, in 1943 and has since then been surpassed by three others , making it
the sixth largest of its kind.
• Recently, X has become an endangered structure , as a result of excessive
pan‐spitting on its base and joints. The spitting has become such a menace
that the hanger bases have reduced to 50% of their original size in just three
years.
64. • Thousands of people spit guthka ‐ a chewable mixture of tobacco and slaked
lime. They also spit paan ‐ betel leaf stuffed with areca nut, slaked lime and
other ingredients.
• The government has decided to put up fibreglass covers around the bases
and since it's washable, whenever spit accumulates, the fibreglass covers
are cleaned.
• ID X
67. 12)
• Franz Reichelt was an Austrian born French tailor , and a part time inventor.
His experiments were always a series of trial and error setups, with
modifications to his invention based on the results of experiments. The
experiments mostly ended in failure, and in desperation , attempted a final
experiment. This ended in failure , resulting in him jumping to death from
the Eiffel Tower.
• Following his death , the design was developed and patented by Glen
Kotelnikov , with Reichelt being forgotten. However , Reichelt is still
remembered as the pioneer of X, his design.
• What are we talking about ?
70. 13)
• Among the scientific equipment carried by the Mars Rover of 2011 , was X
(unusual for a space visit), used as an on‐board camera calibrating gadget.
The camera , a Mars Hand Lens Imager , captured pictures of X to ensure
that the equipment were working properly.
• Scientists justified the inclusion of X as a calibrating object , stating that
geologists compare the size of rocks with X , by placing them beside each
other.
• This particular X , was initially the possession of the man in charge of the
Rover’s camera operations , and was named the special VDB X , after Victor
David Brenner , who created this particular design of X for Lincoln and
Roosevelt.
• ID X?
73. 14)
• The columnist Ramachandra Guha writes about X's cricketing interests in the
following paragraph.
• The only evidence of X’s interest in cricket that I know of is contained in a
newspaper essay of 1958 by the journalist Harish Booch. Booch had just met one
of the X’s classmates at Alfred High School, Rajkot. This man, Ratilal Ghelabhai
Mehta, remembered X as “a dashing cricketer” who “evinced a keen interest in
the game as a school student”. He was, it seems, “good both at batting and
bowling”, and had an uncanny understanding of the game’s uncertainties as well.
Mehta spoke of a match they had watched together as schoolboys, played
between Rajkot city and Rajkot cantonment. Apparently, “at a crucial moment in
the match, as if through intuition, X said a particular player would be out and
hey presto, that batsman was really out!”
• Identify X
76. 15)
• Despite being written in upper case, the company's name
is not an acronym, but was chosen because it can be
pronounced easily by people who speak any language.
After acquiring the Drouot Group in 1982, the company
hired an outside consultant to conduct a computer‐aided
search for a new name. The selection criteria consisted of
a short and snappy name to convey vitality, a name that
begins with the letter A so that it would appear near the
top of all lists, and something that could be pronounced
easily in every language, consistent with the group's
desire for an international presence. Which company?
99. GEN QUIZ FINALS
A TO T ROUND
20 Variables : + 2 for every correct
+10 bonus if all correct
NO NEGATIVES
100. ID A TO T
• In Indian Mythology, ‘A’ is considered to be the "Principal
Architect of the Universe “ , and the abstract form of the
creator God in the Rig Veda. A’s daughter Sanjana
complained to her father that she was unable to close to
her husband Surya, the sun god because of his blazing
light and heat. ‘A’ approached Surya and made him shine
less so that his daughter could hug him. ‘A’ then
proceeded to collect the left over sun "dust" and made
three items out of it namely ‘B’ , ‘C’ and ‘D’ .
• ‘B’ is considered as the chief mode of transport for ‘E’;
and ‘C’ is a weapon used by ‘F’. ‘D’ is the protective
weapon of ‘G’ , and is derived from the sanskrit words
meaning ‘Good’ – ‘Vision’.
101. • ‘B’ was initally thought to have been built by ‘A’ for Bramha ,
who gifted it to ‘H’ , the step brother of ‘E’ , from whom ‘E’
stole it. Myth has it that ‘F’ and his wife requested ‘A’ to build
them a golden castle outside the Indian landmass, and invited
‘E’ to perform the house warming ceremony grihapravesh. As
dakshina for the ceremony , ‘E’ asked the Palace for himself ,
which ‘F’ agrees to give to him.
