The prelims of Artificial Intelligence(General Quiz) conducted at NMAMIT, Nitte along with the answers. Enjoy Madi!!!!

1. Artificial Intelligence
4.0

2. Lets get started!
• Fill in the sheet with the names of the
participants and a KICKASS team-name as it
comes along.
• Avoid malpractice, use of cell phones or GPRS.
Those who have a problem with it can kindly
leave while those who face problems later will be
asked to.
• The biggest clue I can give u is write the first thing
on your mind and attempt every answer coz u
never know you might just get lucky!!!!!

4. 1.
Lets start off with an easy one.
Can you name the Vice President of India?

5. Mohammad Hameed Ansari

6. 2.
Name the captain of the Indian Hockey
team in the recently concluded Olympic
qualifiers.

7. Bharat Chettri

8. 3.
Identify the 2 individuals and the
controversy related.

9. Subramaniam Swamy
A. Raja
The 2G Scam

10. 4.
Name the hosts of the popular reality show
Bigg Boss Season 5.

12. 5.
Name the artist who took home 6
Grammys at this year including record of
the year, song of the year and album of the
year.

13. Adele

14. 6.

15. Anna Hazare and the Jan Lokpal
Bill

16. 7.
Text on Nine keys, a patented technology
developed by Tegic Communications is a
popular feature in Mobile Phones. What is it?

17. T9 dictionary

18. 8.
Wishes from Cartoon Network to…?

20. 9.
After a study conducted it was found that
this Vitamin deficiency is found quite
commonly among orthodox Muslim
women, mainly because of their lifestyle.
What and Why?

21. Vitamin D

22. 10.
• It is located in the rocky hinterland of the Malabar
coast of south-west India, about 8km (5 miles)
from the Arabian Sea.
• From its location on a plateau, it commands a view
of the Arabian Sea to the west and the Western
Ghats to the east.
• This place was supposed to have the largest
density of mobile phone users in India (as of 2006)
and still features among the top 5.
Which place am I talking about?

23. Manipal

24. 11.
Who set up ‘Catamaran Venture Fund’ ?

25. N R Narayan Murthy

26. 12.
Which famous personality was the First
Woman Employee of the Tata Engineering
& Locomotive Company?

27. Sudha Murthy

28. 13.
I was born Kuppali Venkatappagowda
Puttappa. But I am popularly known as?

29. Rashtra Kavi Kuvempu

30. 14.
Expand AMUL

31. AMUL : ANAND MILK UNION
LIMITED

32. 15.
Western India Products Limited.
How do we better know this…?

34. 16.
Name the artist and the movie that won
the Oscar for the best actor and best
picture.

35. Jean Dujardin and “The Artist”

36. 17.
The pictures depict the
change in hairstyles of
the members of which
band…?

38. 18.
How do we better know the following
personalities??
• Jennifer Anastasakis
• Yusuf Khan
• Devdutt Pishorimal Anand
• Sivaji Rao Gaekwad
• Ravi Kapoor

39. Jennifer Aniston
Dilip Kumar
Dev Anand
Rajnikant
Jeetendra

40. 19.
A lazy day dreamer young man used to sit at home
just killing time. His mother used to scold & advise
him daily to do some work & earn for living. He didn't
heed to her words. One day while killing time, as
usual, he was killing the flies that disturbed his day
dream. suddenly he noticed that he had killed a great
number of flies. He counted them up to be 30 in
number. In joy he shouted aloud and told his mother
that he had killed 30 in an hour so why couldn't he do
greater things at the King's palace. A passer by heard
his words &, thinking that he was taking about killing
30 enemies at some war, he propagated the young
man's valour throughout & around the village. People
started calling him_______.

42. 20.
This band could not settle with a particular
name because of legal issues and the band
subsequently adopted that name for their first
album. The lead singer came up with the name
which was a phonetic version of a place named
after an U.S. President, near Santa Monica, that
he would always drive past.
Name the band.

44. 21.
X was a staunch Naxalite before entering the
film industry, but tragedy struck his family when
his only brother was electrocuted and killed in a
freak accident. He returned to his family and left
the Naxalite fold, even though doing so posed a
grave risk to his own life. He had also undergone
expert training in Martial Arts to the grade of
black belt.

46. 22.
• Engineering graduate; did a stint at Oracle
Corporation.
• Trained in Carnatic and Hindustani classical
music. Grew up listening to Pink Floyd, Stevie
Wonder and Bobby McFerin.
• Been part of a Swedish band and dabbles in
jazz and fusion music. Has cut his own album;
playback singer and part of a music director
trio. Identify this singer cum music director.

