Kmea general open quiz

ASTHRA
KMEA GENERAL QUIZ
SHIBIN AZAD
03/03/2018

• Prelims
• 25 Questions
• No negatives

• 1) Bell's phenomenon (also known as the palpebral oculogyric reflex)
is a medical sign that allows observers to notice an upward and
outward movement of the eye, when an attempt is made to close the
eyes. The upward movement of the eye is present in the majority of
the population, and is a defensive mechanism. The fact that this is not
very unique and is a normal defense reflex present in 75% of the
population may deject some fans.
• Where did you see a viral example of this phenomenon?

• 2)* Alberuni said that the sea coast of ancient India extended till this
place. The name comes from the Persian word for ‘four’ and ‘seasons’
implying that it could be put to use throughout the year. Which place,
which has been in news for sometime is this and earlier went by the
name ‘Tis’?

• 3) This person did not used to allow his family to use the official car and
acceded to the request of his family members to buy a car. They agreed
upon the fiat which would cost 12000 rupees. He had to take a loan from
Punjab National Bank for an amount of 5000 rs. Before he could repay the
loan, he passed away in a tragedy. His widow repaid the loan amount using
his pension. Who was this person?

• 4) It was recently revealed that unlike other US Presidents, this President
did not wear a wig and took great pains to look the way he did. He made
use of a powder to make his hair appear white, while in reality his hair was
reddish brown as shown in this image. Who was this President?

• 5) Known for wearing flamboyant dresses, which country’s curling team is
this?

• 6) This video shows Anu Agarwal in the movie ‘The Cloud Door’. Which
character is she portraying? Unsurprisingly, this movie also caused a bit of
unrest when it was released in 1994.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLvm6d6a8Qs

• 7)* Identify this leader who loves to dress up.

• 8) This is David Hanson, who founded the eponymous company Hanson
Robotics. He is shown here with the robot Albert HUBO, which was the
first walking robot with human-like expressions. Why are they in news?

• 9) Many people believe that Emperor Augustus was primarily
responsible for its fate because of an obvious ‘soft-corner’ for the
month named after him. According to Mental floss, evidence suggests
that this was not the case, and it was because, when it was originally
added, it was the last month of the calendar and hence the primary
reason it came up short finally.
• What shortage am I talking about?

• 10) Four other nominees in the same category was La Traviata, Tron,
Sophie’s Choice and Victor/Victoria. John Mollo won the award. For
which film did he win the award and whom did he share the award
with?

• 11) This is the trailer of which upcoming movie based on a dystopian novel
first released in 1953?
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwHA7d1OkAY

• 12)* They are a group of about 20 species of small to medium-sized,
terrestrial marsupial omnivore in the order Peramelemorphia. They
are endemic to the Australia–New Guinea region. They get their name from
Telugu language from words meaning ‘pig rat’. 9 Mechanical Engineers from
MES, Kuttipuram used the same name for something they recently
invented.
• What will be the invention be used for? What is the name of the animal?

• 13) “കൂരിരുട്ടിന്‍റെ കിടാത്തി,ന്‍റെന്നാല്‍
സൂരയപ്രകാശത്തിനുറ്റ ത ാഴി,
ചീത്തകള്‍ ന്‍റകാത്തി വലിക്കുകിലു-
തേറ്റവുും വൃത്തിന്‍റവടുന്‍റെഴുതന്നാള്‍,”
These are the first few lines of a poem by Vyloppilly Sreedhara Menon.
Where will you have encountered the first line with three other words
that mean Knowledge, Reasoning and Enlightenment? Also, identify the
title of the poem.

• 14) Scoopwhoop recently published an article on how it would be if
Bollywood dialogues were translated into Shashi Tharoor’s lingo. Which is
the dialogue that has been translated here?

• 15)* Mr E.G. Salter, Assistant, Operating Supdt of London Passenger
Transport Board was appointed as Supdt of KSRTC on 20.9.1937. Due
to virtue of being the Supdt he travelled with the royal family on the
first bus, when the first bus of Travancore State Transport Department
(TSTD) was run on its inauguration. As a result of a skill that he had,
what other recognition of first has he got to his credit?

• 16) Which singer took off in an entirely new direction and uploaded this
video on his social media account? Also, identify the original singer of the
song.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwKs6MLh7zU

• 17) Why did this author came
into the limelight again during
the month of December 2017?

