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Quizoholic, Aventine 2016, AAU -- Prelims
- 1. QUIZOHOLIC, AVENTINE 2016 ----------------- PRELIMS, WITH ANSWERS ----------------- 06.05.2016 ----------------- RESEARCHED & CONDUCTED BY : GAUTAM PRIYAM MAHANTA.
- 2. 18 questions. No negative marks for wrong answers. Total 7 Starred Questions 1, 3, 5, 8, 14, 15, 18.
- 3. Q. P1. **** He is Altaf Mazid, Assamese film director who passed away recently. He made a documentary on the life and works of Saurabh Kumar Chaliha. What was it titled?
- 4. ANSWER
- 6. Q. P2. West Indies captain Darren Sammy gave an emotional speech after winning the ICC WT20 2016. Although he was critical of West Indies Cricket Board, he acknowledged the support and inspiration received from CARICOM. What is CARICOM?
- 7. ANSWER
- 8. Caribbean Community, an organisation of 15 Caribbean nations and dependencies.
- 9. Q. P3. **** Connect these brands.
- 10. ANSWER
- 11. Some of the brands owned by myntra.com
- 12. Q P4. This very popular brand of something was launched for the first time in the UK in 1905 by Cadbury with the tagline With a glass and half of fresh milk. What is the brand?
- 13. ANSWER
- 15. Q P5. **** M. K. Gandhi took appointment under a law firm in 1893 and went to South Africa. What was that firm?
- 16. ANSWER
- 17. Dada Abdulla & Company.
- 18. Q P6. This is the logo of Imperial Bank of India, a large scale commercial bank which was founded in 1921. In 1955, the bank changed its name to something else. What is the new name?
- 19. ANSWER
- 20. State Bank of India.
- 21. Q. P7. Tere Bin from Wazir. The song was actually written by the producer of this film. Who is he?
- 22. ANSWER
- 24. Q. P8. **** This is the title song of the 1995 studio album Made in England by the singer X. Identify X.
- 25. ANSWER
- 26. Elton John.
- 27. Q. P9. What is the map showing / highlighting?
- 28. ANSWER
- 31. ANSWER
- 33. Q. P11. Jubilant FoodWorks is a Noida based company that owns the franchise rights of a global restaurant chain in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. What is that restaurant chain, founded in 1960 in Michigan?
- 34. ANSWER
- 36. Q. P12. This is the logo of an entertainment group which came into being in 1999. Headquartered in Mumbai, it is a subsidiary of Gujarat Fluorochemicals Ltd. Live the Movie is the slogan of this group. What is it?
- 37. ANSWER
- 39. Q. P 13. Identify the football club from its logo.
- 40. ANSWER
- 42. Q. P14. **** With the advent of railways in India, the people of eastern Bengal, who have had a knack for fish preparations, got introduced to local varieties from the western coast, amongst which this was one. The transportation of these variety of (dried) fish, which become quite popular, solely depended on the mail trains that were in operation to western coast, and owing to this, the fish variety came to be known as X. What is X?
- 43. ANSWER
- 44. Bombay Duck (from Bombay Daak).
- 45. Q. P15. **** Singapore is a multi-ethnic, multilingual city state in South East Asia. Although Malay is recognised as the national language, as many as four languages have been recognised as official languages. If Malay, English and Mandarin are three of them, what is the fourth?
- 46. ANSWER
- 47. Tamil.
- 48. Q. P16. Earn Your Respect is the tagline of which Indian apparel brand? The tagline itself can be taken as a clue.
- 49. ANSWER
- 50. Manyavar.
- 51. Q. P17. Everything else can wait, but not agriculture who famously made this remark? The statement can be seen displayed in the AAU campus.
- 52. ANSWER
- 54. Q. P18. **** Sultan Alauddin Khilji (Reign 1290-1316) was the first ruler of Delhi to keep a standing army on payment of salary. Further, he introduced two new systems in military administration the first is the marking / branding of military horses, which was called Daagh. The second is the maintenance roll of soldiers, describing specific details of each of them. What is this second system, introduced by him, called?
- 55. ANSWER
- 56. Huliya.
- 57. END OF PRELIMS