48. 23.
THE ROOTS a Chennai band, was a quartet
comprising John Antony, Jojo,
_________ & ________.
Just fill in the blanks.

50. 24.
In the last of Gulliver's travels, he goes to a
land ruled by wise horses, where there exists
a species of primitive human-like animals,
thoroughly evil and contemptible. They
disgust Gulliver so much that it's a long time
before he is reconciled to being a human.
What were these human-like creatures
called? (Hint: Think Internet)

52. 25. FITB
Butch, Spike, Tyke, Toodles Galore, Miss
Mammy Two Shoes, Tuffy, Quacker,
__________ and _________

55. 26.
• The shape of this product is modeled
after a hyperbolic paraboloid.
• This design characteristic is beneficial
as it helps keep the product from
breaking during distribution by
eliminating lines of stress along which
a small crack may easily propagate.
Further, it keeps a stack of the
product tightly interlocked or nested
during distribution.
• The name of the product came from a
street in Cincinnati. The name was
chosen simply for its sound and
appeal.

57. 27.
The khadi-duck is an unconventional type of weave
that meshes three threads into a weave as
compared to two weaves used in conventional
weaving.
This type of weaving is extremely rare, and there
are fewer than a dozen weavers in India professing
this skill.
The guidelines also state that there should be
exactly 150 threads per square centimeter, four
threads per stitch, and one square foot should
weigh exactly 205 grams.

58. 28.
Put Funda

59. The first X-Ray, of Mrs.
Roentgen’s hand

60. 29. Id

61. Oscar Pistorius – The Blade
Runner

62. 30.
His unofficial epitaph is a fitting reflection
of what his greatest contribution to
science. It states, "He lies somewhere
here."
Who is he?

63. Werner Heisenberg

64. 31.
A statue built on the
island of Samos in
honour of someone we
all know. Who?

65. Pythagoras

66. 32.
An advertisement by
______ during the
________ gate scandal.

67. Vaseline

68. 33.
We like Huey, Duey and Louie a lot.
Like them we are also triplets.
If they have Donald as uncle, we have Daisy as
our aunt.
We are the sweet trio of…

69. April, May and June

70. 34.
This is the vintage
image of a famous
person. Identify him
(Clue: Connected to
Hollywood)

71. Steven Spielberg

72. 35.
According to Hindu historians, the Muslim
emperor came down from Ferghana in 1527 and
overcame the Hindu King of Chittodgad, Rana
Sangrama Singh at Sikri, using cannons and
artillery. After this victory the emperor dominated
the subjugated Hindu population. His general, Mir
Baqi, was in charge of the region.
What historic reason is Mir Baqi famous for?

73. He built the Babri Masjid

74. 36.
Gary Gilmore was an American criminal,
and murderer, who gained international
notoriety for demanding that his death
sentence be fulfilled following two murders he
committed in Utah. Gilmore’s last words were
____ __ __! This was said just before he was
shot by the firing squad in 1977.
FITB

76. 37.
While at college, the company founder was given
the Cornell lacrosse team 1) ____by his
grandfather. People would turn to him to solve
their problems and he was referred to as that guy
in the 2)_____. By the time he wrote the manual
of the beta version of X, he had lost the 1)______,
so the manual included an appeal to readers to
return his 2) ______if found.

78. 38.
A Unique Achievement:
Which grandfather, son, grandson trio have
been Chief Ministers of the same Indian
state?

79. Sheikh Abdullah,
Farooq Abdullah,
Omar Abdullah
All CMs of J&K.

80. 39.
Id the person beside Gandhi.

81. Frontier Gandhi – Khan Abdul
Ghaffar Khan

82. 40.
The jingle with four magic notes that became part of
our commercial breaks – “____ ____ __-____” – was
the handiwork of Louis Banks, celebrated jazz and
contemporary musician from Darjeeling. “X” came up
with a number of products, and the ads were all
ordinary. But the one signature of Brand “X” was the
jingle, and this has probably not been matched by any
other till date, at least on Indian television. In fact,
Banks (the composer of the “unofficial Indian Anthem”,
Mile Sur Mera Tumhara) says that he’d like “____ ____
__-____” as his epitaph!
FITB and Id X

83. X – Brittania
“Ting ting ti-ting”