Introductory Freshers Quiz IIT BHU 2016 (Prelims)

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Prelims

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Quiz Master is not God. However, he’s incharge here.- Work out the answer from the question. Take a

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are pointing outside the door.- If you think the quiz is too difficult - read more

often.- If you think the quiz is easy - read even more often,

make a quiz of your own and conduct the same- Be aggressive. You are not 5 year olds playing

catch.

A

• X received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his contributions to welfare economics.He was also awarded with Bharat Ratna for his contribution to the field of Economics. His work restored an ethical dimension to economics. He was professor of economics at LSE for sometime. He is currently a Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He served as the chancellor of Nalanda University.

• His work produced a new understanding of the catastrophes that plague society's poorest people and helps to explain the economic mechanisms underlying famines and poverty. He is best known for his book Poverty and Famine: an essay on entitlement and deprivation.

B

• It is a drink for younger wizards. Harry is first presented with the beverage in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. J.K. Rowling imagines it "to taste a little bit like less-sickly butterscotch". It can be served cold or hot but either way it has a warming effect. It was a real drink, the earliest reference to it is from The Good Houswifes Handmade for the Kitchen, published in London in 1588, made from beer, sugar, eggs, nutmeg, cloves and butter back in Tudor times. Another old recipe is in the recipe book The Accomplisht Cook, calls for liquorice root and aniseed to be added.

C

• Sultan Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah built X in 1591. After shifting his capital from Golkonda to a new city, he built X . X is a square structure with each side 20 meters long, with four grand arches each facing a fundamental point that open into four streets. At each corner stands an exquisitely shaped minaret, 56 meters high, with a double balcony.

• In 2007, a small-scaled quasi replica of X was constructed at the main crossing of the Bahadurabad neighborhood in Karachi.

• Lindt chocolatier Adelbert Boucher created a scaled model of the X out of 50 kilograms of chocolate.

D

• Dopinder is a taxi driver who was supposed to be married to Gita , the love of his life but Dopinder was pissed off because Gita preferred his cousin Bandhu over him.

• X was on his way to kill his enemy when he sat in Dopinder’staxi. Dopinder told X about his situation with Gita. X gave Dopinder advice on how he should never let go of love.

• A couple days later, Dopinder was called by X for a ride again. X was once again headed to kill his enemy, but this time, he brought giant metal man and a teenage girl with him. A bump in the road caused a man in the trunk of the cab to scream. Dopinder revealed the man in the trunk to be Bandhu. Dopinder received praise from X, and was told to kill him and kidnap Gita. This is all we know of Dopinder. Identify X.

E

F

• Cristiano Ronaldo bought a house in Trump Tower in NYC for USD 18.5 million. This house was supposed to be set as an inspiration to be the setting for which movie ?

G

• Whose upcoming book will be titled “A Century is not Enough” ? ( Give me the last name).

H

Where would you find these magazines –

• The Daily Prophet

• The Quibbler

• Transfiguration Today

• Challenges in Charming and The Practical Potioneer .

I

• Siachin Glacier, Gilgit, Baltistan, Dafdur or Kanjut(N)

• GhuarMota(W)

• Kibithu(E)

• ____________.

• Fill the blank.

J

• Id the advertiser.

K

L

If Ice Hockey is Canada’s official winter sport, what

is the official summer sport ?

MDadasaheb Phalke Award is awarded for outstanding contribution to Indian Cinema. X has won two National Awards for Satya (1998) and Pinjar (2003), will now be honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in the Best Actor (Critics’ Choice) category. He will be awarded for his effortless portrayal of the late professor, Ramchandra Siras, in his last release. Siras was a homosexual, and was suspended from his university after his sexual orientation became public. X has played many other roles for which he will be remembered forever.

N

President Pranab Mukherjee laid the foundation stone for the creation of the headquarters of the National Commission for Women, in Delhi. Whaat preceded Bhawan in the name of the new building ?

O

The Peter Thiel fellowship is given to collegedropouts aged 22 and under alongwith afunding of $100,000 to pursue theirentrepreneurial interests. Ritesh Agarwalbecame the first Indian to receive thisfellowship. What is the name of his venture ?

P

August Picard was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer. He was the inspiration for which famous character.

Q

It was founded by two former Facebookemployees, Adam D’Angelo and CharlieCheever. It was started in 2009. Since then ithas come a long way. In 2013 it stared ablogging platform too. It is presently seen asthe biggest threat to Wikipedia. It gives usersa chance to ask and answer to anyone of theirchoice. It is written in Python and C++ . Thefounders say the closest other name for thesite would have been ‘Quiver’.

