NTPC Electron Quiz 2009- Prelims- Hyderabad

Hyderabad edition of the NTPC Electron Quiz 2009

4. ANSWERS

5. What resulted as an
effect of the "Operation
Polo" conducted by the
Indian Armed Forces in
the year 1948?
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6. The liberation of the Princely State of Hyderabad,
which led to led to the integration of the princely
state of Hyderabad into the Indian Union.
It was nicknamed “Operation Polo” because at that
time the Hyderabad State had about 17 Polo
grounds, which was the highest for any state in
India.

7. The first was built with borrowed wood near
Pasadena by two brothers, who wanted to
pursue a career in Hollywood. There is one
at the North Pole, and a floating one on a
steamer at St. Louis. What are we talking
about?
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8. Mc Donalds

9. What is this breed of cute little penguins called?
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10. Jackass Penguins
Because they bray like donkeys!

11. Identify the soon to release movie:
“It is a ultra cool career for all smart people
blocked from entering medical, engineering or
business schools by brainless entrance exams.
It is everything he dreamt of, with smooth
dressing, smoother talking men...”
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12. Rocket Singh – Salesman of the year!

13. Five decades ago, two artisans, Narsimhulu and
Balapochaiah, returned to their village with a new skill
that they had picked up while they worked in Bombay
for Seth Chaman Lal.
Soon they taught all the interested youth in their
village this skill and the this trade started flourishing in
this village. This village soon earned the name, “Second
Bombay”.
Which village and what is the skill?
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14. The village is Chandampet , the village near Hyderabad
famous for pearl drilling.
The method of drilling holes is purely indigenous and it is
done manually using a needle. Before the advent of
drilling machines, pearls used to come to Chandampet
from faraway places like China, Hong Kong and Japan.

15. What is the name of this famous restaurant and
where is it located?
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16. Jules Verne Restaurant, Eiffel Tower

17. Which famous man of Icelandic origin synonymous
with quizzing wrote this seminal book?
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18. Magnús Magnússon, the famous presenter of
BBC Mastermind Quiz.

19. Sometime around January 2005, a really really
long innings came to an end at the Kent cricket
ground and the mode of dismissal was a
stumping.
“Who” got stumped?
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20. The famous lime tree inside
the Canterbury's cricket
ground.
The tree, for more than 200
years old, has been a
landmark at the St Lawrence
Ground - home of Kent
County Cricket Club - since it
opened.
It had been in ill health for a
few years and was broken in
half by a strong gust of wind
in Jan 2005.

21. Identify the man in the picture below.
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22. A. S. Murthy: The new CEO of Satyam

23. The Municipality of Volos in
Greece in conjunction with
the local Municipal Tourist
Bureau and a research team,
reconstructed a myth and an
ambitious project, which took
years of painstaking enquiry
and relevant studies.
This boat traveled to Georgia
following the mythical route
symbolically looking for
something.
What is the name of the boat
or what have they recreated?
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24. The recreation of the ancient Greek ship Argo, the vessel used by Jason
and his Argonauts on the quest for the ‘golden fleece’. The 28.5 meter
long and 4 meter wide vessel will have on 50 oarsmen. The 50 rowers
are citizens from all the member-states of the European Union.

25. It literally means cloth or rag in French.
It was made famous in India by Maharani
Gayathri Devi’s mother.
What are we talking about?
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26. French chiffons

27. This word is used as part of a phrase in a commonly
used term in Poker.
It is a forced bet in which each player places an
equal amount of money or chips into the pot before
the deal begins.
In games where the acting dealer changes each turn,
it is not uncommon for the players to agree that the
dealer provides it for each player.
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28. Ante, as in “Upping the Ante”

29. It is the oldest law enforcement agency in the US
reporting directly to the Treasury Secretary.
One of its two principal functions is to safeguard
currency notes.
What is its other job?
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30. Guarding the US President, The Secret Service.

31. What was the company founded by these three ex-
PayPal employees?
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32. Chad Hurley
Jawed Karim
Steve Chen

33. In the older days, the Arabians believed that the
entrance to hell was somewhere in or near which
geographical landmark?
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34. Dead Sea

35. Which brand gets its name from a Biblical Hero who
had his strength in his long hair?
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36. Samsonite

37. What is the claim to fame of these two boys?
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38. Boddepalli Manoj Kumar and Mohammed Shaibaaz
Tumbi, set a world record with an unbroken 721 run
partnership for St.Peter's School against St.Phillips
High School in the Hyderabad Cricket Association
under-13 inter-schools cricket tournament at Parade
Grounds in Hyderabad on November 15, 2006. They
eclipsed the record of Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod
Kambli of 664 runs set in 1987-88

39. N.Thanu got a double first
class in BA from Loyola
College, Madras. He worked as
an illustrator in Ananda
Vikatan and later with The
Indian Express and Swarajya.
Which famous organization
was founded by him?
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40. Brilliant Tutorials

41. This is a picture taken during August 1945 at Oak Ridge
Facility, Tennessee , USA. What was happening here?
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42. Manhattan Project, development of the atom bomb was
undertaken here.

43. He is an IAS officer who served as the Governer of
the Reserve Bank of India from the year 2003 to
2008.
He has an M.A. in economics from Madras
University, hold a Ph. D from Osmania University, a
Diploma in Economic Planning from the Institute of
Social Studies, Netherlands and is Honorary Fellow
of the London School of Economics.
Identify him.
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44. Y. Venugopal Reddy

45. This company whose name literally means
“crossroads” in English is the world’s largest
hypermarket chain in terms of size, second largest in
terms of revenue and third largest in terms of profit
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46. Carrefour

47. Identify this deadly trio.
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48. Jean Paul Sartre (middle) and Simone de Beauvoir
(left) meeting with Che Guevara (right) in Cuba, 1960.

49. This product was carried as a nutritional
supplement when the British troops landed on
the beaches of Normandy in World War 2?
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50. Complan

51. John Galliano, the British
designer of Dior, based his
collection on turn-of-the-
century art on which artist’s
works?
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52. Gustav Klimt

53. ?
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54. The dancing jodi motif seen throughout the film is the
famous Raj Kapoor logo, which was designed after a scene
between Raj Kapoor and Nargis in the film Barsaat (1949).

55. This place earlier covering parts of Andhra and Karnataka
meant to mean the boundary of lands ruled by Krishna
Deva Raya.
What?
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56. Rayalaseema

57. It was a term originally used to refer simply to a deerskin, a
common medium of exchange in frontier days.
Now used in slightly different context.
Which word?
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58. Buck

59. When this rule was introduced in 1993, it was called
“Sudden Death", but the name was perceived to have
negative connotations and so a new, more positive, term
was used to describe the rule.
The rule was abolished in 2004.
What rule?
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60. Golden Goal

61. Original melody - “Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman”
This French folk song has three popular variations out of 12
composed.
Identify composer and the three popular variations.
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62. "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little
Star”
“Alphabet Song”
“Ba Ba Black Sheep”
French folk song “Ah! vous
dirai-je, Maman”, Mozart
wrote twelve variations for
piano for this piece.

63. In 1948 Bernard Silver (1924–63), a graduate student at
Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia, USA
overheard the president of a local food chain asking one
of the deans to research for a system to that could help
their shops.
Silver told his friend Norman Joseph Woodland (1921-)
about the request, and they started working on a variety
of systems. After lots of failed attempts, he got
inspiration from the Morse Code.
What does he design?
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64. The First Barcode