• 18) Who/What is being parodied here?
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gWHyHvvANg

• 19)* The Taus is a bowed
string instrument from the
north Indian region of
Punjab. The taus was the
work of Sri Guru
Hargobind Ji (the sixth Guru
of the Sikhs). From this
instrument originates the
lighter Dilruba. What is the
Sanskrit name of the
instrument?

• 20) The Jonbeel Mela, held this year from 18-20 January, usually takes
place a few days after Magh Bihu, the harvest festival, in Dayang
Belguri in Morigaon district in Assam. Jonbeel Mela is organized by
the Tiwa community, with participants from the Tiwa, Karbi, Khasi and
Jaintia communities. What is, perhaps, unique about the fair? This
uniqueness helped it tide over the effect demonetization could have
had.

• 21) What common prefix has been given to these birds?

• 22) The Atharva Veda mentions it as one the five most sacred plants
on Earth and says that a guardian angel resides in its leaves. In
the Sushruta Samhita (6 BCE) it is used to aid digestion and appetite.
So common is it in Ayurveda, that it has been called the “penicillin of
Ayurvedic medicine”. The Unani system of medicine also used it as a
cure for diseases of the nervous system and as an antispasmodic and
anticonvulsive. Which plant is this?

• 23) This freedom fighter, born in 1882 was affectionately called the
‘Mundasu Kavignar’. He has worked with the newspaper named India.
He was conferred with a title, while studying in college and the title
meant ‘the one blessed by saraswati’. Who is this person?

• 24) ___ economy is the term used to denote the economy when a
labour market is characterized by the prevalence of short-term
contracts or freelance work as opposed to permanent jobs.
• ___ also means a live performance by a musician or group playing
popular or jazz music.

• 25) In the movie
Athishayangalude Venal
by Prasanth Vijay, the
protagonist has intense
desire to become
invisible. A major literary
work and a Hindi movie
comes across as plot
elements in the story.
Literary work is the
Invisible man. Which is
the Hindi movie?

• Priya Varier Winking / Oru Adaar Love Story
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZHHDL3HXYM

• 2) Alberuni said that the sea coast of ancient India extended till this
place. The name comes from the Persian word for four and seasons
implying that it could be put to use throughout the year. Which place,
which has been in news for sometime is this and earlier went by the
name ‘Tis’?

• Four- Char and Seasons- Bahar
• Char + Bahar = Chabahar

• 7) Identify this leader who loves to dress up.

• Hanson robotics made Sophia

• 12) They are a group of about 20 species of small to medium-sized,
terrestrial marsupial omnivore in the order Peramelemorphia. They
are endemic to the Australia–New Guinea region. They get their name from
Telugu language from words meaning ‘pig rat’. 9 Mechanical Engineers from
MES, Kuttipuram used the same name for something they recently
invented.
• What will be the invention be used for? What is the name of the animal?

• They make up the logo of the Kriti Literature Festival, Kaaka

• 15) Mr E.G. Salter, Assistant, Operating Supdt of London Passenger
Transport Board was appointed as Supdt of KSRTC on 20.9.1937. Due
to virtue of being the Supdt he travelled with the royal family on the
first bus, when the first bus of Travancore State Transport Department
(TSTD) was run on its inauguration. As a result of a skill that he had,
what other recognition of first has he got to his credit?

• Zayn Malik of One Direction
• Kailash Kher

• Unveiling of Alexis Sanchez by Manchester United

• 19) The Taus is a bowed
string instrument from the
north Indian region of
Punjab. The taus was the
work of Sri Guru
Hargobind Ji (the sixth Guru
of the Sikhs). From this
instrument originates the
lighter Dilruba. What is the
Sanskrit name of the
instrument?

• They still use barter system

• Brahminy
• Brahminy Starling, Brahminy Kite and Brahminy Duck

• Highest score in the prelims-21
• Cut off-16.5

• 6 Questions written
• First letters of the answers start with the name of the quiz-
ASTHRA(not in order)

• 1) This Oscar-winning film shows the protagonist’s spiral into the depths
of obsession and insanity at the hands of his nemesis, Antonio Salieri. As
life often imitates art, F. Murray Abraham (Salieri) beat out Tom Hulce for
the Best Actor Oscar. Identify the film.

• 2) They are small but deep holes drilled into drawbridges,
stone bridges, and other defensive fortifications, in order to allow a
slow moving party to cross easily, while causing a running person
some serious problems. What term is used to denote them? They are
used in a sporting context as well.