R

X is a famous Indian Economist who is supposed to have coined the term ‘DosaEconomics’ . He beautifully explains the important economic decisions and terms by using example of Dosa prices and technology used for making Dosa. He was the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund from 2003-2007. He was a professor of finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business from 1991 – 2013. In 2016, he was named by Time Magazine in its list of the ‘100 Most Influential People in the World’.

S

X is an Indian filmmaker, widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century. He directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. He was also a fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, calligrapher, music composer, graphic designer and film critic. He authored several short stories and novels, primarily aimed at children and adolescents. Feluda, the sleuth, and Professor Shonku, the scientist in his science fiction stories, are popular fictional characters created by him. He was awarded an honorary degree by Oxford University and many other accolades. He received his Honorary Oscar lying on death bed and died a few days later. He was so great that even death waited for him to win an Oscar.

T

Which Indian company introduced the eight hour workday, even before the system was made mandatory in most western countries ?

U

V

This country has brought in KPMG to implement uniform internationally accepted accounting practices in this country, Ernst & Young to scrutinise the management of its utilities and municipal services, Deloitte & Touche to audit its bank, McKinsey along with Chris Patten (former head of BBC and Governor Hong Kong ) to restructure its media operations and Spencer Stuart to recruit top management talent from around the globe. Name the Country.

W

This is the Neuschwanstein castle in Bavaria, Germany and is the largest castle in the country. What in America has been inspired from the design of this place ?

X

What does the ‘X’ in X-Men

stand for ?

Y• On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, the parliament of the

Federal Republic of X voted to disband itself, officially dissolving the country that was created in 1918 as the The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Seventy-four years ago, in 1929, the Kingdom changed its name to X, a name which will now live in history.

• The new country taking its place is called Serbia and Montenegro. The name Serbia and Montenegro is not new - it was used by countries such as the United States during the time of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic's rule, refusing to recognize X as an independent country. With the ouster of Milosevic, Serbia and Montenegro became recognized internationally as an independent country and rejoined the United Nations on November 1, 2000 with the official long form name Federal Republic of X.

Z.Identify.

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Amartya Sen

• X received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his contributions to welfare economics.He was also awarded with Bharat Ratna for his contribution to the field of Economics. His work restored an ethical dimension to economics. He was professor of economics at LSE for sometime. He is currently a Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He served as the chancellor of Nalanda University.

• His work produced a new understanding of the catastrophes that plague society's poorest people and helps to explain the economic mechanisms underlying famines and poverty. He is best known for his book Poverty and Famine: an essay on entitlement and deprivation.

Butterbeer

• It is a drink for younger wizards. Harry is first presented with the beverage in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. J.K. Rowling imagines it "to taste a little bit like less-sickly butterscotch". It can be served cold or hot but either way it has a warming effect. It was a real drink, the earliest reference to it is from The Good Houswifes Handmade for the Kitchen, published in London in 1588, made from beer, sugar, eggs, nutmeg, cloves and butter back in Tudor times. Another old recipe is in the recipe book The Accomplisht Cook, calls for liquorice root and aniseed to be added.

Charminar

• Sultan Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah built X in 1591. After shifting his capital from Golkonda to a new city, he built X . X is a square structure with each side 20 meters long, with four grand arches each facing a fundamental point that open into four streets. At each corner stands an exquisitely shaped minaret, 56 meters high, with a double balcony.

• In 2007, a small-scaled quasi replica of X was constructed at the main crossing of the Bahadurabad neighborhood in Karachi.

• Lindt chocolatier Adelbert Boucher created a scaled model of the X out of 50 kilograms of chocolate.

Deadpool

• Dopinder is a taxi driver who was supposed to be married to Gita , the love of his life but Dopinder was pissed off because Gita preferred his cousin Bandhu over him.

• X was on his way to kill his enemy when he sat in Dopinder’staxi. Dopinder told X about his situation with Gita. X gave Dopinder advice on how he should never let go of love.

• A couple days later, Dopinder was called by X for a ride again. X was once again headed to kill his enemy, but this time, he brought giant metal man and a teenage girl with him. A bump in the road caused a man in the trunk of the cab to scream. Dopinder revealed the man in the trunk to be Bandhu. Dopinder received praise from X, and was told to kill him and kidnap Gita. This is all we know of Dopinder. Identify X.

