PRELIMS

PRELIMS

1. Who is this businesswoman / singer/ philanthropist ? According to her bio, she is the founder of Svatantra Microfinance an initiative to help rural women, Curocarte- a luxury e-commerce platform and Mpower which opens treatment centres for the mentally disabled. Her first song was released worldwide by Universal Music .

Ananya Birla d/o K M Birla

2. What is X?Xis apricing strategyby which a product or service (typically a digital offering or application such as software, media, games or web services) is providedfree of charge, but money is charged forproprietaryfeatures, functionality, orvirtual goods.92% of Apple App Store revenue comes from this model and this has led to game developers declaring their game as free to download.

Freemium

3.Which city are we talking about? The word ______ is derived from the sanskrit word Nagara meaning city. The kingdom started with Jayavarman II declaring himself as the Deva Raja but it was Suryavarman II that really made a mark on the planet. In 2007, researchers concluded that ____ had been the largest pre-industrial city in the world, with an elaborate infrastructure system connecting an urban sprawl of at least 1,000 square kilometres to the well-known temple at its core.

Angkor

4. What company? Ray Kroc was forced to buy out the names and the symbol from brothers Richard and Maurice since he thought that naming the company Krocs burgers would just be weird.

McDonalds

5. Connect these flights to a single person.Pune Delhi Air India Mumbai Delhi Air India Hyderabad Delhi Air India Nagpur Delhi Air India Pune- Ahmedabad Spice Jet Delhi Pune Indigo Delhi Pune Air India

Ravindra Gaikwad

6. Who after what?Some said that he was a member of the Mongolian Trade delegation in PekingOther reports mentioned him being imprisoned in Soviet forced labour camps.The best version was accusing a sadhu of Ramakrishna Mission of actually being him. The sadhu vehemently opposed the accusations and eventually died in 1977.The latest story was of one Gumnami Baba who used to speak to people behind white curtains and used to have in-depth knowledge about the USSR and japanese armies. He died in 1985.

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

7. Who are they talking about?TheMorning Postremembered him in an article titled "The Man Who Saved India and called him the saviour of Punjab.Rudyard Kipling wrote two tributes He did his duty as he saw it.These beds have been endowed as a lasting memorial to X, a brave man who in the face of a great peril did his duty as he saw it -- he that observeth the clouds shall not reap.

General Dyer Jalianwala Bagh Massacre

8. Who is X?X believed in transferring control from workers to management. He set out to increase the distinction between mental (planning work) and manual labor (executing work). Detailed plans, specifying the job and how it was to be done, were to be formulated by management and communicated to the workers. He wrote all this in his The Principles of Scientific Management.X was also the first ever doubles champion of the US Open in 1881 and participated in the 1900 summer olympics

F W Taylor

9. Fill in the blank.Robert Zemeckis said this about Castaway.There wasabsolutelyno product placement. We werent paid by anybody to place products in the movie. I did that in the past, and it wasnt worth the little bit of money that they give you, because then you end up with another creative partner, which you dont need. However, it just seemed to me that the whole integrity of the movie would be compromised if this was some phony trans-global letter delivery service, with some Hollywood fake logo and all that. It wouldnt seem like it would be real. So very simply, we asked _______ for their permission to use their logo, and they couldve said no. And that was it.

FedEx

10. What did they decline/return?Vilayat Khanrefusedand stated that "the selection committees were incompetent to judge [his] music".Swami Ranganathanandan declined the award in 2000 as it was conferred to him as an individual and not to theRamakrishna Mission.Lakshmi Chand Jaindied on 14 November 2010, at the age of 84.His family refused to accept the posthumous honour as Jain was against accepting state honours.Sharad Anantrao Joshi's family refused to accept the posthumous honour as Joshi's work for good of farmers is not reflected in the Government policies for them.In 1991,Baba Amtereturned the award, to protest against the treatment given to the tribals during the construction ofSardar Sarovar Dam.

