2. PRELIMS
Rules of the game:
30 questions
Questions 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 are starred and will serve as
in-built tie-breakers
Write your team name, name and class of the participants on
top of the sheet
Preferably use only one side of the paper. If you run out of
space vertically, fold the paper so as to make 2 columns.
The quizmasters’ decision is final and binding.
3. 1.
Apart from India, 3 other countries
celebrate their Independence days on
the 15th of August. If Bahrain and the
Republic of Congo are two of
them, which is the third?
31. *15.
A common Bengali youth living with his
father’s younger brother in a joint family in
Ballygunge, he played as a middle order
batsman and slow spin bowler for Calcutta
University against Lucknow University. His
father, the late Jaykrishna Mitra, used to
teach Mathematics and Sanskrit at Dhaka
Collegiate School.
33. 16.
The meat dish devapčidi or cevapi is served
all over the former Yugoslavia, as also in
several other Central European countries.
This name is derived from a rough and
ready culinary invention created by Persian
soldiers who had nothing but meat, sword
and fire. What is the familiar name?
37. 18.
He was born and raised
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a Bengali father and
a white American mother. His father, Noni Gopal, was
a Bengali freedom revolutionary, who having been
imprisoned for his political activities, fled Calcutta in
the 1920s in order to avoid further prosecution by
the British colonial police.
He completed his PhD in Electrical Engineering from
MIT and founded a company with net worth of
$1.8bn. Name the company.
*picture on next slide
42. *20.
The Oxford English Dictionary records
the use of this term as a suffix
attached to anything to indicate
‘scandal involving’ since 1973. What
term?