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1. Welcome to the Prelims
ABOVE Quiz 2010
Quizmaster: Venkatesh S
(Venky)

2. • 20 questions
• Write down all your answers
• 1 point per question or part
• No negative, take guesses!
• Top 6 teams in the Finals!

3. A 2006 book, made into a 2010 movie. 1*
Name

4. • Eat, Pray, Love

5. Who is he? Even though he is not remotely 2
related to sports, how does his name live on in
the world of cricket?

6. • Sachin Dev Burman
• Sachin Tendulkar named after him

7. 3
Why was a performance of the traditional
“Koli” dance to a popular Marathi folk song at
Holy School in Colaba, Mumbai in the news
recently?

8. • Barack and Michelle Obama danced along
during their India trip

9. 4*
The Ashoka Pillar in Jayangar, Bangalore
represented one corner point of the city in a
certain direction.
How does this fact live on today?

10. • South End Circle

11. 7. 5
In 1978, Steve Averill, a punk rock musician and
family friend of Clayton's, had suggested six
potential names from which the band chose “___”
for its ambiguity and open-ended interpretations,
and because it was the name that they disliked the
least.
Before this, the group had two other names (for a
short period): 'Feedback' and 'The Hype'.
Which group?

12. • U2

13. Which organization‟s logo? 6

14. • OPEC

15. Who playing which real-life personality from 7
Indian politics?

16. • Paresh Rawal, playing Sardar Vallabhai Patel

17. 8
What landmark event in World War II happened
exactly two years before India‟s Independence –
August 15, 1945?

18. • Victory Over Japan (V-J) Day / Surrender of
Japan

19. 9*
Sharad Devarajan, Deepak Chopra, Sir
Richard Branson and ________.
Who is missing and what did they start in
2005?

20. • Shekhar Kapur
• Virgin Comics

21. 10
After the death of Israel's first president,
Chaim Weizmann, in November 1952, Prime
Minister David Ben-Gurion offered him the
position of President of Israel, a mostly
ceremonial post. The offer was presented by
Israel's ambassador in Washington, Abba Eban,
who explained that the offer "embodies the
deepest respect which the Jewish people can
repose in any of its sons”. However, he
declined, and wrote in his response that he was
"deeply moved", and "at once saddened and
ashamed" that he could not accept it. Who?

22. • Albert Einstein

23. 11
• On April 3, 1973, standing on Sixth Avenue in New
York City near the New York Hilton hotel, Martin
Cooper made a phone call before going to a press
conference upstairs in the hotel. That call was placed
to Dr. Joel S. Engel, head of research at Bell Labs.
• What is the significance of this phone call?

24. • First cellular/ mobile phone call

25. 12
Country Production in tons
India 13,501,000
People's Republic of China 3,752,000
Mexico 2,050,000
Thailand 1,800,000
Pakistan 1,719,180
Indonesia 1,620,000
Brazil 1,546,000
World total 33,445,279
• Chart showing production of what?

26. • Mangoes

27. 13
This two-word phrase is defined by the Shorter
Oxford English Dictionary as "the evening of
the fifth of January,, the eve of the Epiphany,
formerly the last day of the Christmas festivities
and observed as a time of merrymaking,”
It is also the name of a Shakespeare play that is
alternatively called “What You Will”
What?

28. • Twelfth Night

29. 14
CK Nayudu – 1932
Ajit Wadekar – 1974
Virender Sehwag – 2006
The three people above have a „first‟ to their name.
What?

30. • First captains of India in Test, ODI and T20
cricket

31. 15
Who was India‟s first Vice President and what is
celebrated on his birthday every year?

32. • S Radhakrishnan, Teacher‟s Day

33. 16*
Audio of Jiya Jalen…from Dil Se
This song was the first time that the lyricist wrote for
the Music Director; also the first time that this signer
sang for him. Name either pair

34. • Gulzar – AR Rahman
• Lata Mangeshkar – AR Rahman

35. 17
The software on the right is named after the
mythological character on the left.
Name please

36. • Jataayu

37. 18
Infibeam Pi is India‟s first device of this category. It
is less than 10mm thick and lightweight at 180 gm. It
comes with a pair of earphones and supports a
music library. It has local Indian language support.
Their online store is on www.infibeam.com
What is Pi?

38. • E-Book Reader

39. 19
• The word comes from the 13th century French verb
meaning “to do something or to undertake” The first
academic usage of the term was by economist Richard
Cantillon in 1730
• It was popularized by Jean-Baptiste Say, a French
economist, who defined it as “……, especially a
contractor, acting as intermediary between capital and
labor”?
• What word?

40. • Entrepreneur

41. 20
• Name the animal and the place

42. • Llama
• Machu Pichu

43. Answers, scores and Over To The Finals!