The document appears to be a quiz with multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions about topics related to India including motorcycles, poets, aviation insignia, business magnates, yoga concepts, protests, fashion designers, a song reference, and visual/word puzzles. It includes the structure and scoring of different rounds of the quiz.
25. 1
X was a two-stroke motorcycle made in India
by Escorts group from 1983 to 1990. It was a
licenced copy of the very popular Yamaha
RD350B, modified to suit Indian conditions.
Many Indian motorcycle connoisseurs
consider it to be the best two-stroke ever
made in India. X was named to mean a
ROYAL MESSENGER. Though production
has long ceased, the X remains an iconic
and desirable motorcycle among Indian
riding enthusiasts, with well-maintained
28. 2
A story of Kalidasa goes as follows. Kalidasa
was a great Indian poet in King Bhoja’s court.
King Bhoja asked his courtiers to list five
great poets. His courtiers started to count
and naturally Kalidasa’s name came first. But
no one could come up with the second best.
This story is attributed to the etymology of
what?
31. 3
For 60 years, no airline bigwig nor any
aviation official in the ministry or DGCA
realised the irrelevance and absurdity of this
insignia on aircraft until Rajya Sabha MP
Tarlochan Singh raised the issue. Armed with
evidence, Tarlochan Singh took up the vexed
issue again in the consultative committee
meeting at Mumbai . Aviation minister Praful
Patel reacted immediately and agreed for the
usage of suitable Indian insignia.
What was the issue all about?
34. 4
A is a term used to describe multimillionaire
Indian businessmen. It is a portmanteau of X
which, in its own right is an identifier for India
and Y, a word that gives the meaning of a
business magnate, particularly those
magnates from the erstwhile Soviet Republic
who emerged during the privatisation in
Russia and other post-Soviet States. Anurag
Dikshit, Cyrus Vandrewala, Vijay Mallya,
Naresh Goyal, Sunil Mittal, Swaraj Paul are a
few As.
37. 5
_______ forms the basis
of Patanjali's yoga, to
which concentration and
meditation are vital.
________comes from the
root “rudh” which means
to “obstruct”, the prefix
“___” literally means
lowness.
_________means not just
restraint of thoughts but to
obstruct thoughts of lower
nature. The act of
_______ would increase
thought and concentration
of a higher
nature._________ is a
40. 6
X sparked widespread
protests from members of
a nearly 5000-strong youth
organisation called
Prathikarana Vedi in
Kerala, marched to the
state assembly in protest
against George W Bush.
“It is an insult to India, to
Indians and our nationality.
It has hurt our national
pride,” the group's district
president Binoo C
Thampan told Deutsche
Presse-Agentur. However
X actually wasn’t meant as
an insult to India, but was
46. _______ Alperin
8successful
runs a
celebrity real estate business in Los
Angeles(Sotheby's International
Realty). Her clientele includes
numerous A-list Hollywood
celebrities. Alperin was only 17 when
a lead singer of a band fell in love
with her and wrote his homage as a
hit song, and the two remain friends
to this day. In a 2009 interview,
Alperin said, “Is it really the 30th
year anniversary of X coming out?
Oh my God! You're absolutely right.
I 'm not sure that I realized that.
I talk to Doug quite often and we
never discussed it.
And on the subject of being
immortalized in a hit single: “You
could not escape putting on the
47.
48.
49. LONG VISUAL CONNECT
• 5 sets of 5 clues each
• Break up of points at the end of each set
88. 5
The ______ effect is a visual
phenomenon caused by aliasing that
occurs when continuous motion is
represented by a series of short or
instantaneous samples. It occurs when
the view of a moving object is
represented by a series of short samples
as distinct from a continuous view, and
the moving object is in rotational or other
cyclic motion at a rate close to the
sampling rate. It also accounts for the
"wagon-wheel effect", so called because
in video or film, spoked wheels on horse-
drawn wagons sometimes appear to be
turning backwards.
A ______ fountain, a stream of water
droplets falling at regular intervals lit with
a _____ light, is an example of the
______ effect being applied to a cyclic
motion that is not rotational. When
viewed under normal light, this is a
97. 8
In Hinduism, ______is the
tenth and final Maha Avatar
of Vishnu who will come to
end the present age of
darkness and destruction
known as Kal-Yuga. The
name_____is often a
metaphor for eternity or time.
The origins of the name
probably lie in the Sanskrit
word which refers to mud, dirt,
filth, or foulness and hence
denotes the "destroyer of
foulness," "destroyer of
confusion," "destroyer of
darkness," or "annihilator of
ignorance." Other similar and
divergent interpretations
based on varying etymological