TransIT 2009- General Quiz- Finals

8/14/2019 TransIT 2009- General Quiz- Finals

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Dept of Instrumentation Technology, RVCE

TransIT 2009

General Quiz

Siri

PadmaGovind


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Finals


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Long Visual Connect

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Literary Awards


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The Jerusalem Prize


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Best full-

length novel

written in

English by a

woman of

any

nationality

The Orange Prize for Fiction


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The IMPAC Dublin Literary Award


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The Costa Lit award

for authors in the

UK


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Literary Reviewsaward for Bad Sex in

Fiction


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Books in Canada award or the Amazon.ca award for best first

novel


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Hugo Award for ScienceFiction


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Franz Kafka Prize


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Pulitzer Prize


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Sahitya Akademi


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Man Group


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PEN/O Henry Award for Short Stories


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Agatha award for Crime Fiction of no sex/violence, amateur

detective fiction


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Hutch/Vodafone Crossword Award


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Nobel Prize for Literature


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Jnanpith


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Pile on the ____ _____ _____

To gratify your greed;

Go, clear away the "niggers"Who progress would impede;

Be very stern, for truly

'Tis useless to be mild

With new-caught, sullen peoples,

Half devil and half child.

A parody of a more well

known poem. Fill in the

Blanks.


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The Brown Mans Burden after The White Mans Burden byRudyard Kipling


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Rajaji, the second Governor-General of independent India, played a

significant role, in her initiation into politics.Soon after joining Swatantra Party, she wrote to Rajaji informing him

of her decision and received a reply thanking her and telling her that

she was a brave lady. Rajaji ,later wrote an article in the party

newspaper, which he edited, comparing her with the Rani of Jhansi.

Who are we talking about?


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Maharani Gayatri devi


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the Constitution permits Congress to

protect authors writings, and photographs

are neither writings nor the work of

authors; instead, they are merereproductions of nature, created by the

operator of a machine


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Bayuex tapestry depicting?


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Halleys comet


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Through the latter part of the 19th century and well into the

20th century, the ____ _ ____ trade expanded greatly to satisfy

the needs of the growing industrial population of Great Britain.The development of the steam trawler brought it in from all

over the North Atlantic, Iceland and Greenland and the steam

railways allowed easy and fast distribution around the country.

THE typical retail ____ _ ____ is run by its owners, usually

husband and wife and with part-time help, represents a

continuing tradition which goes back in Great Britain to theearly days of the 19th century.


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Fish and chips


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Put funda


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Sarkozy recounting on his Facebook page

about how he rushed to Berlin on the

morning of November 9th and was able to

chip away at the Wall with a pickaxe later

that evening.


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Lord Louis Mountbatten was Chief of Combined Operations, who

encouraged scientists to produce ideas however fantastic duringsecond world war.

Habbakukwas the idea of a scientist called Geoffrey Pyke. His idea

was that because ______was unsinkable, the ships would be

insulated and impervious to bomb and torpedo attacks. The idea

was taken up by Mountbatten and in December 1942, Churchill was

convinced that the idea was worth pursuing. One problem had to be

overcome. _____ split too easily and Pyke suggested the addition of

some kind of building material could solve the problem. In 1943, two

American scientists made a compound out of paper pulp and sea

water which was almost as strong as concrete. This substance was

named Pykecrete, after Pyke. What was the material considered?


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Ice


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Drawn using iPhone


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A legend has it that the goddess Gangasdescent from the heavens would have splitthe earth had lord Shiva not tamed it bytying it into his ash smeared locks. They saythis region is a heavenly braid. A further

twist to the tale is in the rivers final stages.There is a point where the braid comesundone, Shivas matted hair is washedapart into a vast knotted tangle. Whatregion?


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Sunderbans


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First as the foster daughter of Brahma, she was known

as Lopamudra, later she became the wife of Agasthya.Agasthya confines her in a pot, and betrays her, to gobathe in the downstream Kanak. The furious Cauveryspills out of the pot, and flows away as a raging, rushingriver, cascading and looping across the countryside

of______, pursued by the chastened Agasthya. Theyalso say that, at the village of Balamuri, where sheswerved right to avoid Agasthya, who tried to obstructher, she washed over the ______women, waiting to stopher flight from their land. This they say made the womenunique in a way. How?


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The pleats of their sarees worn by Coorgi

women were swept from front to back and it is

worn like that to this day.


