Oktoberfest-VIT University

1. Prelims- India Quiz
By Abhishek Balaji

2. *Q1
This is a list of companies which are the most valuable
companies in history adjusted for inflation. FITB.
• Exxon-Mobil 2007
• Apple 2012
• Microsoft 1999
• Petro China 2007
• IBM 1967
• Saudi Aramco 2012
• The South Sea Company 1720
• The Mississippi Company 1720
• _____________________

3. Q2
Some say X was first created in the kitchens by
a palace cook named Kakasura Madappa out of
some ingredients. The cook simply made a
concoction of besan, ghee and sugar. The
sweet that was formed delighted the royalties
so much that it became a 'Royal Sweet'. When
asked its name, Madappa obviously didn't have
its name, so he simply called it the X.

4. Q3
X was sued in 1986 for violations of the Gold
Control Act, for illegal production of Gold.
However, he wasn't sued because the court
was afraid how the public would react to it.
Later in December 2000, the magazine India
Today published a cover story about X with
allegations of fakery made by the magician
P. C. Sorcar Jr.
ID X who is known to be a great influence and
the guru of Isaac Tigrett who started the Hard
Rock Cafe chain.

5. *Q4
Mumbai Irani cafes occupy prime ‘corner’
locations. In fact most if not all the Irani hotels in
Mumbai are built on street corners, now
considered prime real estate so much so that
unscrupulous builders even hire gangsters to
scare away the café owners. Why were these
plots originally very cheap to buy?

6. Q5
CloudTail is a joint venture by Amazon Asia and
Catamaran Ventures, India. Cloudtail is one of the
largest sellers on Amazon, with products in almost all
categories. Y, a famous Indian IT billionaire, owns
Catamaran Ventures and has a 51% stake in Cloudtail.
ID Y

7. Q6
The etymology of the word X can be traced
back to Sanskrit, from Dravidian (Tamil
compound of (nāram) and (kāy); also Telugu,
Malayalam,and Kannada).
There are no commonly used English dictionary
words that rhyme exactly with X.

8. *Q7
X’s al-Shabaab group banned Y sometime ago because
they felt that it was too westernized and too anti-islam.
• The extremist group in fact offered no official
explanation for the ban, which are commonly cooked
up and served across the Horn of Africa.
• They refused to relax the ban even after being warned
that more than a 100,000 people might have to die of
starvation.
• The reason for the ban is that Y resembles the holy
trinity too much.
X= country
Y= food item

10. Q8
_________ was born as Gnanadesikan in
Pannaipuram, Theni district, Tamil Nadu, on
June 2, 1943. But when he joined the school his
father changed his name as "Rajaiya" but his
village people used to call him as "Raasayya".
He studied under Dhanraj Master and the
master used to call him as just “X".
In his first movie Annakili, Tamil film producer
Panchu Arunachalam added “Y" (which means
younger in Tamil) as a prefix.
• ID YX

11. Q9
Silver nitrate, on exposure to NaCl and proteins
with exposed sulphur atoms, forms salts that
are largely pale. But light soon reacts with the
silver and removes it from its compounds,
depositing it as a metal.
This chemical, is authorized for manufacture by
only one company in India sees huge demand
once in about every 4 years. It has been
exported to Thailand, Singapore, Nigeria,
Afghanistan, Malaysia and South Africa. It was
used in Cambodia in 2012.
Name the application of this chemical

12. Q10
The myth goes that X married 27 daughters of Daksha
but truly loved only one of them.
• His other wives complained about his negligent
behaviour to Daksha , who cursed him that he would
become ugly forever. As a penance X prayed to lord
Shiva to remove the curse.
however lord Shiva said that he could not completely
remove the curse , but said that whenever X lost his
beauty completely , he would again gradually gain his
beauty and the cycle would go on.
• Who is X and what resulted thus?

13. Q11
X is an American television thriller series created by
Joshua Safran, that premiered on ABC on Sunday
September 27, 2015. The series' protagonist is Alex
Parrish played by Y, who is suspected of committing a
terrorist attack. Flashbacks tell her story and the ones
of her fellow recruits at the FBI Academy in X.
The actor Y has come under a lot of criticism for her
voice modelling, especially her accent. In fact, the actor
has faced a lot of criticism in the past, when Bollywood
actress Kareena Kapoor commented “Why does she
have that accent?” on a famous talk show, Y replied
with “I got it from the same place that her boyfriend got
it from”.
ID X, Y

14. Q12
The introduction of ____ in India, is associated with a
significant decrease in the reported acceptability of
domestic violence towards women and female
foeticide, as well as increase in women’s autonomy and
decrease in infertility. There were a number of
hypotheses, from rising incomes to growing female
literacy. Those are all moderately correlated with the
decline in birthrates and could help explain the shift.
But, curiously enough, nothing seems to match up with
the trends as neatly as the introduction of ____.

15. Q13
When Jai Singh, the ruler of the now Rajasthan,
visited the showrooms of Rolls-Royce in
London, he was affronted when the salesman
implied that he couldn't afford to purchase one
of the sleek new models -- he promptly
purchased 10, shipped them home, tore their
roofs off, and used them to ______________.

16. Q14
• Put funda. It’s bigger on the inside next slide.

18. Q15
• Haryana CM has recently proposed to replace
X its electric version
• He said “Everybody should work hard to earn
their livelihood, but pulling the weight of
others is like exploitation”
• X?

19. Q16
Identify this famous Indian Social Media
Personality.
Photo on next slide. He has over 122k tweets to his
name and 203k followers on Twitter.