Garden Reach Quiz Festival (Season 1) Open General Quiz Prelims 2021
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4. Founded in 1884 as a small privately owned company on the
eastern bank of the Hooghly River, it was renamed as ____ ____
Workshop in 1916. Nationalised in 1960, it was awarded the
Miniratna status, with accompanying financial and operational
autonomy in September 2006.
Current name of this company is ____ ____ Shipbuilders &
Engineers Ltd. It is first Indian shipyard to build 100 warships.
Just FITB to get the name of the company.
Q1
6. Fellowship of the Royal Society is an award granted by the
judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who
have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of
natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering
science, and medical science". Fellowship of the Society, the
oldest known scientific academy in continuous existence, is a
significant honour.
Till date who is the only fictional character to be awarded the
honorary fellowship?
Q2
7. Sherlock Holmes
In 2002, the Royal Society of
Chemistry in Britain confered
“honorary fellowship”
to Sherlock Holmes for his use
of forensic science and
analytical chemistry in popular
literature
A2
8. Q3
Australian photographer Sheryl Holliday captured the
images of a newfound species of colorful, dancing
peacock spider & shared them on Facebook.That
brought it to the attention of Joseph Schubert, a spider
taxonomist from Australia.
What name is given to it
because of its endearing
orange face striped with
white resembling a popular
character?
10. Known as “suicide king" because he appears
to be sticking his sword into his head, is the
only king without moustache in a deck of
cards.
Which King?
Q4
12. If he is the one of only two person in this list then who is the other
one?
Q5
13. Nelson Mandela
Morarji Desai & Nelson Mandela are the only two person to win
both India & Pakistan‘s highest civilian award i.e. Bharatratna &
Nishan-e-Pakistan.
A5
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15. Q6
বাক িংহাম প্যালেলের ধ াঁচে তৈরি কি হয় পশ্চিমবচেি
এই রবখ্য ৈ প্র স দ। এটি তৈরি কি ি জন্য মহারাজা
নৃলপ্ন্দ্র নারায়ণল বহ
ু অর্ থখ্িে কিচৈ হচয়চে, মুলৈ
সসই সমচয়ি রবখ্য ৈ আরকথচিক্ট সক ম্প রন্ মার্টিন এন্ড বান ি
এই সুন্দি প্র স দটি সম ি ৫১,৩০৯ বর্ থ
ফ
ু ি এল ক ি উপি
তৈরি কচি। যরদও এটি তৈরিচৈ ইংচিজি স হ যয কচিরেল,
এই জন্য এই রিল্পকচম থসম্পুর্ থ
ভ চব কয রসকয ল ওচয়স্ট ন্ থ
তিলীি সদখ্ সমচল।
বলুন্চৈ , আমি এই প্র স দটিচক কী ন্ চম রেরন্, সযটিি
অপি ন্ ম কিক্টর জুকবকে প্যালেে ?
17. Q7
X initially began life as an application called Expedition,
which was designed by Lars and Jens Rasmussen, Noel
Gordon and Stephen Ma at Where 2 Technologies, a
Sydney-based company. Initially X was designed to be
separately downloaded by users. However, the
company later unearthed a new idea that brought major
changes in the then X. After its acquisition by Google in
October 2004, X was integrated with some core
technologies of Keyhole, another company.
Identify X.
23. Q10
The editor of Yale Book of Quotations, Fred Shapiro, recollected
that the massive impact of X, associated with a global campaign
since 2014, when Eric Garner was killed by chokehold, impelled
him to revise the list of quote of the year, thereby, making X the
top quote in 2014.
The first English song by Russian band Pussy Riot was entitled X.
Songwriter H.E.R. released a song by the same name in 2020,
when the popularity of X once again surged back.
Figure out X.
25. Q11
X's elder brother Riaz was a pivotal part of the squad that went
on to win 2004 U-19 World Cup and made a test appearance
before his career ended. X, while bowling Austin Waugh, caught
the eyes of his father Steve Waugh when the U-16 team of X’s
country toured Australia in 2015 and the later made a bold
prediction that X would soon make his senior debut and could
even find a place in 2019 World Cup. It was indeed that X was
taking little steps to international cricket in 2019. X recently
has been a threat proving himself to deadly in the trade.
Trace out X.
27. Q12
Till date Who is the only person to win a Nobel Prize and an
Olympic medal both?
28. A12
The only Olympian ever to be
awarded the Nobel Prize was
Philip Noel-Baker of Great
Britain. He won the silver in
the 1500-meter run in 1920,
and was awarded the Nobel
prize for Peace in 1959 for his
support of multilateral nuclear
disarmament.
29. Q13
Originally named Bhim Nala Water Falls, X
waterfall is located on the way connecting
Chungthang to Yumthang Valley in Lachung,
North Sikkim district, Sikkim. X is quite straight
and as tall as 275 metres.
Identify X which is named after an eminent
bollywood personality.
37. Q17
"I became a writer accidentally when I was posted in London and
I wrote X, the rags to riches story of Ram Mohammad Thomas,
only to be arrested and jailed on accusations that he cheated, in
just the last two months of my posting there. The idea for the
story came from a report in a local newspaper, about children
living in the Indian slums using mobile phones and the internet.
If a British army major can be accused of cheating, then an
ignorant tiffin boy from the world's biggest slum can definitely
be accused of cheating. I had no idea that it would become a
global bestseller.“
Identify the speaker and X.
41. Q19
The book “2 Minute revolution” by Sangeeta Talwar,
launched in 2018, captures the journey of X in India
as a revolutionary stance. Originally invented as
Bouillon capsules in 1884, X set its foot in India
approximately a century later on 6th January, 1983.
Tell me what is the revolution about in this book?