Guwahati Omnibus - The General Quiz

THE OMNIBUS SET of GUWAHATI OMNIBUS: the GENERAL QUIZ

• This word featured primarily in a song is a modification of a word with suffix ‘r’ which in Tamil means leader or boss. The word comes form the root meaning to lead or head people is used for Rajnikant.

• Thalaiva

X is an American English Slang Interjection. It is often used in the Southern united States as a substitute for the response "Here" to acknowledge one's presence during a roll call.It is also being used as a gender neutral pronoun among children in BaltimoreIn the Spanish language, it is the word for the first person personal pronoun I.

• Yo

“_____________________________ conceived such an idea of a cultural centre for the first time and proposed Pragjyotish Kala Kendra to preserve and promote the beautiful cultural elements of the people of the state. Several others lent support to the idea , but it had to wait till August 5, 1986, the date on which the Cultural Advisory Committee of the State Government in a meeting , decided for setting up a cultural centre .” These lines describe how Srimanta Sankerdev Kalakshetra project was initiated. Fill in the blanks to name its pioneer.

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Bishnu Prasad Rabha

What has been blanked out?

• It is situated in the Colaba locality of Mumbai. This is considered a sensitive coastal area by the Indian Defence forces and is the location of various Indian defence establishments. . The place has been in news for the alleged violations of environmental rules. The name of this ‘idyllic’ building? Name.

• Long walk to freedom

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LEFT HAND RIGHT HAND DRIVING

*. Chapters of which book?

• What do school teachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?

• How is Ku Klux Klan like a group of real estate agents?

• Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?• Where have all the criminals gone?• What makes a perfect parent?• Perfect parenting or would a Roshanda by any

other name smell as sweet?

• Freakonomics

Before bitch, what cometh

• I am a Ceo

Whose Drawings?.

• Galileo

. What was this chart used for?

• To sort out jews in Germany under the Nuremburg laws

The name of this weapon and the assamese household name that comes from it?

• Kotari

2. The Exact term that two symbols represent

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• These are semaphore symbols for N and D for nuclear disarmament and thereby lead to

3. The location!

• The Odessa Steps

The name of the recent astronomical phenomenon that comes from this?

• Comet ISON• These are the locations of International

Scientific Optical Network (ISON)

• Agarwood/oud/oodh is a dark resinous heartwood. The resin embedded wood is val ued in many cultures for its distinctive fragrance, and thus is used for incense and perfumes. But the bark of this tree has also an utility for which was used extensively in Assam.

• The use/name

• Xasipaat/ Sasipaat• Used for writing

In 1992 Bhanwari Devi a social worker in Rajasthan was brutally gang raped by a number of upper class men , because she had tried to stop a child marriage. Bhanwari Devi was determined to get justice and lodged a case against the offenders. However, the accused was acquitted by a trial court . This appalling in justice, together with the fighting spirit of Bhanwari Devi , inspired several women ’s groups an d NGOs to file a petition in the Supreme Court. Thus the Supreme Court passed a historic Judgement that is known by a two word term. Give the term

• Vishakha Guidelines

Significance of these paintings?This set is for 2013

• These paintings are attached to the Nobel Prize Diploma.

• The Sets change every year

All these pic connects to something that we heard and hear.

• The BBC time pips that is heard before the radio news

• The director of National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) was encouraged by this person to examine PETA’s Central Board of Secondary Education approved programme for incorporation into its textbooks.

• He also wrote a letter to Health Minister Gulam Nabi Azad urging him to implement non-animal methods of teaching in medical courses.

• Give me this name of the person who has been named as the Person of the Year by the animal rights body PETA – India for taking steps to advance animal protection.

• Sashi Tharoor

Identify him. He did that to return something to the his country which he assumed was rightfully their country’s which made him

a thief.

• vincenzo peruggia, who stole the Monalisa

.• It is a principle of parsimony,

economy, or succinctness used in logic and problem-solving. It states that among competing hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be selected.

• It was named after this person who was a monk and gave the concept Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate [Plurality must never be posited without necessity].

• Which principle

• Ockham’s Razor

• It was formed in the year 1943 at the at the background of the second world war and the Bengal famine. It staged the play Nibanna (Nananna) which means harvest, which displayed the exploitation of farmers by the Bengali land owners. Many famous personalities of Indian Movies, art and Drama were associated with it. Name it.

• IPTA: Indian People’s theatre association

• Mexico’s television series Ven Conmingo (come with me) which promted family planning was inspired from the Peruvian telenovella Simplimente Maria, which tells the story of a Mexican girl getting rich by sewing clothes.

• In the year 1983, David Pointdexter, the president of Centre for population communication international, New york facilitated the S S Gill, secretary in the ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India to meet Miguel Sabido, the producer of the Mexican Series. He came back and met Shobha Doctor, P Kumar Vasudev and Satish Garg. It led to the beginning of what?

• Hum Log

• This person is Fulfiling a famous Person’s wishes.Identify him and what is He doing?

• He is Gopinath Bordoloi.• He is immersing the ashes of Mahatma Gandhi

in Bramhaputra

• It is illegal, indigenous and is western UP’s swadeshi gift to the nation. It is priced between 500 to 1000 depending on the quality. In the 19th century, there was a gangsters’ moll by the name of X Jaan, famous for her mellifluous singing as for her other ‘skill’. It is said to be invented by ironsmiths in the industrial belt between Meerut to Bareilly and Rampur. Its factories can be seen at Meerut Kotwali, Sohrab Gate, Islamabad, Sardhana, Ganeshpur, Khurja, Dadri, Ghaziabad, Muzaffarnagar, Budhana, Shamli and Saharanpur areas.