• ‘B’ also happens to be the name of an Indian Silent film in 1987
, directed by Singeetham Srinivasa Rao starring ‘I’ in the main
role. The director won the National Award for ‘Best Popular
Film providing Wholesome Entertainment ‘ in 1988. ‘I’ also
starred in the Indian Film ‘J’ , with ‘J’ also meaning the
supreme form of ‘G’. One of the forms of ‘G’ is ‘K’ who
displayed his supreme form to ‘L’ during battle, which forms
the basis of the Scripture ‘M’.
102. • During the World War II , 1945, the famous physicist ‘N’ took
inspiration from ‘M’ , before test firing the atom bomb , as a
part of the famous project titled ‘O’.
• ‘O’ happens to be the name of a famous comic character in the
DC comic series ‘P’. Microsoft designer Vincent Connare admits
that ‘P’ along with “The Dark Knight Returns” had a very strong
influence on him when he created ‘Q’. ‘Q’ was a part of
Google’s April Fool Prank where Google put up a false survey
that pages with ‘Q’ are read more thoroughly than pages with
the standard ‘R’ , and created the fake extension “Q for
everyone “.
• ‘C’ is a type of weapon which is also associated with the
Roman God Neptune , and a popular computer communication
standard ‘S’s symbol is based. ‘S’ was invented/modelled by
Indian American computer Architect ‘T’ , who then worked for
Intel.
SOLVE!
104. • A – Vishwakarma L ‐ Arjuna
• B – Pushpaka Vimana M –Bhagawad Gita
• C – Trishula N – Robert Oppenheimer
• D – Sudharshana Chakra O – Manhattan
• E – Raavana P – Watchmen
• F – Shiva Q – MS Comic Sans
• G – Vishnu R – Arial
• H – Kubera S – USB Port
• I – KamalHaasan T – Ajay Bhatt
• J – Vishwaroopam
• K ‐ Krishna
107. 1)
• In 1665, London witnessed an outbreak of
plague, killing over 30k people. The monarchy of
London carried out a certain practise of marking
the houses of the ‘infected’ with a certain symbol
, to distinguish them from the rest.
This symbol exists even today , but for a different
reason.
What ?
110. 2)
• X is a festival held every two years at several
locations in Catalonia , Spain. This festival
involves the building and dismantling of human
tower structures in succession.
•On November , 2010 , X was declared by
UNESCO to be amongst the “Masterpieces of the
Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity”.
•The motto of X is "Força, equilibri, valor i seny"
(Strength, balance, courage and common sense).
•What is X ?
114. 3)
• X is a company is responsible for the construction of structures
like the –
1.Blaise Diagne International Airport, Senegal ;
2.Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia;
3.Sharjah International Airport Expansion & Development,
UAE;
4.University of Sharjah, UAE
• Considered the largest construction firm in the world, they
recently signed a US$1.23 billion contract to construct the
tallest building in the world, Kingdom Tower in Jeddah.
• This group is how ever better known for a more famous reason
.
What ?
117. 4)
• The Katapayadi System is a system used in the melakarta raagas of
carnatic music where two syllables of a name are combined to give a
number, termed as the melakarta number. The melakarta number for
each raaga is within the range of 1‐72.
•A rough procedure involves obtaining the first two syllables of the
raaga , reversing it and converting it into its numeric equivalent , as
in the Katapayadi system , before performing some elementary
mathematical operations on it.
We however know this concept in a different way today . What ?
118.
119.
120. THE BASIS OF MODERN ‘HASHING’ ALGORITHMS IN COMPUTER
SCIENCE.
• The melakarta ragas of the Carnatic music is named so that the first two syllables
of the name will give its number. This system used is called the Ka‐ta‐pa‐ya‐di
sankhya. The Swaras 'Sa' and 'Pa' are fixed, and here is how to get the other
swaras from the melakarta number.
• Melakartas 1 through 36 have Ma1 and those from 37 through 72 have Ma2.
• The other notes are derived by noting the (integral part of the) quotient and
remainder when one less than the melakarta number is divided by 6.
• Example : Raga Dheerasankarabharanam
• The katapayadi scheme associates dha9 and ra2, hence the raga's melakarta
number is 29 (92 reversed). Now 29 36, hence Dheerasankarabharanam has
Ma1. Divide 28 (1 less than 29)by 6, the quotient is 4 and the remainder 4.
Therefore, this raga has Ri2, Ga3 (quotient is 4) and Da2, Ni3 (remainder is 4).
Therefore, this raga's scale is Sa Ri2 Ga3 Ma1 Pa Da2 Ni3 SA.