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Id x and y

Much of the writing about the film of________ ___________acknowledges that when Hollywood bought therights to the story, he wanted X to play Y. Most accounts treatthis as yet another of his many idiosyncrasies, X whom heknew well, was raised in Texas, and her parallels with his Y donot end there. She was a depression-era orphan who was

both exploited and saved by older men. She is befriended byan extremely short, powerful Hollywood agent who recognisesher potential and helps her reinvent herself, renaming her andproviding her with access to education and a moresophisticated veneer. He also wrote of his own alter ego, theunnamed narrator of_______s, was never able to shed hissense of belonging on the margins


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X- Marilyn Monroe

Y- Holly GolightlyBreakfast At Tiffanys


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Connect


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Put blank

When_______ , the British Raj's foreign ministerin India, took a red pencil to a map of thefragmenting empires run by________and Delhiin 1914, it is doubtful he would have envisaged

the events that would haunt the region decadeslater. After the British left India and theCommunist takeover ofChina, the _______

______became a de facto boundary. ThenChina swallowed Tibet in 1950, leaving Delhi

and Beijing to claim swaths of each other'sterritory along the Himalayan border. The resultwas war in 1962


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McMahon line


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Stage 2


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A great flood ravaged the domain of Hyderabad in 1908three years prior to the ascent of the _______throne,one of his first assignments was to invite ________toadvise him on how a similar flood could be controlledand excess water be put to good use. In accordance withhis suggestion, the embankment of the Musi River andconstruction of the Himayat Sagar Dam and osmansagar dam at Gandipet were undertaken. If the old citysuffered minimum damage in the recent flood two yearsago the credit goes to the _______for his foresight andcommitment to the welfare of his people. ID both


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Until 1977 no women were elected to______

_____, because the will as interpreted by the

_______Trust Acts of Parliament confined the

awards to 'male students. After much lobbying ,Secretary of State for Education made an order

in 1976 declaring _______Scholarships to be

tenable by women, and nullifying the effect of

the words 'manly' and 'manhood' in the will. Alsoduring world war 2 German nationals were not

considered for _______ _____


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_______ _______followed Fa Hein nearly after a gap oftwo centuries. The object of his travel was to visit theholy land of his religion. He observes the ascendancy ofBrahmanism thanks to the impetus given by the Guptaswho ruled then. after his extensive touring of Indiavisiting places like Kashmir valley, visited________, andreached Mathura, where he saw the sacred traces ofLord Buddha at Kashi. He went to Kapilavastu,Kushinagar, Pataliputra, Vaishali, Mahabodhi. Hereturned by the same route to China.


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Born into a poor family in _______, in what is now the Ardennes

dpartement, Robert de ______ entered the Church and was educated in

Reims and Paris. He was noted for his piety and attracted the patronageof the Comte d'Artois and King Louis IX of France, later known as Saint

Louis. He became the canon of Cambrai around 1251 before being

appointed canon of Paris and the king's confessor in 1258.

______ began to teach around 1253 and in 1257 established the Maison

de ________, a college in Paris originally intended to teach theology to

twenty poor students. It was sponsored by King Louis and received theendorsement of Pope Alexander IV in 1259. It subsequently grew into a

major centre of learning and became the core of what would become the

larger institution we know today.


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_____is his dhrubatara (guiding star) and _______is theplace where he comes to seek peace." He visits herevery winter, towards the end of December when________conducts its convocation and when the PausMela is held. During his visits, he does the rounds of the

ashram on his bicycle, stops by for a round ofadda (chatsession) at Kalor Dokan, a tea-cum-sweetmeat stall atRatan Palli, and frequents the Subarnarekha bookshop.Indranath Mazumdar, owner of Subarnarekha, said thatduring his visits to _______,______always looked up hisold friends who still live there. "Clad in kurta-pyjama, he

would stand in the queue to buy a railway ticket from_______ to Calcutta, and no one would guess that he isa Professor


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For Kannada _________gave Shri Ramayana Darshanam.As with other poets of his stature, ________as he isknown, greatly handles the sublime material.

Divided into four books (Ayodhya, Kishkinda, Lanka and

Shree), the epic concludes with Rama's coronationdescribed in terms of the glory and grandeur of MotherNature. The epic opens with ______obeisance to worldpoets including Firdausi and Sri Aurobindo andconcludes with the assurance that the rasa-laden poesy

of the Ramayana is greater than Rama's incarnationitself.


