Preliminary screening of Quizoholic, the open quiz competition organised by Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, as part of their cultural fest, Aventine, 2016.
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?