Does Grey Matter?The IIM Bangalore

QuizDec 25, 2010

QM: Venky, PGP 2000 (Team Nexus)

Welcome to the PrelimsAnswers

1

Which word is a Latin noun meaning “foster son, pupil” and is derived from the verb alere “to nourish”?

Alumnus / Alumni

2

• Tales from Firozsha Baag (1987)• _____ _ ___ _________ (1991)• A Fine Balance (1995)• Family Matters (2002)• The Scream (2006)

Fill in the blanks with a book name

Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry – the book that Aditya Thackeray got banned

3

•Natkhat – the dog•Santa Singh and Banta Singh – the twins•Professor Surajmukhi – the eccentric professor•Malika – the singer

Supporting characters in a proposed desi version of a popular comic series.

Name the original one

Tintin

4

Which 13-letter term, in the news, derives from the practice of British police officers, who would do something when they noticed the commission of a crime? This would alert other law enforcement officers and the general public of danger.

Whistleblower

A T-Shirt campaign started by Ashley Kerekes in Westfield, Massachusetts recently.

What is her twitter handle?

5*

@theashes

The lady is receiving the Bharat Ratna for 1988 on behalf of her deceased husband.

Who?

6

Janaki Ramachandran / MG Ramachandran

Identify the voice

7

Omi Vaidya

8

• Who is the most famous son of Bookanakere in Mandya district, about 100 kilometers from the state capital Bangalore?

BS Yeddyurappa

What did this book recently inspire?

9

Khelen Hum Ji Jaan Se

List A• Warren G. Harding• William Henry Harrison• Franklin D. Roosevelt • Zachary Taylor

10*

List B• James Garfield • John F Kennedy• Abraham Lincoln• William McKinley

Both lists above have a commonality, yet List A is different in a way from List B. What is common and what is different?

List A – US Presidents who died in office of natural causesList B – US Presidents who died in office and were assassinated

What is this cartoon celebrating?

11

Nicole Faria winning the Miss Earth title

A 7” tablet called Playbook, launched in September 2010. Which company makes it?

12

Research In Motion, makers of Blackberry

Her mother is an actress, while her late father Shomu was a film director and producer. Her late maternal aunt, is the record holder for the most (5) Filmfare Awards for Best Actress, and her late maternal grandmother Shobhna Samarth and great grandmother Rattan Bai had both been involved in Hindi cinema.

Whose family tree spanning 4 generations?

13

Kajol Devgan

The evangelical cult "Paz do Senhor Amado" ("Peace of the beloved Lord") in the interior of Brazil forbids its followers to use any of this technology by contending that it uses a symbol that shows sympathy for the devil.

According to its founder, the "Apostle" Welder Saldanha, “the symbol is a trident, which is used to torture souls that go to hell. All users of that vile technology are actually worshipers of Satan”

What is the technology?

14

USB

15*

Two paintings by Van Gogh. What scientific phenomenon, called by Feynman as, “the most important unsolved problem of classical physics” are these supposed to depict?

Turbulence

According to architect, BV Doshi, IIM Bangalore’s campus architecture is inspired by this UNESCO World Heritage Site – a capital city.

Name the city

16

Fatehpur Sikri

17

• This National Park derives its name from the most prominent hillock of the area, which is said to be given by Lord Rama to his brother Lakshmana to keep a watch. Hence, the name that means in Sanskrit – ‘Brother's Fort’.

Name the National Park

Bandavgarh National Park

18

Connect this movie and this ACK

Vasantasena

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• What batting achievement does Ajit Agarkar share with Saurav Ganguly, Vinoo Mankad, Ravi Shastri, GR Viswanath, Dilip Vengsarkar and Mohammed Azharuddin, which neither Gavaskar, Sehwag, Gambhir, Sachin, Dravid or Laxman have?

A Test Century at Lord’s

20*

A still from the upcoming Sherlock Holmes II. The lady, Noomi Rapace is famous for playing which protagonist character in a recent trilogy of non-English movies?

Lisbeth Salander from the Millennium trilogy

21

Who publishes SPAN magazine in India?

The US Embassy

22

• Chang and Eng Bunker were born in Thailand in 1811. In 1829, they were “discovered” by British merchant Robert Hunter. Upon termination of their contract with him, they successfully went into business for themselves. They traveled with P.T. Barnum's circus for many years.

What were they called, which has since become a generic term?

Siamese Twins

23

Identify the two people with David Beckham

David Cameron and Prince William

24

Fill in the blank

Schindler’s – the book was the basis of the movie Schindler’s List

25*• The Annus Mirabilis papers are the

4 papers of Albert Einstein published in the Annalen der Physik scientific journal in 1905. These four articles contributed substantially to the foundation of modern physics. Three of them were on Brownian Motion, Relativity and Matter-Energy equivalence. The fourth one is what won him the Nobel Prize in Physics.

What was the subject of the fourth paper?

Photoelectric Effect

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The IOC suspended this country’s national Olympic committee at the beginning of the year for alleged political interference by the government, consequently barring its athletes and officials from the Olympics and making the country ineligible for Olympic funding.Still, it was represented at the Guangzhou Asian Games, with 194 athletes competing in 21 sports under the IOC banner. They were simply labeled “Athletes from _____.”Which country?

Kuwait

27

What is significant about this ad jingle?

(Leo Coffee Tamil ad)

One of the early ad jingles composed by AR Rahman for Leo Coffee

28

Identify the voice (talking to students at a B-

School)

Kamal Hassan

29

Identify the breed of dog or the insect

Jack Russel Terrier and Cicada

Identify the sport

30*

Sepak Takraw

Scores and Onward to the Finals!