MANORAMICA 2015

You are supposed to know these things.

J Ramanand

Prelims

• This is a GK quiz• You are supposed to know these answers• 30 qns, 20 minutes• No points for correct answers• -1 per incorrect answer• 6 least worst loser teams go into the final• No whining, no winning• There is one way to actually score some

points in the prelims.

History, Military, Geography

1. Which Viceroy of India partitioned Bengal in 1905?

2. Who was India’s Army Chief during Operation Blue Star?

3. What is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec?

Sports, Business, Science

4. Where will the 2020 Olympics be held?

5. Where is the HQ of the Asian Development Bank?

6. 1 Astronomical Unit is defined as the distance between which two objects in space?

Capitals, Dates, Who’s Who

7. What is the capital of Burkina Faso?

8. In which year did India first explode a nuclear bomb: 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976

9. Russian, wrote Dr. Zhivago, declined the Nobel Prize

Characters, Cities, Chief Ministers

10.Lady in Sheridan’s The Rivals with a habit of mixing up similar sounding words

11.The Lazio football club is based in which European city?

12.Name the Deputy CM of J&K

Awards

13.Which of these directors won the 1972 Academy Award for Best Director: Bob Fosse for ‘Cabaret’ or Francis Ford Coppola for ‘The Godfather’ or Andrei Tarkovsky for ‘Solaris’

14.Jacobus van’t Hoff won the first Nobel Prize in which discipline?

15.For which book did Ian McEwan win the Booker Prize in 1998?

Bollywood, Pune, Quotations

16.What is the name of Rajkumar Hirani’s long-time writing collaborator, a professor of English?

17.Who is currently Pune’s Lok Sabha MP?

18.Which European leader said: “How can you be expected to govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six kinds of cheese?”

Words & Phrases

19. A very hard or crucial question to answer is often nicknamed a ______ dollar question. What’s the number? (not million or billion, but an odder no.)

20. If “de facto” means “in fact/in practice”, what is its opposite term, meaning “by law”?

21.“tight trousers made with excess material at the bottom of the legs, which falls in folds around the ankles, traditionally worn by people from South Asia” – which Indian word has been added to the OED recently?

Abbrs., Flags, Maps

22. Expand EBIDTA

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Media, Music, Medicine

25. Delhi Press, the publishing house behind Caravan magazine, also produces which English language mag for children?

26. Nikhil Banerjee was a noted exponent of which music instrument?

27.In which part of the body will you find the bones malleus, incus, and stapes?

What’s What, Important Offices, Records

28.What kind of a sentence is a Pangram?

29.Who is the current Secretary of the BCCI?

30.Which Tamil actress was in the record books for acting in over 1000 films, and has also worked with as many as 5 CMs?

By the way, there is one way to score 2 points

Are you carrying a copy of

You get 2 points.

Exchange sheets – Answers follow

1. Lord Curzon2. Gen Vaidya3. Quebec City4. Tokyo5. Manila6. Sun and Earth7. Ouagadougou8. 19749. Boris Pasternak10.Mrs Malaprop11.Rome12.Nirmal Singh13.Bob Fosse14.Chemistry15.Amsterdam

16.Abhijat Joshi17.Anil Shirole18.Charles de Gaulle19.64,00020.de jure21.chudidar22.Earnings before Interest,

Depreciation, Taxes, and Amortization

23.Kosovo24.Manipur25.Champak26.Sitar27.Ear28.Has all letters in the

alphabet29.Anurag Thakur30.Manorama

MANORAMICA 2015

Finale

J. Ramanand

• Rounds• Chakkar de Flag• Manoramic Passages• Blind Dates• Panoramic Massages• Continental Drift

• Scoring system• No points for answering correctly• -1 for getting answers wrong or passing

• Rounds• Chakkar de Flag• Identify the flag(s)

• Manoramic Passages• Blind Dates• Panoramic Massages• Continental Drift

• Scoring system• No points for answering correctly• -1 for getting answers wrong or passing

• Rounds• Chakkar de Flag• Manoramic Passages• Blind Dates• Panoramic Massages• Continental Drift

• Scoring system• No points for answering correctly• -1 for getting answers wrong or passing

In the three battles of Panipat, who were the two sides in each?

What are the code words for the following NATO alphabets:

X, Y, Z

w.r.t Maharashtra, what is its

• State butterfly• State fruit• State animal

If genus of Humans is Homo, identify for each:

GorillasChimps

Identify these military operation codenames:

Liberation of Goa (1961)Capture of Siachen (1984)Kargil War (1999)Nepal earthquake relief (2015)

• 1.3806488(13)×10−23 Joules/Kelvin i.e. relates energy and temperature

• 6.02214129(27)×1023 mol−1 i.e. amount of particles in one mole

• Currencies of which countries?• Ngultrum• Kyat• Taka

• Zoroastrianism’s supreme god?• 1st and 24th Jain Tirthankarars?

• Rounds• Chakkar de Flag• Manoramic Passages• Blind Dates• What’s the year for these 20th century

events?• Panoramic Massages• Continental Drift

• Scoring system• No points for answering correctly• -1 for getting answers wrong or passing

• “Raja Harishchandra” released• Mohenjodaro excavated• Civil Disobedience Movement begins• India’s first ever Cricket Test match• Ambedkar converts to Buddhism• LBS dies• Emergency withdrawn• Rakesh Sharma goes to space• Sushmita Sen-Aishwarya Rai win beauty

titles• Arundhati Roy wins Booker Prize

• Rounds• Chakkar de Flag• Manoramic Passages• Blind Dates• Panoramic Massages• Continental Drift

• Scoring system• No points for answering correctly• -1 for getting answers wrong or passing

• India’s longest railway route is between which 2 places?

• Longest highway (NH7/NH44) is between?

• Demonyms• Manchester• Christchurch• Parma

• Rounds• Chakkar de Flag• Manoramic Passages• Blind Dates• Panoramic Massages• Continental Drift• Pick a continent. I will provide clues

from the Yearbook about a country. Identify the country.

• Scoring system• No points for answering correctly• -1 for getting answers wrong or passing