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Q1.

• Connect the railway stations of:Gondia Jn, Deula, Jalna, Srirangapatna, and Yeliyur.

All have single-lettered codes.

• G = Gondia Jn.• D = Deula (on the Sealdah - Diamond Harbour

section)• J = Jalna• R = Raipur• S = Srirangapatna• Y = Yeliyur.

Q2.

• On December 9, 1893, a French anarchist named Auguste Vaillant made a sensational attempt to avenge the execution of Ravachol, a fellow anarchist. His attempt injured several people and he was arrested and sentenced to death. Vaillant defended his actions during the trial, maintaining that he merely wanted to wake up the privileged classes.

• How did Vaillant's actions and his words come back into the lime light some 36 years later ?

• Bhagat Singh’s actions in 1929 were inspired by Vaillant’s bombing of the French assembly. He also paraphrased Vaillant’s statement “It takes a loud voice to make the deaf hear” in the pamphlets thrown inside the Central Assembly Hall.

Q3. What website?• BroadVision is an international software

vendor of self-service web applications for enterprise social software, electronic commerce, Enterprise Portals etc.

• The company provides applications (such as e-commerce) to unify e-business infrastructure and facilitate transactions between employees, partners, and customers.

• Which (in)famous high traffic website Indian did this company develop and now maintains?

IRCTC

Q4. Connect. (Exhaustive)

Only 3 countries without NRIs

Q5.• These are some cartoons by

one of India’s most popular and (in some cases) controversial politicians.

• He was a cartoonist English language daily The Free Press Journal in Mumbai, but left it in 1960 to form his own political weekly Marmik.

• Who?

Bal Thackeray

Q6.• Bombay were chasing yet another Ranji title in

1981.• In the Semi-Finals in Bangalore against Karnataka

they came against the left arm spin of Raghuram Bhat.

• Bhat took 8 wickets in the first innings and Karnataka took a first innings lead of 199.

• In the second innings, Bombay captain Sunil Gavaskar came in at No. 8 and did something to counter the threat of Bhat.

• What did he do? This was the only known time he tried his hand at that in First Class level.

He batted left-handed

• Bhat was running through the side which comprised primarily of right-handers.

• In walked Gavaskar at No. 8, and when he took leg stump guard with a left-hand batsman's stance, everyone on the ground was shocked. Bhat, remembering the incident, says, "I just couldn't believe my eyes. But he batted superbly. I had six fielders around the bat, but Sunil would play with soft hands and drop the ball dead at his feet or pad up. That was master class of how to play on a turning wicket. Mind you, he batted for a long time."

Q7. Connect (Inexhaustive).

• Alleppey• Balasore• Bardhhaman• Bharuch• Brahmapur• Calicut• Cannanore• Chengalpattu • Cochin• Chennai• Guwahati

• Jalandhar• Kolkata• Mumbai• Palghat• Pune• Quilon• Sewagram• Sridham• Srirampur• Tarangambadi• Tellicherry

• Thiruchchirapalli• Trichur • Trivandrum• Udhagamandalam• Vadodara• Varanasi• Vasai• Vijayawada• Vishakhapatnam

All these cities have undergone a change of name.

• Alleppey -- Alappuzha• Balasore -- Baleshwar• Bardhhaman --

Burdwan• Bharuch -- Broach• Brahmapur --

Berhampur• Calicut -- Kozhikode• Cannanore -- Kannur• Chengalpattu --

Chingleput• Cochin -- Kochi• Chennai -- Madras• Guwahati -- Gauhati• Jalandhar -- Jullender

• Kolkata -- Calcutta• Mumbai -- Bombay• Palghat -- Palakkad• Pune -- Poona• Quilon -- Kollam• Sewagram -- Wardha

East• Sridham -- Gotegoan• Srirampur --

Serampore• Tarangambadi --

Tranquebar• Tellicherry --

Thalasseri• Thiruchchirapalli --

Trichinopoly• Trichur -- Trissur• Trivandrum --

Thiruvananthapuram• Udhagamandalam --

Ootacamund (Ooty)• Vadodara -- Baroda• Varanasi -- Benares• Vasai -- Bassein• Vijayawada --

Bezwada• Vishakhapatnam --

Waltair

Q8.