121. 5)
• X is a street in Chennai , which has been a subject of controversy , after its
accidental renaming by the Chennai Corporation , which translates to
“Murderer’s Den “. The residents claim that the street was well known for its
resident women practising a form of folk dance, which gave the street/locality a
name _______ , which accidently got renamed to X , and ever since then the
name has stuck.
• The councillor of the area has also said that his efforts to rename the streets as
Gaudiya Math Lane 1 and 2 , have failed.
ID this unfortunate street name X ?
122.
123. KOLAKAARAN PETTAI !!
• It was supposed to be named Kolakkaram Lane , after the residents who
performed the dance form ‘Kolattam’, but got grossly renamed !
124. 6)
• Clive Palmer is a businessman from Queensland, Australia, most widely known as
owner of Mineralogy and for his investments in other natural resource
companies.
He has been described as an "eccentric billionaire". Some of his ambitious
projects have been to create a massive Jurassic Park style dinosaur theme park
at his golf resort and a company called Zeppelin International, with the intention
of making a commercially viable Zeppelin. Clive has also claimed that he was the
target of a conspiracy involving Barack Obama, the CIA, the Rockefeller
Foundation and Greenpeace, who he believed were attempting to close down
his mining operation.
He has gained a reputation in Australia for floating ambitious and unusual
business ideas which he fails to see through.
In April 2012, he announced a project which on its proposed completion in 2016
in China, would be in memory of something that happened exactly hundred
years ago. Many people have described this as just another 'classic Clive Palmer
announcement'.
What?
134. • PART 1 : The flags are the War Flags of the nations , hoisted or waved during
times of war , or carried by Battling contingents and the armies of the nations
• PART 2 : Philippines does not have a separate war flag , but simply inverts its
flag with the Red side facing up during times of war.
During the conference , the Philippines flag was wrongly displayed in an inverted
fashion, for which the US Government and Embassy apologized
135.
136.
137. 8)
• John Hinckley Jr . admitted that he developed an infatuation for Jodie Foster ,
after watching her play the role of a child prostitute in 'Taxi Driver'. He began
stalking her and began slipping poems and messages under her door and
repeatedly phoning her.
•
After all attempts ended in failure , he decided to take up a new strategy to
impress her. He even wrote to Jodie Foster : "Over the past seven months I've
left you dozens of poems, letters and love messages in the faint hope that you
could develop an interest in me. Although we talked on the phone a couple of
times I never had the nerve to simply approach you and introduce myself.... The
reason I'm going ahead with this attempt now is because I cannot wait any
longer to impress you."
What did he attempt ?
147. SIR RAVINDRA JADEJA !
• WG Grace, Bill Ponsford, Don Bradman, Wally Hammond, Graeme Hick, Brian
Lara and Michael Hussey are the seven people to have scored three triple
centuries in first class cricket and two triple centuries in the same season.
SIR RAVI is the eighth and the most recent addition to this list
151. 12)
• This statue of Narasimha in hampi was
long considered to be Ugra Narasimha
( ugra meaning Terrifying)
• However research has shown that the
statue was sculpted differently in
1528 A.D. during the rule of
Krishnadevaraya.
• The statue was mutilated and part of
the original fell down and hence the
misnomer.
• What fell off?
153. GODDESS LAKSHMI
• The statue was initially sculpted as a Lakshmi‐ Narasimha statue but during the
fall of Vijaynagara, the statue was damaged and the goddess lakshmi fell off
leaving the statue in it’s current state.
154. 13)
• Polytron technologies, a Taiwan‐based electronic and
optical glass specialists company, has developed the
prototype of the XY.
• It uses switchable glass, which contains liquid crystal
molecules and an electric current to generate a typical Y
display, though currently not all parts of XY are X.
• What is XY?
161. 15)
• Götterdämmerung is the last in Richard Wagner's cycle of four operas titled Der
Ring des Nibelungen translating to the The Ring of the Nibelung. The main lady
in the opera is the valkyrie (chooser of who is to live and die), Brunnhilde, who is
traditionally presented as a very plump lady with horned helmet, spear and
round shield. Her aria lasts almost twenty minutes and leads directly to the end
of the opera, where she lights up a funeral pyre along the banks of a river , and
mounts her horse and rides into the flame , immolating herself. Following this ,
the flames flare up , the river overflows its banks , and the ‘Gods’ are consumed
in the fire , marking the end of the ‘world’ (atleast in the play) and the play
ends.
• Despite the opera having been performed in 1876 , the Götterdämmerung is
best remembered for its female protagonist , courtesy of a common reference in
today’s world.
WHAT ?