Padma Vibhushan

11. What new age technology?The __________ uses alinear electric motorto accelerate and decelerate anelectromagnetically levitatedpod through a low-pressure tube. The vehicle will glide silently for miles at speeds of up to 620mph (1,000km/h) with no turbulence. The system is designed to be entirely autonomous, quiet and on-demand (departures every 1020 seconds) and, as it is built on columns or tunneled underground, eliminates the dangers of at-grade crossings and requires much smaller rights of way than high-speed rail or a highway.Talks are going on to introduce one of the prototypes in India.

Hyperloop One

12. Name the TV series in which these musicians were/ would be featured.Season 3 Will Champion of Coldplay.Season 3- Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol.Season 4 All members of Sigur Ros.Season 5 All members of Mastodon.Season 7 Ed Sheeran.

Game of Thrones

13. Why?In 2013, Chinese tourists in Malaysia were numbered to be around 1.8 million and rising each year. In order to promote tourism, they declared 2014 as the China Malaysia friendship year with massive discounts offered by tour companies and airlines. However the number of Chinese tourists declined heavily after the first few months of 2014.

Malaysian Airlines

14. Name the structure.Atuned mass damper, is a device mounted in structures to reduce the amplitude of mechanicalvibrations such as strong winds and earthquakes. The only building in India to have a tuned mass damper was the ATC tower in Delhi airport. However, one of the largest tuned dampers in the world is being fitted into the chest of a structure due to its location in an earthquake prone area.

Statue of Unity - Gujarat

15. What is it named after? Armalcolite was originally found on the Moon, in theSea of TranquilityatTranquility Base.Armalcolite is a minor mineral found in titanium-richbasaltrocks, volcanic lava and sometimes granitepegmatite,ultramafic rocks,lamproitesandkimberlites.

Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins

16. What is being discussed here.Xs authorship was revealed byThe Sunday Timeson 13 July 2013 after it investigated how a first-time author with a background in the army and the civilian security industry could write such an assured debut novel. TheSunday Timesenlisted the services ofprofessorPeter Millicanand Patrick Juola, whose software programs ran multiple analyses of the novel and other works, comparing them with the works of other authors. However, it was later reported that Xs authorship had been leaked to aSunday Timesreporter viaTwitter.

J K Rowling writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith

17. Rules set out by the DGP; for whom?No discrimination on basis of caste, creed and faith.No action on those sitting at coffee shops or in parks.No hair shaving, blackening of face or murga position.

Anti Romeo Dal

18. What shoemaker?X was born inPenang,Malaysia, into a family ofshoemakers. His family name is Chow but was misspelled on hisbirth certificate.In 1988 he got featured in Vogue but his real boost came when Princess Diana made him her official shoemaker.

Jimmy Choo

19. Name the largest heart shaped mark in the world.

Hussain Sagar lake- Hyderabad

20. What is the full time job of this part time singer?

Viral V Acharya- Deputy Governor, RBI

21. Identify the two singers in this song.

Sachin Tendulkar and Sonu Nigam

22. Identify the logo.

Google Daydream

23. What is the name of the company and the software?The company was founded asSwanson Analysis Systems, Inc(SASI). Its primary purpose was to develop and marketfinite element analysissoftware for structural physics that could simulate static (stationary), dynamic (moving) and thermal (heat transfer) problems.However the company was acquired by TA Associates and changed its name to ________.

Analysis Systems -> ANSYS

24. What was the name given to the boy?His birth certificate reads simply "Baby Songkla", as the parents had to consult his uncle, KingRama VII(then head of the House of Chakri), for an auspicious name. The king chose a name ofSanskritorigin which basically translated into- Strength of the Land, Incomparable Power.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

25. Whats the good word? Anacademicseminarusually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting or similarly to a tutorial led by students as is the case in Norway.TheParliament of Scotland in the 13th century.Any musical piece celebrating birth or distribution of good news.The part of a complaint fordefamationin which the plaintiff avers that the defamatory remarks related to him or her.

Colloquium

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