Erwin Schrodinger

Fifty Shades of Grey

• Cristiano Ronaldo bought a house in Trump Tower in NYC for USD 18.5 million. This house was supposed to be set as an inspiration to be the setting for which movie ?

Gavaskar, Sunil

• Whose upcoming book will be titled “A Century is not Enough” ? ( Give me the last name).

Hogwarts, Harry Potter

Where would you find these magazines –

• The Daily Prophet

• The Quibbler

• Transfiguration Today

• Challenges in Charming and The Practical Potioneer .

Indira Point

• Siachin Glacier, Gilgit, Baltistan, Dafdur or Kanjut(N)

• GhuarMota(W)

• Kibithu(E)

• ____________.

• Fill the blank.

Johnson and Johnson’s

• Id the advertiser.

Kimojis

Lacrosse

If Ice Hockey is Canada’s official winter sport, what

is the official summer sport ?

Manoj BajpaiDadasaheb Phalke Award is awarded for outstanding contribution to Indian Cinema. X has won two National Awards for Satya (1998) and Pinjar (2003), will now be honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in the Best Actor (Critics’ Choice) category. He will be awarded for his effortless portrayal of the late professor, Ramchandra Siras, in his last release. Siras was a homosexual, and was suspended from his university after his sexual orientation became public. X has played many other roles for which he will be remembered forever.

Nirbhaya

President Pranab Mukherjee laid the foundation stone for the creation of the headquarters of the National Commission for Women, in Delhi. Whaat preceded Bhawan in the name of the new building ?

Oyo Rooms

The Peter Thiel fellowship is given to collegedropouts aged 22 and under alongwith afunding of $100,000 to pursue theirentrepreneurial interests. Ritesh Agarwalbecame the first Indian to receive thisfellowship. What is the name of his venture ?

Professor Calculus

August Picard was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer. He was the inspiration for which famous character.

Quora

It was founded by two former Facebookemployees, Adam D’Angelo and CharlieCheever. It was started in 2009. Since then ithas come a long way. In 2013 it stared ablogging platform too. It is presently seen asthe biggest threat to Wikipedia. It gives usersa chance to ask and answer to anyone of theirchoice. It is written in Python and C++ . Thefounders say the closest other name for thesite would have been ‘Quiver’.

Raghuram Govind Rajan

X is a famous Indian Economist who is supposed to have coined the term ‘DosaEconomics’ . He beautifully explains the important economic decisions and terms by using example of Dosa prices and technology used for making Dosa. He was the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund from 2003-2007. He was a professor of finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business from 1991 – 2013. In 2016, he was named by Time Magazine in its list of the ‘100 Most Influential People in the World’.

Sayajit Ray

X is an Indian filmmaker, widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century. He directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. He was also a fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, calligrapher, music composer, graphic designer and film critic. He authored several short stories and novels, primarily aimed at children and adolescents. Feluda, the sleuth, and Professor Shonku, the scientist in his science fiction stories, are popular fictional characters created by him. He was awarded an honorary degree by Oxford University and many other accolades. He received his Honorary Oscar lying on death bed and died a few days later. He was so great that even death waited for him to win an Oscar.

Tata

Which Indian company introduced the eight hour workday, even before the system was made mandatory in most western countries ?

UN Headquarters

Vatican City

This country has brought in KPMG to implement uniform internationally accepted accounting practices in this country, Ernst & Young to scrutinise the management of its utilities and municipal services, Deloitte & Touche to audit its bank, McKinsey along with Chris Patten (former head of BBC and Governor Hong Kong ) to restructure its media operations and Spencer Stuart to recruit top management talent from around the globe. Name the Country.

Walt Disney Logo

This is the Neuschwanstein castle in Bavaria, Germany and is the largest castle in the country. What in America has been inspired from the design of this place ?

Xavier, named after Prof. Xavier

What does the ‘X’ in X-Men

stand for ?

Yugoslavia• On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, the parliament of the

Federal Republic of X voted to disband itself, officially dissolving the country that was created in 1918 as the The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Seventy-four years ago, in 1929, the Kingdom changed its name to X, a name which will now live in history.

• The new country taking its place is called Serbia and Montenegro. The name Serbia and Montenegro is not new - it was used by countries such as the United States during the time of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic's rule, refusing to recognize X as an independent country. With the ouster of Milosevic, Serbia and Montenegro became recognized internationally as an independent country and rejoined the United Nations on November 1, 2000 with the official long form name Federal Republic of X.

Zlatan