• 3) The rules framed dated to 18th century BC and allowed women to
own property and set tax rates and price levels. What are these rules
known by, framed by a king who ruled for 42 years from 1792 BC to
1750 BC?
• These group of people who ruled parts of modern day Turkey and
Syria from 1600 BC and was the first group to use a treaty to settle a
dispute with Egyptian King Ramses II. Identify them.

• 4) When Anna Bertha Ludwig
saw the result of her husband’s
experiment, she is said to have
exclaimed “I have seen my
death”. Who was her husband?

• 5) Disambiguation page of Wikipedia says that, It is the name of a
Mediterranean wind, originating in the Sahara and blowing over North
Africa and Southern Europe. It is also the name of the model of a car by
Volkswagen and also, the name of a film starring Humphrey Bogart. What is
it?

• 6) The current flag of this country was instated when the country became
independent in 1978, after the separation from the Gilbert Islands. The 8 stars
denotes the 8 different islands that make up the country. It was earlier known as
Ellice Islands. Copra or dried coconut Kernel is the only export commodity, but
the main source of income is managed by Verisign until 2021. Identify the
country.

• Ankle Breakers
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjUlonXWkeU

• Hammurabi’s Code
• Hittites

• 4)Anna Bertha Ludwig saw the
result of her husband’s
experiment, she is said to have
exclaimed “I have seen my
death”. Who was her husband?

• 13 Questions
• Clockwise infinite bounce
• +10/-5 for pounce

• 1) This FMCG brand which plays
with the theme of nostalgia to sell
itself, have ventured into
publishing with reprints of
classics. Their first original title is
called ‘Half Pants, Full Pants’ and
the cover is shown in the next
slide.
• Penned by the man in the picture,
whose middle name is Klapka,
what, fittingly, was the first
reprinted classic by the brand?
Also, identify the brand.

• Three Men in a boat by Jerome K Jerome
• And Paper Boat!

• 2) Identify this place which served as the shooting location for movies such
as Lawrence of Arabia in 1962 and The Martian in 2015. It is the 2nd most
visited tourist destination in Jordan after the Petra. The place name means
‘sand valley’ and has no connection to a beverage.

• 3) The logo has a tiger and a goat drinking out of the same cup. The idea
behind this is that it will bring about equality in society and thus ensure
harmonious coexistence. Identify this brand started by Narendas Desai in
1892, who had went to South Africa at Gandhiji’s behest and returned to
India due to racial discrimination.

• Tiger – Bagh/Wagh, Goat – Bakri
• Wagh bakri tea

• 4) This saint is said to hold the keys to heaven. So, his name came to
be used in all kinds of different senses referring to locked or
unopenable items. So a _____ was a till or a safe, a _____man was a
thief who steals baggage from vehicles, and a _____-hunter was a
crowbar used to break the chains attaching luggage to carriages, a
crime known as _____-claiming or the _____-drag. Similarly, as a verb
you can use ____ to mean “to use explosives,” or, should you ever
need it, to blow the door off a safe. The blanked out part is something
you are not to keen on seeing in quizzes.

• 5) This poet was born in 70 BC in
Northern Italy. He wrote ‘The
Eclogues’, ‘The Georgics’ and ‘The
Aeneid’. Dante Alighieri made him a
character in his magnum opus ‘Divine
Comedy’ and he is the one who
guides Dante through hell and
purgatory. Id the poet.

• 6) Joel Thomas Zimmerman was chatting with a friend when his computer
abruptly shut off. He dismantled the computer only to find a deceased
animal, after which he came to be known as the “____ _____ guy”. He
found that the name was a little long to be used in a chat room and
shortened it using leet technique. What did he change his name into?

• 7) Vodafone Germany, Nokia and carmaker Audi will set up this
network. This project involves a radically innovative approach to the
development of mobile network infrastructure. It will help future data
networking, processing and storage, and will help advance the
communications infrastructure. They are studying the Taurus-Littrow
Valley for setting it up. Where is this network going to be set up?

• 8) Jeremy John Bujakowski was born in 1939 in present day Lithuania.
His parents were Halina Korolec-Bujakowski and Stanisław
Bujakowski. He moved with his family to India sometime in 1946,
when his father found a job here with a petroleum company. He
studied in Darjeeling and Kolkata, before moving to the US. He was
able to win a scholarship to the University of Denver on account of
skiing skills he had picked up. What distinction did he went on to
achieve?

