2. QUESTION 1
Dr. Ambik Majumdar, well-versed in musical
notations, adapted the notations to the song
while another Indian played it on the piano. The
final version was given to Dr. Eigel kruettge, the
conductor of the radio symphony orchestra of
Hamburg, who made minor changes to it before
coming up with the final piece. What was thus
done for the first time?
3. QUESTION 2
Painting by Fournier. There are many stories to how the person
being cremated died – his boat sank, or it capsized, he was
killed for political reasons, attacked by pirates, etc. Who?
5. QUESTION 3
Which term was introduced by Wilford E.
Deming, in one of his articles, for the magazine
“The American Cinematographer” ? [Hint : The
term was basically a portmanteau of two words]
6. QUESTION 4
Which event sparked the set up of The
Astronomical Society of India, in 1910, with 192
members from all over Calcutta?
7. *QUESTION 5
If the El Classico involves Real Madrid and
Barcelona, whom does the „O Classico‟
involve?
8. QUESTION 6
When Alexander The Great‟s army invaded
India what did they refer to as “Honey-filled
bamboos” ?
9. QUESTION 7
Sir, your profile of Satyajit Ray (Aug 9)
states that I “Prompted” him to take
action against the producers of E.T for
lifting ideas from the 1967 screenplay,
The Alien (co-authored by my then
partner , Mike Wilson). I wrote to Ray
pointing out some striking parallels
between the two screenplays and
suggesting that he contact Spielberg.
My chief concern – and Ray‟s – was
that he might be accused of plagiarism,
if The Alien was ever made.
Who wrote this letter (beside)?
10.
11. QUESTION 8
If
New York city = Gotham
Hiawatha, Kansas = _____________ ?
12. QUESTION 9
Fill in the blank (exhaustive list in all probability)
Ron Barassi (football player)
Dick Reynolds (football player)
Leigh Matthews (football player)
Haydn Bunton, Sr. (football player)
Don Bradman (cricket player)
Keith Miller (cricket player)
Bill Ponsford (cricket player)
Dennis Lillee (cricket player)
______________________
Betty Cuthbert (track and field)
Shirley Strickland (track and field)
13. *QUESTION 10
He is an air-force pilot by profession and works
under the name Flight Lieutenant W. Wales. He
took his first overseas military tour to Mt.
Pleasant air base, Falkland islands in February
2012. Who are talking about ?
14. QUESTION 11
X is a „chief happiness officer‟ by profession
since 2003 and is the second most recognizable
character in the world, only after Santa Claus. His
friends include the Hamburglar, Grimace, Birdie
the Early Bird, and The Fry Kids. Identify X?
(Only the correct name will fetch full points)
15. QUESTION 12
According to an advertisement, dated 27 th Magh,
1279 (according to the Bengali calendar), from
the Manomohan Basu edited magazine
Madhyastha, something happened for the first
time as a part of that year‟s Chaitra/Paus Mela.
This was the first ever specimen of something
that has now become an indispensible part of our
city-calendar. What was it the first specimen of ?
16. QUESTION 13
Born on 10 March 1985, an outspoken
political figure. He considers himself a
socialist and is a friend of Venezuelan
president Hugo Chávez. He started his
career in Italy in 2003. But later he faced a
controvery in 2007 and disqualified for a
quite a bit of time. Presently he is again
climbing upwards in his career. Who?
17. QUESTION 14
What is unique about the first series of books by
Janet Evanovich where Stephanie Plum is the
main character, the first book of the series being
“One for the Money”?
18. *QUESTION 15
In Sweden, every year only ten applications, to move
graves, are accepted. When X‟s daughter applied for X
wife‟s grave to be moved from its original site to a place
beside X‟s grave in 2007, the quotas were already
fulfilled. Eventually X-wife‟s grave was moved but she
had to be buried under X‟s name, thus making X,
officially, the only person to have two graves under his
name. In 2011, Bank of Sweden announced that 2014
onwards X's portrait will feature on the country‟s 200
kronor banknote. Identify X.
19. QUESTION 16
If legends are to believed, once this weapon was
drawn out in battle, it had to taste blood. If the
owner couldn‟t use it to kill/injure others he
would have to make himself bleed. Which
weapon ?
20. QUESTION 17
The technique was named _________ , derived from the
French word for glue by Picasso and Georges Braque in
the beginning of the 20th century, and was first used at
the time of the invention of paper in China, around 200
BC. However it was later popularized by the Japanese
calligraphers, who used it while writing their poems.
Nowadays though the technique is not quite related to
poem writing, but a common phenomenon in another
field. Fill in the blank.
21. QUESTION 18
Which person along with two of his daughters authored “The Meat Free
Monday Cookbook” as a part of the Meat-Free Monday Campaign?
22.
23. QUESTION 19
This Car company was founded as the Swallow
Sidecar Company by Sir William Lyons in 1922,
originally making motorcycle sidecars before
evolving into passenger cars. The name was
changed to X after the Second World War to
avoid the unfavorable connotations of the SS
initials (Schutzstaffel, a major paramilitary
organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi
Party.).Identify X.?
24. *QUESTION 20
Although native to
Tibet, the large-scale
poaching of this animal is
currently a major problem
in India. It is the source of
a very famous Indian
product (although
currently banned). What is
the product?
25. *QUESTION 21
Whose accounts were for the first time put
to paper by his fellow prisoner, Rustichello
di Pisa ?
26. QUESTION 22
The ones who introduced this word seem unsure about its
actual meaning but sources have confirmed that it is an Urdu
word. The meaning though is still ambiguous, but the
probable list of meanings include specifications like:-
• son of love
• a mad lover who starts flying.
• Lovers from two different communities (mostly religious)
27. QUESTION 23
What, for the first time, appeared on
January 10th, 1929, in the newspaper, Le Xxe
Siecle ?
28. QUESTION 24
The picture on your right is of a
5-inch aperture Zeiss telescope.
It was given to the Rana of
Nepal, in 1938, by Hitler. Later
on, The Rana‟s son then gave it
away to X, in 1968, as a gift of a
feat X had achieved. X
eventually passed it on to the
Himalayan Mountaineering inst.
Darjeeling (Photo on the right.).
Identify X.