• What was banned on All India Radio from 1940 till about 1971, for saying that:

It could not be easily tuned.It is of foreign origin.Tagore and Nehru did not like it and thought it to be ‘besura’?

• A ban still stands on their solos.

Harmonium

Q9. Give me X & Y.• This is a painting by Raja Ravi Varma depicting X who is

pretending to remove a thorn from her foot but is actually looking for her husband Y.

• One day, Rishi Durvasa, came to the ashram of X but, lost in her thoughts about Y, X failed to greet him properly. Incensed by this slight, the Rishi cursed X, saying that the person she was dreaming of would forget about her altogether. As he departed in a rage, one of X's friends quickly explained to him, the reason for her friend's distraction.The Rishi, realizing that his extreme wrath was not warranted, modified his curse saying that the person who had forgotten X would remember everything again if she showed him a personal token that had been given to her.

Shakuntala and Dushyanta

Q10.• The song sequence/shot was a

cinematographic challenge due to the intense glare caused due to the camera lights on the mirrors. The problem was not solved even after consultation with Hollywood experts. Finally the immortal scene was shot after covering the thousands of mirrors in a very thin covering of wax.

• Which very famous and iconic song/scene am I talking about?

Jab Pyaar Kiya Toh Darna Kya

Q11.• Method of preparing X:

Place the rose petals and sugar in layers in a wide-mouthed airtight glass jar. Place the jar in sunlight for 6 hours per day for around 3-4 weeks. On alternate days, the contents of the jar should be stirred with a wooden stick.The jar should be kept indoors once done.

Other ingredients, such as silver foil, Praval Pishti, cardamom seeds, or Muktapishti (powdered pearl) can be added to increase the cooling properties.

• What is being cooked?

Gulkand

Q12.• The Kongka La Pass in Ladakh is one of the least

accessible places in the world. Not only is it located in the Himalayas, it is a disputed border area of India and China and has been the cause of armed conflict between the two countries in the past. As such, the area is more or less a no man’s land. Both countries keep an eye of it, but neither patrols it or occupies it.

• This is the area where Indian and Chinese armies fought major war in 1962.

• Some Hindu pilgrims on their way to Mount Kailash from the Western pass, came across strange lights in the sky.

• What urban myth (or fact?) has developed in the areas due to many supposed sightings of certain objects?

• Locals on both sides of the border believe there is an underground UFO base in this region with the knowledge of both countries.

• When they bring up this matter to local Governments, they are told to keep quiet and forget the same.

• They believe neither the Indian or Chinese Governments do not want to expose the fact for some reason.

Q13. What is X?• “Six years ago, the memory of the previous night's event

made a certain gentleman, Vinay Mehta, fish out a Swiss army knife and stab a cardboard box meant for his music collection. Like a man possessed, Mehta furiously cut out rectangular vents on the top and bottom layer of this box.”

• This is the episode which began the VENTiT Xs.• The earlier versions of Xs trapped steam inside the box

and broke down the material itself, but VENTiT has bypassed all of that and is being seen as a giant advancement in the technology of Xs.

• “This allows steam to travel through the fluted middle layer which acts as an indirect opening. It's brilliant,“ adds another.

Pizza Boxes

Q14.

• The main part of this ‘machine’ is a triangular gnomon with hypotenuse parallel to the Earth's axis. On either side of the gnomon is a quadrant of a circle, parallel to the plane of the equator. It is used to measure, among other things, the declination of the Sun and the other heavenly bodies.

• Which device(s)?

Jantar Mantar

Q15.• This Ketan Mehta film starring Nawazuddin

Siddiqui in the title role will release later in 2014.

