BARNA OPEN QUIZ - 2016 (PRELIMS)

QM : Saswata Chakraborty

Rules:15 questions, total 25 marks at stake!Question numbers 1-5 are starred ones!Question number 1 carries 1 mark, 2 carries 2 marks …Hence, first 5 questions carries 15 marks and 5 stars!Question numbers 6-15 carry 1 mark each!Moderate amount of spelling error(s) can be overlooked!Out of the box spelling error will not be considered!QM’s decision is final!


‘House of Memories’ is the English name of a very famous Aparna Sen film made in Bengali.

What is the name of the original Bengali film?

1*

Identify the famous sportsman-woman couple

2*

The Drielandenpunt (3 country point) is located at Vaalserberg, and is the border meeting point of three European countries.

Identify the three countries.

3*

This is a page from a graphic novel, an adaptation of the original novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Name the (original) novel.

4*

Amul ad omitting a famous person missing in an iconic Selfie depicted in this ad. If we consider that the Amul Girl as the missing person, then we get the famous five in the Selfie.

List the five.(Any order will do!)

5*

‘Emile’’, or On Education or Émile’, or ‘Treatise on Education’ is a thesis on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by a world famous teacher and thinker.

Who is the theorist?

6

St. Teresa, in the 1950s, often lined up behind many poor patients to see a doctor who would give free consultations at his home chamber. She, of course, would ask him for help related to her charitable work.

Who was the famous doctor?

7

Rio 2016 made the return of this game.

Name the game in exact.

8

Identify the film from its poster

9

How many squares are there in total on a chessboard?

10

Google introduced this doodle to indicate which specific event?

11

Jeevan Bindi, or life-saving dot, is an idea that seeks to help women across rural India to get their daily required dose of a very important element.

What?

12

Identify the singer

13

Identify the singer

14

Identify the speakerfrom the interview

15

‘House of Memories’ is the English name of a very famous Aparna Sen film made in Bengali.

What is the name of the original Bengali film?

1*

Identify the famous sportsman-woman couple

2*

The Drielandenpunt (3 country point) is located at Vaalserberg, and is the border meeting point of three European countries.

Identify the three countries.

3*

Netherlands, Belgium and Germany

This is a page from a graphic novel, an adaptation of the original novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Name the (original) novel.

4*

Amul ad omitting a famous person missing in an iconic Selfie depicted in this ad. If we consider that the Amul Girl as the missing person, then we get the famous five in the Selfie.

List the five.(Any order will do!)

5*

Sachin Tendulkar, Pullela Gopichand, P.V. Sindhu, Sakshi Malik

& Deepa Karmakar

‘Emile’’, or On Education or Émile’, or ‘Treatise on Education’ is a thesis on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by a world famous teacher and thinker.

Who is the theorist?

6

St. Teresa, in the 1950s, often lined up behind many poor patients to see a doctor who would give free consultations at his home chamber. She, of course, would ask him for help related to her charitable work.

Who was the famous doctor?

7

Rio 2016 made the return of this game.

Name the game in exact.

8

Identify the film from its poster

9

How many squares are there in total on a chessboard?

10

There are many more different-sized squares on the chessboard. Therefore, there are

actually 64 + 49 + 36 + 25 + 16 + 9 + 4 + 1 squares on a chessboard!

(in total 204)

Google introduced this doodle to indicate which specific event?

11

Introduction of 2G Service in India

Jeevan Bindi, or life-saving dot, is an idea that seeks to help women across rural India to get their daily required dose of a very important element.

What?

12

Identify the singer

13

Identify the singer

14

Identify the speakerfrom the interview

15
