1. Q.3 In Roman times, a criminal charge meant presenting the case before a group of public individuals in
the forum. Both the person accused of the crime and the accuser would give speeches based on their
sides of the story. The individual with the best argument and delivery would determine the outcome of
the case. Which branch of science derives its name from this?
Q.4 What term,popularized by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, denotes an event or occurrence that deviates
beyond what is normally expected of a situation? It derives its name from a Latin expression, and its
oldest known expression is in poet Juvenal'scharacterisation of something being "raraavis in
terrisnigroquesimillimacygno"? It shares its name with a popular 2010 Hollywood movie.
8. According to the author,
“On June 8 I visited Fred, and gave him the manuscript of the _____ story collection. Martin Greenberg
had rejected my notion of calling it Mind and Iron and suggested it be called ____X_____.
“Impossible, Marty,” I said. “Eando Binder wrote a short story called ‘____X____’ back in 1938.”
To which Marty answered, with unassailable logic, “FuckEando Binder.”
So ____X____ it was.” Which story collection?
Q11. The city of X is one of the oldest continually established cities with the first Greeksettlements
beginning during the 2nd millennium BC. Around 9thcentury BC, a larger mainland colony called
Parthenope was developed.Around 6thcentury BC, the city was reoccupied and a new urban zone of X
(literally meaning “New City” to distinguish it fromthe old city Parthenope) was found. Id X.
Q15. Which famous Roman emperor is anecdotally said to have declaimed “Varus, give me backmy
legions” after the Roman legions under PubliusQuinctiliusVarus were slaughtered byArminius in the
Battle of Teutoberg forest?
17 When Takashi Hashiyama , CEO of a Japanese television equipment manufacturer, decided to auction
off his collection of impressionist paintings which included works by Cézanne, Picasso, and van Gogh, he
contacted two leading auction houses, Christie's International and Sotheby's Holding. Unwilling to split
up the collection into separate auctions, Hashiyama asked the firms to decide between themselves who
would hold the auction. What , “which probably looked strange to others, was decided to be the best
way to decide between two things which were equally good”? In other words how was the issue sorted
out ?
29. He looks back at his career with great regret. There are several possible reasons why he played
only one Test innings. He was selected because several players were injured and these players soon
returned and the West Indieshad a very strong batting line up during his prime with Frank Worrell,
Clyde Walcott and Everton Weekes dominating the middle order. Jeff Stollmeyer, who missed the
match with a pulled hamstring, wrote: “His innings in its later stages was not in keeping with the state
of the game and his captain Gerry Gomez was forced to send a message out to him to ‘get on with it.’”
The game was drawn and perhaps he unfairly took the blame in the eyes of the selectors. Despite
that, his name remains etched in history. Why?
2. 30. It is known by several names, including "the matrimonial", "the Mama-Papa ", "the EnglishAmerican ", and "the male superior” …
The origin of the term is explained in Malinowski's ______ Life of Savages in North-Wester Melanesia,
where Malinowski (1929) records the nearly universal use of a totally different technique among the
Trobrianders(people in the archipelago in New Guinea) and that caricatures of the English-American
technique are performed around campfires, to the great amusement of the natives who refer to what
they saw as the __________ _________. (The blank is the term)
Q.6 An aviation enterpreneur now, he has founded and run two airlines. Despite his family's disapproval,
he went ahead and made his mark in a completely different field.
He was seriously injured in an accident in 1976 in Nurburgring and came close to death. He recovered
quickly, however scars from the injuries he suffered have left him permanently disfigured. Which legend
am I talking about
Q16. In the early 1920s, Y was used to refer to the many racing courses of New York City. Yreferred to
the prizes being awarded for these races—as these were important races,the prizes were substantial or
X. John J Fitz Gerald started using X Y to reference NewYork horse-racing e.g.” <Insert generic horse
name here> is scheduled to start for the X Ytomorrow after a successful campaign at <Insert generic
racing city circuit>.“ When thismoved out of horse-racing circles and into the general public awareness,
it became theorigin story for what?