• First Indian to participate in Winter Olympics

• 9) Hitler's drive to produce the perfect Aryan race was not confined to
people – it also extended to animals. German brother zoologists
Heinz and Lutz Heck sought to recreate an extinct animal which once
roamed freely in Europe and was called the ‘Heck Cattle’ and also as
‘Nazi Super Cows’. They used Spanish fighting bulls for the purpose.
Further, Lamborghini had named its latest SUV after the extinct
animal.
• Which was this extinct animal? Or, identify the model.

• 10) The operation was so unexpected
that the military forces did not even
have military maps of the country and
moreover, the Indian High
Commissioner was in India itself. This
proved to be a blessing in disguise as he
could share some vital information with
the armed forces. Where did this
overseas operation by the Indian
Military take place? What was the name
of the operation, which would have
made for some succulent headlines for
news channels of today?
• Time magazine had this cover soon
after that.

• Maldives
• Operation Cactus

• 11) The first and only exhibition by her was done in 1994. The organizer
wanted 20 to 25 of her paintings, and she made 22. Out of 22, 18 were sold
at the exhibition itself. Majority of the paintings at the exhibition were
nude. A few works, however, in order to avoid controversy, were “clothed”.
“It is my mind that I am laying bare. And they are asking me to clothe it,”
she is believed to have said.
• Who is this ‘artist’?

• 12) Johnny Walker is releasing limited edition bottles, with a female
version of its iconic logo, in an attempt to draw more woman to the
brand. What has this edition been named?

• Jane Walker ( Jane is the feminine form of John)

• 13) Gold paint can be seen mainly in miniatures painted by Buddhists
in Assam. The oldest painting has been dated to 1473 AD. The art of
gold painting was called sonar – pani – chorowa and the people
involved in extracting the gold and making it into a powdered form for
use were known as X. X?

• 13 Questions
• Counter-clockwise infinite pounce
• +10/-5 on pounce

• 1) Stoked by an episode of Rick and Morty, McDonald’s Schezuan sauce
gained a cult following and after a limited edition release earlier, McD is
planning a regular production of the same. The Schezuan sauce was
originally introduced in 1998 to promote a Disney film about a daughter
who poses as a man to enlist in the Chinese military to save her father.
Identify the film.

• 2) If you happen to visit Longview, Washington, you can see multiple
bridges like the one shown in the image. What purpose does it serve?

• For Squirrels. It was initially done to prevent them from being killed by
vehicles

• 3) EURion constellation is a pattern of symbols on something that we use
daily all over the around. It gets its name from the fact that it resembled
the Orion constellation. What, extremely important function does it
accomplish for the government that put this into use? Or, tell me where
would we encounter this pattern?

• 4) This physicist studied exhaustively the physics of the music of violin
which eventually became a book in itself : On the Mechanical Theory of
Vibrations of Musical Instruments of the Violin Family with Experimental
Verification of the Results, Part-I. He also constructed a mechanical violin.
In his study of violin, he discovered the relation between frequency
response of the violin and its quality. Frequency response curve is
obtained by plotting bowing pressure in the y-axis and the frequency in
the x-axis. Frequency response curve of a violin is named after him.
Identify him.

• 5) In 1996 the original Nokia 8110 slider “banana” phone was released.
HMD Global is releasing it again. According to the company, the 8110 is a
great ‘weekend phone’ that gives people the ‘chance to switch off, have
fun and relax in the knowledge that all your smartphone essentials are
there when you need them’. 3 years after its original release, it was
featured in a movie which led to a huge surge in popularity and the phone
itself was popularly called the X phone, X being the name of the movie.

• 6) Richard Appiah Akoto, 33, is the
information and communication
technology (ICT) teacher at Betenase
M/A Junior High School in the town of
Sekyedomase, about two and half hours
drive north of Ghana’s second city,
Kumasi. The school has no computers
even though since 2011, 14 and 15-
year-olds are expected to write and pass
a national exam. What did he do to help
the students? He says that this was not
the first time he had to do it.

• He drew the features of a MS Word Processing Window on the blackboard!

• 7) This is from a set of 10 stamps denoting mathematical formulas released
by Nicaragua. Whose name has been blanked out or what is the formula
known as?

• Ludwig Boltzman
• Entropy formula

• 8) The image shows the mascot of the 2019 Rugby World Cup, named Ren
and G. Their head is similar to that of a Rugby ball. Which art form inspired
their design?

