1. This document contains questions and answers about various topics like movies, TV shows, sports, technology, and more. 2. It includes questions that ask about identifying movies based on minimal posters, connecting actors to roles, identifying terms related to sports, social media platforms, and technologies. 3. The responses provide concise answers identifying the people, places, things, movies, TV shows, or terms being asked about in each multiple choice or fill in the blank question.

1. Q! PRELIMS
ANSWERS

2. 1) ID this ‘lovely’ Church

3. St. Valentine’s church

4. *2)Id the device

5. Ubuntu OS based Mobile
Phone that will be launched
into the market soon, by
CANONICAL .

6. *3) Which place?

7. The leaning
tower of Pisa
(the heavy lead
counterweights
are shown in
the photo)

8. 4) Y describing X:
"We're introducing X: a mobile service that lets you
capture and share short looping videos. Like Y, the
brevity of content on X (6 seconds or less) inspires
creativity. Now that you can easily capture motion and
sound, we look forward to seeing what you create."
X is a recent acquisition of Y.
Id X,Y.

9. X : Vine
Y: Twitter

10. 5)We know them better as?

11. The Avengers!

12. 6) What’s does the triangle on a censor
board certificate mean / represent?
(pretty relevant for these times, don’t
you think?)

13. The presence of
cuts/edits in a film for
CBFC certification

14. * 7) connect

15. Andy Serkis, who voiced the
characters and acted as Golum

16. 8) Andres Montes, known for his use of linguistic
fillers and slang during commentary, is also
credited with coining which football term, that
he first used during commentary on the TV
channel Lasexta during FIFA 2006 WorldCup?

17. TIKI –TAKA, the style of
play associated primarily
with FCB and the Spanish
football team

18. 9) Id the film from its minimalistic poster

19. Moondram Pirai

20. *10)The Oxford Dictionary has
incorporated modern day internet
lingo such as OMG and LOL on its roll,
in line with its criterion of the words
being “in usage for a decent length of
time” and that “the word is used and
understood by a wide audience.”
Which entry became the
dictionary’s first graphic symbol, and
as the publisher noted, “may be the
first English usage to develop via the
medium of T-shirts and bumper
stickers”?
(draw the symbol the best you can :P)

21. The Heart symbol from

22. 11) Id this dish, which will become
more popular for non-culinary reasons
come ‘May 2013’.

23. Key lime pie, the name given to Android
5.0 operating system

24. 12) And the fifth guy is…?

25. Andrew Mccollum, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris
Hughes, Eduardo Saverin and Mark
Zuckerberg are the founders of facebook

26. 13 ) Id the movie from its minimalistic
poster.

27. Ratatouille!

28. 14)Upto 2003-04, the NDTV show called
“news night” was anchored / co-anchored
by Barkha Dutt and 2 other journalists X
and Y.
Id X and Y (no specific order) .

29. Rajdeep Sardesai
and
Arnob Goswami

30. * 15) And the third one is…?

31. SG
Duke , Kookaburra and SG are the 3 brands
used for international cricket matches

32. 16)
Home port
Amend yer particulars
Log o’ adventures
What be troublin’ ye
Adjust ye riggin’s
Bottle o’ messages
Line ‘em up…
Where can we come across these
phrases?

33. Facebook (pirate english version)!

34. *17) Connect.

35. Ponnar Shanker, Mannin Maindhan,
Kannamma and Parashakti are films for
which Karunanidhi has written the
script

36. 18)
Connect
“You've just dropped the World Cup.”
“Hey ram!”
“Elementary, my dear Watson”

37. Popular Quotes which were never said

38. 19 ) Resul Pookutty said the following
in 2012.
“________ was a completely doctored
show. A lot of sound post-production
related stories work was done on the
show. It was treated just like a film.
Like how sound (mixing) is handled in a
film so that you can sort of
emotionally blackmail audiences.”
FITB.

