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PRELIMINARY ROUND
26 QUESTIONS IN A-Z FORMAT
X,P,L,O,R,I,C,A are * questions

This is the Japanese word for Red, a
reason for a famous Japanese
company to use RED in its logo
[HINT: this is also known as “also
known as”]

Extract from 1962 issue of American
Legion magazine:
Allan W. Eckert wrote that the flight leader had
been heard saying, "We are entering white
water, nothing seems right. We don't know
where we are, the water is green, no white.“
He also wrote that officials at the Navy board
of inquiry stated that the planes "flew off to
Mars."
What was he referring to?

X(2 words) panel consists of an insulator such
as glass, coated with a transparent conductor such
as indium tin oxide (ITO). As the human body is also
an electrical conductor, touching the surface of the
screen results in a distortion of the
screen's electrostatic field, measurable as a change
in Y, one cannot use a X through most types of
electrically insulating material, such as gloves. This
disadvantage especially affects usability in consumer
electronics in cold weather.

The fifth letter of the greek alphabet is
the source for a currency. Give both
the alphabet and the currency
Hint: Absolute dielectric permittivity

Identify this famous Italian mathematician

This epic novel is set in 1920's during
the British Raj, about the breakdown of
socio-economic structures, impact of
industrialization and non-cooperation
movement in rural Bengal. Later adapted
into a film by Tarun Mazumdar, its author
earned the Jnanpith award for this
literary creation in 1966

"Jambo Bwana" (in Swahili "Hello
Mister") is one of the best internationally
known Kenyan pop songs, initially
released by the Kenyan Band Them
Mushrooms, and later covered by
Mombasa Roots, Boney M. The song
repeats a common phrase, in fact that
phrase was also used as a title later.
What phrase?

India is believed to be the oldest centre for this
in whole World, though off late El Salvador is the
largest producer of this, In the mid-1660s, when
Newton bought a pair of prisms at a fair
near Cambridge, the East India Company had
begun importing THIS into England, He linked
the prismatic observation to the seven notes of
a western major scale, with THIS as one of
the semitones. The use of THIS word was added
to the English dictionary in the 13th century, and
its actual position is said to be controversial.
What am I referring to?

Anil Ambani owns this ‘2’ word chain X Y, James
Gosling consumes a lot of this, and though there
was a Oak tree beside his house for the initial
naming, he chose to name his language Y, and
later changed it to X. Give XY.

What do you call the term “Children”
in German?

This is an Indian e-commerce company
started by Peyush Bansal, founded in
November 2010 with its head quarters in
New Delhi. It has 7 offline franchise
owned stores and planning to set up 100
retail stores to strengthen its offline
presence. Its parent company is Valyoo
Technologies, recently it started a
program of sending specialists to
customers home via online booking,
charging just INR 100. Which company?

Her name is Maria, she began her own
type of education system that
bears/derives from her surname.

Nitro-cellulose is a film forming
polymer, this serves as the main
ingredient of what?

It is the first Indian University to have Urdu as the
medium of instruction, established and named after
the last Nizam of Hyderabad in 1918, with students
from more than 80 nations its list of alumni include
PV Narashima Rao, Harsha Bhogle, Mohammad
Azharuddin, Shyam Benegal, Rakesh Sharma, Diana
Hayden, Y V Reddy among the few. Name the famous
university

Obesity hypoventilation syndrome defines a
condition in which severely overweight people fail to
breathe rapidly enough or deeply enough, resulting in
low blood oxygen levels and high blood CO2 levels.
Many people with this condition also frequently stop
breathing altogether for short periods of time during
sleep resulting in many partial awakenings during the
night, which leads to continual sleepiness during the
day. What was the syndrome initially known as?[ It
had its reference from a Charles Dickens’ character
Joe — the "fat boy" who consumes great quantities of
food and constantly falls asleep at any time of day]

When Sujoy Ghosh offered Saswata
Chatterjee the role for Bob Biswas in
Kahaani 2 he rejected the fact being
“Bob is dead”, however Scarecrow
communications was successful to
bring back Bob Biswas in front of the
Television audience. How?

QUICKR’S MISS CALL AD LAUNCH

Which cricketer has faced the maximum
number of balls in Test Cricket?
A) Rahul Dravid
B) Ricky Ponting

Japp Stockman, the
Holland GK nominated
Sardar Singh for the ALS
Ice Bucket Challenge
recently, Sardar took up
the challenge at the
Major Dhyan Chand
National Stadium and
nominated 3 people,
John Abhraham, Teun de
Nooijer being 2 of them,
who was the 3rd ?

Which Indian is used as a reference for
the song “We can do it” by Mel Brooks
from his album “The Producers”

Shankar worked in Uganda Railways,
Chatur Ramalingam was from Uganda,
the Uganda cricket team celebrating
after winning their first ICC Event.
LINK: UGANDA

I don’t need the
name of the person
on the left, but a
commodity is
named after him
founded in 1997 in
Poland. What is the
product?

The first general secretary of London
Indian Society, he is/was the first
Indian to contest elections in the
British House of Commons, he made
two attempts to enter the British
Parliament but in vain. Who is/was he?

Follow the pattern to crack the blank:-
Real Madrid : Gareth Bale
Barcelona : Neymar De Silva
Manchester United: Adnan Januzaj
Bayern Munich: _______

Xherdan Shaqiri
(Bayern Munich’s jersey number 11)

How do you better know Rodney Agatupu Anoa?
OR
The __________ list contains 71 names in total
from 18th century, Haguroyama Masaji was 36th
in that list and served the highest dignity for the
longest term.

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