• Kabuki. Specifically, shishi, the mythical lion.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncc6BnVptPc

• 9) Yardley of London was
established in 1770 as per present
records. They claim an ancestry of a
century and a half earlier. But the
records were lost in a disaster. What
was the disaster that happened?
• In 1913, Yardley started using
Francis Wheatley's "Flowersellers”
from his ‘Cries of London’ series as
their logo. What appropriate change
did they make to the painting while
they used it?

• Great Fire of London (1666)
• They replaced the primroses in the painting with Lavenders

• 10) Shahtoosh (also written shahtush, a Persian word meaning "king of fine
wools") is the name given to a specific kind of shawl, which is woven with
the down hair of the Tibetan antelope , by master craftsmen and women
of Kashmir. By what name is the animal known in India, which will remind
you of the nickname of a superstar turned politician?

• 11) For many of the African tribes,
scarification is an elaborate part of
local culture and signify everything
from beauty to adulthood or even, in
some cases, are simply a mark of
belonging. The person in question
did the scarification to indicate the
number of kills he had made. On
whom did we see this recently?

• 12) "Aging in plants is connected to the decrease in normal
production of a molecule called cyclic GMP (guanosyl
monophosphate)," Leshem explained. "This leads to a decrease in the
plasticity of the spongy tissue in plants. This is part and parcel of the
normal biological process.“ He found that a compound inhibited the
enzyme that breaks down the cyclic GMP, and that it actually keeps
flowers erect and alive for up to seven days beyond their normal life
span. What compound did they use?

• 13) It is an evolutionary hypothesis which proposes that organisms must
constantly adapt, evolve, and proliferate not merely to
gain reproductive advantage, but also simply to survive while pitted against ever-
evolving opposing organisms in an ever-changing environment. It gets its name
from a statement made by an angry character in an 1875 work, which was a
sequel.
“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same
place.”
What is the name of the hypothesis or, which character makes this statement?

• 6 Questions written
• 10/-5

• 1) We all know that Methyl Mercaptan is added to gas to help
humans detect leaks. The smell could have been pleasant as well, but
it is kept as putrid for a secondary reason. The putrid smell attracts
something from the animal world, which helps when the gas had to
be transported over very long distances in earlier times. Following
which animals, thus helped in the detection of leaks?

• 2) Recently, a company
released 1775 shirts with 10
different logos as shown. The
number of shirts with
different logos varied from
each other. Which company
was behind this? And, what
did the number of shirts with
different logos denote?

• 3) To highlight the frequent delays in judicial process as they are
hampering dispute resolution and discouraging investments, what
iconic dialogue from the film Damini has been mentioned in the
Economic Survey of 2017-18?

• 4) The project was first conceptualised in the 1990s as a way to establish a short-
haul civil aviation market. After decades on working out the design, NAL(National
Aerospace Laboratory) carried out its first flight on May 29, 2004. On March 6,
2009, Prototype 2 crashed at Bidadi on the outskirts of the city and the funds for
the project dried up. The aircraft is reportedly 20-25% cheaper than foreign
variants of the same type. It was named after the tallest flying bird which has a
predominantly grey plumage with a naked red head and upper neck and pale red
legs.
• What is the name of the project?

• 5) The boy shown in the image suffers from Mandibulofacial dystosis, also
known as "Treacher Collins syndrome”. Complications may include
breathing problems, problems seeing, cleft palate, and hearing loss. Those
affected generally have a normal intelligence. Which movie brought this
condition into the limelight in 2017?

• 6) What was the name of the
first Muezzin in Islam? The name
created quite a slow and steady
wave in 2007 and is expected to
do so again in 2018?

• Lacoste
• the number of shirts available for each animal is directly equal to the
number of that species left in the wild, according to official statistics.
The Sumatran Tiger has 350 shirts to its name and only 30 shirts have
vaquita porpoises stamped on them

• Tariq pe tariq
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0uA4pKtweU

• SARAS, after the Sarus Crane

• The boy shown in the image suffers from Mandibulofacial dystosis, also
known as "Treacher Collins syndrome”. Complications may include
breathing problems, problems seeing, cleft palate, and hearing loss. Those
affected generally have a normal intelligence. Which movie brought this
condition into the limelight in 2017?

• 6) What was the name of the
first Muezzin in Islam? The name
created quite a wave in 2007 and
is expected to do so again in
2018?

• Bilal
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naC-sWDr2Fg

• Highest score-240 out of a possible 380
• 2nd-200 and 3rd-195 points
• Thank you!
• shibinazad@gmail.com
• 9847282247

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