• It is a story of a man who carved a mountain, with just a hammer and a chisel, for 22 years to reduce the distance of his village to the nearest hospital from 75 kms to 1 km, after his wife slipped, fell and died on the mountains

• Name the movie or whose true it is based on.

Dashrath Manjhi

Q16.• 200m

John W. Tewksbury ,USA 22.2_______________ 22.8Stanley Rowley, AUS 22.9

200m Hurdles

Alvin Kraenzlein, USA 25.4 _________________ 26.6John W. Tewksbury, USA 26.8

• ________ set a world record in the second heat of the 200 meter hurdles which was bettered by Kraenzlein in the final. He also reached the final of the 110m hurdles and failed to finish, and participated in 60m and 100m sprint where he failed to qualify for the final.

• He later moved to the United States where he became a silent movie actor under the screen name Norman Trevor. He acted alongside Hollywood legends like Ronald Colman in movies like Beau Geste (1927) and Tonight At Twelve (1929). He also appeared in several Broadway shows.

Norman Pritchard

Q17.

• "Those days, it used to snow heavily here and the roads used to get blocked. Because of this, our turn came 6 weeks before all other places. I still remember the happiness and pride I felt on that day. Since then, regardless of whether it rains or snows, I do my duty every single time“.

• Who about what?

Shyam Negi, India’s first voter

Q18. Give me X.• During the 19th century, a legendary female Bengal Tiger

went on a complete rampage that ended with the death of an estimated 430 people in Nepal and India. The Bengal got the name “Champawat Tiger” after finally being killed in Champawat, (now) Uttrakhand.

• The tiger’s attacks have been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest number of fatalities from a tiger.

• The Champawat Tiger was finally killed by X who was described as a “big cat hunter.”

• X was also responsible for killing a male leopard that had terrorized another district in India, responsible for close to 400 deaths as well.

• Who is X, after whom a certain territory of our country is named?

Jim Corbett

Q19. • The village of Turtuk along with 5 other

Ladakhi villages in Jammu & Kashmir are the closest one can get into Pakistan without actually entering Pakistan.

• Why is this?

It is one on the villages which became a part of India after the change of LoC after

the 1971 war.

• So they were in Pakistan before 1971.

Q20.

• This shows the Pancha Rathas in Mahabalipuram - mistakenly assumed to be temples. However, these structures were never blessed, because they were never completed hence the word ‘temple’ is a misnomer.

• Each of the five rathas is a monolith, carved whole from a rock outcropping of pink granite.

• Who are these towers dedicated to?

Pandavas and Draupadi.• In order of their size,

they include the Dharmaraja Ratha, Bhima Ratha, Arjuna Ratha,Nakula Sahadeva Ratha, and Draupadi Ratha.

BONUS QUESTIONS

Q21. What do the blue and pink part form in totality?

National Waterways of India

Q22. Provide X.• The X limit is the maximum mass of a stable white dwarf star. The

limit was first published by Wilhelm Anderson and E. C. Stoner, and was named after X, who improved upon the accuracy of the calculation in 1930, at the age of 19. This limit was initially ignored by the community of scientists because such a limit would logically require the existence of black holes, which were considered a scientific impossibility at the time. White dwarfs, unlike main sequence stars, resist gravitational collapse primarily through electron degeneracy pressure, rather than thermal pressure.

• The X limit is the mass above which electron degeneracy pressure in the star's core is insufficient to balance the star's own gravitational self-attraction. Consequently, white dwarfs with masses greater than the limit undergo further gravitational collapse, evolving into a different type of stellar remnant, such as a neutron star or black hole. Those with masses under the limit remain stable as white dwarfs.

• The currently accepted value of the limit is about 1.39 (2.765 × 1030 kg).

Chandrasekhar Limit

Q23.

• There is only one Indian Post Office outside Indian geographical borders which comes under the jurisdiction of North Goa Postal Division.

Dakshin Gangotri

• The coordinating agency of the Indian Antarctic Expeditions, National Center forAntarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR) is situated at Vasco, Goa.

• Posts reach there only periodically.

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