The sale of these invariably go up during the election time

• Gimme the X

• Tamancha

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• According to Aristotle he is the first person to act on the stage as an actor playing a character in a play. In other sources, he is said to have introduced the first principal act or in addition to the chorus. It is implied that he invented acting in the Western world, and that prior to his performances, no one had ever assumed the resemblance of another person for the purpose of story telling . In fact , he is the first known actor in written plays. How has his legacy endured in the english language?

• Thespian

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• It has two varieties ‘Tropical’ and ‘Oak’ produced by Antheraea mylitta and Antheraea proyeli J respectively. The former one thrive on the food plants Asan and Arjun and the later on Oak. The product the ‘tropical’ one produces is of copperish colour, coarse and is mainly used for interiors and furnishings. The ‘oak’ variety is finer of the two. However both of them are inferior to the mulberry variant that only North East India produces. Give me the name of the product?

• Tasar Silk

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• There are four isoceles triangles pointing upward representing Shiva and five downwards representing Shakti. Thus it forms nine interlocking triangles. The triangles are enclosed by two concentric lotuses of 8 and 16 petals each. It has got broken lines on the borders on the four sides. Three dimensionally it is known as the Mahameru. Name this design that we find in the Hindu households and establishments.

• Shriyantra

.• Nachiketa was the son of Vajashravasa. Disturbed

by his father’s act when the later was giving away sick cows after a yagna he pestered his father by asking him whom he would give his son, i.e. him to. His father enraged said that he would send him to death. Thus he went to Yama, who was out and waited for him for three days. Yama impressed by him granted him three wishes. Nachiketa in his second wish asked the knowledge of proper performance of Vedic sacrifice in order to gain immortality. At this Yama granted a boon to name something after him. What?

• Yama Named the Yagna fire after him. The Yagna fire is known as Nachiketa

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Give me the Story

• Turing was indicted as a Homosexual which was considered a crime for which Alan Turing reportedly committed suicide by taking the apple injected with cyanide.

• He is said to have got the idea from watching the Disney movie ‘Snow white and Seven Dwarves’.

• This is the royal pardon that was issued in his name only a few days back.

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• According to the Buddhist Jataka The Kouliya Kshatriyas ruled in the foothills of Himalaya democratically and was one of the tribal republican states at the time of Buddha. It is said that mother of Buddha, Maya Devi came from this tribe and they also became the keeper of body part of Buddha. In the later age they are said to have moved to Orissa, Bihar and Eastern parts of Himalayan foothills. Give me the name of the people of this lineage

• Kalitas of Assam

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Connect them all

Connection is Elder tree

• The Elder wand in Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows.

• The Elder wand is one of the hallows.• Judas Commited Suicide on the elder tree

after betraying Jesus

• This environmental phenomenon that plagues rampantly this country. Even when a major sporting event was supposed to happen in that country’s capital concern was raised about its impacts.

• Recently praising it the state news agency of this country published an article “The five gains of X” namely "uniting people“ because X is the common enemy, "equality“ because rich and poor encounter it etc.

• What is X?

• SMOG• The article was published in China

• Chilkur Balagi Temple is an ancient Hindu temple of Lord Balaji on the banks of Osman Sagar Lake near Hyderabad, India. It is 17 km from Mehedipatnam.

• Legend says that when a devotee who used to visit the Tirupati could not visit due to his ill health Lord Balaji Came to his dreams and said that he in a jungle nearby. The person then found the idol of Balaji nearby and a temple was made. Thus people who can’t go to Tirupati get their blessings from that temple

• The temple is a place where a certain section of people visit to facilitate their passage to ‘where’?

• Thus giving him what name?

• Visa for America

• Visa Balaji

Statueof Whom?

• Clue:Come and Get it

• Leonidas

What?

• Saivites use Bibhuti in three horizontal lines. A bindu of sandalwood paste with a dot of kumkum in the centre is often set with the vibhuti

• Vaishnavas apply clay from a holy river or place (such as Vrindavanam or the Yamuna river) which is some times mixed with sandalwood paste. They apply the material in two vertical lines, which may be connected at the bottom forming either a simple U shape or with an additional marking in the shape of a basil leaf

• Shaktas use Kumkuma. They either make a dot or a vertical line

• Tilaka

• This rhyme was by Shakespearean scholar James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps in the year 1842. The poem represents the seven stages of man from the play ‘As you like it’ by Shakespeare where

• the character, Jacques speaks a famous monologue that begins with the line, "All the world's a stage". This poetic monologue describes the stages of a man's life as the following:

1 ) Infancy - The man is a baby2) Childhood - School-aged years3) Lover - The first experience with love, the deepest of emotions4 ) Soldier - Violent and 'manly ', the man is exposed to dangers5) Justice - Years have given the man wisdom and prosperity6) Old Age - A period of decline7 ) Death - T he man's end

The rhyme?

The Brand.

• Oriflame

Surabhi was a socio cultural programme that that ran from 1993-2001. It has the credit of having the largest measured audience response ever in the history of Indian television in Limca Book of Records.

There was primarily an overwhelming response to the weekly Quiz. There was so much response that it prompted a public sector entity to take a novel step . What?

• Competition Postcard by India Post

Conference United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992

Host Government Brazil

Number of Governments participating 172, 108 at level of heads of State or Government

Conference Secretary-General Maurice F. Strong, Canada

Organizers UNCED secretariatPrincipal themes Environment and sustainable development

Resulting document Agenda 21, the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, the Statement of Forest Principles, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity

42Give me The Popular name of this meeting

Earth Summit

THANK YOU !