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Universities


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The Last Nizam- Osmania

Vishweshwaraiah


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Annavaru- translates to big brother

Anna Univ


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Banaras - BHU


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Hiuen tsang- Nalanda


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Sorbonne University of Paris


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Amartya sen- Tagore- Visva bharathiuniversity


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Kuvempu


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Gilbert's elaborate masterwork ___ _____ __ _____ ______was

exhibited to much acclaim in 1850 at London's British Institution.

The crowded tableau is arranged as if on a stage, a formatadopted from Raphael's School of Athens (Vatican), with the main

characters from the tragedies in the foreground, historical figures

in the middle, and magical and supernatural beings in the upper

region.


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The Plays of William Shakespeare


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Connect


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Indian Summers


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Ram Jethmalani defended

Manu Sharma, Ketan Parekh,

Harshad Mehta and Satwant

and Kehar Singh in court.


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___ _____was founded by Hubert Beuve-Mry at the request

of General Charles de Gaulle after the German army was

driven from Paris during World War IItook over the format

ofLe Temps, whose reputation had suffered during the

Occupation. Beuve-Mry reportedly demanded total

independence as the condition for his taking on the project.

Its first edition appeared on December 19, 1944. __ _____

has been available on the Internet since December 19, 1995.


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X was a British tobacco importer and cigarette

manufacturer formed in Bristol, England in the late 18thcentury. Their first product was the "Bristol". "Three

Castles" and "Gold Flake" were other major products. In

1901, the Imperial Tobacco Company was formed from a

merger of X and seven other minor British tobacco

companies. Imperial remains one of the world's largest

tobacco companies. In India the Gold Flake range of

cigarettes (my brand, and that's why i've actually noticed

it) manifactured by ITC (formerly Imperial Tobacco

company India) still prints X on the cigarettes to honor one

of the biggest players in tobacco history. X?


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ID


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She was born and brought up in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh and is

currently married to Chetan Anand. She began to play at the age of10 under Mr. S. M. Arif.

He was born at Ramanattukara, in the Calicut district to

Karunakaran and Lalitha. He completed his graduation from

Farook College, Calicut. He started his career by representingCalicut University at All India University Championships.

ID

V Diju and Jwala Gutta First Indian pair to win a Grand Prix Gold


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V Diju and Jwala Gutta. First Indian pair to win a Grand Prix Gold

in Badminton


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This story is told by Sister, whose grandfather, Papa-

Daddy, has gotten her a job as postmistress of the

smallest post office in Mississippi. Sister is livingpeaceably with her family when her younger sister, Stella-

Rondo, returns home from an apparently failed

marriage/elopement with a two-year-old daughter, Shirley

T. No sooner does she move in then Stella-Rondo is back

to her old tricks as the family favorite. No matter how tall

Stella-Rondo's tales are, the family believes her, and Sisterremains the family scapegoat. Finally, to protest her

dispossession, Sister rebels by moving away from home--

to the local post office.

This is the synopsis of a story titled Why I Live at The

P.O by Pulitzer prize winner X, also the author of Deathof a Traveling Salesman and The Optimists Daughter.

This story inspired Steve Dorner, a software engineer to

name his creation X, a popular tool in the mid-late nineties.


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Eudora Welty


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______ ____ ____ ______" is a song composed by Vivian Stanshall

and Neil Innes and performed by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. It

was included on their 1967 album.


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Henry X was born in Chorley, Lancashire, the son of a clergyman.

When he was 13, he became a grocer's apprentice in Liverpool. After

a seven-year apprenticeship, he was able to set up his own shop. In

1872, he purchased the patent from German Eugen Langen on a

method of making sugar cubes, and in the same year built a new

refinery in Liverpool. X made many donations, often anonymously,and always discreetly. They included 42,500 for Liverpool

University, 3500 for Bedford College for Women, and 5000 for

building a free library in Streatham; additional provisions were made

for libraries in Balham, South Lambeth, and Brixton. His most famous

donation of course is to X.


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Tanstaaflis central to Robert

Heinlein's 1966 libertarian

science fiction novel The

Moon is a Harsh Mistress,

which popularized it. The

free-market economist

Milton Friedman also

popularized the phrase by

using it as the title of a 1975

book, and it often appears in

economics textbooks;

Campbell McConnell writes

that the idea is "at the coreof economics".


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There Aint No Such Thing As A Free Lunch


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5 6 7

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Magazines


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Debonair by Dope


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Mumbai se aaya mera dost

-Bappi Lahiri


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Soldier of Fortune- Deep Purple


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Riding to Vanity Fair by


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Paul McCartney


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Vogue by Madonna


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Time- Pink Floyd


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