General Quiz 3

 1. What eight letter word is used to describe the colourful truck-mounted
cultural displays by various states and government undertakings
following the military march-past in Republic Day parades?


Ans: Tableaus/ Tableaux
 
2 Situated near Naples, and last erupted in 1944, name the only active volcano on mainland Europe.


Ans: Vesuvius


3 The symbol of which annual competition is a lemniscate (the
mathematical symbol for infinity) intertwined with a circle, and features
the same 5 colours as the Olympic rings?


Ans: International Mathematics Olympiad
 
4 What short term, a homophone of a word that means dog-like, is often
used to refer to police dogs?
 
Ans: K9


5 What 5-letter word is usually part of the name of the brightest star in
any constellation?


Ans: Alpha


 6 Which planet's astrological symbol is a representation of a trident?
 
Ans: Neptune


7 Which Hindu God is known by the alternate name of Halayudha,
referring to his weapon of choice?
 
Ans: Balarama


8 Only two Governor-Generals of India were not noblemen (in other
words, did not have titles such as Lord / Baronet etc). One was the last
Governor-General, C. Rajagopalachari. Who was the other?


Ans: Warren Hastings


9 For many forms of competition, its official definition is that it measures
less than 14.2 hands at the withers. Horses are defined to be 14.2 or
taller. What?


Ans: Ponies
 
10 Between the reign of the Tughlaqs and that of the Lodis, for a period of
37 years much of northern India was under the sway of a dynasty
whose rulers claimed to be descendants of Prophet Mohammed. Name
this dynasty.


Ans: Sayyids
 
11 Which cantonment town of central India, whose name is considered an
initialism, was renamed as Dr. Ambedkar Nagar in 2003 by the
Government of Madhya Pradesh?


Ans: Mhow
 
12 If you were to earn the Golden Bails, Silver Bails or the Bronze Bails
award, what profession would you have to be in?


Ans: Cricket Umpires


13 Among the Navaratnas of Akbar's court, there were a pair of brothers.
The elder brother's name was was Faizi. What was the name of the
more well-known younger brother?
 
Ans: Abul Fazi


14 The vertebral column in humans is divided into four divisions. The
bottom three are thoracic, lumbar and sacral. What is the top-most
division called?


Ans: Servical


15 Which country's official Chinese name is Xinjiapo Gongheguo?


Ans: Singapore


16 The dihydrate of calcium sulphate is gypsum. What name for the
hemihydrate of calcium sulphate includes the capital of a European
country?


Ans: Plaster Of Paris
 
17 After whom was the Islamabad International Airport in Pakistan
renamed in June 2008?
 
Ans: Benazir Bhutto


18 Covering an area of 100km by 400km in East Antarctica, the Lambert is
the world’s largest what?


Ams: Glacier
 
19 What four-word phrase connects these places - Udaipur, Alleppey and
Srinagar (India), Lijiang City, Suzhou, Tongli, Wuzhen and Zhouzhuang
(China), Barisal City (Bangladesh), Ayutthaya and Bangkok (Thailand)?


Ans: Venice Of The East
 
20 On September 19, 2009, Yoshito Usui’s body was recovered by a
climber in the mountain range straddling Gunma and Nagano
prefectures. By creating which mischievous five-year old did Usui gain
his reputation in the 1990s?


Ans: Shin Chan
 
21 In the novels Executive Orders, Rainbow Six and The Bear and the
Dragon, who is the President of the USA?
 
Ans: Jack Ryan


22 Considered a holy place in multiple religions, which mountain peak
located in the Gangdise ranges is the only major peak above 6000m
that has remained free of climbing attempts?


Ans: Mount Kailash
 
23 What 2 word name would connect - a. the person who introduced
Kundalini Yoga and Sikhism to the United States b. possibly the only
Indian Army Officer who has a shrine built in his honour c. A famous
Punjabi poet.


Ans: Harbhajan Singh
 
24 It is a mass that accelerates by 1 ft/s² when a force of one pound-force
(lbf) is exerted on it; it is a piece of spacing material used in typesetting;
it is a gastropod mollusk without a shell. What?


Ans: Slug
 
25 Which cricketer who later gravitated to the London stage both preceded
and succeeded W.G. Grace as the English cricket team captain and
had a 100% win record as Test captain, in what was his only Test
match?


Ans: C Aubrey Smith
 
26 Before the start of shooting a movie or TV serial in Hawaii, a local
priest is typically brought in to bless the set. By what word do
Hawaiians refer to such a "priest, sorcerer, magician, wizard, minister
or expert in any profession"?


Ans: Kahuna
 
27 This word typically refers to a road on the side of a cliff or mountain,
with the ground rising on one side of the road and falling away on the
other. Which word that comes from the French for 'road on a ledge'?
 
Ans: Corniche


28 It is believed that one of the probable origins for the name of the
Malaysian dish, ‘Roti Canai’, which resembles the Kerala Paratha, is an
Indian city. Which city?


Ans: Chennai/ Madras
 
29 A well known form of this object is the America's Cup trophy. In the
forms that we encounter this object it can hold between 48 oz and 64
oz of liquid. What are we talking about, which traces its origin to a
Greek word meaning 'earthen vessel'?


Ans: Pitcher
 
30 Founder of the Satya Shodhak Samaj with the primary objective of
dismantling the caste system, which 19th century social reformer is
another person who is referred to as 'Mahatma'?


Ans: Jyotiba Phule
 
31 What anti-submarine weapon that destroyed its target by the shock of
exploding near it, was first used in the 1910s and employed a
hydrostatic pistol actuated by water pressure at a pre-selected depth to
trigger the detonation?


Ans: Depth Charge
 
32 What word seen in medical literature as a counterpart of the word
placebo is Latin for 'I will harm'?
 
Ans: Nocebo


33 Thiruvannamalai, a temple town midway on the Puducherry-Bangalore
National Highway (NH66) found fame in the 20
the century because of its association with which Advaita Vedanta guru who spent his entire
adulthood near this town?


Ans: Ramana Maharshi


34 Fill in the blanks in this line from a famous speech - "Two thousand
years ago the proudest boast was civis Romanus sum. Today, in the
world of freedom, the proudest boast is ___ ___ ___ _____".


Ans: Ich Bin Ein Berliner
 
35 The 2010 World Cup Finals will be played at Soccer City on the eastern
outskirts of Soweto. The stadium is built in the shape of which African
vegetable?
 
Ans: Calabash