1. History Society, Department of History
&
AITIHASIKI
(Alumni Association of History Department)
PRESENTS
VIDUSHI 2k17
GENERAL QUIZ
STAGE ROUND
2. IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO KNOW
• THE QM has prepared the questions in a bad
mood, so its either his way or take high way.
• For next two hours this AUDI is like North
Korea so no snooping, googling etc.
• Decision of the QM is like AAKASHWANI.
• Still… ALL THE BEST !!!
4. Q.1
In May 2017, the domain name,
www.iuquerfsodp9ifjaposdfjhgosurifaewrwergw
ea.com did what remarkable thing that it saved
many clients from tears?
6. Q.3
This 2017 book’s title is about a boy named
William Wallace, his father and a Buddhist
concept of a state between death and before
being born again. Name this award winning
book.
8. Q.5 FITB
Akshay Kumar’s ________ is inspired from the
life of Arunachalam Muruganantham who made
it his life motive to ensure that women in rural
India practised hygienic habits during
mensuration.
11. Q.1
In October 2017, the World Wildlife Fund
(WWF) for Nature in India, announced that it
had photographed this ‘vulnerable’ animal for
the first time in Arunachal Pradesh. Which
animal, whose scientific name is ‘Panthera
Uncia’?
12. Q.2
There are more than 25 climbers from India who
have scaled Mt. Everest with each achieving one
or another record in a certain category. Recently.
Ratnesh Pandey from Indore, scaled the summit
in his second attempt. What unique record he
made and became the first in world to do so?
14. Q.4 FITB
“We, the citizens are fighting that ______ was
incorporated under Article 370 which gave
President Exclusive Rights”
“Article 368, however says that amendment can
only be done by the Parliament”
15. Q.5
This Indian is originally hailed to be the real
person behind calculating the altitude of Peak
XV. However, the British stole his legacy and
named the peak with some other name to
honour a British Officer. Name the Indian.
16. Q.6
Before the adoption of Euro, in which country
would have you been purchasing an ice cream
for five drachmas ?
30. Q.5
This interesting phenomenon is created by
mixing 15% dye, 65% trichloroethylene & 25%
diesel oil and injecting into the hot exhaust from
the Jet engine. It vaporises immediately after
reaching high temperature. The pilot releases
the liquid mix one of the three buttons on the
control column. Which phenomenon that we
witness quite a few times every year?
31. Q.6
This Gentleman was the first US Prez. to be born
in a hospital. He helped ending a war between
Egypt and Israel and after his president term he
founded an organisation which was responsible
for the near eradication of Guinea Worm
Disease. Tell me this charismatic personality
who is also a Nobel Prize Winner.
35. Q.2
Muhammad Ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi was an
Iranian scholar and a prominent figure in the
Islamic Golden age. He was the 1st to teach X in
an independent disciple and thus rightly called
the father of X. Moreover, the latinisation of his
name ‘al-Khwarizmi’ led to the evolution for
another word Y, which means ‘a set of rules to
be followed in calculations’.
TELL ME X & Y (PART POINTS)
37. Q.4
G G Arnold 1972
C H Lloyd 1973
Injamam-Ul-Haq 1991
Sadagoppan Ramesh 1999
B. Kumar 2012
What unique achievement do they all have in
common?
38. Q.5
They are five in number viz. Chicacole,
RajaMundry, Ellore, Kondapulli and Guntur. They
are the northern parts of something of whose
the southern part is called Coromandel Coast.
Think Geographically and give me the name of
the northern part, that bears a resemblance
with the word subah.
39. Q.6
Julia Lorraine Hill is an environmentalist, who is
best known for her struggle to save a Californian
Redwood Tree, Luna from Pacific Lumber
Company. However, unlike the Chipko
Movement in India, she did something unusual
and the only of its kind to save that tree.
What did she do that continued for 738 days?
43. BONUS QUESTION
Bhawna Aggarwal, recently filed a petition in
Delhi High Court against a luxury housing project
and X, a sports personality for being unable to
build a proposed sports academy & commercial
space for clothing & sports wear. Acting on her
plea, the Delhi HC has ordered an FIR against X
and Homestead Company. Who is X?
44. BONUS QUESTION
Suraj is an orphan who affected by his past &
the cruelty in his life turns to crime fighting. He
has a concealed identity behind his mask.
Published by Raj Comics his superhero name is
supposed to come from the animal mask he
wears which is known for its loyalty. But the
actual reason is that it is a tribute to his four
uncles who runs four institutions – Den, Occult,
Gym & Aim. Tell me his superhero name.
46. BONUS QUESTION
R K Singh is a 1975 batch IAS Officer who became a
first time MP from Ara Bihar, just sworn in as
Minister of State at the Union Level.
He is termed as a ‘no nonsense officer’ who red
flagged Tatra BEML deal, accused Sushil Kumar
Shinde in IPL spot fixing case.
However he is more known for arresting X in 1990,
who was coming from Somnath. Singh was DM of
Samastipur at that time and Lalu Prasad Yadav was
the CM. IDENTIFY X
47. BONUS QUESTION
X made a cameo appearance in 2015 movie,
explaining about credit and housing bubble. In
one of the scenes he is seen explaining Selena
Gomez ‘hot hand fallacy’, in which people think
whatever is happening now will continue to
happen in future. Identify X who is the founder
of Behavioural Insights Team, a part of British’s
Cabinet.
48. BONUS QUESTION
Rhinoceros Unicornis is an endangered animal
found only in India. Currently there are only
3500 of these lovely animals in a small area.
Since, 1996 it has become quite popular and
reached the hands of common man. Where
have you seen this beautiful animal most
recently?