Prelims answer final

Born as Bank of Calcutta on 2nd July 1806 mainly to fund
General Wellesley's wars against Tipu Sultan and the
Marathas . It was renamed Bank of Bengal on January 2,
1809., it became the ________ in 1921 and was renamed
to its present name after the Act of Parliament on 1st July
1955.
Name the bank.
1.

PIIGS is a grouping acronym used by international bond
analysts, academics, and by the international economic
press that refer to the economies of P_____, I______,
I______,
G____, and S_____ often in regards to matters relating to
sovereign debt markets. Some news and economic
organizations have limited or banned their use due to
criticism regarding perceived offensive connotations.
Who are the PIIGS?
2.

PORTUGAL, IRELAND, ITALY, GREECE, SPAIN

The logo is an image of a "twin-tailed siren", dangerous
creatures, portrayed in Greek Mythology as seductresses
who lured nearby sailors with their enchanting music and
voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast of their island.
3.

Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide
Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance is the subtitle a book X
by the economist Y, who is more famous for his earlier
book Z,which was number two on The New York Times
bestseller list for nonfiction in the year 2006. Both books
explain concepts of pop culture through the applications of
solid economic principles(that is strangely ironic) and is
also described as “amateur sociology”
GIVE X OR Z but Y is must.
4.

8.
Name him and his recent association with Govt.

6. Big Bang time
Raj (Entering dressed as Thor): Hey. Sorry I’m late, but my hammer got stuck
in the door on the bus.
• Leonard: You went with Thor?
• Raj: What? Just because I’m Indian I can’t be a Norse God? No, no, no, Raj
has to be an Indian God. That’s racism. I mean, look at Wolowitz, he’s not
English, but he’s dressed like Peter Pan. Sheldon(entering in a body suit
featuring black and white vertical lines) is neither sound nor light, but he’s
obviously the 'X’. …
• Leonard: Hey, Sheldon, there’s something I want to talk to you about before
we go to the party.
• Sheldon: I don’t care if anybody gets it, I’m going as the ‘X’.
• Leonard: No, it’s not…
• Sheldon: If I have to, I can demonstrate. Neeeeoooowwwww! What is X?

Vinod Mehta
The lucknow boy….

Sir James Taylor, did not rest content with this. He took keen interest in getting
fresh sketches prepared by_______________. As a basis for good design, he
arranged for a photograph to be taken of the statue of the tiger on the entrance
gate at Belvedere, Calcutta. Something or the other went wrong with the
sketches so that Sir James, writing in September I938, was led to remark:
“..s tree is all right but his tiger looks too like some species of dog, and I am
afraid that a design of a dog and a tree would arouse derision among the
irreverent. .....'s tiger is distinctly good but the tree has spoiled it. The stem is
too long and the branches too spidery, but I should have thought that by putting
a firm line under the feet of his tiger and making his tree stronger and lower we
could get quite a good result from his design.”
what was the design?
8.

9*. Id and connect with the theme of
quiz.

NANDANA SEN DAUGHTER OF NOBEL LAUREATE AMARTYA SEN.

This auto giant was set up as a
franchise to assemble jeeps from
Willys, USA in October 1945. It’s today
called Mahindra and Mahindra (M&M).
What was it called in 1945?
10.

Mahindra and Mohammed After partition, one of its
founders Ghulam Mohammed migrated to Pakistan and the
company became Mahindra and Mahindra
Mahindra & Mohammad

11. Give the organisation they formed?

Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Dulfo
Poverty action lab at MIT
Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action lab

“X” engages a wide variety of stakeholders – policy makers, parliamentarians,
academics, major groups, foundations, business sector representatives and
3,200+ registered non-governmental organizations – in a productive dialogue
on sustainable development through a programmatic cycle of meetings. The
work of “X” is guided by an issue-based approach, and there is an annual
theme that accompanies each programmatic cycle, ensuring a sustained and
focused discussion among multiple stakeholders.
12. Give “X”

Economic and social council
ECOSOC

15.
“X” is the richest candyman on the planet. Now 87, he is the patriarch of the
family that owns the “X: Group, maker of Kinder and ________chocolates,
Nutella and Tic Tac. He inherited the company from his father Pietro, who
started making a hazelnut spread called Nutella when cocoa was rationed
during World War II. “X” expanded the company and it continues to grow
under the leadership of his son, Giovanni. Giovanni's brother Pietro, had
shared control of the company for more than a decade but died, reportedly of a
heart attack, during a humanitarian mission to South Africa in 2011. The
company earned $10.5 billion (7.8 billion euros) in revenue during 2012, up 8%
from the previous year thanks to growth in Asia, Russia and the United States.
That boost pushed up the value of the group, and the Ferrero family's net
worth, $6 billion since last year.
Give “X”?

16.
X was an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress party. He held numerous academic degrees
and is hence well known as "the most qualified person" of India and is noted likewise in Limca Book of
Records.He holds the Limca Book of Records for the most qualified person in the country. Began as a
Medical Doctor (MBBS and MD) he did his Law (LL.B.) with Post- graduation in International Law
(LL.M.) and his Masters in Business Administration (DBM and MBA) and in Journalism (B.Journ). He
did his Masters in ten subjects. M.A. (Public Administration ; M.A. (Sociology) ; M.A. (Economics);
M.A. (Sanskrit); M.A. (History); M.A.(English Literature); M.A. (Philosophy); M.A. (Political Science) ;
M.A. (Ancient Indian History,Culture and Archaeology); M.A (Psychology). He got his D. Litt (Doctor of
Letters) in Sanskrit, the highest of any Degree in a University. Most of his Degrees are with First Merit
and he has obtained 28 Gold Medals. Between 1973 and 1990 he has written 42 University
Examinations, every summer and every winter. In 1978 he wrote the IPS (Indian Police Service)
examination and got into it, resigned, wrote the prestigious IAS (Indian Administrative Services)
examination in 1980 and got into it, resigning in four months to contest his first general elections. In
1980 he was elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assemble becoming the youngest MLA in the country
at 25 and subsequently became a very powerful government Minister holding 14 portfolios at a time.
He had one of the biggest personal libraries in India with 52,000 books. He was also an academician,
painter, professional photographer, and stage actor. He has been member of Maharashtra Legislative
Assembly (1982–85), Maharashtra Legislative Council (1986–92) and served as Minister of State,
Government of Maharashtra. He was also a member of Rajya Sabha (1992–98). He joined I.P.S. in
1978 and I.A.S. in 1980.

Moraji Desai was perhaps the most successful Indian
statesman when it came to achieving peace with Pakistan.
He shared an excellent relationship with President Zia ul
Haq who described the two as “brothers who act together.”
To maintain good relations, Desai even went to the extent
of revealing classified details of Indian intelligence
operations to Zia and the Pakistani government. As a
tribute to his efforts the Pakistani government did
something in the 1990, which gives Desai the distinction of
having achieved something that no one has. What did
Pakistan do?
17. India time :)

17.
Pakistan conferred Morarji Desai with the
‘Nishan-e-Pakistan’ award thus making him the
only person to have won both the Bharat Ratna
and Nishan-e-Pakistan awards

18. Give me her more famous son!

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