39. Satyamev Jayate

40. 20) X was chosen to compose the Y song in 2009. The
title line for Y was penned by Mehboob Alam.
The original version of Y received mixed responses,
with some music critics openly criticizing X for his
below par performance and demanded that X
recompose Y.
Parallels were drawn with shakira’s “waka waka”,
which led to further critisism of Y.
A shorter and tweaked version of the song was was
later released that met with largely positive reviews.
Id X and Y.

41. X: A.R.Rahman
Y: Commonwealth Games theme song

42. 21)These are 4 lines from a song
performed in 2004, translated into english:
“All those f****** Yankees been torturing
Iraqi captives and
All those f****** Yankees who ordered
them to torture
Kill their daughters, mothers, daughters-
in-law and fathers
Kill them all slowly, kill them all painfully”
Simple enough, id the ‘performer’.

43. PSY!

44. 22)
If A = alpha
B = bravo
C = charlie…
What are we talking about?

45. Phonetic alphabets

46. 23) Mavalli Tiffin Room was founded as a restaurant by
Parampalli Yajnanarayana Maiya and his brothers in the year
1924.It is credited with the invention of the dish X in the mid
1940’s.
In the mid 1970s when India was under emergency, a Food
Control Act was introduced which mandated that food was to
be sold at very low prices.
This move made it difficult for the proprietors to maintain high
standards in its restaurant business and forced them to diversify
into the business we currently know them for, under the brand
Y.
X,Y?

48. 24)Who were they named after?

50. 25) Who is the author
of the soon to be
released book titled
“Inferno”, which takes
its name from the first
part of the 14th
century poet Dante’s
‘Divine Comedy’?

52. 26) How do we know the
‘astronomically’ small
frequency of 1.16699016 ×
10-8 Hz better as ?

53. Once in a BLUE MOON!

54. 27) The third one is ...?

55. Kai Po Che (Based on 3
mistakes of my life).
Hello (based on ‘One night at
the call centre’) and 3 Idiots
(based on ‘5 point someone’)
are also inspired by Chetan
Bagath books.

56. *28) In an effort to provide their
version of events, the Iranian govt has
appointed actor and film maker
Ataollah Salmanian to make the
film Setad Moshtarak [The General
Staff] which seeks to “provide an
appropriate response to distorted
movies such as ____”.
FITB.

57. ARGO

58. *29)The first product of the company X was an
electric rice cooker.
X found its beginning in the wake of World
War II. The founder eventually started an
electronics shop in a bomb-damaged
department store building. The company had
$530 in capital and a total of eight employees.
The next year, he was joined by his colleague,
and they founded a company which built the
country’s first ever portable cassette player.
ID X.

60. 30) FITB
Johannesburg
Nairobi
Harare
___________

61. Dharamshala
(list of world’s highest international cricket
grounds- Dharamshala gained this status
recently during the Ind vs Eng 5th ODI )

62. 31) In 2009, X was fined for exceeding the
speed limit of 30 kmph by over 130 kmph, by
the Maharashtra State Road Development
Corporation during a promotional event for his
sport on the newly inaugurated Y. The event's
organisers were also fined £20,000, which was a
deposit being held as insurance against any
possible speed violations.
Asked about this incident, and X said: 'I was
trying to judge what 60mph would be but I have
no speedometer on the car.’
ID X,Y

63. X: David Coulthard
Y: Bandra-Worli sea link

64. *32) X was the first Indian actor to
visit the USA as part of a cultural
exchange.
In 1995, X was bestowed with the
award Y (shown here) by the
National Order of the Legion of
Honour of France, and was hence
forth known as YX.
Id YX

65. X : Sivaji Ganesan
Y : Chevalier

66. 33) Id this Indian T.V. series
aired on Doordarshan 1988.

67. Fauji
(which launched SRK)

68. * 34) This is the making of which
Indian film? What is special about the
characters in this movie?

69. Raja Harishchandra (the first Indian movie)
Since acting and public participation of
women as such was considered a to be a
taboo topic, male actors played female roles
as well.

70. 35) The Hollywood
film “Red Tails” was
the first to use this
technology.
What technology,
and which is the
only other film to
have used it ?

71. Auro 3D and
Vishwaroopam